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CLOSING NIGHT
ALAN PARTRIDGE
Sat, Dec 21, 8:00
Steve Coogan’s signature comic creation, the cringe-
inducing, self-aggrandizing media personality Alan
Partridge, has seen his career trajectory rise and fall, from
regional radio presenter to national TV talk-show host and
back again. Now, at career ebb, Partridge vaults onto
the silver screen! When a recently sacked radio DJ (Colm
Meaney) takes the staff of Radio Norwich hostage at
gunpoint, rival radio presenter Partridge is thrown into the
dangerous position of acting as go-between in the tense
standoff between the police, the gunman and the aggressive
media horde covering the crisis. At the center of a media
circus…there’s nowhere he’d rather be.
DIR Declan Lowney; SCR Neil
Gibbons, Rob Gibbons, Peter Baynham, Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci; PROD Kevin Loader,
Henry Normal. UK, 2013, color, 90 min. In English. NOT RATED
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SWEDEN
THE HIDDEN CHILD [Tyskungen]
Fri, Dec 13, 8:05; Sun, Dec 15, 6:15
After the tragic death of her parents, crime novelist Erika Falcks
moves back to her childhood home in the sleepy seaside
village of Fjällbacka. When a stranger shows up at her
doorstep, claiming to be her long-lost brother, Erika starts to
question everything she knew about her mother—especially
after finding her wartime diary in the attic, alongside a Nazi
medal. Needing to know the whole story, Erika begins calling
on her mother’s old friends to find out what they know, and
she’s soon caught up in a dangerous web of neo-Nazis,
murder, and long hidden secrets. Based on the suspenseful
novel by Scandi Crime sensation Camilla Läckberg.
DIR Per
Hanefjord; SCR Maria Karlsson, from the novel by Camilla Läckberg. Sweden, 2013, color, 105
min. In Swedish with English subtitles. NOT RATED
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WE ARE THE BEST! [Vi är bäst!]
Sat, Dec 14, 5:40; Sun, Dec 15, 1:00
Stockholm, 1982: 13-year-old best friends Bobo and Klara are
united by their feelings of outsiderness—embarrassed by their
parents, repulsed by the conformity of the school’s popular kids
and hating gym class. After wandering into the local community
center music room and banging on the instruments, they
declare themselves a punk band—nevermind that they can’t
play a lick. In need of some proper musicianship, they recruit
their classmate Hedvig—a talented guitarist, though painfully
shy and socially marginalized by her parents’ unfashionable
enthusiasm for evangelical Christianity. Now a trio, the three
friends create a joyful noise as they play music together and
navigate the confusing world of the ‘80s they are growing up
in. Lukas Moodysson’s (SHOW ME LOVE, TOGETHER, LILYA
4-EVER) rousing, detail-savvy youth chronicle was adapted from
the graphic novel by his wife, Coco. Official Selection, 2013
Venice, Toronto Film Festivals.
DIR/SCR Lukas Moodysson, from the graphic novel
“Never Goodnight [Aldrig Godnatt]” by Coco Moodysson; PROD Lars Jönsson. Sweden/Denmark,
2013, color, 102 min. In Swedish with English subtitles. NOT RATED
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UNITED KINGDOM
A FIELD IN ENGLAND
Fri, Dec 6, 10:15; Sat, Dec 7, 9:30
Ben Wheatley (DOWN TERRACE, KILL LIST, SIGHTSEERS)
returns with his most audacious film yet, a psychedelic
period piece—involving witchcraft, skullduggery and magic
mushrooms—set among a group of deserters from the English
Civil War. Beautifully rendered in black and white, it’s an
inspired, unholy mashup of Kevin Brownlow’s WINSTANLEY
and the folk-historical British horror tradition of films like
WITCHFINDER GENERAL and THE WICKER MAN. Special
Prize of the Jury, 2013 Karlovy Vary Film Festival; Official
Selection, 2013 Toronto Film Festival.
DIR/SCR Ben Wheatley; SCR Amy Jump;
PROD Claire Jones, Andrew Starke. UK, 2013, b&w, 91 min. In English. NOT RATED
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NOTE: this film contains intense flashing images and
stroboscopic sequences.
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN
Sun, Dec 15, 3:15
The story of Nelly Ternan, an 18-year-old stage actress who
became the secret mistress to the much older Charles Dickens,
is brought to the screen with great insight and sensitivity by
director Ralph Fiennes, who also stars as the charismatic,
estimable author. As Ternan, Felicity Jones (LIKE CRAZY) gives a
compelling and complex performance, and the impressive cast
around her includes Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Hollander, Tom
Burke and Joanna Scanlan. The screenplay is by Abi Morgan
(SHAME, THE IRON LADY, TV’s THE HOUR), adapted from
biographer Claire Tomalin’s 1990 book. Official Selection,
2013 Telluride, Toronto, New York Film Festivals.
DIR Ralph Fiennes;
SCR Abi Morgan, from the book by Claire Tomalin; PROD Christian Baute, Carolyn Marks Blackwood,
Stewart Mackinnon, Gabrielle Tana. UK, 2013, color, 111 min. In English. NOT RATED
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SPECIAL PRESENTATION
ONE CHANCE
Sat, Dec 14, 8:00
The inspiring true story of Paul Potts, a cell phone salesman in
Port Talbot, Wales, whose long-held dream to make it as an
opera singer came true after he won the first season of British
telly’s reality hit BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT, comes to the big
screen in a big way, courtesy of director David Frankel (THE
DEVIL WEARS PRADA) and rising star James Corden (GAVIN
& STACEY, THE HISTORY BOYS, Tony Award winner for
“One Man, Two Guvnors”). The terrific cast includes Julie
Walters, Colm Meaney, Mackenzie Crook, Alexandra
Roach and, as himself, Simon Cowell.
DIR David Frankel; SCR Justin
Zackham; PROD Simon Cowell, Michael Menchel, Kris Thykier, Harvey Weinstein, Brad Weston.
UK/US, 2013, color, 103 min. In English. RATED PG-13
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SPECIAL PRESENTATION
LE WEEK-END
Sat, Dec 7, 8:30
Roger Michell and Hanif Kureishi’s latest collaboration
(following THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA, THE MOTHER
and VENUS) follows a middle-aged academic couple (Jim
Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan) from Birmingham, England,
celebrating their 30th anniversary in Paris, the site of their
honeymoon. But after a series of mishaps, misunderstandings
and spats, will this trip to the City of Light rekindle the fire of
their love, or snuff it out? Veteran character actors Broadbent
and Duncan shine in the leads, with Jeff Goldblum lending
offbeat comic counterpoint as an old Cambridge colleague
of Broadbent’s, now wildly successful and living in Paris.
Official Selection, 2013 Toronto, New York Film Festivals.
DIR Roger Michell; SCR Hanif Kureishi; PROD Kevin Loader. UK, 2013, color, 93 min. In English.
NOT RATED
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Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures
Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures
Courtesy of The Weinstein Company
Courtesy of Music Box Films
WE ARE THE BEST!
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN
