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GOODNIGHT MOMMY: Last Day Thursday, November 5th

Watch Trailer Director: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz
Writer(s): Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz
Cast: Susanne Wuest, Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz
Language: German

In the heat of the summer. A lonesome house in the countryside between woods and corn fields. Nine-year-old twin brothers are waiting for their mother. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before. The children start to doubt that this woman is actually their mother. It emerges an existential struggle for identity and fundamental trust.

“So intense and harrowing that it probably should have a warning label.” -Walter V. Addiego, San Fransisco Chronicle

“This insidious tale of a mother-son bond gone haywire is squirm-inducing stuff. It has cult potential stamped all over it.” -David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter

“A masterful example of genre filmmaking’s ability to transcend its limitations, leaving a viewer not just frightened, but also changed.” -Michael O’Sullivan, Washington Post

“Beginning with a gentle lullaby and ending with a tightly packed wallop, Goodnight Mommy is one viscerally chilling, seriously unsettling horror film.” -Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times

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Running Time: 99 minutes99 MIN
R Rated

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Holiday Film Series: HUGO

Watch Trailer Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer(s): John Logan, Brian Selznick
Cast: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley
Awards: 2012 Academy Awards: Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction. 2012 Golden Globes: Best Director (Scorsese)

Based on Brian Selznick’s captivating and imaginative New York Times bestseller “The Invention of Hugo Cabret.” Hugo tells the tale of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. When Hugo encounters a broken machine, an eccentric girl, and the cold, reserved man who runs the toy shop, he is caught up in a magical, mysterious adventure that could put all of his secrets in jeopardy.

*Tickets available one week prior to each Holiday movie.

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Running Time: 126 minutes126 MIN
PG Rated

One of the most magical viewing experiences of the decade so far.

Richard Roeper
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Free Universal Premiere: STEVE JOBS

Watch Trailer Director: Danny Boyle
Writer(s): Aaron Sorkin, Walter Isaacson
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen

Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint a portrait of the man at its epicenter.

“An enthralling performance by Michael Fassbender fuels this brilliant, infuriating and richly unconventional take on the life of an American visionary.” -Justin Chang, Variety

“Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who’s written about America’s Great Flawed Men with such fire and hyperarticulate pathos that he’s threatened to become one himself, outdoes his work on The Social Network with an even sharper and more savage script.” -David Ehrlich, Time Out

“This is a swift and searing attempt to pull back the curtain on Jobs and, in the process, investigate the relationship between the myth and the man.” -Nick Schager, Village Voice

Free preview screening. Tickets are first come, first serve.

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Running Time: 122 minutes122 MIN
R Rated
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Science on Screen: SNAKES ON A PLANE

Watch Trailer Director: David R. Ellis
Writer(s): John Heffernan (screenplay) and Sebastian Gutierrez (screenplay)
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips
Language: English

An FBI agent takes on a plane full of deadly and poisonous snakes, deliberately released to kill a witness being flown from Honolulu to Los Angeles to testify against a mob boss.

“Hilariously funny, full of fang-popping scares, and guaranteed to increase travel by train.” – Jack Mathews, New York Daily News

“Why is this movie so watchable? Four simple reasons. It’s truly funny. It’s truly scary. It’s truly gruesome. And Samuel L. Jackson is the cool head who prevails (“You stick with me, you live”).” – Jessica Letkemann, Premiere 

“Looming large over all this is Jackson, who glowers and growls and acts the hero better than any actor out there.” – Chris Kaltenbach, Baltimore Sun

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Running Time: 105 minutes105 MIN
R Rated
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Spotlight on Documentary: A JIHAD FOR LOVE

Watch Trailer Director: Parvez Sharma
Writer(s): Parvez Sharma
Cast: Muhsin Hendricks, A.K. Hoosen, Mazen
Language: English

A documentary on gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.

The Spotlight on Documentary Series will be focusing on Parvez Sharma, an award-winning writer and filmmaker. This series is brought to us by the E.W Scripps School of Journalism, the College of Arts and Sciences “Love and Hate” Theme, and the Center for Law, Justice, and Culture.

“Mr. Sharma’s film emphasizes testimony over context to such a degree that it feels at first of little use to anyone except gay Muslims who might take comfort in knowing they’re not alone. But the documentary gains depth of feeling as it goes and even develops something of a nail-biting narrative.” – Nathan Lee, The New York Times

“Even though the message that people should have the right to love whomever they want is hardly groundbreaking, Parvez captures some interesting conversations about what it means to be gay and Muslim.” – Noel Murray, The A.V. Club

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Running Time: 81 minutes81 MIN
Not Rated
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Spotlight on Documentary: A SINNER IN MECCA

Watch Trailer Director: Parvez Sharma
Language: English

For a gay filmmaker, filming in Saudi Arabia presents two serious challenges: filming is forbidden in the country and homosexuality is punishable by death. For filmmaker Parvez Sharma, however, these were risks he had to assume as he embarked on his Hajj pilgrimage, a journey considered the greatest accomplishment and aspiration within Islam, his religion. On his journey Parvez aims to look beyond 21st-century Islam’s crises of religious extremism, commercialism and sectarian battles. He brings back the story of the religion like it has never been told before, having endured the biggest jihad there is: the struggle with the self.

