Sunday, July 12 and Monday, July 13
Special Screenings
UNDER OUR SKIN
Dir. Andy Abrahams Wilson 1 hr 43 min (USA) Documentary
SHOWTIMES
Sunday, July 12 @ 2 PM
Monday, July 13 @ 2 & 7:30 PM
Mary Brescia, a local well-known lyme-literate RN, will be available for questions and answers after the 2:00 showing on Sunday, 7/12 and after the 2:00 & 7:30 showings on Monday, 7/13.
Steven J. Bock (MD), the Rhinebeck Health Center, will also be available (with Mary Brescia) for the Q/A after the 7:30 showing on Monday, 7/13.
Regular Admission Prices Apply For These Screenings.
"The terrorist in my body has been found." - Amy Tan, bestselling author
About the one of the most controversial illnesses in America today: Lyme disease. Most people think of Lyme disease as that thing you can catch from a tick bite, but few know the true graveness of one of the most dangerous epidemics currently afflicting people across the nation. Here, we examine not just the science of the bacteria that causes Lyme disease and the politics of the controversy but also the personal stories of those whose lives have been affected and nearly destroyed.
Producer-director-writer Andy Abrahams Wilson ("Bubbeh Lee and Me") takes a creative, humanistic approach that makes the complex material dramatic and visually interesting." —Alissa Simon, Variety
“Scary enough to make the faint of heart decide never to venture into the woods or to lie on the grass again without protective covering” –Stephen Holden, New York Times
"Freightening, powerful stuff." —Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
"UNDER OUR SKIN is a frightening documentary about Lyme disease, so called because it was first noticed in Lyme, Conn." —V.A. Musetto, New York Post
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FOOD, INC.
MPAA RATING: PG for some thematic material and disturbing images
Dir. Robert Kenner 1 hr 34 min (USA) Documentary In English
Starring Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosserhberg, Gary Hirschberg, and Joe Salatin
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of e coli--the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farm's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joe Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising -- and often shocking truths -- about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here. (Magnolia Pictures)
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CHERI
Rated: R for some sexual content and brief drug use 1 hr 40 min (UK/Germany) In English
Directed by Stephen Frears (THE QUEEN)
Written by Christopher Hampton
(Based on the novel by Colette)
Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Rupert Friend, Felicy Jones
It is turn of the century in Belle Epoque Paris and a scandalous romp is underfoot. The tale begins as the ravishing Lea contemplates retirement from her renowned stature as Paris's most envied seductress to the rich and famous. Her plans are cut short when she is approached by a former courtesan and arch rival, the barb-throwing gossip Charlotte Peloux, who encourages Lea to teach her disaffected 19 year-old son a thing or two about women. The resulting escapades involve power struggles over sex, money, age and society -- and unexpectedly, love itself -- as a boy who refuses to grow up collides with a woman who realizes she cannot stay young forever.
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WHATEVER WORKS
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual situations including dialogue, brief nude images and thematic material.
Dir. Woody Allen 1 hr 32 min (USA) In English Comedy
After making four films abroad, Woody Allen returns home to New York with this offbeat comedy about a misanthropic genius (Larry David) and a naive, impressionable young runaway from the south (Evan Rachel Wood).
Boris Yellnikoff is an almost-Nobel Prize-winning physicist who fancies himself the only one who fully comprehends the meaninglessness of all human aspirations amidst the chaos of the universe. Boris rejects everything about his cushy uptown life in search of a more bohemian existence. Before long he takes in-and is smitten with-Melody (Evan Rachel Wood), a runaway young woman who manages to entrance Boris in spite of himself. When first her mother (Patricia Clarkson), and later her father (Ed Begley, Jr.) arrive to rescue her, they are quickly drawn into wildly unexpected romantic upheavals. This is Allen’s 39th feature film (Sony Pictures Classics).
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DEPARTURES
MPAA RATING:
PG-13 for thematic material. 2 hr 10 min
(Japan) In Japanese w/subtitles
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER - BEST FOREIGN FILM 2008
"Departures" follows Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki), a devote 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.
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THE COVE
Winner - Audience Award - Sundance Film Festival
The Cove is an astounding piece of investigative journalism with the heart of an action thriller. Led by Louie Psihoyos, leader of the Ocean Preservation Society, and Richard O'Barry, an internationally recognized authority on dolphin training who is best known for his work on the 1960's TV show Flipper, the film follows a high-tech dive team on a mission to discover the truth about the international dolphin capture trade as practiced in Taji, Japan. Utilizing state-of-the-art techniques, including hidden microphones and cameras, the team uncovers how this small seaside village serves as a horrifying microcosm of massive ecological crimes happening worldwide. The Cove is also directed by Louie Psihoyos, who brings confidence and precision to his insider's account of this life-or-death covert operation. A celebrated photographer who has created images for National Geographic for 18 years, Psihoyos captures the magnificence of the dolphins themselves and the ocean that surrounds them. --© Roadside Attractions
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