Friday September 13 to Thursday September 19, 2013

3 OSCAR NOMINATIONS INCLUDING BEST ACTRESS & SCREENPLAY

After recent excursions to London, Paris, and Rome, Woody Allen shifts his focus back to American shores, following Cate Blanchett's New York housewife through a personal crisis that takes her to San Francisco. Alec Baldwin plays Blanchett's husband, whom the actor describes as ''a go-getter, hard-charging corporate type who wants to buy her everything and keep her happy.

Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award winning role as Queen Elizabeth II in the highly-anticipated West End production of The Audience, broadcast as part of National Theatre Live. For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace - a meeting like no other in British public life - it is private.

The Way Way Back gets it wittily, thrillingly right. It turns the familiar into something bracingly fresh and funny. It makes you laugh, then breaks your heart.

“You might hate Only God Forgives. Or you might think it’s a perfect bloody milkshake with ingredients culled from Kill Bill, the New French Extremism and “Twin Peaks,” among other influences. This is a horrifically violent movie in which every frame, every musical note, every line reading is delivered in a way that demands our admiration, or at least our attention.

“Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s takes a documentary approach to the most glamorous of all American department stores, Bergdorf Goodman. Praise is certainly owed to filmmaker Matthew Miele, who secured 175 interviews over the course of the project.