Wednesday, November 14, at 5 and 7:30 p.m.     
KING OF CALIFORNIA
Academy Award winner Michael Douglas stars alongside Evan Rachel Wood, in this dramedy, about a recently released from a mental institution jazz musician's quest to discover what he believes to be long lost treasure buried under a local Costco. Rolling Stone's Peter Travers called the film a gift that "focuses on the magic worth finding between a father and daughter" and the SF Chronicle loved how it "reminds me of those '70s-era pictures beloved of the counterculture about appealing rebels who go down in flames of moral victory". Rated PG-13. 93 min.

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Tuesday, November 20, at 5 p.m. ONLY   
AWAY FROM HER

A beautiful yet unconventional story of a couple coming to grips with the onset of memory loss stars Julie Christie, Michael Murphy, Gordon Pinsent and Olympia Dukakis, is directed by Sarah Polley, and is adapted from celebrated author Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain." Rated PG-13. 110 minutes.

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Tuesday, November 20, at 7:30 p.m. ONLY    
3:10 TO YUMA

Christian Bale, Russell Crowe, Ben Foster, Alan Tudyk, Gretchen Mol, and Peter Fonda star in this brilliantly conceived and produced western from director James Mangold (Walk the Line) about the intersecting impossible journeys and conflicting destiny of two men at the crossroads of frontier justice. Rated R. 117 min.

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Wednesday, November 21, at 5 p.m. ONLY    
GRACE IS GONE

John Cusack stars as a man whose wife is serving in Iraq while he faces the challenges of raising two young daughters alone. His stumble through parenting faces the ultimate challenge when tragic news from the front sends him on a spontaneous road trip to figure out how to break the news to his girls. The farther they drive the closer they become. Yet Stanley (Cusack) knows he must face the inevitable task of delivering the news that will change their lives forever. Directed by James Strouse. Rated PG-13. 92 min.

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Wednesday, November 21, at 7:30 p.m. ONLY    
I'M NOT THERE

Wall-to-wall Bob Dylan songs provide the musical backbone for this unconventional journey into the life and times of Bob Dylan directed by Todd Haynes. Six actors, including Christian Bales, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Ben Whishaw, portray Dylan as a series of shifting personae - from the public to the private to the fantastical - weaving together a rich and colorful portrait of this ever-elusive American icon. Co-starring Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Rated R. 135 min.

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Wednesday, November 28, at 5 and 7:30 p.m.     
THE DECEMBER BOYS
A charming tale, starring Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter blockbuster fame, and Teresa Palmer, about four orphan teenagers growing up in exotic, outback Australia during the 1960s, who share a life-altering holiday at the seaside. It's been called a "Tasteful and gorgeously photographed coming-of-age story" by the NY Post, and a "Crowd Pleaser" according to the LA Times, for its refreshingly gentle treatment of familiar themes such as the inevitability of change, the dashing of youthful illusions and mutability of family. Rated PG-13. 105 min.

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Wednesday, December 5, at 5 and 7:30 p.m.     
KING CORN
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, andpowerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm. Unrated.

NOTE: Gypsy Caravan has been rescheduled to Wed. Jan 9, 2008.

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Wednesday, January 2, at 5 and 7:30 p.m.     
MILAREPA
Milarepa depicts the humble beginnings of the man who was to become Tibet's greatest saint. A true story based on centuries-old oral traditions, a youthful Milarepa is propelled into a world of sorrow and betrayal after his father's sudden death. Destitute and hopeless, he sets out to learn black magic - and exact revenge on his enemies - encountering magicians, demons, an enigmatic teacher and unexpected mystical power along the way. But it is in confrontation with the consequences of his anger that he learns the most.

Photographed in the stunning Lahaul-Spiti region of Northern India, Milarepa offers a provocative parallel to the cycle of violence and retribution we see consuming today's world. Rated PG.

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Wednesday, January 9, at 5 and 7:30 p.m.     
GYPSY CARAVAN
This Buena Vista Social Club of Gypsy Music has been called "A Joyous Celebration" by Variety. It was shot in Spain, India, Macedonia and Romania by legendary cinematographer Albert Maysles and is a dynamic musical documentary that follows five Gypsy bands, with musical styles ranging from flamenco to brass band and Romanian violin to Indian folk, who celebrate the best in Gypsy culture in an "irresistibly vibrant concert-tour documentary" according to Entertainment Weekly. Unrated. 111 min.

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