ETA members may purchase discounted movie passes to AMC, Showcase, and Esquire Theatres. Weekly movie listings for the Esquire Theatre follow....
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LUST CAUTION OPENING DAY 12/7/07
Rated NC-17
157 min.
In WWII-era Shanghai, Wong Chia Chi is a Chinese college student who gets involved with a drama club after meeting Kuang Yu Min, a charismatic fellow classmate. While Wong is happy performing on the stage, Kuang asks her to take on a very dangerous role in real life. She is to transform herself into Mrs. Mak and make friends with the wife of a major Japanese collaborator, Mr. Yee, only to ensnare him into an affair so that her Kuang and his cohorts can kill him. However, the plan fails to work out at the time, but after several years pass, Kuang re-enters Wong's life, whereupon he asks her to resume their deadly mission. Starring Tang Wei, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Wang Lee Hom, Joan Chen and Chih-ying Chu. Directed by Ang Lee.
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE FINAL DAY 12/6/07
Rated PG-13
133 min.
A romantic musical told mainly through numerous Beatles songs performed by the characters. A young man from Liverpool comes to America during the Vietnam War to find his father. He winds up in Greenwich Village, where he falls in love with an American girl who has grown up sheltered in the suburbs. Together they experience the sweeping changes of America in the late 60's. Starring Evan Rachel Wood, T.V. Carpio, Martin Luther, Dana Fuchs, and Jim Sturgess. Directed by Julie Taymor
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD
Rated R
117 min
Two brothers, Andy and Hank, organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store. Both men are desperate for money, fueled by a variety of vices, addictions and compulsions. Andy has devised a foolproof scheme to end their money worries, rob a mom-and-pop jewelry store in a suburban mall in Westchester County. Neither he nor Hank is a thief, cheating and embezzlement aside, but the heist would be an inside job; the brothers' parents own the store. Putting issues of impropriety aside, the plan has advantages: The brothers know the layout of the shop, the habits of its proprietors, location of keys and alarms, and their parents could collect insurance on the stolen goods. The crime should be victimless, but goes horribly wrong, triggering off a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax. Starring Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, Marisa Tomei, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Aleksa Palladino. Directed by Sidney Lumet.
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Rated R
122 min.
A clueless Texas hunter, Lllewelyn Moss, stumbles across a pickup surrounded by corpses, filled with heroin and $2 million in cash and absconds with it. He thinks he can outmaneuver the psychopathic mob enforcer sent to retrieve the goods, who judges lives with a flip of a coin. Caught in the middle is an old-school county sheriff, who finds his peaceful home awash in a type of violence he has never seen before and for which he is totally unprepared to handle. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Kelly MacDonald, Woody Harrelson and Stephen Root. Directed by Joel & Ethan Coen.
I'M NOT THERE
Rated R
135 min.
A re-enactment of the life of musician, Bob Dylan, with multiple actors embodying different stages in the singer's life. Starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Ben Whishaw. Directed by Todd Haynes.
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
Rated PG-13
102 min
Lars Lindstrom is a loveable introvert whose emotional baggage has kept him from fully embracing life. After years of what is almost solitude, he invites Bianca, a friend he met on the internet to visit him. He introduces Bianca to his brother Gus and his wife Karen and they are stunned. They don't know what to say to Lars or Bianca, because she is a life-size doll, not a real person and he is treating her as though she is alive. They consult the family doctor who explains this is a delusion he's created and they should all go along with it. What follows is an emotional journey for Lars and the people around him. Starring Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Kelli Garner and Paul Schneider. Directed by Craig Gillespie.
INTO THE WILD
Rated R
140 min
Freshly graduated from college with a promising future, 22 year-old Christopher McCandless walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. McCandless' quest took him from the wheat fields of South Dakota to a renegade trip down the Colorado River and to the non-conformists' refuge of Slab City, California. Along the way, he encountered a series of colorful characters at the very edges of American society who shaped his understanding of life. In the end, he tested himself by heading alone into the wilds of the great North, where everything he had seen and learned came to a head in ways he never could have expected. Starring Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Hal Holbrook and Catherine Keener. Directed by Sean Penn.
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THURSDAY
12/6/07
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD (R)
1:50 / 4:20 / 7:10 / 9:40
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (R)
2:00 / 4:40 / 7:20 / 9:50
I'M NOT THERE (R)
1:20 / 4:00 / 7:00 / 9:45
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL (PG-13)
12:55 / 3:10 / 5:25 / 7:40 / 9:55
INTO THE WILD (R)
12:50 / 3:50 / 6:50 / 9:50
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (PG-13) FINAL DAY
2:25 / 5:00 / 7:35 / 10:05
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FRIDAY - SUNDAY & TUESDAY
12/7/07 - 12/9/07 & 12/11/07
LUST CAUTION (NC-17)
2:00 / 5:00 / 8:00
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD (R)
1:50 / 4:20 / 7:10 / 9:40
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (R)
2:00 / 4:40 / 7:20 / 9:50
I'M NOT THERE (R)
1:20 / 4:00 / 7:00 / 9:45
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL (PG-13)
12:55 / 3:10 / 5:25 / 7:40 / 9:55
INTO THE WILD (R)
12:50 / 3:50 / 6:50 / 9:50
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MONDAY & WEDNESDAY
12/10/07 & 12/12/07
LUST CAUTION (NC-17)
2:00 / 5:00 / 8:00
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD (R)
1:50 / 4:20 / 7:10 / 9:40
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (R)
2:00 / 4:40 / 7:20 / 9:50
I'M NOT THERE (R)
1:20 / 4:00 / 9:45
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL (PG-13)
12:55 / 3:10 / 5:25 / 7:40 / 9:55
INTO THE WILD (R)
12:50 / 3:50 / 6:50 / 9:50
