The following show are scheduled through until the middle of February.
CRAZY HEART
Monday, Feb. 8 through Thursday, Feb. 11
Nightly at 4:40, 7:00
Matinees Wednesday at 12:00, 2:20
Friday, Feb. 12 through Thursday, Feb. 18
Nightly at 4:40, 7:00 Also Fri and Sat at 9:15
Matinees daily starting Saturday at 12:00, 2:20
Jeff Bridges is the darkhorse frontrunner to win the Oscar for Best Actor for his wondrous leather-authentic performance in CRAZY HEART after winning a Golden Globe. Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who’s had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can’t help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man’s crazy heart. “Bridges draws us deeply inside Blake’s moment-to-moment heartbreaks. He makes us root for him as we would root for a dear friend. Ultimately, his triumphs become our own.”–Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor. “Every detail of Jeff Bridges’ performance in CRAZY HEART is so delicious you want to sop it up with buttermilk biscuits: the counterintuitive line readings, the throwaway bits of business, the way he walks and smokes and drinks and flirts and sings. In Bridges’ hands, the down-and-out country music star Bad Blake becomes a kind of Fender-playing Falstaff, his pathos inseparable from his humor and his weakness inseparable from his strength. On first viewing, Crazy Heart seemed like a pretty good movie with one great performance. After a second time through, it’s sneaking up on the title of my favorite film of the year.”–Dana Hall, Slate. R.111 Min.
UP IN THE AIR
Monday, Feb. 8 through Thursday, Feb. 11
Nightly at 6:50
Matinee Wednesday at 2:10
Friday, Feb. 12 through Thursday, Feb. 18
Nightly at 6:50 Also Fri and Sat at 9:00
Matinees daily starting Saturday at 2:10
There’s a reason that UP IN THE AIR garnered 6 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture of the Year, Best Actor (George Clooney) and Best Director (Jason Reitman): “UP IN THE AIR is light and dark, hilarious and tragic, romantic and real. It’s everything that Hollywood has forgotten how to do; we’re blessed that director Jason Reitman (JUNO, THANK YOU FOR SMOKING) has remembered.” (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly.) George Clooney stars as Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams. Is he about to be downsized himself? Or upsized to a new life of real human connection? UP IN THE AIR is a romantic comedy with a difference–or maybe several. R. 109 Min.
A SINGLE MAN
Monday, Feb. 8 through Thursday, Feb. 11
Nightly at 5:00, 7:10
Matinees Wednesday at 12:45, 2:50
Friday, Feb. 12 through Thursday, Feb. 18
Nightly at 5:00, 7:10 Also Fri and Sat at 9:10
Matinees daily starting Sat. at 12:45, 2:50
“A sorrowful beauty infuses every frame of this remarkable debut feature from fashion designer Tom Ford. Loosely based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood, A SINGLE MAN visits a single day in the life of gay Brit expat George Falconer (Colin Firth), a teacher at a Los Angeles college who plans on suicide to end his pain over the death of his lover, Jim (Matthew Goode). The film is stunningly visualized, with Ford achieving a feeling for light and texture to rival Wong Kar-wai’s. Life with Jim is seen in black-and-white flashbacks that contrast vividly with the rich color palette of his present encounters, notably with Kenny, beautifully played by Nicholas Hoult (About a Boy), a student whose interests exceed the academic, and his British friend Charley (Julianne Moore), a divorcee who fantasizes that George will marry her. Moore is explosively good, especially in her drunk scene. But the film belongs to Firth. Uncanny at showing the heart crumbling under George’s elegant exterior, he gives the performance of his career. Ford is a true visionary, but it’s his humanity that gives the love story a ravishing, bruised grandeur.”–Peter Travers, Rolling Stone. R. 99 Min.
THE YOUNG VICTORIA
Monday, Feb. 8 through Thursday, Feb. 11
Nightly at 4:50
Matinee Wednesday at 12:05
Friday, Feb. 12 through Thursday, Feb. 18
Nightly at 4:50
Matinees daily starting Sat. 12:05
“As regal performances go, Emily Blunt’s mesmerizing turn in THE YOUNG VICTORIA is every bit as majestic and impressive as Cate Blanchett’s in ELIZABETH. Both movies follow the young monarchs as they accept their destinies, negotiate the minefield of court politics and treachery, and impose their rule. The cleverly-crafted screenplay by Julian Fellowes (GOSFORD PARK, VANITY FAIR) portrays Princess Victoria of Kent as an unhappy teenager who laments that “even a palace can be a prison,” and hates the protocol which insists she must be accompanied whenever she walks up or down stairs. She’s next in line to the throne in the event that her sickly uncle King William (a wild-eyed Jim Broadbent) kicks the bucket. At 17, she resists efforts by her domineering mother, the Duchess of Kent (Miranda Richardson), abetted by her manipulative adviser, Sir John Conroy (Mark Strong), to persuade her to sign a regency order, which would mean the duchess could rule in her name. Meanwhile her uncle, Belgian King Leopold (Thomas Kretschmann), plots to get his nephew, Albert (Rupert Friend), to marry her for his political advantage. During a highly metaphorical game of chess, Albert and Victoria both realize they are pawns in a complex dynastic game–and romance starts to blossom.YOUNG VICTORIA’s great strength is the love story between Victoria and Albert, French/Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallee (director of MIFF Audience award winner C.R.A.Z.Y.) presides over a richly detailed, sumptuous-looking production which stands comparison with the cream of British historical dramas.”–SBS. PG. 100 Min.
Admission Prices at Railroad Square Cinema
$7.50 for Adults in the evenings, $6.00 for matinees.
Children (12 and under) are $5.00 at all times.
Seniors and Students are $6.50 in the evenings.
Mondays — $5.00 all day!
Discount books are available. $60 for 10 admissions or $50 if you’re a Railroad Square Cinema member. Click here to get info about membership.
t’s easy! We are located in Railroad Square between College Ave. and Main Street in Waterville, Maine. If you’re coming from Interstate 95, get off at Main Street, exit 130 (formerly 34) and head towards downtown Waterville. About a mile from the exit look for our large, yellow sign on your left as you cross the railroad tracks. Our entrance is between the RR tracks and the Burger King sign. Scroll down to see maps. Click here for detailed driving directions
17 Railroad Sq, Waterville, ME 04901-6139
24 hour movie info: 207-873-6526
