MOViES
F R I D AY J U N E 2 7 — T H U R S D AY J U LY 3 Movie summaries by M at t hew St af f or d l Belle (1:45) Sumptuous biopic of Dido sports agent Jon Hamm and cantankerous baseball scout Alan Arkin try to turn two Indian Elizabeth Belle, a mixed-race aristocrat of precricket players into MLB phenoms; Bill Paxton abolition 18th century England. l Breathing Earth (1:37) Dazzling portrait costars. l The Nance (2:30) Direct from Lincoln Center of Japanese artist Susumu Shingu, who creates it’s Nathan Lane’s acclaimed performance as a kinetic sculptures powered by wind and water; closeted gay man in the raucous world of 1930s Thomas Riedelsheimer (Rivers and Tides) directs. l Chef (1:55) Superstar chef Jon Favreau gives up burlesque. l The Night Before Our Stars (2:48) Catch a his luxe L.A. eatery to launch a Miami food truck special screening of The Fault in Our Stars folwith John Leguizamo and Sofia Vergara. l Chinese Puzzle (1:57) Romantic comedy lowed by a broadcast Q&A with director Joshua Boone, author John Green and stars Nat Wolff, about a French father who follows his children Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort. and ex-wife to exotic New York; Audrey Tatou l Night Moves (1:52) Envelope-pushing enviand Romain Duris costar. l Edge of Tomorrow (1:53) War of the Worlds ronmentalists Dakota Fanning, Pater Sarsgaard and Jesse Eisenberg plot the ultimate planetmeets Groundhog Day as a space-time vortex saving protest: blowing a high-tech dam to forces soldier Tom Cruise to fight the same smithereens. darned battle against invading aliens over and l Obvious Child (1:23) An aspiring twentyover again. l E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (2:15) Spielberg something comedian faces unemployment, pregnancy and honest-to-God adulthood in Gillian fable about three suburban kids and their new Robespierre’s poignant comedy; Jenny Slate stars. playmate, a winsome alien yearning for home. l Redwood Highway (1:30) Shirley Knight l The Fault in Our Stars (2:06) John Green’s throws off the comfortable shackles of her Orbest-seller hits the big screen with Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort as two teens who meet egon retirement community and goes on an 80mile walkabout to the Pacific Ocean she loves. and fall in love at a cancer support group. l The Rover (1:42) Aussie loner Guy Pearce l Finding Vivian Maier (1:23) Documentary looks at the life of a secretive New York nanny searches a lawless Outback for the thieves who whose recently unearthed snapshots reveal her as stole his most treasured possession: his car. l Tammy (1:36) Broke, jobless, lovelorn Melissa one of the 20th century’s greatest photographers. l The Grand Budapest Hotel (1:40) Wes McCarthy hits the road to Niagara Falls with Anderson directs a star-studded cinemazation of groovy grandma Susan Sarandon; Dan Aykroyd Stefan Zweig’s stories about a palatial European and Kathy Bates costar. hotel between the wars; Ralph Fiennes, Jude Law, l Think Like a Man Too (1:45) Steve Harvey’s Léa Seydoux, Harvey Keitel, Tilda Swinton and self-helping couples reunite for a weekend Bill Murray are among the guests. in temptation-ridden Vegas with predictably l The Grand Seduction (1:55) Wry comdisastrous results. edy about a Canadian fishing village that does l Third Person (2:17) Paul Haggis tells three whatever it takes to convince a big-city doctor to dovetailing stories of love, loss, children and become their permanent sawbones. coupledom; Kim Basinger, James Franco and l How to Train Your Dragon 2 (1:45) Wannabe Mila Kunis star. Viking Hiccup and his pet dragon Toothless are l Transformers: Age of Extinction (2:35) back and busily protecting their village from Everyone’s favorite Autobots are back and