Thursday, May 23, 2013
Opening This Week
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (R)
Two documentary filmmakers (Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman) chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with the children of prostitutes who work in the city's red light district.
Two documentary filmmakers (Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman) chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with the children of prostitutes who work in the city's red light district.
Kimball's Twin Peak
India: A Festival of Recent Documentary Films
Featuring four short documentaries, Changing Her Karma, Shadows of Freedom, Born to Die and On My Own. The films explore the stories of women who overcome social restraints and change their lives; female feticide; identity and gender conflicts; and the lives of single urban women in Delhi.
Tues., May 3, 7 p.m.
CC's Tutt Science Center, Kresge Lecture Hall, 1112 N. Nevada Ave. Call 389-6607 for info.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (PG)
Douglas Adams writes the film's screenplay, adapted from his cult classic novel. Seconds before the earth is demolished to make way for a space highway, Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman of BBC's "The Office") is rescued by his friend Ford Prefect (Mos Def). Unbeknownst to Dent, Prefect is an alien researcher penning the new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and leads them into a wild outer-space adventure. Directed by Garth Jennings.
Carmike 10, Chapel Hills 15, Cinemark 16, Tinseltown
House of D (PG-13)
Written and directed by David Duchovny. Duchovny plays Tom Warshaw, an American artist living in Paris, who "finds himself" and returns home to reconcile with his loved ones. Also starring Tea Leoni, Robin Williams and Erykah Badu.
Tinseltown
Ong-Bak: Thai Warrior (R)
In this action film starring Tony Jaa as Ting, a young man is chosen by his fellow villagers to retrieve the head of Ong-Bak, a sacred statue. Ting must use his traditional Muay Thai skills to combat his adversaries and reclaim his village's religious relic.
Carmike 10
Sharks 3-D (NR)
Jean-Michel Cousteau presents an up-close experience with a variety of shark species found around the world.
Cinemark 16 IMAX
xXx: State of the Union (PG-13)
Carmike 10, Chapel Hills 15, Cinemark 16, Tinseltown
Ice Cube stars as Darius Stone, Augustus Gibbons' (Samuel L. Jackson) second xXx recruit. Stone is sent to the nation's capitol to track George Deckert's (Willem Dafoe) military splinter group slated to overthrow the U.S. government.
