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MOMMA'S MAN
Azazel Jacobs. 2008. 94 min. NR. US.
"A beautiful, wise, shaggy, poker-faced comedy of discombobulation" (Entertainment Weekly)
A thirty-ish young husband and father (Matt Boren) stops off at his parents’ loft during a business trip to New York then finds himself emotionally unable to leave. While his doting mother (the director’s real mother) is more than happy to enable his procrastination, his father (the director’s real father) grows suspicious of his sons changes of plans.
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MAN ON WIRE
James Marsh. 2007. 93 min. NR. UK. Magnolia Pictures.
"Understated and enthralling" (New York Times)
Truly this year's Sundance Sensation, winner of both the Grand Jury and Audience Awards, this exuberant film is about the "artistic crime of the 20th century": Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the newly constructed towers of the World Trade Center. Interviews, archival footage, and meticulous reenactments tell the story of the obsession and daring of the high-wire acrobat and his ragtag band of partners in crime.
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ELEGY
Isabel Coixet. 2008. 118 min. R. US.
"A richly textured and compelling film." (San Francisco Chronicle)
Cultural critic David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) finds his life thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo (Penelope Cruz), a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in him.
This adaptation of Philip Roth's The Dying Animal also stars Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson, and Peter Sarsgaard.
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Patricia Clarkson joined us for a Q&A following a preview screening of the film on Aug. 4. See clips from the evening on our YouTube Channel.
Support the JBFC and the Village Bookstore! Pick up a copy of Philip Roth's The Dying Animal in the theater lobby during the film's run for only $11.00 (20% off the list price, plus tax). The concession stand closes 15 min. after the start of the last scheduled film of the day. |
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FROZEN RIVER
Courtney Hunt. 2008. 97 min. R. US.
"A gritty, beautiful, debut feature" (Wall Street Journal)
Winner, Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival. Melissa Leo plays Ray Eddy, an upstate New York single mother lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling when she meets a Mohawk girl (Misty Upham) who lives on a reservation that straddles the US-Canadian border. Also features Michael O’Keefe, Charlie McDermott, and James Reilly.
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I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND
Opens Fri. Sept. 12
Jirí Menzel. 2008. 120 min. R. Czech Republic. In Czech, with subtitles.
"A mischievously hedonistic, Chaplinesque farce....a rousing picaresque of life's beautiful-sad ironies." (Village Voice)
Czech filmmaker Jirí Menzel's adaptation of the novel by the late Bohumil Hrabal is a dark comic farce that traces the rise of an ambitious young waiter traversing the halls of power in 1930's Czech society.
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TROUBLE THE WATER
Opens Fri. Sept. 19
Carl Deal & Tia Lessin. 2008. 90 min. US.
“Superb....One of the best American documentaries in recent memory” (New York Times)
Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner.
The day before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, Kimberly Rivers Roberts, an aspiring rap artist, turned her new video camera on herself and her 9th Ward neighbors and continued to film throughout the rise of the floodwaters, the retreat to higher ground and the return to the devastation. Directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal (producers of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine) have woven her footage into a redemptive tale of self-described street hustlers (Roberts and her husband) who survive the storm and seize a chance for a new beginning.
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THE DUCHESS Opens Fri. Sept. 26
Saul Dibb. 2008. 105 min. PG-13. US.
Director Saul Dibb takes the helm for this period drama adapted from Amanda Foreman’s best-selling novel, Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire. The film involves the romantic entanglements of a popular, beautiful woman (Keira Knightley) whose unhappy marriage to the Duke of Devonshire (Ralph Fiennes) threatens to erupt into scandal when she falls for a young politician. |
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RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
Opens Fri. Oct. 10
Jonathan Demme. 2008. 116 min. R. US.
An ex-model (Anne Hathaway) who has been in and out of rehab for 10 years, returns home for the wedding of her sister. With her black-comic one-liners and knack for bombshell drama, she awakens long-simmering tensions in the family dynamic during what would have been an idyllic weekend. The ensemble cast also includes Debra Winger, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, and Anna Deavere Smith.
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