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FILM FESTIVAL 2012
FirstLight and Maui Film Festivals
FILM FESTIVAL
Angkor Wat Film Festival: Years of Darkness
Saturday, October 27, 12:00 PM
The mission of the ANGKOR WAT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (AWIFF) is to showcase and celebrate films whose subjects and themes deal with the preservation of culture and environment. These are the best of the festival and proceeds will help fund the 2nd annual AWIFF in Cambodia. Years of Darkness documents Sam Khong’s reunification with his family and his spiritual recovery. He grew up in Cambodia and joined its Navy at age 14 to fight the Vietcong. In 1974, he came to the U.S. for additional military training. But in 1975 he was stranded here when the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia and began its regime of death. Later, while living in the U.S., Khong suffered a head injury that led to the start of his battle with depression. Directed by Tom Vendetti. Short film: Born Sweet
Tickets: $10/film, $24/pass for 3 films (plus applicable fees)
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Angkor Wat International Film Festival: Ready Made
Saturday, October 27, 2:00 PM
The mission of the ANGKOR WAT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (AWIFF) is to showcase and celebrate films whose subjects and themes deal with the preservation of culture and environment. These are the best of the festival and proceeds will help fund the 2nd annual AWIFF in Cambodia. Mao Zedong, the major founder and leader of the People's Republic and Communist Party of China, died 32 years ago. Ready Made is a documentary about two ordinary individuals who have a physical likeness to Mao and choose to be his impersonators. As a result, their lives and destinies changed. Short film: 86 Centimetres
Tickets: $10/film, $24/pass for 3 films (plus applicable fees)
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Angkor Wat International Film Festival: Peace Through Music
Saturday, October 27, 4:00 PM
The mission of the ANGKOR WAT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (AWIFF) is to showcase and celebrate films whose subjects and themes deal with the preservation of culture and environment. These are the best of the festival and proceeds will help fund the 2nd annual AWIFF in Cambodia. Peace Through Music is the story of the unparalleled international musical collaboration, Playing For Change (PFC), and its remarkable power of redemption. PFC is an extraordinary effort uniting musicians and vocalists from diverse parts of the world. By utilizing innovative mobile audio/video techniques, PFC captures these artists and combines them all together to create one seamless collaboration. Short film: The Yak Herder’s Son
Tickets: $10/film, $24/pass for 3 films (plus applicable fees)
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Angkor Wat International Film Festival: Making of The Dark Side of The Moon
Saturday, October 27, 6:00 PM
The mission of the ANGKOR WAT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (AWIFF) is to showcase and celebrate films whose subjects and themes deal with the preservation of culture and environment. These are the best of the festival and proceeds will help fund the 2nd annual AWIFF in Cambodia. Pink Floyd offers a track-by-track look at the making of The Dark Side of the Moon, featuring interviews with band members Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright, plus rare acoustic versions of “Breathe” and “Brain Damage.” Short film: Small Steps
Tickets: $10/film, $24/pass for 3 films (plus applicable fees)
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Angkor Wat International Film Festival: Taylor Camp
Saturday, October 27, 8:00 PM
The mission of the ANGKOR WAT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (AWIFF) is to showcase and celebrate films whose subjects and themes deal with the preservation of culture and environment. These are the best of the festival and proceeds will help fund the 2nd annual AWIFF in Cambodia. This film tells the story of Taylor Camp's eight-year existence on Kaua'i through interviews made 30-years later ... In 1969, thirteen young mainlanders – refugees from campus riots, Vietnam War protests and police brutality– fled to Kaua'i. Before long, this little tribe was arrested and sentenced to 90 days hard labor for having no money and no home. Island resident Howard Taylor, brother of actress Elizabeth, bailed out the group and invited them to camp on his vacant oceanfront land. Howard then left them on their own, without any restrictions, regulations or supervision. Directed by Robert Stone. Short film: Le Petit Nuage
Tickets: $10/film, $24/pass for 3 films (plus applicable fees)
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Angkor Wat International Film Festival: Everest, A Climb for Peace
Sunday, October 28, 12:00 PM
The mission of the ANGKOR WAT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (AWIFF) is to showcase and celebrate films whose subjects and themes deal with the preservation of culture and environment. These are the best of the festival and proceeds will help fund the 2nd annual AWIFF in Cambodia. Everest is the inspirational journey of Peace Climbers from different faiths and cultures as they climb to the summit of the tallest mountain in the world. The focus is on Palestinian Ali Bushnaq and Israeli's Dudu Yifrah and Micha Yaniv. They attempt to set aside their differences to create a path of teamwork, friendship and cooperation to the summit of the world’s highest peak. Short film: Dalai Lama Happiness
