FILM
LISTINGS
Listings editor: Lauren LaBorde listingsedit@gambitweekly.com FAX:483-3116 Deadline: noon Monday Submissions edited for space
NOW SHOWING ALPHA AND OMEGA (PG)— Two wolves with conflicting personalities get stuck together on a journey to find their way home. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 16, Chalmette Movies, Grand, Hollywood 14 CASE 39 (R) — A well-meaning
social worker (Renee Zellweger) encounters dark forces while trying to rescue a girl from her seemingly cruel parents. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 14
CATFISH (PG-13) — Two filmmakers document photographer Yaniv Schulman as he pursues an online relationship, not aware the project would take an unexpected and unsettling turn. AMC Palace 20 EASY A (PG-13) — A high school student takes advantage of untrue rumors circulating about her. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Chalmette Movies, Grand, Hollywood 14 GET LOW (PG-13)— A cranky old recluse decides to have a funeral for himself while he’s still alive. Canal Place
Gambit > bestofneworleans.com > OCTOBER 12 > 2010
IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY (PG-13) — A 16-year-old finds
120
himself stuck in a mental health hospital, where he meets a mentor (Zach Galifianakis) and a love interest (Emma Roberts). AMC Palace 20, Canal Place LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE (PG) — Based on the book series, a
young barn owl and his friends escape the orphanage where captives are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 14 LET ME IN (R) — In the
American remake of the Swedish film Let the Right One In, a misfit 12-year-old boy befriends a vampire child. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Chalmette Movies, Grand, Hollywood 14 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG-13) —
Two adults (Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel) with a dissonant relationship unexpectedly become the caregivers of their godchild when the baby’s parents die in an accident. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 14 MY SOUL TO TAKE (R) — In Wes Craven’s thriller, a serial killer is
A ROOM WITH A VIEW
on the hunt for the seven children born the day he supposedly died. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Chalmette Movies, Grand, Hollywood 14 SECRETARIAT (PG) — The film chronicles the life of Penny Chenery, owner of the Triple Crown-winning racehorse Secretariat. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand THE SOCIAL NETWORK (PG13) — Aaron Sorkin and David
Fincher’s film follows the complicated ascent of Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Canal Place, Grand, Hollywood 14 THE TOWN (R) — Ben Affleck,
Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner and Blake Lively star in Affleck’s drama about a crook who falls for the manager of one of the banks he’s robbed. AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Canal Place, Grand, Prytania
WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG-13) — Michael
Douglass is back as stock trader Gordon Gekko, who is out of prison and looking for a fresh start. AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Canal Place, Grand, Hollywood 14
YOU AGAIN (PG) — In the comedy starring Kristen Bell, Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis and Betty White, a wedding causes a host of high school rivalries to re-emerge. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand
OPENING FRIDAY JACKASS 3-D (R) — The MTV
buffoons add another dimension to their hijinks in their third film.
RED (PG-13) — Bruce Willis,
Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren star in the action-adventure based on the D.C. Comics graphic novel.
SPECIAL SCREENINGS THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (PG) — British prison-
ers of war during World War II are instructed to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway that the Allies are secretly planning to destroy. TIckets $5.50. Noon Wednesday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www.theprytania.com
JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE: THE OMEGA POINT (NR) — Friends
and colleagues of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author tell the story of his life. Tickets $5.50. Noon Sunday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www.theprytania.com
MADAME BUTTERFLY (NR) —
Frederic Mitterrand’s adaptation of the Puccini opera stars Ying Huang. The screening is a part of the library’s Italian Film Festival and features commentary by Paul Cimino. Free admission. 5:30 p.m. Monday, St. Tammany Parish Library, Covington Branch, 310 W. 21st Ave., Covington, (985) 893-6280; www.sttammany. lib.la.us/covington.html
MY DOG TULIP (NR) — The animated film is an adaptation of the 1956 novel about a man who rescues and befriends a German sherperd. Tickets $5.50. Noon Saturday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 8912787; www.theprytania.com OF MICE AND MEN (PG-13) — The library screens Gary
Sinise’s adaptation of the novel as part of its John Steinbeck Novels Into Films Series. Free admission. 1:30 p.m. Saturday, St. Tammany Parish Library, Slidell Branch, 555 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985) 893-6280; www.stpl.us
THE ROOM (NR) — This black “comedy” has been called “the Citizen Kane of bad movies.” Tickets $8. Midnight Friday-Saturday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 8912787; www.theprytania.com THE WOLF MAN (NR) — Lon
Chaney Jr. stars in the 1941 horror film about a man inflicted by a horrific disease. Free admission. 8 p.m. Monday, La Divina Gelateria, 621 St. Peter St., 302-2692; www.ladivinagelateria.com
FILM FESTIVALS NEW ORLEANS FILM FESTIVAL — The New Orleans Film
Society screens local, regional, national and international films at various venues. Headlining films include Welcome to the Rileys, Blue Valentine and Black Swan. Visit www.neworleansfilmsociety.org for screening times and locations. ThursdayMonday, then nightly through Oct. 21. AMC Palace 10 (Hammond), 429-9090; AMC Palace 12 (Clearview), 734-2020; AMC Palace 16 (Westbank), 734-2020; AMC Palace 20 (Elmwood), 734-2020; Canal Place, 363-1117; Chalmette Movies, 277-4778; Entergy IMAX, 581-IMAX; Grand (Slidell), (985) 641-1889; Hollywood 9 (Kenner), 464-0990; Hollywood 14 (Covington), (985) 893-3044; Kenner MegaDome, 468-7231; Prytania, 891-2787; Solomon Victory Theater, National World War II Museum, 5276012
Compiled by Lauren LaBorde For complete listings, visit www.bestofneworleans.com.