Me and Orson Welles (PG13) 1:10, 3:55, 7:00, 9:30
The Messenger (R) 12:55, 3:40, 6:45, 9:25
Crazy Heart (R) 12:45, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20
Broken Embraces (R) 12:35, 9:35 Ends Thurs
A Single Man (PG13) 1:00, 4:05, 6:50, 9:30
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (PG13) 3:35, 9:40
Young Victoria (PG) 3:55, 7:05
It's Complicated (R) 12:50, 3:45, 6:45
The Road (R) 9:25 Ends Thurs
Invictus (PG) 12:40, 6:35
Up in the Air (R) 1:05, 4:00, 6:55, 9:35

Me And Orson Welles   (PG13)
Times: 1:10, 3:55, 7:00, 9:30
Winner of an Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor (Christian McKay). Based in real theatrical history, this romantic coming of age story tells the story of a teenage actor who lucks into a role in Julius Caesar as its being re-imagined by a brilliant, impetuous young director named Orson Welles at his newly founded Mercury Theatre in NYC, in 1937. The rollercoaster week leading up to opening night has the charismatic but sometimes cruel Welles (McKay) staking his career on this risky production. Zac Efron plays the ebullient Richard, who mixes with everyone from starlets to stagehands in behind the scenes adventures bound to change him. 107 min.

The Messenger   (R)
Times: 12:55, 3:40, 6:45, 9:25
Nominated for 2 Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor (Woody Harrelson), and Best Original Screenplay.
In his most powerful performance to date, Ben Foster stars as Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has just returned home from a tour of duty in Iraq and is assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. Partnered with fellow officer Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) to bring the bad news to the loved ones of fallen soldiers, Will faces the challenge of completing his mission while seeking to find comfort and healing back on the home front. When he finds himself drawn to Olivia (Samantha Morton), to whom he has just delivered the news of her husbands death, Will's emotional detachment begins to dissolve, and the film reveals itself as a surprising, humorous, moving and very human portrait of grief, friendship and survival. Featuring tour-de-force performances from Foster, Harrelson and Morton, and a brilliant directorial debut by Oren Moverman, The Messenger brings us into the inner lives of these outwardly steely heroes to reveal their fragility with compassion and dignity. "The Messenger offers one of the most shrewdly perceptive portraits of military men to have appeared in American movies since such classics as From Here To Eternity and The Last Detail." David Denby, The New Yorker. 105 min.

Crazy Heart   (R)
Times: 12:45, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20
Nominated for 3 Academy Awards: Best Actor (Jeff Bridges), Best Supporting Actress (Maggie Gyllenhaal), and Best Original Song. Winner of 2 Golden Globes: Best Actor in a Drama (Jeff Bridges), and Best Original Song.
Four time Academy Award nominee Jeff Bridges stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic, romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film from writer-director Scott Cooper. Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can't help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be. Also starring Robert Duvall. 112 min.

Broken Embraces   (R)
Times: 12:35, 9:35 Ends Thurs
Pedro Almodóvar's latest offering stars Penélope Cruz in a story of amour fou, dominated by fatality, jealously, the abuse of power, treachery and a guilt complex. The protagonists of the film are shooting a comedy. Mateo Blanco is the director and Lena Riveros (Cruz) is the star. Lena's lover, Ernesto Martel, is the producer. Mateo falls in love with Lena the moment he sees her and although she's living with Martel, and the tycoon is madly in love with her, she falls for Mateo as well. However, the production manager Judit had a love affair with Mateo and still hasn't gotten over it. And, Ernesto Martel's son, while ostensibly making a documentary about the making of the film, is spying on Mateo and Lena for his father. The elements of the film are typical of a comedy, but Broken Embraces is a drama with very dark touches, more like a 50s thriller. A quintessential Almodóvar mix. Also starring Llus Homar, Blanca Portillo and José Luís Gómez. In Spanish w/subtitles. 127 min.

A Single Man   (PG13)
Times: 1:00, 4:05, 6:50, 9:30
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor (Colin Firth).
Based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood, Tom Ford's directorial debut stars Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. Set in Los Angeles in 1962 at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, it is the story of a British college professor (Firth) who is struggling to find meaning after the death of his long-time partner. The story is a romantic tale of love interrupted, the isolation that is an inherent part of the human condition and ultimately the importance of the seemingly smaller moments in life. "The movie has a hushed, sensual intensity and formal elegance that leaves no doubt Ford knows what he's doing behind the camera." David Ansen, Newsweek. "A Single Man" is suffused with beauty... it's a movie conceived in a swoon... Tom Ford, the former fashion designer... proves a born filmmaker with a rapturous eye." Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly. 99 min.

