Friday December 6 to Thursday December 12, 2013

9 OSCAR NOMINATIONS INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, DIRECTOR & ACTOR

Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave stars Chiwetel Ejifor as Solomon Northup, a free black man in 1840s America. He makes his living as a fiddle player, and his wife is a teacher.

Young love is a familiar movie subject, but "Blue Is the Warmest Color" is something rare. It captures the urgency and ease of first love, its romanticism, its physicality, its desperation, its ecstasy, its complete unbounded giving - and something else, too: the way the memory of first love can linger into later life, the poignancy of that, and the pain.

Oscar-winning documentary director Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) returns to a project he started over five years ago in The Armstrong Lie, which was initially envisaged as a film about champion cyclist Lance Armstrong’s 2009 comeback and now includes material shot after the 2012 revelation that the athlete’s insistent denials of ever having used performance-enhancing drugs wer

He’s probably the most popular singer of kirtan, Indian devotional music that involves chanting accompanied by harmonium, violin, and tambourine. Nominated for a Grammy in 2012, Krishna Das is a modest and appealing 66-year-old performer whose life was transformed back in 1970 by the Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba, better known as Maharaji.