Dinner, Film & Meet-the-Filmmaker, Bill Jersey

5:00 pm @ Chimney Hill Inn
207 Goat Hill Rd, Lambertville, NJ

Tickets: $35 per person
(To raise funds for ACME Screening Room)

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How do you live a life with creativity, open to inspiration, exploration and joy? The lives of Charles & Ray Eames, famous designers, and the subjects of Bill Jersey’s American Masters biography EAMES: THE ARCHITECT AND THE PAINTER, have left a rich and inspiring legacy that explores this question.

Join us for dinner where we will watch a 20-minute segment of EAMES: THE ARCHITECT AND THE PAINTER, a sneak-peak at the film before it premieres this winter on PBS! And then, enjoy Q & A with Emmy-Award winning and Oscar-nominated documentary Producer, Bill Jersey, on the film, and his own creative path.

Dinner: Cuisine from Around the World from the chefs at Marhaba & Annapurna

Desert: The Bent Spoon ice cream & treats

Silent Auction: Movie-Themed Gift Baskets

Bill Jersey (Producer) has produced documentaries for all of the major networks and in association with PBS, WNET New York, KCET Los Angeles, WGBH Boston, and others. His current production, EAMES: The Architect and the Painter, produced with Jason Cohn of Bread and Butter Films, will air on PBS’s American Masters in December 2011. Jersey’s body of work includes two Academy Award nominees: A Time for Burning, on race relations in America, and Superchief, on the life and legacy Chief Justice Earl Warren. Other award-winning productions include The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow series (George Foster Peabody Award), Children of Violence (Emmy), Renaissance (Emmy nomination), Faces of the Enemy (Emmy nomination), Loyalty and Betrayal (Emmy), Hunting the Hidden Dimension (Pierre Gilles deGennes Award) and The Making of Amadeus. He is based in New Jersey.

Friday & Saturday: 7 pm & 9 pm
Sunday matinee: 5 pm

Based on Graham Greene’s chilling 1838 novel, BRIGHTON ROCK is the hard-boiled, visually captivating debut film of Rowan Joffe. An official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival, the film features an incredible cast of both British acting royalty and brilliant newcomers. Sam Riley (CONTROL) is the young anti-hero Pinkie, a cunning charmer trying to make his mark on the vicious gangland of Brighton. When a young waitress (Andrea Riseborough, who was nominated for 2 BIFAs for her breakthrough performance) stumbles on evidence that links Pinkie and his gang to a revenge killing, he draws her into a conned romance to keep the loose end tied up. When Rose’s world-weary boss (Oscar-winner Helen Mirren) becomes suspicious of the enigmatic young man hanging around her charge, the tangled web becomes a deadly game of psychological cat-and-mouse — an atmospheric mystery-noir that fully captures the mood of Greene’s violent and sexually daring masterpiece.

Rated NR; 1 hr 51 mins

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7 pm & 8:40 pm

“Your horse is a mirror to your soul, and sometimes you may not like what you see. Sometimes, you will.” So says Buck Brannaman, a true American cowboy and sage on horseback who travels the country for nine grueling months a year helping horses with people problems. A real life “horse-whisperer”, he eschews the violence of his upbringing and teaches people to communicate with horses through leadership and sensitivity, not punishment. Buck possesses near magical abilities as he dramatically transforms horses – and people – with his understanding, compassion and respect. A truly American story about an unsung hero, BUCK is about an ordinary man who has made an extraordinary life despite tremendous odds.

Rated PG; 1 hr 28 mins

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Friday: 7 pm
Saturday: 8 pm
Sunday matinee: 5 pm

Performed at Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy

Composed by W. A. Mozart

Conducted by Roland Böer

Directed by William Kentridge

Starring Günther Groissböck, Alex Esposito, Saimir Pirgu & Genia Kühmeier

Sung in German with English subtitles

2 hrs 44 mins plus one intermission

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Friday & Saturday 7 pm – 8:40 pm

HALLOWEENVILLE is a documentary about Halloween in Lambertville, NJ, a holiday which brings out the spooktacularly-creative side of this already-artsy town. It must be seen to be believed: haunted houses, hundreds of costumed people in the streets at night, horrific lawn performances, and thousands of pounds of candy dolled out by residents to terrifying children, young and old. ACME is honored to premiere this film made by local talent on Halloween weekend!

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Friday & Saturday:  8:40 pm
Sunday:  5:00 pm

This remastered version of the director’s cut allows Nicholas Roeg’s dazzling visuals to be seen as they were meant to be. After a space-craft seemingly crashes to Earth, David Bowie walks off to sell a ring for twenty bucks in a dusty Southwestern town, then almost immediately hires high-priced, thick-spectacled patent attorney to register ten world-changing patents. Orange-haired, pale-faced, minimally expressioned Bowie desperately yearns to return himself and water to his parched planet — but will the authorities let him? — with coed-shtupping professor Rip Torn providing technical help, and chambermaid Candy Clark providing distractions via overdoses of very terrestrial booze, church, sex, and television. Roeg’s science fiction cult classic/cautionary moral tale is an assault of fragmented, non-linear narrative style, typically striking visuals, echt 70s soundtrack by John Phillips of The Mamas and Papas.

2 hrs 20 mins, rated NR

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