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The Visitor |
Flight of the Red Balloon | Young at Heart
The Visitor (2008)
Friday, May 16 - Wednesday, May
21
Director: Thomas McCarthy (The Station Agent)
Starring: Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira
Rating: PG-13 * 1 hour 53 minutes * Comedy/
Drama
In a world of six billion people, it only takes one to change
your life. A disillusioned economics professor is sleepwalking
through his life. Walter has lost his passion for teaching
and writing, and fills the void by trying to learn classical
piano. When he is sent to Manhattan to attend a conference,
Walter is surprised to find a young couple living in his apartment.
Victims of a real estate scam, Tarek, a Syrian man, and Aainab,
his Senegalese girlfriend, have nowhere else to go, and Walter
reluctantly allows the couple to stay with him. Tarek is a
talented musiciain, and teaches Walter to play the African
drum, opening his eyes to a vibrant world of local jazz clubs
and Central Park drum circles. Tarek is arrested for being
an undocumented citizen, and as his situation turns desperate,
Walter is compelled to help with passion he thought he lost.
"Much as The Station Agent nimbly evaded the obstacles
of cuteness and willful eccentricity it had strewn in its
own path, so does The Visitor, with impressive grace
and understatement."-NEW YORK TIMES
Official Web site & Trailer
Internet Movie Database
Review in the
New York Post
Review
in the New York Times
Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Starring: Juliet Binoche, Simon Iteanu, Fang Song
Rating: Not Rated * 1 hour 53 minutes * Drama
Flight of the Red Balloon is the latest masterpiece
from Hou Hsiao Hsien. Inspired by Albert Lamorisse's 1956
Academy Award-winning classic, The Red Balloon, Hou
expands on that film's key elements--a young boy, a red balloon,
and Paris--to weave an achingly beautiful tale about the mysteries
of familial bonds and the lingering effects the past has on
us all. Simon, a precocious young boy, must deal with the
increasing fragility of his mother, the loving yet preoccupied
Suzanne. Completely immersed in her own tribulations, Suzanne
hires Song, a Taiwanese film student, to help care for Simon.
Together with Song, a unique extended family is formed, utterly
interdependent yet lost in separate thoughts and dreams mirrored
by a delicate, shiny red balloon.
"Flight of the Red Balloon is in a class by itself.
In its unexpected rhythms and visual surprises, its structural
innovations and experimental performances, its creative misunderstandings
and its outré syntheses, this is a movie of genius."-VILLAGE
VOICE
"A quiet, unassuming and flawless tribute to Paris, to the
spirit of childhood and to the ability of art to compensate
for some of the painful imperfections of life."-THE
NEW YORK TIMES
Internet Movie Database
Review at Salon.com
Trailer
Young @ Heart (2008)
Director: Stephen Walker
Starring: The Young at Heart Chorus
Rating: PG * 1 hour 49 minutes * Documentary
Prepare to be entertained by the inspiring individuals of
Young@Heart, a New England senior citizens' chorus that has
delighted audiences worldwide with their covers of songs by
everyone from The Clash to Coldplay. As Stephen Walker's documentary
begins, the retirees, led by their strict musical director,
are rehearsing their new show, struggling with a discordant
Sonic Youth number and giving new meaning to James Brown's
"I Feel Good." What ultimately emerges is a funny
and unexpectedly moving testament to friendship, creative
inspiration, and reaching beyond expectations.
"An irresistibly joyous, tearful and, most importantly, musical
documentary about a band of senior pop singers whose repertoire
includes 'Golden Years,''Should I Stay or Should I Go' and
'Stayin' Alive.'"-VARIETY
Official Web site
Internet Movie Database
Review
at the New York Times
Trailer
