Wendy and Lucy - January 8th

January 8th, 2010
Showtime: 7 p.m.
Doors: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Wright Opera House
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Runtime: 80 min.
Rating: R|Parental Guide
Categories: Drama

Synopsis:
Wendy Carroll is driving to Ketchikan, Alaska, in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the Northwestern Fish cannery, and the start of a new life with her dog, Lucy. When her car breaks down in Oregon, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions, with far-ranging repercussions for herself and Lucy.

[Official Site]
[Trailer]

Admission: Everyone is welcome at $7.50 per ticket. 2010 Movie Club members may use their punch cards. Come early and purchase a season membership for $60; membership includes a punch card valid for for 10 admissions during the 2009-2010 season.

Wendy and Lucy trailer

COMING SOON: The Cove - January 22nd - Thriller Documentary - a terrifying secret in a secluded cove where thousands of dolphins are hunted for meat and underhanded dealing to the entertainment industry.

Paper Heart- SATURDAY - DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS SHOW

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Paper Heart
December 26th, 2009
Showtime: 7 p.m.
Doors: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Wright Opera House
Director: Nicholas Jasenovec
Runtime: 88 min.
Rating: PG-13|Parental Guide
Awards: Nom. Grand Jury Prize - Sundance 09 (more)
Categories: Romance-Drama-Comedy


NOTE:This is a Saturday show.


Synopsis:
Charlyne embarks on a quest across America to make a documentary about the one subject she doesn’t fully understand, love. She meets a boy after her own heart and he becomes the object of her affection. Weaving together reality and fantasy, the film combines elements of documentary and traditional storytelling to bring a fresh perspective to the modern romance

[Official Site]
[Trailer]

Admission: Everyone is welcome at $7.50 per ticket. 2010 Movie Club members may use their punch cards. Come early and purchase a season membership for $60; membership includes a punch card, valid for 10 admissions during the 2009-2010 season.

Paper Heart Trailer

IMPORTANT NOTES: TITLES AND DATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE based on movie availability. We strive to show a very wide variety of types of movies outside of the Hollywood mainstream including independent, foreign, drama, documentary, etc. Tastes vary, and the descriptions and links at this site will help you decide if each of these movies fit your interest.

December 2009 - Season Kickoff - A duo of indie romances

Away We Go
December 11th, 2009
Showtime: 7 p.m.
Doors: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Wright Opera House
Director: Sam Mendes (American Beauty)
Runtime: 98 min.
Rating: R|Parental Guide
Categories: Romance-Drama-Comedy

This is the first show of the 2009-2010 season. Welcome back to the Wright!


Synopsis:
A couple expecting their first child travels around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family once the parents with whom they were going to stay decide to move. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.

[Official Site]
[Trailer]

Admission: Everyone is welcome at $7.50 per ticket. 2010 Movie Club members may use their punch cards. Come early and purchase a season membership for $60; membership includes a punch card valid for for 10 admissions during the 2009-2010 season.

Away We Go Trailer

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Paper Heart
December 26th, 2009
Showtime: 7 p.m.
Doors: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Wright Opera House
Director: Nicholas Jasenovec
Runtime: 88 min.
Rating: PG-13|Parental Guide
Awards: Nom. Grand Jury Prize - Sundance 09 (more)
Categories: Romance-Drama-Comedy


NOTE:This is a Saturday show.


Synopsis:
Charlyne embarks on a quest across America to make a documentary about the one subject she doesn’t fully understand, love. She meets a boy after her own heart and he becomes the object of her affection. Weaving together reality and fantasy, the film combines elements of documentary and traditional storytelling to bring a fresh perspective to the modern romance

[Official Site]
[Trailer]

Admission: Everyone is welcome at $7.50 per ticket. 2010 Movie Club members may use their punch cards. Come early and purchase a season membership for $60; membership includes a punch card, valid for 10 admissions during the 2009-2010 season.

Paper Heart Trailer

IMPORTANT NOTES: TITLES AND DATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE based on movie availability. We strive to show a very wide variety of types of movies outside of the Hollywood mainstream including independent, foreign, drama, documentary, etc. Tastes vary, and the descriptions and links at this site will help you decide if each of these movies fit your interest.

