Like Father, Like Son

Watch Trailer Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Writer(s): Hirokazu Koreeda
Cast: Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yôko Maki
Awards: Winner of Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival
Language: Japanese

Would you choose your natural child, or the one you believed was your own during six years together? Kore-eda Hirokazu, the acclaimed director of Nobody Knows and Still Walking, returns with another incredibly touching family drama, winner of the Jury Prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Following an unexpected phone call, affluent architect Ryota and his wife, Midori, learn that their six-year-old son, Keita, was switched at the hospital and is not their biological child. Seeing Midori’s devotion to Keita even after the news, and observing the rough yet caring family that has raised his natural son for the last six years, Ryota begins to question his own values on fatherhood as he must choose between ‘nature’ and ‘nurture,’ a decision that will change their lives forever.

“A tender poem about the ebb and flow of paternal love.”-Robbie Collin, The Telegraph

“This is a relentlessly quiet character study that is photographed with Zen remove and scored metronomically to Bach and Beethoven, each scene clipped to the barest essentials.”-Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York

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Running Time: 122 Minutes122 MIN
Rating: Unrated

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Gloria

Watch Trailer Director: Sebastián Lelio
Writer(s): Sebastián Lelio and Gonzalo Maza
Cast: Paulina García, Sergio Hernández and Diego Fontecilla
Language: Spanish

Gloria is a “woman of a certain age” but still feels young. Though lonely, she makes the best of her situation and fills her nights seeking love at social dance clubs for single adults. Her fragile happiness changes the day she meets Rodolfo. Their intense passion, to which Gloria gives her all, leaves her vacillating between hope and despair – until she uncovers a new strength and realizes that, in her golden years, she can shine brighter than ever.

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Running Time: 110 minutes110 MIN
R Rated

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Universal Premiere: NON-STOP

Watch Trailer Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Writer(s): John W. Richardson, Christopher Roach and Ryan Engle
Cast: Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Lupita Nyong'o and Michelle Dockery

Global action star Liam Neeson stars in NON-STOP, a suspense thriller played out at 40,000 feet in the air. During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks (Neeson) receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the airline to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every 20 minutes.

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Running Time: 106 minutes106 MIN
PG-13 Rated
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Universal Premiere: ENDLESS LOVE

Watch Trailer Director: Shana Feste
Writer(s): Shana Feste and Joshua Safran
Cast: Gabriella Wilde, Alex Pettyfer and Bruce Greenwood

Endless Love stars Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde in the story of a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.

Directed by Shana Feste (Country Strong), the romantic drama co-stars Robert Patrick, Bruce Greenwood, Rhys Wakefield, Dayo Okeniyi, Emma Rigby and Joely Richardson.

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Running Time: 103 minutes103 MIN
PG-13 Rated
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The Invisible Woman

Watch Trailer Director: Ralph Fiennes
Writer(s): Abi Morgan and Claire Tomalin
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones and Kristin Scott Thomas
Awards: Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design

Nelly, a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity.

Dickens – famous, controlling and emotionally isolated within his success – falls for Nelly, who comes from a family of actors. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens as a brilliant amateur actor; a man more emotionally coherent on the page or on the stage than in life. As Nelly becomes the focus of Dickens’ passion and his muse, for both of them the secrecy is the price, and for Nelly a life of invisibility.

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Running Time: 111 minutes111 MIN
R Rated

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Science on Screen®: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

Watch Trailer Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer(s): Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke
Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood and William Sylvester
Awards: Won an Academy Award for Best Special Visual Effects, 1969

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Anthropology and Human Evolution: Past, Present, and Future

A discussion on how far we’ve come and what the next step in evolution will look like with paleo-artist John Gurche.

About the film

Stanley Kubrick’s dazzling, Academy Award-winning achievement is an allegorical puzzle on the evolution of man and a compelling drama of man vs. machine. Kubrick first visits the prehistoric age-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality.

About the speaker

John Gurche’s award winning work has appeared on the covers of National Geographic, Discover and Natural History Magazines and his work can be seen at the Smithsonian, the Field Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History, among others. Of prime importance in this work are scientific accuracy and a high degree of realism that will transport the viewer in time. His work focuses especially on human origins and on dinosaurs, but includes other ancient life as well.

