Film
Thursday, November 20, 7:30pm
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress, The Tangerine
This film is a journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. As a screen presence, Louise Bourgeois is magnetic, mercurial and emotionally raw. There is no separation between her life as an artist and the memories and emotions that affect her every day. As an artist she has for six decades been at the forefront of successive new developments, but always on her own powerfully inventive and disquieting terms. At the age of 71, in 1982, she became the first woman to be honored with a major retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art. In the decades since, she has created her most powerful and persuasive work. Directors: Marion Cajori & Amei Wallach 2008 USA 99min. NR HDdigital
Fri. – Sat., November 21 – 22, 5:30pm & 8pm;
Sunday, November 23, 2pm
Planet B-Boy
With compelling characters and vibrant dance sequences, Planet B-Boy is set in the international world of B-boying – the urban dance more commonly known as "breakdancing." Weaving between the vivid backdrops of Osaka, Paris, Seoul and Las Vegas, unforgettable images frame the intimate stories of dancers who struggle for their dreams despite being misunderstood by larger society and even their own families. All the b-boys' lives collide in Germany where their skills are put to the ultimate test: the "Battle of the Year" finals, with crews from 18 nations vying for the title of World Champion. The film features electrifying dance performances and astonishing displays of power and grace, showing how a street dance from New York has evolved into an inspiring art form for a new generation around the world.
Director: Benson Lee 2007 USA 95min. NR 35mm Official website
Copresented by deadCENTER Film 
NO FILM Thursday, November 27
CLOSED FOR THANKSGIVING
Newly restored 35mm Print!
Fri. – Sat., November 28 – 29, 5:30pm & 8pm;
Sunday, November 30, 2pm
Monsieur Verdoux
Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux is now widely considered one of his best works. This self-described "comedy of murders" was based on an idea by Orson Welles, which Chaplin reportedly bought for five thousand dollars in a refusal to be directed by anyone but himself. Chaplin stars as the moustachioed bluebeard in beret and cravat whose charming manners and good looks cloak a deep-seated, murderous hatred, festering since the loss of his longstanding job as a bank clerk. Chaplin immodestly proclaimed it "the cleverest, most brilliant film of my career." Director: Charlie Chaplin 1947 USA 124min. NR 35mm
Thursday, December 4, 7:30pm; Fri. – Sat., December 5 – 6, 5:30pm & 8pm
Who Does She Think She Is?
In a half-changed world, women often feel they need to choose: mothering or working? From Hawaii's Big Island to the suburbs of Ohio, from New York City to the deserts of New Mexico, this documentary features five fierce women who refuse to choose as they each chart a path to create their individual type of art. Through their lives, we explore some of the most problematic intersections of our time: mothering and creativity, partnering and independence, economics and art. The film invites us to consider both ancient legacies of women worshipped as cultural muses and more modern times where most people can't even name a handful of female artists. Director: Pamela Tanner Boll 2008 USA 84min. NR HDdigital
Salzburg Opera in HD
Sunday, December 7, 2pm
Roméo et Juliette
With its four duets for the title couple Charles Gounod's Roméo et Juliette is one of the most famous love tragedies in opera literature. Stage director Bartlett Sher (winner of this year's best director Tony Award for his Broadway revival of South Pacific) makes his European opera debut with this production of Roméo et Juliette. Rolando Villazón, one of the leading lyric tenors of our day, acts as Romeo. Juliette is acted by the young Georgian soprano Nino Machaizde, who made her La Scala debut in 2006 as Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos. The young French-Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director designate of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, conducts for the first time in Salzburg. Approximate running time: 3hrs plus one intermission
SPECIAL PRICE: $20 Adults/ $18 Members, Students, Seniors. Advance tickets go on sale Tuesday, November 25, 2008. Call 405-278-8237, Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 5pm.
Thursday, December 11, 7:30pm;
Fri. – Sat., December 12 – 13, 5:30pm & 8pm
Trouble the Water
This powerful documentary takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. Incorporating remarkable home video footage shot by Kimberly Rivers Roberts – an aspiring rap artist trapped with her husband in the 9th ward, the filmmakers weave this insider's view of Katrina with a devastating portrait of the hurricane's aftermath. Trouble the Water is a redemptive tale of self-described street hustlers who become heroes – two unforgettable people who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for documentary at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Directors: Tia Lessin and Carl Deal 2008 USA 96min. NR 35mm
NO FILM Sunday, December 14, 2pm
GO TO FAMILY DAY!
Thursday, December 18, 7:30pm;
Fri. – Sat., December 19 – 20, 5:30pm & 8pm;
Sunday, December 21, 2pm
Momma's Man
Momma's Man chronicles the increasingly anxious dilemma of Mikey, a young husband and father who stops off at his parent's loft during a business trip to New York and finds himself emotionally unable to leave. One of the most acclaimed films of this year's Sundance Film Festival, Azazel Jacobs' third feature film is both a tribute to his parents (and to the New York of his childhood) and an acutely perceptive, deeply personal tale on a universal experience: the fear of growing up. Director: Azazel Jacobs 2008 USA 94min. NR 35mm
MUSEUM CLOSED on December 25
Fri. – Sat., December 26 – 27, 5:30pm & 8pm; Sunday, December 28, 2pm
A Christmas Tale
Junon (Catherine Deneuve) and Abel are the parents of three grown children: Elizabeth, a melancholic playwright with a mathematician husband and a tortured son; Henri, the self-destructive black sheep; the youngest, Ivan, the peacemaker, is married to the beautiful Sylvia and has two eccentric little boys; while a fourth - Joseph, the eldest - died from leukemia as a boy. When the disease reappears again in the family, everyone returns home for a long Christmas weekend. All crowded again under the same roof, solidarity quickly - and hilariously - devolves into feuding, drunkenness and bed-hopping, as everyone struggles to make sense of the mysteries of family, life, and what lies ahead. Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Director: Arnaud Desplechin 2008 France 143min. NR HDdigital
