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Young at Heart
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Documents the true story of the final weeks of rehearsal for the Young at Heart Chorus in Northampton, MA, whose average age is 81, and many of whom must overcome health adversities to participate. Their music is unexpected, going against the stereotype of their age group, performing songs, for example, by James Brown, and Sonic Youth. Although they have toured Europe and sang for royalty, this account focuses on preparing new songs, not an easy endeavor, for a concert in their home town, which succeeds in spite of several real heart breaking events. Written by Fox Searchlight
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Coming to the Grandin Friday, May 16, 2008
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
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Indiana Jones is back with a new globe-trotting adventure! The year is 1957 and archaeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is living a quiet life as a teacher at Marshall College. There Indy encounters young renegade Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf), who needs Dr. Jones's help in finding the mysterious Crystal Skull of Akator. Legend says that the skull was stolen from a mysterious City of Gold guarded by the living dead in the Amazon. Whoever returns it to the city's temple will become master of the skull's powers. Together they travel to Peru where they find themselves battling the Soviets under nefarious Irina Spalko (Cate Blanchett), who wants the power of the skull as an advantage in the Cold War. Co-starring Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, John Hurt and Jim Broadbent. Screenplay by David Koepp (Spider-Man, Jurassic Park), based on a story by George Lucas (Star Wars). Directed by Steven Spielberg (Raiders of the Lost Ark).
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Coming to the Grandin Thursday, May 22, 2008
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Grandin Village Short Film Competition
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The Grandin Village Short Film Competition is a one day competition sponsored by The Grandin Theatre, and co-sponsored by Grandin Gardens and Rockfish Food and Wine. The competition begins at 8:00 A.M. on the 24th of May and ends at 8:00 P.M. the same day. Teams may consist of up to six members. All teams must send a representative to Grandin Gardens to register their team and attend the briefing on the morning of the competition. Registration runs from 7:00 A.M. until 7:45 A.M. At 7:45 A.M. Competition Officials will brief the teams. During this briefing Officials will give four objects and a phrase to the teams. These objects and phrase must be incorporated into the 5-10 minute-long videos that will be made that day. The contestants will have until 8:00 P.M. to get their videos to the Grandin Theatre box office on a DVD. At midnight, all videos will be shown and prizes will be awarded for audience favorites. For additional information please call Perry Randall at (540)-797-2793.
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Coming to the Grandin Saturday, May 24, 2008
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Open Projector Night
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Open Projector Night is a quarterly film screening of locally produced short films. Held at the historic Grandin Theatre, filmmakers of all levels of experience are encouraged to submit entries for consideration. Local filmmakers are offered a chance to showcase their work and network with other filmmakers, helping to create a forum for them to receive feedback from their peers and the audience.
Paneled by the Young Curators and the Teen Advisory Committee of the Art Museum of Western Virginia.
Screenings begin at 7:00pm and admission is $5.75.
View one of audience favorites from the last Open Projector Night:
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Coming to the Grandin Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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Sex and the City
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Sex and the City is coming to the big screen in a feature film adaptation of the hit HBO television series. The film will follow the continuing adventures of the series four main characters - Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda - as they live their lives in Manhattan four years after the series ended. Stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon are all on board to reprise their roles, while the film will be written and directed by Michael Patrick King, who executive produced the original television series. Additionally, Chris Noth, David Eigenberg, Evan Handler and Jason Lewis will return as the women's love interests. Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) has also joined the cast of the film and will play Carrie Bradshaw's assistant, a new character to be introduced in the film.
