West Newton Cinema Weekly Newsletter

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OUR OTHER THEATRE – BELMONT STUDIO CINEMA

Friday 7/11 – Thursday 7/17

WANTED (R)

Fri 7/11                                     – 2:30,5:00, 7:15 and 9:15

Sat 7/12 and Sun 7/13             – 5:00, 7:15 and 9:15

Mon 7/14 – Thur 7/17               – 2:30,5:00 and 7:15

PLEASE GO DIRECTED TO STUDIO CINEMA WEBSITE FOR CHANGES AND CANCELLATIONS

 
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Coming Soon...

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (PG-13) Drama and Adaptation

Adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel, focusing on the doomed love affair between Charles and Julia Flyte and how Catholicism destroys their relationship and their families.

FROZEN RIVER (R) Drama and Crime/Gangster 1 hr. 40 min.

Courtney’s feature-length script is set in a real-life smuggling zone on a Native American reservation between New York State and Quebec where the lure of fast money presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be making minimum wage. Strapped for money and having been deserted by her husband, working class Ray (Melissa Leo), reluctantly teams up with Lila (Misty Upham), a widowed Mohawk Indian, to smuggle illegal immigrants across the frozen St. Lawrence River from Canada to the U.S. in the trunk of a Dodge Spirit. Both women swear each trip will be their last, but one final run across the river leads to a showdown with the law on all sides.

TELL NO ONE (NR) Art/Foreign, Drama, Thriller and Adaptation 2 hrs. 10 min.

Pediatrician Alexandre Beck still grieves the murder of his beloved wife, Margot, eight years earlier. When two bodies are found near the scene of the crime, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepens when Alex receives an anonymous e-mail with a link to a video clip that seems to suggest Margot is somehow still alive and a message to "Tell No One."

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SCHEDULE

This is advance schedule information; Please note the dates.
Times in (parenthesis) are bargain matinee.

PLEASE GO TO www.westnewtoncinema.com FOR SCHEDULE CHANGES.

Showtime in brackets (*) represent Bargain MATINEE (*) $7.50

Regular Price $9.50

~ Schedule for Friday, July 4^th - Thursday, July 10^th ~

Screen 1 – THE EDGE OF HEAVEN (10:50am,1:15),3:45,6:15,8:45

Screen 2 – WALL-E (11:10am,1:20),3:55,6:10,8:45

Screen 3 – THEN SHE FOUND ME (11:05) ONLY

Screen 3 – LOVE COMES LATELY (1:40),4:00,6:20,8:35

Screen 4 – YOUNG @ HEART  (11am),3:40

No 11am show Sun 7/13

Screen 4 – UP THE YANGTZE (1:25),6:25

Screen 4 – THE COUNTERFEITERS 8:35 ONLY

Screen 5 – KIT KITTREDGE: AN AMERICAN GIRL (11:05am,1:45),4:10

Screen 5 – MY FATHER MY LORD 6:40,8:40

Screen 6 – BRICK LANE (11am) ONLY

Screen 6 – THE SINGING REVOLUTION (1:30),6:35,8:40

Screen 6 – CONSTANTINE’S SWORD 3:50 ONLY

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SYNOPSES OF OUR FILMS

PLEASE GO TO www.westnewtoncinema.com FOR SCHEDULE CHANGES.

Showtime in brackets (*) represent Bargain MATINEE (*) $7.50

Regular Price $9.50

~ Schedule for Friday, July 11^th - Thursday, July 17^th ~

Screen One: THE EDGE OF HEAVEN (NR) Arts/Foreign and Drama 1 hr. 55 min.

