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MAGNOLIA AT THE MODERN FILM SCHEDULE
The Magnolia at the Modern is an ongoing series featuring critically acclaimed films. Regular show times are Friday at 6 and 8 pm, Saturday at 5 pm, and Sunday at 2 and 4 pm (exceptions are noted). Tickets are $8.50; $6.50 for Modern members. Advance sales begin two hours prior to each show.
FILM SCHEDULE
ANIMAL KINGDOM
One of the most popular films at this year’s Sundance Festival and winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury prize, David Michôd’s Animal Kingdom tells the story of seventeen year-old J (Josh) as he navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.
THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE
“Relentless suspense! Holds you in a viselike grip. Noomi Rapace is spectacular.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone. In The Girl Who Played with Fire—the second installment in the “Millennium” trilogy following The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo—Mikael Blomkvist is about to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society. On the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander.
MODERN CINEMA 2010
Celebrating its sixth year, this special weekend festival highlights some of the finest in world cinema. Christopher Kelly, film critic for DFW.com and the Star-Telegram, travels the festival circuit and selects films scoring rave reviews.
LEBANON
A lone tank is dispatched to search a hostile town—a simple mission that turns into a nightmare. The four members of a tank crew find themselves in a violent situation that they cannot contain. Motivated by fear and the basic instinct of survival, they desperately try not to lose themselves in the chaos of war. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, Lebanon was written and directed by Samuel Maoz, who based the script on his own experiences in the Israeli Armored Corps as a young man during the First Lebanon War.
A WOMAN, A GUN, AND A NOODLE SHOP
Acclaimed, praised and more recently criticized director Zhang Yimou brings to the screen a period remake of the Coen Brothers’ 1984 debut, Blood Simple, transplanting the action from a Texas bar to an isolated noodle restaurant in the deserts of northern China, where the owner of the shop’s scheme to murder his adulterous wife and her lover goes awry.
MAO’S LAST DANCER
“The film’s most complex character is actually Ben Stevenson (Canadian actor Bruce Greenwood shines in this crucial role), the director of the Houston Ballet Company who sets everything in motion and keeps it going.” Peter Brunette, The Hollywood Reporter. The latest exciting and inspirational film from Academy Award-nominated director, Bruce Beresford, is based on Li Cunxin’s bestselling autobiography about a young dancer from a poor Chinese village who participates in a cultural exchange program with the Houston Ballet. Under the guidance of Texas Ballet Theater’s own Ben Stevenson, Li goes on to become a principal dancer and international star.
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