The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus  (PG13)
Times: 3:35, 9:40
Nominated for 2 Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design.
Terry Gilliam returns to the screen with this phantasmagorical film, which contains the final film work of Heath Ledger. Ledger's role was unfinished at the time of his death and Gilliam chose to complete his part of the story using the actors Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell. Christopher Plummer stars as the mysterious Dr. Parnassus, the leader of an enigmatic traveling carnival troupe where unsuspecting audience members just might be transported through a magical mirror into worlds of wonder, awe and terror. We learn that Dr. Parnassus, in his youth, made a deal with the devilish, Mr. Nick, played by the inimitable Tom Waits. In return for immortality, Dr. Parnassus has put himself and his beautiful young daughter in danger. When the troupe rescues Tony (Ledger) from the London streets, he may or may not be who he claims to be. Also starring Andrew Garfield, Verne Troyer and Lily Cole. The Toronto Film Festival praised Gilliam's stunning command of digital technology to conceive worlds previously unimaginable. With his stellar cast, vivid effects and characteristic audacity, Gilliam once again proves himself a consummate storyteller. 122 min.

Young Victoria   (PG)
Times: 3:55, 7:05
Nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design.
Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) stars in the story of Queen Victoria's early rise to power. On the eve of her 18th birthday and succession to the English throne, young Princess Victoria is caught in a royal power struggle. But it is her blossoming love affair with Albert, played by Rupert Friend that will determine the strength of her reign. Can she dedicate her life to her country and her heart to the one man she truly loves? Director Jean-Marc Vallee brings the passion and romance behind one of history's greatest love stories to the screen. 104 min.

It's Complicated   (R)
Times: 12:50, 3:45, 6:45
Writer/director Nancy Meyers (Something's Gotta Give) directs Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin in this comedy about love, divorce and everything in between. Jane (Streep) is the mother of three grown kids, owns a thriving Santa Barbara restaurant and has after a decade of divorce an amicable relationship with her ex-husband, attorney Jake (Baldwin). But when Jane and Jake find themselves out of town for their son's college graduation, things start to get complicated. An innocent meal together turns into the unimaginable an affair. Caught in the middle of their renewed romance is Adam (Martin), an architect hired to remodel Janes kitchen and Jakes much younger wife Agness (Lake Bell). Should Jane and Jake move on with their lives, or is love truly lovelier the second time around? 120 min.

The Road   (R)
Times: 9:25 Ends Thurs
Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall and newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee star in this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning novel. John Hillcoat directs this epic post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of a father and his young son as they journey across a barren America that was destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm. The Road boldly imagines a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the best and they are capable of a future in which a father and his son are sustained by love. 112 min.

Invictus  (PG)
Times: 12:40, 6:35
Nominated for 2 Academy Awards: including Best Actor (Morgan Freeman), and Best Supporting Actor (Matt Damon).
Director Clint Eastwood tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team to help unite their country. Morgan Freeman plays the newly elected President Mandela and Matt Damon plays Francois Pienaar, the rugby captain. Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team, as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match. 133 min.

Up in the Air   (R)
Times: 1:05, 4:00, 6:55, 9:35
Nominated for 6 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (George Clooney), two nominees for Best Supporting Actress (Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick), and Best Adapted Screenplay. Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay.
Jason Reitman (Juno, Thank You For Smoking) directs this timely odyssey of a corporate downsizer and consummate modern business traveler who, after years of staying happily airborne, suddenly finds himself ready to make a real connection. George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a man who has long been content with his unencumbered lifestyle lived out across America in hotels and rental cars. Ryan thinks he has everything he needs, and he's close to attaining his lifetime goal of ten million frequent flyer miles - and yet something is missing. When he falls for a fellow traveler (Vera Farmiga), Ryan's boss (Jason Bateman), inspired by a young, upstart efficiency expert, threatens to permanently call him in from the road. Faced with the prospect, at once terrifying and exhilarating, of being grounded, Ryan begins to contemplate what it might actually mean to have a home. 109 min.