COMING SOON
2012 Academy Award-Nominated Live-Action Short Films
Opens Friday, February 10Pentecost (11 min., English, Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane) When Damian is forced to serve as an altar boy at an important mass in his local parish, he faces a difficult choice: conform to the status quo, or serve an extended ban from his life’s passion – football. Raju... more...
2012 Academy Award-Nominated Animated Short Films
Opens Friday, February 10Sunday/Dimanche (10 min., English, Patrick Doyon) Every Sunday, it's the same old routine! The train clatters through the village and almost shakes the pictures off the wall. In the church, Dad dreams about his toolbox. And of course later Grandma will get a visit and the animals... more...
2012 Academy Award-Nominated Documentary Short Films
Opens Friday, February 10The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (39 min., Japan/USA, Lucy Walker) Survivors in the areas hardest hit by Japan's recent tsunami find the courage to revive and rebuild as cherry blossom season begins. Incident in New Baghdad (25 min., USA, James Spione) One... more...
The Salt of Life
Opens Friday, March 2In this sparkling comedy, writer-director Di Gregorio (Mid-August Lunch) is a retiree tormented by the women in his life -- an aristocratic, spendthrift mother; a patronizing wife; a daughter with a slacker boyfriend; and a wild young neighbor. Watching his peers effortlessly snare beautiful... more...
Last Days Here
Opens Friday, March 2Intimate, raw and unexpectedly funny, the new documentary from the makers of The Art of the Steal and Rock School tells the story of Bobby Liebling of the cult rock band Pentagram. After decades holed up in his parents’ basement, Bobby and his music are discovered by the heavy metal... more...
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Opens Friday, March 9This thoughtful, elegant meditation on work, family and the art of perfection centers on 85-year-old Jiro Ono, the world’s best sushi chef. His restaurant, inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station, has been honored with three Michelin stars. And sushi lovers around the globe shell out top... more...
Attenberg
Opens Friday, March 9In this wonderfully deadpan, surprisingly touching tale from the burgeoning new Greek cinema (and the country’s official submission to the 2012 Oscars), awkward 23-year-old Marina is stuck in a dead-end seaside town. She passes the days watching Richard Attenborough nature documentaries and listening... more...
