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No Film Tonight.
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SummerFilm: Winter in Wartime
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SummerFilm: It's About Time! Series 12 Monkeys
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7:30pm @ Music Hall Loft • R • 131min • 1995 A Terry Gilliam film starring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt. In a future world, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out the human population.
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SummerFilm: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
7:30pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 90min • 2011 Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) dissects the world of advertising and marketing by using his personal integrity as currency to sell out to the highest bidder. 7:30pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 90min • 2011
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SummerFilm: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
7:30pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 90min • 2011
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SummerFilm: Certified Copy
7:30pm @ Music Hall Loft • NR • 106min • 2011 • Subtitled In Tuscany to promote his book, a middle-aged British writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. Starring Juliette Binoche. No Film Tonight.
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SummerFilm: It's About Time! Series The Terminator
7:30pm @ Music Hall Loft • R • 108min • 1984 A James Cameron film. A human-looking cyborg is sent from the future to kill Sarah Connor; Kyle Reese is sent to stop it. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton star.
SummerFilm: Meek's Cutoff
7:30pm @ Historic Theater • PG • 104 min • 2011 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail – a wagon train of three families has hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains.
SummerFilm: Meek's Cutoff
7:30pm @ Historic Theater • PG • 104 min • 2011
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Met HD Encore: Tosca
4pm @ Music Hall Loft Karita Mattila lives for art and love as the passionate title character of Puccini’s opera.
SummerFilm: Meek's Cutoff
7:30pm @ Historic Theater • PG • 104 min • 2011
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SummerFilm: La Quattro Volte
7:30pm @ Music Hall Loft • NR • 88min • 2011 • Subtitled Michelangelo Frammartino’s wondrous docu-essay traces the cycle of life through the daily rituals in the southern Italian region of Calabria. No Film Tonight.
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SummerFilm: La Quattro Volte
7:30pm @ Music Hall Loft NR • 88min • 2011 • Subtitled
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Intimately Yours: Mary Chapin Carpenter
7:30pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $56; $46 Five time Grammy Award winner with her new band, new sound, and new CD, The Age of Miracles.
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SummerFilm: Tree of Life
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SummerFilm: Tree of Life
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Miss Richfield 1981: 30 Years on the Throne
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No Film Tonight.
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7:30pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 138min • 2011 Terrence Malick’s hotly-debated work starring Sean Penn and Brad Pitt. Winner of Cannes' Palme d’Or. A portrait of a 50’s Midwestern family and a contemplation of human existence.
7:30pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 138min • 2011
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SummerFilm: Tree of Life
7:30pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 138min • 2011
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7pm @ Music Hall Loft • Tickets: $35 This original one-man drag show features edgy improv and an athletic approach to physical comedy. Hysterical!
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Intimately Yours: Buddy Guy
7:30pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $54; $48 The six-time Grammy Award winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee pioneered the Chicago Blues Sound.
SummerFilm: The First Grader
7:30pm @ Music Hall Loft • PG13 • 120min • 2011 The true story of an 84-year-old Kenyan freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.
7:30pm @ Music Hall Loft • NR • 106 min • 2011
Historical Tour: 5:30pm @ The Historic Theater
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7:30pm @ Music Hall Loft • R • 116min • 2000 A man, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife.
SummerFilm: Certified Copy
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SummerFilm: It's About Time! Series Memento
7:30pm @ Music Hall Loft • R • 103min • 2011 • Subtitled Near the end of WWII, 14-year-old Michiel becomes involved with the Resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded British soldier.
SummerFilm: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
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Historical Tour: 5:30pm @ The Historic Theater SummerFilm: It's About Time! Series Primer
7:30pm @ Music Hall Loft • PG13 • 80 min • 2004 Four men have accidentally invented a time machine. A low budget film with high philosophical and entertainment return.
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SummerFilm: Midnight in Paris
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SummerFilm: Midnight in Paris
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7:30pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 100min • 2011 Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates star in Woody Allen’s latest—a romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. 7:30pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 100min • 2011
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SummerFilm: Midnight in Paris
7:30pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 100min • 2011
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SummerFilm: The Robber
7:30pm @ Music Hall Loft • NR • 90 min • 2011 • Subtitled The true story of Johann Rettenberger, a champion marathoner who lead a double life as a bank robber, sprinting between crimes as many as three times a day.
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Intimately Yours: An Evening with Richard Thompson
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SummerFilm: The Robber
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SummerFilm: It's About Time! Series Back to the Future
Monday
7:30pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $42; $30 British musical hero, folk revolutionary, one of the world’s greatest guitarists.
7:30pm @ Music Hall Loft • NR • 90 min • 2011 • Subtitled
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7:30pm @ Music Hall Loft • PG • 116min • 1985 With the help of a wacky scientist, a teen travels back to 1955 in a Delorean-turned-time-machine.
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Don’t miss these hot August concerts Mary Chapin Carpenter with her full band (8/17); the newly knighted Richard Thompson (8/29)!
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