Tickets: $10/film, $24/pass for 3 films (plus applicable fees)
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Angkor Wat International Film Festival: The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Sunday, October 28, 2:00 PM
The mission of the ANGKOR WAT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (AWIFF) is to showcase and celebrate films whose subjects and themes deal with the preservation of culture and environment. These are the best of the festival and proceeds will help fund the 2nd annual AWIFF in Cambodia. Is Henry Kissinger, Nobel Laureate and the most famous diplomat of his generation, also a war criminal? Provoked by the Christopher Hitchens 2001 book, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, filmmakers construct a documentary that is both a brilliant legal brief and chilling psycho-drama. The Trials of Henry Kissinger explores how a young boy who fled Nazi Germany grew up to become one of the most powerful men in U.S. history. Short film: Silence
Tickets: $10/film, $24/pass for 3 films (plus applicable fees)
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Angkor Wat International Film Festival: Brother No.1
Sunday, October 28, 4:00 PM
The mission of the ANGKOR WAT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (AWIFF) is to showcase and celebrate films whose subjects and themes deal with the preservation of culture and environment. These are the best of the festival and proceeds will help fund the 2nd annual AWIFF in Cambodia. Brother Number One is a documentary on the torture and murder of New Zealand yachtie Kerry Hamill by the Khmer Rouge in 1978. It follows the journey of Kerry's younger brother, Rob Hamill, an Olympic and Trans-Atlantic champion rower, who travels to Cambodia to retrace the steps taken by his brother and John Dewhirst, speaking to eyewitnesses, perpetrators and survivors. Short film: Sam Khong
Tickets: $10/film, $24/pass for 3 films (plus applicable fees)
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Angkor Wat International Film Festival: One Day on Earth
Sunday, October 28, 6:00 PM
The mission of the ANGKOR WAT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (AWIFF) is to showcase and celebrate films whose subjects and themes deal with the preservation of culture and environment. These are the best of the festival and proceeds will help fund the 2nd annual AWIFF in Cambodia. Four years in the making, One Day on Earth is a video time capsule of one day, October 10, 2010. More than 19,000 filmmakers, both professional and novice, contributed 3,000 hours of footage. The project, headed by Founder/Director Kyle Ruddick and Co-founder/Executive Producer Brandon Litman, donated video cameras to more than 95 UN country offices, which resulted in unusually intimate access, including footage of remote villages of Papua New Guinea and Abyei, a district of South Sudan with a history of border disputes. Short film: Small Steps - Phnom Penh
Tickets: $10/film, $24/pass for 3 films (plus applicable fees)
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Angkor Wat International Film Festival: Baraka
Sunday, October 28, 8:00 PM
The mission of the ANGKOR WAT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (AWIFF) is to showcase and celebrate films whose subjects and themes deal with the preservation of culture and environment. These are the best of the festival and proceeds will help fund the 2nd annual AWIFF in Cambodia. Baraka, an ancient Sufi word with forms in many languages, translates as a blessing or as the breath or essence of life from which the evolutionary process unfolds. A poetic tour of the globe, Baraka was shot in breathtaking 70mm in 24 countries on six continents. Set to the life affirming rhythms of varied religious rituals and nature's own raw beat, Baraka is a visualization of the interconnectedness humans share with the earth. Short film: Quietest Place on Earth
Tickets: $10/film, $24/pass for 3 films (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film The House I Live In
Sunday, November 18, 3:00 PM
This documentary is an investigative look at America's war on drugs and its impact on the criminal justice system with a focus on the experiences of Nannie Jeter, a former employee of filmmaker Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight). Danny Glover, John Legend and Russell Simmons are the executive producers.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Love, Marilyn
Sunday, November 18, 5:00 PM
Love, Marilyn takes an intimate look into the never-before-seen letters, diaries and notebooks of Marilyn Monroe. Appearing on screen to perform Marilyn’s words are renowned contemporary actresses, including Elizabeth Banks, Marisa Tomei, Uma Thurman and Glenn Close. Directed by Liz Garbus
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Crossfire Hurricane - The Rolling Stones
Sunday, November 18, 7:30 PM
