The Charles Theatre: Thursday, July 02, 2009 

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Opens June 26th

ADORATION


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Director: Atom Egoyan Cast: Scott Speedman, Devon Bostick, Arsinée Khanjian, Kenneth Welsh, Rachel Blanchard, Katie Boland, Noam Jenkins, Geraldine O'Rawe, Hailee Sisera MPAA Rating: NR Run Time: 1hr 40mins Release Year: 2008 Country Of Origin: Canada


An imaginative high-school student takes a class assignment a step further by putting himself into the story of a failed terrorist plot.
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HELD OVER!

EASY VIRTUE


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FRIDAY JuLY 3rd. to Wednesday July 8th.
FRIDAY 2:10, 9:00.
SATURDAY 2:10, 9:00.
SUNDAY 9:15.
MONDAY
TUESDAY 9:15.
WEDNESDAY 9:15.


Director: Stephan Elliott Cast: Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth, Kimberley Nixon, Katherine Parkinson, Kris Marshall, Christian Brassington, Charlotte Riley, Jim McManus, Pip Torrens MPAA Rating: PG-13 Run Time: 1hr 33mins Release Year: 2008 Country Of Origin: UK


The twenties have roared... The thirties have yet to swing. Young Englishman John Whittaker (Ben Barnes) falls madly in love with Larita (Jessica Biel), a sexy and glamorous American woman, and they marry impetuously. But when the couple returns to the family home, his mother—the stoic and neurotic Mrs. Whittaker (Kristin Scott Thomas)—has an instant allergic reaction to her new daughter-in-law. Larita tries her best to fit in but fails to tiptoe through the minefield laid by her mother-in-law. Larita quickly realizes Mrs. Whittaker's game and sees that she must fight back if she's not going to lose John. A battle of wits ensues and sparks soon fly. Co-starring Colin Firth as the war-weary head of the household. Directed and co-written by Stephan Elliott (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert), based on the play by Noël Coward.
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Opens July 24th.

DEPARTURES


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Academy Award® winner for Best Foreign Language Film, DEPARTURES is a delightful journey into the heartland of Japan as well an astonishingly beautiful look at a sacred part of Japan's cultural heritage.


“Departures” follows Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki), a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and who is suddenly left without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled “Departures” thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a "Nokanshi" or "encoffineer," a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art of “Nokanshi,” acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed. The film follows his profound and sometimes comical journey with death as he uncovers the wonder, joy and meaning of life and living.
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Open July 3rd.

O'HORTEN


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Director: Bent Hamer Cast: Bård Owe, Espen Skjønberg, Ghita Nørby, Henny Moan, Bjørn Floberg, Kai Remlov, Per Jansen, Bjarte Hjelmeland MPAA Rating: PG-13 Run Time: 1hr 30mins Release Year: 2008 Country Of Origin: Norway/Germany/France


The moment the train leaves the station without engineer Odd Horten (Bård Owe) aboard, he realizes that the path ahead is a journey without printed 40 years of traveling a very stable rail, and the platform does not feel like a safe place anymore. His orderly, solitary existence is about to give way to a future of unlikely adventures and puzzling dilemmas: Will Horten ever travel by plane? Will he finally sell his prized boat? How does Horten end up in a pair of women's red high-heeled shoes? Will he survive a nighttime drive with a blindfolded man at the wheel? Proof positive that there is humor to be found in aging, and we don't have to be elderly Norwegians to identify, laugh and embrace life in all its idiosyncratic splendor. Writer/director Bent Hamer's (Factotum, Kitchen Stories) wonderfully skewed view of the human condition gives us that somewhat absurdist vision with great warmth, a little melancholy and universal appeal. (Fully subtitled)
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COMING JULY 24th.

