Updated 7 days a week, this feed lets you know what's playing at City Cinema in Charlottetown, PEI. http://www.citycinema.net/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:25:37 -300 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.citycinema.net/ui/left.gif http://www.citycinema.net/ City Cinema 2009 City Cinema http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=686 Only <B>2</B> days left to see this film.<P><B>Rated:</B> 14 Accompaniment (Coarse Language, Substance Abuse, Violence)<BR> <B>Runs:</B> 102 minutes<BR><B>Director:</B> Christine Jeffs<BR><B>Country:</B> US<BR><B>Released:</B> 2009<BR><B>Starring:</B> Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, Jason Spevack, Steve Zahn<BR><BR>“Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) once led a charmed life, a high-school cheerleading captain in love with the team quarterback. Then life took a spiral downhill and now after 20 years, Rose is a single mom working as a maid. Her sister Norah (Emily Blunt) is a slacker still living at home with their dad (Alan Arkin), a failed salesman who never met a get-rich-quick-scheme he didn’t like. When Rose needs to get her son into a good school she convinces her n’er do-well sister to go into business with her cleaning up after crime scenes. In finding success in doing these dirty jobs, Rose and Norah not only turn their professional lives around, they discover things about themselves and each other they never dreamed possible. This terrifically quirky and entertaining character comedy is led by two-time Oscar-nominee Adams. Here she etches a very recognizable character - the small-time girl who achieved greatness in school only to make some bad personal choices and flame out after graduation. Mustering all the self-esteem she can find, Adams’ Rose shines brightly despite all the obstacles standing in her way. She and Blunt as Norah are flat-out wonderful together. Blunt plays the lazy sister who recoils at the thought of her sibling’s new money-making plan but becomes fascinated by the things people leave behind after they die. It’s a keenly observed character and Blunt is subtle perfection. As their father, Arkin is homespun, understanding and endearing. Standouts also include Steve Zahn as Rose’s one-time high school boyfriend and now married lover and Clifton Collins Jr. as his rival for Rose’s affections... A rich and revealing character study revolving around two siblings with small-town hopes and dreams. Every character, no matter how little screen time, is beautifully written and acted.” - Pete Hammond, Hollywood.com<P><a href="http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=686">Advance Tickets</a> ~ <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?0862846">IMDB on Film</a> ~ movies@citycinema.net (City Cinema) Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:00:00 -300 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=686&date=1246665600 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=685 Only <B>9</B> days left to see this film.<P><B>Rated:</B> Parental Guidance (Language May Offend, Mature Theme)<BR> <B>Runs:</B> 94 minutes<BR><B>Director:</B> John Crowley<BR><B>Country:</B> UK<BR><B>Released:</B> 2008<BR><B>Starring:</B> Michael Caine, Anne-Marie Duff, David Morrissey<BR><BR>“Michael Caine gives a mesmerising performance as an ageing magician in this absolute charmer of a movie. Witty, poignant and very touching, this is the British comedy of the year. The veteran actor plays Clarence, a bad-tempered and fiercely independent conjurer who becomes a reluctant resident of the Lark Hall retirement home. A struggling family business run by a husband-and-wife team, their young son Edward resents being forced to give up his room to make way for the latest arrival. A troubled 10-year-old, the lad has developed an obsession with death, even tape-recording the home's residents as they breathe their last, looking for signs of an afterlife, hence the film's title. Meanwhile, Caine's Clarence is a class-A codger with little time for anyone, especially kids... What follows is an odd-couple comedy as Bill and Clarence form an unusual friendship that unexpectedly allows both of them to lay their demons to rest. Caine is reliably on form as the prickly but vulnerable grump, while Milner is also memorable, making for a richly rewarding movie sure to prompt as many tears as chuckles.” - David Edwards, The Daily Mirror<P><a href="http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=685">Advance Tickets</a> ~ <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?1130088">IMDB on Film</a> ~ movies@citycinema.net (City Cinema) Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:00:00 -300 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=685&date=1246658400 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=685 Only <B>10</B> days left to see this film.