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Death By China

Watch Trailer Director: Peter Navarro

Peter Navarro, director of DEATH BY CHINA (and based on the book he co-wrote with Glenn Hubbard, “Seeds of Destruction”) will present and discuss his film on Monday, September 17, at 7:00 pm. The film confronts the economic trade relationship between the U.S. and China, as well as the attendant labor, pollution and cultural ramifications. Since China began flooding U.S. markets with illegally subsidized products in 2001, over 50,000 American factories have disappeared, more than 25 million Americans can’t find a decent job, and America now owes more than 3 trillion dollars to the world’s largest nation. Through compelling interviews with voices across the political spectrum, DEATH BY CHINA exposes that the U.S.-China relationship is broken and must be fixed if the world is going to be a place of peace and prosperity.

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Running Time: 64 Minutes64 MIN
Not Rated

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Last Call at the Oasis

Watch Trailer Director: Jessica Yu

Developed, financed and executive produced by Participant Media, the company responsible for AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, FOOD, INC. and WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN”, LAST CALL AT THE OASIS presents a powerful argument for why the global water crisis will be the central issue facing our world this century. Illuminating the vital role water plays in our lives, exposing the defects in the current system and depicting communities already struggling with its ill-effects, the film features activist Erin Brockovich and such distinguished experts as Peter Gleick, Alex Prud’homme, Jay Famiglietti and Robert Glennon.

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Running Time: 105 minutes105 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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The Island President

Watch Trailer Director: Jon Shenk

The Island President is the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced—the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable.
The film captures Nasheed’s first year of office, culminating in his trip to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, where the film provides a rare glimpse of the political horse-trading that goes on at such a top-level global assembly. Nasheed is unusually candid about revealing his strategies—leveraging the Maldives’ underdog position as a tiny country, harnessing the power of media, and overcoming deadlocks through an appeal to unity with other developing nations. When hope fades for a written accord to be signed, Nasheed makes a stirring speech which salvages an agreement. (On February 7, 2012, Nasheed resigned the presidency under the threat of violence in a coup d’etat perpetrated by the security forces loyal to the former dictator.)

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Running Time: 101 minutes101 MIN
PG Rated

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The Queen of Versailles

Watch Trailer Director: Lauren Greenfield
Awards: Directing Award, Sundance Film Festival

With epic proportions of Shakespearean tragedy, the film follows two unique characters, whose rags-to-riches success stories reveal the innate virtues and flaws of the American Dream. The film begins with the family triumphantly constructing the biggest house in America, a 90,000 sq. ft. palace. Over the next two years, their sprawling empire, fueled by the real estate bubble and cheap money, falters due to the economic crisis. Major changes in lifestyle and character ensue within the cross-cultural household of family members and domestic staff.

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Running Time: 100 minutes100 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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Take This Waltz

Watch Trailer Director: Sarah Polley
Writer(s): Sara Polley
Cast: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Sarah Silverman
Awards: Best Actress, Vancouver Film Critics Circle

When Margot, 28, meets Daniel, their chemistry is intense and immediate. But Margot suppresses her sudden attraction; she is happily married to Lou, a cookbook writer. When she learns that Daniel lives across the street from them, the certainty about her domestic life shatters. She and Daniel steal moments throughout the steaming Toronto summer, their eroticism heightened by their restraint. Swelteringly hot, bright and colorful like a bowl of fruit, Take This Waltz leads us, laughing, through the familiar, but uncharted question of what long-term relationships do to love, sex, and our images of ourselves.

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Running Time: 116 minutes116 MIN
R Rated

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Beasts of the Southern Wild

Watch Trailer Director: Benh Zeitlin
Writer(s): Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin
Cast: Quvenzhane Wallis, Dwight Henry, Gina Montana
Awards: FIPRESCI Prize, Cannes Film Festival, Grand Jury and Cinematography Award, Sundance Film Festival

 

In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.

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Running Time: 93 minutes93 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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Athena Reopens

We’ve returned from our summer break full of upgrades and improvements! Starting August 24, 2012 come back and join us for a movie!

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Moonrise Kingdom

Watch Trailer Director: Wes Anderson
Writer(s): Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
Cast: Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman
Awards: Cannes
Language: English

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, the film follows a young boy and girl falling in love. When they are moved to run away together, various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down – which might not be such a bad thing. From the director of RUSHMORE, this film has a star filled lineup with features from Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton and Jason Schwartzman. The talented cast compliments a beautifully written comedic romance flick that was a fan favorite at Sundance.

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Running Time: 94 minutes94 MIN
R Rated

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Safety Not Guaranteed

Watch Trailer Director: Colin Trevorrow
Writer(s): Derek Connolly
Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Jake M. Johnson, Karan Soni, and Jeff Garlin
Language: English

When an unusual classified ad inspires three cynical Seattle magazine employees to look for the story behind it, they discover a mysterious eccentric named Kenneth, a likable but paranoid supermarket clerk, who believes he’s solved the riddle of time travel and intends to depart again soon. Together, they embark on a hilarious, smart, and unexpectedly heartfelt journey that reveals how far believing can take you.

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Running Time: 86 minutes86 MIN
R Rated

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Ruby Sparks

Watch Trailer Director: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
Writer(s): Zoe Kazan
Cast: Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas
Language: English

Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.  From the directors of LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, this film features Paul Dano, one of the best young actors working today, alongside the talented Zoe Kazan (who also wrote the film).  Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening, and Steve Coogan round out the supporting cast.

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Running Time: 104 minutes104 MIN
R Rated

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