Ella and John: The Leisure Seeker. Thursday, January 25 (9 pm), Friday 26 and Saturday 27 (4, 6:15 and 9 pm), Sunday 28 (3:30 pm), Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 (4 and 6:15 pm) and Wednesday 31 (4:30 and 9 pm).
Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren star in this film about an octogenarian couple who set out in their dated RV “The Leisure Seeker” to search for a new way of life. John, a retired English teacher, is afflicted with dementia and Ella, although chatty and seemingly healthy, occasionally bends over with pain. Escaping from a future filled with medical treatment and end-of-life decisions, they begin an odyssey down US Route 1 from Boston to Key West and the home of Ernest Hemingway. Their terrified adult children worry as their fragile parents embark on this bittersweet sojourn. A journey filled with surprises, Ella and John summon up their passion for life and their love for each other.
Call Me by Your Name Thursday, February 1 through Sunday, February 4 (4, 6:30 and 9 pm)
This romantic drama directed by Luca Guadagnino tells a tender coming-of-age tale of love between a 17-year-old Italian-American boy and an American doctoral researcher. Set in the boy’s family’s villa in northern Italy in 1983, the romance develops in the sun-drenched splendor of an Italian summer. The boy’s father is a professor of Greco-Roman culture and his mother is a translator who filled his childhood with high culture and intellectual stimulation. Elio Perlman (Timothee Chalamet) at 17 is a talented pianist and well read. Oliver (Armie Hammer) arrives for the summer as the professor’s intern and the two form a sort of friendship of youth while skirting around their mutual attraction to each other. The highly acclaimed film, though filled with lush and sensual scenes, delivers a very subtle story. (rita kungel)