<P><B>Rated:</B> Parental Guidance (Language May Offend, Mature Theme)<BR> <B>Runs:</B> 94 minutes<BR><B>Director:</B> John Crowley<BR><B>Country:</B> UK<BR><B>Released:</B> 2008<BR><B>Starring:</B> Michael Caine, Anne-Marie Duff, David Morrissey<BR><BR>“Michael Caine gives a mesmerising performance as an ageing magician in this absolute charmer of a movie. Witty, poignant and very touching, this is the British comedy of the year. The veteran actor plays Clarence, a bad-tempered and fiercely independent conjurer who becomes a reluctant resident of the Lark Hall retirement home. A struggling family business run by a husband-and-wife team, their young son Edward resents being forced to give up his room to make way for the latest arrival. A troubled 10-year-old, the lad has developed an obsession with death, even tape-recording the home's residents as they breathe their last, looking for signs of an afterlife, hence the film's title. Meanwhile, Caine's Clarence is a class-A codger with little time for anyone, especially kids... What follows is an odd-couple comedy as Bill and Clarence form an unusual friendship that unexpectedly allows both of them to lay their demons to rest. Caine is reliably on form as the prickly but vulnerable grump, while Milner is also memorable, making for a richly rewarding movie sure to prompt as many tears as chuckles.” - David Edwards, The Daily Mirror<P><a href="http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=685">Advance Tickets</a> ~ <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?1130088">IMDB on Film</a> ~ movies@citycinema.net (City Cinema) Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:05:00 -300 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=685&date=1246579500 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=686 Only <B>3</B> days left to see this film.<P><B>Rated:</B> 14 Accompaniment (Coarse Language, Substance Abuse, Violence)<BR> <B>Runs:</B> 102 minutes<BR><B>Director:</B> Christine Jeffs<BR><B>Country:</B> US<BR><B>Released:</B> 2009<BR><B>Starring:</B> Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, Jason Spevack, Steve Zahn<BR><BR>“Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) once led a charmed life, a high-school cheerleading captain in love with the team quarterback. Then life took a spiral downhill and now after 20 years, Rose is a single mom working as a maid. Her sister Norah (Emily Blunt) is a slacker still living at home with their dad (Alan Arkin), a failed salesman who never met a get-rich-quick-scheme he didn’t like. When Rose needs to get her son into a good school she convinces her n’er do-well sister to go into business with her cleaning up after crime scenes. In finding success in doing these dirty jobs, Rose and Norah not only turn their professional lives around, they discover things about themselves and each other they never dreamed possible. This terrifically quirky and entertaining character comedy is led by two-time Oscar-nominee Adams. Here she etches a very recognizable character - the small-time girl who achieved greatness in school only to make some bad personal choices and flame out after graduation. Mustering all the self-esteem she can find, Adams’ Rose shines brightly despite all the obstacles standing in her way. She and Blunt as Norah are flat-out wonderful together. Blunt plays the lazy sister who recoils at the thought of her sibling’s new money-making plan but becomes fascinated by the things people leave behind after they die. It’s a keenly observed character and Blunt is subtle perfection. As their father, Arkin is homespun, understanding and endearing. Standouts also include Steve Zahn as Rose’s one-time high school boyfriend and now married lover and Clifton Collins Jr. as his rival for Rose’s affections... A rich and revealing character study revolving around two siblings with small-town hopes and dreams. Every character, no matter how little screen time, is beautifully written and acted.” - Pete Hammond, Hollywood.com<P><a href="http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=686">Advance Tickets</a> ~ <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?0862846">IMDB on Film</a> ~ movies@citycinema.net (City Cinema) Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:00:00 -300 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=686&date=1246572000 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=685 Only <B>11</B> days left to see this film.<P><B>Rated:</B> Parental Guidance (Language May Offend, Mature Theme)<BR> <B>Runs:</B> 94 minutes<BR><B>Director:</B> John Crowley<BR><B>Country:</B> UK<BR><B>Released:</B> 2008<BR><B>Starring:</B> Michael Caine, Anne-Marie Duff, David Morrissey<BR><BR>“Michael Caine gives a mesmerising performance as an ageing magician in this absolute charmer of a movie. Witty, poignant and very touching, this is the British comedy of the year. The veteran actor plays Clarence, a bad-tempered and fiercely independent conjurer who becomes a reluctant resident of the Lark Hall retirement home. A struggling family business run by a husband-and-wife team, their young son Edward resents being forced to give up his room to make way for the latest arrival. A troubled 10-year-old, the lad has developed an obsession with death, even tape-recording the home's residents as they breathe their last, looking for signs of an afterlife, hence the film's title. Meanwhile, Caine's Clarence is a class-A codger with little time for anyone, especially kids... What follows is an odd-couple comedy as Bill and Clarence form an unusual friendship that unexpectedly allows both of them to lay their demons to rest. Caine is reliably on form as the prickly but vulnerable grump, while Milner is also memorable, making for a richly rewarding movie sure to prompt as many tears as chuckles.” - David Edwards, The Daily Mirror<P><a href="http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=685">Advance Tickets</a> ~ <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?1130088">IMDB on Film</a> ~ movies@citycinema.net (City Cinema) Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:00:00 -300 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=685&date=1246485600 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=684 <B>This is the last night for this film.