The Rolling Stones are chronicled in Crossfire Hurricane, which documents key periods of their career and their incredible adventures. The film features historical footage, much of it widely unseen, and commentary from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood and former Stones Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor as well as rare interviews with Brian Jones.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Tuesday, November 20, 5:00 PM
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel follows a group of British retirees who decide to "outsource" their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the palace a shell of its former self. Starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson and Bill Nighy
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Silver Linings Playbook
Tuesday, November 20, 7:30 PM
Life doesn't always go according to plan ... Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything-his house, his job and his wife. In Silver Linings Playbook, he finds himself living back with his mother (Jacki Weaver) and father (Robert DeNiro) after spending eight months in a state institution on a plea bargain. But Pat is determined to rebuild his life, remain positive and reunite with his wife.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Spirit 2 Power
Wednesday, November 21, 3:30 PM
Spirit 2 Power is a feature length documentary, journeying into the spirit of Martial Arts and featuring world champions and international specialists.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Brooklyn Castle
Wednesday, November 21, 5:30 PM
Brooklyn Castle tells the stories of five members of the chess team at a below-the-poverty-line inner city junior high school, which has won more national championships than any other in the country. The film follows the challenges these kids face in their personal lives as well as on the chessboard, and is as much about the sting of their losses as it is about the anticipation of their victories.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
Wednesday, November 21, 7:30 PM
With The Fitzgerald Family Christmas, Edward Burns returns to the working-class, Irish-American roots of The Brothers McMullen. Reuniting with McMullen co-stars Connie Britton and Mike McGlone, along with Noah Emmerich and Kerry Bishe, Burns seamlessly weaves an ensemble story of adult siblings dealing with the desire of their estranged father (Ed Lauter) to return home for Christmas for the first time since he walked out on his family 20 years ago.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Samsara
Friday, November 23, 5:30 PM
Samsara reunites filmmakers Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson, whose award-winning films Baraka and Chronos brought a new visual and musical artistry to theaters. Dispensing with dialogue and descriptive text, Samsara explores the wonders of our world from the mundane to the miraculous, looking into the unfathomable reaches of man's spirituality and the human experience, and illuminating the links between humanity and the rest of nature.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Anna Karenina
Friday, November 23, 7:30 PM
Anna Karenina is the third collaboration of Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley with acclaimed director Joe Wright, following the award-winning films, Pride & Prejudice and Atonement. This bold new vision of the epic story of love is adapted from Leo Tolstoy's timeless novel, which powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart. As Anna questions her happiness and marriage, change comes to all around her. Also starring Jude Law
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Moonrise Kingdom
Saturday, November 24, 3:30 PM
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two 12-year olds who fall in love, make a secret pact and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle. Bruce Willis plays the local sheriff, Edward Norton is a Khaki Scout troop leader, Bill Murray and Frances McDormand portray the young girl's parents.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Beasts of the Southern Wild
Saturday, November 24, 5:30 PM
In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a 6-year old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Hitchcock
Saturday, November 24, 7:30 PM
Hitchcock is a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock, and his wife and partner, Alma Reville. The film takes place during the making of Hitchcock's seminal movie Psycho. Starring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Only The Young
Sunday, November 25, 2:00 PM
Garrison and Kevin live in a small desert town with nothing to do. In foreclosed homes and deserted underpasses, they create their own fun and avoid the realities of being an adult. Skye is strong-willed, beautiful and wise beyond her years. She's trying to fight bank managers from taking the house her grandparents raised her in. Over one last summer of first loves and heartbreaks, friendship and self-made adventure, these three teenagers find everything they knew beginning to transform before their eyes. An intimate, candid and instantly relatable portrait of a moment in life we've all shared, this is a film that will be close to people's hearts.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Starlet
Sunday, November 25, 4:30 PM
