The Sessions February 26-27 Amour March 26-27 Dir: Ben Lewin, USA, 2012, 95 min. Dir: Michael Haneke, France, 2012, 127 min. John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Riva, Jean-Louis Trintignant (French with English Subtitles) Hawkes plays Mark O'Brien, a real-life poet and journalist who, because of childhood polio, spends most of his life in an iron lung A well-off cultured Parisian couple struggle with age and illness in or on a gurney. The film recounts his attempt in his late 30's to lose this drama, which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, his virginity with a sex surrogate named Cheryl (Hunt). The fact 2012. The long-married couple deal with the problem of care after that he's Catholic and relates his experiences to a hipster priest she is paralyzed by a stroke and he devotes himself to looking after (Macy) adds another quirky element. The gently humorous script is her as best he can. They are settled in their apartment, which fits bolstered by the use of O'Brien's own journalism and poetry. them like a glove, they have their routines, domestic, and other- Hawkes does wonders with his role in which he is always horizontal wise, all of which are upended when the wife has her stroke. The and motionless and Hunt plays her character with compas- effect on each causes them to seek out resourcefulness and deter- sion, struggling with her own conflict and emotions. 18A nudity/ mination to see it through. But every day brings forth challenges sexual content. they never before imagined. Not Yet Rated

Barbara March 5-6 Sexy Baby April 2-3 Dir: Christian Petzold, Germany, 2012, 105 min. Dir: Jill Bauer/Ronna Gradus, USA, 2012, 83 min. Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock (German with English Subtitles) These days, sex doesn't just sell, it saturates our culture. In the age February 2013 - April 2013 of runaway social media and "sexting", pornography at the click of Barbara is a doctor demoted to a rural East German hospital in the a mouse – What's it like to be a woman? A Girl? A teenage boy? early 80s. Under constant surveillance for an unknown offence, she Their parents? In their feature documentary debut, the directors carries herself with an impenetrable rigidity. Interactions with pa- follow a trio of characters to reveal the toll all this titillation is When: Tuesday & Wednesday at 8:00 pm. tients offer flashes of the person Barbara might have been and as the taking on North America. Twelve-year-old Winnie is a bright and film goes on, the slightest changes of expression signal minute precocious girl in New York City, but not long after her birthday, Where: Amphitheatre 163 cracks in her facade. Why is she ferrying cash from one place to Jacqueline Bouchard Building the Lady Gaga-loving girl is growing up a lot faster than her par- another? Barbara is not a thriller, but a character study of a woman ents can handle. Not Yet Rated. Université de Moncton trying desperately not to give herself away. Not Yet Rated

Admission: $ 7.00 Non members On The Road April 9-10 $ 5.00 Members A Late Quartet March 12-13 Dir: Walter Salles, USA, 2012, 129 min. Dir: Yaron Zilberman, USA, 2012, 105 min. Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Viggo Mortensen Info: 859-2475 Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Christopher Walken On The Road brings Jack Kerouac's Beat Generation-defining Membership $ 10 Adult And we thought they didn't make films like this anymore: The film novel to the screen as Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise careen $ 8 Student/Senior (65 +) in which character is drama. In the middle of their 25th season the across the USA with no plan and no agenda but to live it up. Dean's members of an illustrious string quartet, personal and professional knockabout past, on railways or in car parks, makes him one of the Membership cards are available at all shows and give you a $ 2 challenges threaten every part of their lives. The illness of one sets great wanderers of American literature. He throws himself into the saving off our regular admission price. Your card is valid for 12 loose assorted personal traumas, surfacing jealousy, envy and ambi- life of sweaty, jazz clubs, all-night drinking and girlfriends for months from the date of purchase so it doesn’t matter when you tion Though the stakes are high, the volume is pitched just right: the every hour of the day. He's a man on the move, maneuvering his buy it. There a few rules we follow: 1) cards are not transferable; film and the performances retain a quiet forceful elegance. Walken, beat-up Hudson down America's early blacktops, a man desperate 2) your card must be presented to obtain discount and, 3) we don’t for freedom from everything, including responsibility. 14A/Nudity replace lost or stolen cards. playing against type as the warm-hearted leader of the group is a special pleasure. 14A Sexual Content. Chasing Ice April 16-17 Hyde Park on Hudson February 19-20 Dir: Jeff Orlowski, USA, 2012, 75 min. Dir: Roger Michell, UK/USA, 2012, 95 min. Quartet March 19-20 Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams Dir: Dustin Hoffman, UK, 2012, 95 min. A Green Party of Canada Fundraiser Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly, Michael Gambon There's history- 1939 on the cusp of war. There's royalty- on the After an eye-opening 2005 visit to Iceland, photojournalist James British side, stuttering Bertie and his good wife, Elizabeth, on the Newly arrived at a fictional retirement home for opera singers, leg- Balog initiates an expedition called the Extreme Ice Survey, trav- American side, FDR himself and Eleanor. There's pomp- the King endary soprano Jean Horton (Smith), finds herself among two old ersing the Arctic with a band of young adventurers and deploying a of England visits President Roosevelt at his Hyde Park mansion. colleagues… and her bitter ex-husband. Will the three convince the revolutionary time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of The royal couple's visit is the first ever official visit to the USA by terribly proud Jean to sing at the upcoming annual benefit to raise the world's receding ice sheet. As the climate change debate con- a British monarch. With the clouds of war on the horizon, it is in funds for the home. It is usually a smooth-running perfectly pleas- tinues to polarize North America and natural disasters around the everyone's interests to fortify relations. Against this backdrop of ant event, evoking warm memories of old times and grand tradi- world intensify exponentially, Balog finds himself at the centre of a history, the film playfully depicts as well recurring spasms of cul- tions. But Jean has recently fallen on hard times and soon long- maelstrom and near the end of his tether, struggling to make the ture shock. American royalty plays host to, and instructs, buried grievances rise to the surface, rivalries resume and plans world see what he has seen with his own (camera) eye. Stunning the English version. PG begin to fall apart for the benefit. PG. cinematography. Not Yet Rated.