Holy Cross Kimball Film Series Spring 2007 Schedule

The following films will be shown at Kimball Theatre at the College of the Holy Cross. All films are free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. For additional information, please call the Kimball Theatre Box Office at 508-793-2455.

The Illusionist – Rated PG-13 Wed., Jan. 17: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Edward Norton, Jessica Biel and Paul Giamatti. It’s 1900 Vienna and a magician uses his abilities to secure the love of a woman well above his social standing in this lavishly mounted, enjoyable film.

Déjà Vu – Rated PG-13 Fri., Jan. 19 and Sat., Jan. 20: Showings at 7 p.m. Starring Denzel Washington and Val Kilmer. The government, ever eager to know all, has a device that allows agents to solve crimes by seeing into the past. Using it, can our hero find a murderer and save 100 lives?

Fast Food Nation - Rated R. Wed., Jan. 24: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Wilmer Valderrama and Greg Kinnear. Examines the health risks involved in the fast food industry.

The Prestige - Rated PG-13 Fri., Jan. 26 and Sat., Jan. 27: Showings at 7 p.m. Starring Hugh Jackman, Christopher Bale and Scarlett Johansson. Rival magicians fall in love with the same woman and are willing to employ illusions and double crosses to win her.

Flags of Our Fathers – Rated R Wed., Jan. 31: Showings 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford and Adam Beach. This reenactment of the bloody battle on the killing ground that was Iwo Jima concentrates on three of the Marines who were in the famous photograph. They toured the country raising funds for the war effort while trying to deal with their guilt as survivors.

Flushed Away - Rated PG Fri., Feb. 2 and Sat., Feb. 3: Showing at 7 p.m. Voices by Hugh Jackman and Kate Winslet. A rat gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment where he ends up in the sewers of London. Adventures ensue.

Half Nelson - Rated R. Wed., Feb. 7: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Ryan Gosling and Shareeka Epps. A committed inner-city school teacher tries to cope by numbing himself with crack and a student finds out his secret. Trying to change the world isn’t that easy.

Borat - Rated R Fri., Feb. 9 and Sat., Feb. 10: Showing at 7 p.m. In this hilariously offensive movie Borat travels from his primitive home in Kazakhstan to the U.S. to make a documentary. On his cross-country road trip, Borat meets real people in purportedly real situations with hysterical consequences.

The Departed - Rated R Wed., Feb. 14: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg. This complicated cops and Irish mafia saga is a relentlessly violent mean streets drama.

Casino Royale - Rated PG-13 Fri., Feb. 16 and Sat., Feb. 17: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Daniel Craig and Judi Dench. There is a rough edge to this 21st entrant in the Bond canon. This tough, violent film is an adaptation of Ian Fleming’s first 007 novel.

Marie Antoinette - Rated PG-13 Wed., Feb. 21: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Kirsten Dunst and Rip Torn. The doomed queen is played as a charming bimbo in this loosely adapted look at the rich and famous in 18th-century France. The film has atmosphere, beauty, spirit and texture.

Stranger Than Fiction - Rated PG-13 Fri., Feb. 23 and Sat., Feb. 24: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Will Ferrell and Emma Thompson. Ferrell is a milquetoast IRS agent convinced his life is being directed by a depressed writer who is trying to figure out a way to kill off her main character — him.

Shut Up and Sing - Rated R Wed., Feb. 28: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. This documentary focuses on the firestorm created when the Dixie Chicks member Natalie Maines made a comment about President G.W. Bush in 2003. In so doing, the film considers the intersection of art commerce and controversy.

The History Boys - Rated R Wed., March 14: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Richard Griffiths and Clive Merrison. Based on Alan Bennett’s adaptation of his play and set in an English boys’ school in 1983, the film follows a group of eight boys as they prepare for university entrance exams. Their journey is as much about how education works, as it is about where it leads.

Blood Diamond - Rated R Fri., March 16 and Sat., March 17: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connolly and Djimon Hounsou. In a film set against the background of Sierra Leone’s civil war and exposing the global trade in conflict diamonds, a mercenary and a fisherman pursue a valuable pink diamond — one for profit and the other as a means to save his family.

Deliver Us From Evil - Not rated Wed., March 21: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. This scalding documentary tells us about Father Oliver O’Grady who raped dozens of children across central California for 20 years and was knowingly moved by his diocese from parish to parish. We hear from victims, theologians, child abuse experts and O’Grady himself, now living free in Ireland.

Happy Feet - Rated PG Fri., March 23 and Sat., March 24: Showing at 7 p.m. Voices by Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. You’re going to love these singing, dancing and ecologically alarmed penguins as they frolic under the Antarctic sun. Little Children - Rated R Wed., March 28: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. In this tale of small-town dysfunction, two married suburbanites begin an affair. The film also peers into other houses and other damaged lives, including that of a convicted pedophile who moves in with his mother.

Dreamgirls - Rated PG-13 Fri., March 30 and Sat., March 31: Showings at 7 p.m. Starring Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy, Beyonce Knowles and Jennifer Hudson. The film depicts the rise of a ’60’s Motown-style trio. What happens when one ego-driven singer is bounced from the group?

Babel - Rated R Wed., April 11: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Four globe-spanning stories are slowly revealed to be linked in this tale of human disconnectedness.

The Pursuit of Happyness - Rated PG-13 Fri., April 13 and Sat., April 14: Showings at 7 p.m. Starring Will Smith and Thandie Newton. This is the story of a single dad in Reagan-era San Francisco who works a brokerage internship by day and shuttles his son to homeless shelters by night. The Last King of Scotland - Rated R Wed., April 18: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Forrest Whitaker and James McAvoy. A Scots doctor becomes entangled with the barbaric Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin. Flattered at first, he becomes appalled by the dictator’s savagery — and his complicity in it. Can he make amends and escape Uganda alive?

Apocalypto - Rated R Fri., April 20 and Sat., April 21: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Rudy Youngblood. Against a backdrop of bloody 16th-century Meso-American violence, a Mayan hunter fights his way back home.

Notes on a Scandal - Rated R Wed., April 25: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett. In this tale of loneliness, loyalty, envy and love, a teacher at a London school gets involved with a student. A colleague finds out and blackmails herself into the seducer’s daily life. The Good Shepherd - Rated R Fri., April 27 and Sat., April 28: Showings at 7 p.m. Starring Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie. The film looks at the early history of the CIA through the actions of a single agent who goes from poetry at Yale to clandestine activities around the world.

Letters of Iwo Jima - Rated R Fri., May 4 and Sat., May 5: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Ken Watanabe. The battle for Iwo Jima is seen through the eyes and letters of the Japanese who fought and died there. Clint Eastwood succeeds in giving the complete story he began with Flags of Our Fathers.