JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK
July 30-August 1

““Joan Rivers gave the filmmakers access to her life for a year, she was frank, open and honest, and the result is one of the most truthful documentaries about show business I’ve seen. Also, maybe the funniest.”” Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun Times. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, this candid documentary focuses on comedian Joan Rivers as she turns 75.
R for language and sexual humor; 84 minutes

FESTIVAL DE LA RISA
August 6-8 and 13-15

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is pleased to join with the Lone Star Film Society and the Consulate General of Mexico in Dallas in presenting a celebration of Mexican culture and lighthearted cinema. Featuring films, lectures, discussions, live music, dancing and gourmet Mexican cuisine, this festival commemorates the 200th anniversary of Mexican independence and the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution.

GET LOW
August 20-22 and 27-29

Robert Duvall heads up an all-star cast in this unique film spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party...while he was still alive. PG-13 for some thematic material and brief violent content; 100 minutes

WILD GRASS
September 3-5

“Arguably Resnais’s trippiest, most freely associative experiment since 1968’s Je t’aime, je t’aime (a critical and commercial failure in its day,) Wild Grass zig-zags zanily from one genre to the next: Sometimes, it’s a screwball comedy (complete with a couple of Keystone-worthy cops played by Mathieu Amalric and Michel Vuillermoz); sometimes, it’s a thriller; sometimes, it’s an old-fashioned movie romance. All the while, the camera of cinematographer Eric Gautier swoops and glides like Marguerite’s plane, through fields of gauzy, diffuse light punctuated by neon accents.” Scott Foundas, The Village Voice. Wild Grass, the 18th feature film directed by Alain Resnais, arrives exactly 50 years after his debut, Hiroshima mon amour.
PG for some thematic material, language and brief smoking; 104 minutes

ANIMAL KINGDOM
September 10–12
Friday 6 & 8 pm, Saturday 5 pm, Sunday 2 & 4 pm

One of the most popular films at this year’s Sundance Festival and winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury prize, David Michôd’s Animal Kingdom tells the story of seventeen year-old J (Josh) as he navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.
R for violence, drug content and pervasive language; 112 minutes

THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE
September 17–19
Friday 6 & 8:15 pm, Saturday 4:15 pm, Sunday 2 & 4 pm

“Relentless suspense! Holds you in a viselike grip. Noomi Rapace is spectacular.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone. 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.
R; 129 minutes; Swedish with English subtitles

MODERN CINEMA 2010
September 24–26
Films and times to be announced.

Celebrating its sixth year, this special weekend festival highlights some of the finest in world cinema. Christopher Kelly, film critic for DFW.com and the Star-Telegram, travels the festival circuit and selects films scoring rave reviews.

LEBANON
October 1–3
Friday 6 & 8 pm, Saturday 5 pm, Sunday 2 & 4 pm

A lone tank is dispatched to search a hostile town—a simple mission that turns into a nightmare. The four members of a tank crew find themselves in a violent situation that they cannot contain. Motivated by fear and the basic instinct of survival, they desperately try not to lose themselves in the chaos of war. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, Lebanon was written and directed by Samuel Maoz, who based the script on his own experiences in the Israeli Armored Corps as a young man during the First Lebanon War.
R for disturbing bloody war violence, language including sexual references, and some nudity; 93 minutes; Hebrew, Arabic , French with English subtitles

A WOMAN, A GUN, AND A NOODLE SHOP
October 8–10
Friday 6 & 8 pm, Saturday 5 pm, Sunday 2 & 4 pm

Acclaimed, praised and more recently criticized director Zhang Yimou brings to the screen a period remake of the Coen Brothers’ 1984 debut, Blood Simple, transplanting the action from a Texas bar to an isolated noodle restaurant in the deserts of northern China, where the owner of the shop’s scheme to murder his adulterous wife and her lover goes awry.
95 minutes; Mandarin with English subtitles

MAO’S LAST DANCER
Friday, October 15-17
Friday 6 & 8 pm, Saturday 2 & 5 pm, Sunday 2 & 4 pm

“The film’s most complex character is actually Ben Stevenson (Canadian actor Bruce Greenwood shines in this crucial role), the director of the Houston Ballet Company who sets everything in motion and keeps it going.” Peter Brunette, The Hollywood Reporter. The latest exciting and inspirational film from Academy Award-nominated director, Bruce Beresford, is based on Li Cunxin’s bestselling autobiography about a young dancer from a poor Chinese village who participates in a cultural exchange program with the Houston Ballet. Under the guidance of Texas Ballet Theater’s own Ben Stevenson, Li goes on to become a principal dancer and international star.
PG for a brief violent image, some sensuality, language and incidental smoking; 117 minutes