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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
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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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REACT to FILM Screening: Who Is Dayani Cristal? *Date of screening changed to 2/20

Watch Trailer Director: Marc Silver
Writer(s): Mark Monroe
Cast: Gael García Bernal
Awards: Cinematography Award Sundance Film Festival World Documentary

An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama. The search for identity leads us back across a continent to seek out the people left behind and the meaning of a mysterious tattoo.

August 3, 2010, Pima County, Arizona—Deep in the sun-blistered Sonora desert beneath a cicada tree, border police discover a decomposing male body. Lifting a tattered T-shirt, they expose a tattoo that reads “Dayani Cristal.” Who is this person? What brought him here? How did he die? And who—or what—is Dayani Cristal?

Marc Silver’s masterful documentary assembles the answers to these questions using beautifully realized dramatic sequences with famed actor Gael García Bernal. Silver and Bernal reconstruct this John Doe, denied an identity at his point of death, into a living and breathing human being with a full and deeply engaging life story. Unfolding like a thrilling crime drama, the film builds to an emotionally devastating climax. Who Is Dayani Cristal? tells the story of one migrant who found himself in that deadly stretch of desert known as “the corridor of death” and how one life becomes testimony to the tragic results of the U.S. war on immigration.

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Running Time: 82 Minutes82 MIN

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Sustainability Series: BURNING IN THE SUN

Watch Trailer Director: Cambria Matlow, Morgan Robinson

The trials of bringing solar power to rural sites are frankly addressed with ultimate success. This film chronicles a road map to sustainability that could be duplicated around the world, offering hope for the planet. Explores the efforts of a west African community member and entrepreneur to build a solar panel production business in the small village of Banko and its application to the larger region.

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Running Time: 83 Minutes83 MIN
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Sustainability Series: ZERO TEN TWENTY THE CHILDREN OF RIO

Watch Trailer Director: Bruno Sorrentino

1992 was the first Rio Earth Summit where world leaders signed up to a blueprint for a greener, fairer world. For twenty years the producers of LIFE followed the lives of 11 children born in different countries in 1992. Their stories constitute a unique diary of what it’s been like to grow up in a fast-changing, 21st century world, and how globalization and the Earth Summit have impacted their lives.

For 20 years, we’ve been following the lives of 11 children born in different countries round the world in 1992 – the year of the first Rio Earth Summit, where world leaders signed up to a blueprint for a greener, fairer world – a world that would safeguard resources for future generations Twenty years on, In tve’s flagship, long-term project ‘Zero, Ten, Twenty’ catches up with our children on the threshold of adulthood –  in Brazil, China, India, Kenya, Latvia, Norway, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, England and USA. Their stories constitute a unique diary of what it’s been like to grow up in a fast-changing, 21st century world –how globalization and the Earth Summit have impacted on their lives, and what now are their hopes, fears and ambitions for the future, on the eve of the new Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012.

 “A must-see across fields like education, psychology, sociology, international development, women’s studies, environmental studies, globalization studies, and more.” Steven J. Klees, Professor of International and Comparative Education, University of Maryland

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Running Time: 100 Minutes100 MIN
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Sustainability Series: THE PRICE OF SAND

Watch Trailer Director: Jim Tittle

“The Price of Sand” is a documentary about the frac sand mining boom in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Due to a rapid increase in demand, pure silica sand has become a valuable commodity, and mines are opening here at a rapid rate.

The silica used in hydraulic fracturing (aka : “fracking”), has other uses– glass manufacturing and toothpaste, for instance — and a few established mines have been in operation here for decades. But now, new companies have arrived, and land with accessible silica deposits is selling for high prices.

In addition to a bonanza for a few lucky landowners, the new mines promise jobs and economic stimulus for the small towns and rural areas nearby.

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Running Time: 60 Minutes60 MIN
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