Week of July 1

City of Men
In this long-awaited follow-up to his Academy Award®-nominated film CITY OF GOD, producer Fernando Meirelles returns to the Brazilian favelas to tell an inspiring tale of friendship and family on the gritty streets of Rio de Janiero. Growing up in a culture dictated by violence and run by street gangs, teenagers Acerola (Douglas Silva) and Laranjinha (Darlan Cunha) have become close as brothers. With their eighteenth birthdays fast approaching, Laranjinha sets out to find the father he never met, while Acerola struggles to raise his own young son. But when they suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of a gang war, the lifelong friends are forced to confront a shocking secret from their shard past.

The Closer: The Complete Third Season
The biggest cases demand the best cops. So when a little girl goes missing, or a Homeland Security official takes a long drive off a short cliff, or a 90s serial killer revives his career in the 21st century, the LAPD knows to call Brenda Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick) and her crack team from the Priority Homicide Division.

Drillbit Taylor
Ryan (Troy Gentile), Wade (Nate Hartley) and Emmit (David Dorfman) attend their first day at high school and they’re pumped... until they meet up with Filkins (Alex Frost), a school bully who comes off like a little Hannibal Lecter. Before they become completely engulfed in Filkins’ reign of terror, they seek out some protection by placing an ad in "Soldier of Fortune" magazine. Their best — and cheapest — response, comes from Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), a down-on-his luck soldier of fortune who lives a homeless — he likes to say “home-free” — existence on the beach. Drillbit takes this bumbling band of misfits under his wing and, with his zany and oddball training methods, leads them as they turn the tables on their attackers, and take back their school!

GET SMART's Bruce and Lloyd: Out of CONTROL [Davis Sq. only]
Get extra spy-spoof hilarity when GET SMART's bungling inventors Bruce (Masi Oka) and Lloyd (Nate Torrence) stumble into their own comedy adventure in a zany story paralleling GET SMART (and including surprise star cameos from the 2008 movie). The R&D smarties are out of the lab and way out of their comfort zones as they scramble to find a nifty new invention they've somehow lost — an invisibility cloak — before KAOS does. Of course, the whole invisibility thing really complicates matters. And learning on the fly how to be a spy is a big-time challenge for our heroes.

Mad Men: Season One
Set in 1960 New York City, MAD MEN explores the glamorous and ego-driven "Golden Age" of advertising, where everyone is selling something and nothing is ever what it seems. And no one plays the game better than Don Draper (Golden Globe® winner Jon Hamm), Madison Avenue's biggest ad man — and ladies' man — in the business.

Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns
With nothing to lose, Brenda and her three children travel from Chicago to small-town Georgia to meet a previously unknown side of the family. NOTHING can prepare them for the fun-loving, crass Brown clan. Angela Basset and Rick Fox star in this romantic comedy from Tyler Perry about the power of love and family.

Vantage Point
During an historic counter-terrorism summit in Spain, the President of the United States (William Hurt) is struck down by an assassin's bullet. Eight strangers have a perfect view of the kill, but what did they really see? As the minutes leading up to the fatal shot are replayed through the eyes of each eyewitness, the reality of the assassination takes shape. But just when you think you know the answer, the shattering final truth is revealed.

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Aria [n/a Davis Sq.]
Ten great directors, one unforgettable film. Imagine that ten of the world's most well-known, highly regarded filmmakers were given a free hand to make real any vision. ARIA is that history-making film. Sexy, violent, thought-provoking and funny, here is the movie critics raved about, audiences flocked to see, and no one could stop talking about. Includes Bridget Fonda's electrifyingly erotic film debut and a revealing, breathtaking performance by supermodel Elizabeth Hurley. Segments directed by Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, Bill Bryden, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Charles Sturridge, Julien Temple.

Heaven
Pull up a cloud and take a ride through HEAVEN. Created and directed by the multi-talented Diane Keaton, HEAVEN takes a wonderfully lighthearted look a the Great Beyond. Keaton intersperses outrageous interviews with extraordinary film footage from such European and American film classics as METROPOLIS, GREEN PASTURES and STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN. It is truly the ultimate coming attraction!

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Criterion)
Paul Schrader's visually stunning, collagelike portrait of acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (played by Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted an impossible harmony between self, art, and society. Taking place on Mishima's last day, when he famously committed public seppuku, the film is punctuated by extended flashbacks to the writer's life as well as by gloriously stylized evocations of his fictional works. With its rich cinematography by John Bailey, exquisite sets and costumes by Eiko Ishioka, and unforgettable, highly influential score by Philip Glass, MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS is a tribute to its subject and a bold, investigative work of art in its own right.

Patriotism (Criterion)
Playwright and novelist Yukio Mishima foreshadowed his own violent suicide with this ravishing short feature, his only foray into filmmaking, yet made with the expressiveness and confidence of a true cinema artist. All prints of PATRIOTISM (Yûkoku), which depicts the seppuku of a army officer, were destroyed after Mishima's death in 1970, though the negative was saved, and the film resurfaced thirty-five years later. New viewers will be stunned at the depth and clarity of Mishima's vision, as well as his graphic depictions of sex and death. The film is presented here with a choice of Japanese or English intertitles.