Take Shelter

Take Shelter

Directed by Jeff Nichols

120 minutes    Rated R

Michael Shannon was nominated for an Academy Award for his amazing performance in this highly-acclaimed film. The film will grab you from the opening scene keeping you riveted in your seat. Then afterwards you will be discussing the film and its ending. 

Curtis LaForche (the incredible Michael Shannon) lives in a small Ohio town with his wife Samantha and six-year-old daughter Hannah, who is deaf. Even though they are struggling financially, Curtis and Samantha are very much in love and their family is a happy one. Then Curtis begins having terrifying dreams about an encroaching, apocalyptic storm. He chooses to keep the disturbance to himself, channeling his anxiety into the obsessive building of a storm shelter in their backyard. 

Friday, Saturday, Sunday April 20, 21, 22

7pm & 9:15pm

Wells Hall, MSU campus

 Tickets are $7, for seniors $5 and for students $3

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday April 24, 25, 26

7:30pm

EL Hannah Community Center

819 Abbot Road, EL

Tickets are $8, for seniors $6 and for students $3

WATCH THE TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5U4TtYpKIc

The Guard

Directed by John Michael McDonagh

96 minutes    Rated R

FUNNY, FUNNY, FUNNY. Sergeant Gerry Boyle(Brendan Gleeson) is a small-town Irish cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought straight-laced FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) to his door. Winner of 14 Film Festival prizes and 22 nominations.

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday March 13, 14, 15

7:30pm

EL Hannah Community Center

819 Abbot Road, EL

Tickets are $8, for seniors $6 and for students $3

Friday, Saturday, Sunday March 16, 17, 18

7pm & 9:15pm

Wells Hall, MSU campus

Tickets are $7, for seniors $5 and for students $3

WATCH THE TRAILER

THE SKIN I LIVE IN (La Piel Que Habito)

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar

114 minutes   Rated R

In Spanish with English subtitles

"There are several genres nimbly folded into The Skin I Live In, which might also be described as an existential mystery, a m elodramatic thriller, a medical horror film or just a polymorphous extravaganza. In other words, it's an Almodóvar movie with all the attendant gifts that implies: lapidary technique, calculated perversity, intelligent w it."  - Manohla Dargis, New York Times

 

A brilliant plast ic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any  kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession. Starring Antonio Banderas.

WATCH THE TRAILER:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PavJUoZNT7g  

NO SHOWING ON Thursday, February 23

Friday, Saturday, Sunday  February  24, 25, 26

7pm & 9:15pm

Wells Hall, Red Cedar Road, MSU campus, East Lansing

(don't let the construction discourage you, it's open)

Tickets are $7, for seniors $5 and for students $3

Tuesday and Wednesday, February 28 & 29

7:30pm

EL Hannah Community Center

819 Abbot Road, EL

Tickets are $8, for seniors $6 and for students $3

UNCLE BOONMEE WHO RECALLS HIS PAST LIVES

Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

114 minutes 

In Thai with English subtitles

     

"It's a film that will linger in your thoughts and dreams for a long time after waking from its intoxicating slumber."

Winner of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme D'Or, Uncle Boonmee who Recalls His  Past Lives is a highly original meditation on reincarnation and past lives.  Uncle Boonmee, suffering from a fatal kidney disorder, has opted to spend his last days in the jungle of Thailand with his loved ones. As death approaches, he comes face to face with the incarnations of his past lives. At first, the non-linear plot and slow patches may be disconcerting but its moments of profundity will affect you for a lifetime.

This film has won numerous awards, is a critic favorite and is directed by a master Thai filmmaker. I am taking a chance bringing this unfamiliar film but I wanted to present something out of the ordinary and a film that you might never have a chance to see.

WATCH THE TRAILER:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk-EoUb0nvg 

Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday  February 9, 10, 11, 12

7pm & 9:15pm

Wells Hall

Red Cedar Road, MSU campus, East Lansing

Tickets are $7, for seniors $5 and for students $3

Tuesday and Wednesday, February 14, 15

7:30pm

EL Hannah Community Center

819 Abbot Road

East Lansing  

Tickets are $8, for seniors $6 and for students $3

Midnight in Paris

Directed by Woody Allen

94 minutes   PG-13

 

If you haven't seen this film yet or if you want to see it one more time on the big screen, here is your chance. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture, this romantic comedy immerses you in  Paris as never before. Gil (Owen Wilson) is a successful Hollywood screenwriter and a frustrated first-time novelist. He is visiting Paris with his fiance but wishes it was the 1920's, The Golden Age, when the City of Lights was teeming with writers, poets and artists. A midnight stroll brings that wish even closer.

 

Considered Woody Allen's best film since Annie Hall, this delightful movie is romantic, fanciful and extremely enjoyable.

 

WATCH THE TRAILER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYRWfS2s2v4

Tuesday, January 31 & Wednesday, February 1

7:30pm

EL Hannah Community Center

819 Abbot Road, EL

Tickets are $8, for seniors $6 and for students $3

Thursday, February 2

7:30pm ONLY

Friday, Saturday & Sunday February  3, 4 & 5

7pm & 9:15pm

Wells Hall

Red Cedar Road, MSU campus, East Lansing

(don't let the construction discourage you, it's open)

Tickets are $8, for seniors $6 and for students $3