LATE SCREENING
8:30 pm

Big Night (1996) 107 minutes Rated R

Italian emigrant brothers open a restaurant in America. Primo is a culinary genius, Secondo is the business guy, willing to compromise to stay in business. An enormously, enormously successful competitor offers to call on Louis Prima to play a benefit at their restaurant. Great soundtrack and luscious food. (screened at 8:30 p.m. in conjunction with the Exchange Club's Taste of Aurora.)

NE LES DIS A PERSONNE (TELL NO ONE) (126 min)

French suspense smash hit. A pediatrician was suspected and cleared of being his wife's murderer but 8 years later two bodies have been found near his home and he's under suspicion again. Things get really weird when he receives an anonymous e-mail showing his wife (Kristin Scott Thomas) alive in the present -- instructing him to "tell no one."

Withnail & I (1987) Rated R. Runtime 107 minutes
Bruce Robinson (Paul McGann, Richard E Grant, Richard Griffiths)

It's 1969 London. Two louche "actors" leave their squalid apartment for a country cottage holiday bringing along their slackitude, alcoholism, repartee, and decadence. Dark & hilarious. "No one's really come close to replicating the maverick, melancholy, rat-arsed resonance of 'Withnail' and no one ever will. It's a complete one-off." Time-out London

Kes (1969) Rated PG-13 Runtime: 110 minutes
Ken Loach (David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland)

" 'Kes' is [Ken] Loach at his best. He shot it on a very low budget, on location, using most local nonprofessionals as his leads. His story is about a boy who's caught in England's class-biased educational system. He reaches school-leaving age and decides to leave, but doesn't have anything else he much cares about. He's the butt of jokes and hostility at home (where his older brother rules), and inarticulate with his contemporaries. One day he finds a small kestrel hawk, and trains it to hunt. The bird becomes his avenue to a free and natural state - the state his soul needs, and that his home and school deny him. And then the system, alarmed or offended by his freedom, counterattacks. The film has a heartbreaking humanity." Roger Ebert

Gomorrah (2008) Not Rated. Runtime: 137 minutes
Directed by: Matteo Garrone

"Gomorra has its own nerve, as well as the filmmaking intelligence to strip the cliches from its densely packed, authentically inhabited narrative. The new moviegoing year just got one hell of a jolt." Michael Phillips
"The film is a curative for the romanticism of "The Godfather" and "Scarface." The characters are the foot soldiers of the Camorra, the crime syndicate based in Naples that is larger than the Mafia but less known. Its revenues in one year are said to be as much as $250 billion ... You watch with growing dread. This is no life to lead. You have the feeling the men at the top got there laterally, not through climbing the ladder of promotion. The Camorra seems like a form of slavery, with the overlords inheriting their workers. The murder code and its enforcement keep them in line: They enforce their own servitude." Roger Ebert