The Spotlight on Documentary Series will be focusing on Parvez Sharma, an award-winning writer and filmmaker. This series is brought to us by the E.W Scripps School of Journalism, the College of Arts and Sciences “Love and Hate” Theme, and the Center for Law, Justice, and Culture.

“Mr. Sharma has created a swirling, fascinating travelogue and a stirring celebration of devotion.” – Andy Webster, The New York Times

“A Sinner in Mecca is a suitably messy mix of the gritty and the surreal, the wrenching and the transcendent, from the midst of the trek to Islam’s holiest site.” – Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter

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Running Time: 79 minutes79 MIN
Not Rated
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Learning to Drive: Leaving the Athena Thursday, October 1st

Watch Trailer Director: Isabel Coixet
Writer(s): Sarah Kernochan
Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Ben Kingsley, Grace Gummer

Isabel Coixet’s slice-of-life comedy/drama Learning to Drive stars Patricia Clarkson as Wendy, a middle-ages book critic who is shattered when her husband Ted (Jake Weber) leaves her. In order to visit her daughter (Grace Gummer), who lives upstate, Wendy begins taking driving lessons from Darwan (Ben Kingsley) an American citizen originally from India who makes a living as a cabbie and giving driving lessons. The two strike-up a friendship that helps her learn to take control of her life, and him adjust to his new life after an arranged marriage. Learning to Drive screened at the 2014 (Toronto International Film Festival.

“Learning to Drive is precisely the sort of adult-themed, intelligent and heartfelt film it wants to be, with Clarkson and Kingsley wonderfully on point.” -Tom Long, Detroit News

“Learning to Drive is a story of companionship, loneliness, resilience. It’s a small, artfully crafted thing, but it resonates in big ways.” -Steven Rea, Philidelphia Inquirer

“It’s a beautifully acted tale of friendship, and about how sometimes, you just need to move forward – in a car, or otherwise.” -Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

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Running Time: 90 minutes90 MIN
R Rated

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SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE: Last Day Thursday, October 22nd

Watch Trailer Director: Leslye Headland
Writer(s): Leslye Headland
Cast: Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie, Jordan Carlos

Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie star as two romantic failures whose years of serial infidelity and self-sabotage have led them to swear that their relationship will remain strictly platonic. But can love still bloom while you’re sleeping with other people? Writer/director Leslye Headland’s (Bachelorette) sexy romantic comedy co-stars Amanda Peet, Adam Scott, and Natasha Lyonne.

“As we watch changes of conscience emerge and moral comeuppance arrive, this freewheeling alternative to the standard date movie emerges as one of the year’s best surprises.” -Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Sudeikis is terrific. And Brie can break you up or just plain break your heart.” -Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

“Rom-coms died because they weren’t very rom and didn’t have enough com. But Sleeping With Other People, which is both hilarious and emotionally alive, is as delightful as a first date that crackles with possibility.” -Kyle Smith, New York Post

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Running Time: 101 minutes101 MIN
R Rated

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MEET THE PATELS: Last Day Thursday, October 22nd

Watch Trailer Director: Geeta Patel, Ravi Patel
Writer(s): Matthew Hamachek, Billy McMillin, Geeta Patel, Ravi Patel
Cast: Champa V. Patel, Geeta Patel, Ravi Patel

A laugh-out-loud real life romantic comedy about Ravi Patel, an almost-30-year-old Indian-American who enters a love triangle between the woman of his dreams…and his parents. This hilarious and heartwarming film reveals how love is a family affair.

“Often riotously funny.” -Andrew Barker, Variety

“It’s a delight of a film, but it also examines problems of assimilation, culture clash, modern romance and the value (or prison) of tradition. Which is quite a bit of stuff for a movie that’s just plain fun to watch.” -Tom Long, Detroit News

“It’s impossible not to care about the people on screen.” -Jen Chaney, Washington Post

“It turned one man’s culturally specific journey into a lively and engaging universal story made with an unmistakable sense of fun.” -Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

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Running Time: 88 minutes88 MIN
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Food on Film: SPIRITED AWAY

Watch Trailer Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Writer(s): Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Miyu Irino
Language: Japanese

During her family’s move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.

“Turns everything we know about the contemporary world on its head, and substitutes it with one in which spirits, monsters, magicians and animals mix it up in a carnival of energy, good humor and freewheeling illusion.” – Jack Mathews, New York Daily News

“Does full honor to Miyazaki’s teeming and often unsettling landscape, and to the conflicted complexity of his characters: Not a single frame was cut, and the voice casting and performances are uniformly excellent.” – David Chute, L.A. Weekly

“It is plainly, though not simply, a masterpiece from an acknowledged master of contemporary animation, and a wonderfully welcoming work of art that’s as funny and entertaining as it is brilliant, beautiful and deep.” – Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal

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Running Time: 125 minutes125 MIN
PG Rated
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