Moscow, Belgium @ The Hipp Cinema Jan 30 - Feb 5

Moscow Belgium
(aka Aanrijding in Moscou)

January 30th - February 5th

ACID Award, Grand Golden Rail, Screenwriting Award, Cannes Film Festival
Best Feature Film, Best Film, Denver International Film Festival
New Talent Award, Zurich Film Festival

Although it may not sound like the most exciting place on earth, "Moscow, Belgium" is packed with plenty of drama, laughs and sentimental charm. Accomplished freshman director Christophe van Rompaey features a knockout performance from actress Barbara Sarafian ("8½ Women") as a mother of three caught in a love triangle with two good-natured losers. Working-class dramedy, in the tradition of Mike Leigh's best early efforts. Life is no field day for thick-skinned, forty-something postal worker Matty (Sarafian). Recently dumped by her art-teacher husband Werner for a nympho student, she's all but given up on the male breed. In a supermarket parking lot, she gets into a mild fender-bender with Johnny, a cagey, ex-alcoholic truck driver who's more than 10 years her junior. Immediately hooked by Matty's big mouth and sharp wit, he offers ice cream to her kids, then shows up the next day to help fix her damaged car trunk. Meanwhile, her three sweet but kooky children -- sexually ambiguous Vera, tarot-obsessed Fien and ultra-nerdy Peter -- don't make the daily grind any easier. 2008/ 102mins/ Flemish/ subt/ NR
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Showtimes

Fri (1/30):
6:30 & 8:30pm

Sat (1/31):
4:30, 6:30 & 8:30pm

Sun (2/1):
2:30, 4:30 & 7:00pm

Wed (2/4):
4:30, 6:30 & 8:30pm

Thu (2/5):
6:30 & 8:30pm

A Christmas Tale @ The Hipp Cinema Jan 23 - 29

A Christmas Tale

(aka Un conte de Noël)

January 23rd - January 29th

Golden Palm Nomination, Cannes Film Festival
Prix d'Excellence Nomination, European Film Awards
Best Actress Nomination, Satellite Awards

"If Ingmar Bergman and Wes Anderson some how collaborated on a movie together, I'd guess their sensibilities would yield something like Arnaud Desplechin's darkly hilarious, brilliantly acted A Christmas Tale." — NY Post

"Roiling with laughter, tears, drunken confessions, revelatory soliloquies, pain, sorrow, hospital visits, and various kinds of love, A Christmas Tale is a smart, sprawling, and sublimely entertaining feast." — Philadephia Inquirer

Masterfully directed and acted, by turns savage, bittersweet, darkly comic and unbearably moving, A Christmas Tale shows internationally acclaimed director Desplechin at the height of his powers. For some, Christmas means the joy of spending time with loved ones. But not for the Vuillard family in this blackly comic film. Instead of egg nog, bile and venom flow at the family get-together when estranged son Henri (Mathieu Amalric, QUANTUM OF SOLACE) returns. His mother, Junon (French legend Catherine Deneuve), has cancer, and Henri may be the bone marrow donor match that could save her life. Oldest daughter Elizabeth is equally unhappy to see her brother; he has been an emotional and financial drain on the family, and she had him legally banished from the family six years ago. But with his return, old wounds are freshly opened as the entire family gathers together for what could be their last holiday. This French film easily moves between the audience between laughter, gasps, and tears. The behavior of the Vuillard famille is atrocious at times, and it goes beyond just the awful--and sometimes awfully funny--things they say to one another. It's not destined to be a feel-good holiday classic à la IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, but A CHRISTMAS TALE may prove a perfect prescription for when viewers' families get to be a little too much. 2008/ 152mins/ French/ subt/ NR
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Showtimes

Fri (1/23):
6:00 & 8:45pm

Sat (1/24):
2:00, 5:00 & 8:00pm

Sun (1/25):
2:15, 5:00 & 8:00pm

Wed (1/28):
4:30, 6:45 & 9:00pm

Thu (1/29):
6:00 & 8:45pm

Dare Not Walk Alone @ The Hipp Cinema Jan 16 - 22

Dare Not Walk Alone

January 16th - January 22nd

"The greatest civil rights story never told...powerful slice of roiling American history" — LA Times

"Has great potential to do real good in the world" — Boxoffice Magazine

Meet The Producers! Reception 6pm Friday 1/16/08

Dare Not Walk Alone is an award-winning feature-length documentary created by Jeremy Dean. a twenty-something director and former student of Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida. The film mixes rare news footage from 1964 with present day testimony to document the untold story of a war of wills and ideals waged not in Alabama or Georgia or Mississippi but Florida. Before Disneyworld, the biggest tourist attraction in Florida was St. Augustine (MAKE THIS BOLD), and this is where African-Americans and their allies in the white community put their lives on the line to force the passage of the first civil rights act. Set to a soundtrack that flows from gospel to hip hop, the film places the heroic sacrifices of the past in the context of present day struggles in a community that epitomizes what Senator Barack Obama has called "the gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time." 2008/ 83mins/ NR
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Showtimes

