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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Playing Through January 9th

Watch Trailer Director: Justin Chadwick
Writer(s): William Nicholson, Nelson Mandela
Cast: Idris Elba
Awards: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes including Best Actor and Best Original Score

MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is based on South African President Nelson Mandela’s autobiography of the same name, which chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country’s once segregated society. Idris Elba (PROMETHEUS) stars as Nelson Mandela with Justin Chadwick (THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL) directing.

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Running Time: 139 Minutes139 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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The Book Thief: Playing through Thursday, January 2nd

Watch Trailer Director: Brian Percival
Writer(s): Markus Zusak, Michael Petroni
Cast: Stars: Sophie Nélisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson
Awards: Nominated for a Golden Globe

Based on the beloved international bestselling book, The Book Thief tells the story of an extraordinary, spirited young girl sent to live with a foster family in WWII Germany. Intrigued by the only book she brought with her, she begins collecting books as she finds them. With the help of her new parents and a secret guest under the stairs, she learns to read and creates a magical world that inspires them all.

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Running Time: 125 Minutes125 MIN
PG Rated

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Inside Llewyn Davis

Watch Trailer Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Writer(s): Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Justin Timberlake
Awards: Grand Prix Festival de Cannes, 3 Golden Globe Nominations including Best Picture, 4 Critics Choice Nominations including Best Picture, Included on over 450 top 10 best films of the year lists

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961 LLEWYN DAVIS (OSCAR ISAAC) is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles—some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, scaring up what work he can find, Llewyn’s misadventures take him from the baskethouses of the Village to an empty Chicago club—on an odyssey to audition for a music mogul—and back again. Brimming with music performed by Isaac, Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan (as Llewyn’s married Village friends), as well as Marcus Mumford and Punch Brothers, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS—in the tradition of O Brother, Where Art Thou?—is infused with the transportive sound of another time and place. An epic on an intimate scale, it represents the Coen Brothers’ fourth collaboration with multiple-Grammy® and Academy Award®-winning music producer T Bone Burnett. Marcus Mumford is associate music producer.
“The best picture of the year.”-A.O. Scott, New York Times
 “One thing’s for sure about this raw provocation from the Coens: Like the music, the pain runs deep and true. You’ll laugh till it hurts.” -Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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Running Time: 105 minutes105 MIN
R Rated

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The Broken Circle Breakdown

Watch Trailer Director: Felix Van Groeningen
Writer(s): Johan Heldenbergh, Mieke Dobbels, Carl Joos, Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch
Cast: Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh and Nell Cattrysse
Awards: Won Best Actress and Best Screenplay at the Tribeca Film Festival
Language: Flemish

Elise (Veerle Baetens) and Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage — but when an unexpected tragedy hits their new family, everything they know and love is tested. An intensely moving portrait of a relationship from beginning to end, propelled by a soundtrack of foot-stomping bluegrass, THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN is a romantic melodrama of the highest order.

“This Belgian drama is the real deal, an alternately wrenching and ecstatic viewing experience, adapted from a play by lead actor Johan Heldenbergh.”-Sara Stewart, New York Post

“The soundtrack is irresistible, the cast is enthralling and the passions are universal.”-Colin Cover, Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Running Time: 111 minutes111 MIN
Not Rated

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Dallas Buyers Club: Playing through Thursday, January 9th

Watch Trailer Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Writer(s): Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Jared Leto
Awards: Won Desert Palm Achievement Award at the 2014 Palms Springs International Film Festival

A son of Texas, Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) is an electrician and rodeo cowboy. In 1985, he is well into an unexamined existence with a devil-may-care lifestyle. Suddenly, Ron is blindsided by being diagnosed as HIV positive and given 30 days to live. Yet he will not, and does not, accept a death sentence.

His crash course of research reveals a lack of approved treatments and medications in the U.S., so Ron crosses the border into Mexico. There, he learns about alternative treatments and begins smuggling them into the U.S., challenging the medical and scientific community including his concerned physician, Dr. Eve Saks (Jennifer Garner).

An outsider to the gay community, Ron finds an unlikely ally in fellow AIDS patient Rayon (Jared Leto), a transsexual who shares Ron’s lust for life. Rayon also shares Ron’s entrepreneurial spirit: seeking to avoid government sanctions against selling non-approved medicines and supplements, they establish a “buyers club,” where HIV positive people pay monthly dues for access to the newly acquired supplies. Deep in the heart of Texas, Ron’s pioneering underground collective beats loud and strong. With a growing community of friends and clients, Ron fights for dignity, education, and acceptance. In the years following his diagnosis, the embattled Lone Star loner lives life to the fullest like never before.

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Running Time: 117 minutes117 MIN
R Rated

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Philomena

Watch Trailer Director: Stephen Frears
Writer(s): Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope and Martin Sixsmith
Cast: Judi Dench, Steve Coogan and Sophie Kennedy Clark
Awards: Won Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival

PHILOMENA is the true story of one mother’s search for her lost son.

Falling pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena was sent to the convent of Roscrea to be looked after as a “fallen woman.” When her baby was only a toddler, he was taken away by the nuns for adoption in America. Philomena spent the next fifty years searching for him in vain.

Then she met Martin Sixsmith, a world-weary political journalist who happened to be intrigued by her story. Together they set off for America on a journey that would not only reveal the extraordinary story of Philomena’s son, but also create an unexpectedly close bond between them.

