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The Magnolia at the Modern is an ongoing series featuring critically acclaimed films. Regular show times are Friday at 6 & 8 pm, Saturday at 5 pm, and Sunday at 2 & 4 pm (exceptions are noted). Tickets are $7.50; $5.50 for Modern members. Advance sales begin two hours prior to each show.
Film Schedule
THE PAINTED VEIL
"The Painted Veil has the power and intimacy of a timeless love story. By all means, let it sweep you away." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone. Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham and set against the visually stunning backdrop of China during one of its most dramatic periods of upheaval the Painted Veil tells a unique love story of an estranged husband (Edward Norton) and wife (Naomi Watts) who find redemption and unexpected grace in a very unlikely place.
THE LIVES OF OTHERS
"Rather than dwell on the darkness, von Donnersmarck has fashioned a genuinely thrilling tale, leavened with sly humor that works ingenious variations on the theme of cat and mouse, speaks to current concerns about personal privacy and illuminates the timeless conflict between totalitarianism and art." Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film this political thriller/human drama traces the gradual disillusionment of a highly skilled officer who works for the Stasi, East Germany’s all-powerful secret police.
VENUS
"O’Toole gives a staggering performance—fearless, defiantly untamed and in its own way a work of art." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone. Peter O’Toole received an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of a veteran actor whose world is turned upside down by a brash teenager.
BREAKING AND ENTERING*
"A very smart film." Richard Roeper, Ebert and Roeper. Jude Law stars in award winning director Anthony Minghella’s newest character driven drama about a landscape architect’s dealings with a young thief.
AVENUE MONTAIGNE
"Avenue Montaigne is a bonbon, not a bouillabaisse. But because this is finally a film about desire, it carries a bittersweet tang." Manohla Dargis, The New York Times. A beautiful young woman from the provinces comes to Paris and lands a job as a waitress at a chic café on the Avenue Montaigne, the nexus for art, music, theater and fashion.
AFTER THE WEDDING
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Denmark’s director, Susanne Bier, offers up another powerful family portrait.
BLACK BOOK*
Paul Verhoeven’s World War II drama is an ambitious throwback to the days of rousing all-action wartime pictures in which an intrepid loner risks everything to fight a clearly defined enemy.
THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY
Winner of Best Film at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, this compelling drama takes a sympathetic look at Republicans in early 20th century Ireland, and two brothers who are torn apart by anti-Brit rebellion.
MAFIOSO
"A magnificent film almost no one knows about, this hidden classic offers a wider variety of pleasures than most contemporary works can even aspire to." Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times. This re-release of the classic 1962 mob comedy explores the ethnic stereotypes of Italian culture in a witty and often uproarious manner.
THE VALET
A porter and a top-model have to pretend to be a couple in order to salvage a CEO’s marriage in French director Francis Veber’s latest offering which serves up a hearty mix of broad farce and witty dialogue.
OFFSIDES
Girls disguise themselves as boys and sneak into a World Cup qualifier in Tehran in this intelligent and humorous alternative look at football, pop culture and the position of women in Iran.
JINDABYNE
Raymond Carver’s So Much Water, So Close to Home is the basis for the third feature by Aussie director Ray Lawrence about a wife(Laura Linney) who is horrified by the thoughtless act of her husband (Gabriel Byrne) and his mates.
*Revised from previous release
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