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Blind Date With a Movie February 2020 Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon): We're lighter, we're faster, and if that don't work, we're nastier. ---Ford v Ferrari (2019) We like what we like. For deep dish, you're loyal to your favorite pizzeria. For Chinese, you know where to head for the best dim sum. The same applies to films. If you like car chases and action flicks, you'll be at a Will Smith or Bruce Willis picture; for film fans who enjoy deeper characterizations and stylized direction, we'll see you at a Martin Scorsese or Sam Mendes movie. But when we step away from the familiar to try something new, there's a 50-50 chance we just might enjoy the experience. This month, we invite you to try a new pizza place -- in other words, pick a movie you've never seen before, or a film very different from the type you usually see. Blind dates can be surprising!
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Writers Guild of America Awards February 1 Academy Awards February 9
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Ford V FerrariAmerican car designer Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) and British driver/mechanic Ken Miles (Christian Bale) battle corporate interference, the laws of physics and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and challenge Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966. Rated PG-13. A Best Picture nominee featuring immersive performances and thrilling racing sequences.
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Jojo RabbitA World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi), Jojo must confront his blind nationalism. Rated PG-13. An Oscar nominee for Best Picture of 2019.
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Black WidowDebra Winger and Theresa Russell star in Bob Rafelson's complex psychological thriller about a beautiful serial killer whose victims are wealthy men. A lonely federal agent tracks down the alluring seductress only to be turned inside out when she falls under the killer's potent spell herself. Rated R. A great cat-and-mouse script.
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The Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel from Egypt for a cultural event. Once there, they find the expected delegation is not there to meet them. Arrangements to get to their destination of Petah Tiqva have not been taken care of either. They find their own ride and arrive instead at the remote town of Beit Hatikva. Stuck there until the next morning's bus, the band, lead by the repressed Tawfiq Zacharaya (Sasson Gabai), gets help from the worldly lunch owner, Dina, who offers to put them up for the night. As the band settles in the best it can, each of the members attempts to get along with the natives in their own way. What follows is a special night of quiet happenings and confessions as the band makes its own impact on the town and the town on them. Hebrew language. Rated PG-13. This film became the basis for a Tony-award winning Broadway musical.
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Driver (Ryan Gosling) is a Hollywood stunt driver by day, and moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver for hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbor, Irene (Carey Mulligan). When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does best: drive! Rated R.
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A witty and touching tale about a mother's efforts to protect her son from the truth. To spare her fatherless son's feelings, a mother (Emily Mortimer) writes letters to her son pretending to be his seafaring father. Then she must hire a man (Gerard Butler) to be his father when the boy is determined to meet him. Rated PG-13.
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Oxford professor David Pollock (Gregory Peck) is an expert in ancient Arabic hieroglyphics. A Middle Eastern Prime Minister convinces Pollock to infiltrate the organization of a man named Beshraavi, who is involved in an assassination plot whose details are believed to be found in a hieroglyphic code. Beshraavi's mistress, Yasmin Azir (Sophia Loren) is a beautiful mystery who repeatedly double-crosses Pollock in one escapade after another, making it difficult for him to determine whether she's friend or foe, while also marking him for murder. Not rated. A classic comedy thriller by director Stanley Donen (Charade).
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Using hours of audio-only taped interviews, enter the fascinating, contradictory world of the normally reclusive, enigmatic movie star Marlene Dietrich, as we follow her from childhood to her marriage, her great loves, collaborators, life, death, and the Holocaust. Not rated. Directed by Oscar-winning Swiss actor Maximillian Schell and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary.
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A monumental mid-nineteenth century epic that charts, over the course of two films, a poor Swedish farming family's (Liv Ullmann, Max Von Sydow) voyage to America and their efforts to put down roots in this beautiful but forbidding new world. Swedish language. Not rated. A moving film about the dream and the reality of America. Follow this couple's continuing story in The New Land.
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Four red plaid travelling cases-- one of each belonging to a befuddled Iowa musicologist (Ryan O'Neal), a strange but bright young woman (Barbra Streisand), a rich matron and a suspicious fellow-- are mixed up at a San Francisco hotel, with hilarious results. Rated G. Director Peter Bogdanovich's homage to the classic screwball comedies of the 1930's.
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