Cinemagic's April Schedule

Saturday, April 2 · 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: Cinemagic's rooftop venue, Old Salmiya, above LG Electronics.

Film: Micmacs
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Country: France
Release: 2010
Genre: Comedy, crime
Running time: 105 minutes
Language: French
English Subtitles
Awards: Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Edit
Rated: R

Avid movie-watcher and video store clerk Bazil has had his life all but ruined by weapons of war. His father was killed by a landmine in Morocco and one fateful night a stray bullet from a nearby shootout embeds itself in his skull, leaving him on the verge of instantaneous death. Losing his job and his home, Bazil wanders the streets until he meets Slammer, a pardoned convict who introduces him to a band of eccentric junkyard dealers... When chance reveals to Bazil the two weapons manufacturers responsible for building the instruments of his destruction, he constructs a complex scheme for revenge.

Please note as this is an outdoor screening it may be cancelled if raining or too dusty.

LWDLIK- Looks like a great, fun movie. If you need more details, map, etc type Cinemagic in the search box on the top right  for previous posts.


SATURDAY APRIL 9th - 7:30 PM

SYMPATHY FOR MR VENGEANCE
Director: CHAN WOOK PARK
Country: South Korea
Release: 2002
Genre: Crime
Drama, Thriller
Running time: 129 minutes
Language: Korean
English Subtitle
Awards: Best Actor, Best Film, Best Director...
Rated: R

This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. Ryus boss, Park, has just laid him off, and in order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend develop a plan to kidnap Park's daughter. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.


THURSDAY APRIL 14th

THE WIZARD OF OZ
Director: VICTOR FLEMING
Country: USA
Release: 1939
Genre: Adventure
Fantasy
Musical
Family
Running time: 101 minutes
Language: English
English Subtitle
Awards: 2 Oscars, 5 other wins and 8 nominations
Rated: PG

In this charming film based on the popular L.Frank Baum stories, Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in the path of a tornado and somehow end up in the Land of Oz. Here she meets some memorable friends and foes in her journey to meet the Wizard of Oz who everyone says can help her return home and possibly grant her new friends their goals of a brain, heart and courage.


SATURDAY APRIL 16th - 7:30 PM

AWAY WE GO
Director: SAM MENDES
Country: USA
Release: 2009
Genre: Comedy
Drama
Running time: 98 minutes
Language: English
English Subtitle
Awards: Nominated Best Actors, Best Film
Rated: 15+

When slacker thirty-something couple Burt and Verona discover that his parents are moving overseas, the duo who expect their first child in a few months set off on a cross-country tour to figure out where they should lay down some roots. They visit a number of different cities, and meet with a different friend or family members family at each stop...


THURSDAY APRIL 21st - 7:30 PM

JAR CITY
Director: BALTASAR KORMAKUR
Country: Iceland
Release: 2006
Genre: Thriller
Running time: 93 minutes
Language: Icelandic
English Subtitle
Awards: Best Film, Best Actor, Best Director, Cinematography,
Rated: 15+

It looks like nothing ever happens in Iceland and when a seemingly innocuous old man is brutally killed, the news is in someway amplified. Detective Erlendur Sveisson, fifty and living a life plagued by various forms of addiction, is appointed the apparently incomprehensible case.... An austere yet powerful and gripping detective story, Jar City has been very well received by demanding American audiences. Perfectly crafted as a suspense-generating machine, what really makes Jar City a unique film in its genre is the effective balance between its vivid and somewhat physical images, and its cerebral, nearly philosophical narrative mood.


SATURDAY APRIL 23rd - 7:30 PM

WATER
Director: DEEPA MEHTA
Country: India
Release: 2005
Genre: Drama
Running time: 117 minutes
Language: Hindi
English Subtitle
Awards: Best Film, Director, Cinematography, Script...
Rated: PG

In 1938, Chuyia a child bride whose husband dies before their union is consummated is relegated to life in an ashram in Varanasi for other 'unwanted widows. Their life is ruled over by a venal old woman, Madhumati She pimps the young widows out to wealthy Brahmin gentlemen, whose attentions are considered by society to be a blessing. Another young widow, Kalyani runs away to marry a young lawyer, a devotee of Ghandi, until she discovers that his father has been her 'client/benefactor...


THURSDAY APRIL 28th - 7:30 PM

THE HEADLESS WOMAN
Director: LUCRECIA MARTEL
Country: Argentina
Release: 2009
Genre: Drama
Mystery
Thriller
Running time: 87 minutes
Language: Spanish
English Subtitle
Awards: Cannes in competition, Best film, Director, Actress...
Rated: 15+

Acclaimed Argentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel steps back behind the camera for her third feature film with a mysterious and intriguing tale of a bourgeois woman who when driving alone on a dirt road, becomes distracted, and runs over something. In the days following this jarring incident, she is dazed and emotionally disconnected from the people and events in her life. She becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone...


SATURDAY APRIL 30th - 7:30 PM

THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST
Director: DANIEL ALFREDSSON
Country: Sweden
Release: 2010
Genre: Crime
Drama, Thriller
Running time: 147 minutes
Language: Swedish
English Subtitle
Awards:
Rated: R

After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.