Schedule Updates!
Hi Hi! We hope you been enjoying the holiday season! Cinefest will reopen on Monday, January 5th with a double feature of Tropic Thunder and Pineapple Express (Tropic Express, Thunder Pineapple, etc.) Here's the entire month on January as it is right now as a belated Wookie Life Day present:
1/5 - 1/15
Tropic Thunder
R
107 minutes
Showtimes:
Mon. - Fri.: 1pm, 5pm, 9pm
Sat. Sun.: 1pm, 5pm
During the filming of Vietnam veteran John "Four Leaf" Tayback's (Nick Nolte) memoir Tropic Thunder, the stars-fading action luminary Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller), five-time Academy Award-winning method actor Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey, Jr.), rapper Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson), low-brow drug-addled comedian Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), and character actor Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel)-behave unreasonably, resulting in a $4 million explosion going off with no cameras rolling. With filming a month behind schedule only five days into shooting, the media dubs the production "the most expensive war movie never made". Rookie director Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan) is ordered by studio executive Les Grossman (Tom Cruise) to get the production back on track or risk having it shut down. Cockburn drops the spoiled actors into the middle of the jungle, where he installs hidden cameras and special-effect explosions rigged so he can film "guerrilla-style". However there really is a war going on in the jungle, and the guys have just been dropped into the middle of it.
1/5 - 1/15
Pineapple Express
R
111 minutes
Showtimes:
Mon. - Fri.: 11am, 3pm, 7pm
Sat. Sun.: 3pm, 7pm
Process server Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has a grudging business relationship with the laconic Saul Silver (James Franco), deigning to visit only to purchase Saul’s primo product -a rare new strain of pot called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city’s most dangerous drug lord, he panics and dumps the Pineapple Express at the scene. When it’s traced back to him, Dale and Saul run for their lives and they quickly discover that they’re not just suffering from weed-fueled paranoia, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both.
Cinefest will be closed 1/17 - 1/19
1/16, 20 - 29
The First Foot Way (2006)
Rated R
85 minutes
Show Times:
Mon. - Fri.: 11am, 3pm, 7pm
Sat. - Sun. 3pm, 7pm
No 7pm screening on 1/27
Self-control, courtesy, perseverance, integrity and an indomitable spirit - those are the basic tenets preached by the proud but stern Master Tae Kwon Do instructor Fred Simmons (Danny R. McBride, Tropic Thunder, Pineapple Express) at the Concord Tae Kwon Do Studio. There “the way of the foot and the fist,” a.k.a. the definition of the featured Korean martial art, turns boys into black belts and suburbanites into great warriors. That is, until Simmons’ seemingly perfect life starts collapsing when he discovers his wife having an affair on him. Twice. A chance to resurrect his life by battling his hero - the 8-time undefeated champ and star of the “Seven Rings of Pain” trilogy, Chuck “The Truck” Wallace - gives Simmons’ life purpose as he winds up on a wild, comic journey that will take him from egomaniacal bluster all the way to becoming the stand-up man of his delusional dreams.
Riki-Oh: The Story of Riki (1991)
Rated R
88 minutes
Show Times:
Mon. - Fri.: 1pm, 5pm, 9pm
Sat. - Sun.: 1pm, 5pm
When mild-mannered Ricky takes revenge on the drug pushing thugs who killed his girlfriend, he is sentenced to a maximum security prison. Within these walls lies a penitentiary like no other, run by a host of evil characters: A sadistic warden, his sniveling assistant, and the powerful Gang of Four all control the inmates through terror and brutal death! One scene, showing a character crushing another character's skull with his bare hands, later became a regular fixture on The Daily Show during Craig Kilborn's time as the host.
Tuesday, January 27th
Tulia, Texas
http://www.tuliatexasfilm.com/
56 Minutes
Not Rated
DVD
7pm
Free for all patrons!
On July 23, 1999, undercover narcotics officer Thomas Coleman executed one of the biggest drug stings in Texas history. By the end of the blazing summer day, Coleman and his drug task force had rounded up and arrested dozens of residents of the small farming town of Tulia. Thirty-nine of the 46 people accused of selling drugs to Coleman were African American. It was a bold move by the man later named Texas Lawman of the Year, but it was exactly what many of Tulia's white citizens had hoped for when Coleman came to town. In the years to follow, troubling evidence about the undercover investigation and the narcotics officer's past began to surface. The documentary weaves together the stories of the last remaining defendants in jail, the families and lawyers fighting for their freedom, and the sheriff, undercover agent and townspeople who stand against them. "Tulia, Texas" is the story of a small town's search for justice and the price Americans pay for the war on drugs. Screening as part of ITVS Community Cinema.
