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2 for 1 on Monday & Tuesday with the GHAC Let*s Go! Arts Card
Starring Christian McKay as Orson Welles, Zac Efron, and Claire Danes.
"What do you say about a movie that proves Zac Efron can act, introduces a master thespian in Christian McKay and launches a charm assault that is damn near irresistible? I say, see it"
- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"Christian McKay as Orson Welles in Me and Orson Welles gives what I believe is the most exact and uncanny screen portrayal of an historical figure, ever ... an astonishing tour de force." - Mark LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
"Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles is one of the best movies about the theater I've ever seen." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Nimble, likable and smart." - A.O. Scott, New York Times
(UK/USA, 114 minutes)
Fri 2/5: 7 PM
Sat 2/6: 2 PM; 4:30 PM; 7 PM
Sun 2/7: 4:30 PM; 7 PM
Mon 2/8 - Thurs 2/11: 7 PM
"The End of the Line is an apocalyptic documentary that is as beautiful as it is damning." - Kenneth Turan, LA Times
"The End of the Line documents what threatens to become an irreversible decline in aquatic populations within 40 years. Opportunist species move in to take advantage. Oddly, the disappearance of cod has resulted in an explosion of lobsters, as they lose their chief rival for food." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
(UK, 85 minutes)
Fri 2/12: 9:30 PM
Sat 2/13: 9:30 PM
"It quietly chronicles what may be the last summer at a humble Catskills vacation colony a group of elderly Holocaust survivors have been visiting for decades. If that sounds like a bummer, think again — it's more like a funny visit with your grandparents, multiplied by a dozen." - New York Magazine
"The film presents anything but a simplistic narrative, and brings the Holocaust to light in a compelling, personal and emotional package." - Sol Israel, The Boston Globe
Read about the Four Seasons Lodge in the New York Times (September 8, 2005)
(USA, 97 minutes)
Fri 2/12: 4:45 PM; 7 PM
Sat 2/13: 2:30 PM; 4:45 PM; 7 PM
Sun 2/14 - Weds 2/17: 4:45 PM; 7 PM
Endgame tells the extraordinary little-known story of the secret meetings that took place in England at a time when civil war in South Africa seemed inevitable. In the end— against a backdrop of terrorism, spying, blackmail, and escalating unrest— seemingly intractable enemies forged a bond of trust and friendship that led to a peaceful resolution and the ultimate release of Nelson Mandela.
Directed by Pete Travis (Vantage Point) and starring William Hurt (Damages, Kiss of the Spider Woman), Jonny Lee Miller (MASTERPIECE’s Emma, Eli Stone, Trainspotting), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Dirty Pretty Things, American Gangster) Derek Jacobi (Gosford Park) and Clarke Peters (The Wire)
(UK, 109 minutes) in English, Afrikaans, and Xhosa (with English subtitles)
"the more closely you look, the more you see: a movie about a marriage, about a career in crisis, about a society riven by unstated class antagonisms and hobbled by ancient authoritarian habits. So much in this meticulous and moving film is between the lines, and almost nothing is by the book." - A.O. Scott, New York Times (Critics' Pick!)
"[A] remarkably self-effacing and highly intelligent comedy" - J. Hoberman, Village Voice
"A low-key, observant record of a universal dilemma among people in authority: How do you do your duty when your inner voice tells you it's wrong?" - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
(Romania, 115 minutes) in Romanian with English subtitles
[watch the original theatrical trailer]
Orson Welles's masterpiece charts the rise and fall of a newspaper publisher.
"I'm telling you here and now to seek out Fish Tank ...because it's absolute dynamite... It's an explosive female coming-of-age story set against a dreary backdrop of poverty, abuse and neglect." - Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
"In Fish Tank, nothing goes right, yet Mia’s fate never seems preordained. Her constant motion might or might not be her salvation, but it keeps you in suspense until the last frame—and beyond." David Edelstein, New York Magazine
(UK, 123 mins)
A triptych of films from directors Julian Jarrold, James Marsh (Man on Wire) and Anand Tucker.
A neo-noir epic based on horrific, factual events and adapted for the screen from David Peace's series of groundbreaking novels. The Red Riding Trilogy follows controversial stories revolving around the manhunt for the brutal Yorkshire Ripper.
More information on the exhibition is on our visual arts page. Films from the West Indies, engaging discussions after. Selected Sundays, at 2 PM.
"Howard A. Trott, the subject of Fritz Baumann's film The Journey of the Lion is a Jamaican Rastafarian who lives an impoverished existence with his two children in a shack on the outskirts of Kingston. Disgusted with modern civilization, Brother Howie, as he is known, dreams of repatriation in Africa. Out of the blue one day, he receives a letter from the sister he hasn't seen in 30 years inviting him to visit her in London. Leaving Jamaica for the first time in his life, he embarks on a journey that takes him to England and eventually to Egypt and Ghana. [An] eloquently simple film."
- Stephen Holden, New York Times (Critic's Pick!)
See more info on our Education programs
Made possible with the support of Real Art Ways Members, Travelers, the George A. and Grace L. Long Foundation, the Fisher Foundation, the Hartford Courant Foundation, the Kohn-Joseloff Foundation and Lincoln Financial.
More Film Field Trip offerings can be found on our education page.
See more info on our Education programs
Made possible with the support of Real Art Ways Members, Travelers, the George A. and Grace L. Long Foundation, the Fisher Foundation, the Hartford Courant Foundation, the Kohn-Joseloff Foundation and Lincoln Financial.
More Film Field Trip offerings can be found on our education page.