Fri (1/16):
7:00 & 8:45pm

Sat (1/17):
4:30, 7:00 & 8:45pm

Sun (1/18):
2:30, 4:30, 7:00 & 12:30pm

Wed (1/21):
4:30, 7:00 & 8:45pm

Thu (1/22):
7:00 & 8:45pm

Humboldt County @ The Hipp Cinema Jan 9 - 15

Humboldt County

January 9th - January 15th

"Just the type of small film that, if given a chance to be seen by audiences, could become somewhat of a hit for grownups ala "Sideways" or "The Squid and the Whale." — Film Threat

"A slow starter. But what appears to be the cliched 'uptight nerd liberated by flighty sprite' tale--done better in films from 'Bringing Up Baby' to 'Barefoot in the Park'--evolves into something deeper, darker, more resonant." — Chicago Tribune

"...most people will see the movie poster and think oh, that's just a drug movie. But it's not. It's much more." — NEWSVINE

Directors Danny Jacobs and Darren Grodsky assemble an enviable cast--including Fairuza Balk, Peter Bogdanovich, Frances Conroy, Brad Dourif, and Chris Messina--for their first film. Newcomer Jeremy Strong holds his own with the veteran actors, playing Peter Hadley, a man whose one-night stand with Bogart (Balk) ends with him at her family home. At the edge of the continent and on the margins of society is a region of California known to some as "The Lost Coast." It is there, in Humboldt County, that Peter Hadley, a promising yet disillusioned medical student failed by his professor, stumbles upon a remote community of counterculture marijuana farmers and a warmly embracing, yet eccentric family. Humboldt County is a story of the human soul in search of happiness, and the unexpected places we can sometimes call home.. Welcome to Humboldt County, the intoxicating capital of a radical state of mind. 97mins/ 2008/ USA/ R
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Showtimes

Fri (1/9):
7:00 & 9:00pm

Sat (1/10):
4:30, 7:00 & 9:00pm

Sun (1/11):
2:30, 4:30 & 7:00pm

Wed (1/14):
4:30, 7:00 & 9:00pm

Thu (1/15):
7:00 & 9:00pm

Repo! The Genetic Opera @ The Hipp Cinema Jan 2 - Jan 10

Repo! The Genetic Opera

January 2nd - January 10th

"As it has evolved from a 10-minute cabaret piece, through a short film Bousman made in Toronto, to the big screen, Repo! The Genetic Opera has gained in both guts and gusto." — Toronto Star

"It's not often you come across a film as unique as this, and while my taste for liver, lights, and sweetbreads isn't what it once was, this is still a fine post-Halloween aperitif, with guts to spare." — Austin Chronicle

Late Night Special!

From November 10th thru November 17th REPO toured 7 cities, some of which were Chicago, Atlanta, and Orlando. At each location with the exception of Chicago, the single showing of the film was sold out 2-3 weeks in advance, and on the day of the showing, standby lines to get in to see the film were wrapped around several city blocks. And that was waiting for just a CHANCE to see the film. In fact, people flew in from Paris to see the Atlanta showing, and someone flew in from Puerto Rico to see the Orlando showing of Repo!. We are showing this film as a LATE NIGHT SPECIAL for several weekends. This is one of those films that fans love and critics don't. See it and decide for yourself!

A worldwide epidemic encourages a biotech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however. 2008/ 98mins/ USA/ R
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Showtimes

Fri (1/2):
10:45pm

Sat (1/3):
10:45pm

Fri (1/9):
10:45pm

Sat (1/10):
10:45pm

How About You @ The Hipp Cinema Jan 2 - 8

How About You

January 2nd - January 8th

"... by-the-numbers audience-pleaser." — Hollywood Reporter

"Based on a short story by the great Irish writer Maeve Binchy, the film has structure, resonance and a welcome respect for well-delineated characters, beautifully observed by a distinguished cast." — Rex Reed

Starring Academy Award Winners Vanessa Redgrave and Brenda Fricker, and Academy Award Nominee Imelda Staunton. Based on a short story by Maeve Binchy. Ellie (Hayley Atwell), a free-spirited and headstrong young woman, is left in charge of a residential home, owned and operated by her older sister Kate (Orla Brady), over the Christmas holidays.

‘Hope I die before I get old’, The Who sang in 1965. Paul McCartney wondered if he’d still be loved, ‘when I’m 64’. But today, ageing rock stars and contemporary society are reconsidering their perceptions of Old. A belief that we have choices and potential not just in our early years, but right though life, is at the centre of HOW ABOUT YOU. Adapted from a short story by Maeve Binchy, it has all the hallmarks of Ireland’s most widely read and internationally successful writer of popular fiction. HOW About You is an often funny and deeply human story of growing self-acceptance, where an unlikely group of characters develop relationships which are not only surprising, but transformative. In a film filled with compelling performances and vivid individuals, we discover a story about the rejuvenating power of other people. 2008/ 100mins/ Ireland/ NR
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Showtimes

Fri (1/2):
6:30 & 8:30pm

Sat (1/3):
4:30, 6:30 & 8:30pm

Sun (1/4):
2:30, 4:30 & 7:00pm

Wed (1/7):
4:30, 6:30 & 8:30pm

Thu (1/8):
6:30 & 8:30pm