Dads Weekend: CADDYSHACK

Director: Harold Ramis
Writer(s): Brian Doyle-Murray, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney
Cast: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray
Language: English

Take your Dad to a movie that never grows old!

At an exclusive country club for WASPish snobs, an ambitious young caddy (Michael O’Keefe) from an overpopulated home eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favor of the elitist Judge Smails (Ted Knight), then the caddy golf tournament which the good judge sponsors. Of course, there are love interests as well — one good, one naughty — not to mention several foes he must vanquish along the way. The story itself serves to string along a series of slapstick scenes involving an obnoxious nouveau riche land developer (Rodney Dangerfield) who wants to turn the site into a condominium community; an oddball, Zen-quoting, millionaire slacker/golf ace (Chevy Chase); and a psychotic groundskeeper (Bill Murray) with a gopher-fixation.

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Running Time: 98 min98 MIN
R Rated
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How I Live Now

Watch Trailer Director: Kevin Macdonald
Writer(s): Jeremy Brock
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland, George MacKay, Harley Bird

Set in the near-future UK, Ronan plays Daisy, an American teenager sent to stay with relatives in the English countryside. Initially withdrawn and alienated, she begins to warm up to her charming surroundings, and strikes up a romance with the handsome Edmund (George MacKay). But on the fringes of their idyllic summer days are tense news reports of an escalating conflict in Europe. As the UK falls into a violent, chaotic military state, Daisy finds herself hiding and fighting to survive.

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Running Time: 100 Minutes100 MIN
R Rated

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Populaire

Watch Trailer Director: Régis Roinsard
Writer(s): Régis Roinsard, Daniel Presley
Cast: Roman Duris, Déborah François, Bérénice Bejo
Awards: Best Narrative Feature Audience Award San Francisco International Film Festival
Language: French

Spring, 1958: 21-year-old Rose Pamphyle lives with her grouchy widower father who runs the village store. Engaged to the son of the local mechanic, she seems destined for the quiet, drudgery-filled life of a housewife. But that’s not the life Rose longs for. When she travels to Lisieux in Normandy, where charismatic insurance agency boss Louis Echard is advertising for a secretary, the ensuing interview is a disaster. But Rose reveals a special gift – she can type at extraordinary speed. Unwittingly, the young woman awakens the dormant sports fan in Louis. If she wants the job she’ll have to compete in a speed typing competition. Whatever sacrifices Rose must make to reach the top, Louis declares himself her trainer. He’ll turn her into the fastest girl not only in the country, but in the world! But a love of sport doesn’t always mix well with love itself.

“Even when there’s tragedy around the turn, it doesn’t matter. Populaire plays like a musical – you expect anyone, at any time, to break into song.”-Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

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Running Time: 111 Minutes111 MIN
R Rated

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Haute Cuisine

Watch Trailer Director: Christian Vincent
Writer(s): Etienne Comar, Christian Vincent
Cast: Catherine Frot, Arthur Dupont, Jean d'Ormesson
Language: French

Hortense Laborie (Catherine Frot), a renowned chef from Perigord, is astonished when the President of the Republic (Jean d’Ormesson) appoints her his personal cook, responsible for creating all his meals at the Elysée Palace. Despite jealous resentment from the other kitchen staff, Hortense quickly establishes herself, thanks to her indomitable spirit. The authenticity of her cooking soon seduces the President, but the corridors of power are littered with traps…

“Haute Cuisine is an epicurean dream where the dishes conjured up by the characters are as essential to the experience as the characters themselves.”-Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

“Writer-director Christian Vincent and co-writer Étienne Comar, aided by Frot’s quiet intensity, imbue Hortense’s quest to pull off culinary miracles with an urgency that’s almost absurdly compelling, and all the more entertaining for it.”-Chuck Wilson, Village Voice

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Running Time: 95 Minutes95 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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Wadjda

Watch Trailer Director: Haifaa Al Mansour
Writer(s): Haifaa Al Mansour
Cast: Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed
Awards: Winner of over 15 International Film Festival Awards including Directors to Watch at Palm Springs
Language: Arabic

WADJDA is a movie of firsts. This first feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia is the story of a young girl living in a suburb of Riyadh determined to raise enough money to buy a bike in a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl’s virtue. Even more impressive, WADJDA is the first feature film made by a female Saudi filmmaker. In a country where cinemas are banned and women cannot drive or vote, writer- director Haifaa Al Mansour has broken many barriers with her new film.

“This is not just the first feature by Haifaa Al Mansour but the first feature to be directed by a woman from Saudi Arabia. That is quite a burden, and yet by some miracle the movie bears it with lightness and grace.”-Anthony Lane, New Yorker

“A simple, solid, deeply affecting film, Wadjda is something rare: the work of a female Saudi filmmaker, Haifaa Al Mansour, and a feature from a country that has long outlawed cinemas.”-Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice

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Running Time: 98 Minutes98 MIN
PG Rated

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Muscle Shoals

Watch Trailer Director: Greg Camalier
Cast: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Gregg Allman, Jimmy Cliff

MUSCLE SHOALS is a documentary about a place filled with magic and music, legend and folklore, where the river is inhabited by a Native American spirit who has lured some of the greatest Rock and Roll and Soul legends of all time, and drawn from them some of the most uplifting, defiant, and important music ever created. In Muscle Shoals, Alabama, music runs through the hills, the river, and the spirit of the people. It is a place where, even before the Civil Rights Movement really took shape, the color of your skin didn’t matter inside the studio.