takuncouth invaders. ing on yet another Earth-threatening evildoer; l Ida (1:20) Polish drama about a teenage nunKen Watanabe and Mark Wahlberg star. to-be who discovers that she’s the daughter of l Turbo (1:36) Cartoon about an itchy snail Jewish parents killed by the Nazis. who pursues an unlikely dream to compete in l The Immigrant (1:57) Ellis Island period piece the Indy 500. about the adventures and tribulations of a Polish l 22 Jump Street (1:52) Baby-faced underémigré in Jazz Age Manhattan; Marion Cotillard cover cops Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill and Joaquin Phoenix star. graduate to college-level espionage and do a l Jaws (2:04) Spielberg’s best movie, about a little growing up in the process. great white shark seeking protein along the New l Violette (2:18) Emmanuelle Devos stars in England coast, is really about the terrific acting Martin Provost’s biopic of seminal postwar chemistry between mammals Robert Shaw, Roy feminist author Violette Leduc; Sandrine Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss. Kiberlain costars as Simone de Beauvoir. l Jersey Boys (2:14) Director Clint Eastwood l Walking the Camino (1:24) Awardbrings the Tony-winning musical bio of Frankie winning documentary follows six pilgrims as Valli and the Four Seasons to the silver screen. they trek Spain’s ancient 500-mile Camino de l Maleficent (1:38) Angelina Jolie stars in the Santago Trail in search of spiritual awakening. untold story of Sleeping Beauty’s wicked nemesis; l X-Men: Days of Future Past (2:10) The Elle Fanning costars as Beauty. original X-Men join forces with their younger l The Metropolitan Opera: La Rondine (2:00) selves in a time-altering mission to save Earth; Catch Puccini’s racy tale of a kept woman and a Halle Berry, Peter Dinklage and Michael younger man in glorious big-screen high definition. Fassbender star. l Million Dollar Arm (2:04) Down-and-out
k New Movies This Week
Belle (PG) k Breathing Earth (Not Rated)
Rafael: Fri, Mon-Thu 8:15 Sat-Sun 2, 8:15 Rafael: Fri, Mon-Thu 4, 6:30, 8:45 Sat-Sun 1:45, 4, 6:30, 8:45
Chef (R)
Fairfax: 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 Playhouse: 1, 4, 7, 9:45 Regency: Fri-Mon 10:50, 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:25 Sequoia: Fri 2:20, 5, 7:40, 10:25 Sat 11:40, 2:20, 5, 7:40, 10:25 Sun-Wed 11:40, 2:20, 5, 7:40
Chinese Puzzle (R)
Lark: Fri 8:40 Sat, Mon 8:30 Wed 12:45
Edge of Tomorrow (PG-13)
Larkspur Landing: Fri 7, 9:40 Sat-Sun 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:40 Mon-Wed 6:45, 9:25 Northgate: Fri-Mon 10:50, 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:25, 2:15, 4:50, 7:45, 10:25
k E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (PG)
Lark: Fri-Sun 1
The Fault in Our Stars (PG-13)
Fairfax: Fri-Wed 1, 4:15, 7:10, 9:50 Tue 1, 4:15 Marin: Fri 1:10, 4, 6:50, 10:20 Sat 1:10, 4, 10:20 Sun-Thu 1:10, 4, 6:50 Northgate: Fri-Mon 1, 4, 6:55, 10:30 Lark: Sat 3:45 Tue 4
Finding Vivian Maier (Not Rated) The Grand Budapest Hotel (R)
Lark: Sat 6 Wed 8:30
The Grand Seduction (PG-13)
Lark: Fri, Sun 6 Mon 1:15, Wed 5:45 Thu 3
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG)
Fairfax: 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:35 Northgate: Fri-Mon 11, 12:20, 1:40, 3:05, 4:20, 5:40, 7, 8:20, 9:40 Playhouse: 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:35 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:20, 1:55, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Rafael: 4:15, 6:15 daily Marin: Fri-Sat 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 9:50 Sun-Thu 1:25, 4:15, 7:05
Ida (PG-13) The Immigrant (R) k Jaws (PG)
