Center for the Arts Bonita Springs Presents  

2014 - 2015 Series of Films for Film Lovers 

Center for Performing Arts Bonita Springs 

Moe Auditorium & Film Center

10150 Bonita Beach Road, Bonita Springs

Tickets: $10  

  

Join us Monday nights at the Center for Performing Arts  Moe Auditorium & Film Center to see the best foreign and independent films from across the globe. Wine, non-alcoholic beverages, snacks and popcorn are available. Be sure to join our lively film discussion after each film, led by a Film Society Chairman and a Film Society Member.  Film lovers can become a member of the Center for the Art's Film Society by purchasing ticket packages. These members enjoy advance notice of film events, screenings and schedule.

 

Exciting News - Beginning October 2014 films are shown every Monday night!

  • Doors open at 6:30pm and films begin at 7:00pm
  • General admission $10 per person 
  • Advance reservations suggested
  • Cash or checks accepted at the door
  • Money-saving ticket packages available!                    

For tickets & information call the Centers for the Arts today 239-495-8989 

Money-Saving Film Series Ticket Packages 


  • *20 Films per person $150
  • *10 Films per person $80
  • *5 Films per person    $45
August 2014
August 4, 2014 
Shut Up (2003) France  

After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, Ruby, a brooding outlaw encounters Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant who befriends him. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin, Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money before them.

 

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August 11, 2014
Ruby Blue (2007) UK 
 

Jack (Academy Award nominee and BAFTA winner Bob Hoskins) faces a time of loss and personal challenge until a ray of sunshine arrives in the unlikely form of eight-year-old Florrie. When she moves in next door, she delights Jack's neglected racing pigeons and unwittingly renews his own love for the birds. Meanwhile, his glamorous French neighbor, Stephanie (Josiane Balasko) takes pity on him and Jack cannot help but fall for her charms. Just when things seem to get brighter, Jack's innocent friendship with Florrie comes under question when the girl goes missing.

 

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August 18, 2014 
Wild Target (2010) UK  

Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims, Rose. He spares her life, unexpectedly acquiring in the process a young apprentice, Tony. Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along. 

 

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SEPTEMBER 2014

September 1, 2014 

Ciao Professore (1992) Italy  


A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples. His first challenge is to increase attendance, collaring his students one by one from home, jobs, or delinquent idleness. He tries to convince his students that classroom learning has real-world payoffs while the students draw their gentle, self-deprecating teacher into their gritty lives outside the classroom. 
September 8, 2014 
Monsieur Lazhar (2011) Belgium  

Bachir Lazhar, an Algerian immigrant, is hired to replace an elementary school teacher who died tragically. The class goes through a healing process, not aware of Bachir's painful former life; nor that he is at risk of being deported at any moment. Monsieur Lazhar depicts the encounter between two distant worlds and the power of self-expression. Using great sensitivity and humor, Philippe Falardeau follows a humble man who is ready to transcend his own loss in order to accompany children beyond the silence and taboo of death.

 

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OCTOBER 2014

October 6, 2014  

Avenue Montaigne (2006) France   


A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in a bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the wealthy inhabitants of the area. She will meet a pianist, a famous actress and a great art collector, and become acquainted with the "luxurious" world her grandmother has told her about since her childhood. 
October 13, 2014  
Damage (1992) UK  

A member of Parliament falls passionately in love with his son's fianc�e despite the dangers of discovery.

 

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October 20, 2014  

August Rush (2007) USA   


A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents. 
October 27, 2014  
Wadjda (2012) Suadi Arabia  

An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.

 

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NOVEMBER 2014

November 3, 2014   

The Housemaid (2010) Korea   


A man's affair with his family's housemaid leads to a dark consequences.
November 10, 2014   
Four Weddings & A Funeral (1994) UK  

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

 

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November 17, 2014  

Girl with the Dragon Tatoo (2011) USA
*DINNER & FILM NIGHT


Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker.
November 24, 2014   
Interview (2007) USA  

After falling out with his editor, a fading political journalist is forced to interview America's most popular soap actress.

 

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DECEMBER 2014

December 1, 2014   

City of God (2002) Brazil  
 

Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.
December 8, 2014    
Mostly Martha (2001) Germany   

When a headstrong chef takes charge of her equally stubborn 8-year-old niece, the tensions between them mount... until an Italian sous-chef arrives to lighten the mood.

