Wednesday, MARCH 21, at 5 and 7:30 p.m.         
SWEET LAND
Winner of the "Best First Feature" at the Independent Spirit Awards last week, in addition to winning the Audience Award at the 2005 Hamptons Int'l Film Festival, this is a poignant, lyrical tale and a "celebration of pure Americana that speaks both to the immigrant experience and the nature of love" raved the Hollywood Reporter. It stars the luminous Elizabeth Reaser and Alex Kingston. Variety wrote: "Intelligently written, brilliantly cast ". In English and German and Norwegian with English subtitles. Rated PG. 110 min.

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Wednesday, MARCH 28, at 5 and 7:30 p.m.         
GOD GREW TIRED OF US
A Must-See for any and everyone of all ages. Brad Pitt produced and Nicole Kidman narrates this winner of both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival that explores the indomitable spirit of three 'Lost Boys of the Sudan' who were brought to America, where they were given three months by the U.S. State Department to learn how to use electricity, live in Western culture and learn how to support themselves. An inspiring story of their triumph told in their own words. Rated PG. 86 min.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 5:00 and 7:30 p.m.        
THE TIGER AND THE SNOW
Like an Iraq-war mirror image of his Academy Award-winning "Life Is Beautiful", Roberto Benigni directs, and stars alongside the stunning Nicoletta Braschi, Jean Reno and Tom Waits, in this trippy fantasia and dramedy about a love-struck poet who travels to Iraq, at the outset of the American-led invasion, to save the woman he loves. "An impassioned statement about the futility of war, the power of romance and the enduring strength of optimism" raved the NY Times. In English and Italian and Arabic with English subtitles. 115 min. Not Rated.

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Wednesday, APRIL 4, at 5 and 7:30 p.m.         
VENUS
One of this year's wisest, warmest and funniest films that the LA Times says is "told with wit, genuine poignancy and all kinds of humor" about an aging actor, played by the seven time Academy Award nominated screen icon Peter O'Toole, who falls head over 'heals' in unrequited love with a beautiful young woman (Jodie Whittaker). LA Weekly raved, "A wry celebration of the tyranny of beauty, and the tragicomic way in which desire outruns testosterone". Rated R. 95 min.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 6
SPECIAL DAY & TIMES: 2:00pm, 5:00pm and 7:30pm        
THE PAINTED VEIL
Premiere Magazine raved: "One of 2006's quiet gems". The San Francisco Chronicle chimed in with "The year's best romantic drama". Edward Norton, Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber star in this recent Golden Globe winning love story set in China in the 1920's in which, following a marital infidelity, an ill-matched couple bring meaning, purpose, redemption and unexpected grace into their lives after relocating to fight cholera in one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth. Rated PG-13. 128 min.

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Wednesday, APRIL 11, at 5 and 7:30 p.m.         
STARTER FOR TEN
One of this year's wisest, warmest and funniest films that the LA Times says is "told with wit, genuine poignancy and all kinds of humor" about an aging actor, played by the seven time Academy Award nominated screen icon Peter O'Toole, who falls head over 'heals' in unrequited love with a beautiful young woman (Jodie Whittaker). LA Weekly raved, "A wry celebration of the tyranny of beauty, and the tragicomic way in which desire outruns testosterone". Rated R. 95 min.

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Wednesday, APRIL 18, at 5 and 7:30 p.m.         
KUNDUN
TWO FREE SCREENINGS. Recent Academy Award winning director Martin Scorsese's four-time Academy Award nominated, dazzling beautifully photographed historical pageant/drama on the early life of the 14th Dalai Lama. The NY Times raved that this "stunning, gorgeous film's ethereal electronic score by Philip Glass suggests a Himalayan music of the spheres and gathers sufficient force and energy so that the film's music and pictures achieves a sublime synergy." Voluntary Donations Accepted to help support the complimentary public speech of H.H. the Dalai Lama on Tuesday, April 24th, presented by the 501(c)3 not-for-profit group "Aloha Friends for Compassion". Rated PG-13. 128 min.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 5:00pm and 7:30pm        
PUCCINI FOR BEGINNERS
Gretchen Mol ("The Notorious Bettie Paige"), Elizabeth Reaser ("Sweet Land") and Justin Kirk star in this sophisticated, humorous screwball sex comedy, nominated for a Grand Jury prize at Sundance, which takes its title from its heroine's passion for opera. It isn't just another trendy toe-dip in sexual experimentation. It is, according to The Hollywood Reporter, "a Brainy and Balmy" romp through the 20/30-something world of sensual exploration that runs through millions of love lives like a jolt of thunder and a bolt of lightning." Unrated. 92 min.

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