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Broken Embraces

7pm: Mar 5, 7, 11, 13, 15, 17
9:15pm: Mar 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18
website: www.brokenembraces.com

2009 • SPAIN • Dir: Pedro Almodovar
127min • Rated 14A
Spanish with English subtitles

Sex, cinema and fate – three of Pedro Almodovar’s favorite subjects – are lovingly examined in his Broken Embraces.

Lena (Penelope Cruz) yearns to be an actress and gets a role in writer-director Mateo’s latest comedy, bankrolled by her rich lover Martel. He insists that his semi-estranged, closeted son Ernesto Jr. hang out on the film set, documenting everything for an ultra-personal “Making of…”. Naturally, he captures the growing attraction between Mateo and Lena, unleashing passion, violence and ultimately tragedy.

A blend of Alfred Hitchcock mystery and swooning melodrama, “Embraces” unfolds in the past and the present to tell a tale of illicit love, betrayal, revenge and, finally, personal and artistic triumph. (Robert W. Butler, Kansas City Star)

Visually, the pic is an exquisite treat. Every richly hued wall is covered with eye-candy artwork, every doorway reps a second level of framing, and there is beauty even in the scattered contents of a drawer or in a pile of torn-up photos. Close-ups are regularly used, particularly of Cruz’s hypnotically photogenic features. (Jonathan Holland, Variety)

Disgrace

7pm: Mar 8, 10, 12, 16, 18
9:15pm: Mar 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17
website: www.disgracethefilm.com

2009 • AUSTRALIA/SOUTH AFRICA
Dir: Steve Jacobs
119min • Rated R

In this stunning adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee, John Malkovich stars as arrogant professor David Lurie, who takes a beautiful young student under his wing and into his bed. Disgraced, after he loses his job for refusing to apologize sufficiently for the affair, he leaves the city for the remote farm
where his free-spirit daughter, Lucy lives. However, neither David nor Lucy can escape the realities of contemporary society.

A perfectly cast John Malkovich gives a superb performance in a powerful and intelligent study of a man coming back from the brink. (Jamie McLeish, Film 4)

Engaging, powerful and absorbing drama that doesn’t offer any easy answers but exerts a tight grip, thanks to a terrific performance by John Malkovich. (Matthew Turner, View London)

Street Trash

Midnight: Mar 5

1987 • USA
Dir: J. Michael Muro
102min • Rated R
Starring: Mike Lackey, Bill Chepil, Pat Ryan
Tickets: $10

Bad Monster Films is going into its third year, and to celebrate they’re sending you straight to the gutter of grind house cinema with Street Trash! In the sleazy and foreboding world of winos, derelicts and drifts in lower Manhattan, two young runaways live in a tire hut in the back of a vast auto wrecking yard. The most lethal threat to the boys is the case of Tenafly Viper in Ed’s liquor store window. Ed found the cheapo wine behind a wall in his basement. The stuff’s forty years old, and it’s gone real bad.

Anyone who drinks it melts within seconds! And it’s only one dollar a bottle!

Bad Monster Films is proud to present this super-gore comedy splatter fest completely UNCUT in glorious 35mm from producer/writer Roy Frumkes’ personal print!

And because it’s their second anniversary they’ve got prizes galore and FREE CAKE!

To view trailers, upcoming screenings and for more info, visit www.badmonsterfilms.com

E.T.:The Extra-Terrestrial

Saturday Kids’ Matinee
1pm: Mar 6
Tickets: Adults $5
Children $3

7pm: Mar 6
115min
Tickets: Members $7
Non-Members $10, Children $5
First two people who bring their ET doll receive a complimentary pass.

An extra terrestrial is accidentally left behind on earth and is befriended by a young boy and his brother and sister.

He is afraid. He is alone. He is 3 million light years from home. The mystery. The suspense. The adventure. The call…that started it all. The story that touched the world.

Winner of 4 Academy Awards

Casablanca

March 9
2:30pm: $5
7pm: Regular Admission Prices

1942 • USA • Dir: Michael Curtiz
102min • Rated PG

We’ve heard from many of you that you wish you could see the Silver Classics but your boss won’t let you leave work to attend, so we added an evening screening at 7pm.

This wartime adventure of romance and intrigue is the story of Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a world-weary ex-freedom fighter who runs a nightclub in Casablanca during the early part of WWII. Despite pressure from the local authorities Rick’s café has become a haven for refugees looking to purchase illicit letters of transit that allow them to escape to America.
One day to Rick’s surprise, he is approached by the famed rebel Victor Lazlo and his wife Illsa (Ingrid Bergman), Rick’s true love. Does Illsa leave her husband for Rick? This is “the” love story
that captivated the audiences of 1942 resulting in academy awards for Best Film and Best Director.

Casablanca blends romance, suspense, humor, and patriotic drama and the movie looks better with each passing year. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll cheer, and the good guys strike a blow against fascism – what more could you want from a movie? (Mark Deming, Allmovie)