Friday September 6 to Thursday September 12, 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.

Filmmaker Morgan Neville pays homage to some of the greatest vocalists you've never heard of in this documentary.

Swing Vote's Joshua Michael Stern takes the helm for this biopic starring Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs, and tracing the Apple co-founder's career from his early years in that Palo Alto garage to his rise as one of the computing industry's most admired innovators.

A pervasive sense of dread fills Fruitvale Station. Based on real events, the film (* * * * out of four) begins with a chaotic and powerful opening that is instantly riveting. In the early hours of New Year's Day 2009, Twenty-two-year-old Oscar Grant is fatally shot in the back by police as he lies on the ground handcuffed and unarmed outside a Bay Area train.

“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.