The fragile lives of six people connect on emotional voyages toward forgiveness and reconciliation in Germany and Turkey. Nejat disapproves of his widower father Ali's choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But changes his mind when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter's education. Yeter's sudden death distances father and son. Nejat travels to Istanbul to find Yeter's daughter Ayten. However, political activist Ayten is already in Germany, having to flee the Turkish police. There, she meets Lotte who invites rebellious Ayten to stay in her home, a gesture not pleasing to her conservative mother. When Ayten is eventually arrested, she is deported and imprisoned in Turkey. Lotte travels to Turkey, where she gets caught up in the seemingly hopeless situation of freeing Ayten.
(10:50am,1:15),3:45,6:15,8:45

Screen Two: WALL-E (G) Animation/Comedy/Family 1 hr. 45 min.

What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? Wall-E spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will discover what he was meant for, as he adventures across the galaxy chasing his dream.
(11:10am,1:20),3:55,6:10,8:45

Screen Three: THEN SHE FOUND ME 1 hr. 50 min. Comedy/Drama/Romance and Adaptation

Following the separation from her husband and the death of her adopted mother, April Epner is contacted by her apparent birth mother, who turns out to be a local talk show host Bernice Graves. As Bernice tries to become the mother to April that she was never able to be, April seems to find solace in the arms of the parent of one of her students, only to find that the mystery to life’s questions cannot be solved by a simple revelation.

(11:05am) ONLY

Screen Three: LOVE COMES LATELY (N/R) 1 hr. 35 min.

Love Comes Lately is a bittersweet film woven out of three Isaac Bashevis Singer stories about old age and the erotic imagination. Max Kohn (OTTO TAUSIG) is a writer in his seventies who is increasingly haunted by his weakening body and ebbing sexual prowess. The film opens with Max dreaming on an Amtrak train. In his dream, the conductor asks him if he sleeps with women anymore; the questioning becoming so intense and distressing that Max awakens, still disturbed by the interrogation. The remainder of the film similarly slips from the objective to the fictional world, as Max daydreams, flirts, longs for lost loves, dreams and pours his angst into his literary work. (1:40),4:00,6:20,8:35

Screen Four: YOUNG@HEART (PG) Art/Foreign, Documentary and Musical/Performing Arts 2 hrs.

Young@Heart, a New England Senior Citizen Chorus, delights audiences worldwide with their covers of everyone form James Brown to Coldplay.

(11am),3:40 

No 11am show Sun 7/13

Screen Four: UP THE YANGTZE (NR) Arts/Foreign and Documentary 1 hr. 40 min.

In China, it is simply known as "The River." But the Yangtze--and all of the life that surrounds it--is undergoing a truly astonishing transformation wrought by the largest hydroelectric project in history, the Three Gorges Dam. A "farewell cruise" traverses the gargantuan waterway, and below deck a bewildered young girl trains as a dishwasher--sent to work by her peasant family, who is on the verge of relocation from the encroaching floodwaters. Above deck, a phalanx of wealthy international tourists set sail to catch a last glance of a country in dramatic flux. The teenaged employees who serve and entertain them--now tagged with new Westernized names like Cindy and Jerry by upper management--warily grasp at the prospect of a more prosperous future.
(1:25),6:25

Screen Four: THE COUNTERFEITERS – Based on a True Story (R) 1 hr. 40 min.

Towards the end of World War II, the National Socialists forged millions of British pounds in order to weaken the enemy's economy. A counterfeiting plant was set up with prisoners in the concentration camp in Sachsenhausen.

8:35 ONLY

Screen Five: KIT KITTREDGE: AN AMERICAN GIRL (G) Kids/Family and Adaptation 1 hr. 35 min.

