Monday March 17 Double feature GRAVITY in 3D @ 7:00pm. + SILENT RUNNING @ 8:45pm. GRAVITY in 3D (2013, 91 min, DCP ‘Scope) A space shuttle mission goes perilously awry and scientist Sandra Bullock and astronaut George Clooney find themselves stranded in the stars. While figuring out what steps they can take to save themselves, Bullock grapples with her past. From the opening shot to its climax, Alfonso Cuaróns (Children of Men) spectacularly visceral experience is state of the art moviemaking at its finest and a must-see in a theater. Winner of 7 Academy Awards including Best Director. SILENT RUNNING (1972, 89 min, 35mm) After biological life on Earth is rendered extinct, the last of the world’s flora is preserved in a floating greenhouse in deep space. When odered to jettison his cargo, botanist Bruce Dern launches a desprerate counterplot to save his beloved ecosphere. Special effects master Douglas Trumbull (2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) made his feature directing debut with this poignant, environmentalist science fiction tale.
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