Lark: Thu 5:45 Fairfax: 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:35 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:30 SatSun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Playhouse: Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:25 Tue 12:30, 3:30 Regency: Fri-Mon 11:05, 12:50, 2:15, 4, 5:25, 7:10, 8:35, 10:20 Rowland: Fri-Wed 10:05, 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:20 Maleficent (PG) Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7:15, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12, 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 Northgate: Fri-Mon 11:55, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35 Rowland: Fri-Mon, Wed 11:55, 2:30, 4:55, 7:30, 10 Tue 2:30, 4:55, 7:30, 10 The Metropolitan Opera: La Rondine (PG) Lark: Sat 10am Million Dollar Arm (PG) Northgate: Fri-Mon 10:55, 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 The Nance (Not Rated) Regency: Mon 7 Jersey Boys (R)
k The Night Before Our Stars (PG-13)
Night Moves (R) Obvious Child (R) Redwood Highway (PG-13) The Rover (R) k Tammy (R) Think Like a Man Too (PG-13) k Third Person (R)
Marin: Sat 6:50 Lark: Sun, Tue, Thu 8:30 Regency: Fri-Mon 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 7:50, 10:05 Lark: Mon 4 Tue 6:15 Wed 3:30 Thu 12:45 Regency: Fri-Sun 11:30, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Mon 11:30, 2:10 Fairfax: Tue 8 Wed-Thu 12:10, 2:45, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 Playhouse: Tue 8 WedThu 12:15, 2:40, 5, 7:30, 9:50 Northgate: Fri-Mon 11:20, 2, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:50, 2:25, 5, 7:40, 10:15
Walking the Camino (Not Rated)
Regency: Fri-Mon 12:25, 3:40, 7, 10:10 Cinema: Fri-Wed 3:10, 10:35; 3D showtimes at 11:30, 7 Fairfax: 1:05, 4:30, 8; 3D showtimes at 12:10, 3:30, 7 Northgate: Fri-Mon 12, 2:15, 3:45, 6, 7:30, 9:45; 3D showtimes at 11:15, 12:45, 1:30, 3, 4:30, 5:15, 6:45, 8:15, 9, 10:25 Rowland: Fri-Wed 12, 3:30, 7, 10:30; 3D showtimes at 10:15, 1:45, 5:15, 8:45 Sequoia: Fri 3:30, 10:35; 3D showtime at 7:05 Sat 3:30, 10:35; 3D showtimes at 11:50, 7:05 Sun-Wed 3:30; 3D showtimes at 11:50, 7:05 Larkspur Landing: Fri 7:25, 10:05 Sat-Sun 11:15, 2, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 MonWed 7, 9:40 Marin: Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Sun-Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20 Northgate: Fri-Mon 11:30, 12:50, 2:10, 3:35, 5, 6:20, 7:45, 9:05, 10:30 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:35, 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:35 Rowland: Tue, Thu 10am Rafael: Fri, Mon-Thu 4:30, 7:30 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 Lark: Fri, Sun 3:45 Mon 6:15 Tue 1:45
X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG-13)
Northgate: Fri-Mon 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05
Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG-13)
22 Jump Street (R)
k Turbo (PG) k Violette (Not Rated)
Sususmu Shingu kinects with the elements in ‘Breathing Earth,’ at the Rafael Friday.
Showtimes can change after we go to press. Please call theater to confirm schedules. CinéArts at Marin 101 Caledonia St., Sausalito • 331-0255 | CinéArts at Sequoia 25 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley • 388-4862 | Cinema 41 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera • 924-6505 | Fairfax 9 Broadway, Fairfax • 453-5444 | Lark 549 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur • 924-5111 | Larkspur Landing 500 Larkspur Landing Cir., Larkspur • 461-4849 | Northgate 7000 Northgate Dr., San Rafael • 800-326-3264 | Playhouse 40 Main St., Tiburon • 435-1234 | Rafael Film Center 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael • 454-1222 | Regency 80 Smith Ranch Rd., Terra Linda • 479-5050 Rowland 44 Rowland Way, Novato • 800-326-3264
JUNE 27 - JULY 3, 2014 PACIFIC SUN 19