</B><P><B>Rated:</B> 14 Accompaniment (Sexual Content, Coarse Language)<BR> <B>Runs:</B> 114 minutes<BR><B>Director:</B> Anna Boden/Ryan Fleck<BR><B>Country:</B> US<BR><B>Released:</B> 2008<BR><B>Starring:</B> Algenis Perez Soto, Rayniel Rufino, Andre Holland, Michael Gaston<BR><B>Language:</B> In English and Spanish with English subtitles<BR><BR>“Intensely human story of a young baseball player from the Dominican Republic who is recruited to an Iowa farm team and finds himself alone and very, very far from home. Not a sports movie but a tender character-driven drama, as his poor family nourishes his dreams. Even a farm league salary is wealth to them all. Starring Algenis Perez Soto in a persuasive, natural performance.” - Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times. “If any ‘little film’ of 2008 deserves to be seen and savored, it's this one. Sugar is a heartfelt immigration drama masquerading as a baseball movie, and one of the sweetest and most accomplished films to debut at Sundance in 2008. Co-directors Boden and Fleck take a surprising new direction in this film about Miguel Santos, a Dominican baseball player with dreams of making it into the big leagues in the U.S.A. The sustained delicacy of Sugar’s tone and its layered exploration of a unique milieu make this a moving and memorable effort... Sugar begins in Santos’ Latin American home village, where he’s a local hero and the American-style baseball he plays at a local baseball ‘school’ is the only ticket out of poverty anyone can imagine. Santos is a pitcher whose arm is so good that he’s quickly jumped up into an American minor league club. In the U.S., he’s the ultimate fish-out-of-water - unable to speak the language, alternately overwhelmed by the whir and bang of American cities and lost in the agricultural vastness of the Iowa farm town where he eventually comes to rest... What could have been yet another Rocky-style exercise in athletic affirmation is far more complex and meticulous than that. Sugar is the story of a boyhood dream pursued and found wanting, and how the adjustments that requires of the dreamer make a boy into a man... In a world where too many filmmakers are content to bunt their way onto second base, Sugar swings for the fences, and knocks one out of the park.” - Ray Greene, Box Office Magazine<P><a href="http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=684">Advance Tickets</a> ~ <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?0990413">IMDB on Film</a> ~ movies@citycinema.net (City Cinema) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:00:00 -300 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=684&date=1246399200 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=684 Only <B>1</B> days left to see this film.<P><B>Rated:</B> 14 Accompaniment (Sexual Content, Coarse Language)<BR> <B>Runs:</B> 114 minutes<BR><B>Director:</B> Anna Boden/Ryan Fleck<BR><B>Country:</B> US<BR><B>Released:</B> 2008<BR><B>Starring:</B> Algenis Perez Soto, Rayniel Rufino, Andre Holland, Michael Gaston<BR><B>Language:</B> In English and Spanish with English subtitles<BR><BR>“Intensely human story of a young baseball player from the Dominican Republic who is recruited to an Iowa farm team and finds himself alone and very, very far from home. Not a sports movie but a tender character-driven drama, as his poor family nourishes his dreams. Even a farm league salary is wealth to them all. Starring Algenis Perez Soto in a persuasive, natural performance.” - Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times. “If any ‘little film’ of 2008 deserves to be seen and savored, it's this one. Sugar is a heartfelt immigration drama masquerading as a baseball movie, and one of the sweetest and most accomplished films to debut at Sundance in 2008. Co-directors Boden and Fleck take a surprising new direction in this film about Miguel Santos, a Dominican baseball player with dreams of making it into the big leagues in the U.S.A. The sustained delicacy of Sugar’s tone and its layered exploration of a unique milieu make this a moving and memorable effort... Sugar begins in Santos’ Latin American home village, where he’s a local hero and the American-style baseball he plays at a local baseball ‘school’ is the only ticket out of poverty anyone can imagine. Santos is a pitcher whose arm is so good that he’s quickly jumped up into an American minor league club. In the U.S., he’s the ultimate fish-out-of-water - unable to speak the language, alternately overwhelmed by the whir and bang of American cities and lost in the agricultural vastness of the Iowa farm town where he eventually comes to rest... What could have been yet another Rocky-style exercise in athletic affirmation is far more complex and meticulous than that. Sugar is the story of a boyhood dream pursued and found wanting, and how the adjustments that requires of the dreamer make a boy into a man... In a world where too many filmmakers are content to bunt their way onto second base, Sugar swings for the fences, and knocks one out of the park.” - Ray Greene, Box Office Magazine<P><a href="http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=684">Advance Tickets</a> ~ <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?0990413">IMDB on Film</a> ~ movies@citycinema.net (City Cinema) Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:00:00 -300 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=684&date=1246312800 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=684 Only <B>2</B> days left to see this film.