2009-2010 Season Starts in December

The Ouray Movie Club is back at the Wright Opera House for our 2009-2010 Season. We are pleased to announce that at the end of the season, our profits will be donated to Friends of the Wright Opera House.

We will begin with two screenings in December (2009). Our premier will be on Friday December 11th followed by a second screening on the evening of Saturday December 26th. All other screenings are scheduled on the first and fourth Fridays of the month. There will be a total of ten movies shown through April, 2010. A season membership will once again be available.

We'll publish more details including movie titles shortly on this site and by our e-mail list.

See you soon at the Wright.

Friday May 15th - The Fall

May 15th, 2009
Showtime: 7 p.m.
Doors: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Ouray Community Center, Ouray, CO
Director: Tarsem Singh
Runtime: 117 min.
Rating: R|Parental Guide


This is the last show of '09. Thanks for an excellent season!

Note: We have provided a link to the IMDB Parent's Guide and a brief plot synopsis of this movie. We strive to show a very wide variety of types of movies spanning independent, foreign, drama, documentary, etc. Tastes vary, and the descriptions and links at this site will help you decide if each of these movies fit your interest.

Synopsis:
Little Alexandria ends up in the hospital after breaking her arm in a fall. Roy, a fellow patient who is paralyzed, strikes up a conversation with Alexandria and begins to spin a fantastical tale to help her pass the time. His stories involve characters such as an Indian, a masked bandit, an Italian demolitions expert and Charles Darwin who change and shift at his whim as he pulls the young girl into his incredible imagination.

[Official Site]
[Trailer]

Note: Everyone is welcome at $7.50 per ticket. 2009 Movie Club members may use their punch cards.

Frost/Nixon - May 1st

May 1st, 2009
Showtime: 7 p.m.
Doors: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Ouray Community Center, Ouray, CO
Starring: Frank Langella & Michael Sheen
Director: Ron Howard
Runtime: 122 min.
Rating: R|Parental Guide

Eric's Notes: We will be in the Ouray Community Center for this show. In our recent survey, movie club members put this film at the top of their list.

Full Disclosure: We have provided a link to the IMDB Parent's Guide and a brief plot synopsis of this movie. We strive to show a very wide variety of types of movies spanning independent, foreign, drama, documentary, etc. Tastes vary, and the descriptions and links at this site will help you decide if each of these movies fit your interest.

Academy Award-5 Nominations

"The film begins as a fascinating inside look at the TV news business and then tightens into a spellbinding thriller." - Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun/Times - [Full Review]

This film is a dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent, but in 1977 he agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency.

[Official Site]
[Trailer]

Note: Everyone is welcome at $7.50 per ticket. 2009 Movie Club members may use their punch cards.

The Reader - April 17th

April 17th, 2009
Showtime: 7 p.m.
Doors: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Ouray Community Center, Ouray, CO
Starring: Kate Winslet & Ralph Fiennes
Director: Stephen Daldry
Runtime: 124 min.
Rating: R|Parental Guide

Eric's Notes: We will be in the Ouray Community Center for this show. In our recent survey, movie club members put this film near the top of their list.

Full Disclosure: We have provided a link to the IMDB Parent's Guide and a brief plot synopsis of this movie. We strive to show a very wide variety of types of movies spanning independent, foreign, drama, documentary, etc. Tastes vary, and the descriptions and links at this site will help you decide if each of these movies fit your interest.


Academy Award-Won-Best Actress-Kate Winslet
Golden Globe-Won-Best Supporting Actress-Kate Winslet

"[Winslet's] fierce, unerring portrayal goes beyond acting, becoming a provocation that will keep you up nights." - Pete Travers - Rolling Stone - [Full Review]

Synopsis: When Michael is fifteen he has a brief but heated affair with Hanna, a woman in her mid-30’s who finds him sick and feverish in the street and cares for him. Nearly a decade later in Post-WWII Germany, Michael has become a law student and is astonished to find Hanna had become a Nazi prison guard and was on trial for murder. He discovers a secret that might affect her sentencing but is too ashamed of their affair to come forward.

