Cinematiki Maui

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Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.

Can anything topple “1917,” the new best-picture front-runner? I suspect that this formerly wide-open race is now a contest between the World War I film and Bong Joon Ho’s contemporary thriller, “Parasite,” which is vying to become the first foreign-language film to win the best-picture Oscar.

“Parasite” pulled off a separate victory by taking the top drama prize from the American Cinema Editors on Friday, another first for a foreign film. Its cast also won the top prize Sunday night at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, where a nomination in the best-ensemble category eluded “1917.”  – New York Times Kyle Buchanan The Carpetbagger

Start Time 7PM

Behind the Vatican walls, Pope Benedict and the future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church.

Join us for a series of three films suggested by Georgy Gusev.

A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, the film depicts an impossible love story in impossible times.

After running away from a residential nursing home to pursue his dream of becoming a pro wrestler, a man who has Down syndrome befriends an outlaw who becomes his coach and ally.

6:00 PM – ARRIVE

6:30 PM – FILM STARTS

(LONG FILM – STARTING EARLY)

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We have been waiting for this film to come out and we are VERY excited to show it!

The director of the movie is Martin Scorsese, returning to the rich soil that he has tilled and sown before, in “Mean Streets” (1973), “Goodfellas” (1990), “Casino” (1995), “The Departed” (2006), and the opening episode of “Boardwalk Empire,” in 2010. The new film is adapted by Steven Zaillian from a book by Charles Brandt, partly based on conversations with the real Frank Sheeran, who died in 2003, and titled “I Heard You Paint Houses.”

“Patient, composed, and cool to the point of froideur, Martin Scorsese’s latest film, speculating on the fate of Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino), slows the passage of time.” -The New Yorker

6:35 PM – ARRIVE

7:00 PM – FILM STARTS

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Pain and Glory tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void that creates the incapacity to keep on making films. Pain and Glory talks about creation, about the difficulty of separating it from one’s own life and about the passions that give it meaning and hope. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he also finds his salvation.

“Gathering his obsessions together like old friends, Pedro Almodóvar has made one of his richest and most sombre films yet.” from The New Yorker

6:35 PM – ARRIVE

7:00 PM – FILM STARTS

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Martín and Mariana are slightly damaged people who live in buildings just opposite one another. While they often don’t notice each other, separation might be the very thing that brings them together.

“Smart, wordy and sweetly sympathetic to lives lived online, ‘Sidewalls’ coasts on Martín and Mariana’s twin voice-overs, alternate musings on themselves and their city.” -Jeannette Catsoulis from the New York Times

6:35 arrive

7:00 Film Starts

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We are showing this film again. It won best foreign language film in 2009.

It is an absolutely impeccable, great film. Superb cinematography, the film basically explores what “passion” is to the human being.

Don’t miss this!

Tom & JJ