Movies Coming Soon to a Fine Arts Theatre
The following movies will soon be showing at one of our Fine Arts Theatres. This movie list is alphabetical and does not reflect the order in which the movies will be scheduled at the theatres.
The following movies are opening soon, please click on the movie title to jump to the description of the movie.
- American Teen
- Bottle Shock
- Brideshead Revisited
- Burn After Reading
- Dark Knight
- Hamlet 2
- Holly
- Kansas International Film Festival
- Kings
- Last Mistress, The
- Mamma Mia!
- Singing Revolution
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Wackness
- Women, The
American Teen 
Opening on 08/08/2008 at the Glenwood Arts Theatre (back to top)
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Rated PG, Running Time 95 Minutes
Movie Synopsis:
AMERICAN TEEN is the touching and hilarious Sundance hit that follows the lives of five teenagers - the jock, the princess, the heart-throb, the rebel and the geek - in one small town in Indiana through their senior year of high school. We see the insecurities, the cliques, the jealousies, the first loves and heartbreaks, and the struggle to make profound decisions about the future.
Bottle Shock
Opening on 08/15/2008 at the Glenwood Arts Theatre (back to top)
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Rated R, Running Time 106 Minutes
Movie Synopsis:
t's 1976, and Jim Barrett (Bill Pullman) is struggling to create the perfect chardonnay at Chateau Montelena, his vineyard in the not-yet-famous Napa Valley, where he has jeopardized everything for a dream. His son, Bo (Chris Pine), at first glance doesn't seem to have inherited his father’s love for the family business, and the two of them are often found duking it out in the backyard boxing ring, each hoping to knock some sense into the other. Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) is a British expatriate living in Paris who owns the Academie du Vin; out of necessity, he develops an idea to educate Parisians, not on French wine, but on the new wines coming out of California. A twist of fate along a dusty road brings the floundering vintner and the struggling shop owner together, changing both their lives—and the wine industry—forever.
Brideshead Revisited
Coming Soon to
the Glenwood Arts Theatre (back to top)
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Rated PG-13, Running Time 100 Minutes
Movie Synopsis:
A provocative and suspenseful drama, “BRIDESHEAD REVISITED” tells an evocative story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in the pre-WWII era. In the film, Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode, “Match Point,” “The Lookout”) becomes entranced with the noble Marchmain family, first through the charming and provocative Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw, “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”), and then his sophisticated sister, Julia (Hayley Atwell, “Cassandra’s Dream” and the upcoming “The Duchess”). The rise and fall of Charles’ infatuations reflect the decline of a decadent era in England between the wars. Academy Award-winner Emma Thompson co-stars as Lady Marchmain.
The film, based on Evelyn Waugh’s acclaimed novel is adapted for the screen by multiple BAFTA Award-winner Andrew Davies (“Bridget Jones Diary,” “Bleak House”) and Jeremy Brock (“The Last King of Scotland”) and directed by Julian Jarrold (“Becoming Jane”)
Burn After Reading
Opening on 09/12/2008 at the Leawood Theatre (back to top)
Rated NR
Movie Synopsis:
World-premiering as the opening-night film of the 2008 Venice International Film Festival; a dark spy-comedy from Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen. An ousted CIA official’s (Academy Award nominee John Malkovich) memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two unwise gym employees intent on exploiting their find. --© Focus Features
Dark Knight 
Opening on 07/18/2008 at the Leawood Theatre (back to top)
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Rated NR
Movie Synopsis:
"The Dark Knight" reunites director Christopher Nolan with star Christian Bale, who returns to continue Batman's war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), Batman sets out to destroy organized crime in Gotham for good. The triumvirate proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a rising criminal mastermind known as the Joker (Heath Ledger), who thrusts Gotham into anarchy and forces the Dark Knight ever closer to crossing the fine line between hero and vigilante.
Hamlet 2
Opening on 08/27/2008 at the Glenwood Arts Theatre (back to top)
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Rated R, Running Time 92 Minutes
Movie Synopsis:
Steve Coogan continues his claim as one of Britain's funniest men with this comedy that was the talk of Sundance in 2008. In HAMLET 2, a high school teacher creates a sequel--in musical form--to the Bard's classic tragedy. The film from director Andrew Fleming (DICK) also stars Catherine... Steve Coogan continues his claim as one of Britain's funniest men with this comedy that was the talk of Sundance in 2008. In HAMLET 2, a high school teacher creates a sequel--in musical form--to the Bard's classic tragedy. The film from director Andrew Fleming (DICK) also stars Catherine Keener, Amy Poehler, David Arquette, and Elisabeth Shue.
