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This Week:
Fri 7/03 – Sun 7/05
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Movie: Forever
Friday, Jul 3rd: 7:30
Saturday, Jul 4th: 7:30
Sunday, Jul 5th: 5:30
Member: $5, General: $7, Student: $5
2007, 95 minutes
Heddy Honigmann's artistry includes a poetic cinematic
style that conveys the melancholy beauty of the cemetery's
memorial statuary and tombstones, and her ability to
elicit surprisingly intimate human-interest stories from
those she encounters. Through a leisurely tour of the
world-famous Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, the final
resting place for legendary writers, composers, painters
and other artists from around the world, Forever
provides an unusually poignant, emotionally powerful meditation on relations between the living and the dead, and the immortal power of art.
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Movie: Unmistaken Child
Friday, Jul 3rd: 5:30
Saturday, Jul 4th: 5:30
Sunday, Jul 5th: 3:30
Thursday, Jul 9th: 7:30
Friday, Jul 10th: 7:30
Saturday, Jul 11th: 3:30
Saturday, Jul 11th: 7:30
Sunday, Jul 12th: 5:30
Member: $5, General: $7, Student: $5
Directed by Nati Baratz
Israel, 2008, 102 minutes
"A rather fascinating look at a beautiful culture. The imagery is BEYOND STUNNING."
-Sara Vilkomerson, New York Observer
"Rich in drama and in the glimpses it gives of other worlds."
-Mike Hale, The New York Times
"Fascinating insider's perspective. . .captures the beauty in wild nature and elaborate Buddhist rites and rituals."
-Alissa Simon, Variety
"A poignant piece of non-fiction filmmaking. . . manages to be as graceful as its subject is divine."
-Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
The Buddhist concept of reincarnation, while both mysterious and enchanting, is hard for most Westerners to grasp. Unmistaken Child follows the 4-year-search for the reincarnation of Lama Konchog, a world-renowned Tibetan master who passed away in 2001 at age 84. The Dalai Lama charges the deceased monk's devoted disciple, Tenzin Zopa (who had been in his service since the age of seven), to search for his master's reincarnation, a child who may be anywhere in the world. Tenzin sets off on foot, mule and even helicopter, through breathtaking landscapes and remote traditional Tibetan villages. He listens to stories about children with special characteristics, performs rituals and rarely-seen tests designed to determine the likelihood of reincarnation, and eventually presents his chosen one to the Dalai Lama, who will make the final decision. Stunningly shot, Unmistaken Child is a beguiling, surprising, touching and even humorous experience.
English, Tibetan, Nepalese, and Hindi with English Subtitles.
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Movie: Valentino: The Last Emperor
Friday, Jul 3rd: 9:30
Saturday, Jul 4th: 9:30
Sunday, Jul 5th: 7:30
Member: $5, General: $7, Student: $5
2008, 96 minutes
The legendary designer Valentino Garavani in the wake of his exit in 2008 from the company he founded in Rome more than
45 years ago. Produced and directed by Matt Tyrnauer,
Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair magazine, the
film documents the colorful and dramatic closing act of
Valentino's celebrated career, tells the story of his extraordinary
life and work, and also explores the larger themes
affecting the fashion business today. But at the heart of
the film is the unique relationship between Valentino and
his business partner and companion of 50 years, Giancarlo
Giammetti.
