The 2011 Academy Award Nominated Short Films!
Opens Friday, February 10th!

Yet again, Salem Cinema will offer up the opportunity to see the Academy Award Nominated Short Animated, Live Action and Documentary films before the Oscars!

OSCAR NOMINATIONS!
Best Animated Short Film
•Dimanche/Sunday
•The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
•La Luna
•A Morning Stroll
•Wild Life

Albert Nobbs
Opens Friday, February 17th!

UK/Ireland. 2011. Directed by Rodrigo Garcia. (113 mins.) Rated R.

OSCAR
NOMINATIONS!

Best Actress • Best Supporting Actress • Best Makeup

Five-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close stars in this emotional and thought-provoking tale of a woman forced to live as a man in 19th Century Ireland. After thirty years of keeping up the charade, a new love threatens to destroy everything she's worked so hard to build.

"Janet McTeer's sly, exuberant performance is a pure delight, and the counterpoint between her physical expressiveness and Glenn Close's tightly coiled reserve is a marvel to behold."– A.O. Scott, New York Times

A Separation
Dates & Showtimes to be announced

Iran. 2011. Directed by Asghar Farhadi. (123 mins.) Rated PG-13.
In Persian with English Subtitles.

OSCAR
NOMINATIONS!

Best Foreign Film • Best Original Screenplay

Golden Globe Winner!
Best Foreign Film

Set in contemporary Iran, A Separation is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents' home, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader. When Nader hires a young woman to assist with his father in his wife's absence, he hopes that his life will return to a normal state. However, when he discovers that the new maid has been lying to him, he realizes that there is more on the line than just his marriage.

Pariah
Dates & Showtimes to be announced

United States. 2011. Directed by Dee Rees. (86 mins.) Rated R.

Adepero Oduye portrays Alike (pronounced ah-lee-kay), a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents Audrey and Arthur (Kim Wayans and Charles Parnell) and younger sister Sharonda (Sahra Mellesse) in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. With the sometimes boisterous support of her best friend, out lesbian Laura (Pernell Walker), Alike is especially eager to find a girlfriend. At home, her parents' marriage is strained and there is further tension in the household whenever Alike's development becomes a topic of discussion. Pressed by her mother into making the acquaintance of a colleague's daughter, Bina (Aasha Davis), Alike finds Bina to be unexpectedly refreshing to socialize with. Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and tenacity -- sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, but always moving forward.

Norwegian Wood
Dates & Showtimes to be announced

Japan. 2012. Directed by Anh Hung Tran. (133 mins.) Not Rated.
In Japanese with English subtitles.

Tokyo, the late 1960s...Students around the world are uniting to overthrow the establishment and Toru Watanabe's personal life is similarly in tumult. At heart, he is deeply devoted to his first love, Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman. But their complex bond has been forged by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Watanabe lives with the influence of death everywhere. That is, until Midori, a girl who is everything that Naoko is not - outgoing, vivacious, supremely self-confident - marches into his life and Watanabe must choose between his past and his future.

A Cat In Paris
Dates & Showtimes to be announced

France. 2011. Directed by Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol. (70 mins.) Not Rated. In French with English subtitles.

OSCAR
NOMINATION!

Best Animated Feature Film

Dino is a pet cat that leads a double life. By day he lives with Zoe, a little mute girl whose mother, Jeanne, is a detective in the Parisian police force. But at night he sneaks out the window to work with Nico – a slinky cat burglar with a big heart, whose fluid movements are poetry in motion – as he evades captors and slips and swishes from rooftop to rooftop across the Paris skyline. The cat’s two worlds collide when young Zoe decides to follow Dino on his nocturnal adventures – and falls into the hands of Victor Costa, a blustery gangster planning the theft of a rare statue. Now cat and cat burglar must team up to save Zoe from the bumbling thieves, leading to a thrilling acrobatic finale on top of Notre Dame. A Cat in Paris is a warm and richly humorous love letter to classic noir films and the stylized wit of the Pink Panther cartoons – and Dino, the literal cat burglar, manages to steal the show with little more than a subtle swish of the tail and quiet mew.

Chico & Rita
Dates & Showtimes to be announced

Spain/UK. 2011. Directed by Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba. (94 mins.) Not Rated. In English & in Spanish with English subtitles.

OSCAR
NOMINATION!

Best Animated Feature Film

Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque, Calle 54) and Spain’s legendary illustrator Javier Mariscal celebrate their passion for the music and culture of Cuba with an epic story of love, passion, and heartbreak. Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and desire unite them as they chase their dreams and each other from Havana to New York to Paris, Hollywood and Las Vegas. With an original soundtrack by legendary Cuban pianist and five-time Grammy-winning composer Bebo Valdés, Chico & Rita captures a defining moment in the evolution of history and jazz, and features the music of (and animated cameos by) Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Cole Porter, Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Tito Puente, Chano Pozo, and others.

We Need To Talk About Kevin

Golden Globe Nominee!
Best Actress (Drama) • Tilda Swinton

Dates & Showtimes to be announced

UK/United States. Directed by Lynne Ramsey. (112 mins.) Rated R.

A suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller, Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin explores the factious relationship between a mother and her son. Tilda Swinton, in a bracing, tour-de-force performance, plays the mother, Eva, as she contends for 15 years with the increasing malevolence of her first-born child, Kevin (Ezra Miller). Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, We Need to Talk About Kevin explores nature vs. nurture on a whole new level as Eva's own culpability is measured against Kevin's innate evilness. Ramsay's masterful storytelling simultaneously combines a provocative moral ambiguity with a satisfying and compelling narrative, which builds to a chilling, unforgettable climax.