Holly
Opening on 07/18/2008 at the Rio Theatre (back to top)
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Rated R, Running Time 113 Minutes
Movie Synopsis:
HOLLY, directed by Guy Moshe, starring Ron Livingston, newcomer Thuy Nguyen, Virginie Ledoyen, Udo Kier and Chris Penn, in one of his final film performances. Shot on location in Cambodia, including many scenes in actual brothels in the notorious red light district of Phnom Penh, HOLLY is a captivating, touching and emotional experience, that highlights the growing international issue of human trafficking.
Patrick, (Ron Livingston), an American card shark and dealer of stolen artifacts, has been ‘comfortably numb’ in Cambodia for years, when he encounters Holly (Thuy Nguyen), a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl, in the K11 red light village. The girl has been sold by her impoverished family and smuggled across the border to work as a prostitute. Holly’s virginity makes her a lucrative prize, and when she is sold to a child trafficker, Patrick embarks on a frantic search through both the beautiful and sordid faces of the country, in an attempt to bring her to safety.
Kansas International Film Festival
Opening on 09/19/2008 at the Glenwood Arts Theatre (back to top)
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Rated NR
Movie Synopsis:
The 8th Kansas International Film Festival will run from September 19-25th, 2008. Here is your chance to choose from 51 Independent films from around the world and meet the Directors for a Q/A.
With over 50 films playing in only 7 days this festival is a movie lover's delight.
Your best bet for tickets is to purchase a Festival Pass because Festvial Pass Holders are seated first. Individual tickets will only be seated 10 to 15 minutes before showtime. With only one show of each film there will be alot of sellouts.
Tickets usually go on sale about 3 weeks before the festival with FESTIVAL PASSES being on sale even earlier.
For more info please go the festival's website: Kansasfilm.com
Watch for upcoming announcements for the films!
Kings
Coming Soon to
the Glenwood Arts Theatre (back to top)
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Rated NR, Running Time 95 Minutes
Movie Synopsis:
Where can we truly call home? Our country..? Our family..? Ourselves..?
A universal story of disenfranchisement and search for identity. In the mid 1970s, a group of six young men left their homes in the West of Ireland, took the boat out of Dublin Bay and sailed across the sea to England in the hope of making their fortunes and returning home. Thirty years later only one, Jackie Flavin, makes it home - but does so in a coffin. Jackie’s five friends reunite at his wake where they are forced face up to the reality of their alienation as long term emigrants who have no longer have any real place to call home.
Tom Collins’s long awaited, tender film speaks directly to the dispossessed and disenfranchised who fill our city streets, to those with nowhere they feel they can really call home and shows us that what we can call home is always much closer than we think.
"Terrific" The Irish Times
"Strong performances" Screen International
WINNER - Best Cinematographer - Hamptons International Film Festival
Official Selection - Toronto International Film Festiva
Last Mistress, The
Opening on 08/22/2008 at the Glenwood Arts Theatre (back to top)
Rated NR, Running Time 114 Minutes
Movie Synopsis:
Controversial director Catherine Breillat (ROMANCE, FAT GIRL) delivers her most ambitious film yet with THE LAST MISTRESS. Adapted from the novel by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, the film is set in 19th-century France, when the world was a seemingly much more innocent place. Underneath the surface, however, lurk infidelities and other dark secrets. Ryno de Marigny (Fu'ad Ait Aattou) is about to marry the beautiful and sweet Hermangarde (Roxane Mesquida). He is so devoted to her that he has decided to make a clean break from his ongoing affair with the tempestuous Vellini (Asia Argento). One day, Hermangarde's grandmother, the Comtesse d'Artelles (Yolande Moreau), convinces Ryno to tell of his affair with Vellini, which he does. By the end of his story, even she is concerned that he is in too deep with Vellini and that the couple's torrid romance will continue. Nonetheless, Ryno and Hermangarde get married, but Vellini's lure proves too strong a temptation. Breillat's biggest production to date also feels like one of her most personal. While the film has a sedate façade, it is in keeping with the graphic work of her previous films. Argento is a perfect Vellini, at once carnal and terrifying but also sensual and alluring. The striking Ait Aattou, who makes his first screen appears, confirms Breillat's gift of getting the most out of non-actors. THE LAST MISTRESS is a lush period piece that nonetheless has a universal, modern message, and it makes many daring statements about love, lust, and romance.
