VICTORIA AND ABDUL

Stephen Frears

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• 111 minutes
• 2017

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Friday October 20 - Saturday October 21
• 4pm and 7pm
Sunday October 22
• 1pm and 4pm
Monday October 23 - Thursday October 26
• 4pm and 7pm

HELD OVER! The extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria's (Academy Award winner Judi Dench) remarkable rule. When Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal), a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen's Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favor with the Queen herself. As the Queen questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another that her household and inner circle all attempt to destroy. As the friendship deepens, the Queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes and joyfully reclaims her humanity. Director Stephen Frears (The Queen, Dangerous Liaisons) hasn't just made an historical recreation; he has made a movie containing a message with universal implications for all places and times when racism rears its head. Another royally magnificent performance by Judi Dench.

NOSFERATU (1979)

Werner Herzog

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• 107 minutes
• 1979

Sunday October 22
• 7pm

It is 1850 in the beautiful, perfectly-kept town of Wismar. Jonathan Harker is about to leave on a long journey over the Carpathian Mountains to finalize real estate arrangements with a wealthy nobleman. His wife, Lucy begs him not to go and is troubled by a strong premonition of danger. Despite her warnings, Jonathan arrives four weeks later at a large, gloomy castle. Out of the mist appears a pale, wraith-like figure with a shaven head and deep-sunken eyes who identifies himself as Count Dracula. The events that transpire slowly convince Harker that he is in the presence of a vampyre. What he doesn't know is the magnitude of danger he, his wife and his town are about to experience.

A pinnacle of horror cinema: atmospheric, rhapsodic and -- especially in the slow-burn confrontations between Lucy (Isabelle Adjani) and her otherworldly inamorato -- achingly transcendent. Stunning visuals from Werner Herzog and an intense portrayal of the famed bloodsucker from Klaus Kinski make this remake of Nosferatu a horror classic in its own right.