Friday November 15 to Thursday November 21, 2013

Every living thing requires water. We humans interact with it in a myriad of ways, numerous times a day. But how often do we consider the complexity of that interaction? And, unless confronted by scarcity, when do we meditate on its ubiquity in creating, sustaining and enriching life?

Academy Award winner Robert Redford stars in All Is Lost, an open-water thriller about one man's battle for survival against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea. Written and directed by Academy Award nominee J.C.

A somber, twisting and thoroughly engrossing police thriller (* * * 1/2 out of four), Prisoners focuses on a decent man who takes the law into his own hands and, in the process, loses his humanity.

Much remains unclear about the events of Aug. 1 and 2, 2008, on the mountain known as K2, except that 11 climbers died there. Even eye-witness accounts of the tragedy that is the focus of the documentary “The Summit” are, at best, contradictory and, at worst, hopelessly confusing. One thing is as clear as the crystalline sky that greeted 25 climbers on those fateful days.

It’s time someone set the record straight. When actor/director Ben Affleck made Argo last year, lauding the role of CIA operative Tony Mendez in surreptitiously extracting six U.S. diplomats at the height of Iran hostage crisis of 1979-80, it rightly put some noses out of joint north of the border.

Part of the 4 by Stanley Kubrick series