Mamma Mia!
Opening on 07/18/2008 at the Leawood Theatre (back to top)
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Rated PG-13
Movie Synopsis:
An independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on an idyllic Greek island, Donna (Meryl Streep) is about to let go of Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), the spirited daughter she's raised alone. For Sophie's wedding, Donna has invited her two lifelong best friends—practical and no-nonsense Rosie (Julie Walters) and wealthy, multi-divorcee Tanya (Christine Baranski). But Sophie has secretly invited three guests of her own. On a quest to find the identity of her father to walk her down the aisle, she brings back three men from Donna's past to the Mediterranean paradise they visited 20 years earlier. Over 24 chaotic, magical hours, new love will bloom and old romances will be rekindled on this lush island full of possibilities. Inspired by the storytelling magic of ABBA's songs, from "Dancing Queen" and "S.O.S." to "Money, Money, Money" and "Take a Chance on Me," this feature-film adaptation of the beloved stage musical is a celebration of mothers and daughters, old friends and new family found. Co-starring Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgrd and Dominic Cooper.
Singing Revolution
Opening on 08/01/2008 at the Glenwood Arts Theatre (back to top)
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Rated NR, Running Time 97 Minutes
Movie Synopsis:
First occupied by the Soviets in 1939, then by the Nazis, and then by the Soviets again, Estonia lived through decades of terror. By the end of World War II, more than one-quarter of the population had been deported to Siberia, been executed, or had fled the country. Music sustained the Estonian people during those years, and was such a crucial part of their struggle for freedom that their successful bid for independence is known as the Singing Revolution.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Opening on 08/15/2008 at the Glenwood Arts Theatre (back to top)
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Rated PG-13, Running Time 96 Minutes
Movie Synopsis:
Two young Americans spend a summer in Spain and meet a flamboyant artist (Javier Bardem) and his beautiful but insane ex-wife (Penelope Cruz). Vicky (Rebecca Hall) is straight-laced and about to be married. Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) is a sexually adventurous free spirit. When they all become amorously entangled, the results are both hilarious and harrowing. --© Weinstein Co.
Wackness
Opening on 07/25/2008 at the Glenwood Arts Theatre (back to top)
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Rated R, Running Time 95 Minutes
Movie Synopsis:
In the sweltering summer of 1994, Giuliani is scouring New York City within an inch of its life, hip-hop is permeating white youth culture, and a pot-dealing loser kid, Luke Shapiro, is trying to figure out how to solve his parents’ insolvency, beat depression, and get laid before pushing off to college. Luckily he’s got a nifty deal with a psychiatrist, Dr. Squires, who trades him therapy sessions for weed. It happens that the oddball doctor’s marriage is crumbling, so the two—one in late adolescence, the other in late middle-age—embark on messy passages into new life stages. As Luke falls for a classmate who just happens to be Squires’s daughter, the summer heats up, and he follows doctor’s orders, learning to coexist with pain and make it part of him, rather than let it become his downfall. The Wackness plays like the luscious rush of first love, discovering great new music, meeting amazing personalities who impart the meaning of life, and realizing what you’re made of. Perfectly capturing the textures of 1990s Manhattan and the zeitgeist of worldly, yet emotionally unformed, private-school students forced to parent their parents, director Jonathan Levine conveys a whimsy, too—buoyed by the dazzlingly funny Ben Kingsley and unexpected stylistic flourishes—that gives the film’s insights and idiosyncrasies big, glorious, flapping wings. --© Sundance Film Festival
Women, The
Coming Soon to
the Glenwood Arts Theatre (back to top)
Rated PG-13
Movie Synopsis:
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man. Naturally, this situation becomes the hot talk amongst Mary's catty friends, especially the scandalmonger Sylvia Fowler, who has little room to talk - she finds herself on a train to Reno and headed for divorce right after Mary. But with a bit of guts and daring, Mary snatches her man right back from Crystal's clutches.
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