<P><B>Rated:</B> 14 Accompaniment (Sexual Content, Coarse Language)<BR> <B>Runs:</B> 114 minutes<BR><B>Director:</B> Anna Boden/Ryan Fleck<BR><B>Country:</B> US<BR><B>Released:</B> 2008<BR><B>Starring:</B> Algenis Perez Soto, Rayniel Rufino, Andre Holland, Michael Gaston<BR><B>Language:</B> In English and Spanish with English subtitles<BR><BR>“Intensely human story of a young baseball player from the Dominican Republic who is recruited to an Iowa farm team and finds himself alone and very, very far from home. Not a sports movie but a tender character-driven drama, as his poor family nourishes his dreams. Even a farm league salary is wealth to them all. Starring Algenis Perez Soto in a persuasive, natural performance.” - Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times. “If any ‘little film’ of 2008 deserves to be seen and savored, it's this one. Sugar is a heartfelt immigration drama masquerading as a baseball movie, and one of the sweetest and most accomplished films to debut at Sundance in 2008. Co-directors Boden and Fleck take a surprising new direction in this film about Miguel Santos, a Dominican baseball player with dreams of making it into the big leagues in the U.S.A. The sustained delicacy of Sugar’s tone and its layered exploration of a unique milieu make this a moving and memorable effort... Sugar begins in Santos’ Latin American home village, where he’s a local hero and the American-style baseball he plays at a local baseball ‘school’ is the only ticket out of poverty anyone can imagine. Santos is a pitcher whose arm is so good that he’s quickly jumped up into an American minor league club. In the U.S., he’s the ultimate fish-out-of-water - unable to speak the language, alternately overwhelmed by the whir and bang of American cities and lost in the agricultural vastness of the Iowa farm town where he eventually comes to rest... What could have been yet another Rocky-style exercise in athletic affirmation is far more complex and meticulous than that. Sugar is the story of a boyhood dream pursued and found wanting, and how the adjustments that requires of the dreamer make a boy into a man... In a world where too many filmmakers are content to bunt their way onto second base, Sugar swings for the fences, and knocks one out of the park.” - Ray Greene, Box Office Magazine<P><a href="http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=684">Advance Tickets</a> ~ <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?0990413">IMDB on Film</a> ~ movies@citycinema.net (City Cinema) Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:00:00 -300 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=684&date=1246233600 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=683 <B>This is the last night for this film.</B><P><B>Rated:</B> 14 Accompaniment (Sexual Content, Coarse Language, Substance Abuse)<BR> <B>Runs:</B> 95 minutes<BR><B>Director:</B> Derick Martini/Steven Martini<BR><B>Country:</B> US<BR><B>Released:</B> 2009<BR><B>Starring:</B> Alec Baldwin, Rory Culkin, Emma Roberts, Jill Hennessy, Timothy Hutton, Cynthia Nixon<BR><BR>“A first-rate cast in a film about troubled families and confused teenagers on Long Island in the 1970s. Two neighboring families have parents who are cheating with each other, and kids falling uncertainly into love. Tender, sometimes bleakly comic.” - Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times. “When you're a teenage boy and your mother duct-tapes your hat to your head to ward off deer ticks, you're probably going to have some adjustment problems. But among the population of Lymelife, maladjusted Long Islanders are like zucchinis in August. Sometimes, it seems that's all there is. Lymelife is a slice of life with raggedy edges... While the adults are wheeling, dealing, cheating and ailing, 15-year-old Scott Bartlett longs for his budding childhood sweetheart, Adrianna. Her father has Lyme disease, which is toppling the ruins of his marriage to Melissa, who is sleeping with Scott's father, who thinks he's been putting one over on his wife, Brenda. He hasn't. Among a cast so perfectly cast and in synch, it's hard to pick a fave... Lymelife is well told, superbly acted, and hardly ever digresses from the genuine. It's a pearl among zucchinis.” - John Anderson, Newsday<P><a href="http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=683">Advance Tickets</a> ~ <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?0363780">IMDB on Film</a> ~ movies@citycinema.net (City Cinema) Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:00:00 -300 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=683&date=1246226400 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=683 Only <B>1</B> days left to see this film.