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ADDRESS where she is seen as a victim in one context and a perpetrator in the next. This personal film asks if it’s possible to forgive. Through TOWN & ZIP testimonies ranging from the horrifying to the hopeful, the film ENCLOSED $ MEMBERSHIP LEVEL points towards a future — an “afterward” — that attempts to live MY EMAIL: with the truths of history in order to make sense of the present. GOOD UNTIL : / / 202_ (1 year from date of purchase) Set against the current wave of fascism and anti-Semitism sweep- BOMBSHELL RHINEBECK THREE OSCAR NOMS Buff $50 $6 instead of $10 ing the globe, Bloch faces those she was raised to hate as she searches to understand the identity-making narratives of the Dual Buffs $95 For two adults at the same address, each admission $6 instead of $10 Holocaust and the Nakba, violent and non-violent resistance, and the possibility of reconciliation. $6 instead of $8 Senior (62+) $35 US / 2019 / Directed by Ofra Bloch / unrated / 1 hr 34 mins Dual Seniors (62+) $65 For two seniors at the same address, each admission $6 instead of $8
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BOMBSHELL is a revealing In this gripping drama, Alfre Woodard delivers a deeply pow- US / 2019 / DIRECTED BY GRETA GERWIG / PG / 2 HRS 15 look inside this most powerful and controversial media empire, erful performance as prison warden Bernadine Williams who, Based on Louisa May Alcott’s groundbreaking 1868 novel of and the explosive story of the women who brought down the after years of carrying out lethal injections, must contend the same name, Greta (LADY BIRD) Gerwig’s adaptation un- infamous man who created it. with the devastating emotional fallout her job creates. folds as Jo March, the author’s alter ego, relives and reflects How does one live a satisfied life while overseeing the deaths of moving adroitly back and forth from childhood to adulthood other human beings? For Bernadine, the effects of this grim re- and back. sponsibility are lasting, and potentially irreparable. CLEMENCY is In writer-director Greta Gerwig’s take on this classic coming of a haunting and expertly crafted film, loosely inspired by the 2011 age novel which is dear to her heart, the beloved story of four LES MISERABLES execution of Troy Davis. (Davis, a black man in Georgia, was tried, young women, sisters, each determined to live life on their own JAN 24 - 30: FRI 8:15 SAT SUN 7:15 MON 5:45 convicted, and killed, for the alleged murder of a police officer, terms — is both timeless and timely. TUES WED THUR 8:15 OSCAR NOMINEE even though substantial evidence existed to provide reasonable The terrific cast includes Saoirse Ronan as Jo, Emma Watson as FRANCE / 2019 / DIRECTED BY LADJ LY / FRENCH WITH ENGLISH doubt regarding Troy’s guilt.) In the film, a death row inmate Meg, Florence Pugh as Amy, Eliza Scanlen as Beth, Laura Dern SUBTITLES/R / 1 HR 43 MINS. named Jonathan (an excellent Aldis Hodge) waits anxiously for as Marmee, Timothee Chalamet, and Meryl Streep. The film Not the hit musical or a new take on Victor Hugo’s novel, but word of his pardon from the governor – a pardon which may or explores the lives of the March sisters in the aftermath of the rather this year’s French Oscar nominee for the Best Foreign may not actually arrive. Meanwhile, the warden has grown numb. American Civil War. According to one of its producers, this new Language Film, Les Misérables is an explosive drama that As distance develops between she and her husband, Bernadine adaptation (the 8th film based on the novel) focuses more on the takes us back to 2005 when a series of riots rocked the sub- struggles to somehow overcome the effects of her crushing ob- sisters’ young adult lives. urbs of Paris. ligation, and to reclaim the humanity with which she has seem- FEROCIOUS, BRACING AND PROFOUNDLY ILLUMINATING, LES ingly lost touch so long ago. CLEMENCY is a complex character BOMBSHELL OSCAR NOMINEE MISÉRABLES SHOWCASES REVOLT AGAINST MISERY, IN ALL ITS GLORY. study anchored by an excellent screenplay, masterful directing JAN 24 -30: FRI 3:00 5:45 SAT 4:45 SUN 2:00 MON 8:15 –CHRISTOPHER LLEWELLYN REED, HAMMER TO NAIL and cinematography, and a nuanced, yet completely absorbing TUE 5:45 WED 3:00 THUR 5:45 Set in the neighborhood where Victor Hugo wrote and set his central performance. US/2019/DIRECTED BY JAY ROACH/R/1 HR 49 MINS great novel, now an ethnic enclave, Les Misérables chronicles a Academy Award winners Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman day in the life of Stephane (Damien Bonnard), a new cop working OSCAR NOMINEE play two of the on-air personalities of Fox News (Megyn Kelly PARASITE his first day in the Street Crimes Unit. What starts as a police JAN 25 & 26: SAT 4:30 SUN 5:30 & Gretchen Carlson) and Margot Robbie is a composite charac- procedural weaving through the vibrant sights and sounds of a KOREA/ 2019 / DIRECTED BY BONG JOON-HO/R / 2 HR 2 MINS. ter, an ambitious born again new hire in this powerful movie community on edge and full of distrust for police, soon takes an Winner, deservedly so, of the Cannes Film Fest’s top prize, the unexpected and dramatic turn as an arrest attempt goes wrong Palme D’or, here’s a film its director calls “a comedy without A ferociously entertaining dramatization of how an unlikely and the police are overrun by a mob. Adapted from a short film group of women exposed and deposed media titan Roger Ail- clowns and a tragedy without villains,” a film that keeps us es, it is as harrowing as it is triumphant in its depiction of the he directed two years prior, this is filmmaker Ladj Ly’s feature delightfully off balance as it mixes pathos and satire with way it all came to pass. - Kenneth Turan, L.A. Times debut, a dynamic and unpredictable thriller that captures the thrills and drama as it nails the dichotomy between the strug- livelihood and tension of its urban mileau with a visual energy gling poor and the wildly rich. enhanced by the intimate and agile camerawork of cinematogra- about how the CEO of Fox News, Roger Ailes, was finally de- pher Julien Poupard. Les Misérables is a powerful reminder that “A comedy without clowns and a tragedy without villains” throned due to his sexual harassment of at least 23 women. behind the surface of news reports there are deeper stories that John Lithgow is totally intimidating as media guru Ailes, who, require a more complex treatment.