Aspiring reporter Kit Kittredge can’t resist bringing home strays, whether it’s Grace, an abandoned basset hound, or Will and Countee, a pair of young hobos willing to trade work for meals. Bright, inquisitive and generous, Kit is a natural born leader. But her happy childhood is abruptly interrupted when her father loses his car dealership and must leave Cincinnati to look for work. Kit and her mother Margaret are left to manage on their own, growing vegetables, selling eggs and even taking in an assortment of boarders including an itinerant magician, a vivacious dance instructor on the prowl for a husband and a zany mobile librarian. When a crime spree sweeps Cincinnati, all signs point to the local hobo jungle where Will and Countee live with a group of their impoverished companions. Kit, who always has her antennae out for a good news story, convinces her new friends to take her to see the hobo camp for herself and writes an article that creates a sympathetic portrait of the camp’s residents. But when Kit’s mother and their boarders become the latest victims in a string of robberies, Kit’s loyalties are tested. Will is accused of the crimes and, with all of their savings gone, the Kittredges face losing their house to foreclosure. Determined to recover the stolen money and believing Will is innocent, Kit recruits her friends Ruthie and Stirling to help her track down the real culprit. Together they uncover a plot that goes far beyond Cincinnati!
(11:05am,1:45),4:10

Screen Five: MY FATHER MY LORD (NR) Arts/Foreign, Drama, Politics/Religion 1 hr. 25 min.

In Israel, Young Menachem lives in his father's shadow in a Haredim (the Hebrew word for ultra-Orthodox Jews) family, part of an insular community whose life revolves around Torah and tradition. Rabbi Abraham Edelman is a respected rabbi, extremely pious, and he demands that his family follow suit. Menachem soaks up his father's attention, but maintains a quiet dissent in the face of such overwhelming paternal presence. He is a loving and inquisitive child. At school, Menachem admires a mother dove and her young living on a windowsill. He learns a song about the story of Abraham and Isaac, and witnesses a neighbor in distress. When Menachem's father commands him to destroy a small photo, calling it idolatry, he argues theology. Menahem's mother, Esther, is more of the here and now, and concerns herself with the family's emotional welfare. She worries about her husband's inflexibility, and does not share in his fervor of Personal Providence nor in his belief that God exists only for the righteous Jew. Esther encourages her son's interest in planning a holiday at the Dead Sea, a trip that will test the family's faith.
6:40,8:40

Screen Six: BRICK LANE (PG-13) Drama 1 hr. 45 min.

The story of a beautiful young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneen, who arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Trapped within the four walls of her flat in East London, and in a loveless marriage with the middle aged Chanu, she fears her soul is quietly dying. Her sister Hasina, meanwhile, continues to live a carefree life back in Bangladesh, stumbling from one adventure to the next. Nazneen struggles to accept her own lifestyle, and keeps her head down in spite of life's blows, but she soon discovers that life cannot be avoided--and is forced to confront it the day that the hotheaded young Karim comes knocking at her door.

(11am) ONLY

Screen Six: CONSTANTINE’S SWORD (N/R) Documentary, Religion/Politics 1 hr. 35 min.

Acclaimed author and former priest James Carroll, a National Book Award winner and columnist for the Boston Globe, is a practicing Catholic whose search for the truth leads him to confront persecution and violence in the name of God--today and in the Church's past. He discovers a terrible legacy that reverberates across the centuries--from the Emperor Constantine's vision of the cross as a sword and symbol of power, to the rise of genocidal anti-Semitism, to modern-day wars and conflicts sparked by religious extremism. Carroll journeys both into his own past--where he comes to terms with his father's role as a three-star General in the U.S. Air Force preparing for nuclear war--and into the wider world, where he uncovers evidence of church-sanctioned violence against Jews, Muslims, and others. Visiting the Air Force Academy, he and Jacoby expose how some evangelical Christians are proselytizing inside our country's armed forces and reveal the dangerous consequences of religious influence on American foreign policy.
3:50 ONLY

Screen Six: THE SINGING REVOLUTION (NR) Documentary 1 hr. 40 min

First occupied by the Soviets in 1939, then by the Nazis, and then by the Soviets again, Estonia lived through decades of terror. By the end of World War II, more than one-quarter of the population had been deported to Siberia, were executed, or had fled the country. Music sustained the Estonian people during those years, and was such a crucial part of their struggle for freedom that their successful bid for independence is known as the Singing Revolution.
(1:30),6:35,8:40