The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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| A group of British retirees get more than they bargained for when they decide to “outsource” their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. | |||||||||||||
| John Madden, director of Shakespeare in Love, concocts this heartwarming comedy starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton, and Dev Patel. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the palace a shell of its former self. Though the new environment is less luxurious than imagined, their lives are forever altered by their shared experiences as they discover that life and love can only begin again when you let go of the past. . | |||||||||||||
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Monsieur Lazhar
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| Nominated this year for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this is a poignant story of a Montreal elementary-school class that is left reeling after its teacher commits suicide, and then is replaced. | |||||||||||||
| A charismatic Algerian immigrant, Bachir Lazhar (Mohamed Fellag), reads of the tragedy, meets the principal and offers his services. With no one else looking for the job, he’s hired, and becomes the substitute teacher for the classroom of traumatized children including Alice and Simon, who seem particularly affected. With gentle humor, compassion and an elegant touch, Monsieur Lazhar tells a story about a man who transcends his own grief and tragedy, as well as a cultural gap, to help his young students process death and loss in their lives. All the while, he must keep his personal life hidden. Wonderful performances from the both the young actors as well as their new teacher make this an unusually rewarding film. In English, French, and Arabic with subtitles | |||||||||||||
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| Each year, there are so many deserving documentaries we don’t get a chance to show them all. This year, we’re devoting a full week to some of the best we’ve seen recently. | |||||||||||||
| Follow a community activist turned world leader in THE ISLAND PRESIDENT as he fights to save The Maldives from rising ocean waters. Explore the new map of the American south in GENERAL ORDERS NO. 9, a poetic eulogy for lost landscapes. Enter into the world of rabbits trapped in No-Man’s Land in RABBIT A LA BERLIN. Watch Estonians peek under the Iron Curtain via illegal antennas in DISCO AND ATOMIC WAR. Or let the band Sigur Rós rock your face off at a late-night screening of INNI, their new concert documentary… We believe that documentary is more than just non-fiction film, and the films chosen for this series reflect some of the most visionary film-making we’ve seen this year. With the program changing daily — accompanied by discussions with filmmakers, activists, puppeteers, and other passionate people — you can come see one or come see them all. Just drop the remote control, join us for the week, and get inspired.Additional titles include: 5 Broken Cameras, Darwin, This Way of Life, Documentary Shorts by Sam Green, Pink Ribbons Inc, Being Elmo, Hell and Back Again, Resurrect Dead, Ingredients, and more! | |||||||||||||
| * Made possible, in part, by Sally Roy and Peter Nelson’s generous support for documentary screenings | |||||||||||||
