August 28, 2008
Michae Clayton
Written and Directed by Tony Gilroy
Starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkenson, Sidney Pollack, and Tilda Swinton in her 2008 Best Supporting Actress performance. It chronicles the attempts of attorney Michael Clayton to cope with a colleague’s apparent mental breakdown and the corruption and murderous intrigue within a major client of his law firm that was sued in a class-action case involving toxic agrichemicals.
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August 11, 2008
Rear Window
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
The Classic Thriller from 1954
Considered by many film-goers, critics, and scholars to be one of Hitchcock’s best and most thrilling pictures. The movie stars James Stewart as photojournalist L. B. Jeffries, Grace Kelly as his fashion-model girlfriend, Lisa Carol Fremont, and Raymond Burr as the suspected killer, Lars Thorwald. The film combines its main theme, a murder mystery, with a critical examination of the ethics of marriage and voyeurism.
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August 1, 2008
“Ratatouille” directed by Brad Bird
with the voices of
Patton Oswalt
Brian Dennehy
Brad Garrett
Janeane Garofalo
Ian Holm
A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family’s wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau.
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July 30, 2008
Hey Everyone–
The radar maps are heavy with green (rain!) and heading our way –so unfortunately we are going to cancel. We have not given up on “The Namesake”–check back, we may sneak it in on another unused “raindate” or switch out our documentary at the end of the season. Sorry to all –but you must not fool with Mother Nature.
July 30, 2008
Hi Everyone
We here at Films in Van Vorst are keeping our fingers crossed for tonight’s showing of The Namesake. We really want to show it and we know everyone will love it…. However, weather.com is predicting some isolated thunderstorms–so our plan is that we will proceed as if the weather will cooperate and we’ll make a decision closer to showtime.
July 23, 2008
“The Namesake” has been postponed due to weather. We have moved the film screening to it’s rain date Wednesday, July 30th at 8:30 pm.
July 13, 2008
“The Namesake”
Directed by Mira Nair
2007
starring Kal Penn, Irrfan Kahn, Tabu
When the the Ganguli family moves from Calcutta to New York, they embark upon a lifelong balancing act to meld into a new world without forgetting the old. Though parents Ashoke and Ashima long for the family and culture that enveloped them in India, they take great pride in the opportunities their sacrifices have afforded their children. Paradoxically, their son Gogol is torn between finding his own unique identity without losing his heritage. Even Gogol’s name represents the family’s journey into the unknown.
SPECIAL EVENT
Following tonight’s film we will be hosting a Q&A with Allyson Johnson the film editor of ” The Namesake”
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June 26, 2008
“The Princess Bride” Directed by Rob Reiner
a classic comedy from 1987
Starring
Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest,Wallace Shawn, Andre the Giant, Fred Savage, Peter Faulk
When a young boy falls ill, his grandfather pops round to visit him. To cheer his grandson up, Grandpa has brought a storybook; The Princess Bride, a tale of the love between the beautiful Buttercup and the besotted Westley, a love cruelly interrupted by Westley’s tragic apparent death at sea when seeking his fortune. Heartbroken, Buttercup has sworn never to love again, but accepts the marriage proposal of the rich and handsome Prince Humperdinck, heir to the throne of Florin; but death is no barrier to true love, and in a story filled with exotically-accented swordsmen, big-hearted giants, genius kidnappers, sadistic torturers, vile swamps, Rodents of Unusual Size, the Dread Pirate Roberts and a somewhat embittered miracle worker, the love between Westley and Buttercup twists and turns on a path filled with adventure. Will the True Love of Westley and Buttercup win the day? Will Inigo Montaya find the six-fingered man who murdered his father? Will Humperdinck’s evil plans come to fruition? And, more importantly, will Grandpa be able to tell the story without any of the yucky kissing?
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June 13, 2008
“La Vie En Rose” directed By Olivier Dahan
starring
Marion Cotillard winner of
the 2008 Academy Award for Best Performance by an actress in a leading role
An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow, Edith Piaf (1915-1963). Her mother is an alcoholic street singer, her father a circus performer, her paternal grandmother a madam. During childhood she lives with each of them. At 20, she’s a street singer discovered by a club owner who’s soon murdered, coached by a musician who brings her to concert halls, and then quickly famous. Constant companions are alcohol and heartache. The tragedies of her love affair with Marcel Cerdan and the death of her only child belie the words of one of her signature songs, “Non, je ne regrette rien.” The back and forth nature of the narrative suggests the patterns of memory and association.
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June 3, 2008