The film is a compelling narrative of human love and loss and ultimately celebrates life. It is both funny and sad and concerns two very different people, at different stages of their lives, who help each other and show that there is laughter even in the darkest places.

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Running Time: 98 minutes98 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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Science on Screen®: CHILDREN OF MEN

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The Regulation of Population Growth

Dr. Willem M. Roosenburg leads a discussion on whether we can effectively regulate human population growth and simultaneously accommodate the sociological, political, and religious freedoms to which we have become accustomed. He also explores the question: If we don’t regulate population growth, where will it take us at the current rate and how might it be controlled naturally?

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The year is 2027, and women can no longer give birth. The youngest inhabitant of the planet has just died at the age of 18, and all hope for humanity has been lost. As civilization descends into chaos, a dying world finds one last chance for survival in the form of a woman who has become inexplicably pregnant. Now, as warring nationalistic sects clash and British leaders try to maintain their totalitarian stronghold on the country, a disillusioned bureaucrat (Clive Owen) is brought back into the fold of activism by his guerrilla ex-wife (Julianne Moore). Reluctantly, he takes on the daunting task of escorting Kee (Claire-Hope Ashitey), the refugee who represents humankind’s last hope for survival, out of harm’s way and into the care of a mysterious organization known as The Human Project. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam, and Michael Caine co-star in this adaptation of author P.D. James’s gripping 1992 novel.

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From Dr. Willem M. Roosenburg’s Ohio University bio:

“In my research, I investigate the evolution of life history traits (e.g. survivorship, reproductive rates, age of first reproduction etc.) and the conservation biology (extinction and loss of biodiversity due to anthropomorphic causes) of long-lived organisms. My research philosophy is to develop a species of interest as a model system and to gain a mechanistic understanding of how environmental variation affects population dynamics of that species, using a variety of tools. I combine demographic and experimental techniques to observe variation within populations and to predict the outcome of environmental perturbations on survivorship and reproductive rates. The utility of my approach is that it allows me to simultaneously address basic ecological and evolutionary questions as well as conservation and management issues. My research focuses on how population structure, behavior, and offspring phenotype are influenced by the interaction between the incubation environment and environmental sex determination (ESD), a peculiar sex determining system in which the sex of the developing embryos is determined by the incubation temperature after the eggs are laid.”

 

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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: 109 minutes109 MIN
R Rated
This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

Top-notch suspense, intense action and totally believable sci-fi combine to make Children of Men gripping and a big winner.

Brian Webster
Apollo Guide
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Holiday Film Series: RISE OF THE GUARDIANS

Watch Trailer Director: Peter Ramsey
Writer(s): David Lindsay-Abaire (screenplay), William Joyce (book)
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin, Isla Fisher

Rise of the Guardians is an epic adventure that tells the story of a group of heroes – each with extraordinary abilities. When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world.

 

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Running Time: 97 minutes97 MIN
PG Rated

A beautiful fantasy adventure that might change a few minds about the power and importance of these childhood fantasy characters.

Wesley Lovell
Cinema Sight
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Kill Your Darlings: Playing at the Athena Now Through December 12th

Watch Trailer Director: John Krokidas
Writer(s): John Krokidas, Austin Bunn
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Ben Foster, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kyra Sedgwick, David Cross, and Michael C. Hall

Daniel Radcliffe stars as Beat Generation icon Allen Ginsberg in this biopic set during the famed poet’s early years at Columbia University, and centering on a murder investigation involving Ginsberg, his handsome classmate Lucien Carr, and fellow Beat author William Burroughs. The year is 1944. Ginsberg (Radcliffe) is a young student at Columbia University when he falls hopelessly under the spell of charismatic classmate Carr (Dane DeHaan). Alongside Carr, Ginsberg manages to strike up friendships with aspiring writers William Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) that would cast conformity to the wind, and serve as the foundation of the Beat movement. Meanwhile, an older outsider named David Krammerer falls deeply and madly in love with the impossibly cool Carr. Later, when Krammerer dies under mysterious circumstances, police arrest Kerouac, Burroughs, and Carr as potential suspects, paving the way for an investigation that would have a major impact on the lives of the three emerging artists. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kyra Sedgwick, David Cross, and Michael C. Hall co-star.

“Sex, lies, betrayal and murder set among the gods of the Beat Generation. That’s Kill Your Darlings, a dark beauty of a film that gets inside your head and stays there.”-Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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Running Time: 100 Minutes100 MIN
R Rated

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Enough Said

Watch Trailer Director: Nicole Holofcener
Writer(s): Nicole Holofcener
Cast: James Gandolfini, Julie Louis-Dreyfus, Catherine Keener, Toni Collette

A divorced and single parent, Eva (Julia Louis Dreyfus) spends her days enjoying work as a masseuse but dreading her daughter’s impending departure for college. She meets Albert (James Gandolfini) – a sweet, funny and like-minded man also facing an empty nest. As their romance quickly blossoms, Eva befriends Marianne (Catherine Keener), her new massage client. Marianne is a beautiful poet who seems “almost perfect” except for one prominent quality: she rags on her ex-husband way too much. Suddenly, Eva finds herself doubting her own relationship with Albert as she learns the truth about Marianne’s Ex. ENOUGH SAID is a sharp, insightful comedy that humorously explores the mess that often comes with getting involved again.

“Feisty, funny, fizzy and deeply wise, “Enough Said” sparkles within and without, just like the rare gem that it is.”-Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

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Running Time: 93 Minutes93 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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