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LOCAL THEATERS AMHERST THEATRE (DIPSON) 3500 Main St., Buffalo / 834-7655 amherst.dipsontheatres.com AURORA THEATRE 673 Main St., East Aurora / 652-1660 theauroratheatre.com EASTERN HILLS CINEMA (DIPSON) 4545 Transit Rd., / Eastern Hills Mall Williamsville / 632-1080 easternhills.dipsontheatres.com FLIX STADIUM 10 (DIPSON) 4901 Transit Rd., Lancaster / 668-FLIX flix10.dipsontheatres.com FOUR SEASONS CINEMA 6 2429 Military Rd. (behind Big Lots), Niagara Falls / 297-1951 fourseasonscinema.com
A FACE IN THE CROWD (1957) FRIDAY OCT 14 / MONDAY 17 / TUESDAY OCT 18
HALLWALLS 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo / 854-1694 hallwalls.org
FRI 9:45PM, MON-TUES 2, 4:30PM / NORTH PARK THEATRE, 1428 HERTEL AVE
HAMBURG PALACE 31 Buffalo St., Hamburg / 649-2295 hamburgpalace.com
[SCREENING] Elia Kazan’s classic drama, written by Budd Schulberg, about the rise of a demagogue, starring Andy Griffith as a television personality who turns his down-home appeal to political advantage on the national stage. Any comparisons to the current political season are as accidental as the booking is intentional: some stories, unfortunately, never grow old. With Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau, and Lee Remick.
LOCKPORT PALACE 2 East Ave., Lockport / 438-1130 lockportpalacetheatre.org
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history entirely on the basis of this role as the misshapen bloodsucker. With live musical accompaniment by the eclectic Austin, Texas band the Invincible Czars. Wed 7pm North Park SAMSON ET DALILA— From the Paris Opera, a live broadcast of Camille Saint-Saëns’s 1877 opera. Starring Anita Rachvelishvili, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Egils Silins, and Nicolas Testé. Conducted by Philippe Jordan and directed by Damiano Michieletto. Thu 8pm. Dipson Amherst THE SHINING (1980)—Stanley Kubrick was probably too busy experimenting with his new Stedicam and thinking of ways to parody Last Year at Marienbad to notice that Jack Nicholson was ad libbing a more entertaining performance than the one called for by Stephen King’s novel. But hey, either way it’s some kind of a classic. With Shelly Duvall and Scatman Crothers. Sat-Sun 7pm North Park
to keep that part of the story off the screen. At any rate, it’s a huge disservice to history. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich and Kate Hudson. Directed by Peter Berg (Battleship). -MF Dipson Flix, Regal NORTH PARK THEATRE Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, 1428 Hertel Ave., Buffalo / 836-7411 Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria northparktheatre.org DON’T BREATHE—Young thieves are trapped in the house of a wealthy blind man who is a seREGAL ELMWOOD CENTER 16 rial killer adept at getting around in the dark. 2001 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo / 871–0722 Starring Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, and Dylan regmovies.com Minnette. Directed by Fede Alvarez (the Evil Dead remake). Regal Elmwood, Regal Walden REGAL NIAGARA FALLS STADIUM 12 Galleria, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Transit 720 Builders Way, Niagara Falls THE DRESSMAKER—Kate Winslet as a haute 236–0146 couture dressmaker who returns to her small regmovies.com town Australian home to exact revenge on the people who drove her away. Here and REGAL QUAKER CROSSING 18 there, the film seems to be channeling a 3450 Amelia Dr., Orchard Park / 827–1109 combination of Frederick Durrenmatt’s feregmovies.com male-vengeance play The Visit and the drag queen movie The Adventures of Priscilla, REGAL TRANSIT CENTER 18 Queen of the Desert. There are even brief Transit and Wehrle, Lancaster / 633–0859 hints of a Sergio Leone movie. Moving in fits CONTINUING regmovies.com and starts through broad-beamed humor to THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK—THE TOURsentimental banality and on to gonzo GothiING YEARS—There may not be a lot that’s REGAL WALDEN GALLERIA STADIUM 16 cism, by the time the finale arrives it’s rather new about the Beatles in Ron Howard’s docOne Walden Galleria Dr., Cheektowaga anti-climactic. With Liam Hemsworth, Hugo umentary, at least not for longtime Beatle681-9414 / regmovies.com Weaving, Judy Davis, and Kerry Fox. Directmaniacs, but the film is filled with restored ed by Jocelyn Moorhouse (How to Make an performance clips and enough footage of RIVIERA THEATRE American Quilt). -GS. Dipson Eastern Hills the Fabs joking with the press that it’s pretty 67 Webster St., North Tonawanda THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN—Adaptation of the best much irresistible. Yes, it’s already on Hulu, 692-2413 / rivieratheatre.org selling psychological thriller about a woman but it’s a rare treat to see it on a big screen. who becomes involved with the lives of a And most importantly, the theatrical version THE SCREENING ROOM couple about whom she has fantasized while is followed by a complete and newly remas3131 Sheridan Dr., Amherst / 837-0376 passing their home on a commuter train evtered version of The Beatles at Shea Stadiscreeningroom.net ery day. Starring Haley Bennett, Emily Blunt, um, the long-unseen film of their historic Justin Theroux, Rebecca Ferguson, Laura performance in front of 56,000 fans. –MF Prepon, Allison Janney, Edgar Ramírez, and Dipson Eastern Hills SQUEAKY WHEEL Lisa Kudrow. Directed by Tate Taylor (The 712 Main St., / 884-7172 DEEPWATER HORIZON is a big-budget disasVISIT DAILYPUBLIC.COM FOR MORE FILM LISTINGS REVIEWS >>at Help). Dipson Amherst, Dipson Flix, Regal squeaky.org ter epic about the April&2010 