Cape Cinema at The Screening Room
January 2008
The Cape Cod Museum of Art and the Cape Cinema offer a film program in the museum's Screening Room, an intimate 92-seat auditorium on the lower level.
American independent and foreign films are shown only on
Thursday afternoon and evenings and Sunday afternoons.
Sunday, January 6, 2:15 & 4:30 pm
Thursday, January 10, 4:15 & 7 pm
O JERUSALEM
(R, France/UK/Italy/Greece/Israel/USA, 100 mins.)
First-rate cinematography and solid acting highlight a tale of friendship as the state of Israel is being created. The story begins in 1940’s New York amid a rush of energy, period detail and a great sense if youth. It is there that Bobby and Jacob, both Jewish, become friends with Arab-Muslim Said. The film’s story follows them as they try to maintain the friendship while the Holy Land is being partitioned. Based on the 1972 best-selling docu-novel of the same name written by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.
Sunday, January 13, 2:30 & 4:30 pm
Thursday, January 17, 4:30 & 7 pm
STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME
(NR, USA, 94 mins.)
This compelling documentary feature film from Academy Award nominee filmmaker Michele Ohayon is about the power of love and the ability of humankind to rise above unimaginable suffering. The love letters that Dutch Jewish accountant Jack Polak sneaked to then girlfriend Ina Soep, while imprisoned in Nazi camps, are the love-finds-a-way hook for a gentle cinematic study in human resilience and luck. The film intersperses historical footage with its contemporary portrait to two vibrant old people (jack and Ina have been married now for over 60 years) with a fine hand.
Sunday, January 20, 2:15 & 4:30 pm
Thursday, January 24, 4:15 & 7 pm
THE WALKER
(R, USA, 108 mins.)
The title refers to the term, originally coined to describe Jerry Zipkin who "walked" Nancy Reagan and Betsy Bloomingdale among others, for a sort of unpaid escort (most definitely not the sexual kind) for the wives of rich and powerful men who squires them to public events when their husbands are not available or inclined to go. Woody Harrelson is the title character in one of his few straight dramatic roles with no edge of humor. The film, a thriller, set in Washington, DC, is as much a social commentary as it is a thriller or character study. Harrelson's "walker" becomes involved in a murder case and struggles to keep a friend from scandal. The story, heightened with well-developed characters, features a script that sparkles with bon mots and cynical quips. Also featuring Lauren Bacall, Kristen Scott Thomas, Lily Tomlin, Ned Beatty and Willem Dafoe.
Sunday, January 27, 2:30 & 4:30 pm
Thursday, January 31, 4:30* & 7 pm
ALICE NEEL
(NR, USA, 86 mins.)
A portraitist’s grandson creates her portrait on film in a fascinating documentary. The biography of this influential, emotionally troubled painter could have been titled “Form Follows Function” since it achieves the documentary format’s basic goal of illuminating history while also demonstrating through filmmaking choices, how an artist’s style reveals his or her personality.
*Thursday, January 31 showing only: tickets $10, $8 CCMA members including, reception and introduction of film by CCMA Executive Director Elizabeth Ives Hunter.
Admission is separate from museum admission:
Adults: $7.50
Adults with Cinema Card and seniors (62+): $5.50
Seniors with Cinema Discount Card: $4
NEW THIS YEAR!
CCMA MEMBER BENEFIT
Monday - Thursday afternoons any shows before 7 pm, admission is $4 for CCMA members.
(A current CCMA membership card must be presented to receive this discounted price.)
A recorded message of films and showtimes is available at any time by calling
508-385-2503 or 508-385-4477, ext 6
Visit www.capecinema.com to view The Screening Room and Cape Cinema schedules.
For more information on this program contact Eric A. Hart, President of Cape Cinema Group. Inc.,
at 508-385-5644, harte@capecinema.com
or Rory Marcus, CCMA Public Relations Manager at 508-385-4477 ext 12, publicrelations@ccmoa.org.
