Friday August 22 to Thursday August 28, 2014

Oscar Winner! Best Supporting Actress. “A unique work in American cinema, shot in 39 days over the course of 12 years, Boyhood is an epic about the ordinary: growing up, the banality of family life, and forging an identity.

“The subtle cat-and-mouse espionage games and relative degrees of political and personal malignancy novelist John Le Carre has famously demarcated for more than a half-century are well represented in Anton Corbijn’s film version of 2008 best-seller A Most Wanted Man. This textured thriller, rooted in Eastern immigrant-laden Hamburg, will prove absorbing to attentive audiences.

Following the spectacular failure of his second opera, Un giorno di regno, Giuseppe Verdi vowed never to compose another. But he was lured back to the theatre by Bartolomeo Merelli, the impresario of La Scala, Milan, with the commission for Nabucco. The resulting opera was a triumph – first performed in 1842, it was revived the same year with a run of 57 shows.

A gently elegiac road comedy about two aging buddies vacationing in Iceland, Land Ho!