Selection of the three can't-miss
films to see each day of the festival. Choose any day
of the festival above to view our choices. |
Ultimate Avengers 2
Sun., July 2, 3:15 p.m., Mann Festival
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Inspired by Marvel’s best-selling comic “The
Ultimates,” this animated action film finds the
Earth threatened once again by an invasion from outer
space. With a brutal alien force gathering in the sky
over his kingdom, the fiercely protective Black Panther
has no choice but to ask for help from outsiders. And
so he turns to the Avengers—Captain America, Iron
Man, Thor, Giant Man, Wasp and the Incredible Hulk. These
mighty super heroes have battled the aliens before and
triumphed, but just barely. They thought it was over.
They were wrong. 73 min.
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Little Miss Sunshine
Sun., July 2, 7:30 p.m., Wadsworth Theatre
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Just when it seems the dysfunctional family film has
run out of gas, along comes a film like Little Miss Sunshine
to reinvigorate the form. The Hoover family has fallen
on some hard times. Dad’s a motivational speaker
who tries a little too hard; his son Frank has taken a
vow of silence; and Grandpa just got kicked out of his
nursing home for snorting heroin. 100 min.
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Conversations With Other Women
Sat., July 1, 7:30 p.m., Mann Festival Sun., July 2,
2:30 p.m., Majestic Crest
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At a New York City wedding reception two guests, seemingly
strangers, become entangled in a sexually-charged battle
of wits. But as the night carries on in a cigarette smoke
haze, the nameless couple’s repartee deepens to
reveal the passion of their two-decades-past love affair.
Escaping the party for a hotel room, the two are soon
gripped by their mutual past and the individual choices
that led them to the present. Unfolding entirely in split-screen,
director Hans Canosa’s feature debut is an unconventional
and poignant love story, marvelously brought to life by
Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter. 84 min.
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