Urbanized
Opens Friday, February 3. There are two post-film discussions: Sunday, February 5 with Donald Poland, professional planner and geographer and Tuesday February 7, with David Panagore, Chief Operating Officer for the City of Hartford.
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Urbanized is a feature-length documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policy makers, builders, and thinkers.
Gary Hustwit's Objectified and Helvetica will screen during the weekend.
"Urbanized is a fast zoom out to the big picture: The colonies or hives in which we arrange, display and support our lives."-Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times
Women on the 6th Floor
You came, you saw, you decided- it's a hit!
Screenings continued through February 9.
Tell your friends.

[watch the trailer]
"Think of Philippe Le Guay's French-language comedy, set in the 1960s, as a fairy-tale version of The Help." - Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Paris, 1960. Jean-Louis lives a bourgeois existence with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne. The couple's world is turned upside-down when they hire a Spanish maid Maria. Through Maria, Jean-Louis is introduced to an alternative reality just a few floors up on the building's sixth floor, the servants' quarters.
Monday Matinee: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Monday, February 6 | 1 PM light lunch,
1:30 PM screening
discussion after.

McMurphy pleads insanity to keep out of jail. His plan backfires when he is sent to a mental asylum. There he rallies the patients together to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched. Directed by Milos Forman and starring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher and Danny DeVito.
Fullmetal Alchemist
Friday and Saturday, February 3 and 4.
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos, a new feature-length adventure into the world of an international anime sensation.
A fugitive alchemist with mysterious abilities leads the Elric brothers to a distant valley of slums inhabited by the Milos, a proud people struggling against bureaucratic exploitation. Ed and Al quickly find themselves in the middle of a rising rebellion, as the exiled Milos lash out against their oppressors.
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Oscar Night 2012 Pre-event Auction.

Bidding Ends:
Friday, February 3 at 4 PM
Bid on a fabulous package to get you ready for the red carpet.
Package includes 2 VIP tickets, Hair, Make-up, custom gown, and more.
OSCAR NIGHT 2012
is sponsored by CARC in collaboration with
Real Art Ways.
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In the Galleries

Night Hunter a new film by Stacey Steers is composed of more than four thousand collages, the actress Lillian Gish is seamlessly appropriated from silent-era cinema and plunged into a new and haunting role. Through Sun. Feb. 8
Also in the galleries are Blake Shirley: Skull Couch through Sun. Feb. 5, Mark Williams: The War is Over through Sun. Apr. 1 and aricoco: RUNawayHOME through Sun. Feb. 12.
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Major support for Real Art Ways programs comes from:
Howard and Sandy Fromson, The Wallace Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Greater Hartford Arts Council's United Arts Campaign, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Institute of Museum and Library Services, The National Endowment for the Arts, and Real Art Ways Donors. |