Unexpected Screening: Monday, October 19, 4:00 pm Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Co-written and Directed by Kris Swanberg USA / 2015 / Comedy/Drama / Rated 14A for mature thematics and coarse language / 85 min. As spirited Chicago schoolteacher Samantha Abbott (Cobie Smulders) adjusts to an unexpected pregnancy and sudden marriage, she finds new perspective […]
Pawn Sacrifice Screening: Monday, October 19, 7:00 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Directed by Edward Zwick USA / 2015 / Biography/Drama / Rated PG for some language and sexual content / 116 min. In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) finds himself […]
Sunshine Superman Screening: Tuesday, October 20, 4:00 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Written and Directed by Marah Strauch Norway/USA / 2014 / Documentary/Biography / Rated PG for coarse language and tobacco use / 102 min. A heart-racing documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led […]
Francofonia Screening: Tuesday, October 20, 7:00 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Written and Directed by Alexander Sokurov / France/Germany/Netherlands / 2015 / Drama / Rated PG / French, German, Russian with English subtitles / 87 min. June 1940: as German troops marched into Paris, Jacques Jaujard and Count Franziskus Wolff Metternich worked together to protect […]
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence Screening: Tuesday, October 20, 9:00 pm Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Written and Directed by Roy Andersson Sweden/Germany/Norway/France / 2014 / Comedy/Drama / Rated PG for brief sexuality and some disturbing images / Swedish with English subtitles / 100 min. Master Swedish director Roy Andersson takes up […]
Court Screening: Wednesday, October 21, 4:00 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Written and Directed by Chaitanya Tamhane India / 2014 / Drama / Rated G / Gujarati, Hindi, English and Marathi with English subtitles / 116 min. A sewage worker’s dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai and subsequently, an aging folk singer […]
Testament of Youth Screening: Wednesday, October 21, 7:00 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Directed by James Kent United Kingdom / 2014 / Biography/Drama / Rated PG for mature material, including gory and disturbing war-related scenes / 129 min. A powerful story of love and remembrance, Testament of Youth is based on the First World War […]
Testament of Youth Screening: Thursday, October 22, 4:00 pm Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Directed by James Kent United Kingdom / 2014 / Biography/Drama / Rated PG for mature material, including gory and disturbing war-related scenes / 129 min. A powerful story of love and remembrance, Testament of Youth is based on the First World War […]
99 Homes Screening: Thursday, October 22, 7:00 pm Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Co-written and Directed by Ramin Bahrani USA / 2014 / Drama / Rated 14A for coarse language including some sexual references, and a brief violent image / 112 min. In this timely thriller, single father Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) is evicted from […]
’71 Screening: Thursday, October 22, 7:30 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 4 Directed by Yann Demange UK / 2014 / Action/Drama/Thriller / Rated 14A for coarse language, strong graphic violence, disturbing images, crude content, not suggested for young or sensitive viewers / 99 min. A young British soldier (Jack O’Connell) is accidentally abandoned by his unit […]
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