Music Hall Films in January 2011

According to Music Hall film coordinator Chris Curtis, “One of the most popular New Year resolutions this year, I’m led to believe, will be to stop seeing dopey movies on tiny screens. Here at The Music Hall we have the perfect prescription for keeping true to that resolution - great films in a great theater. And it’s only January!”  Schedule below (Photo from Tiny Furniture)  

 

 

JANUARY FILM SCHEDULE

7 Nowhere Boy 7pm

8 Nowhere Boy 7pm

9 Nowhere Boy 2pm & 7pm

10 Nowhere Boy 7pm

11 Nowhere Boy 7pm

12 Nowhere Boy 7pm

13 NTLive- Fela!  

14 Screen Classic: Metropolis 7pm

15 All Good Things 7pm

16 All Good Things 2pm & 7pm

17 All Good Things 7pm

18 All Good Things 7pm

19 All Good Things 7pm

20 All Good Things 7pm  

21 IY: Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings 8pm

22 Capitol Steps 5 & 8pm

23 Vision 2 & 7pm

24 Vision 7pm

25 Vision 7pm (Show & Tell to follow)

26 Vision 7pm

27 Wildcard: Waiting for Superman 7pm  

28 Tiny Furniture 7pm

29 kidsRULE!: Tangled 2pm; Tiny Furniture 7pm

30 Tiny Furniture 2pm & 7pm

31 Tiny Furniture 7pm  

February

1 Tiny Furniture 7pm (Show & Tell to follow)

2 Tiny Furniture 7pm

3 Writers: Elizabeth Gilbert 730pm

 

Nowhere Boy                                         R, 98mins, UK, 2010

Liverpool, 1955- home to spirited, 15 year old John Lennon. Yearning for a ‘normal’ family, John escapes into art and the new music flooding in from the US. His fledgling genius finds a kindred spirit in the young Paul McCartney. But just as John’s new life begins, the truth about his past leads to a tragedy he would never escape.

 

Screen Classic: Metropolis 2010                                          NR, 150min, Ger, 1927

Fritz Lang's Metropolis belongs to legend as much as to cinema. It's a milestone of sci-fi and German expressionism. In July 2008, it was announced that an essentially complete copy of Metropolis had been found by the curator of the Buenos Aires Museo del Cine that included not merely a few additional snippets, but 25 minutes of “lost” footage that had not been seen since its Berlin debut. Screened with the original orchestral score.

 

All Good Things                                                R, 101mins, US, 2010

Inspired by the most notorious missing persons case in New York history, All Good Things is a love story and murder mystery set against the backdrop of a New York real estate dynasty in the 1980s - the story of Robert Durst. Starring Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst and Frank Langella as the powerful patriarch, the film captures the emotion and complexion of this real-life unsolved mystery.

 

Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen                       NR, 110mins, Ger, 2010

Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist. Lushly shot in medieval cloisters of the German countryside, Vision is an inspirational portrait of a woman who has emerged from the shadows of history as an iconoclastic pioneer of faith, change and enlightenment. In German with subtitles.

 

Wildcard: Waiting for Superman                  PG, 111mins, US, 2010

Every morning, in big cities, suburbs and small towns across America, parents send their children off to school with the highest of hopes. But a shocking number of students in the United States attend schools where they have virtually no chance of learning--failure factories likelier to produce drop-outs than college graduates. From "An Inconvenient Truth" director Davis Guggenheim comes a provocative and cogent examination of the crisis of public education in the United States.  Film will be followed by a panel-discussion and Q&A featuring local community education notables including Spaulding High School Principal John Shea who is spearheading The Big Step Forward, a secondary school restructuring initiative in Rochester.

 

Tiny Furniture                                               NR, 98mins, US, 2010

Winner of the best narrative feature at the SXSW Film Festival, TINY FURNITURE is a hilarious and endearing film that explores the depths of romantic... Winner of the best narrative feature at the SXSW Film Festival- a hilarious and endearing film that explores the depths of romantic humiliation and the heights of post-college confusion. Writer/director/star Lena Dunham is being called one of the most exciting new voices in American independent cinema and critics are hailing her film as "irresistibly funny", "unnervingly honest" and "near perfection".

 

Tangled                                                           PG, 100mins, US, 2010

When the kingdom's most wanted and most charming bandit Flynn Rider (voice of Zachary Levi) hides out in a mysterious tower, he's taken hostage by Rapunzel (voice of Mandy Moore), a beautiful and feisty tower-bound teen. A story of adventure, heart, humor and 70 feet of magical, golden hair.

 

About Show & Tell

Professional film enthusiast Paul Goodwin puts the “talk” in talkies, encouraging audiences to speak their minds and hear all about the movies, their backgrounds, and even trivia and the latest gossip about the stars. Free to the public and held in our stately auditorium immediately after the end credits roll. Complimentary popcorn, tea and coffee courtesy of Carpe Diem. Paul will be hosting Show & Tell after the screenings of Vision and Tiny Furniture.  

Tickets: for Extraordinary Cinema are $8.50 and can be purchased at the box office (28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, New Hampshire), by phone at 603.436.2400, or online