Starlet explores the unlikely friendship between 21-year old aspiring actress Jane and elderly widow Sadie after their worlds collide in California's San Fernando Valley. Jane spends her time getting high with her dysfunctional roommates and taking care of her chihuahua Starlet, while Sadie passes her days alone, tending to her garden. After a confrontation at a yard sale, Jane finds something unexpected in a relic from Sadie's past. Her curiosity piqued, she tries to befriend the caustic older woman. Secrets emerge as their relationship grows, revealing that nothing is ever as it seems.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Chasing Ice
Sunday, November 25, 6:30 PM
Acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In Chasing Ice, Balog deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers. His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. Traveling with a team of young adventurers across the brutal Arctic, Balog risks his career and his well-being in pursuit of the biggest story facing humanity.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film 28 Hotel Rooms
Sunday, November 25, 8:00 PM
Both traveling for work, in a city in which neither lives, a man (Chris Messina) and a woman (Marin Ireland) have a one-night stand. Months later in another city, they run into each other in a restaurant and sleep together a second time. Though she's married and he has a girlfriend, they decide to keep meeting. This begins an unexpected love that slowly evolves into a profound relationship and threatens to impact everything else in their lives. 28 Hotel Rooms is an intimate portrait of an affair that follows two people as they wrestle with the intoxication of love and the pain, guilt and confusion of loving more than one person.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Any Day Now
Friday, December 14, 4:00 PM
Inspired by a true story from the late 1970s and touching on legal and social issues that are as relevant today as they were 35 years ago, Any Day Now is a powerful tale of love, acceptance and family. When a teenager with Down syndrome (Isaac Leyva) is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple (Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt) takes him in and becomes the loving family he's never had. But when their unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men are forced to fight a biased legal system to save the life of the child they have come to love as their own.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Cowboys & Aerials
Friday, December 14, 6:30 PM
Saddle up the comfy chair, dig your heels in and get a grip on your set-box shooter. This one's going to buck like a Brahmin bull with a mouthful of dynamite. Waves are launch pads into other surfing universes for this bunch of board-slingers who flip, fly and spin high above the lip -- not even gravity can stand in their way. Set in and around the world's best wave ranch and accompanied by a kickin' soundtrack, Cowboys & Aerials is jammed so tight with double-barrel action, it explodes off the screen. Featuring Matt Meola and Clay Marzo of Maui
Preshow festivities begin at 6:30 pm with Lily Meola and Lukas Nelson on stage, followed by prize giveaways and 3 short films.
Preshow festivities begin at 6:30 pm with Lily Meola and Lukas Nelson on stage, followed by prize giveaways and 3 short films.
Tickets: $12/single (FastPass is not available for this film) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Tai Chi Zero
Friday, December 14, 9:00 PM
Advertised as "as steampunk kung fu throwdown," Tai Chi Zero is a weird combination of Kung Fu Fighting meets Kill Bill with a lot of comical fun ... In legendary Chen Village, everyone is a martial arts master and uses a powerful form of Tai Chi in all aspects of life. Yang has arrived to try and learn it, only to find that it’s forbidden for the villagers to teach their secret style to an outsider. But when a mysterious man comes to town with a frightening steam-powered machine and plans to build a railroad through a village, the villagers realize they may have no choice but to put their faith in Yang, who has a secret power of his own.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Ginger & Rosa
Thursday, December 20, 5:00 PM
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London, 1962. Two teenage girls—Ginger and Rosa—are inseparable. They play truant together; discuss religion, politics and hairstyles; and dream of lives bigger than their mothers' frustrated domesticity. But, as the Cold War meets the sexual revolution, and the threat of nuclear holocaust escalates, the lifelong friendship of the two girls is shattered—by the clash of desire and the determination to survive.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Zero Dark Thirty
Thursday, December 20, 7:30 PM
For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty reunites the Oscar(R) winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) for the story of history's greatest manhunt for the world's most dangerous man.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film The Master
Friday, December 21, 2:00 PM
Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) is a World War II naval veteran who arrives home from war uncertain of his future and struggling to adjust to a post-war society—until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader, Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman).
