September 12, 2010
“The Last Station” directed by Michael Hoffman
In their 2010 Academy Award nominated performances for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actress, Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren lead an impeccable cast in The Last Station, a comedy-drama about the final days of the Russian novelist Tolstoy.
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August 30, 2010
“Up In The Air” directed by Jason Reitman
“Up In The Air” won the Golden Globe for best screenplay and was nominated for 6 academy awards. The story is about a corporate downsizer Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) and his travels. The film follows his isolated life and philosophies along with the people he meets along the way.
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August 16, 2010
“UP” directed by Peter Docter
Up is a 2009 computer-animated comedy-adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and features the voices of Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Bob Peterson, and Jordan Nagai. Up won Golden Globe Awards for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Score from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The film received five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. It was awarded with two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score in 2010.[7]
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July 29, 2010
”Invictus” directed by Clint Eastwood
Invictus is based on events before and during the 1995 Rugby World Cup, hosted in South Africa. In his Oscar nominated performance, Morgan Freeman as Mandela, asks the national rugby team captain (Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee Matt Damon) and his squad to do the impossible and win the World Cup.
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July 17, 2010
“The Blind side” directed by John Lee Hancock
Based on the 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis. The storyline features Michael Oher, who plays for the Baltimore Ravens of the NFL. The film follows Oher from his impoverished upbringing, through , his adoption by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, and on to his position as one of the most highly coveted prospects in college football. For her performance, Sandra Bullock won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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July 5, 2010
“The Producers” written and directed by Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks’s directorial debut remains both a career high point and a classic show business farce. Hinging on a crafty plot premise, which in turn unleashes a joyously insane onstage spoof, The Producers is powered by a clutch of over-the-top performances, capped by the odd couple pairing of the late Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, making his screen debut.
Mostel is Max Bialystock, a gone-to-seed Broadway producer who spends his days wheedling checks from his “investors,” elderly women for whom Bialystock is only too willing to provide company. When wide-eyed auditor Leo Bloom (Wilder) comes to check the books, he unwittingly inspires the wild-eyed Max to hatch a sure-fire plan: sell 25,000 percent of his next show, produce a deliberate flop, then abscond with the proceeds. Unfortunately for the producers (but fortunately for us), their candidate for failure is Springtime for Hitler, a Brooksian conceit that envisions what Goebbels might have accomplished with a little help from Busby Berkeley.
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June 18, 2010
Star Trek directed by J.J. Abram
A chronicle of the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members
a 2009 science fiction film directed by J. J. Abrams, written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is the eleventh film based on the Star Trek franchise and features the main characters of the original Star Trek television series, who are portrayed by a new cast. The film follows James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) before they unite aboard the USS Enterprise to combat Nero (Eric Bana), a Romulan from their future who threatens the United Federation of Planets. The story establishes an alternate reality[6][7] through time-travel by both Nero and the original Spock (Leonard Nimoy), freeing the film and the franchise from established continuity constraints.
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June 16, 2010
Ah June…foiled by Mother Nature again. Check back with us later and we will try and fit this in during the summer! Sorry!!!
June 4, 2010
“Sherlock Holmes” Directed by Guy Richie
starring Robert Downey Jr.and Jude Law
Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.
May 18, 2010
Summer 2010
The 6th Annual Outdoor Summer film Series will again take place in Van Vorst Park on Wednesday nights. Screenings in June and July will begin at about 8:30 or later depending on sunset. August and September screenings will begin at 8:00 pm. The rain date for each film will be the following Wednesday.
The following dates are the scheduled for this summer.
June 9th “Sherlock Holmes” (the 2009 release) RAIN DATE will be rescheduled for later this summer…
June 23rd“Star Trek’ (the 2009 release)
July 7th “The Producers” (1968 version by Mel Brooks)
July 21st “The Blind Side” directed by John Lee Hancock
August 4th “Invictus” directed by Clint Eastwood
August 18th “UP” directed by Pete Docter
September 1st “Up in the Air” directed by Jason Reitman
September 15th “The Last Station” directed by Michael Hoffman