[Official Site]
[Trailer/Short Feature]

Note: Everyone is welcome at $7.50 per ticket. 2009 Movie Club members may use their punch cards.

Ben X- April 3rd

Ben X
April 3rd, 2009
Showtime: 7 p.m.
Doors: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Ouray Community Center, Ouray, CO
Runtime: 93 min.
Rating: NR in US|Parental Guide
Language: Dutch with English Subtitles


Eric's Notes: We will be in the Ouray Community Center for this show (the Beaumont Hotel will be closed during this month). We are pleased to present this excellent festival film from the same distributor that brought us Arranged.

Grand Prize- Montreal Film Festival

"A provocative, exultant stunner. - Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times - [Full Review]

Synopsis: Ben is different and his life is a universe all unto itself. He has Asperger’s Syndrome, a mild form of autism that prevents normal communication, and while he is a courageous hero—BEN X—in the fantasy on-line gaming world that consumes him, in his daily life Ben is tormented by bullies and ignored by apathetic teachers.

As the bullies’ relentless attacks push him over the edge and out of control, his on-line dream girl, Scarlite, appears to him and helps him devise a perfect plan to confront the bullies and make them pay for their torment. Director Nic Balthazar’s dazzling debut blends fantasy and harsh social realism. Based on a true story, Balthazar brings us an utterly original and important film.

[Official Site]
[Trailer]

Note: Everyone is welcome at $7.50 per ticket. 2009 Movie Club members may use their punch cards.

Cadillac Records-March 20th

Cadillac Records
March 20th, 2009
Showtime: 7 p.m.
Doors: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Beaumont Hotel, Ouray, CO
Runtime: 109 min.
Rating: R
Cast: Beyonce Knowles, Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright

Dinner at Bulow's Bistro will be available starting at 5 pm. More info. about dinner: (970) 325-7040.

Golden Globe Nominee (2008)

"The music is good, the suits are sharp, but it’s the outstanding performances that wow. Walker is electrifying as Howlin’ Wolf and Beyoncé — playing Etta James — has never been so sultry and sexy. " Cosmo Landesman- Sunday Times (UK)[Full Review]

Synopsis: This period piece chronicles the rise and fall of influential R&B record label Chess Records which launched the careers of Muddy Waters, Etta James and Chuck Berry. Leonard Chess scoured the South, checking out the various blues scenes and selling records from the back of his Cadillac in this exciting and turbulent tale.

[Official Site]
[Trailer]

Note: Everyone is welcome at $7.50 per ticket. 2009 Movie Club members may use their punch cards.

Sangre De Mi Sangre
March 6th, 2009
Showtime: 7 p.m.
Doors: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Beaumont Hotel, Ouray, CO
Runtime: 110 min.
Rating: Not Rated

Dinner at Bulow's Bistro will be available starting at 5 pm. More info. about dinner: (970) 325-7040.

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL - GRAND JURY PRIZE - WINNER

"Shot mainly in New York's meanest, murkiest streets, Sangre de Mi Sangre, is intricately and imaginatively structured, building to a powerful climax of complex irony." Kevin Thomas- LA Times

"The grimy elegance of this Sundance award winner elevates it well above the standard-issue immigrant drama." - John Anderson - Newsday

Synopsis: Young Pedro has lost his mother and is heading from Mexico to New York, where he hopes to find his long lost father. Pedro is smuggled across the border with a van full of other illegal immigrants, one of whom makes off with his backpack and tries to pass himself off as Pedro in this telling look at the desperation of Mexican immigrants.

[Official Site]
[Trailer]

Note: Everyone is welcome at $7.50 per ticket. 2009 Movie Club members may use their punch cards.

Arranged
February 20th, 2009
Showtime: 7 p.m.
Doors: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Beaumont Hotel, Ouray, CO

Dinner at Bulow's Bistro will be available starting at 5 pm. More info. about dinner: (970) 325-7040.