explosion Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in which 11 Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria SUNSET DRIVE-IN men were killed. The film tries to lay out a 9950 Telegraph Rd., Middleport 735complex narrative, at least until the exploTHE HOLLARS—John Krasinski of TV’s The 7372 / sunset-drivein.com sions start and it turns chaotic, It’s filled with Office directed and co-stars as a New York special effects and likeable characters to cartoonist who returns to his hometown TJ’S THEATRE root for. But what it lacks, amazingly, is any when his mother (Margo Martindale) is taken mention of the most important aspect of the 72 North Main St., Angola / 549-4866 seriously ill. The Hollar home is Dysfunction incident: the 200 MORE million gallons oil that Junction, and Krasinski newangolatheater.com VISIT DAILYPUBLIC.COM FOR FILMof LISTINGS & REVIEWS >> plays straight man as spilled into the Gulf over a period of three his family members’ issues explode: divorce, months, doing incalculable damage to one of projected adultery, anxiety, impending parTRANSIT DRIVE-IN the most fragile parts of the country’s ecolenthood, business failure, and so forth. It’s all 6655 South Transit Rd., Lockport ogy. One has to wonder if British Petroleum, played and directed with a crude farcicality 625-8535 / transitdrivein.com which last year agreed to pay $18.7 billion in and a failing wryness. Things are meant to fines, exercised pressure over the production resolve themselves in comforting sentiment,
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but the chief result is fine actors—particularly Martindale and Richard Jenkins—waste their efforts. With Sharlto Copley, Anna Kendrick and Charlie Day. -GS Regal Elmwood THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN is a remake of the classic western from 1960, itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s glorious The Seven Samurai, none of which is likely to matter as much to ticket buyers as the fact that the ensemble cast of this western is headed by Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt. The bigger question is, how do you get a modern audience to see a western? Changing the villain of the piece from a bandit to a mine operator certainly helps, because where you have mines you have dynamite, which means you can blow stuff up in the climax. The character interplay is wan—you would be forgiven for expecting more from co-screenwriter Nic Pizzolatto, creator of HBO’s True Detective— but the size of the cast maintains interest until the rootin’ tootin’ finale. With Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Haley Bennett, and Peter Sarsgaard. Directed by Antoine Fuqua (Southpaw). –MF Aurora, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria MASTERMINDS—Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones (all of the leading cast of Ghostbusters except for Melissa McCarthy) are joined by Jason Sudeikis, Owen Wilson, and a ridiculously bewigged Zach Galifianakis in this bank robbery comedy that was heavily promoted for release in 2015 but delayed due to the distributor’s financial problems. Directed by Jared Hess (Nacho Libre). Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN—A new film by Tim Burton. Remember what that was something to look forward to? Starring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Chris O’Dowd, and Terence Stamp. Aurora (STARTS FRI), Regal Elmwood, Regal Walden Galleria, Dipson Flix, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit SNOWDEN—Damned if the often erratic, polemically unhinged Oliver Stone hasn’t just about brought off this biopic about Edward Snowden, the renegade American spy who revealed the vast and illicit electronic spying on Americans by our intelligence agencies. Stone’s impassioned approach isn’t absent, but he seems to have made an uncustomary effort to be fair (though hardly journalistically objective or balanced). The movie celebrates Snowden’s sincerity and courage, but its tone is a long way from pedal-to-thefloor gonzo. Stone has made a movie that’s both large-scale and intimate. Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s performance is a key factor in the movie’s success, conveying Snowden’s earnest, troubled, self-examining sensibility. A powerful and valuable movie. Co-starring Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Rhys Ifans, Nicolas Cage, Tom Wilkinson, and Joely Richardson. –GS Four Seasons, Regal Elmwood, Regal Transit SULLY—Clint Eastwood’s trademark low-key approach to filmmaking is pleasurably displayed in this thoughtful look at the so-called “Miracle on the Hudson,” the 2009 incident in which a damaged airplane made an emergency landing on the Hudson River with no loss of life. Though pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) was lionized by a public that had long been starved of unambiguous heroes, behind the scenes he was subjected to interrogation by flight officials who questioned his judgment in the face of what their computer models say he should have done. It’s not hard to read a political subtext into this, that we should trust people of proven skill and experience instead of Monday morning micromanaging them (and at the age of 86, Eastwood is entitled to that opinion). But if the story’s drama is built on a shaky pivot (was the second engine functional?), the way it unfolds is smoothly engrossing. With Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Jamey Sheridan, Valerie Mahaffey, and Anna Gunn. –MF Dipson Amherst, Dipson Flix, Hamburg Palace, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria P
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