RATED PG-13 FOR BRIEF STRONG LANGUAGE
(1H 43M)

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Kung Fu Panda is the story of Po, a sweet but clumsy Panda who has dreams of fighting with the legendary Furious Five and protecting the city against all threats. The only problem is that Po has no real life experience of kung fu, and his real job is serving noodles at his dad’s noodles shop. With spectacular animation and a heartwarming storyline, this box office blockbuster has something for all ages, from the animation pioneers at Dreamworks. Features voices of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu and Ian McShane.

Rated PG sequences of martial arts action (1h 32m)

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Mongol, the internationally acclaimed epic from award-winning Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov, illuminates the life and legend of Genghis Khan (born Temudgin, 1162) in this stunning historical drama. Based on leading scholarly accounts and written by Bodrov and Arif Aliyev, Mongol delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler who would attain legendary notoriety. Following Temudgin from his perilous childhood to the battle that sealed his destiny, the film paints a multidimensional portrait of the future conqueror, revealing him not as the evil brute of hoary stereotype, but as an inspiring, fearless and visionary leader. Mongol shows us the making of an extraordinary man, and the foundation on which so much of his greatness rested: his relationship with his wife, Borte, his lifelong love and most trusted advisor. Filmed in the very lands that gave birth to Genghis Khan, Mongol transports us back to a distant and exotic period in world history. Masterfully blending action and emotion against some of the most arresting terrain on earth, Bodrov delivers an exciting and awe-inspiring tale of survival and triumph, and a love story for the ages.

Rated R for sequences of bloody warfare (2h 6m)

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Set within a year after the events of Batman Begins, THE DARK KNIGHT follows Bruce Wayne, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new district attorney Harvey Dent as they successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City. All goes well until a mysterious and sadistic criminal mastermind known only as The Joker appears in Gotham, creating a new wave of chaos. Batman’s struggle against the Joker becomes deeply personal, forcing him to “confront everything he believes” and improve his technology to stop him. Christian Bale returns as the brooding hero, with a fantastic supporting cast including Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart and the late Heath Ledger in his final role as the menacing Joker.

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and some menace (2h 32m)

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Closer to baroque and risk-taking pictures like ONE FROM THE HEART than THE GODFATHER, Coppola’s sprawling exploration of love, memory, and lost time brims with rich symbolism and inventive visuals. Based on the novella by Mircea Eliade, the philosophic film evokes the poetic enigmas and freewheeling narrative of a literary novel. As audacious as it is thought-provoking, YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH is a compelling return from a cinematic master.

Rated R for some sexuality, nudity and a brief disturbing image (2h 5m)

Jack Clayton’s version of THE GREAT GATSBY was adapted for the screen by Francis Ford Coppola from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 masterpiece about a handsome and enigmatic tycoon betrayed by the American Dream. Though self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby (Robert Redford) has been in love with the spoiled Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow) since his days as a poor boy in the Midwest, she’s now married to a boorish philanderer (Bruce Dern) and seems more out of reach than ever. Gatsby’s attempts to win Daisy back result in his tragic downfall, as witnessed and narrated by his neighbor and friend Nick Carraway (Sam Waterston). The result is a richly successful evocation of the Jazz Age and a tragic portrait of shallow lives ruined by wealth, brilliantly acted by Redford, Waterston, Dern, and the rest of the supporting cast.

Rated PG (2h 23m)

Francis Ford Coppola’s THE CONVERSATION is a towering achievement, a masterfully constructed portrait of one man’s descent into madness. Gene Hackman delivers a devastating performance as Harry Caul, a surveillance expert who gets paid to invade the privacy of strangers.. With Harry Caul, Coppola and Hackman have managed to create one of cinema’s most unforgettable characters, a man who appears to be in control on the outside but who is, in fact, crumbling on the inside.

Rated PG (1h 53m)

Writer-director Quentin Tarantino revisits the seedier side of Los Angeles (following 1992’s RESERVOIR DOGS) with this funny, violent, tongue-in-cheek tribute to the less “classic” side of filmmaking--the potboilers and capers, the Blaxploitation flicks and gangster movies. The film interweaves three tales, told in a circular, fractured manner, which only fully connect by the time the final credits roll.

Rated R for strong graphic violence and drug use, pervasive strong language and some sexuality.