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March 12-18
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9:20 | 109 |
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7:05/ 9:15 | 112 |
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7:15/ 9:00 Ends Thursday |
87 |
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7:00/ 9:25 | 131 |
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7:20 | 99 |
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UP IN THE AIR
(109 R)
Showtimes: 9:20
UP IN THE AIR is "a rare and sparkling gem of a movie, directed by Jason Reitman (Juno) with the polish of a master. Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), the film's debonair hero, is a new kind of no-sweat corporate executioner. Each day, he walks into a different office somewhere in the United States — Wichita, Detroit, St. Louis — and gets a list of employees who are about to be downsized. One by one, he sits opposite each of them, bringing them the bad news that their bosses are too weaselly to deliver personally. The victims are mostly hardworking middle managers who've been let go because of the economy. George Clooney, with his effortless, cracklingly smart yet maybe slightly-too-polished charm, knows here, as he did in Michael Clayton, how to play a rogue who's in danger of losing his soul yet holds on to it anyway. Clooney and Vera Farmiga are fantastic together: Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell for the PowerPoint age." Owen Gleiberman, EW
Showtimes: 9:20
UP IN THE AIR is "a rare and sparkling gem of a movie, directed by Jason Reitman (Juno) with the polish of a master. Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), the film's debonair hero, is a new kind of no-sweat corporate executioner. Each day, he walks into a different office somewhere in the United States — Wichita, Detroit, St. Louis — and gets a list of employees who are about to be downsized. One by one, he sits opposite each of them, bringing them the bad news that their bosses are too weaselly to deliver personally. The victims are mostly hardworking middle managers who've been let go because of the economy. George Clooney, with his effortless, cracklingly smart yet maybe slightly-too-polished charm, knows here, as he did in Michael Clayton, how to play a rogue who's in danger of losing his soul yet holds on to it anyway. Clooney and Vera Farmiga are fantastic together: Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell for the PowerPoint age." Owen Gleiberman, EW
LAST STATION, THE
(112 R)
Showtimes: 7:05/ 9:15
"He was the celebrated author of 'War and Peace,' but the last years of Leo Tolstoy's life were all war and no peace. The savage rivalry for his attention and legacy between his redoubtable wife and his craftiest disciple that overshadowed his final days has now been turned into a showcase for tasty acting by performers who really know how to sink their teeth into roles. THE LAST STATION is well-acted across the board, but the film's centerpiece is the spectacular back and forth between Christopher Plummer as the great man, a count as well as a writer, and Helen Mirren as Sofya, his wife of 48 years and always a force to be reckoned with. For those who enjoy actors who can play it up without ever overplaying their hands, THE LAST STATION is the destination of choice." (Kenneth Turan, LA Times) Helen Mirren has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress; Christopher Plummer is nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Also starring Paul Giametti, James McAvoy
Showtimes: 7:05/ 9:15
"He was the celebrated author of 'War and Peace,' but the last years of Leo Tolstoy's life were all war and no peace. The savage rivalry for his attention and legacy between his redoubtable wife and his craftiest disciple that overshadowed his final days has now been turned into a showcase for tasty acting by performers who really know how to sink their teeth into roles. THE LAST STATION is well-acted across the board, but the film's centerpiece is the spectacular back and forth between Christopher Plummer as the great man, a count as well as a writer, and Helen Mirren as Sofya, his wife of 48 years and always a force to be reckoned with. For those who enjoy actors who can play it up without ever overplaying their hands, THE LAST STATION is the destination of choice." (Kenneth Turan, LA Times) Helen Mirren has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress; Christopher Plummer is nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Also starring Paul Giametti, James McAvoy
FANTASTIC MR. FOX
(87 PG)
Showtimes: 7:15/ 9:00 Ends Thursday
"Freely adapting Roald Dahl's 1970 children's book, Wes Anderson creates an endearingly tactile fairy-tale thrift-shop universe, with quaintly painted backdrops, cotton balls for smoke, and a family of foxes. Yet Mr. Fox (voiced by George Clooney), Mrs. Fox (Meryl Streep), and their son, Ash (Jason Schwartzman), inhabit a world that's disarmingly, well, lifelike. As a hero, Mr. Fox has the arch self-possession to insist to his wife that he poaches poultry ''because I'm a wild animal.'' Against her wishes, he plots to rip off a trio of evil farmers, and the film turns into a modly surreal, underground-burrowing heist yarn, with Clooney as self-mockingly sympathetic as he is in the Ocean's films. To Wes Anderson: More, please!" (Owen Gleiberman, EW) "This tale does more than occupy its own particular space between the worlds of childhood and adults. It provides a pleasantly cerebral experience, exhilarating and fizzy, that goes to your head like too much Champagne." (Kenneth Turan, LA Times)
Showtimes: 7:15/ 9:00 Ends Thursday
"Freely adapting Roald Dahl's 1970 children's book, Wes Anderson creates an endearingly tactile fairy-tale thrift-shop universe, with quaintly painted backdrops, cotton balls for smoke, and a family of foxes. Yet Mr. Fox (voiced by George Clooney), Mrs. Fox (Meryl Streep), and their son, Ash (Jason Schwartzman), inhabit a world that's disarmingly, well, lifelike. As a hero, Mr. Fox has the arch self-possession to insist to his wife that he poaches poultry ''because I'm a wild animal.'' Against her wishes, he plots to rip off a trio of evil farmers, and the film turns into a modly surreal, underground-burrowing heist yarn, with Clooney as self-mockingly sympathetic as he is in the Ocean's films. To Wes Anderson: More, please!" (Owen Gleiberman, EW) "This tale does more than occupy its own particular space between the worlds of childhood and adults. It provides a pleasantly cerebral experience, exhilarating and fizzy, that goes to your head like too much Champagne." (Kenneth Turan, LA Times)
HURT LOCKER, THE
(131 R)
Showtimes: 7:00/ 9:25
We played Kathryn Bigelow’s film for a few weeks last fall, but ran into the "Iraq fatigue" syndrome which has turned viewers away from films connected to that war. But THE HURT LOCKER is something special, and its Oscar sweep (6 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director) has convinced many Ithacans to come see this extraordinarily gripping and intelligent fiction film on the big screen. “Bigelow is one of the few directors for whom action-movie-making and the cinema of ideas are synonymous. You may emerge from THE HURT LOCKER shaken, exhilarated and drained, but you will also be thinking.” (A.O. Scott, NYT)
Showtimes: 7:00/ 9:25
We played Kathryn Bigelow’s film for a few weeks last fall, but ran into the "Iraq fatigue" syndrome which has turned viewers away from films connected to that war. But THE HURT LOCKER is something special, and its Oscar sweep (6 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director) has convinced many Ithacans to come see this extraordinarily gripping and intelligent fiction film on the big screen. “Bigelow is one of the few directors for whom action-movie-making and the cinema of ideas are synonymous. You may emerge from THE HURT LOCKER shaken, exhilarated and drained, but you will also be thinking.” (A.O. Scott, NYT)
CRAZY HEART
(112 R)
Showtimes: 7:10/ 9:30
"Hand the Oscar to Jeff Bridges right now, and let's be done with it.
