To the Wonder
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| Just over a year after The Tree of Life won the Palme D’Or at Cannes, Terrence Malick (Days of Heaven, Badlands, The Thin Red Line) returns with To the Wonder – at once a delicate tale about three individuals whose fates entwine, and a film that captures the ecstasies of the natural world on this giant gorgeous planet. | |||||||||||||
| After falling in love with the beautiful Marina (Olga Kurylenko) in Paris, Neil (Ben Affleck) brings her home to Oklahoma, where he gets a job as an environmental inspector. In a town dependent on the oil industry, whose product is seeping upward and threatening crops and homes, the residue of Neil’s earlier life and Marina’s feelings of foreignness create cracks in their relationship. As his interests drift toward his childhood friend Jane (Rachel McAdamns), what appear to be simple motivations open up to reveal enduring truths. Visually poetic, Malick’s work plays out like a modernist symphony, revolving around themes of politics, faith, and human intimacy. Gloriously engaged with cinematic form itself, Malick liberates himself from conventional narrative to pursue a more associative approach, constructing a film that elicits pure, subconscious feeling, and that finds freedom in the transcendental. | |||||||||||||
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Renoir
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| Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, a pivotal moment in the lives of celebrated Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his war-wounded son Jean, this lushly atmospheric drama is a story of the generations as creative powers wax and wane with inspiration from a lovely artist’s model. |
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| The elder Renoir is filled with a new, wholly unexpected energy when a young girl miraculously enters his world. Blazing with life, radiantly beautiful, Andrée will become his last model, and the impetus for a remarkable rejuvenation. At the same time his middle son Jean returns from WWI and comes under the spell of the free-spirited young Andrée who is in love with cinema. Their beautiful home and majestic countryside grounds reverberate with familial intrigue, as both Renoirs, père et fils, become smitten with the enchanting and headstrong young muse. Cast includes Michel Bouquet, Christa Theret, Romane Bohringer. |
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The Company You Keep
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| With his new film, Robert Redford merges his strengths as artist and activist to create an intriguing thriller about a fugitive forced out of hiding after 30 years. | |||||||||||||
| Jim Grant (Redford) is a widowed single father and attorney living in Albany. What none of his friends or clients know is that Jim was once a member of the radical activist organization the Wea0ther Underground, and that he’s been living a life in hiding for most of his adult life. When another former Weatherman (Susan Sarandon) turns herself in to the FBI, Ben Shepard (Shia La Beouf), an aggressive young journalist, starts sniffing around for leads. Concerned that Ben will eventually discover his true identity, Jim flees, in search of safe harbor. Adapted from Neil Gordon’s novel by screenwriter Lem Dobbs (The Limey), The Company You Keep unites an all-star cast (including Chris Cooper, Julie Christie, Sam Elliot, Nick Nolte, Richard Jenkins, Stanley Tucci, and Anna Kendrick) in an absorbing reflection on the courage and cost of dissent. | |||||||||||||
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Eli Jaffe Student Film Competition Award Winners
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| FREE SPECIAL EVENT: ELI JAFFE STUDENT FILM COMPETITION WINNERS 1pm, Sunday May 19th in Rhinebeck | |||||||||||||
| The Eli Jaffe Film Competition is the first regional film competition to present student film and video projects that address public issues and award young filmmakers for their work. Join us for a screening of finalists’ projects, and celebrate the winners as they are announced! Entrance is free, and all are welcome. There will be a reception at the Morton Library in Rhinecliff following the screening, where the winner will be announced at 3:00. The 2013 Competition will celebrate the 100th Anniversary of songwriter, activist, and Gillespie Forum founder, Eli Jaffe’s birth.THE 2013 ELI JAFFE FILM COMPETITION FINALISTS ARE: 1. BEAUTY IS A FEELING Alex DeLeon, Amanda Flemming, Jayme Portanova 2. A SON DOWN, AFTER SUN DOWN Katelynn Jones, Chris Sarmiento, Ben Golden 3. KARKINOS Brendan Kiernan 4. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF DJ De’Juan (DJ) Encarnacion 5. THE MID-HUDSON ANTI-SLAVERY PROJECT Jason Alfonso, Elise Greenage, Edith Morris, Jordan Thomas |
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