Films @ Red River Theatres

Hollywood 1927. George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), it seems the sky's the limit - major movie stardom awaits. The Artist tells the story of their interlinked destinies.

From Alexander Payne, the creator of the Oscar-winning Sideways, set in Hawaii, The Descendants is a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey for Matt King (George Clooney) an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty  and missionaries.

In the Screening Room

4 Oscar Nominations including Best Picture

Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, and Carla Bruni star in Woody Allen's romantic comedy about a family on a business trip in the City of Light. 

As a young couple engaged to be married experiences a profound transformation during their visit to Paris, an idealistic man with a romanticized view of the city finds that there's plenty of truth to that old adage about the grass being greener on the other side. Michael Sheen, Mimi Kennedy, and Kurt Fuller co-star. 

Patagonia Rising investigates a plan to build five large hydroelectric dams on two of the worlds purest free flowing rivers in Patagonia, Chile. Tracing the hydro-logic cycle of the Baker River from ice to ocean, Patagonia Rising brings voice to the frontier people caught in the crossfire of future energy demands. Juxtaposing the pro-dam business sector with renewable energy experts, the documentary brings awareness and solutions to this global conflict over water and power.

After the 7pm show monday will be a discussion with Bob King, Ashuelot River Hydro, Inc.

A Dublin-based busker and vacuum-cleaner repairman enters into a fruitful relationship with a piano playing florist in a toe-tapping "video album" directed by John Carney and featuring a cast comprised entirely of professional musicians. He (Glen Hansard of the Frames) was a six-stringed street musician. She (Markéta Irglová) was a flower woman who couldn't afford to purchase a piano of her own. One day, after admiring the musician's songs and asking if he would take a look at her broken vacuum,  the flower-pushing piano player discovers that she shares a remarkable sonic rapport with the mechanically savvy guitarist. As their musical sensibilities quickly converge to striking effect, the talented pair soon determines to record an album together.

Five-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close stars in this emotional and thought-provoking tale of a woman forced to live as a man in 19th Century Ireland. After thirty years of keeping up the charade, a new love threatens to destroy everything she's worked so hard to build.

In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of 'The Prince and the Showgirl'. The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Aurthur Miller (Dougray Scott). Nearly 40 years on, his diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as My Week with Marilyn - this is the story of that week.

Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) as his patient in A Dangerous Method. Jung's weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen). Both men fall under Sabina's spell.

Carnage is a razor sharp, biting comedy centered on parental differences. After two boys duke it out on a playground, the parents of the "victim" invite the parents of the "bully" over to work out their issues. A polite discussion of childrearing soon escalates into verbal warfare, with all four parents revealing their true colors. None of them will escape the carnage.

Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister (Carey Mulligan) moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life spirals out of control.

NH Public Television, Red River Theatres and Plymouth State University's College of Graduate Studies are delighted to present a monthly series of free screenings featuring films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS Series Independent Lens. This NH collaboration is part of a nationwide program in over 65 cities.  Join us monthly between September, 2011 and May, 2012 at Red River Theatres (11 S. Main Street, Concord) for a select film and active post-film panel discussion. To learn more about community screenings happening across the country, click here.

All Films begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Admission is FREE, reservations suggested.

February 21: More Than a Month
April 17: Hell and Back Again
May 15: Strong!

Come Party with OSCAR® and Red River Theatres, as we watch the Academy Awards® presentation live! Red River Theatres will host its fourth annual Red Carpet Awards benefit event on Sunday, February 26, 2012 celebrating Hollywood's biggest night. Come dressed in Hollywood attire and enjoy a fun evening of great food, music, and more!

Sunday, February 26, 2012
6:30 pm Red Carpet arrivals begin
8:00 pm OSCAR® Telecast begins on the big screen

All proceeds from the event will benefit community and educational programming at Red River Theatres. Purchase tickets at the Box Office or online

Looking for that special outfit for Red River Theatres Red Carpet Event? Come to OutFITters Thrift Store Boutique's Private Oscar Attire Sale on Monday, February 6 from 4 pm to 7 pm, on 20 South Main Street. You'll find a selection of beautiful gowns and sharp suits at good prices. And we're offering a 10% discount that night (not to be combined with any other offer)! 

Do you have formal wear that you would like to donate? Bring it to OutFITters before Thursday, February 2, you'll receive a 15% off coupon.

This Show will not take place at Red River Theatres.
It will be at:
The Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince Street, Concord NH

Join host Mike McDonald and guest comedians DJ Hazard, Ira Proctor and Stacy Kendro with pianist Curtis “12 Finger” Haynes for an evening of power house punchlines delivered right to your funny bone.

This event will not be at Red River Theatres.
It will take place at:
The Christa McAuliffe Auditorium, Concord High School, 170 Warren Street

Ticket price also includes Discussion and Reception

In her gripping directorial debut, Christy Turlington Burns shares the powerful stories of at-risk pregnant women in four parts of the world, including a remote Maasai tribe in Tanzania, a slum of Bangladesh, a post-abortion care ward in Guatemala, and a prenatal clinic in the United States.

In the Screening Room

Screening and discussion with executive producer Ayesha Khan

In October 2007, Newsweek magazine labeled Pakistan "The Most Dangerous Country in the World." Made in Pakistan, a 60-minute documentary about four young, middle-class Pakistani professionals during the state of emergency declared by Pervez Musharraf that year, tells a different story about the country's past and future. Winner of the Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary at the 2009 South Asian International Film Festival in New York, Made in Pakistan provides a rare glimpse into life in Pakistan - a country where politics, fashion, religion, debate and tradition intermingle - and where a single definition of an Islamic State no longer holds true.

The film follows Mohsin Waraich, an aspiring politician; Rabia Aamir, a young mother, teacher and magazine editor; Tara Mehmood, an event manager working in the fashion industry; and Waleed Khalid, a practicing lawyer and devout Muslim. With vignettes that highlight their careers, personal lives, traditions, and political views, Made in Pakistan showcases the diversity of contemporary Pakistan — and demonstrates this new generation's hope and direction for their homeland.

In the Screening Room

Toby Lester visits Gibson's again for the presentation of his new book, Da Vinci's Ghost. Some of you may remember last year's event for The Fourth Part of the World, and will look forward to the treat of Toby's slideshow and presentation.

With sparkling prose and a rich variety of original illustrations, Lester captures the brief but momentous time in the history of western thought when the Middle Ages gave way to the Renaissance, art and science and philosophy converged as one, and all seemed to hold out the promise that a single human mind, if properly harnessed, could grasp the nature of everything.