 

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December 15, 2014   

In Bruges (2008) UK 
 

Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.
December 29, 2014    
Bill Cunningham New York (2010) USA    

A profile of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer.

 

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JANUARY 2015

January 5, 2015 

A Separation (2011) Iran
 

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
January 12, 2015    
Chico and Rita (2010) Spain
*DINNER & FILM NIGHT
    
Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey - in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero - brings heartache and torment.

January 19, 2015 

Chicken with Plums (2011) France
 

Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death.
January 26, 2015    
Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998) Spain
    
Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of circular lives, with circular names, and a circular place (C�rculo polar) where the day never ends in the midnight sun. There are things that never end, and Love is one of them.
FEBRUARY 2015

February 2, 2015 

The Past (2013) France
 

An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.
February 9, 2015    
Whisper of the Heart (1995) Japan
    
A young girl finds that all the books she chooses in the library have been previously checked out by the same boy. Later she meets a very infuriating fellow... could it be her "friend" from the library? The boy's grandfather has a violin sales and service shop. The boy wants to be a violin maker like his grandfather.

February 16, 2015 

My Best Friend (2006) France
 

Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable Fran�ois, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. Scrambling to find someone willing to pose as his best pal, Fran�ois enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part.
February 23, 2015   
Pizzicata (1996) Italy
    
Tony, an American fighter pilot, parachutes to safety and is hidden at the olive farm of a man with three daughters. Tony falls for Cosima, the daughter, who is currently  being courted by the son of the area's largest landowner.  Tony gets to know her through local traditions, expressed in spontaneous song and in pizzicatas, a courtship dance; a dance that enacts a knife fight between men; and, the frenzied tarantata - a woman's dance exorcising passion
MARCH 2015
March 2, 2015   
House of Fools (2002) Russia
*DINNER & FILM NIGHT
    
In the midst of the Chechen War, a remote psychiatric institution is left without staff leaving the patients to fend for themselves. Based on a true story.

March 9, 2015 

Angel-A (2005) France
 

A beautiful woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together.
March 16, 2015   
The Pianist (2002) USA
    
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

March 23, 2015 

Key of Life (2013) Japan
 

A failed actor switches identities with a stranger at a bath house -- only to find himself filling the shoes of an elite assassin.
March 30, 2015   
Waking Ned Devine (1998) Ireland
    
When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
APRIL 2015

April 6, 2015 

Renoir (2012) France
 

Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir -- son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste -- returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At his side is Andr�e, a young woman who rejuvenates, enchants, and inspires both father and son.
April 13, 2015   
XXY (2007) Argentina
    
This is the dramatic story of an intersexed 15-year-old that lives with her parents, who have to cope with the challenges of her medical condition.

April 20, 2015 

The Closet (2001) France
 

A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
April 27, 2015   
Tim's Vermeer (2013) USA
    
Inventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer.
MAY 2015

May 4, 2015 

12 (Twelve) (2007) Russia
 

12 jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen teenager charged with murdering his stepfather.
May 11, 2015   
Haute Cusine (2012) Fance
    
The story of Dani�le Delpeuch and how she was appointed as the private chef for Fran�ois Mitterrand

May 18, 2015 

Young at Heart (2007) UK
 

A documentary on a chorus of senior citizens from Massachusetts who cover songs by Jimi Hendrix, Coldplay, Sonic Youth, and other unexpected musicians.

May 25, 2015  

The Golden Door (2006) Italy
    
Set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily, a very poor farmer and a widower, emigrate to the US with his family. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.
DINNER & FILM NIGHTS

*Dinner & Film Nights 2014-2015

Join us for Dinner & A Film Night! Film and culture buffs will enjoy an international film, complemented by delectable food samplings beer and wine. So travel with us and experience a new landscape without ever having to leave home!  

*November 17, 2014 (USA) "Girl with the Dragon Tatoo"
*January 12, 2015 (Spain) "Chico and Rita" 
*March 2, 2015 (Russia) "House of Fools" 

Doors open at 6:00pm and films begin at 7:00pm

General admission $30 members/$35 non-members includes: Film, Small Plate Samplings, Dessert & Popcorn 

  • Advance reservations suggested  
              
  • For tickets & information call the Center for the Arts today 239-495-8989 

     

     

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