Ticket Prices

Film Buff Members: $3
Film Star Members: Free
Atheneum Members: $6
Seniors & Students with ID: $6
General Admission: $8

Refreshments

Come early and enjoy our cash bar, featuring beer, wine and snacks. Settle into comfortable chairs or mingle with other theatergoers before the show in the Loctite Lobby.

Call the Box Office

Films are subject to change. Please call the box office to confirm titles, or for answers to other questions, at (860) 278-2670, ext. 3142.

Summer 2005 Film Series

Sponsored by Advest.

How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer

Thursday, June 23, 7:30 p.m.*
Saturday, June 25, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, June 26, 2:00 p.m.

*Introduction by Director Georgina Garcia Riedel.

This comedy lovingly explores loneliness, sensuality, and self-realization among three generations of single Mexican American women grappling with romantic drought. Sparks begin to fly when the matriarch of this Arizona border town family buys a car and enlists the help of an elderly gentleman to teach her to drive, setting into motion a family crisis that awakens the pent up emotions and longings of her daughter and granddaughter, played radiantly by America Ferrara (Real Women Have Curves).

2004. USA. 128 min. Rated R.
Starring: Elizabeth Peña, America Ferrara.

Or (My Treasure)

Thursday, July 7, 7:30 p.m.*
Saturday, July 9, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 10, 2:00 p.m.

*Introduction by Curator of Film & Theater Deborah Gaudet

Winner of the Best First Feature Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Or examines the life of a prostitute and her hardworking teenage daughter, who desperately wants her mother to leave behind the sordid and dangerous life she leads. The daughter does her best to bring in income and convince her mother to stay off the streets. This gripping film was winner of Best Film and Best Actress Awards at the Jerusalem Film Festival.

2004. Israel. 100 min. Not Rated.
Adult themes and graphic scenes. Subtitles.
Directed by Keren Yedaya.

Whisky

Thursday, July 14, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 16, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 17, 2:00 p.m.

Sibling rivalry is subtly and delightfully captured in this clever comedy. Jacabo has been running the family business for years and living like a monk in his dead mother's apartment. When his younger and more successful brother decides to return home for a visit, Jacabo enlists the help of Marta, a quiet and unassuming woman who has worked for him for years. She agrees to pose as his wife and the complicated illusion sends mixed signals to all three characters. Winner of eleven awards at film festivals around the world, including the Audience Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

2004. Uruguay. 94 min. Not Rated. Subtitles.
Directed by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll.
Official site (Uruguay)
Official site (France)

Machuca

Thursday, July 21, 7:30 p.m.*
Saturday, July 23, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 24, 2:00 p.m.**

*Introduction by Dr. Stacey Alba D. Skar, Senior Lecturer, Trinity College
**Sunday's screening will be preceded by a poetry reading at 1:15 p.m. by the winners of the Hillstead Museum’s statewide Young Poets Competition. These winners will also perform at the Sunken Garden Poetry event on August 4.

Set in Santiago, Chile, in 1973, this touching autobiographical film tells the story of Pedro Machuca, a poor boy placed in an upper class private school during Chile’s brief socialist era. A well-to-do boy, Gonzalo, who is bullied by his classmates, befriends Pedro. In doing so, Gonzalo discovers a thrilling, but wildly complicated life outside his priviledged world. His sexy mother, who makes no attempt to hide her transgression, is having an affair with a wealthy older man. The friendship with Pedro provides an escape for Gonzalo. All around the characters, Chile drifts towards civil war. Chile's 2004 Academy Award entry for Best Foreign Film and winner of Audience Awards and Grand Jury Prizes at five international film festivals.

2004. Chile. 115 min. Not Rated. Subtitles.
Directed by Andrés Wood.

La Femme de Gilles (Gilles' Wife)

Thursday, July 28, 7:30 p.m.*
Saturday, July 30, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 31, 2:00 p.m.

