THE WHITE RIBBON
SHOWING AT: Kahala 8
2010 ACADEMY AWArd NOMINEE & 2010 GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER
Micahel Haneke (FUNNY GAMES, THE PIANO PLAYER) directs this Cannes runaway favorite, a piece called "immaculately crafted" (Variety), "stunningly photographed and deliberately paced" (The Hollywood Reporter). Shot in gorgeous black and white, THE WHITE RIBBON, through a host of mysterious accidents which gradually takes on the character of a punishment ritual, captures the tension and uncertainty of a small German village on the eve of World War I. THE WHITE RIBBON took three awards at Cannes this year, including the coveted Golden Palm.

AN EDUCATION
SHOWING AT: Pearlridge 16
2010 ACADEMY AWArd NOMINEE & 2010 GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER
From award-winning Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig (WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF, ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS) and from a screenplay by Nick Hornby (HIGH FIDELITY, ABOUT A BOY), AN EDUCATION took the Audience Award and received a Grand Jury Prize nomination this year at Sundance. Set in Britain in the early 1960s on the cusp of a straight-laced, post-war period and the free-spirited decade to come, a young woman's (Carey Mulligan - PRIDE & PREJUDICE) life changes with the arrival of a man almost twice her age (Peter Sarsgaard - BOYS DON'T CRY). The film also stars Alfred Molina (CHOCOLAT), Cara Seymour (AMERICAN PSYCHO) and Emma Thompson (LAST CHANCE HARVEY). Carey Mulligan gives a powerful performance that "could lead to a breakout!" (Vanity Fair).

OSCAR SHORTS PROGRAM:
SHOWING AT: Kahala 8 animated & live-action!
2010 ACADEMY AWArd NOMINEES
Join the Kahala Theatre for a viewing of the Academy Award-nominated animated short films of 2009.

THE LAST STATION
SHOWING AT: Kahala 8
2010 ACADEMY AWArd NOMINEE & 2010 GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER
THE LAST STATION is a complex, funny, richly emotional story about the difficulty of living with love and the impossibility of living without it. This Michael Hoffman (RESTORATION, THE EMPEROR'S CLUB) film stars Academy Award winner Helen Mirren and Golden Globe nominee Christopher Plummer. After almost fifty years of marriage, the Countess Sofya (Mirren), Leo Tolstoy's (Plummer) devoted wife, passionate lover and secretary, suddenly finds her world turned upside down in the name of Tolstoy's newly created religion. The Great Russian novelist has renounced his noble title and his family in favor of poverty, vegetarianism and celibacy. When the Countess spots betrayal in Tolstoy's disciple Chertkov (Paul Giamatti), she uses every bit of cunning and seduction in her considerable arsenal to fight it.

CRAZY HEART
SHOWING AT: Koko Marina 8, Kukui Mall 4
2010 ACADEMY AWArd NOMINEE
Four-time Academy Award nominee JEFF BRIDGES stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic, romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film CRAZY HEART from writer-director Scott Cooper. Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks. And yet, Bad can't help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (Golden Globe Nominee MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL), a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man's crazy heart.

THE HURT LOCKER
SHOWING AT: Kukui Mall 4, Pearlridge 16, Ko'olau Stadium 10
2010 ACADEMY AWArd NOMINEE
POINT BREAK director Kathryn Bigelow directs THE HURT LOCKER, winner of four awards at the 2008 Venice Film Festival. When a new sergeant, James (Jeremy Renner \u2013 THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES), takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, (played by Anthony Mackie \u2013 WE ARE MARSHALL and Brian Geraghty - JARHEAD), by recklessly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat.

A PROPHET - Opens Mar 19
2010 ACADEMY AWArd NOMINEE & 2010 GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER
Grand Jury Prize winner and Golden Palm nominee this year at Cannes, writer/director Jacques Audiard (READ MY LIPS, THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED) continues his specialty in the underground crime genre with his fifth feature: A PROPHET. A huge success at the French box office, the film will represent France as the official submission for a Foreign Language nomination at the Oscars this year. This internationally critically acclaimed prison drama stars newcomer Tahar Rahim as Malik, a part Arab, part Corsican teen condemned to six years in prison. Confronted by the leader of the Corsican gang (Niels Arestrup \u2013 THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED) currently ruling the prison, Malik is forced to carry out a number of missions to prove himself and, as he rises through the prison ranks, secretly devises his own criminal network.

THE GHOST WRITER - Opens Mar 19
Academy Award winner Roman Polanski (THE PIANIST, ROSEMARY'S BABY, CHINATOWN) writes and directs THE GHOST WRITER, featuring an all-star cast including Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan and Kim Cattrall. When a successful ghost writer (McGregor) agrees to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang (Brosnan), his agent assures him it's the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project seems doomed from the start - not least because his predecessor on the project, Lang's long-term aide, died in an unfortunate accident. As the ghost works, he begins to uncover clues suggesting his predecessor may have stumbled on a dark secret linking Lang to the CIA and that somehow this information is hidden in the manuscript he left behind. Resonating with topical themes, this atmospheric and suspenseful political thriller is a story of deceit and betrayal on every level - sexual, political and literary.

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