Thurs, Sept 2nd
Upcoming
SEPTEMBER 3rd: The Kids Are Alright
106 min (R)
Directed By: Lisa Cholodenko
Starring: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo
Nic and Jules are in a long term, committed, loving but by no means perfect relationship. Nic, a physician, needs to wield what she believes is control, whereas Jules, under that control, is less self-assured. During their relationship, Jules has floundered in her “nine to five” life, sometimes trying to start a business - always unsuccessfully - or being the stay at home mom. She is currently trying to start a landscape design business. They have two teen-aged children, Joni and Laser, Nic who is Joni’s biological mother, and Jules who is Laser’s biological mother. Although not exact replicas, each offspring does more closely resemble his/her biological mother in temperament. Joni and Laser are also half-siblings, having the same unknown sperm donor father. Shortly after Joni’s eighteenth birthday and shortly before she plans to leave the house and head off to college, Laser, only fifteen and underage to do so, pleads with her to try and contact their sperm donor father. Somewhat reluctantly, she does. He is late thirty-something Paul, a co-op farmer and restaurateur. Despite his seemingly successful businesses, Paul has always shirked responsibility, most specifically in his personal life. After Joni and Laser meet with Paul, Nic and Jules learn what their children have done, and although they don’t want Paul infiltrating their lives, they want to meet him especially as Joni and Laser seem to want to maintain some sort of relationship with him. As Paul’s relationship with the entire family grows, which also includes him hiring Jules to design and construct his back yard, they have an effect on what he wants in life, and he in turn affects the family dynamic as well as each person’s relationships outside of the family.
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SEPTEMBER 10th: The Girl Who Played with Fire
129 min (R)
Directed By: Daniel Alfredson
Starring: Noomi Rapace, and Michael Nyqvist
Mikael Blomkvist is about to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society. On the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander.
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SEPTEMBER 10th: Winnebago Man
85 min (Not Rated)
Directed By: Ben Steinbauer
Starring: Jack Rebney
Following a two-week shoot in August 1988 for a Winnebago sales ad, a 4-minute outtakes reel surfaced and eventually came to be known as “Winnebago Man.” While the finished sales ad was sent to Winnebago dealers to promote the 1989 Itasca Sunflyer motorhome, copies of the “Winnebago Man” outtakes were being passed amongst the crew and their friends on VHS tape. Eventually the video fell in the hands of videotape collectors, who began copying and trading it, sparking an underground phenomenon that turned Jack Rebney into a cult hero. When the online video revolution took off on YouTube and other websites, Jack Rebney became one of the first viral video superstars.
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SEPTEMBER 17th: I’m Still Here
108 min (Not Rated)
Directed By: Casey Affleck
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix
A documentary on Joaquin Phoenix’s transition from the acting world to a career as an aspiring rapper.
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SEPTEMBER 24th: Countdown to Zero
91 min (Not Rated)
Directed By: Lucy Walker
Countdown to Zero traces the history of the atomic bomb from its origins to the present state of global affairs: nine nations possessing nuclear weapons capabilities with others racing to join them, with the world held in a delicate balance that could be shattered by an act of terrorism, failed diplomacy, or a simple accident. Written and directed by acclaimed documentarian Lucy Walker, the film features an array of important international statesmen, including President Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pervez Musharraf and Tony Blair. It makes a compelling case for worldwide nuclear disarmament, an issue more topical than ever with the Obama administration working to revive this goal today.
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SEPTEMBER 24th: Life During Wartime
98 min (Not Rated)
Directed By: Todd Solondz
Starring: Allison Janney, Charlotte Rampling, Paris Hilton, Paul Reubens, Ciaran Hinds, Shirley Henderson, Renee Taylor, and Michael Lerner
Ten years have passed since shocking revelations shattered the world of the Jordan family, and now sisters Joy, Trish, and Helen, each embroiled in their own unique dilemmas, struggle to find their place in an unpredictable and volatile world. The past now haunts their family both literally and otherwise, and jeopardizes the future. Alternately hilarious and tragic, outrageous and poignant, Life During Wartime is an audacious comedy with unexpected resonance.
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OCTOBER 1st: Lebanon
93 min (R)
Directed By: Samuel Maoz
Starring: Itay Tiran, Michael Moshonov, Oshri Cohen, Reymond Amsalem, Yoav Donat, and Zohar Shtrauss
June, 1982 - The First Lebanon War. A lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town - a simple mission that turns into a nightmare. The four members of a tank crew find themselves in a violent situation that they cannot contain. Motivated by fear and the basic instinct of survival, they desperately try not to lose themselves in the chaos of war.
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OCTOBER 8th: Animal Kingdom
112 min (R)
Directed By: David Michôd
Starring: Guy Pearce, James Frecheville, Joel Edgerton
Tells the story of seventeen year-old J (Josh) as he navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.
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OCTOBER 15th: Never Let Me Go
min (Not Rated)
Directed By: Mark Romanek
Starring: Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan, Charlotte Rampling
An alternate history story of a woman who, as she reflects on her private school years in the English countryside, reunites with her two friends to face the dark secrets tied to their communal past.
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95 min (R)
Directed By: Yimou Zhang
Wang is a miserable yet cunning noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. Feeling neglected, Wang’s wife secretly goes out with Li, one of his employees. A timid man, Li reluctantly keeps the gun the landlady bought for ‘killing her husband later’. However, not a single move they make escapes the boss’s notice, and he decides to bribe patrol officer Zhang to kill the illicit couple. It looks like a perfect plan: the affair will come to a cruel but satisfying end… or so he thinks, but the equally wicked Zhang has an agenda of his own that will lead to even more violence. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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Coming September 3rd
The Kids Are Alright
September 10
The Girl Who Played with Fire
September 28: Lyric Book Group 
Every month, the Lyric hosts a book and movie club on the fourth Tuesday of that month. After reading the chosen book, participants will watch the movie adaptation of that book (with ample discussion!) at the Lyric...for free! (except for the movie on Sept. 28, which will be $8.) Movie will begin at 6:00 and discussion after.
August 24th: LA Confidential
September 28th: The Girl Who Played with Fire - Admission $8 for this film
October 26th: The Shining
November 23rd: A Clockwork Orange
December 28th: Pride and Prejudice