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film The Intouchables
Friday, December 21, 5:00 PM
A true story of two men who should never have met—a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Django Unchained
Friday, December 21, 7:30 PM
Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained stars Academy Award(R)-winner Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Academy Award(R)-winner Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the Brittles—dead or alive.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Perks of Being a Wallflower
Saturday, December 22, 2:00 PM
A funny and touching coming-of-age story based on the beloved best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a modern classic that captures the dizzying highs and crushing lows of growing up. Starring Logan Lerman, Emma Watson and Ezra Miller, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope—and the unforgettable friends that help us through life.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Cloud Atlas
Saturday, December 22, 4:00 PM
Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave dramatically through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film The Guilt Trip
Saturday, December 22, 7:30 PM
Andy Brewster is about to embark on the road trip of a lifetime, and who better to accompany him than his overbearing mother, Joyce. After deciding to start his adventure with a quick visit at mom's, Andy is guilted into bringing her along for the ride. Across 3,000 miles of ever-changing landscape, he is constantly aggravated by her antics, but over time he comes to realize that their lives have more in common than he originally thought. His mother's advice might end up being exactly what he needs.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Rise of the Guardians
Sunday, December 23, 2:00 PM
Rise of the Guardians is an epic & magical adventure that tells the story of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman, and Jack Frost—legendary characters with previously unknown extraordinary abilities. When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children everywhere.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Arbitrage
Sunday, December 23, 5:00 PM
Arbitrage, the feature-directing debut of writer Nicholas Jarecki, is a taut and alluring suspense thriller about love, loyalty, and high finance. When we first meet New York hedge-fund magnate Robert Miller (Richard Gere) on the eve of his 60th birthday, he appears the very portrait of success in American business and family life. But behind the gilded walls of his mansion, Miller is in over his head, desperately trying to complete the sale of his trading empire to a major bank before the depths of his fraud are revealed. Struggling to conceal his duplicity from loyal wife Ellen (Susan Sarandon) and brilliant daughter and heir-apparent Brooke (Brit Marling), Miller's also balancing an affair with French art-dealer Julie Cote (Laetetia Casta). Just as he's about to unload his troubled empire, an unexpected bloody error forces him to juggle family, business, and crime. Will he make it out before the bubble bursts?
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film On The Road
Sunday, December 23, 7:30 PM
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Walter Salles (Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries) and based on the iconic novel by Jack Kerouac, On The Road tells the timeless story of Sal Paradise (Sam Riley), a young writer whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund), a free-spirited, fearless, fast-talking Westerner and his girl, Marylou (Kristen Stewart). Traveling cross-country, Sal and Dean venture out on a personal quest for freedom from the conformity and conservatism engulfing them in search of the unknown, themselves, and the pursuit of “it”—the pure essence of experience. Seeking uncharted terrain and the last American frontier, the duo encounter an eclectic mix of men and women—Bull (Viggo Mortensen), Camille (Kirsten Dunst), Carlo (Tom Sturridge), Jane (Amy Adams), Terry (Alice Braga), Galatéa (Elisabeth Moss)—each impacting their journey indelibly.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film The Intouchables
Wednesday, December 26, 2:00 PM
The Intouchables is a true story of two men who should never have met--a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects. Starring Francois Cluzet and Omar Sy
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Lincoln
Wednesday, December 26, 5:00 PM
Steven Spielberg directs two-time Academy Award(R) winner Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln, a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Abraham Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film The Impossible
Wednesday, December 26, 8:00 PM
Maria (Naomi Watts), Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand, looking forward to a few days in tropical paradise. But on the morning of December 26th, as the family relaxes around the pool after their Christmas festivities the night before, a terrifying roar rises up from the center of the earth. As Maria freezes in fear, a huge wall of black water races across the hotel grounds toward her. Based on a true story, The Impossible is the unforgettable account of a family caught, with tens of thousands of strangers, in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time. But the true-life terror is tempered by the unexpected displays of compassion, courage and simple kindness that Maria and her family encounter during the darkest hours of their lives. Both epic and intimate, devastating and uplifting, The Impossible is a journey to the core of the human heart.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Argo
Friday, December 28, 2:00 PM
Based on true events, Warner Bros. Pictures and GK Films present the dramatic thriller, Argo, which chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis—the truth of which was unknown by the public for decades.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Stand Up Guys
Friday, December 28, 5:30 PM
Stand Up Guys stars Academy Award winners Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin in a tough but touching action comedy as retired gangsters who reunite for one epic last night. Val (Al Pacino) is released from prison after serving 28 years for refusing to give up one of his close criminal associates. His best friend Doc (Christopher Walken) is there to pick him up, and the two soon reteam with another old pal, Hirsch (Alan Arkin). Their bond is as strong as ever, and the three reflect on freedom lost and gained, loyalties ebbed and flowed, and days of glory gone by. But one of the friends is keeping a dangerous secret—he's been put in an impossible quandary by a former mob boss, and his time to find an acceptable alternative is running out. As the sun rises on the legendary reunion, their position becomes more and more desperate and they finally confront their past once and for all.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Quartet
Friday, December 28, 7:30 PM
Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut, Quartet is a 2012 British comedy-drama film based on the same-titled play by Ronald Harwood. The film stars Tom Courtenay, Pauline Collins and Billy Connolly as retired opera singers who annually put on a concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday, however the arrival of Jean (Maggie Smith) disrupts the equilibrium. It was filmed in its entirety at Hedsor House, Buckinghamshire in fall 2011.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Flight
Saturday, December 29, 2:00 PM
In this action-packed mystery thriller, Academy Award winner Denzel Washington stars as Whip Whitaker, a seasoned airline pilot who miraculously crash-lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault, and what really happened on that plane ...
