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The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018

A Fantastic Woman

The Cured

STARTS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9

COMING IN FEBRUARY

STARTS FRIDAY, MARCH 9 • ONE WEEK

WINNER! 3 AWARDS BERLIN IN’L FILM FESTIVAL

Short films are the incubators of the directing stars of tomorrow, and show a remarkable variety of inspiration and technique. Landmark Theatres is once again happy to offer audiences a chance to see the new Academy Award nominees in the categories of Best Animated Short Film and Best Live Action Short Film. Thanks to Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures, audiences will have an opportunity not only to second guess the Academy voters, but to get a leg up in their office pools! Two feature-length programs will be shown—one for the live action nominees and one for the animated nominees. Separate admission is required for each program. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will announce the nominees on Tuesday, January 23. Details about the contents of each program will be made available on our website in the days that follow. And don’t forget to watch the 90th Academy Awards show when it is broadcast live on Sunday, March 4! The ceremony will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network.

“The foundation on which the movie rests and finally soars is Vega’s magnetic and meticulously controlled performance.”—Justin Chang, LOS ANGELES TIMES “The title of Sebastián Lelio’s new film might seem a bit on the nose. It’s a fantastic movie. Daniela Vega, the star, is fantastic in it. Quote me in the ads, with exclamation points if you must. My work here is done.”—A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES

“A gloriously terrifying yet thought-provoking horror thriller...Like any great zombie flick, The Cured works on several levels.”—Kerri Craddock, TORONTO INT’L FILM FESTIVAL “Impressive and compelling...A fresh take on zombie terrain…Lends the dimension of political allegory that recently deceased subgenre king George Romero brought to his many Dead films, albeit in a somewhat subtler fashion.”—Dennis Harvey, VARIETY

Daniela Vega shines in a wonderful performance as a transgender nightclub singer, Marina, in love with Orlando (Francisco Reyes), a successful businessman 20 years her senior. He has left his disapproving family to be with her, and they are planning a happy future together when Orlando suddenly falls ill and dies, leaving Marina stunned and bereft. Instead of being able to mourn her lover, Marina is attacked and excluded. Orlando’s family view her sexual identity as an aberration, a perversion. A woman detective investigates Marina, suspecting she was involved in his death. Orlando’s ex-wife forbids her from attending the funeral, and Orlando’s son threatens to throw Marina out of the flat she shared with Orlando. Marina struggles for the right to be herself. She battles the very same forces that she has spent a lifetime fighting just to become the woman she is now—a complex, strong, forthright and fantastic woman. Chile’s official selection for Best Foreign Language Film consideraton at the 90th Academy Awards. Directed and co-written by Sebastián Lelio (GLORIA). (Chile, 2017)

What happens when the undead return to life? In a world ravaged for years by a plague that turned the infected into zombie-like cannibals, a cure has been at last found. The wrenching process of reintegrating the survivors back into society begins, but the ex-zombies are hated, feared and distrusted by the general population. Among the formerly afflicted, known as the Cured, is Senan (Sam Keeley), a sensitive young man haunted by the memory of the horrific acts he committed while infected. Welcomed back into the family of his widowed sister-in-law (Ellen Page, FLATLINERS, JUNO), whose husband was killed by zombies, and her young son, Senan obeys the government’s restrictive regulations and attempts to rebuild his life—but is society ready to forgive him and those like him? Or will fear and prejudice once again tear the world apart? Pulsing with provocative parallels to our troubled times, THE CURED is a smart, scary and hauntingly human tale of guilt and redemption. Written and directed by David Freyne, making his promising feature debut. (Ireland/France, 2018)

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The Insult

The Party

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

COMING IN FEBRUARY

COMING IN MARCH

STARTS FRIDAY, MARCH 16 • ONE WEEK

WINNER! BEST OF FEST NANTUCKET FILM FESTIVAL

“Undeniably exhilarating.”—A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES “Gripping entertainment, passionate and humane, fascinating in the particulars of its court proceedings and political maneuvering, convincing in its insistence that a dumb fight... could upend a fractious country.”—Alan Scherstuhl, THE VILLAGE VOICE

