Movies Coming Soon to a Fine Arts Theatre
The following movies will soon be showing at one of our Fine Arts Theatres. This movie list is alphabetical and does not reflect the order in which the movies will be scheduled at the theatres.
The following movies are opening soon, please click on the movie title to jump to the description of the movie.
- 16 To Life
- Animal Kingdom
- Cairo Time
- Disappearance Of Alice Creed
- Dry Land, The
- Get Low
- Kansas International Film Festival
- Killer Inside Me, The
- Mao's Last Dancer
- Red Shoes - Restored Print
- Restrepo
- True North
16 To Life 
Opening on 09/17/2010 (back to top)
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Rated NR, Running Time 118 Minutes
Movie Synopsis:
WINNER BEST NARRATIVE-2009 KANSAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Kate is a rural American teenager whose angst about sexual inexperience drives a comic quest for love and understanding on a birthday to end all birthdays. Kate’s irreverent fantasies of sexual awakening and guilt, fueled by obsessive reading of books on bizarre subjects (currently the Chinese Cultural Revolution) drive this explosive day. Kate is turning 16 and has never been kissed! Before the clock strikes midnight, Kate will learn more about love than most 16-year-olds could imagine. And Kate will learn what a 16-year-old American girl has in common with a 16-year-old Chinese girl half a world, and a cultural revolution, away.
Animal Kingdom
Opening on 09/17/2010 (back to top)
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Rated R, Running Time 112 Minutes
Movie Synopsis:
Welcome to the Melbourne underworld, where tensions are building between dangerous criminals and equally dangerous police. It's the Wild West, played out on the city's streets. Armed robber Pope Cody is in hiding, on the run from a gang of renegade detectives who want him dead. His business partner and best friend, Barry Baz Brown, wants out of the game, recognizing that their days of old-school banditry are all but over. Pope's younger brother, the speed-addicted and volatile Craig Cody, is making a fortune in the illicit substances trade - the true cash cow of the modern criminal fraternity - whilst the youngest Cody brother, Darren, naively navigates his way through this criminal world - the only world his family has ever known.
Cairo Time
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Rated NR, Running Time 88 Minutes
Movie Synopsis:
Juliette (Patricia Clarkson, Vicky Cristina Barcelona), a fashion magazine editor in her 50s, travels to Cairo to meet her husband, Mark (Tom McCamus), a UN official working in Gaza, for a three week vacation. When he is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq (Alexander Siddig), who had been his security officer for many years, to escort her throughout the beautiful and exotic city. The last thing anyone expects is that they will fall in love. Written and directed by Ruba Nadda, Cairo Time is a romantic drama about a brief, unexpected love affair that catches two people completely off-guard. (Partially subtitled)
Disappearance Of Alice Creed
Opening on 08/06/2010 (back to top)
Rated NR
Movie Synopsis:
Efficiency means a whole lot when you're presenting something like a kidnapping thriller. We've all had our share of captors, hostages, and ransoms in all of our favorite books, TV shows, and movies -- so if you're a first-time British filmmaker, how do you distinguish your concept - The Disappearance of Alice Creed - from all the others?
Well, first you take a little inspiration from films that get some things right, such as Danny Boyle's Shallow Grave, Rob Reiner's Misery, and Sidney Lumet's Deathtrap -- and then you add a few new spices of your own, which first-timer J Blakeson certainly does. And then, if you have the resources and the skill, you hire a few strong actors and refine your thriller into the tightest little flick it can possibly be.
None of which is to say that Blakeson's debut, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, is any sort of revolutionary genre film, but when someone is able to re-tell the old "hostage" story using only three actors, four locations, and (at least) five nifty twists, then I say that's a low-budget import that's worthy of some attention. And little things mean a lot: Disappearance is shot and presented in crisp and austere fashion, and it kicks off with a fantastic sequence in which two kidnappers (Martin Compston and Eddie Marsan) are preparing for their new arrival: We're treated to every last detail of their post-abduction preparations, and one can sense that Blakeson is starting out with crisp and efficient sequence -- just so we'll be able to feel the pressure once chaos starts to reign.
Dry Land, The
Opening on 08/27/2010 (back to top)
Rated R, Running Time 92 Minutes
Movie Synopsis:
What happens to soldiers when they come back from war? This question is answered in The Dry Land. Jack (Ryan O'Nan) comes home from Iraq and struggles to resume a normal life with his wife Sarah (America Ferrera). But the traumas of war have left him scared and unable to adjust. On the brink of a meltdown and unable to remember what happened to him during an attacked that happened in his unit's humvee, he decides to take a road trip with his friend and fellow soldier Raymond (Wilmer Valderrama). Jack and Raymond drive to Walter Reed to visit another soldier, Henry (Diego Klattenhoff) who was also in the attack. When he comes back from the road trip he faces another tragic event, the illness and eventual death of his mother (Melissa Leo). The events take a toll on his marriage as Sarah relies on their friend Michael (Jason Ritter) for support. The film ends when James sees Sarah and Michael in a truck and triggers aggressive emotions in Jack. Eventually, Jack beats up Michael, is chased by the police to his trailer and locks himself where he contimplates suicide.