*Introduction by Curator of Film & Theater Deborah Gaudet

Set in a grimy mining town in the '30s, this period film is a tour de force of psychological insight. The movie is a riveting cinematic examination of a housewife's devotion to her family and her "happy" marriage, in which all is not what it seems to be. Pregnant with her third child, she begins to suspect her husband is having an affair and both spouses learn to keep secrets from each other. The object of his affection adds an intense and profound layer to the story. Winner of the CIACAE Award at the Venice Film Festival.

2004. Belgium. 108 min.
Not Rated (Adult themes). Subtitles.
Directed by Frédéric Fonteyne.

Home of the Brave

Wednesday, August 3, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, August 6, 9:30 p.m.
Sunday, August 7, 4:00 p.m.

Viola Liuzzo, a civil rights activist, was murdered in 1965 in Selma, Alabama, while campaigning for black suffrage. This moving documentary tells her story, the affect her wrongful death had on her family, and why the killing was kept under wraps by law enforcement.

2004. USA. 75 min. Not Rated.
Directed by Paola de Florio.
Narrated by Stockard Channing.

Hotel Rwanda

Thursday, August 4, 7:30 p.m.*
Saturday, August 6, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, August 7, 2:00 p.m.

*Introduction by Nzogu Kulya, Director of Business Development, African Vision newspaper

Based on true events stemming from the atrocity of the Rwandan civil war, the film introduces us to Paul Ruseabagina, the manager of a posh hotel. In 1994, when Hutu extremists begin terrorizing the Tutsi people, Paul endangers his own life and those of his family to give sanctuary to hundreds of Tutsis. He barters with cash, liquor, and stockpiled favors to save those in his care.

"FOUR STARS" – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

2004. South Africa. 110 min. Rated PG-13.

Bucharest Express

Thursday, August 11, 7:30 p.m.*
Saturday, August 13,7:30 p.m.
Sunday, August 14, 2:00 p.m.

*Introduction by director Chuck Portz

Attempting to stay one step ahead of a band of gangsters proves difficult for an American journalist, a beautiful local journalist, and a British expatriate and his wife as they uncover the tragic trafficking of female sex slaves in the Balkans. Through the interaction of this dissimilar group of characters trying to expose the truth, this thriller informs us of the all too common practice of transporting young women to Bucharest with false promises of jobs as dancers and models. Once there, they are traded for heroin, stripped of their passports and shipped to Turkey for a life of prostitution.

2002. Moldova/USA. 81 min. English/Subtitles. DVD.
Directed by Chuck Portz.

The Other Side of the Street

Thursday, August 18, 7:30 p.m.*^
Saturday, August 20, 7:30 p.m.^
Sunday, August 21, 2:00 p.m.

*Introduction by Lidia Santos, Associate Professor, Yale University
^Thursday and Saturday screenings preceded by live jazz from the Greg Yuska Trio beginning at 6:30 p.m.

The incomparable Fernanda Montenegro (Central Station) stars as Regina, a lonely woman who fills her empty existence by acting as a "snitch" to the local police. Regina becomes involved with a crime suspect—a retired judge—who she suspects of murdering his wife. This charming thriller explores the possibilities of attraction and love at an older age. Winner of the CICAE Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.

2003. Brazil. 98 min. Not Rated. Subtitles.
Directed by Marcos Bernstein.

Summer Seduction Under The Stars

Live music and cash bar outdoors in Gengras Court followed at sundown (approximately 8:45 p.m.) by:

She Done Him Wrong
Friday, July 1, 7:30 p.m.
The glamorous sloonkeeper at a Gay Nineties establishment falls for the undercover cop who is after her.
1933. USA. 66 min. B&W. Not rated.
Starring: Mae West, Cary Grant
Directed by Lowell Sherman

My Little Chickadee
Friday, August 5, 7:30 p.m.
A shady lady and an incompetent card shark unmask a villain in the Old West.
1939. USA. 83 min. B&W. Not rated.
Starring: Mae West, W.C. Fields
Directed by Edward Cline