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50/50

Chances are better than even you’ll enjoy this dramedy about a 27-year-old (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) whose life is turned upside-down by cancer. Based on the true story of screenwriter Will Reiser, 50/50 offers “a glut of laughter, moments of sorrow and a moving portrait of life, love and friendship.” (Exclaim)

Blood Simple.

COENOVEMBER Now, in Russia, they got it mapped out so that everyone pulls for everyone else. That’s the theory, anyway. But what I know about is Texas. An’ down here, you’re on your own.

World on a Wire

OTTAWA PREMIERE | NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION A dystopic sci-fi epic, Fassbinder’s gloriously cracked, boundlessly inventive take on future paranoia tells the noir-spiked tale of reluctant action hero Fred Stiller, a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive conspiracy. At risk? Our entire (virtual) reality as we know it. This long unseen,

Take Shelter

Plagued by apocalyptic visions, Curtis (Michael Shannon, “Boardwalk Empire”) builds a backyard storm shelter, over the objections of his wife (Jessica Chastain, The Tree of Life). But is he himself the real threat? “Nuanced performances from both Chastain and Shannon propel this movie to a rare and intense level of

Skin I Live In, The

Doesn’t invulnerable skin sound like the perfect metaphor for someone like Pedro Almodóvar to base a sci-fi thriller on? He thought so, too. “A film you’ll tell your friends they absolutely must see.” (Salon) English subtitles.

Scrooged

Scrooged – Screening December 17, 20, 21! Advance tickets now available for Scrooged! A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve. Academy Awards: Best Makeup nominee! Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA: Best Fantasy Film, Actor (Bill Murray),

Sarah’s Key

An American journalist (Kristin Scott Thomas) investigating the fate of a Holocaust survivor (10-year-old Mélusine Mayance) uncovers the shocking story of Vel’ d’Hiv, the Paris athletic stadium where thousands of Jews were rounded up in 1942. “Moving gracefully across the decades and people’s hidden histories… Sarah’s Key relates a highly

Santa Claus Conquers The Martians

Santa Claus Conquers The Martians – 60th Anniversary screenings on December 15, 16! Advance ticket info now available for Santa Claus Conquers The Martians! Walking in a winter weirdoland! Preserved from Something Weird’s colorful 16mm print and presented in a brand new Roadshow Edition with vintage ads and trailers.

Rum Diary, The

It’s a good thing he kept a diary — otherwise there’s no way Hunter S. Thompson would have remembered the drug-and-alcohol-soaked details of this semi-autobiographical story of his time as journalist in Puerto Rico. From the director of Withnail & I.

Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

In the early 80s, strange tiles bearing the phrase “Toynbee Idea In Kubrick’s 2001 Resurrect Dead on Planet Jupiter” began appearing embedded in sidewalks worldwide. This doc seeks out the man and the message behind the tiles, and in so doing, creates “an uncommonly sensitive and layered portrait of outsider-dom.”

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