Don't miss Winter's Bone on September 11th, 2010

Norwich Community Cinema is proud to present the award-winning Winter’s Bone starrting Jennifer Lawrence on Saturday September 11th at 7:30pm.

Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin’s code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.

The film is based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell.

Deep in the Ozark Mountains, clans live by a code of conduct that no one dares defy—until an intrepid teenage girl has no other choice. When Ree Dolly’s crystal-meth-making father skips bail and goes missing, her family home is on the line. Unless she finds him, she and her young siblings and disabled mother face destitution. In a heroic quest, Ree traverses the county to confront her kin, break their silent collusion, and bring her father home.

With thrilling tension, Winter’s Bone depicts an archetypal rite of passage from adolescence to adulthood. Only this time, the young warrior is a girl. As our heroine braves immoveable obstacles, she redefines the notion of family loyalty and, in the process, discovers her own power. The spare precision of Debra Granik’s direction is effortlessly profound. Stunningly genuine performances and exquisite visual details capture the textures and rhythms of a world where the mythic and the naturalistic intermingle.

Shown at the Donald Oat Theater

Donation: $7.00

Doors: 7:00pm

Start: 7:30pm

Directed by: Debra Granik

Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Kevin Breznahan, Dale Dickey, Garret Dillahunt, Shelley Waggener, Lauren Sweetser.

Awards: Grand Jury Prize, Sundance; Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, Sundance

Willy Wonka Sponsors

(Norwich, CT) – The Norwich Community Cinema Foundation recently celebrated its first anniversary of screening movies in downtown Norwich. As a “thank you” to the community for its support, the NCCF has decided to host an outdoor movie screening of the classic family film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory on the Chelsea Parade, Saturday, September 4th at 8:00 PM. This event is free to the public.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is your golden ticket to imagination and adventure! This is the 1971 musical adaptation of a Roald Dahl story. The film stars Gene Wilder as the eccentric, genius, candy maker, Willy Wonka. It also stars Jack Albertson as Grandpa Joe and Peter Ostrum as Charlie. The film received an Oscar nomination in 1972 for the music score and Gene Wilder received a Golden Globe nomination for his role in the film. Don’t miss it! It’s Scrumdiddlyumptious!

Bring blankets and lawn chairs and come early. The event will be held rain or shine. In the event of rain, the film will be shown across the street, in Slater Auditorium, on the campus of Norwich Free Academy.

This screening is made possible by the generous support of the following local businesses: The Law Offices of Brown Jacobson, Charter Oak FCU, The Law Offices of Chinigo Leone & Maruzo, Dime Bank, and Norwich Bulletin. Additional contributors include Chelsea Groton Bank and Norwich Public Utilities.

About Norwich Community Cinema Foundation:
The Norwich Community Cinema Foundation, Inc. (“NCCF”) is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to maintain a public cinema and gathering space in Norwich. For the past year NCCF, as an affiliate of the Norwich Arts Council, Inc., has been showing high-quality, independent films on the second Saturday of each month in the Donald Oat Theater in downtown Norwich. With the support of a grant obtained by the Norwich Free Academy, we have also been having monthly screenings of foreign films at The Sidney E. Frank Performing & Visual Arts Center at NFA. NCCF seeks to promote local, regional and other independent filmmakers and cultivate an appreciation for the film medium as an expression of creativity. We strive to foster the movie going experience—the big screen and the smell of popcorn—and host lively discussions about the films we show.

Visit norwichcinema.org for movie information and to learn more about the Norwich Community Cinema Foundation.

The Norwich Community Cinema Foundation, Inc. is recognized as a tax-exempt entity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

The Girl Who Played with Fire at Norwich Community Cinema August 14th

Shown at the Donald Oat Theater

Donation $7,  start time 7:30pm

In THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE – the second installment in the “Millennium” trilogy following THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO – Mikael Blomkvist is about to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society. On the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander.

Directed by Daniel Alfredson

Starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Annika Hallin, Per Oscarsson, Lena Endre, Peter Andersson

• Relentless suspense! Holds you in a viselike grip. Noomi Rapace is spectacular.– Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
• More gripping than Dragon Tattoo, because this one doesn’t just play with thriller conventions — it puts them to work. – Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
• Rated R, Swedish with English subtitles

Showing at the Donald L. Oat Theater

Donation $7  Movie starts at 7:30 pm

Norwich Community Cinema is pleased to present a true film classic. We hope you enjoy it.

The Stranger (1946) is an America film noir/drama starring Orson Weles, Edward G. Robinson, and Loretta Young. Welles also directed the film, which is believed to be the first film released after Word War II that showed footage of concentrations camps.

The film was nominated in 1947 for an Oscar – Best Writing, Original Story by Victor Trivas.

SYNOPSIS

In 1946, Mr. Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), an investigator from the War Crimes Commission, travels to Connecticut to hunt for infamous Nazi fugitive, Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), who has effectively concealed all evidence which might positively identify him.

Doors open at 7:00 pm.