Feature Films
Goodbye Solo
Directed by Ramin Bahrani. US. 2008. R. Running time: 91 min.
Fri, Jul 3 thru Thu, Jul 16 -- Roll over to view showtimes.
“With Goodbye Solo, writer-director Ramin Bahrani continues to channel Iranian cinema’s social-realist aesthetic and interest in marginalized figures. However, more than Abbas Kiarostami’s A Taste of Cherry, with which it shares a similar narrative hook, his third feature’s true kindred spirit turns out to be Happy-Go-Lucky.” More »
Lemon Tree
Directed by Eran Riklis. Israel. 2008. PG. Running time: 106 min.
Fri, Jul 17 thru Thu, Jul 23 -- Roll over to view showtimes.
“Salma Zidane (Hiam Abbass), the proud, handsome 45-year-old Palestinian woman at the center of Lemon Tree, an allegory of Israeli-Palestinian strife, has the misfortune of living in the wrong place at the wrong time. Widowed for 10 years, with a son in the United States, Salma earns a meager living from a lemon grove on the Green Line separating Israel from the occupied territories of the West Bank. The grove has been in her family for 50 years.” More »
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Tickets: $10 /$8.
- Sat, Jul 18, 10:00 pm
Experience the king of cult classics as it was meant to be seen when Rocky Horror returns to the Colonial. More »
Sugar
Directed by Anna Boden. US. 2008. R. Running time: 120 min.
Fri, Jul 24 thru Fri, Jul 30 -- Roll over to view showtimes.
“There is something undeniably noble and beautiful about the love of sports: the appreciation of grace and excellence for their own sakes, the pleasure of competition, the discipline of training. But the practice of big-time sports is often cruel and corrupt, a business built on the exploitation of young people and the peddling of impossible dreams. This basic contradiction..is also, at least implicitly, a central concern in Sugar, a wise and lovely new film by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.” More »
Summer Hours
Directed by Olivier Assayas. France. 2008. PG-13. Running time: 103 min.
Fri, Jul 31 thru Thu, Aug 6 -- Roll over to view showtimes.
“Summer Hours opens, as so many French films do, with a major family reunion at a marvelous old house in the country. But while the setting is familiar, even Chekhovian, what writer-director Olivier Assayas does with it is not. More »
Food, Inc
Directed by Robert Kenner. US. 2008. PG. Running time: 94 min.
Fri, Aug 14 thru Thu, Aug 20 -- Roll over to view showtimes.
“I’m not generally in the habit of praising movies for being good for you, but Food, Inc. is more than just a terrific documentary - it’s an important movie, one that nourishes your knowledge of how the world works. Or, in this case, has started not to work.” More »