STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING (2007; PG-13)
Tues Feb 26, Thurs Feb 28, Sat Mar 1- 7:30PM; Sun Mar 2- 1, 3:10PM.
Frank Langella has earned some of the best notices of his career as an aging novelist struggling to recapture his creative fire, while baffled and bemused by the sudden appearance of a forward young graduate student who’s chosen him as the subject of her master’s thesis - and perhaps more. “Refreshingly subtle…. It’s not what you expect, and it’s not something you’ve seen before” –Newsweek. 111 min.

JOURNEY FROM THE FALL (2007; R)
Tues Mar 4, Thurs Mar 6, Sat Mar 8- 7:30PM; Sun Mar 9- 1, 3:40PM.
When Saigon falls in 1975, a South Vietnamese family endures hell and high water to reach freedom in California. “Sweeping camerawork, gorgeous yet forbidding natural vistas, and enough shocking tragedies, brazen escapes and crowd-pleasing acts of defiance to feed several action-adventure pictures” –NY Times. 135 min. English and subtitles.

BLAME IT ON FIDEL (France 2007; NR)
Tues Mar 11, Thurs Mar 13, Sat Mar 15 - 7:30PM; Sun Mar 16 - 1, 3PM.
Young Nina Kervel delivers a remarkably mature and knowing performance as the curious 9-year-old daughter of leftist activists in Paris in 1970, obliged to sort out many questions of life and politics on her own while her parents commit all their energies to the cause of Salvador Allende. “A wrenching, funny
and wise little picture, with a diva-like junior star at its center” –Salon.com. 99 min. Subtitles.

NANKING (2007; R)
Tues Mar 18, Thurs Mar 20 - 7:30PM; Sat Mar 22- 9PM; Sun Mar 23- 1, 2:50PM.
A distinguished cast including Woody Harrelson and Mariel Hemingway gives voice to the journals of westerners acting bravely to save as many helpless lives as they could, when they were caught amid the chaos of Japan’s attack on one of China’s great cities in 1937. “Crafts an impossible-but-true hymn to the
power of the individual conscience” –Salon.com. 88 min. English & subtitles.

PERSEPOLIS (France 2007; PG-13)
Tues Apr 1, Thurs Apr 3, Sat Apr 5- 7:30PM; Sun Apr 6- 1, 2:55PM.
Marjane Satrapi teams with co-director Vincent Paronnaud to animate her rueful memoir of a free-thinking adolescent coming of age during the Khomeini Revolution in Iran. “Not to be missed… in a year that has given us such marvelous animated movies as Ratatouille and Paprika, this vibrant, sly and moving personal odyssey takes pride of place” –Newsweek. Academy Award Nominee, Best Animated Film of 2007. 95 min. Subtitles.

4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (Romania 2007; NR)
Tues Apr 8, Thurs Apr 10, Sat Apr 12- 7:30PM; Sun Apr 13- 9PM.
Amid the wreckage of Nicolae Ceausescu’s corrupt and crumbling Romanian Communist dictatorship in 1987, two college roommates go through a tensely illicit scheme to obtain an illegal abortion for one of them. Cristian Mungiu’s Cannes Festival Grand Prize Winner has earned overwhelming critical acclaim. “No lover of greatness in filmmaking will want to look away from one of the very best movies of 2007″ –Entertainment Weekly. 113 min. Subtitles.

OUTSOURCED (2007; PG-13)
Tues Apr 15, Thurs Apr 17, Sat Apr 19- 7:30PM; Sun Apr 20- 1, 3PM.
A young Seattle executive (Josh Hamilton) caught in a corporate downsizing gets both a cultural and a romantic education when he must supervise the transfer of the customer service department to India. John Jeffcoat’s clever satire of globalism triumphant is “a sweetly acted and neatly executed social comedy” –Boston Globe. 103 min.

ARRANGED (2007; NR)
Tues Apr 22, Thurs Apr 24, Sat Apr 26 - 7:30PM; Sun Apr 29 - 1, 2:50PM.
Despite the fact that they come from antagonistic cultures, young Brooklyn schoolteachers Rochel and Nasira are friends with a lot in common - chiefly a parental mandate to find a husband without further ado! “A lovely little gem of a film, beautifully shot and perfectly cast… I can’t remember the last time
I screened a similarly low-budget film that pulled all the pieces together so well” –Filmcritic.com. 89 min.

CARAMEL (Lebanon 2007; PG)
Tues Apr 29, Thurs May 1, Sat May 3 - 7:30PM; Sun May 4 - 1, 2:55PM.
Likeable characters, universal situations, and an invitingly luxuriant atmosphere spark this highly enjoyable ensemble comedy about the regulars at a Beirut beauty salon. “The penetrating musical score, the snappy and confident pacing, and the emergence of [director Nadine] Labaki as an international talent to watch all combine to make the film a satisfying confection” –Premiere. 95 min. Subtitles.

STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME (2007; NR)
Tues May 6, Thurs May 8, Sat May 10 - 7:30PM; Sun May 11 - 1, 2:50PM.
When a Dutch Jewish married couple and the husband’s girlfriend are all deported to the dreaded Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1943, an ordinary romantic triangle continues under the most extraordinary and forbidding circumstances any love story could imagine. “If Michele Ohayon’s absorbing documentary didn’t provide the proof, you’d never believe the story she tells” –NY Daily News. 94 min. English & subtitles.

DIRECTIONS TO CINEMA 320 (950 Main St., Worcester):
Take Route 290 to the Route 9/Framingham-Ware exit in downtown Worcester. Turn left off exit ramp if coming from the south, turn right off ramp if coming from the north. Follow the signs for Route 9 West (Highland Street) through Lincoln Square. Stay on Highland about a mile. Turn left onto Park Avenue at Elm Park. Proceed about 1.2 miles up Park Avenue to Downing Street (Peppercorn’s
Restaurant). Turn left onto Downing. Go through one stop sign. Cinema 320 parking permitted in Clark Downing Street lot on left. Cinema 320 is in the building directly across Downing Street. Use main campus entrance in middle of building and follow theater signs.

Cinema 320 is located on the third floor of the Jefferson Academic Center, at the corner of Main and Downing streets. The auditorium is elevator-accessible via the Geography Library entrance on Main Street, until 5 minutes before showtime.