Wednesday, January 9, at 5 and 7:30 p.m.     
SILK
Keira Knightley, Michael Pitt, Koji Yakusho and Alfred Molina star in this painterly, rapturous, east meets west romance about a young man sent to Japan to revitalize Europe's silk trade who, despite not speaking one another's languages, nonetheless shares a stunningly sensual and obsessive love affair with a deeply mysterious and intoxicatingly beautiful concubine. In English and Japanese with English subtitles. Rated R. 110 min.

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Wednesday, January 16, at 5 and 7:30 p.m.     
SAAWARIYA
The first full-fledged Bollywood musical from India coproduced and distributed by a major Hollywood studio is a timeless story of two young, star-crossed lovers that is guaranteed to be one of the most "visually enchanting, cloyingly sweet and all at once utterly chaste and insanely erotic" films of the year raved the NY Times. We couldn't agree more. In Hindi with English subtitles. Rated PG. 140 min.

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Wednesday, January 23, at 5 and 7:30 p.m.     
IRA & ABBY
A sweet, hilarious, and slightly subversive romantic comedy, starring Jennifer Westfeldt and Chris Messina, about a brilliant guy and a free spirited woman who fall instantly in love and get married within hours. Along the way, this crowd pleaser examines marriage, monogamy, and whether "I do" is the only path to lifelong love and happiness. "The best Manhattan love story since 'When Harry Met Sally'" raved the Seattle Post. Rated R. 101 min.

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Wednesday, January 30, at 5 and 7:30 p.m.     
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
All you need is love -of great music and visually spectacular cinema - to be thrilled by what Roger Ebert raved was "a bold, beautiful, visually enchanting " cinematic magic carpet ride using the songs of The Beatles, and starring Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturges and Bono (among others) to create a story that seamlessly moves from the dockyards of Liverpool and the creative psychedelia of Greenwich Village to the very real revolution in consciousness that was the late 60's and early 70's. "Brilliant! Transcendent! Exhilarating! Generates a singular kind of magic you've never experienced before" gushed the Miami Herald. Rated PG-13. 131 min.

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Wednesday, February 6, at 5 and 7:30 p.m.     
NO FILM

Wednesday, February 13, at 5 and 7:30 p.m.     
BELLA
Following in the footsteps of "Amalie", "Princess Bride", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Life is Beautiful", "American Beauty" and "Chariots of Fire", this winner of the People's Choice Award at the recent Toronto International Film Festival is a deeply felt and heartwarming love story about life, family and the way a day can change lives forever. Starring Eduardo Verastegui ("The Brad Pitt of Latin America") and Emmy Award-winner Tammy Blanchard. In English. 91 min. Rated. PG-13.

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Wednesday, February 20, 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, and powerful 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. 88 min.

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A BENEFIT FOR 'MAUI ALOHA AINA ASSOCIATION
Maui Aloha Aina Association is a 501c3 not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, whose mission is "to promote life nurturing practices for the body and the soil through education and outreach". Ma'a has been holding outdoor educational conferences every year since 2001 exploring the relationship of the body to the soil and how it effects our well being. Its vision of Maui Agriculture values agricultural diversity above the ground and bio diversity below the ground, growing nutrient dense foods to sustain a healthy community. Visit www.MauiAlohaAina.org for more information

SPECIAL GUESTS PRESENTING A Q&A INCLUDE
Ian Cheney co-created and stars in King Corn, a Mosaic Films-ITVS co-production released theatrically in the fall of 2007. Since finishing King Corn, Ian has gone on to direct The Greening of Southie, a feature documentary about the workers behind Boston's first green building, which will be broadcast nationally on the Sundance Channel on Earth Day, 2008, and subsequently on Discovery Worldwide.

Charles Walters is the founder and executive editor of Acres U.S.A. He has authored thousands of articles on the technologies of eco-agriculture and is author or co-author of many works on the subject, including Eco-Farm, Weeds -- Control Without Poisons, Reproduction and Animal Health, A Farmer's Guide to the Bottom Line, Neal Kinsey's Hands-On Agronomy, Mainline Farming for Century 21, The Carbon Connection, The Carbon Cycle, Minerals of the Genetic Code and others. A leading proponent of raw material economics, he served as president of NORM and has authored books on economics.