Film Series This Week

Wednesday 8pm $4
January 31
TRAINSPOTTING
1996. United Kingdom. Dir: Danny Boyle. With Ewan McGregor. 94min.
Find REQUIEM FOR A DREAM preachy and pretentious? Without exalting or condemning them, Boyle wallows in the joy, fear, and depravity of a pack of Scottish heroin addicts. With Ewan MacGregor before he began prancing around space.

Thursday 8pm free
February 1
OLD JOY
2005. USA. Dir: Kelly Reichard. With Will Oldham. 73 min.
Two estranged friends reunite for a camping trip in the Cascade mountains of Oregon, providing an incisive examination of liberalism in contemporary conservative America. A stunningly wistful road movie about both forgiveness and alienation, with cult phenomenon Bonnie "Prince" Billy.

Friday 8pm $4
Fbruary 2
BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN
2006. USA. Dir: Larry Charles. With Sacha Baron Cohen. 84 min.
High five!

Saturday 8pm free
FEBRUARY 3
SWING TIME
1936. USA. Dir George Stevens. With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers. 103 min.
Astaire's charming gambler and rogers' dance instructor kindle "A Fine Romance" amidst snowy landscapes and sparkling art-deco sets. Legend says that the pair rehearsed the show-stopping "Never Gonna Dance" until Ginger's feet bled, and the results are worth every drop.