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Coming to the Grandin Friday, May 30, 2008
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Son of Rambow
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A runaway audience smash at the Sundance Film Festival, SON OF RAMBOW is a hilariously fresh and visually inventive take on friendship, family, film heroes and the death-defying adventures of growing up in the video age. It all begins in 1980s Britain, when young Will Proudfoot, raised in isolation among The Brethren, a puritanical religious sect in which music and TV are strictly forbidden, encounters something beyond his wildest fantasies: a pirated copy of RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD. His virgin viewing of the iconic thriller blows his mind and rapidly expanding imagination wide open. Now, Will sets out to join forces with the seemingly diabolical school bully, Lee Carter, to make their own action epic, devising wildly creative, on-the-fly stunts, not to mention equally elaborate schemes for creating a movie of total commitment and non-stop thrills while hiding out from The Brethren. But when school popularity finally descends on Will and Lee in the form of, oui, the super-cool French exchange student, Didier Revol, their remarkable new friendship and precious film are pushed, quite literally, to the breaking point.
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Coming to the Grandin Friday, May 30, 2008
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Raising Arizona (Midnight Movie)
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Big-hearted policewoman Holly Hunter and reformed criminal Nicolas Cage make the perfect misfit couple, but no baby blesses their union ("Her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase.") The solution: redistribute one of the local celebrity quintuplets into their family. Quirkily comedic in the Preston Sturges mold and a leftfield hit, the film helped launch the careers of future Oscar winners Cage and Hunter. John Goodman steals his scenes as Cage's ne'er-do-well brother with family issues of his own.
Two midnight shows. June 20th & 21st.
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Coming to the Grandin Friday, June 20, 2008
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Fargo (Midnight Movie)
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The Coens' signature film is a hardboiled crime drama laced with flaky humor, local color, and deliriously memorable character grotesques. Hard-up used car dealer William H. Macy engineers the kidnapping of his own wife to ransom to his in-laws, but his hired goons Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare botch the job. Macy might have gotten away with the coverup, too, if it wasn't for sharp-eyed, quick-thinking and very pregnant Detective Marge Gunderson. "You betcha." Nominated for seven Oscars, with the brothers winning for Best Screenplay and Frances McDormand winning Best Actress for her much-loved turn as Marge.
Two midnight shows. July 25th & 26th.
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Coming to the Grandin Friday, July 25, 2008
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The Big Lebowski (Midnight Movie)
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A case of mistaken identity embroils slacker Jeff "the Dude" Lebowski (a sublimely comic Jeff Bridges) in a kidnapping case and throws him into the role of hapless detective in the Coens' cockeyed homage to Howard Hawks's THE BIG SLEEP. The shaggy dog shenanigans and pixilated dialogue deliver gut-busting hilarity from start to finish; and a stellar cast all with great comic gusto, including John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Turturro as bad-ass bowler "Jesus."
A case of mistaken identity embroils slacker Jeff "the Dude" Lebowski (a sublimely comic Jeff Bridges) in a kidnapping case and throws him into the role of hapless detective in the Coens' cockeyed homage to Howard Hawks's THE BIG SLEEP. The shaggy dog shenanigans and pixilated dialogue deliver gut-busting hilarity from start to finish; and a stellar cast all with great comic gusto, including John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Turturro as bad-ass bowler "Jesus."
A case of mistaken identity embroils slacker Jeff "the Dude" Lebowski (a sublimely comic Jeff Bridges) in a kidnapping case and throws him into the role of hapless detective in the Coens' cockeyed homage to Howard Hawks's THE BIG SLEEP. The shaggy dog shenanigans and pixilated dialogue deliver gut-busting hilarity from start to finish; and a stellar cast all with great comic gusto, including John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Turturro as bad-ass bowler "Jesus."
Two midnight shows. August 22nd & 23rd.
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Coming to the Grandin Friday, August 22, 2008
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Special Showings
For more information on these showings, please check out the Blue Ridge Film Society at www.blueridgefilmsociety.org
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Classic Series presented by Friendship Retirement Community
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Top Hat (1935) - Saturday, May 10, 2008
Arsenic & Old Lace (1944) - Saturday, June 14, 2008
The Long, Long Trailer (1953) - Saturday, July 12, 2008
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