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The Year's Best
A great opportunity to view some of the Year's Best films that you may
have missed or would enjoy seeing again. Award-winners, nominees, or just
interesting topics specially selected for our GlenVIEWINGS audience. Time
permitting, a casual audience-led discussion follows each film. Just drop in. Community Room.
The Help (146min/PG-13/2011)
Friday, March 16, 2 & 6 PM
Honor Women's History Month with this engaging portrait of the complex
relationships between white and black domestic society in the Deep South of
the 1960's. Due to length of the film, please note special evening time.
Moneyball (133min/PG-13/2011)
Friday, March 30, 2 & 6:30 PM
A timely choice for the opening of the baseball season, but you don't need to
be a baseball fan to appreciate the story of how the Oakland's A's manager,
Billy Bean (Brad Pitt), turned an under-funded team into a league miracle.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (90min/G/2010)
Friday, April 20, 2 & 6:30 PM
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Werner Herzog was granted exclusive
access to the Chauvet Cave of Southern France. Take an amazing journey
into the cave that houses the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind
in their original natural setting—many preserved for over 30,000 years.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (127min/R/2011)
Friday, May 18, 2 & 6:30 PM
Based on the classic spy novel by John le Carré, this international thriller
is set at the height of the Cold War years. George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a
disgraced British spy, is secretly rehired by his government—which fears that
the British Secret Intelligence Service has been compromised by a double
agent working for the Soviets. Political intrigue at its best.
Special Sunday Matinee
Tree of Life (139min/PG13/2011)
Sunday, April 29, 1 PM
Terrence Malick's visual masterpiece and feast for the senses chronicles
the life of an American family while questioning the origins and meaning
of life. Critically acclaimed as groundbreaking on many levels, the film
demands much from its audience.
Please arrive promptly at 1 PM to allow time for discussion.
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