<P><B>Rated:</B> 14 Accompaniment (Sexual Content, Coarse Language, Substance Abuse)<BR> <B>Runs:</B> 95 minutes<BR><B>Director:</B> Derick Martini/Steven Martini<BR><B>Country:</B> US<BR><B>Released:</B> 2009<BR><B>Starring:</B> Alec Baldwin, Rory Culkin, Emma Roberts, Jill Hennessy, Timothy Hutton, Cynthia Nixon<BR><BR>“A first-rate cast in a film about troubled families and confused teenagers on Long Island in the 1970s. Two neighboring families have parents who are cheating with each other, and kids falling uncertainly into love. Tender, sometimes bleakly comic.” - Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times. “When you're a teenage boy and your mother duct-tapes your hat to your head to ward off deer ticks, you're probably going to have some adjustment problems. But among the population of Lymelife, maladjusted Long Islanders are like zucchinis in August. Sometimes, it seems that's all there is. Lymelife is a slice of life with raggedy edges... While the adults are wheeling, dealing, cheating and ailing, 15-year-old Scott Bartlett longs for his budding childhood sweetheart, Adrianna. Her father has Lyme disease, which is toppling the ruins of his marriage to Melissa, who is sleeping with Scott's father, who thinks he's been putting one over on his wife, Brenda. He hasn't. Among a cast so perfectly cast and in synch, it's hard to pick a fave... Lymelife is well told, superbly acted, and hardly ever digresses from the genuine. It's a pearl among zucchinis.” - John Anderson, Newsday<P><a href="http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=683">Advance Tickets</a> ~ <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?0363780">IMDB on Film</a> ~ movies@citycinema.net (City Cinema) Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:05:00 -300 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=683&date=1246147500 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=684 Only <B>3</B> days left to see this film.<P><B>Rated:</B> 14 Accompaniment (Sexual Content, Coarse Language)<BR> <B>Runs:</B> 114 minutes<BR><B>Director:</B> Anna Boden/Ryan Fleck<BR><B>Country:</B> US<BR><B>Released:</B> 2008<BR><B>Starring:</B> Algenis Perez Soto, Rayniel Rufino, Andre Holland, Michael Gaston<BR><B>Language:</B> In English and Spanish with English subtitles<BR><BR>“Intensely human story of a young baseball player from the Dominican Republic who is recruited to an Iowa farm team and finds himself alone and very, very far from home. Not a sports movie but a tender character-driven drama, as his poor family nourishes his dreams. Even a farm league salary is wealth to them all. Starring Algenis Perez Soto in a persuasive, natural performance.” - Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times. “If any ‘little film’ of 2008 deserves to be seen and savored, it's this one. Sugar is a heartfelt immigration drama masquerading as a baseball movie, and one of the sweetest and most accomplished films to debut at Sundance in 2008. Co-directors Boden and Fleck take a surprising new direction in this film about Miguel Santos, a Dominican baseball player with dreams of making it into the big leagues in the U.S.A. The sustained delicacy of Sugar’s tone and its layered exploration of a unique milieu make this a moving and memorable effort... Sugar begins in Santos’ Latin American home village, where he’s a local hero and the American-style baseball he plays at a local baseball ‘school’ is the only ticket out of poverty anyone can imagine. Santos is a pitcher whose arm is so good that he’s quickly jumped up into an American minor league club. In the U.S., he’s the ultimate fish-out-of-water - unable to speak the language, alternately overwhelmed by the whir and bang of American cities and lost in the agricultural vastness of the Iowa farm town where he eventually comes to rest... What could have been yet another Rocky-style exercise in athletic affirmation is far more complex and meticulous than that. Sugar is the story of a boyhood dream pursued and found wanting, and how the adjustments that requires of the dreamer make a boy into a man... In a world where too many filmmakers are content to bunt their way onto second base, Sugar swings for the fences, and knocks one out of the park.” - Ray Greene, Box Office Magazine<P><a href="http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=684">Advance Tickets</a> ~ <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?0990413">IMDB on Film</a> ~ movies@citycinema.net (City Cinema) Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:45:00 -300 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=684&date=1246139100 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=684 Only <B>4</B> days left to see this film.<P><B>Rated:</B> 14 Accompaniment (Sexual Content, Coarse Language)<BR> <B>Runs:</B> 114 minutes<BR><B>Director:</B> Anna Boden/Ryan Fleck<BR><B>Country:</B> US<BR><B>Released:</B> 2008<BR><B>Starring:</B> Algenis Perez Soto, Rayniel Rufino, Andre Holland, Michael Gaston<BR><B>Language:</B> In English and Spanish with English subtitles<BR><BR>“Intensely human story of a young baseball player from the Dominican Republic who is recruited to an Iowa farm team and finds himself alone and very, very far from home. Not a sports movie but a tender character-driven drama, as his poor family nourishes his dreams. Even a farm league salary is wealth to them all. Starring Algenis Perez Soto in a persuasive, natural performance.” - Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times. “If any ‘little film’ of 2008 deserves to be seen and savored, it's this one. Sugar is a heartfelt immigration drama masquerading as a baseball movie, and one of the sweetest and most accomplished films to debut at Sundance in 2008. Co-directors Boden and Fleck take a surprising new direction in this film about Miguel Santos, a Dominican baseball player with dreams of making it into the big leagues in the U.S.A. The sustained delicacy of Sugar’s tone and its layered exploration of a