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Pensacola Film Festival Fall Screen Series 2010

The Gulf Breeze Cinema 4 presents the Pensacola Film Festival Fall Screen Series 2010 this November 19,20 & 21. The finest in new and independent cinema will screen at the Gulf Breeze Cinema 4 over the three-day weekend. The best of indie and foreign cinema as well as classics and kid movies screen throughout the weekend and all in one place.

All show times will be at 1:00 PM, 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM. All access passes are available for $25. Daily shows are $8 for Adults, $6 for kids and seniors, $6 for all matinees (1:00 PM shows). The Fall Screening Series will include 12 films from around the world. The films are:

SCREEN 1

THE BUGS BUNNY MOVIE
Starring: Bug Bunny
Genre: Kids
Time: Daily at 1:00 PM
Bugs Bunny hosts an awards show featuring several classic Looney Toons shorts
Rated G
Running Time: 1 hour 20mins

I AM LOVE
Starring: Tilda Swinton
Genre: Drama
Time: Daily at 4:00 PM
Synopsis: A tragic love story set at the turn of the millennium in Milan. The film follows the fall of the haute bourgeoisie due to the forces of passion and unconditional love.
Rated R
Running Time: 2 hours
More: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_am_love/

LEAVES OF GRASS
Starring: Ed Norton and Susan Sarandon
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Time: Daily at 7:00 PM
Synopsis: Bill Kincaid, a college classics professor is lured home from the Ivy League to the backwoods of Southeastern Oklahoma by his identical twin, a hedonistic, pot- smoking career criminal. Kincaid finds that Plato and Marcus Aurelius have ill-prepared him for dealing with a gang of homicidal yokels.
Rated R
Running Time: 1 hours 45 minutes
More: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10010334-leaves_of_grass/

SCREEN 2
JOHN RABE
Genre: Drama
Time: Daily at 1:00 PM
Synopsis: Oscar-winning director Florian Gallenberger explores the crucial role that foreigners played in helping countless Chinese escape a fate worse than death in this period docudrama concerning the 1937 invasion of Nanking by the ruthless Japanese Imperial Army. Casually known by historians as the “Rape of Nanking,” the relentless assault on the then-Chinese capitol found countless men, women, and children slaughtered with a ferocity that shocked the entire world. Yet, despite the violence that surrounded them, some people refused to sit by silently as the innocents perished. One of those people was German engineer and Nazi party member John Rabe, who earned the nickname “The Schindler of China” for constructing a vast safety zone in which nearly a quarter of a million civilians sought sanctuary.
Not rated
Running Time: 2 hour 14mins
More: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/john_rabe_2008/

ONDINE
Starring: Colin Farrell
Genre: Fantasy/Drama
Time: Daily at 4:00 PM
Synopsis: The story of an Irish fisherman who discovers a woman in his fishing net who he believes to be a mermaid.
Rated PG-13
Running Time: 1 hour 51mins
More: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ondine/

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE WEIRD
Genre: Western
Time: Daily at 7:00 PM
Synopsis: Set in 1930s Japanese occupied Manchuria, tells the story of three Joseon mounted bandits who get their hands on a treasure map, only to be pursued by the army of national independence, who believe that the outlaws have a map for a new railway to be built by the Japanese army
Rated R
Running Time: 2 hours, 19 minutes
More: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/good_the_bad_and_the_weird/
SCREEN 3

HACHI: A DOG’S TALE
Starring: Richard Gere
Genre: Drama, Kids
Time: Daily at 1:00 PM
Synopsis: A drama based on the true story of a college professor’s bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home.
Rated G
Running Time: 1 hour, 33 minutes
More: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hachiko_a_dogs_story/

GOTTA DANCE
Genre: Documentary
Time: Daily at 4:00 PM
Synopsis: “Gotta Dance” is “Bad New Bears: morphed into the flip side of “Mad Hot Ballroom.”. “Gotta Dance,” the movie, chronicles the debut of the New Jersey Nets’ first-ever senior hip-hop dance team, 12 women and one man — all dance team newbies, from auditions through to center court stardom. As smooth dance moves are perfected and performed in front of thousands, aging myths and misperceptions are pulverized.
Note Rated
Running Time: 1 hour, 35 minutes
More: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1214085-gotta_dance/

HARRY BROWN
Starring: Michael Caine
Genre: Thriller
Synopsis: An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend’s murder by doling out his own form of justice.
Rated R
Running Time: 1 hour, 43 minutes
More: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/harry_brown/

SCREEN 4

THE WAY WE GET BY
Genre: Documentary
Time: Daily at 1:00 PM
Synopsis: The SXSW Special Jury Award-winning THE WAY WE GET BY is a deeply moving film about life and how to live it. Beginning as a seemingly idiosyncratic story about troop greeters – a group of senior citizens who gather daily at a small airport to thank American soldiers departing and returning from Iraq, the film quickly turns into a moving, unsettling and compassionate story about aging, loneliness, war and mortality.
Not Rated
Running Time: 1 hour, 24 minutes
More: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1213991-way_we_get_by/

WINNEBAGO MAN
Genre:
Time: Daily at 4:00 PM
Synopsis: Jack Rebney is the most famous man you’ve never heard of – after cursing his way through a Winnebago sales video, Rebney’s outrageously funny outtakes became an underground sensation and made him an internet superstar. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer journeys to the top of a mountain to find the recluse who unwittingly became the “Winnebago Man.”
Not rated
Running Time: 1 hour 25 minutes.
More: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/winnebago-man/

THE BURNING PLAIN
Starring: Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger
Genre: Drama
Time: Daily at 7:00 PM
Synopsis: From writer/director Guillermo Arriaga comes THE BURNING PLAIN, a romantic mystery about a woman on the edge who takes an emotional journey back to the defining moment of her life. Oscar-winner Charlize Theron plays Sylvia, a beautiful restaurant manager whose cool, professional demeanor masks the sexually charged storm within.
Rated R
Running Time: 1 hour 57 minutes.
More: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/burning_plain/

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