“It is hands down one of the best music documentaries ever made.”-Paul de Barros, Seattle Times

“Just as “Sweet Home Alabama” speaks for itself without revealing its meaning, so does this American story of ferment and feuding and amazing pop music.”-Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com

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Running Time: 111 Minutes111 MIN
PG Rated

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Blue Is The Warmest Color

Watch Trailer Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Writer(s): Julie Maroh, Abdellatif Kechiche, Ghalia Lacroix
Cast: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche
Awards: Lea Seydoux - Breakthrough Performer, Abdellatif Kechiche - FIPRESCI Prize, Kechiche/Adèle Exarchopoulos Exarchopoulos, Lea Seydoux - Palme d'Or
Language: French

The sensation of the Cannes Film Festival and the most controversial film of the year, Blue is the Warmest Color made cinema history as the first film ever awarded the Palme d’Or to both its director and its actresses. In a star-making role, Adèle Exarchopoulos is Adèle, a passionate young woman who has a yearning she doesn’t quite understand until a chance encounter with the blue-haired Emma ignites a flame and brings her to life. Léa Seydoux (Midnight in Paris) gives a fearless performance as Emma, the older woman who excites Adèle’s desire and becomes the love of her life. Abdellatif Kechiche’s (The Secret of the Grain) intimate epic of tenderness and passion charts their relationship over the course of several years, from the ecstasy of a first kiss to the agony of heartbreak. Pulsing with gestures, embraces, furtive exchanges, and arias of joy and devastation, Blue is the Warmest Color is a profoundly moving hymn to both love and life.

“Remarkable…the first great love story of the 21st century”-Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com

“From the moment when Adèle first catches sight of Emma, on a busy crosswalk, the movie restores your faith in the power of the coup de foudre and yet redoubles your fear of its effect; love, like lightning, can both illuminate and scorch.”–Anthony Lane, New Yorker

“Somehow Seydoux and Exarchopoulos manifest an idea of desire, a mood that performers and directors often fail to capture even when there’s good on-set chemistry.”-Stephanie Zacharek ,Village Voice

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Running Time: 179 min179 MIN
NC-17 Rated

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Gideon’s Army: Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Week Movie

Watch Trailer Director: Dawn Porter
Writer(s): Matthew Hamachek, Dawn Porter
Awards: Official Selection 2013 Sundance Film Festival, winner Editing Award: US Documentary.

One Night Only! Gideon’s Army will be screened on Tuesday, January 21st at 7:00 PM as part of the MLK Jr. Celebration Week. FREE Admission.

Gideon’s Army follows Travis Williams, Brandy Alexander and June Hardwick, three young public defenders who are part of a small group of idealistic lawyers in the Deep South challenging the assumptions that drive a criminal justice system strained to the breaking point. Backed by mentor Jonathan “Rap” Rapping, a charismatic leader who heads the Southern Public Defender Training Center, they struggle against long hours, low pay and staggering caseloads so common that even the most committed often give up in their first year. Nearly 50 years since the landmark Supreme Court ruling Gideon vs. Wainwright that established the right to counsel, can these courageous lawyers revolutionize the way America thinks about indigent defense and make “justice for all” a reality?

“Gideon’s Army does what the best documentaries have always done: It makes us think about something we’d rather not.” -David Hinckley, New York Daily News

“Compelling insight into the staggering pressures faced by court-appointed public defenders.” -Duane Byrge, Hollywood Reporter

“Like the film itself, Porter’s handful of devoted, charismatic attorneys do a righteous job of reminding people that the accused are innocent until proven guilty, and that the criminal justice system seems otherwise disposed.” -John Anderson, Variety

 

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Running Time: 96 Minutes96 MIN
Rating: Unrated

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Diana

Watch Trailer Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Writer(s): Stephen Jeffreys and Kate Snell
Cast: Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews and Douglas Hodge

When Princess Diana flew to Pakistan in May 1997, she went to meet the family of Dr. Hasnat Khan, the man she wanted to marry. One of the most famous and beautiful women in the world, she hoped to persuade Dr. Khan’s mother that she would make a suitable wife for her son. Had she succeeded, the events of that summer might have been very different…

DIANA is a love story about family, friendship and the calamity of fame.

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Running Time: 113 minutes113 MIN
Rating: Rated PG-13

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THE EXORCIST

Watch Trailer Director: William Friedkin
Writer(s): William Peter Blatty
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow and Linda Blair
Awards: Won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (1974)

Controversial and popular from the moment it opened, THE EXORCIST endures as a defining classic that influenced movies afterward and still shocks and haunts today. The frightening and realistic tale of an innocent girl inhabited by a terrifying entity, her mother’s frantic resolve to save her and two priests – one doubt-ridden, the other a rock of faith – joined in battling ultimate evil always leaves viewers breathless.

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Running Time: 122 minutes122 MIN
Rating: Rated R
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