unique milieu make this a moving and memorable effort... Sugar begins in Santos’ Latin American home village, where he’s a local hero and the American-style baseball he plays at a local baseball ‘school’ is the only ticket out of poverty anyone can imagine. Santos is a pitcher whose arm is so good that he’s quickly jumped up into an American minor league club. In the U.S., he’s the ultimate fish-out-of-water - unable to speak the language, alternately overwhelmed by the whir and bang of American cities and lost in the agricultural vastness of the Iowa farm town where he eventually comes to rest... What could have been yet another Rocky-style exercise in athletic affirmation is far more complex and meticulous than that. Sugar is the story of a boyhood dream pursued and found wanting, and how the adjustments that requires of the dreamer make a boy into a man... In a world where too many filmmakers are content to bunt their way onto second base, Sugar swings for the fences, and knocks one out of the park.” - Ray Greene, Box Office Magazine<P><a href="http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=684">Advance Tickets</a> ~ <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?0990413">IMDB on Film</a> ~ movies@citycinema.net (City Cinema) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:00:00 -300 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=684&date=1246060800 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=683 Only <B>2</B> days left to see this film.<P><B>Rated:</B> 14 Accompaniment (Sexual Content, Coarse Language, Substance Abuse)<BR> <B>Runs:</B> 95 minutes<BR><B>Director:</B> Derick Martini/Steven Martini<BR><B>Country:</B> US<BR><B>Released:</B> 2009<BR><B>Starring:</B> Alec Baldwin, Rory Culkin, Emma Roberts, Jill Hennessy, Timothy Hutton, Cynthia Nixon<BR><BR>“A first-rate cast in a film about troubled families and confused teenagers on Long Island in the 1970s. Two neighboring families have parents who are cheating with each other, and kids falling uncertainly into love. Tender, sometimes bleakly comic.” - Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times. “When you're a teenage boy and your mother duct-tapes your hat to your head to ward off deer ticks, you're probably going to have some adjustment problems. But among the population of Lymelife, maladjusted Long Islanders are like zucchinis in August. Sometimes, it seems that's all there is. Lymelife is a slice of life with raggedy edges... While the adults are wheeling, dealing, cheating and ailing, 15-year-old Scott Bartlett longs for his budding childhood sweetheart, Adrianna. Her father has Lyme disease, which is toppling the ruins of his marriage to Melissa, who is sleeping with Scott's father, who thinks he's been putting one over on his wife, Brenda. He hasn't. Among a cast so perfectly cast and in synch, it's hard to pick a fave... Lymelife is well told, superbly acted, and hardly ever digresses from the genuine. It's a pearl among zucchinis.” - John Anderson, Newsday<P><a href="http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=683">Advance Tickets</a> ~ <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?0363780">IMDB on Film</a> ~ movies@citycinema.net (City Cinema) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:00:00 -300 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=683&date=1246053600 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=683 Only <B>3</B> days left to see this film.<P><B>Rated:</B> 14 Accompaniment (Sexual Content, Coarse Language, Substance Abuse)<BR> <B>Runs:</B> 95 minutes<BR><B>Director:</B> Derick Martini/Steven Martini<BR><B>Country:</B> US<BR><B>Released:</B> 2009<BR><B>Starring:</B> Alec Baldwin, Rory Culkin, Emma Roberts, Jill Hennessy, Timothy Hutton, Cynthia Nixon<BR><BR>“A first-rate cast in a film about troubled families and confused teenagers on Long Island in the 1970s. Two neighboring families have parents who are cheating with each other, and kids falling uncertainly into love. Tender, sometimes bleakly comic.” - Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times. “When you're a teenage boy and your mother duct-tapes your hat to your head to ward off deer ticks, you're probably going to have some adjustment problems. But among the population of Lymelife, maladjusted Long Islanders are like zucchinis in August. Sometimes, it seems that's all there is. Lymelife is a slice of life with raggedy edges... While the adults are wheeling, dealing, cheating and ailing, 15-year-old Scott Bartlett longs for his budding childhood sweetheart, Adrianna. Her father has Lyme disease, which is toppling the ruins of his marriage to Melissa, who is sleeping with Scott's father, who thinks he's been putting one over on his wife, Brenda. He hasn't. Among a cast so perfectly cast and in synch, it's hard to pick a fave... Lymelife is well told, superbly acted, and hardly ever digresses from the genuine. It's a pearl among zucchinis.” - John Anderson, Newsday<P><a href="http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=683">Advance Tickets</a> ~ <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?0363780">IMDB on Film</a> ~ movies@citycinema.net (City Cinema) Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:00:00 -300 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=683&date=1245967200 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=683 Only <B>4</B> days left to see this film.