In CRAZY HEART, a sublime American indie from writer/director Scott Cooper, Bridges is Bad Blake, a whiskey-soaked onetime country legend who still zags around the Southwest in his beat-up Chevy Suburban - with an empty gallon jug to pee in and a book of cheat sheets to hand to his pickup bands. As CRAZY HEART opens, Bridges' Blake is zipping his fly and stumbling into the night's venue, a nowheresville bowling alley with a stage tucked in one corner. He can play all the free games he wants, the lanes' owner, a longtime fan, tells Blake, but his manager had already phoned with explicit instructions - no bar tab. Despite the familiar story line - the alcoholic artist looking for redemption, and maybe an AA meeting to help him get there - CRAZY HEART is the real thing, and a real gem. Bridges, an actor who makes it look effortless - he slips into his characters like he's just putting on a fresh shirt - has been handed the role of his career. (And for a guy who's already played the Dude, a Fabulous Baker Boy, a Starman, and car builder Preston Tucker, that's saying a lot.)" (Steven Rea, Phila. Inquirer)
Showtimes: 7:10/ 9:30
"Hand the Oscar to Jeff Bridges right now, and let's be done with it.
In CRAZY HEART, a sublime American indie from writer/director Scott Cooper, Bridges is Bad Blake, a whiskey-soaked onetime country legend who still zags around the Southwest in his beat-up Chevy Suburban - with an empty gallon jug to pee in and a book of cheat sheets to hand to his pickup bands. As CRAZY HEART opens, Bridges' Blake is zipping his fly and stumbling into the night's venue, a nowheresville bowling alley with a stage tucked in one corner. He can play all the free games he wants, the lanes' owner, a longtime fan, tells Blake, but his manager had already phoned with explicit instructions - no bar tab. Despite the familiar story line - the alcoholic artist looking for redemption, and maybe an AA meeting to help him get there - CRAZY HEART is the real thing, and a real gem. Bridges, an actor who makes it look effortless - he slips into his characters like he's just putting on a fresh shirt - has been handed the role of his career. (And for a guy who's already played the Dude, a Fabulous Baker Boy, a Starman, and car builder Preston Tucker, that's saying a lot.)" (Steven Rea, Phila. Inquirer)
SINGLE MAN, A
(99 R)
Showtimes: 7:20
"We're always looking for those performances that truly define an actor, where we can sit back and simply watch the talent soar. For Colin Firth, "A Single Man" is that film. George, the single man Colin Firth imbues with amazing grace, is a Briton transplanted to L.A., where he's been an English professor for years. George is also gay at a time -- the early '60s -- when being open about such things wasn't commonplace. The man he loves has died, sending him first into depression and then on a mission to simply end it all. That's the back story. Our tragedy actually begins on the day George has decided will be his last. Fashion designer Tom Ford has constructed an impressive directing debut, infusing Christopher Isherwood's sad story with warmth and humor to spare. While loss is what makes George's experience universal, heart is what gives him such life." (Betsy Sharkey, LA Times) (Also starring Julianne Moore as George's best friend and Nicholas Hoult from "About A Boy" as a bright student who seems to suspect a kindred spirit in George)
Showtimes: 7:20
"We're always looking for those performances that truly define an actor, where we can sit back and simply watch the talent soar. For Colin Firth, "A Single Man" is that film. George, the single man Colin Firth imbues with amazing grace, is a Briton transplanted to L.A., where he's been an English professor for years. George is also gay at a time -- the early '60s -- when being open about such things wasn't commonplace. The man he loves has died, sending him first into depression and then on a mission to simply end it all. That's the back story. Our tragedy actually begins on the day George has decided will be his last. Fashion designer Tom Ford has constructed an impressive directing debut, infusing Christopher Isherwood's sad story with warmth and humor to spare. While loss is what makes George's experience universal, heart is what gives him such life." (Betsy Sharkey, LA Times) (Also starring Julianne Moore as George's best friend and Nicholas Hoult from "About A Boy" as a bright student who seems to suspect a kindred spirit in George)