DAYTIME DRINKING


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After breaking up with his girlfriend, Hyuk-jin hits a bar in Seoul with his friends. Totally drunk, they decide to take a trip to a festival in Joengseon, a small town out in the Korean countryside, to console Hyuk-jin's broken heart. They agree to leave first thing the next day. However, when Hyuk-Jin gets off the bus the next afternoon, he finds out he's the only one that made the trip. He calls his friends, but they all had horrible hangovers and completely forgot. Worse, he quickly finds that the festival they were headed to was weeks ago, and the tiny beach town is shuttered- the shops aren't open, there are no other tourists there, and the beach is freezing cold. Hyuk-jin is truly, honestly, alone. When one of his friends suggests Hyuk-jin wait for them at a hostel run by an old pal from college, he agrees. He seeks it out, not realizing that not only is the place he's sleeping in not the right hotel in the slightest, but that this is just the beginning of a very strange adventure. Over the next few days, Hyuk-jin finds himself in a series of increasingly bizarre situations, most of them aided by the fact that, due to his respect for the etiquette of Korean drinking culture, Hyuk-jin finds it difficult to refuse a drink when someone offers him one. With his friends still saying they'll come, but not showing up, and his wallet gone, Hyuk-jin has to figure out how get out of what must surely be the world's worst hangover, get back to Seoul, and end his drunken odyssey.
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Coming July 3rd.

IL DIVO


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Director: Paolo Sorrentino Cast: Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Giulio Bosetti, Flavio Bucci, Carlo Buccirosso, Giorgio Colangeli, Alberto Cracco, Piera Degli Esposti, Lorenzo Gioielli, Paolo Graziosi, Gianfelice Imparato, Massimo Popolizio, Aldo Ralli, Giovanni Vettorazzo MPAA Rating: NR Run Time: 1hr 57mins Release Year: 2008 Country Of Origin: Italy/France


Giulio Andreotti (Toni Servillo), variously nicknamed The Divine Giulio, Little Caesar, Beelezebub, and Mr. Italy, was the uncrowned king of postwar Italian politics. Between 1972 and 1992 he was Prime Minister seven times and eventually named Senator for Life—but he was also famously accused of and tried for collusion with the mafia. Writer/director Paolo Sorrentino's rip-roaring biopic is chockfull of colorful characters and sinister deaths: machine-gun ambushes, poisoned coffee in a "safe" jail cell, a plastic bag over the head, and more. Andreotti—witty, diminutive, hunched-over, a martyr to headaches—seems an unlikely figure to fear, yet he is at the center of a whirlwind of violence. Familiarity with Italian politics is not essential to enjoy the sheer entertainment and panache of this no-holds-barred portrait of the Machiavellian enigma of Andreotti. Jury Prize winner at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. (Fully subtitled)
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Coming July 10th

MOON


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Director: Duncan Jones Cast: Sam Rockwell, Dominique McElligott, Kaya Scodelario, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry, Malcolm Stewart, Kevin Spacey (voice) MPAA Rating: R Run Time: 1hr 37mins Release Year: 2009 Country Of Origin: UK


In the near future, astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy, Helium-3. It is a lonely job, made harder by a broken satellite that allows no live communications home. Thankfully, his time on the moon is nearly over, and Sam will be reunited with his wife and three-year-old daughter. He will leave the isolation of "Sarang," the moon base that has been his home for so long, and he will finally have someone to talk to beyond "Gerty" (voice of Kevin Spacey), the base's well-intentioned but rather uncomplicated computer. Suddenly, Sam's health starts to deteriorate. Painful headaches, hallucinations and a lack of focus lead to an almost fatal accident on a routine drive on the moon in a lunar rover. While recuperating back at the base (with no memory of how he got there), Sam meets a younger, angrier version of himself, who claims to be there to fulfill the same three year contract Sam started all those years ago. Confined with what appears to be a clone of his earlier self, and with a "support crew" on its way to help put the base back into productive order, Sam is fighting the clock to discover what's going on and where he fits into company plans.
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Coming July 17th

LITTLE ASHES


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Director: Paul Morrison Cast: Robert Pattinson, Javier Beltrán, Matthew McNulty, Marina Gatell, Simón Andreu, Arly Jover, Esther Nubiola MPAA Rating: R Run Time: 1hr 47mins Release Year: 2008 Country Of Origin: UK


