Friday, May 16 thru Thursday, May 22  . . .



YOUNG @ HEART
Rated PG  -  107 minutes

Friday, Saturday, Sunday  -  *2:45, *5:00, 7:15, 9:30
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday  -  *5:00, 7:15
Tuesday, May 20  -  5:15

Written & Directed by Stephen Walker

An audience favorite at Sundance Film Festival

Since 1982, Young@Heart, a chorus composed of senior citizens, has entertained audiences at home and abroad with unique renditions of punk, rock, and rhythm-and-blues songs by musicians as disparate as the Clash, Coldplay, and James Brown.  With a new show six weeks away, Young@Heart's choral director has new songs for these inspiring elders to learn, from Sonic Youth's discordant "Schizophrenia" to Allen Toussaint's tongue-twisting "Yes, We Can Can."  This is no mere novelty act for its members.  Young@Heart is at once a serious musical undertaking, a supportive community, and a way to stay active and engaged when society often expects seniors to be passive and quiet.  The group's eclectic and entertaining repertoire shines a spotlight on taboos about old age - the Clash's "Should I Stay, or Should I Go?" becomes an amusing meditation on life and death, while Bob Dylan's "Forever Young" serves as a haunting ode to lost youth and fallen friends.   While the chorus prepares for the concert, some members struggle with serious health problems, impressing us even further with the special challenges the group faces.  In a culture that venerates youth and considers aging the worst of all fates, to see these men and women having the time of their lives near the end of their lives couldn't be more refreshing.  "Funny, poignant, and inspirational"  - LA Times
Coming soon  . . .


THE VISITOR
Rated PG-13  -  103 minutes 

Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass
Written & Directed by Thomas McCarthy [THE STATION AGENT]
Some films click from the moment they're cast, and that is certainly the case with THE VISITOR, writer-director Tom McCarthy's first feature since his popular THE STATION AGENT and a perfect vehicle for Richard Jenkins, an actor whose face is far better known than his name.  Jenkins plays Walter Vale, a widowed economics professor and poster child of boring white men who are just waiting out life's clock.   When he reluctantly returns to Gotham to give a talk at NYU, he finds two immigrants living in his little-used Manhattan apartment: Tarek and his girlfriend, Zainab, illegals who were scammed into renting Walter's usually vacant pad.  Walter's academic life is as empty as his bed, and he engages with real life as a guest; the thrust of this film is his re-acquaintance with an emigre city and country that have changed without him noticing.  A combination immigrant/resurrection tale, VISITOR tilts toward the soulful rather than the political, and could be this year's humanistic indie hit. - John Anderson, VARIETY
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