2012 APRIL/MAY For more films, visit okcmoa.com/see/film $5 members; $6 seniors & students, $8 adults

Thursday, April 19, 7:30pm Friday & Saturday, April 27–28, Friday & Saturday, April 20–21, 5:30pm 5:30pm & 8pm Sunday, April 22, 2pm Sunday, April 29, 2pm

On the Ice Gerhard Richter Painting Friday & Saturday, May 11 - 12, 5:30pm & In this suspenseful feature film debut, One of the world’s greatest living paint- 8pm; Sunday, May 13, 2pm two teenage boys who have grown up ers, the German artist Gerhard Richter has like brothers go about their lives in the spent over half a century experimenting The Perfect Family comfortable claustrophobia of an isolated with a tremen- Suburban supermom Eileen Cleary (Kath- Alaskan town. dous range of leen Turner) is the ultimate Catholic, and Early one morn- techniques and when she’s nominated for the coveted ing, on a seal ideas, address- Catholic hunt with an- ing historical Woman of other teenager, crises and mass the Year an argument be- media represen- Award at her tween the three tation alongside local parish, boys quickly explorations of it looks like escalates into a chance proce- she’s about tragic accident. dures. The first to get the Bonded by their glimpse inside plaque to dark secret, the his studio in de- prove it. Only two best friends cades, Gerhard one final test are forced to Richter Painting remains, create one fabrication after another in or- is exactly that—a thrilling document of the introducing der to survive. The shocked boys stumble 79-year-old’s creative process, juxtaposed her family to through guilt fueled days, avoiding the with rare archival footage and intimate the church suspicions of their community, as they conversations with his critics and collabora- board for the weave a web of deceit. With their future tors. Director: Corinna Belz 2011 Germany seal of ap- in the balance, they are forced to explore 97min. NR digital proval. Now, she must face the truth about the limits of friendship and honor. Direc- her nonconformist family, a truth she has tor: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean 2010 USA Thursday, May10, 7:30pm been glossing over for years. With her gay 96min. R 35mm daughter (Emily Deschanel) about to marry Marie Antoinette her life partner, her unhappily married son Sofia Coppola directs an electrifying yet Friday & Saturday, April 20–21, 8pm (Jason Ritter) having an affair, and her own intimate re-telling of the turbulent life of his- marriage to a recovered alcoholic pulling at tory’s favorite We Need to Talk the seams, Eileen decides to take action, villainess, Ma- ramping up her meddling to new and hilari- About Kevin rie-Antoinette, ous heights. As she does, she begins to A gripping psychological thriller, Lynne Kirsten Dunst question what truly makes a family perf ect. Ramsay’s film explores the fractious portrays the ill- Director: Anne Renton 2011 USA 84min. relationship between a mother and her fated Austrian PG-13 digital evil son. Tilda teen princess Swinton, in a who married bracing, tour- France’s indif- de-force perfor- ferent Louis mance, plays XVI (Jason the mother, Schwartz- Eva, as she man). Feeling contends for isolated in a 15 years with royal court rife the increasing with scandal, malevolence of unprepared her first-born for the woes of politics during the French child, Kevin Revolution, Marie Antoinette defied both roy- (Ezra Miller). alty and commoner by living like a rock star, Ramsay’s storytelling simultaneously com- which served only to seal her fate. Academy bines a provocative moral ambiguity with Award winner for Best Costume Design a compelling narrative that builds to an For more films, (Milena Canonero). visit okcmoa.com/see/film. unforgettable climax. Also starring John C. Director: Sofia Coppola 2006 USA/France/ $5 members Reilly. Director: Lynne Ramsay 2011 UK/ Japan 123min. PG-13 35mm $6 seniors & students USA 112min. R 35mm $8 adults Thursday, May 17, 7:30pm Wish Me Away Terence Davies x 2 Wish Me Away is the story of Chely Wright, Thursday, May 24, 7:30pm the first country music star to come out as Friday & Saturday, May 25 - 26, gay. Over three years, the filmmakers were 5:30pm & 8pm The Long Day Closes Sunday, May 27, 2pm given extraordinary access to Chely’s strug- Following his prize-winning debut feature film gle and her Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), Terence unfolding plan The Deep Blue Sea Davies made The Long Day Closes. This In this masterful film adaptation of British to come out lyrical hymn to playwright Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play, publicly. Using childhood revisits Rachel Weisz interviews with his own memories plays Hester Col- Chely, her fam- of growing up in lyer, the wife of an ily, her pastor, a working-class upper-class judge and key players Catholic family in (Simon Russell in Nashville Liverpool. Eleven- Beale) and a free interwoven with year-old Bud finds spirit trapped in a Chely’s intimate escape from the passionless mar- private video grayness of ‘50s riage. Her encoun- diaries, the film Britain through ter with Freddie goes deep into trips to the cinema Page (Tom Hid- her back story watching iconic dleston), a troubled as an estab- figures on the former Royal Air lished country music star and then forward movie screen, and in the warmth of family Force pilot, throws as she steps into the national spotlight to life. But as he gets older, the agonies of the her life in turmoil, as their erotic relationship reveal her secret. Chronicling the aftermath adult world; the casual cruelty of bullying, the leaves her emotionally stranded and physi- in her hometown of Nashville and within tyranny of school and the dread of religion, cally isolated. Through flashbacks, Davies the larger LGBT community, Wish Me Away begin to invade his life. Time and memory creates memorable cinematic compositions reveals both the devastation of her own blend and blur through Davies’ fluid camera- against the backdrop of post-war England. internalized homophobia and the transfor- work; slow tracking shots, pans and dream- His signature style includes beautiful track- mational power of living an authentic life. like dissolves combine to create the world of ing shots as well as the use of popular Directors: Beverly Kopf & Bobbie Birleffi Bud’s imagination and the lost paradise of music of the day, and Samuel Barber’s 2011 USA 96min. NR 35mm his childhood. Director: Terence Davies 1992 majestic Opus for Violin and Orchestra. UK 85min. PG 35mm Director: Terence Davies 2011 USA/UK 98min. R 35mm

Thursday, June 14, 7:30pm; Friday & Saturday, June 15 - 16, 5:30pm & 8:30pm For more films, visit okcmoa.com/see/film Sunday, June 17, 2pm $5 members; $6 seniors & students, $8 adults Marley Bob Marley’s universal appeal, impact on music Friday & Saturday, June 1 - 2, 5:30pm & 8pm history and role as a social and political prophet Sunday, June 3, 2pm is both unique and unparalleled. Marley is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary, Monsieur Lazhar and legend, from his early Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign days to his rise to inter- Language Film, Monsieur Lazhar tells the poi- national superstardom. gnant story of a Montreal middle school class Made with the support shaken by the death of of the Marley family, the their well-liked teacher. film features rare footage, Bachir Lazhar (Fellag), incredible performances a 55-year-old Algerian and revelatory interviews immigrant, offers the with the people that knew school his services as him best. From Academy a substitute teacher Award-winning director and is quickly hired. As Kevin Macdonald (One he helps the children Day In September, The heal, he also learns to Last King of Scotland) accept his own painful comes the story of a towering figure of musical his- past. This moving film tory, whose music and message has transcended features exquisite per- different cultures, languages and creeds to reso- formances by Fellag and a stunning ensemble nate around the world today as powerfully as when of child actors. he was alive. In French with English subtitles. Director: Kevin Macdonald 2012 USA/UK 144min. Director: Philippe Falardeau 2011 Canada PG-13 35mm 94min. PG-13 35mm