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Movie: Burma VJ
Thursday, Jul 9th: 5:30
Friday, Jul 10th: 5:30
Saturday, Jul 11th: 5:30
Thursday, Jul 16th: 7:30
Friday, Jul 17th: 7:30
Saturday, Jul 18th: 3:30
Saturday, Jul 18th: 7:30
Sunday, Jul 19th: 5:30
Member: $5, General: $7, Student: $5
Directed by Anders Ostergaard
Denmark, 2008, 85 minutes
Armed with pocket-sized video cameras, a tenacious band of Burmese reporters face down death to expose the repressive regime controlling their country. In 2007, after decades of self-imposed silence, Burma became headline news across the globe when peaceful Buddhist monks led a massive rebellion. More than 100,000 people took to the streets protesting a cruel dictatorship that has held the country hostage for more than 40 years. Foreign news crews were banned, the Internet was shut down, and Burma was closed to the outside world. So how did we witness these events? Enter the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), aka the Burma VJs. Compiled from the shaky handheld footage of the DVB, acclaimed filmmaker Anders Ostergaard's Burma VJ pulls us into the heat of the moment as the VJs themselves become the target of the Burmese government. Their tactical leader, code-named Joshua, oversees operations from a safe hiding place in Thailand. Via clandestine phone calls, Joshua dispenses his posse of video warriors, who covertly film the abuses in their country, then smuggle their footage across the border into Thailand. Joshua ships the footage to Norway, where it is broadcast back to Burma and the world via satellite. Burma VJ plays like a thriller, all the more scary because it is true. Recipient of the World Cinema Documentary Editing Award.
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Outdoor Movies: Finding Nemo
Friday, Jul 10th: At Dark
Free
2003, 100 minutes
Screening at Pocket Park, 330 Warren St
Finding Nemo is a hilarious adventure full of colorful characters and the breathtaking underwater world of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to Marlin (Albert Brooks), his worrisome father, and Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), a friendly but forgetful regal blue tang fish, to make the epic journey to bring Nemo home. Their adventure brings them face-to-face with vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more. Marlin discovers a bravery he never knew, but will he be able to find his son? Finding Nemo's breakthrough computer animation takes you into a whole new world with this undersea adventure about family, courage, and challenges. Take the plunge into Finding Nemo, a "spectacularly beautiful animated adventure for everyone!"
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Best of the Met Opera: I Puritani
Sunday, Jul 12th: 2:00
$22
155 minutes
Composer: Vincenzo Bellini
Librettist: Carlo Pepoli
Summers; Netrebko, Cutler, Vassallo, Relyea
Soprano Anna Netrebko took New York by storm when she performed the role of the fragile Puritan maiden Elvira. Her daring take on the heroine's famous mad scene earned her rapturous standing ovations from sold-out houses night after night. Overflowing with ravishing arias and ensembles, this bel canto gem also stars Eric Cutler as Elvira's love Arturo, Franco Vassallo as her suitor Riccardo, and John Relyea as her uncle Giorgio.
Reserve tickets by calling TSL at 518-822-8448.
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Movie: Harvard Beats Yale 29 - 29
Thursday, Jul 16th: 5:30
Friday, Jul 17th: 5:30
Saturday, Jul 18th: 5:30
Thursday, Jul 23rd: 7:30
Friday, Jul 24th: 7:30
Saturday, Jul 25th: 3:30
Saturday, Jul 25th: 7:30
Sunday, Jul 26th: 5:30
Member: $5, General: $7, Student: $5
Directed by Kevin Rafferty
2008, 105 minutes
"The best football game I ever saw. . . for pure narrative beauty, culminating in the athletic equivalent of a MULTIPLE ORGASM, it wasn't just the best game I ever saw - it was THE BEST GAME THAT EVER WAS. . . Now you, too, can experience the magic."
-Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker online
"PREPOSTEROUSLY ENTERTAINING. . . A narrative that pulses with the artful, exciting beats of a thriller."
-Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
"A nail-biting sports story highlighted by personal stories, famous faces and the backdrop of the tumultuous '60s."
'Rafer Guzman, Newsday
HARVARD STADIUM, NOVEMBER 23, 1968: for the first time since 1909, the football teams of Harvard and Yale are undefeated as they meet for their final game. Yale is heavily favored, with Brian Dowling, its captain and quarterback, satirized in classmate Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury strip. Harvard's lineman is Tommy Lee Jones - Al Gore's roommate. Kevin Rafferty (ATOMIC CAFE) intercuts original footage with the hilarious, suspenseful recollections of the 50 men who played in what has become one of college football's most famous games.
