FOLLOWING THE OPENING NIGHT SCREENINGS AT THE RAFAEL AND THE SEQUOIA, COME JOIN US AT STRAWBERRY VILLAGE SHOPPING CENTER FOR OUR OPENING GALA!

OPENING NIGHT GALA

Thursday, October 5, 9:30 pm–12:00 am
Strawberry Village Shopping Center

Come party the night away, rubbing elbows with filmmakers and dignitaries, and enjoying music by local favorite The Edge and their rock-reggae celebration of the rhythms of New Orleans and Cuba.

You and your taste buds will enjoy culinary delights provided by Strawberry Village restaurants Pasta Pomodoro and Pizza Antica, and by All Seasons Catering and Events Ondine, with delectable desserts by “Take a Dip” Fondue Fountains, Edible Arrangements and Dianda’s Italian Pastry.

BREAKING AND ENTERING

Thursday, October 5, 7:00 and 7:15 pm

CinéArts@Sequoia

 7:00 PM FILM AND GALA $125 BREA05P

 7:00 PM FILM ONLY $25 BREA05S

 

7:15 PM FILM AND GALA $125 BRE205P
7:15 PM FILM ONLY $25 BRE205S

UK 200 120 MINS

Invited Guests: Robin Wright Penn, Sydney Pollack

Director/Screenwriter Anthony Minghella
Producers Sydney Pollack, Anthony Minghella, Timothy Bricknell
Cinematographer Benoit Delhomme Editor Lisa Gunning
Cast Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright Penn, Martin Freeman, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Rafi Gavron
Print Source Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc

Breaking in, breaking up, breaking the law—reality and metaphor crash loudly and with muted intensity throughout this brilliant, multilayered drama by the talented Mr. Anthony Minghella (Cold Mountain, The English Patient). A successful landscape architect, Will (Jude Law) and his partner open a new high-tech office in London’s sketchy King’s Cross neighborhood, where they’ve planned a grand redevelopment project. Within days, the office is repeatedly burglarized, and in the aftermath relationships quickly begin to unravel and intersect. Staking out the office in hopes of intercepting the thieves, Will catches Miro, a teenage refugee from Sarajevo, in the act. Rather than have him arrested, Will finds himself impulsively drawn toward Miro’s single mother, Amira (Juliette Binoche). With distance growing between Will and Liv, his long-term Swedish- American girlfriend (Robin Wright Penn), Will becomes enmeshed in a complex tale of honesty, fidelity, ethnicity, class and the fierce devotion of a mother to her child. —J. Parsont
 

THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND

Thursday, October 5, 7:00 pm

Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center

7:00 PM FILM AND GALA $125 LAST05P
7:00 PM FILM ONLY $25 LAST05R

UK 2006 121 MINS

Invited Guest: Forest Whitaker

Director Kevin Macdonald
Producers Lisa Bryer, Andrea Calderwood, Christine Rupert, Charles Steel
Screenwriters Peter Morgan, Jeremy Brock, Joe Penhall
Cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle
Editor Justine Wright
Cast Forest Whitaker, Gillian Anderson, James McAvoy, David Oyelowo, Kerry Washington, Simon McBurney
Print Source Fox Searchlight Pictures

Through a fluke, a young Scottish doctor becomes personal physician to brutal Ugandan president Idi Amin, in this compelling fiction set against actual historical events of the 1970s. Forest Whitaker carves a towering performance, equally funny and ferocious as the charismatic tyrant who makes a personal confidant of his bedazzled medic, played by James McAvoy. At first the doctor thoroughly enjoys his new power and privileges, with Amin’s eccentric bravado and seductive charm blinding him to the true nature of his Faustian bargain. By the time he discovers the extent of his leader’s murderous acts and atrocities, however, it may be too late for him to escape from the heart of darkness. Based on the novel by Giles Foden, and also starring Kerry Washington and Gillian Anderson, this intense and absorbing thriller was filmed on location in Uganda by Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, Touching the Void). —R. Peterson