<P><B>Rated:</B> 14 Accompaniment (Sexual Content, Coarse Language, Substance Abuse)<BR> <B>Runs:</B> 95 minutes<BR><B>Director:</B> Derick Martini/Steven Martini<BR><B>Country:</B> US<BR><B>Released:</B> 2009<BR><B>Starring:</B> Alec Baldwin, Rory Culkin, Emma Roberts, Jill Hennessy, Timothy Hutton, Cynthia Nixon<BR><BR>“A first-rate cast in a film about troubled families and confused teenagers on Long Island in the 1970s. Two neighboring families have parents who are cheating with each other, and kids falling uncertainly into love. Tender, sometimes bleakly comic.” - Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times. “When you're a teenage boy and your mother duct-tapes your hat to your head to ward off deer ticks, you're probably going to have some adjustment problems. But among the population of Lymelife, maladjusted Long Islanders are like zucchinis in August. Sometimes, it seems that's all there is. Lymelife is a slice of life with raggedy edges... While the adults are wheeling, dealing, cheating and ailing, 15-year-old Scott Bartlett longs for his budding childhood sweetheart, Adrianna. Her father has Lyme disease, which is toppling the ruins of his marriage to Melissa, who is sleeping with Scott's father, who thinks he's been putting one over on his wife, Brenda. He hasn't. Among a cast so perfectly cast and in synch, it's hard to pick a fave... Lymelife is well told, superbly acted, and hardly ever digresses from the genuine. It's a pearl among zucchinis.” - John Anderson, Newsday<P><a href="http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=683">Advance Tickets</a> ~ <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?0363780">IMDB on Film</a> ~ movies@citycinema.net (City Cinema) Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:00:00 -300 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=683&date=1245880800 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=682 <B>This is the last night for this film.</B><P><B>Rated:</B> Parental Guidance (Mature Subject Matter)<BR> <B>Runs:</B> 130 minutes<BR><B>Director:</B> Yojiro Takita<BR><B>Country:</B> Japan<BR><B>Released:</B> 2008<BR><B>Starring:</B> Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kimiko Yo<BR><B>Language:</B> In Japanese with English subtitles.<BR><B>Awards:</B> Academy Award winner, Best Foreign Picture; Grand Prix winner, Montreal World Film Festival.<BR> Digital projection. <BR><BR>“Daigo is a disillusioned cellist who has recently lost his job in a Tokyo orchestra. Upon moving with his wife back to his tranquil hometown in Yamagata prefecture, Daigo answers a job ad (‘working with departures’) thinking it’s a travel agency, only to learn that the well-paid task actually refers to the unenviable trade of ‘encoffining’: the Japanese ritual of cleaning, clothing and applying make-up on a deceased’s body in front of family and friends, before sending him or her off to a peaceful departure. ‘It should have read ‘working with the departed’’, his boss stoically remarks on the misprinted advert. With his camera lingering at length on Daigo’s elegant ‘performances’ at a series of funerals, and with Joe Hisaishi’s gently affectionate score pulling on audience’s heartstrings, Yojiro Takita’s deeply affecting Oscar winner gets its viewers into mourning mode, and never lets go.... Departures’ belief in love and forgiveness is lyrical, and hauntingly moving.” - Edmund Lee, Time Out<P><a href="http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=682">Advance Tickets</a> ~ <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?1069238">IMDB on Film</a> ~ movies@citycinema.net (City Cinema) Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:45:00 -300 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=682&date=1245793500 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=682 Only <B>1</B> days left to see this film.<P><B>Rated:</B> Parental Guidance (Mature Subject Matter)<BR> <B>Runs:</B> 130 minutes<BR><B>Director:</B> Yojiro Takita<BR><B>Country:</B> Japan<BR><B>Released:</B> 2008<BR><B>Starring:</B> Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kimiko Yo<BR><B>Language:</B> In Japanese with English subtitles.<BR><B>Awards:</B> Academy Award winner, Best Foreign Picture; Grand Prix winner, Montreal World Film Festival.<BR> Digital projection. <BR><BR>“Daigo is a disillusioned cellist who has recently lost his job in a Tokyo orchestra. Upon moving with his wife back to his tranquil hometown in Yamagata prefecture, Daigo answers a job ad (‘working with departures’) thinking it’s a travel agency, only to learn that the well-paid task actually refers to the unenviable trade of ‘encoffining’: the Japanese ritual of cleaning, clothing and applying make-up on a deceased’s body in front of family and friends, before sending him or her off to a peaceful departure. ‘It should have read ‘working with the departed’’, his boss stoically remarks on the misprinted advert. With his camera lingering at length on Daigo’s elegant ‘performances’ at a series of funerals, and with Joe Hisaishi’s gently affectionate score pulling on audience’s heartstrings, Yojiro Takita’s deeply affecting Oscar winner gets its viewers into mourning mode, and never lets go.... Departures’ belief in love and forgiveness is lyrical, and hauntingly moving.” - Edmund Lee, Time Out<P><a href="http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=682">Advance Tickets</a> ~ <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?1069238">IMDB on Film</a> ~ movies@citycinema.net (City Cinema) Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:45:00 -300 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=682&date=1245707100 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=681 <B>This is the last night for this film.