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Cairo Time   9/10
Patricia Clarkson stars as Juliette, a magazine editor who travels to Cairo for a three week vacation to meet her husband, Mark (Tom McCamus), a UN official working in Gaza. When Mark is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq (Alexander Siddig) to escort her through the beautiful and exotic city. The last thing anyone expects is that they will fall in love. Juliette is a woman who married young and still ardently loves her husband. Their children have grown up and moved away. Life has replaced the couples hopes and dreams with accomplishment and responsibilities. Cairo Time is a love letter to a city intertwined with a love story about a woman; it is a throwback to classic films and reminiscent of the restrained, emotional tension in the work of Jane Austen. Directed by Ruba Nadda.

Wild Grass   9/10
A wallet lost and found opens the door - slightly - to a romantic adventure. After Georges examines the ID of its owner, he declines to turn in the red wallet he has found to the police. And Marguerite finds it difficult to retrieve her wallet without her curiosity being piqued about the person who found it. As George and Marguerite navigate the social protocols of giving and acknowledging thanks, turbulence enters their everyday lives. Directed by Alain Resnais. In French w/subtitles.

Agora   9/17
Rachel Weisz stars in Alejandro Amenabar's film about religious upheaval in Egypt under the Roman Empire in 4th century AD. Weisz plays the brilliant astronomer Hypatia who, together with her disciples, fight to save the wisdom of the Ancient World, stored in the city of Alexandria's famous library. Two men compete for Hypatia's heart: the witty, privileged Orestes and Davus, Hypatia's young slave, who is torn between his secret love for her and the freedom he knows can be his if he chooses to join the unstoppable surge of the Christians.

The Town   9/17
There are over 300 bank robberies in Boston every year. And most of the professionals live in a one-square-mile neighborhood called Charlestown. Ben Affleck directed and stars in this dramatic thriller about robbers and cops, friendship and betrayal, love and hope, and escaping a past that has no future. Affleck plays Doug MacRay, who is one of the thieves, but he is not cut from the same cloth as his fellow criminals. Unlike them, Doug had a chance at success, a chance to escape following in his father's criminal footsteps. Instead, he became the leader of a crew of ruthless bank robbers, who pride themselves on taking what they want and getting out clean. But everything changes during a robbery where bank manager Claire is taken hostage. The film also stars Rebecca Hall (Vicky Christina Barcelona), Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker), Pete Postlethwaite and Chris Cooper.

Animal Kingdom   9/17
Winner of the World Cinema Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Welcome to the Melbourne, Australia underworld, where tensions are building between dangerous criminals and equally dangerous police. The Wild West played out on the city's streets. Armed robber Pope is in hiding, on the run from a gang of renegade detectives who want him dead. His business partner and best friend, Barry 'Baz' Brown wants out of the game, recognizing that their days of old-school banditry are all but over. Pope's younger brother, the speed-addicted and volatile Craig Cody, is making a fortune in the illicit substances trade - the true cash cow of the modern criminal fraternity - while the youngest Cody brother, Darren naively navigates his way through this criminal world - the only world his family has ever known. And into this world arrives their nephew, Joshua 'J' Cody. Following the death of his mother, J finds himself living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf , mother to the Cody boys. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world. But, as he soon discovers, this world is far larger and more menacing than he could ever imagine. When tensions between family and police reach a bloody peak, J finds himself at the center of a cold-blooded revenge plot that turns the family upside down, and which also threatens to ensnare innocent bystanders such as his girlfriend, Nicky. Written and directed by David Michod.

Mao's Last Dancer   9/24
From Academy Award nominees Bruce Beresford (Tender Mercies, Driving Miss Daisy), Jane Scott (Shine) and Jan Sardi (Shine, The Notebook) comes the remarkable true story of ballet dancer Li Cunxin. Chi Cao stars as a gifted dancer and principal at the Birmingham Royal Ballet making his impressive screen debut as Li. Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen and Amanda Schull round out the cast. Based on Li's best selling autobiography, this is the epic story of a young poverty-stricken boy from China and his inspirational journey to international stardom as a world-class dancer. The story begins when a young Li is taken from his peasant home by the Chinese government and chosen to study ballet in Beijing. Separated from his family and enduring countless hours of practice, Li struggles to find his place in the new life he has been given. Gaining confidence from a kind teacher's encouraging guidance and a chance trip to America, Li finally discovers that his passion has always been dance. The film weaves a moving tale about the quest for freedom and the courage it takes to live your own life, poignantly capturing the struggles, triumphs and the intoxicating effects of first love and celebrity amid the pain of exile.