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Outdoor Movies: Modern Times
Friday, Jul 17th: At Dark
Free
1936, 87 minutes
Screening at Pocket Park, 330 Warren St
Modern Times is often hailed as one of Charlie Chaplin's greatest achievements. In addition to writing, directing and producing the film, Chaplin also stars in this satire of the machine age as an assembly-line worker driven insane by the monotony of his job. Put in an asylum, imprisoned, escaped, and bumped from one job to the next, he befriends an orphaned gamine (Paulette Goddard) and hilarious antics ensue making Modern Times not only Chaplin's last silent film, but also one of his most beloved.
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Best of the Met Opera: Eugene Onegin
Sunday, Jul 19th: 2:00
$22
171 minutes
Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Librettist: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Konstantin Shilovsky
Gergiev; Fleming, Vargas, Hvorostovsky, Aleksashkin
The pain of unrequited love is portrayed unforgettably by two of today's greatest stars. Renee Fleming is musically and dramatically radiant as the shy Tatiana, who falls in love with the worldly Onegin, played with devastating charisma by Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Their mesmerizing vocalism and chemistry explode in one of opera's most heartbreaking
Reserve tickets by calling TSL at 518-822-8448.
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Movie: Food, inc.
Thursday, Jul 23rd: 5:30
Friday, Jul 24th: 5:30
Saturday, Jul 25th: 5:30
Thursday, Jul 30th: 5:30
Thursday, Jul 30th: 7:30
Friday, Jul 31st: 5:30
Friday, Jul 31st: 7:30
Member: $5, General: $7, Student: $5
2009, 93 minutes
"FINE, AMBITIOUS AND OFTEN INFURIATING. One of the scariest movies of the year."
-Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farm's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms's Joe Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
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Outdoor Movies: Man On Wire
Friday, Jul 24th: At Dark
Free
2008, 94 minutes
Screening at Pocket Park, 330 Warren St
Winner, Audience Award & Grand Jury Prize forWorld Documentary 2008 Sundance Film Festival
On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York's twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released. James Marsh's documentary brings Petit's extraordinary adventure to life through the testimony of Philippe himself, and some of the co-conspirators who helped him create the unique and magnificent spectacle that became known as "the artistic crime of the century."
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Best of the Met Opera: The Barber of Seville
Sunday, Jul 26th: 2:00
$22
165 minutes
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Librettist: Cesare Sterbini
Benini; DiDonato, Florez, Mattei, Del Carlo, Relyea
Audiences went wild for Bartlett Sher's dynamic production, which found fresh and surprising ways to bring Rossini's effervescent comedy closer to them than ever before. The stellar cast leapt to the challenge with irresistible energy and bravura vocalism. Juan Diego Florez is Count Almaviva, who fires off showstopping coloratura as he woos Joyce DiDonato's spirited Rosina-with assistance from Peter Mattei as the one and only Figaro, Seville's beloved barber and man-about-town.
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Outdoor Movies: Men in Black
Friday, Jul 31st: At Dark
Free
1997, 98 minutes
Screening at Pocket Park, 330 Warren St
Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones star in this Action/Sci-Fi/Comedy about two agents in a secret government agency policing the comings and goings of aliens on planet Earth. The Men in Black are assigned to recover a bauble that's been stolen by an intergalactic terrorist (Vincent D'Onofrio), and must race against time and all odds to protect the universe from destruction. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld.
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Special Event: Big Barn BBQ in Ancramdale
Saturday, Aug 1st:
$20 for members, $5 for
children under 12, and $30 for non-members.
Features all kinds of activity including
games for young people, food by Chef Daniel,
homemade desserts, a cash wine and beer bar, and
the rousing Cajun music of Jesse Lege and Friends.
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