</B><P><B>Rated:</B> 14 Accompaniment (Coarse Language, Mature Theme)<BR> <B>Runs:</B> 101 minutes<BR><B>Director:</B> Atom Egoyan<BR><B>Country:</B> Canada<BR><B>Released:</B> 2009<BR><B>Starring:</B> Devon Bostick, Rachel Blanchard, Scott Speedman, Katie Boland<BR><BR>“Atom Egoyan's latest film, Adoration, is a multipurpose mystery, family drama and exploration of ideas about cultural identity in the post-9/11 era... It's also the director's best film in a decade. A high-school boy named Simon tells his class a bizarre personal story: Before he was born, his terrorist father tried to put his pregnant mother on a plane, along with a bomb. Later we learn that Simon's French teacher has enlisted him in a peculiarly dark prank. She also seems to be stalking Simon's uncle, Tom, an angry tow-truck driver with father issues... [It’s] emotional, moving with a fluid, mounting tension and moments of anguish and strange, startling humour. No doubt the story is contrived, but that's part of Egoyan's point: All stories are; the fascinating thing is the needs that lie beneath the stories we tell.” - Liam Lacey, The Globe and Mail<P><a href="http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=681">Advance Tickets</a> ~ <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?1074929">IMDB on Film</a> ~ movies@citycinema.net (City Cinema) Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:05:00 -300 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=681&date=1245629100 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=682 Only <B>2</B> days left to see this film.<P><B>Rated:</B> Parental Guidance (Mature Subject Matter)<BR> <B>Runs:</B> 130 minutes<BR><B>Director:</B> Yojiro Takita<BR><B>Country:</B> Japan<BR><B>Released:</B> 2008<BR><B>Starring:</B> Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kimiko Yo<BR><B>Language:</B> In Japanese with English subtitles.<BR><B>Awards:</B> Academy Award winner, Best Foreign Picture; Grand Prix winner, Montreal World Film Festival.<BR> Digital projection. <BR><BR>“Daigo is a disillusioned cellist who has recently lost his job in a Tokyo orchestra. Upon moving with his wife back to his tranquil hometown in Yamagata prefecture, Daigo answers a job ad (‘working with departures’) thinking it’s a travel agency, only to learn that the well-paid task actually refers to the unenviable trade of ‘encoffining’: the Japanese ritual of cleaning, clothing and applying make-up on a deceased’s body in front of family and friends, before sending him or her off to a peaceful departure. ‘It should have read ‘working with the departed’’, his boss stoically remarks on the misprinted advert. With his camera lingering at length on Daigo’s elegant ‘performances’ at a series of funerals, and with Joe Hisaishi’s gently affectionate score pulling on audience’s heartstrings, Yojiro Takita’s deeply affecting Oscar winner gets its viewers into mourning mode, and never lets go.... Departures’ belief in love and forgiveness is lyrical, and hauntingly moving.” - Edmund Lee, Time Out<P><a href="http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=682">Advance Tickets</a> ~ <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?1069238">IMDB on Film</a> ~ movies@citycinema.net (City Cinema) Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:30:00 -300 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=682&date=1245619800 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=682 Only <B>3</B> days left to see this film.<P><B>Rated:</B> Parental Guidance (Mature Subject Matter)<BR> <B>Runs:</B> 130 minutes<BR><B>Director:</B> Yojiro Takita<BR><B>Country:</B> Japan<BR><B>Released:</B> 2008<BR><B>Starring:</B> Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kimiko Yo<BR><B>Language:</B> In Japanese with English subtitles.<BR><B>Awards:</B> Academy Award winner, Best Foreign Picture; Grand Prix winner, Montreal World Film Festival.<BR> Digital projection. <BR><BR>“Daigo is a disillusioned cellist who has recently lost his job in a Tokyo orchestra. Upon moving with his wife back to his tranquil hometown in Yamagata prefecture, Daigo answers a job ad (‘working with departures’) thinking it’s a travel agency, only to learn that the well-paid task actually refers to the unenviable trade of ‘encoffining’: the Japanese ritual of cleaning, clothing and applying make-up on a deceased’s body in front of family and friends, before sending him or her off to a peaceful departure. ‘It should have read ‘working with the departed’’, his boss stoically remarks on the misprinted advert. With his camera lingering at length on Daigo’s elegant ‘performances’ at a series of funerals, and with Joe Hisaishi’s gently affectionate score pulling on audience’s heartstrings, Yojiro Takita’s deeply affecting Oscar winner gets its viewers into mourning mode, and never lets go.... Departures’ belief in love and forgiveness is lyrical, and hauntingly moving.” - Edmund Lee, Time Out<P><a href="http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=682">Advance Tickets</a> ~ <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?1069238">IMDB on Film</a> ~ movies@citycinema.net (City Cinema) Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:05:00 -300 http://www.citycinema.net/onefilm.php3?film=682&date=1245542700