Admission:
General Admission: $3 before 5pm, $5 5pm and after
Georgia State University students, faculty, and staff: Free with your Panther I.D.
xoxo,
Cinefest
1/5 - 1/15
Tropic Thunder
R
107 minutes
Showtimes:
Mon. - Fri.: 1pm, 5pm, 9pm
Sat. Sun.: 1pm, 5pm
During the filming of Vietnam veteran John "Four Leaf" Tayback's (Nick Nolte) memoir Tropic Thunder, the stars-fading action luminary Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller), five-time Academy Award-winning method actor Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey, Jr.), rapper Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson), low-brow drug-addled comedian Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), and character actor Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel)-behave unreasonably, resulting in a $4 million explosion going off with no cameras rolling. With filming a month behind schedule only five days into shooting, the media dubs the production "the most expensive war movie never made". Rookie director Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan) is ordered by studio executive Les Grossman (Tom Cruise) to get the production back on track or risk having it shut down. Cockburn drops the spoiled actors into the middle of the jungle, where he installs hidden cameras and special-effect explosions rigged so he can film "guerrilla-style". However there really is a war going on in the jungle, and the guys have just been dropped into the middle of it.
1/5 - 1/15
Pineapple Express
R
111 minutes
Showtimes:
Mon. - Fri.: 11am, 3pm, 7pm
Sat. Sun.: 3pm, 7pm
Process server Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has a grudging business relationship with the laconic Saul Silver (James Franco), deigning to visit only to purchase Saul’s primo product -a rare new strain of pot called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city’s most dangerous drug lord, he panics and dumps the Pineapple Express at the scene. When it’s traced back to him, Dale and Saul run for their lives and they quickly discover that they’re not just suffering from weed-fueled paranoia, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both.
Cinefest will be closed 1/17 - 1/19
1/16, 20 - 29
The First Foot Way (2006)
Rated R
85 minutes
Show Times:
Mon. - Fri.: 11am, 3pm, 7pm
Sat. - Sun. 3pm, 7pm
No 7pm screening on 1/27
Self-control, courtesy, perseverance, integrity and an indomitable spirit - those are the basic tenets preached by the proud but stern Master Tae Kwon Do instructor Fred Simmons (Danny R. McBride, Tropic Thunder, Pineapple Express) at the Concord Tae Kwon Do Studio. There “the way of the foot and the fist,” a.k.a. the definition of the featured Korean martial art, turns boys into black belts and suburbanites into great warriors. That is, until Simmons’ seemingly perfect life starts collapsing when he discovers his wife having an affair on him. Twice. A chance to resurrect his life by battling his hero - the 8-time undefeated champ and star of the “Seven Rings of Pain” trilogy, Chuck “The Truck” Wallace - gives Simmons’ life purpose as he winds up on a wild, comic journey that will take him from egomaniacal bluster all the way to becoming the stand-up man of his delusional dreams.
Riki-Oh: The Story of Riki (1991)
Rated R
88 minutes
Show Times:
Mon. - Fri.: 1pm, 5pm, 9pm
Sat. - Sun.: 1pm, 5pm
When mild-mannered Ricky takes revenge on the drug pushing thugs who killed his girlfriend, he is sentenced to a maximum security prison. Within these walls lies a penitentiary like no other, run by a host of evil characters: A sadistic warden, his sniveling assistant, and the powerful Gang of Four all control the inmates through terror and brutal death! One scene, showing a character crushing another character's skull with his bare hands, later became a regular fixture on The Daily Show during Craig Kilborn's time as the host.
Tuesday, January 27th
Tulia, Texas
http://www.tuliatexasfilm.com/
56 Minutes
Not Rated
DVD
7pm
Free for all patrons!
On July 23, 1999, undercover narcotics officer Thomas Coleman executed one of the biggest drug stings in Texas history. By the end of the blazing summer day, Coleman and his drug task force had rounded up and arrested dozens of residents of the small farming town of Tulia. Thirty-nine of the 46 people accused of selling drugs to Coleman were African American. It was a bold move by the man later named Texas Lawman of the Year, but it was exactly what many of Tulia's white citizens had hoped for when Coleman came to town. In the years to follow, troubling evidence about the undercover investigation and the narcotics officer's past began to surface. The documentary weaves together the stories of the last remaining defendants in jail, the families and lawyers fighting for their freedom, and the sheriff, undercover agent and townspeople who stand against them. "Tulia, Texas" is the story of a small town's search for justice and the price Americans pay for the war on drugs. Screening as part of ITVS Community Cinema.
Admission:
General Admission: $3 before 5pm, $5 5pm and after
Georgia State University students, faculty, and staff: Free with your Panther I.D.
xoxo,
Cinefest