* Movie: Up in the Air
* Events: New Releases
* Date: Wednesday, December 23rd 2009 – Saturday, January 9th 2010
* Address: 233 East Front Street
* Admission: $8.00
* Age restrictions: R
* Box office: 231-947-3446

* Notes: Up in the Air is a 2009 American comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and co-written by Reitman and Sheldon Turner. It is a film adaptation of the 2001 novel Up in the Air, written by Walter Kirn. The story is about a corporate downsizer and his travels. It follows his isolated life and philosophies along with the people that he meets along the way.

# Notes: 2009/France/PG-13/110 min Director: Anne Fontaine (”The Girl From Monaco”) Cast: Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Marie Gillian, Alessandro Nivola, Emmanuelle Devos Screenplay: Anne Fontaine and Camille Fontaine, with collaboration of Christopher Hampton (”Dangerous Liaisons”) In French with English subtitles “Coco Before Chanel” is the story of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, who began her life as headstrong orphan, and through an extraordinary journey became the legendary couturier who embodied the modern woman and became a timeless symbol of success, freedom and style. The film portrays the formative years of Chanel’s life, the years of Chanel spent discovering and inventing herself. Alexandre Desplat (Academy Award nominee for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Queen) composed the score.” The production was given the support of the Maison CHANEL, who opened their archives and collections.

* Movie: Holiday
* Events: 25-cent Classic Matinee: Holiday Favorites
* Date: Wednesday, December 30th 2009
* Address: 233 East Front Street
* Admission: .25
* Age restrictions: NR
* Box office: 231-947-3446

* Notes: 1938/USA/NR/95 min Director: George Cukor Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant team up in this classic George Cukor comedy about love that finally finds its mark. Johnny (Grant) has just met the girl of his dreams, so he proposes; she happily accepts. However, he soon discovers that his lovely bride-to-be, Julia (Doris Nolan), comes from a wealthy Park Avenue family, with a father who likes to make all the decisions and to whom she seems incapable of defying. Her unconventional sister, Linda (Hepburn), knows she wants something different from a mapped-out life; she also discovers she’s falling in love with Johnny. Grant’s effervescent performance is timeless, and his onscreen chemistry with Hepburn electric. Based on the 1928 play by Philip Barry, and the second time the story was adapted to the screen, this version established the rules for intelligent romantic comedies.

Strauss’s comic masterpiece of love and intrigue in 18th-century Vienna stars RenŽe Fleming as the aristocratic Marschallin and Susan Graham in the trouser role of her young lover. Music Director James Levine conducts a cast that also includes Kristinn Sigmundsson and Thomas Allen.

Conductor: James Levine; Production: Nathaniel Merrill; Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, Christine Schäfer, Eric Cutler, Thomas Allen, Kristinn Sigmundsson