In today’s Beirut, an insult blown out of proportion escalates, resulting in Tony (Adel Karam, CARAMEL), a Lebanese Christian, and Yasser (Kamel El Basha, Best Actor winner at the 2017 Venice Film Festival), a Palestinian refugee, facing off in court. A media circus quickly begins to grow around the high-profile case, which exacerbates the already-high tensions between the Muslim and Christian groups in Lebanon’s Arab community. Inside the courtroom, the trial begins to move past the specifics of the case as the lawyers delve into the private lives and backgrounds of the combatants. Meanwhile, outside the courtroom, Tony and Yasser struggle with their personal lives and obligations—Tony with his wife Shirine (Rita Hayek) and Yasser with his own, Manal (Christine Choueiri)—as they begin to realize that their skirmish has grown far beyond a matter of pride. Explosively powerful and revealing, THE INSULT is Lebanon’s official selection for Best Foreign Language Film consideration at the 90th Academy Awards. Directed and co-written by Ziad Doueiri (THE ATTACK, LILA SAYS). (Lebanon/France/Belgium/Cyprus, 2017) cohenmedia.net/films/theinsult

“Deliciously wicked fun.”—Baz Bamigboye, THE DAILY MAIL “A caviar-black comedy with a barrage of killer one-liners.”—Guy Lodge, VARIETY “A fast and furious farce...with barbed dialogue and delicious irony.” —Geoff Andrew, SIGHT & SOUND

WINNER!

AUDIENCE AWARD BEST DOCUMENTARY SAN FRANCISCO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

Critic’s Pick! “Very enjoyable!”—Manohla Dargis, THE NEW YORK TIMES “Genius. Maverick. Inventor. Feminist pioneer. All of these descriptors apply to Lamarr.” —Joe Baker, DALLAS FILM NOW

In Sally Potter’s dark comedy THE PARTY, a celebratory gathering of friends goes violently wrong in a very short space of time. Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas, DARKEST HOUR, THE ENGLISH PATIENT) is hosting an intimate gathering of friends in her London home to celebrate her political ascension, while her husband, Bill (Timothy Spall, MR. TURNER), seems preoccupied. Janet’s acerbic best friend, April (Patricia Clarkson, CAIRO TIME) arrives and others follow, some with their own dramatic news to share, but an announcement by Bill provokes a series of revelations that gradually unravel the sophisticated soiree, and a night that began with champagne may end with gunplay. Also starring Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, Emily Mortimer and Cillian Murphy. From the director of ORLANDO, THE TANGO LESSON, THE MAN WHO CRIED and YES. (UK, 2017)

Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr (ZIEGFELD GIRL, SAMSON AND DELILAH) was known as the world’s most beautiful woman—Snow White and Cat Woman were both based on her iconic look. However, her incredible beauty stood in the way of her being given the credit she deserved as an ingenious inventor whose pioneering work eventually helped revolutionize modern communication. Mislabeled as “just another pretty face,” Hedy’s true legacy is that of a brilliant technological trailblazer. An Austrian Jewish émigré, she wanted to help defeat the Nazis. She invented a covert “frequency hopping” communications system to make Allied torpedoes unstoppable, and then patriotically gave her 1942 patent to the Navy, who ignored it and told her to sell kisses for war bonds instead. Throughout her life few knew of Hedy’s secret history, but in 2016 director Alexandra Dean and producer Adam Haggiag unearthed four never-before-heard audio tapes of Hedy speaking about her incredible life. Combining this newly discovered interview with intimate reflections from her children, closest friends, family and admirers, including Mel Brooks and Robert Osborne, BOMBSHELL finally sets the record straight, giving Hedy Lamarr the chance to tell her own amazing story. (USA, 2017)

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Leaning Into the Wind – Andy Goldsworthy

Oh Lucy!

