On New Year’s Day relax and enjoy a screening of this rockin’ blues documentary shot at Radio City Music Hall with live performances by Angélique Kidjo, David ‘Honeyboy’ Edwards, Odetta, Macy Gray, Ruth Brown, Mavis Staples and Natalie Cole. Also featuring Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, B.B. King and more!

Rated PG-13; 103 minutes; 2004

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Michelangelo Antonioni’s cinematic masterpiece starring a young Jack Nicholson as a disillusioned reporter working in the Sahara Desert. Facing regret over not living the life he wished for, when he finds a corpse in his hotel he decides to assume the identity of the dead man. Then, too late, he discovers that the dead man was caught up with dangerous criminals and he has inadvertently become a revolutionary gun-runner.

Rated PG-13; 126 minutes; 1975

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Directed by Duncan Jones and starring Sam Rockwell, this psychological-sci-fi thriller pays subtle tribute to 2001: A Space Odyssey and Alien with the same incredible cinematography and suspenseful plot set in a sleek, ultra-modern space ship. Like 2001, Sam Bell, astronaut, is the sole employee at a lunar station harvesting helium-3. His only direct real-time interaction for three years in space has been with GERTY, the intelligent computer whose function is to attend to his day-to-day needs. Exhausted and desperate to return to Earth to be with his wife and daughter, with just weeks to go, something goes terribly wrong. He must sort it out to get home.

Rated R; 97 minutes; 2009

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Plus, Meet-the-Animators: Robert Feldman,
and Maxwell Sorensen with Artist, Alex Cohen

“Moving Pictures” Exhibit: Lenticular Portraits
by Alicia Milosz in ACME lobby

Rob Feldman is the owner of Earworm Media, an animation, web design and new media studio that specializes in the creation of brands and content for web, mobile, tv and film. Feldman has captured fans worldwide with his flagship property, Dr. Shroud, an animated series and online game, about a reformed-vampire’s pursuit to rescue his only daughter, Wendy, after she is abducted by Necropolis’ most dangerous bloodsuckers. He will show episodes from the series and lead Q & A with the audience.

Maxwell Sørensen is a Philadelphia based director and animator specializing in stop motion animation, puppetry, and a handmade aesthetic. By combining traditional techniques with extensive digital post production, Max’s work is a unique blend of the modern and the retro, the digital and the analog. Max’s work has been featured on MTV2, MTVU, FUSE, and as an official selection at the South by Southwest Film Festival 2010.  Alex Cohen is a painter based in Bucks County, PA who collaborated with Sorensen to create a claymation-interpretation of his oil painting, “Airfoil”, entitled Monkey Dreams: The Fall. Sorensen will show short works he has created, including Monkey Dreams and lead audience Q & A along with Cohen.

Alicia Milosz’s lenticular portraits of dogs and their owners, parents/children tell a story by showing contrast and similarity. The portraits use two or three flip images that move from one image to the next as you step back and forth while viewing the photo. This technique creates motion or change within the same portrait and when applied to dogs/people, provides humorous results given the uncanny similarities between humans and their most devoted companions. Some of Milosz’s past exhibitions include: UBS PaineWebber Art Gallery, NYC; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada; Keihan Gallery, Japan; University of Maryland.

Plus Discussion with Tracy Carluccio, Deputy Director, Delaware Riverkeeper

7 pm; 9:30 pm Film

8:50 pm Discussion (all ticket holders welcome to attend)

The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of “fracking” or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a “Saudia Arabia of natural gas” just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND. Part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown.

Not Rated; 107 minutes; 2010

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