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The Magnolia at the Modern is an ongoing series featuring critically acclaimed films. Regular show times are Friday at 6 & 8 pm, Saturday at 5 pm, and Sunday at 2 & 4 pm (exceptions are noted). Tickets are $8.50; $6.50 for Modern members. Advance sales begin two hours prior to each show.
Film Schedule
MAN ON WIRE
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Festival, this compelling documentary examines tightrope walker Philippe Petit’s daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City’s World Trade Center’s twin towers in 1974, what some consider, “the artistic crime of the century.”
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
“ It is a poem of oddness and beauty.” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times.) Maverick filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica to capture its landscape’s rarely seen beauty on film.
I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND
“Forty years after their Closely Watched Trains won the Oscar for best foreign-language film, director Jiri Menzel has adapted another novel by the late Bohumil Hrabal, and history could well repeat itself when Academy members get to see I Served the King of England.” (Ray Bennett, The Hollywood Reporter.) The glamorous life at an old-world Prague hotel is the setting for this film adaptation of Hrabal’s novel about the rapid rise of an opportunistic waiter in 1930s Prague.
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
“The film is plush and passionate and graced with elegant performances. Best is that of Emma Thompson as Brideshead’s matriarch, Lady Marchmain, who resembles a cross between Helen Mirren’s Queen Elizabeth II and Pope Benedict.” Carrie Rickey, The Philadelphia Inquirer. Based on Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 classic British novel, Emma Thompson stars in this poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
PG-13 for some sexual content; 133 minutes
ELEGY
“If Coixet’s film is substantially more restrained than its explicit source, it is no less provocative as a poetic meditation on love, sex and death.” Carrie Rickey, The Philadelphia Inquirer. Elegy, adapted from the novel by Philip Roth, charts the passionate relationship between a celebrated college professor (Ben Kingsley) and a young woman (Penelope Cruz) whose beauty both ravishes and destabilizes the professor.
UP THE YANGTZE
“One of the real pluses of Up the Yangtze, aside from its empathy with its subjects, is its striking visual quality. Beijing-based cinematographer Wang Shi Qing has an impeccable eye, often coming up with haunting images that show both the beauty and uncertainty of this pivotal time.” Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times. Chinese-Canadian director Yung Chang returns to the stunning landscape of his grandfather’s Yangtze, known in China as “The River” to chronicle the “farewell cruise” on the magnificent waterway before the transformation resulting from the largest hydroelectric project in history.
TRANSIBERIAN
“One hell of a thriller. It’s not often that I feel true suspense and dread building within me, but they were building during long stretches of this expertly constructed film.” Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times. A Trans-Siberian train journey from China to Moscow is fraught with suspense and murder when an American couple (Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer) encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.
RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
Academy Award winning director, Jonathan Demme, directs this strikingly perceptive and sometimes hilarious family portrait which stars Ann Hathaway as a sister recently released from re-hab returning home for her sister’s wedding.
GIRL CUT IN TWO
“An erotically charged, beautifully directed story of a woman preyed upon by different men and her own warring desires.” Manohla Dargis, The New York Times. French master Claude Chabrol directs this black comedy about a TV weather girl torn between two romantic suitors.
SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK
Charlie Kaufman wrote and directs this comedy/drama about a theater director (Philip Seymour-Hoffman) struggling with the demands of his work and the many women in his life
I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG
Kristen Scott Thomas plays a sister re-united with the family who has rejected her for fifteen years.
ASHES OF TIME, REDUX
Chinese director/auteur Wong Kar-wai works true magic in his legendary, romantic and one and only martial arts film, previously un-released in this country.
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