STARTS FRIDAY, MARCH 23 • ONE WEEK

STARTS FRIDAY, APRIL 6 • ONE WEEK

FEBRUARY 9 – APRIL 12, 2018

DENVER FILMCALENDAR “Meditative…Visually seductive.”—Dennis Harvey, VARIETY “Will inspire anyone who sees it to look for the beauty in every gust, to admire how nature constantly rearranges itself, and us along with it…A fascinating reminder that some art wasn’t made to be owned.”—David Ehrlich, INDIEWIRE

“The story has an idiosyncratic charm that pays off in an unexpectedly touching ending.” —David Rooney, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER “Like a chocolate trifle with an arsenic core, this quirky portrait [gestures] toward broad comic appeal while offering peeks at a profound darkness just beneath.”—Andrew Barker, VARIETY

LEANING INTO THE WIND – ANDY GOLDSWORTHY, director Thomas Riedelsheimer’s second documentary on renowned British artist Andy Goldsworthy (following 2001’s memorable RIVERS AND TIDES), takes viewers on a beautiful and entrancing journey into the hillsides, wild terrains and other outdoor spaces that inspire Goldsworthy’s creative spirit. He not only leans into the wind, but also climbs trees, shakes out clouds of pollen, penetrates hedgerows, and lies in the rain. The film chronicles a vibrant journey through the diverse layers of Goldsworthy’s world, including some scenes working with his daughter Holly Goldsworthy. From urban Edinburgh and Glasgow to the South of France and New England, Berlin and San Francisco, each environment he encounters becomes a fresh kaleidoscopic canvas for his art. A lushly-visualized travelogue, Goldsworthy’s work and Riedelsheimer’s exquisite cinematography redefine landscape and inextricably tie human life to the natural world, creating a film experience that is poetic, thoughtful and peaceful. Enhanced by an original jazz-influenced score by Fred Frith. (UK/Germany, 2017)

Setsuko (Shinobu Terajima) is a lonely, chain-smoking, past-her-prime office worker in Tokyo. When her fun-loving twenty-year-old niece Mika (Shioli Katsuna) browbeats her into enrolling in an unorthodox English class she meets a handsome young American instructor, John (Josh Hartnett, PEARL HARBOR), who tries to break through Japanese formality by hugging his students; he requires her to wear a curly blonde wig and take on an American alter ego named “Lucy.” Setsuko finds her new identity liberating, and quickly develops romantic feelings for John—to the degree that when he suddenly disappears without explanation she wants to track him down. Setsuko enlists the help of her grouchy sister Ayako (Kaho Minami), and the pair fly halfway across the world to Southern California in pursuit. In a brave new world of tattoo parlors and seedy motels, family ties and past lives are tested as Setsuko struggles to preserve the dream and promise of “Lucy.” With Koji Yakusho. Recalling the culture clash charm of KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER, OH LUCY! is funny but dark, with a gem of a performance by Terajima. Directed and co-written by Atsuko Hirayanagi in her directorial debut. (Japan/USA, 2017)

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The China Hustle STARTS FRIDAY, MARCH 30 • ONE WEEK

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CHEZ ARTISTE 2800 South Colorado Blvd. (303) 758-3496 “Wildly entertaining...Blows the lid off a multibillion-dollar heist…Far from a postmortem, the film uncovers a scandal that’s still ongoing.”—Scott Tobias, VARIETY “Excellent...Unveils massive fraud…but is easy for non-traders to understand.” —John DeFore, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

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ESQUIRE 590 Downing St. (303) 733-0148 MAYAN 110 Broadway (303) 744-6799 © 2018 Landmark Theatres

The unsettling and eye-opening new documentary THE CHINA HUSTLE begins in the depths of the 2008 financial crisis, when investors on the fringes of the financial world feverishly sought new alternatives for high-return investments in the global markets. With Chinese indexes demonstrating explosive growth, the country suddenly emerged as a gold rush opportunity with one caveat: U.S. investors were prohibited from investing directly into the country’s market. Makeshift solutions led to a market frenzy, until one investor discovered the massive web of fraud left in its wake. A whistleblower on a covert mission to China investigated several companies, revealing that they were over-reporting their revenue by huge amounts. The fraud is gigantic, with a potential running into billions, posing a threat to the world economy. THE CHINA HUSTLE exposes the opportunistic greed behind the biggest heist you’ve never heard of, and rings the alarm on the need for transparency in an increasingly de-regulated financial world. Executive produced in part by Alex Gibney (ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM) and directed by Jed Rothstein (BEFORE THE SPRING AFTER THE FALL). (USA, 2018)

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