Cyrus 2010/USA/R/92 min

Director: Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass
Cast: John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei, Catherine Keener

"It’s outrageous, twisted fun when boy meets girl, plus one."
- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"Still had me guessing at the final fade, which is something I can’t say about any other Hollywood comedy so far this year, and something I wish I could say more often." – Bob Mondello, NPR

"The Duplasses are showing how modern Americans think, talk and live."
- Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Blue Velvet 1986/USA/R/120 min

Director: David Lynch
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern

This sensual mystery thriller is about strange happenings in a small North Carolina town. A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and… This sensual mystery thriller is about strange happenings in a small North Carolina town. A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more, perhaps too much more. The strange world he’s found lurking beneath his hometown’s picture-postcard veneer is about to become much stranger. It is also an unforgettably fascinating and foreboding world.

2010/USA/R/84 min

Director: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg

Cast: Joan Rivers, Jocelyn Pickett, Billy Sammeth, Kathy Griffin

Penetrating Rivers’ coarse image, this compelling documentary offers an honest, behind-the-scenes look at her career — and at show business in general.

“She remains one of the funniest, dirtiest, most daring and transgressive of stand-up comics, and she hasn’t missed a beat. ” -Roger Ebert

2010/USA/NR/89 min

Director: Larry Brand

Cast: Nicki Aycox, Jordan Belfi, Stephen Lang

On Sunday, July 18th at 6 pm, the State Theatre will be honored to host a Red Carpet Premiere of the indie drama “Christina.” Produced by Leland-based 8180 Films, Christina stars “Avatar’s” Stephen Lang, “Dark Blue’s” Nicki Aycox, and “Entourage’s” Jordan Belfi. The film was written and directed by Larry Brand, (“The Drifter,” “Paranoia,” “Halloween Resurrection”). The Red Carpet Premiere is open to the public. Tickets are $12 and go on sale June 18th at the State Theatre Box Office or online. For more info on the film, see www.christinathemovie.com. Inspired by a true story, Christina takes place in Berlin six months after the end of World War II. A young German woman (Aycox) prepares to leave the war-ravaged city with her GI fiancee (Belfi), but a relentless police inspector (Lang) shows up, determined to prevent her from escaping her past. The film’s Executive Producers are Leland residents Rebecca Reynolds and Jim Carpenter, who formed 8180 Films, in 2007 with Reynolds’ long time writing partner, Larry Brand. Area filmgoers might know Reynolds and Carpenter as two of the five founders of the Beyond The Bay Film Series, which ran from 1999-2009 at the Bay Theatre in Suttons Bay. Recently Christina took home five awards at its first two film festivals, including Best Film, Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking and Best Actor awards (Aycox and Lang). In early June Christina was invited to be part of the first Aruba International Film Festival, and, on June 27th, it will be the closing night film at VisionFest at the Tribeca Theatres in New York City.

2010/France/NR/88 min

Directors: Alberto Arce, Mohammad Rujailah

“To shoot an elephant” is an eye witness account from The Gaza Strip. December 27th, 2008, Operation Cast Lead. 21 days shooting elephants. Urgent, insomniac, dirty, shuddering images from the only foreigners who decided and managed to stay embedded inside Gaza strip ambulances, with Palestinian civilians. …afterwards, of course, there were endless discussions about the shooting of the elephant. The owner was furious, but he was only an Indian and could do nothing. Besides, legally I had done the right thing, for a mad elephant has to be killed, like a mad dog, if it’s owner fails to control it”.

George Orwell defined a way of witnessing Asia that still remains valid. “To shoot an elephant” is an eye witness account from The Gaza Strip. December 27th, 2008, Operation Cast Lead. 21 days shooting elephants. Urgent, insomniac, dirty, shuddering images from the only foreigners who decided and managed to stay embedded inside Gaza strip ambulances, with Palestinian civilians.

George Orwell: “Shooting an elephant” was originally published in New Writing in 1948.

G/88 min.

Directors: Ash Brannon, Chris Buck

Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges

Surf’s Up is a laid back, visually stunning animated movie that brings a fresh twist to some familiar conventions. Its witty mockumentary format is fun and inventive, and the CGI is breathtakingly realistic.

1944/USA/NR/100 min

Director: Howard Hawks

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Hoagy Carmichael

A 40-something Humphrey Bogart and a novice named Lauren Bacall might

have seemed like an odd pairing on paper, but their chemistry in TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT ignites the screen. Howard Hawks directs… A 40-something Humphrey Bogart and a novice named Lauren Bacall might have seemed like an odd pairing on paper, but their chemistry in TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT ignites the screen. Howard Hawks directs this classic about a jaded American fisherman (Bogart) who risks his life to help a group of French freedom fighters and a sultry young woman (Bacall) with whom he falls in love. The fascinating setting (Vichy-controlled Martinique during the Second World War), the source material (Ernest Hemingway’s 1937 novel), and a screenplay

co-written by a literary master (William Faulkner) all take a backseat to the on- and off-screen romance between the two legends. TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT is perhaps most memorable for the 19-year-old Bacall seducing Bogart (and audiences) with her lesson on whistling.