Bran Nue Dae   9/24
This charming new Australian, music driven road movie/romantic comedy starring Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush, literally bursts onto the screen with unbridled energy and fun. Loosely based on one of Australia's most beloved and popular musicals, the film is a foot stomping tour-de-force centering on the romantic adventures of a young aboriginal couple set against the spectacularly beautiful Australian countryside. It is the summer of 1969 and young Willie, in an act of youthful rebellion, runs away from a mission school after being punished by Father Benedictus (Rush). Willie meets an old fella, who he calls Uncle Tadpole, and together they con a couple of hippies into taking them on the 2500 km journey through the spectacular landscape.

Never Let Me Go   10/8
In his highly acclaimed novel, Kazuo Ishiguro (Remains Of The Day) created a remarkable story of love, loss and hidden truths. In it he posed the question: What makes us human? Now director Mark Romanek brings Ishiguro's hauntingly poignant and emotional story to the screen. Cary Mullligan (An Education), Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley star as friends who live in a world and a time that feel familiar to us, but are not quite like anything we know. They spend their childhood at Haisham, a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. When they leave the shelter of the school and the terrible truth of their fate is revealed to them, they must also confront the deep feelings of love, jealousy and betrayal that threaten to pull them apart.

Jack Goes Boating   10/8
Philip Seymour Hoffman makes his directorial debut with this tale of love, betrayal, friendship and grace centered around two working-class New York City couples. The film stars John Ortiz (American Gangster), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Broadway's Rent), Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote). Jack (Hoffman) and Connie (Ryan) are two single people who on their own might continue to recede into the anonymous background of the city, but in each other begin to find the courage and desire to pursue their budding relationship. In contrast, the couple that introduced them, Clyde (John Ortiz) and Lucy (Daphne Rubin-Vega), are confronting unresolved issues in their marriage. Jack is a limo driver with vague dreams of landing a job with the MTA and an obsession with reggae that has prompted him to begin a half-hearted attempt at growing dreadlocks. He spends most of his time hanging out with his best friends Clyde and Lucy. The couple set Jack up with Connie, Lucy's co-worker at a Brooklyn funeral home. Being with Connie inspires Jack to learn to cook, pursue a new career and take swimming lessons so he can give Connie the romantic boat ride she dreams of. But as Jack and Connie cautiously circle commitment, Clyde and Lucy's marriage begins to disintegrate. From there, we watch as each couple comes face to face with the inevitable path of their relationship.

London's National Theatre Series

- Phèdre Sunday 10/10 at noon & Monday 10/11 at 7pm Buy Tickets Now! National Theatre Live launched in June 2009 with a broadcast of Ph�dre, seen by over 50,000 people worldwide. Don't miss your chance to see an encore screening of this smash hit production. Helen Mirren takes the title role in this savage play by Jean Racine, translated into muscular free verse by the late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes. Consumed by an uncontrollable passion for her young stepson and believing Theseus, her absent husband, to be dead, Ph�dre confesses her darkest desires and enters the world of nightmare. When Theseus returns alive and well, Ph�dre, fearing exposure, accuses her stepson of rape, with terrifying results. A Disappearing Number Sun. 11/7 at noon & Mon. 11/8 at 7pm Buy Tickets Now! Complicite's A Disappearing Number directed by Simon McBurney. Awards include the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2008), the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play (2007) and The Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best New Play (2007). Hamlet Sun. 1/9 at noon & Mon. 1/10 at 7 Buy Tickets Now! Shakespeare's Hamlet, directed by Nicholas Hytner, featuring Rory Kinnear in the title role, David Calder as Polomus, Clare Higgins as Gertrude, Patrick Malahide as Claudius and Ruth Negga as Ophelia. Fela! Sun. 2/6 at noon & Mon. 2/7 at 7 Buy Tickets Now! Currently playing on Broadway, the Tony winning musical Fela! Comes to the National with Sahr Ngaujah as Fela Anikulpao-Kuti. King Lear Sun. 2/27 at noon & Mon. 2/28 at 7 Buy Tickets Now! The Donmar Warehouse in collaboration with the National Theatre presents Artistic Director Michael Grandage's production of Shakespeare's King Lear. Frankenstein Sun. 4/3 at noon & Mon. 4/4 at 7 Buy Tickets Now! Danny Boyle's production of Frankenstein, a play by Nick Dear, based on the novel by Mary Shelley. The Cherry Orchard Sun. 7/17 at noon & Mon. 7/18 at 7 Buy Tickets Now! Chekov's The Cherry Orchard, directed by NT Associate Director Howard Davies, whose recent productions of Russian plays have earned huge critical acclaim. Zoe Wannamaker will play Madame Ranevskaya. All National Theatre productions presented in HD and Dolby Digital.

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