Get Low
Opening on 08/27/2010 (back to top)
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Rated PG-13, Running Time 102 Minutes
Movie Synopsis:
Get Low is inspired by the true story of Felix "Bush" Breazeale, who attracted national attention when he threw himself a living funeral party in 1938 in Roane County, Tennessee. For years, townsfolk have been terrified of the backwoods recluse known as Felix Bush (Robert Duvall). One day, Felix rides to town with a shotgun and a wad of cash, saying he wants to buy a funeral—a "living funeral," in which anyone who ever had heard a story about him will come to tell it, while he takes it all in. Sensing a big payday in the offing, fast-talking funeral home owner Frank Quinn (Bill Murray) enlists his gentlemanly young apprentice, Buddy Robinson (Lucas Black), to win over Felix's business. Buddy discovers that behind Felix's surreal plan lies a very real and long-held secret that must get out. As the funeral approaches, the mystery—which involves the widow Mattie Darrow (Sissy Spacek), the only person in town who ever got close to Felix, and the Illinois preacher Charlie Jackson (Bill Cobbs), who refuses to speak at his former friend's funeral—only deepens. But on the big day, Felix is in no mood to listen to other people spinning made-up anecdotes about him. From Aaron Schneider, director of the Academy Award-winning short Two Soldiers.
Kansas International Film Festival
Opening on 10/01/2010 (back to top)
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Rated NR
Movie Synopsis:
The 10th Kansas International Film Festival will run from October 1-7th, 2010. Here is your chance to choose from over 50 Independent films from around the world and meet the Directors for a Q/A.
With over 50 films playing in only 7 days this festival is a movie lover's delight.
Your best bet for tickets is to purchase a Festival Pass because Festvial Pass Holders are seated first. Individual tickets will only be seated 10 to 15 minutes before showtime. With only one show of each film there will be a lot of sellouts.
For more info please go the festival's website: Kansasfilm.com
Killer Inside Me, The
Opening on 08/06/2010 (back to top)
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Rated R, Running Time 109 Minutes
Movie Synopsis:
Based on the novel by legendary pulp writer Jim Thompson (The Grifters), The Killer Inside Me tells the story of a handsome, charming, unassuming small town sheriff’s deputy named Lou Ford (Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James). Lou has a bunch of problems. Woman problems. Law enforcement problems. An ever-growing pile of murder victims in his West Texas jurisdiction. And the fact that he’s a sadist, a psychopath and a killer. When suspicion begins to fall on Lou, it’s only a matter of time before he runs out of alibis. But in Thompson’s savage, bleak, blacker-than-noir universe, nothing is ever what it seems, and it turns out that the investigators pursuing him might have a secret of their own. Co-starring Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty, Elias Koteas, Tom Bower, Simon Baker and Bill Pullman. Directed by Michael Winterbottom, whose diverse body of work includes A Mighty Heart, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story and 9 Songs.
Mao's Last Dancer
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Rated PG, Running Time 117 Minutes
Movie Synopsis:
From the Academy Award nominated director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies), comes the inspiring true story of Li Cunxin (Chi Cao) and his extraordinary journey from poverty to international stardom. Based on the bestselling autobiography, Mao's Last Dancer weaves a moving tale about the quest for freedom and the courage it takes to live your own life. The film poignantly captures the struggles and triumphs, as well as the intoxicating effects of first love and celebrity amid the pain of exile. Also starring Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan and Joan Chen. (Partially subtitled)
Red Shoes - Restored Print
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Rated NR, Running Time 133 Minutes
Movie Synopsis:
For one week only see this 1948 classic with a NEWLY RESTORED PRINT!
Under the authoritarian rule of charismatic ballet impressario Boris Lermontov, his proteges realize the full promise of their talents, but at a price: utter devotion to their art and complete loyalty to Lermontov himself. Under his near-obsessive guidance, young ballerina Victoria Page is poised for superstardom, but earns Lermontov's scorn when she falls in love with Julian Craster, composer of "The Red Shoes," the ballet Lermontov is staging to showcase her talents. Vicky leaves the company and marries Craster, but still finds herself torn between Lermontov's demands and those of her heart.
Restrepo
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Rated R, Running Time 94 Minutes
Movie Synopsis:
RESTREPO is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on remote 15-man outpost, 'Restrepo', named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats. The only goal is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 90 minute deployment. This is war, full stop. The conclusions are up to you.
True North 
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Rated NR, Running Time 96 Minutes
Movie Synopsis:
The skipper of the Scottish trawler (Gary Lewis: ERAGON, BILLY ELLIOT, GANGS OF NEW YORK) has worked for more than thirty-two years to buy his fishing vessel but is bankrupt and about to lose his ship to the bank. While in the port of Ostend, Belgium, the skipper’s son Sean accepts a large sum of money to smuggle Chinese illegal immigrants to Scotland in an attempt to help his father keep the trawler. With the help of a deckhand (Peter Mullan: TRAINSPOTTING, BRAVEHEART) looking for easy money, they hide the group in a store below the boatswain store. When one of the Chinese dies, despair is triggered leading the crew to tragic actions.
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