Acclaimed by many as Jack Nicholson’s break thru role, a drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn’t spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest. The film tells the story of surly oil rig worker, Bobby Dupea, whose blue-collar existence belies his privileged youth as a child prodigy. 
When word reaches Bobby that his father is dying, he reluctantly takes his girlfriend, Rayette (Karen Black), a dimwitted, pregnant waitress, back home to make peace with his family. trailer I’ll just have toast.
(QUICK UPDATE: On Friday, 8/27, with 512 theaters in US and Canada playing this film, the Kentucky Theatre ranked 12th in attendance! Way to go Kentucky Fans!)
Featuring three of the finest actors working today, Get Low is the kind of film that you rarely see anymore—intelligent storytelling that’s awash in humanity, warmth, insight, and wit.
Felix is a miserable old hermit who has lived in an isolated cabin for the past 38 years. He catches word that an old friend has passed away and hatches a plan to throw himself a “funeral party.” He even wants the townsfolk, who either despise him or fear him, to attend the party and share all the crazy stories they may have heard about creepy old Felix. Is he a fugitive? A murderer? Or something worse?
Director Aaron Schneider places his humorous fable in 1930s Tennessee, and his attention to period detail is extraordinary. Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek are exceptional, but it’s Robert Duvall’s masterful performance as Felix that brings everything together in this heartfelt story about guilt, loss, and forgiveness. trailer
“The Girl Who Played With Fire”, (in Swedish with English subtitles) based on the bestselling novel of the same name by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson. This is the second in the three novel series and follows the hugely popular “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”. This time out Lisbeth Salander returns to Sweden after spending a year abroad. Having returned, she falls under suspicion for having committed the murder of a journalist and his girlfriend as well as her guardian Nils Bjurman. Mikael Blomkvist has to do what he can to find her before the authorities do. The action starts almost immediately and continues non-stop. trailer
