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Dazed and Confused

Dir.: Richard Linklater
| 103 minutes

1976, the last day of school. It is a rights-of-passage kind of night, full of initiations, roaming, drugs, and trying to squeeze something out of this moment in life before it's over. Linklater's nonchalance shapes these moments in a style reminiscent of Robert Altman and the result has not lost its impact over the years.

In Bruges

Dir.: Martin McDonagh
| 107 minutes

Irish hit-men are sent to Bruges until things at home cool off. The two will meet some local characters and discover that they haven’t escaped all their problems. Martin MacDonagh elegantly combines dark humor and sentimentality within the mold of a thriller. 

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Dir.: Wes Anderson
| 100 minutes

The Grand Budapest Hotel relates the adventures of the staff of a famous European hotel between the Wars. Wes Anderson’s eighth film showcases the very best of his unique style, with its unparalleled visual and narrative exuberance.

The Social Network

Dir.: Dir.: David Fincher
| 120 minutes

The Social Network provides a critical and provocative look at the meteoric rise of Facebook and its creator Mark Zuckerberg. This is an intelligent and witty drama about ambition, power, and honor.

Notting Hill

Dir.: Roger Michell
| 125 minutes

Roberts plays a beautiful American movie star who enters the life of ordinary-guy Hugh Grant, the owner of a travel bookstore in London's Notting Hill neighborhood. He falls in love with her at first sight, and she with him, eventually. Will the two be able to overcome their differences and find happiness?

Screening in the presence of director Talya Lavie

Zero Motivation

Dir.: Talya Lavie
| 100 minutes

Through the story of a unit of female Israeli soldiers biding their time until they are discharged, director Talya Lavine created one of the most successful Israeli films to date; a witty, effective, and purely fun comedy.

Screening in the presence of director Ari Folman

Saint Clara

Dir.: Uri Sivan, Ari Folman
| 84 minutes

Clara Chanov, a 13-year-old Russian immigrant, is from a family with amazing supernatural powers which only become apparent the first time they fall in love.

Double Spielberg

Steven Spielberg's sci-fi double feature. Two Films, One Tickets in collaboration with Fish Eye, which will include a short quiz about the director's films in between the films.

E. T. – The Extra Terrestrial | Close Encounters of the Third Kind

E. T. – The Extra Terrestrial - The story of the friendship between a 10-year-old boy and a remarkable creature from another planet who has been stranded on earth. A warm, touching, magical, and exhilarating film | Close Encounters of the Third Kind -  With mesmerizing cinematic momentum, a spectacular soundtrack, and some of the most unforgettable imagery ever presented on screen, this is a film for the ages  

Double Feature: Friday the 13th

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride | The Ring

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - When a groom-to-be accidentally weds a deceased bride, he is swept into the world of the dead and discovers a rather cheerful place. Tim Burton wraps this romantic plot with his hallmark touch of macabre, a sprinkling of evil, visual perfection, and an abundance of humor | The Ring - After her niece dies following a mysterious videotape, a journalist investigates whether an urban legend has validity. The American adaptation of the Japanese horror flick manages to keep the suspense of the original and spice it up with tributes to the genre.

You Don't Mess With the Zohan

Dir.: Dennis Dugan
| 113 minutes

A Mossad agent and his former nemesis have to work together against a shared threat.  This is an unapologetic satire that turns the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a comedy devoid of political correctness and laden with effective physical humor.

Double Feature

Imagination at War

Jojo Rabbit | Pan’s Labyrinth

Jojo Rabbit - Jojo aspires to be an upstanding member of the Hitler Youth and Adolf H. is his imaginary friend. But when he discovers a Jewish girl hiding in his house, Jojo will have to face who he truly is. A surprising film full of twists and turns | Pan’s Labyrinth - Spain 1944. Ten-year-old Ofelia ventures into a secret world; where she is sent on three gruesome tasks. If she succeeds, she will return home a hero. 

School of Rock

Dir.: Richard Linklater
| 108 minutes

When aging rocker Dewey Finn is kicked out of his own heavy metal band, he finds a job as a substitute teacher in a private school. Soon enough he turns the class of well-mannered teenagers into a band of rock 'n rollers and prepares them for the upcoming young talent competition.

Brazil

Dir.: Terry Gilliam
| 140 minutes

Gilliam’s grotesque, dystopian, sometimes nightmarish film follows the story of a modest clerk in the bureaucratic nerve center of a futuristic technocratic society. 

The Conversation

Dir.: Francis Ford Coppola
| 113 minutes

A surveillance expert becomes personally interested in a case and finds himself involved with a murder. As always with Coppola, something in his cinematic syntax, pace, and emotional momentum, captures the eye and ear. The result is spellbinding, stimulating, and exhilarating.  

Borat

Dir.: Larry Charles
| 82 minutes

Borat Sagdiev, a Kazakh television reporter, sets out for the USA. With an innocent face and "third-world manners," he unveils what is hidden behind America's shiny exterior. A winning combination of physical humor and absurd documentary-like moments turn Borat into one of the best comedies of the 21st century.

The Princess Bride

Dir.: Rob Reiner
| 101 minutes

Swashbuckling adventure-fairytale about a beautiful young woman and her one true love, who must find and rescue her after a long separation.

Princess Mononoke

Dir.: Hayao Miyazaki
| 133 minutes

On a journey to find the cure for a curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest creatures and Tataraba, ruled by Princess Mononoke. Innovative, spectacular, majestic, and creative, are but a few of the words to describe this masterpiece. 

Shrek 2

Dir.: Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conard Vernon
| 92 minutes

Shrek 2 begins where the first one left off. After their honeymoon, Shrek and Fiona make their way to visit her parents in a far faraway land. They, needless to say, are shocked by their daughter's transformation, and also at the greenness of her husband.

The Cable Guy

Dir.: Ben Stiller
| 96 minutes

Chip, the cable guy, takes Steven's kindness for friendship and inserts himself into his life even after he is asked to leave. With Jim Carrey's boundless energy and Ben Stiller in the director’s chair comes this epic comedy.

Memento

Dir.: Christopher Nolan
| 113 minutes

Leonard has no short-term memory; all he knows is that he must avenge the rape and murder of his beloved wife. Memento is a brilliant thriller with a non-linear script that lithely moves between different times, a brazen use of the camera, and tremendous performances.

Inglourious Basterds

Dir.: Quentin Tarantino
| 153 minutes

Shoshana escapes by the skin of her teeth from the hands of a Nazi colonel. When her paths cross with the "Bastards" - American avengers sent to terrorize the German army - the film reaches its climax. A perfectly executed film packed with witty dialogue and thrilling action.

And Your Mother Too

Dir.: Alfonso Cuaron
| 105 minutes

Two friends fall for an older woman creating tension that follows them on a road trip through the wild landscapes of Mexico toward the sea. All of Cuarón's cinematic wisdom is present here, allowing him to maneuver with a combination of empathy and irony, mockery and compassion.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Dir.: Sergio Leone
| 179 minutes

Set during the time of the American Civil War, the three men of the film's title search for a hidden treasure. Leone's classic masterpiece western combines action and violence with small and delicate humane stories.