GOGGLEWORKS HOURS JOIN OUR MAILING LIST | info@goggleworks.org BECOME A MEMBER DONATE REGISTER FOR A CLASS |  The FILM THEATRE at the GoggleWorks features a 135-seat theatre, state-of-the-art equipment, including Dolby surround sound, and a concession area in the main lobby. Enjoy the pleasures of the cinema in an ambience free from commonplace distractions. Let the GoggleWorks become your "special" movie house... Theatre Ticket Pricing Adults: $8.00 Seniors: $6.00 Students: $5.00 Matinees: $6.00 NOW PLAYING - The Last Station Set in the last tumultuous years of famed Russian author Leo Tolstoy´s life, centers on the battle for his soul waged by his wife Sofya Andreyevna and his leading disciple Vladimir Cherkov. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealth, his thirteen children and a life of hedonism, Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight from his home. Too ill to continue beyond the tiny rail station at Astapovo, he believes that he is dying alone, while over one hundred newspapermen camp outside awaiting hourly reports on his condition.
Directed by: Michael Hoffman
Shows daily at 3:00 & 7:00  (Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte) In a village in Protestant northern Germany on the eve of World War I children and teenagers of a choir run by the village schoolteacher, and their families – experience strange accidents that gradually take on the character of a punishment ritual. Who is behind it all? Don´t let anyone tell you too much about this spellbinder from Austrian writer-director Michael Haneke (Caché). Shot in stunning black-and-white by the gifted Christian Berger, The White Ribbon is a toxic blossom of images that burn into your memory. In pre-World War I Germany, a farm village is beset by accidents that may not be accidents. The Baron (Ulrich Tukur) dominates the village economy, just as the Pastor (Burghart Klaussner) holds brutal sway over the morality of the villagers and their families. It´s on the faces of the children that Haneke tells his story of corruption and the grip of fascism. This haunting film never pushes itself on you. It trusts you to suss out the horror that lies beneath the veneer of innocence. You´ll be knocked for a loop. Starring: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Tukur, Burghart Klaussner, Josef Bierbichler, Ursina Lardi Language: German | Italian | Polish | Latin w/sub-titles Running Time: 2 hrs. 24 min. MPAA Rating: R for some disturbing content involving violence and sexuality. Shows at 3:00 & 7:00 Daily A PROPHET (Un Prophete) Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena, part Arab, part Corsican, cannot read or write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican gang currently ruling the prison, he is given a number of "missions" to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the gang leader´s confidence in the process. Malik is a fast learner and rises up the prison ranks, all the while secretly devising his own plans. Starring: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup,Hichem Yacoubi Running Time: 2 hrs. 29 min. MPAA Rating: R for strong violence, sexual content, nudity, language and drug material. Language:French | Arabic | Corsican 
Benjamin Esposito has spent his entire working life as a criminal court employee. Recently retired and with time on his hands, he decides to write a novel. He does not decide to make up a story. There is no need to. He can draw on his own past as a civil servant for a true, moving and tragic story in which he was once very directly involved. In 1974, his court was assigned an investigation into the rape and murder of a beautiful young woman. At the scene of the crime, Esposito sees the result of the young woman´s rape and murder first hand. He meets Ricardo Morales, who had married the girl a short time before and worshipped her body and soul. Moved by Ricardo´s grief, Esposito tries to help him find the culprit despite having to contend with the apathy and ineptitude of the police and legal system. He knows that for help the can count on Sandoval, an underling at the office yet a close friend, who occasionally seeks release from the routine of his existence by drinking himself unconscious. He can also turn to Irene, his immediate superior and secretary of the court, with whom he is secretly deeply in love, although there is no hope that she will ever love him. The search for the murderer is anything but simple. No clues remain at the scene of the crime and Esposito must rely on guesswork and his own instincts to make any progress. Furthermore, Argentina in 1974 is not a peaceful place. It is a perfect backdrop for the violence, hate, revenge and death that rule people´s lives and fates. To this ever more hostile and dark setting, Esposito´s investigation takes him deep into a world of terrible violence. No longer an observer, he becomes an unwilling central character in a drama in which he is exposed to ever-greater danger. But it is not only the young Esposito of 1974 who is swept along by the storm of events, for that storm also envelops the present-day Esposito, the old would-be writer, and sets him adrift. By deciding to revive and relive his memories, he has set in motion the wheels of the terrible mechanism of memory. And those memories are neither innocent, neutral nor aseptic. Esposito writes, and as he does so, relives a past that rises up before his eyes and awakens all his demons; particularly those involving his past decisions, uncertainties and irreparable mistakes. As he moves forward, Esposito begins to see that it is now too late to stop. Telling a story from the past is no longer just a pastime to fill his empty hours. It becomes a narrow, winding path he must take if he is to understand and find justification for his own life, if he is to give any meaning to the years remaining to him, and if once and for all he is to face up to the woman who, thirty years on, he is still in love with.
MPAA: Rated R for a rape scene, violent images, some graphic nudity and language. Spanish w/sub titles |
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