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film The Sessions
Saturday, December 29, 5:00 PM
Based on the poignantly optimistic autobiographical writings of California-based journalist and poet Mark O'Brien, The Sessions tells the story of a man confined to an iron lung who is determined—at age 38—to lose his virginity. With the help of his therapists and the guidance of his priest, he sets out to make his dream a reality.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Hyde Park on Hudson
Saturday, December 29, 7:30 PM
In June 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Academy Award nominee Bill Murray) and his wife Eleanor (Olivia Williams) host the King and Queen of England (Samuel West and Olivia Colman) for a weekend at the Roosevelt home at Hyde Park on Hudson, in upstate New York—the first-ever visit of a reigning English monarch to America. With Britain facing imminent war with Germany, the royals are desperately looking to FDR for support. But international affairs must be juggled with the complexities of FDR's domestic establishment, as wife, mother, and mistresses all conspire to make the royal weekend an unforgettable one. Seen through the eyes of Daisy (Academy Award nominee Laura Linney), Franklin's neighbor and intimate, the weekend will produce not only a special relationship between two great nations, but for Daisy—and through her, for us all—a deeper understanding of the mysteries of love and friendship.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight FAST PASS 2012
Sunday, December 30, 11:30 AM
FirstLight is Maui’s holiday season Celebration of Cinema. Every Oscar® winning Best Picture since 1999 has been screened at FirstLight on Castle Theater’s big screen in Dolby 5.1 sound.
$12 single admission tickets available at the Box Office.
Tickets: $40 for 4 admissions ($10 per film) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Silver Linings Playbook
Sunday, December 30, 12:00 PM
Life doesn't always go according to plan... Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything--his house, his job, and his wife. He now finds himself living back with his mother (Jacki Weaver) and father (Robert DeNiro) after spending eight months in a state institution on a plea bargain. Pat is determined to rebuild his life, remain positive and reunite with his wife, despite the challenging circumstances of their separation. When Pat meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a mysterious girl with problems of her own, things get more complicated and Silver Linings appear in both of their lives.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Skyfall
Sunday, December 30, 2:00 PM
Daniel Craig is back as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in Skyfall, the 23rd adventure in the longest-running film franchise of all time. In Skyfall, Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Not Fade Away
Sunday, December 30, 5:00 PM
It's 1964. The Rolling Stones appear on television, and three best friends from the suburbs of New Jersey decide to form a rock band and try to make it big.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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FirstLight Film Promised Land
Sunday, December 30, 7:30 PM
Promised Land is a new contemporary drama directed by Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Milk). Matt Damon plays Steve Butler, an ace corporate salesman who is sent along with his partner, Sue Thomason (Frances McDormand), to close a key rural town in his company's expansion plans. With the town having been hit hard by the economic decline of recent years, the two outsiders see the local citizens as likely to accept their company's offer of drilling rights to their properties as much-needed relief. What seems like an easy job for the duo becomes complicated by the objection of a respected schoolteacher (Hal Holbrook) with support from a grassroots campaign led by another man (John Krasinski), as well as the interest of a local woman (Rosemarie DeWitt). Promised Land explores America at the crossroads where big business and the strength of small-town community converge.
Tickets: $12/single, $40/FastPass (4 admissions) (plus applicable fees)
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