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Moon   7/10
Sam Rockwell stars in this thrilling sci-fi drama written and directed by Duncan Jones. In the near future, Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy, Helium-3. It is a lonely job, but thankfully his time on the moon is nearly over and Sam will be reunited with his wife and their three-year-old daughter in only a few short weeks. Finally he will have someone to talk to besides Gerty, (voiced by Kevin Spacey) the base's well intentioned but rather uncomplicated computer. But suddenly Sam's health starts to deteriorate and weird things start to happen including meeting a younger, angrier version of himself who claims to be there to fulfill the same three year contract Sam started all those years ago.

Bruno   7/10
Borat took over America in 2006, and now another Sacha Baron Cohen creation arrives on the big screen. In Bruno, the gay Austrian model of the title brings his antics to the States, hilariously uncovering the attitudes, prejudices and bias of everyday Americans. Directed by Larry Charles.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince  7/15
Special Sneak Preview screening at 12:01am on Wed. 7/15!  Buy 'Sneak Preview' Tickets Now
In this latest, much anticipated, sixth installment of the tale based on the beloved novels by J.K. Rowling, Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding world and Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was. Harry suspects that dangers may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent on preparing him for the final battle he knows is fast approaching. Once again heading the cast is Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson, reprising their roles as young wizards Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, who are facing new challenges and dangers in the wake of Lord Voldemort's return. They are reunited with returning cast member Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters and David Thewlis, among others.

Food Inc.   7/24
Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nations food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of the government's regulatory agencies, the USDA and FDA. The film posits that a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers, and our own environment now control our nations food. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, and insect resistant soybeans. But we also have new strains of E.Coli, the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually, widespread obesity and an epidemic level of diabetes. Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (The Omnivores Dilemma) as well as with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farms Gary Hirshberg, the film reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how its produced, who we have become as a nation, and where we are going from here.

(500) Days Of Summer   7/31
Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt star in this comedy from Marc Webb. "This is a story of boy meets girl", begins the wry, probing narrator of the story, which takes off at breakneck speed into a funny, true-to-life and unique film. Tom, the boy, still believes, even in this cynical modern world, in the notion of a transforming cosmically destined kind of love. Summer, the girl, doesn't. Not at all. But that doesn't stop Tom from going after her, again and again, like a modern Don Quixote, with all his might and courage. Tom is in love with the very idea of love that still has the power to shock the heart and stop the world.

The Hurt Locker   8/7
Winner of the Signis Award at the 2008 Venice Film Festival, Katherine Bigelow's film is a riveting, suspenseful portrait of the courage under fire of the militarys unrecognized heroes: the technicians of a bomb squad who volunteer to challenge the odds and save lives doing one of the world's most dangerous jobs. Three members of the Army's elite Explosive Ordnance Disposal squad battle insurgents and one another as they search for and disarm a wave of roadside bombs on the streets of Baghdad. Their mission is clear - protect and save - but it's anything but easy, as the margin of error when defusing a war-zone bomb is zero. "A near perfect movie. Writer Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow have pooled their complementary talents to make one of the rare war movies... this one's the tops." Time. A thriller about the risks and intoxications of professional passion. Ferociously suspenseful. Kathryn Bigelow turns the discipline of action filmmaking into a kind of visceral visual poetry. A.O.Scott, The New York Times.

Julie & Julia   8/7
Meryl Streep plays Julia Child and Amy Adams plays Julie Powell in writer / director Nora Ephron's adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell's Julie & Julia and My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prudhomme. The film intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends. That is, until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness, and butter, anything is possible.

Taking Woodstock   8/28
Academy Award winning director Ang Lee directs this comedy, inspired by true events. Its 1969 and Elliot Tiber a down-on-his-luck interior designer in Greenwich Village has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, The El Monaco. The bank is about to foreclose; his father wants to burn the place down, but hasn't paid the insurance; and Elliot is still figuring out how to come out to his parents. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers, thinking he could drum up some much needed business for the motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on the way to his neighbor's farm and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life and American culture. Starring Demetri Martin, Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber, Imelda Staunton, Paul Dano and Eugene Levy.

Adoration
Winner of the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Adoration, celebrated director Atom Egoyans' twelfth feature film, investigates the themes of intimacy and the nature of our relationship to media and technology and its effect on the construction of personal identity. The film explores connections with each other, with our family history, with technology and with the modern world. Sabine, a high school French teacher, gives her class a translation exercise based on a real news story about a terrorist who plants a bomb in the airline luggage of his pregnant girlfriend. The assignment has a profound effect on one student, Simon, who re-imagines that the news item is his own family's story, with the terrorist standing in for his own father, who had died in a tragic car crash. Egoyan's complex film is woven with the common threads that appear in much of his work: the differences between appearance and reality: the subjective nature of truth; multiple time frames and points of view; rich and complex characters; and the dynamics of family.

BALLET & OPERA in Cinema Programs:

I Puritani (Bellini)  7/12-7/13   Buy Tickets Now
OPERA - 2 shows only:
Sun July 12 at 12:00pm
Mon July 13 at 6:30pm
Admission is $20
This thrilling opera by Bellini displays the classic struggle between true love and opposing politics. The story revolves around Elvira, who wants to marry Arturo - a Royalist. On the day of their wedding, Arturo helps a prisoner escape, and is subsequently condemned to death. Starring the young soprano sensation Nino Machaidze and the fabulous Juan Diego Florez, this opera, which has a happy ending, was a joy to audiences at Teatro Comunale di Bologna.

Stravinsky and The Ballets Russes 7/19-7/20 Buy Tickets Now
BALLET - 2 shows only:
Sun July 19 at 12:00pm
Mon July 20 at 6:30pm
Admission is $15
This unique performance combines three different ballets, all with music by Igor Stavinsky, into one exciting evening of dance. Stars of the Marinsky Theatre perform The Firebird, The Wedding and The Rite of Spring. All three ballets premiered in the early 20th century, by the world reknowned Ballets Russes. This May marks the 100th anniversary of the Ballet Russess first performance.

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