In the midst of the repression and political unrest of pre-Spanish Civil War, eccentric artist Salvador Dalí (Robert Pattinson, Twilight) and renowned poet and revolutionary Federico García Lorca (Javier Beltrán) find their artistic and sexual freedom. The two form a bond challenged by their fierce ambitions, their friends, the struggle between a love for Spain and a love for each other. In 1922, Madrid is wavering on the edge of change as traditional values are challenged by the dangerous new influences of jazz, Freud and the avant-garde. Salvador Dalí arrives at university at the age of 18, determined to become a great artist. His bizarre blend of shyness and rampant exhibitionism attracts the attention of two of the university's social elite—Federico García Lorca and Luis Buñuel (Matthew McNulty). Salvador is absorbed into their decadent group and for a time Salvador, Luis and Federico become a formidable trio. However, as time passes, Salvador feels an increasingly strong pull toward the charismatic Federico—who is oblivious to the attention he is getting from the beautiful Magdalena (Marina Gatell). Federico and Salvador spend the holiday in the seaside town of Cadaqués. Both the idyllic surroundings and the warmth of the Dalí family sweep Federico off his feet. Salvador and he draw closer, sharing their deepest beliefs, inspirations and secrets, convinced that they have found a kind of friendship undreamt of by others. It is more than a meeting of the minds; it is a fusion of souls.
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Starts July 17th.

Management


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Director: Stephen Belber Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson, Fred Ward, Margo Martindale MPAA Rating: R Run Time: 1hr 33mins Release Year: 2008 Country Of Origin: USA


Management is a romantic comedy that chronicles a chance meeting between Mike Cranshaw (Steve Zahn) and Sue Claussen (Jennifer Aniston). When Sue checks into the roadside motel owned by Mike's parents in Arizona, what starts with a bottle of wine "compliments of management" soon evolves into a multi-layered, cross-country journey of two people looking for a sense of purpose. Mike, an aimless dreamer, bets it all on a trip to Sue's workplace in Maryland—only to find that she has no place for him in her carefully ordered life. Buttoned down and obsessed with making a difference in the world, Sue goes back to her yogurt mogul ex-boyfriend Jango (Woody Harrelson), who promises her a chance to head his charity operations. But having found something worth fighting for, Mike pits his hopes against Sue's practicality, and the two embark on a twisted, bumpy, freeing journey to discover that their place in the world just might be together.
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Starts July 31st.

Séraphine


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Director: Martin Provost Cast: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent, Geneviève Mnich, Nico Rogner, Adélaide Leroux, Serge Larivière MPAA Rating: NR Run Time: 2hrs 1min Release Year: 2008 Country Of Origin: France


Séraphine vividly recounts the tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine de Senlis (renowned French actress Yolande Moreau), a humble servant who becomes a gifted, self-taught painter whose brilliantly colorful canvases adorn some of the most famous galleries in the world. German art critic and collector Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur) discovers her paintings while she is working for him as a maid in Senlis near Paris in the early part of the 20th century. A poignant and unexpected relationship develops between the avant-garde art dealer and the visionary cleaning lady. Director/co-writer Martin Provost's fictionalized portrait of this forgotten painter is a testament to creativity and the resilience of one woman's spirit. Winner of 7 Césars (French Oscars) including Best Film, Best Actress and Best Cinematography. (Fully subtitled)
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Starts Friday August 7th.

YOO-HOO, MRS. GOLDBERG


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Director: Aviva Kempner MPAA Rating: NR Run Time: 1hr 32mins Release Year: 2009 Country Of Origin: USA


From Aviva Kempner, award-winning maker of The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, comes this humorous and delightfully entertaining story of radio and television pioneer Gertrude Berg. She was the creator, principal writer and star of "The Goldbergs," a popular radio show about a Jewish family living in New York City which became television's very first character-driven domestic sitcom in 1949. She combined social commentary, family values and lots of humor to win the hearts of America. Berg appeared on the cover of Billboard Magazine and received the first Best Actress Emmy in history, paving the way for women in the entertainment industry. She was polled as the second most respected woman in America after Eleanor Roosevelt. The Oprah, Martha and Rachel Ray of her day, Berg was a media trailblazer with popular radio and television shows, a cookbook, jigsaw puzzle, advice column and clothing line for modern women of her time. Gertrude Berg is truly the most famous woman in America you've never heard of. Includes appearances by "All in the Family" producer Norman Lear, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg and NPR commentator Susan Stamberg.
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