 

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Science on Screen® is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Science on Screen program pairs films with a short talk with a scientist or technology expert. The free Science on Screen events are fun and engaging, offering dynamic speakers an unexpected jumping point to teach their field of expertise in a way that is accessible to a diverse audience.

 

Free admission to this event is provided by Arts for OHIO.

 

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Running Time: 160 minutes160 MIN
G Rated
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2014 Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films

 

Catch all of the 2014 Oscar-nominated Live Action short films in one feature-length program:

Helium (Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson, Denmark/Danish, 23 min.) — A dying boy finds comfort in the tales of a magical land called HELIUM, told to him by the hospital janitor.

The Voorman Problem (Mark Gill and Baldwin Li, UK/English, 13 min.) — A psychiatrist is called to a prison to examine an inmate named Voorman, who is convinced he is a god. Starring Martin Freeman.

Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything) (Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras, France/French, 30 min.) — Miriam has left her abusive husband and taken refuge with her children in the local supermarket where she works.

Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me) (Esteban Crespo, Spain/Spanish, 24 min.) — Paula, a Spanish aid worker, has an encounter with an African child soldier named Kaney.

Do I Have to Take Care of Everything (Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari, Finland/Finnish, 7 min.) — Sini tries frantically to get her family ready to leave for a wedding, but her husband and two children are interfering with her efforts.

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Running Time: 113 Minutes113 MIN
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The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014: Animated Shorts

Catch all of this year’s Oscar nominated short films before the 86th Annual Academy Awards telecast on Sunday, March 2!

 

“Thank the gods of cinema for this annual release of Oscar nominees.”

– Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle

The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014 program offers viewers the rare opportunity to experience the year’s best short films from across the globe, collected together in this special cinematic showcase courtesy of Shorts International and Magnolia Pictures.
Animated Shorts Program

Get a Horse!
Mickey Mouse and his friends are enjoying a wagon ride until Peg-Leg Pete shows up with plans to ruin their day. (Dir. by Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim, USA, in English, 6 mins.)

Mr. Hublot
The eccentric, isolated Mr. Hublot finds his carefully ordered world disrupted by the arrival of Robot Pet. (Dir. by Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares, Luxembourg/France, Non-dialogue, 12 mins.)

Feral
A wild boy who has grown up in the woods is found by a hunter and returned to civilization. (Dir. by Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden, USA, Non-dialogue, 12 mins.)

Possessions
A man seeking shelter from a storm in a dilapidated shrine encounters a series of household objects inhabited by goblin spirits. (Dir. by Shuhei Morita, Japan, Non-dialogue, 14 mins.)

Room on the Broom
A genial witch and her cat are joined on their broom by several friends as they set off on an adventure. Featuring the voices of Simon Pegg and Gillian Anderson. (Dir. by Max Land and Jan Lachauer, UK, in English, 26 mins.)

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Running Time: 110 Minutes110 MIN

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Sibs Weekend: THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS

Watch Trailer Director: Wes Anderson
Writer(s): Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson
Cast: Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Danny Glover, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Bill Murray

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Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) was a successful attorney who had three children with his wife Etheline (Anjelica Huston), an archaeologist. Each of the Tenenbaum kids was a precocious genius: Chas (Ben Stiller) made a killing as a child investor. Richie (Luke Wilson) was a junior tennis champ and three-time U.S. Nationals winner. The adopted Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) was a playwright who won a 50,000-dollar Braverman Grant in the ninth grade. When Royal abruptly left his family, however, it was the beginning of two decades of betrayal and failure that would scar the Tenenbaums for life. Their past resentments are bitterly held against Royal when he suddenly reappears, claiming to have six weeks to live and a desire to reconnect with his family. Typically, Royal’s story is a sham, but his presence and sincere desire for absolution soon have a profound effect on the Tenenbaums, who are each dealing with thwarted desires and relationships. Among them are Richie’s lifelong love for Margot, who’s unhappily married to Raleigh St.Clair (Bill Murray) and Etheline’s eccentric engagement to Henry Sherman (Danny Glover), who wishes to marry her. The Royal Tenenbaums also co-stars Owen Wilson and features narration provided by Alec Baldwin.

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Running Time: 110 Minutes110 MIN
R Rated
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