Written and directed by Matthew Brown and starring Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons, The Man Who Knew Infinity is the true story of a friendship that forever changed mathematics.
114 minutes; PG-13
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"Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke and Julianne Moore make a pleasing triangle in Rebecca Miller's offbeat romantic comedy." Dennis Harvey, Variety. A young woman longing to start a family becomes involved in a complicated love triangle with a professor and his theorist wife.
98 minutes; R
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Magnolia at the Modern is an ongoing series featuring critically acclaimed films. Tickets are $9; $7 for Modern members; $6 for Reel People. The Sunday noon show time is half price. Advance sales begin two hours prior to each show.
Q17 Best Dramatic Feature
Fort Worth Premier
Q17 Best Romantic Drama Feature
Homestretch (NR, 2014, 90 minutes) — The Homestretch follows three homeless teens in Chicago as they fight to stay in school , graduate, and build a future. Through haunting images, intimate scenes, and first-person narratives, the teens take us on their journeys of struggle and triumph. As their stories unfold, the film connects us to larger issues of poverty, race, juvenile justice, immigration, foster care and LGBT rights.
Banished (NR, 2009, 90 minutes) — From the 1860s to the 1920s, dozens of towns and counties across America violently expelled entire African American communities, forcing thousands of black families to flee their homes. A century later, these towns remain mostly white. Banished tells the story of three of these communities and their black descendants, who return to learn shocking histories.
Featuring a Tony Award-winning performance from host of the The Late Late Show, James Corden, the uproarious One Man, Two Guvnors was a runaway hit both in London’s West End and on Broadway.
Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect $6000 from his fiancé’s dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who’s been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers.
In this inspirational true story, a barmaid in a poor Welsh mining village convinces some of her fellow residents to pool their resources to compete in the "sport of kings" with a racehorse they will breed and raise themselves.
85 minutes, PG
Hockney weaves together a portrait of the multifaceted artist from frank interviews with close friends and never-before-seen footage from his own personal archive. One of the great surviving icons of the 1960s, David Hockney may have started his career with almost instant success, but in private he has struggled with his art, relationships, and the tragedy of AIDS, making his optimism and sense of adventure truly uplifting. Hockney is funny, inspiring, bold, and visionary.
112 minutes
