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2011/US/PG-13/129 min
Director: Stephen Daldry
Cast: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, Max von Sydow, Viola Davis, John Goodman, Jeffrey Wright

“An exceptionally heart-wrenching film. A life-affirming sensory experience.”
- Jake Coyle, AP

“The best movie of the year. Four stars. Extraordinary.”
- Alynda Wheat, People Magazine

“Exquisite. One of the best films of the year. … Director Stephen Daldry has taken great care in looking at it through the eyes of a precocious New York City boy in a film filled with both sentiment and substance.”
- Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

“Emotionally potent. A crescendo of feeling. Thomas Horn gives an exceptional natural performance, entirely convincing and exhilarating to experience. Best of all, Max von Sydow is absolutely wonderful, with the great veteran actor clearly relishing this very unusual role.”
- Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter

“It’s an emotional powerhouse of a film, an unforgettable and rewarding motion picture experience.”
- Pete Hammond, Boxoffice Magazine

“Director Stephen Daldry has fashioned an emotionally powerful cinematic testimony about that horrific late summer day.”
- James Berardinelli, ReelViews

Playing Wednesday, February 8 at 11 am

Action, adventure, romance, the director of “Casablanca,” a great cast, and the horse who would become Trigger — what more could you ask for in a Best Picture Nominee? (Best Picture in 1938 went to “You Can’t Take It With You.”) This winner of three Academy Awards (Best Art Direction, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score) is one of the best ever versions of the timeless tale of a Saxon lord who fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army against the oppression of the Saxon masses by Prince John in King Richard’s absence.

1938/USA/NR/102 min

Director: Michael Curtiz and William Keighley

Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathborne and Claude Rains

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Playing Friday, February 10 – Just $3 or 2 for 5

There’s something terrible coming to Friday Night Flicks at the State — the “Citizen Kane” of bad movies. Why are we showing this really, really bad movie about a man whose wife cheats on him? Three main reasons: 1) it’s a huge phenomenon in midnight movie film circles, selling out large theaters in New York, LA, Chicago and Seattle, and many of you have told us that you’d like to see what all the fuss is about; 2) it’s one of the worst movies ever made, and therefore, quite enjoyable, if you like that kind of thing; and 3) you get to throw plastic spoons during the film. Come see what all the fuss is about.

2003/USA/R/99 min

Director: Tommy Wiseau

Cast: Tommy Wiseau, Juliette Danielle, Greg Sestero and Philip Haldiman

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Congrats to Traverse City Film Festival board member Terry George for being nominated this morning for an Academy Award! Terry’s short film, “The Shore,” played at the 2011 fest, and now he’ll be going to the Oscars at the end of February.

WAIT FOR THE STATE!
Do you know we’ve already shown 16 of the Oscar nominated films here at either the festival or the State? And coming soon to our theater are the rest of the cream of the crop: “The Artist” (10 Oscar nominations), “Hugo” (11 Oscar nominations – the most!), “My Week with Marilyn,” “Moneyball” and “The Ides of March.” All coming to the State!