BROOKLYN INT'L FILM FESTIVAL - WINNER
SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST FILM FESTIVAL - OFFICIAL SELECTION

"CRITIC'S PICK: "[A] surprisingly winning indie drama ... the understated, natural performances by leads Zoe Lister-Jones and Francis Benhamou lend the film a sense of intimacy that serves it well.""New York Magazine

"The simple sweetness of this heartfelt effort arrives as both endearing and culturally provocative." - Toddy Burton - The Austin Chronicle

Synopsis: Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. A young Orthodox woman, ROCHEL MESHENBERG, is about to begin her first year as a special education teacher at the local public school. She is also about to embark on what her father and mother call the "most exciting time of her life" – the process of finding a husband via the time-tested method of using a "shadchen," or matchmaker.

As the school year gets underway, Rochel meets NASIRA KHALDI, a Muslim woman of Syrian descent. Nasira is also a first-year teacher. The two young women – Rochel in long skirt and conservative blouse, Nasira in headscarf – stand out in this public school context. The principal, a secular Westchester Jew, is forever reminding them that although they are some of her smartest, most gifted teachers, they are also stunted by their outmoded customs, religions, and by their patriarchal worldviews. She tells them of her experiences in the women's movement and her desire to see them reach their full potentials.

As the school year progresses, Rochel and Nasira realize they share much in common, not least of which is that they are both going through what the outside world would call "arranged marriages." As their friendship deepens, they are exposed to their respective worlds. They prepare for school at one another's houses, meet one another's families, and discuss commonalities and differences.

[Official Site]
[Trailer]

Note: Everyone is welcome at $7.50 per ticket. 2009 Movie Club members may use their punch cards.

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Starting Out in The Evening-Friday, Feb. 6th, 2009

Starting Out in The Evening
February 6th, 2009
Showtime: 7 p.m. (NOTE NEW START TIME)
Doors: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Beaumont Hotel, Ouray, CO

Starring: Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon), Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under, Swimming)
Rating: PG-13; 111 minutes; 2007

Dinner at Bulow's Bistro will be available starting at 5 pm. More info. about dinner: (970) 325-7040.

SUNDANCE - GRAND JURY PRIZE NOMINEE

"It's so rich and so textured and such wonderful material." - Richard Roeper - Ebert & Roeper

Synopsis: Leonard Schiller is an aging New York author who wants to publish his fifth novel before he dies even though the world is not literary anymore. Graduate student Heather Wolfe seeks him out to write her thesis on him and encourage his writing. The May-December couple come to realize they have more in common than they thought in this complex and gentle love story.

[Official Site]
[Trailer]

Note: Everyone is welcome at $7.50 per ticket or become a Movie Club member at this screening and get a 2009 Season Ticket (10 shows for $60). This February 6th show is your last opportunity to buy a 2009 Season Membership. Please arrive a few minutes early if you'd like to become a member.

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COMING SOON: Arranged - Official Selection - South by Southwest Film Festival

"Two teachers starting their first year at a Brooklyn public school have more in common than meets the eye. Though both women come from very different backgrounds--Rochel is Jewish Orthodox and Nasira is Muslim--they are each going through arranged marriages."-More at Rottentomatoes

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Encounters at the End of the World-Jan. 16th,2009

Encounters at the End of the World
January 16th, 2009
Showtime: 7 p.m. (NOTE NEW START TIME)
Doors: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Beaumont Hotel, Ouray, CO

Dir: Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn)
Rating: G; 99 minutes; 2008

Dinner at Bulow's Bistro will be available starting at 5 pm. More info. about dinner: (970) 325-7040.

100% Fresh -Top Critics at Rottentomatoes.com

Herzog is one of a kind. His new doc is an event you watch in awe as you marvel at its wonders.
Peter Travers -Rolling Stone - [Read Review]

Synopsis: There is a hidden society at the end of the world. One thousand men and women live together under unbelievably close quarters in Antarctica, risking their lives and sanity in search of cutting-edge science.

Now, for the first time, an outsider has been admitted. In his first documentary since Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog, accompanied only by his camerman, traveled to Antarctica, with rare access to the raw beauty and raw humanity of the ultimate Down Under.

Encounters at the End of the World, Herzog’s latest meditation on nature, explores this land of Fire, Ice and corrosive Solitude.

[Official Site].


Note: Everyone is welcome at $7.50 per ticket or become a Movie Club member at this screening and get a 2009 Season Ticket (10 shows for $60). Please arrive a few minutes early if you'd like to become a member.