Upcoming Films

Goodbye Solo

On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol’ boy with a lifetime of regrets. One man’s American dream is just beginning, while the other’s is quickly winding down. But despite their differences, both men soon realize they need each other more than either is willing to admit. Through this unlikely but unforgettable friendship, Goodbye Solo deftly explores the passing of a generation as well as the rapidly changing face of America. 91 mins/ USA/ NR
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Little Ashes

While critics are mixed in their opinions of Little Ashes, audiences around the world are embracing this engaging film. In 1922, Madrid is wavering on the edge of change as traditional values are challenged by the dangerous new influences of Jazz, Freud and the avant-garde. Salvador Dali arrives at the university, 18 years old and determined to become a great artist. His bizarre blend of shyness and rampant exhibitionism attracts the attention of two of the university’s social elite--Federico Garcia Lorca and Luis Bunuel. In the midst of the repression and political unrest of pre-Spanish Civil War, eccentric artist Salvador Dalí and renowned poet and revolutionary Federico García Lorca find their artistic and sexual freedom. The two form a bond challenged by their fierce ambitions, their friends, the struggle between a love for Spain and a love for each other. Starring Robert Pattinson. 112 mins/ UK/ R
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Departures
(Okuribito)

Departures follows Daigo Kobayashi, a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and who is suddenly left without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled Departures thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a Nokanshi or “encoffineer,” a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art of Nokanshi, acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed. The film follows his profound and sometimes comical journey with death as he uncovers the wonder, joy and meaning of life and living. 130 mins/ Japan/ subt/ PG-13
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Sin Nombre

Seeking the promise of America, a beautiful young Honduran woman, Sayra, joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with teenage Mexican gang member El Casper, who has murdered his brutal gang’s leader. He joins the family of emigrants making the dangerous journey across Mexico to the United States, all the while trying to avoid a fellow gang member who has been sent to kill him. As their fates collide and diverge, the film tenderly illuminates lives lived constantly on the verge -- on the verge of death, of hope, of honor and dishonor, damnation and redemption. There’s much food for thought here -- how the cancer of gangs spreads through generations, how an underground railroad to the United States delivers some families while destroying others, how the divisions between countries and between countrymen are self-perpetuating and lethal -- but none of it is as effective as the characters, the acting, the craftsmanship and the story. It builds to a satisfying conclusion, and continues to build even as the credits roll, its implications echoing, its emotions lingering, as it takes its place in the list of truly great directorial debuts. 96 mins/ Mexico & USA/ subt/ R
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Lemon Tree
(Etz Limon)

Lemon Tree is Eran Riklis’ engaging human drama of one woman’s struggle to preserve her way of life in the midst of political turmoil. The wonderful Hiam Abbass plays Salma, a Palestinian widow who earns her living tending to her late father’s lemon grove. When an Israeli government minister moves next door and declares the grove a potential security threat, Salma struggles to defend her peaceful livelihood. Personal drama gives way to political controversies as Salma forms an unexpected bond with the minister’s lonely wife, and, with the help of her young lawyer, takes her protest all the way to the Israeli Supreme Court. 106 mins/ Israel/ subt/ NR (UK:PG)
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Is Anybody There?

Sir Michael Caine gives one of the finest performances of his career as a retired magician who reluctantly enters a family-run old age home in John Crowley’s newest film. Set in a seaside English town circa 1987, Is Anybody There? charts the unlikely friendship that develops between Caine’s proud, acerbic old performer and the death-obsessed young son (played by Bill Milner) of the home’s overwhelmed owners. Written by Peter Harness, who draws from his own experience growing up in a retirement home, the script brings a rich humor as well as a rigorous honesty to its portrait of different lives colliding under one roof. Is Anybody There? is a charming story about growing up and growing old, and the unpredictable adventures that happen along the way. 90 mins/ UK/ PG-13
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