Battle for
Terra Sat, Nov 21, 4pm
& Sunday, Nov 22, 2pm Aristomenis Tsirbas, 85min
The film tells
the story of Senn (Justin Long) and Mala (Evan Rachel
Wood), two alien teens living on the beautiful planet
Terra, a place that promotes peace and tolerance.
But when Terra is invaded by human
beings fleeing a civil war and environmental
catastrophe, the planet is plunged into chaos. During
the upheaval, Mala befriends an injured human pilot
(Luke Wilson.). Each learns the two races are not so
different from one another. Together they must face the
terrifying realization that in a world of limited
resources, only one of the races is likely to survive.
Ages six and up. $5
IDIOTS AND ANGELS Sat., Nov. 21, 4pm
& Sunday, Nov 22, 2pm
Bill Plympton, 78
min.
Angel is a selfish, abusive, morally
bankrupt man who hangs out at his local bar, berating
the other patrons. One day, Angel mysteriously wakes up
with a pair of wings on his back. The wings make him do
good deeds, contrary to his nature. He desperately tries
to rid himself of the good wings, but eventually finds
himself fighting those who view the wings as their
ticket to fame and fortune. Featuring the music of Tom
Waits, Moby and Pink Martini. Recommended for ages 17
to adult. $5
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Sun, Nov. 22, 4pm
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Tokyo teenager Mokoto Konno prefers to
play baseball with the boys than gossip with the other
girls. Stuck in a midpoint between child and adult and
with graduation approaching, she's not too sure of what
she'd like to do with the rest of her life—that is,
until a mysterious accident in the science lab gives
Mokoto the ability to leap (literally) back in time.
Once she recognizes the life-changing potential of her
newfound power, Mokoto's life becomes increasingly
chaotic.
More than just a visually stunning anime
adventure, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is a
metaphorical tale of teenage angst: Mokoto's manic
time-leaping reflects her deeper fear of growing up—a
denial of creeping adulthood, of uncomfortable romantic
feelings, uncertainty about her future, and a growing
nostalgia for her simple high school life circumscribed
by the baseball diamond and her two best friends. $5
Ages 10 and up.
.
Mary and Max.
Sat. Nov. 21, 7pm
Adam Elliot,
Mary and Max
is unique. A claymation animation tells the simple story of a 20-year pen-pal friendship
between two very different people: Mary Dinkle, a
chubby, lonely 8-year-old girl living in the suburbs of
Melbourne, and Max Horowitz, a 44-year-old Jewish man,
who is severely obese, suffers from Asperger’s syndrome,
and lives an isolated life in New York City. It is very
much a triumph of emotion, insight, and eccentricity—a
complete delight.
The originality of the voices in this
ever-spinning kaleidoscope of innocence and idiosyncrasy
comes straight from an incredibly rich imagination and
complete artistic vision.
CAST Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Barry Humphries, Eric Bana. Recommended
for ages 17 to adult. $5
.
The Secret of Kells
Saturday, Nov 21, 2:30pm
& Sunday, Nov 22, 4pm
Tomm Moore, 75min
The film blends fantasy and
mythology to create a richly detailed and striking
visual landscape, folding traditionally Celtic
influences into a riot of color and detail that dazzle
the eyes. The Secret of Kells has been hailed by
international critics as one of the most beautiful films
of the year and has just won the audience award at the
prestigious Annecy Animation
Festival.
Young Brendan
lives in the Abbey of Kells, a remote medieval outpost,
where he labors with the other monks to fortify the
abbey walls against Viking raids. But a new life of
adventure beckons when a celebrated master illuminator
arrives from foreign lands, carrying a ancient--but
unfinished--book, brimming with secret wisdom and
magical powers. $5
.
SITA SINGS THE BLUES
Sun, Nov. 22, 7pm Nina Paley, USA, 82 minutes
Tragedy, comedy and musical collide in this gloriously
animated film. Sita is a goddess
separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina
is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps
her by email. Three bickering shadow puppets act as comic narrators as these old and new
stories are interwoven in a post-modern retelling of the
ancient Indian epic, Ramayana, animated in a
dazzling mix of traditional and collage animation style.
A panoply
of monsters, gods, goddesses, warriors, sages,
pyromaniac monkeys and winged eyeballs fills the screen
with vivid color from start to finish, while the
narrators' improvisational debates over the Rama legend
join the filmmaker's own tragicomic story and Hanshaw's
done-me-wrong tunes to layer a modern feminist
commentary on the ancient Indian legend. The result is a
subtly subversive, visually stunning, highly original
work of art that is as enjoyable for children as it is
for adults! The soundtrack i sfrom
legendary 1920's jazz singer Annette Hanshaw.Ages 9 to adult $5
