Presented with the Charlotte Jewish Film Fesitval
FOR MY FATHER (Sof Shavua B'Tel Aviv) directed by Dror Zahavi
Thursday, March 11
7pm
Duke Energy Theater
Admission: $10
A would-be Palestinian suicide bomber is forced to spend a weekend in Tel Aviv when his explosive vest fails to detonate. While there, he crosses paths with and surprisingly connects with the “enemies” he was sent to kill. Through these unlikely relationships, especially the love that blooms with Keren, a beautiful girl who is estranged from her Orthodox family, he discovers the spark of life returning to fill his soul. As the weekend comes to a close, he is forced to make the decision of his life… A daring and engaging film that explores the human side of both halves of a conflict. Winner of Audience Award, Moscow International Film Festival, 2008. (Hebrew, Arabic, English subtitles). 100 minutes
CULT MOVIE MONDAY presented with Theatre 650
CLEOPATRA JONES (1973) directed by Jack Starrett
Monday, Feb. 22
Doors open at 7:30pm; Film starts at 8pm
Actor's Theatre (650 E. Stonewall Street)
Admission: free and so is the popcorn; cash bar
Special Agent Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson) takes on a powerful drug lord (Shelley Winters) in this over-the-top action blaxploitation
UNCERTAINTY written and directed by Scott McGehee & David Siegel
Wednesday – Friday,
Feb. 17 – 19 at 7:30pm
Duke Energy Theatre
Admission: $5 for members
$7 for non-members
Bobby and Kate, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 DAYS OF SUMMER) and Lynn Collins, (WOLVERINE) flip a coin and run in two opposite directions. An afternoon in Brooklyn forces them to confront self-discovery, loss and the value of family, and in Manhattan the day suddenly takes a turn into a break-neck tale of intrigue, suspense and murder. Not yet rated; 101 min
Found Footage Festival
Saturday, Jan. 20
Found Footage Festival tours the whole nation – first time in Charlotte! The Found Footage Festival showcases footage from videos that were found at garage sales and thrift stores and in warehouses and dumpsters across the country. o Found Footage Festival tours the whole nation – first time in Charlotte! The Found Footage Festival showcases footage from videos that were found at garage sales and thrift stores and in warehouses and dumpsters across the country.
Mary and Max [2009] by director/writer Adam Elliot
Wednesday - Friday, January 20, 21 & 22
7:30pm
Duke Energy Theatre
A clayography feature film from Academy Award® winning writer/director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs, featuring the voice talents of Toni Collette, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Humphries and Eric Bana. The opening night selection of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Mary and Max tells of a pen-pal relationship between Mary Dinkle, a lonely 8-year-old living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia; and Max Horovitz, a severely obese, 44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in New York City. Their bond survives more than the average friendship’s ups-and-downs. Not yet rated; 92 min
Admission: $5 members $7 non-members
CULT MOVIE MONDAY: Grey Gardens (1975) directed by Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer
Presented with Actor's Theatre (Theatre 650)
Monday, January 25
Doors open at 7pm; Film starts at 8pm
Actor's Theatre (650 E. Stonewall Street)
The Maysles brothers pay visits to Edith Bouvier Beale, nearing 80, and her daughter Edie. Reclusive, the pair lives with cats and raccoons in Grey Gardens, a crumbling mansion in East Hampton. The women address the camera, talking over each other, moving from the present to events years before. They're odd, with flinty affection for each other.
Admission: Free
INDIE SPOTLIGHT: Wilbanks, Finklestein and White
Thursday, January 28
8pm
Knight Gallery
This indie spotlight features the Baloos films of Charlotte filmmaker Ross Wilbanks and improvisation-based video pieces by Brooklyn artist David Finklestein, with new music by Bo White. A discussion with all artists will follow the program.
Admission: Free and open to the public; Donations will be accepted for the artists
