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The following films are being considered for screenings in the Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas.

Kon-Tiki

Kon-Tiki

PG-13 | 1 hr. 59 min. | in in Norwegian, English, French & Swedish w/English subtitles

Starring Pal Sverre Hagen, Anders Bassmo Christiansen, Gustaf Skarsgard.
Directed by Joachim Ronning, Espen Sandberg.

Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific ocean in a balsa wood raft in 1947, together with five men, to prove that South Americans already back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the sea and settle on Polynesian islands. After gathering financing for the trip with loans and donations, they set off on an epic 101 day-long journey across 8,000 kilometers, all while the world was watching. Kon-Tiki tells about the origin of Heyerdahl's idea and the events surrounding the group's voyage.

Fruitvale Station

Fruitvale Station

UR | 1 hr. 25 min. | in English
Winner – Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award – 2013 Sundance Film Festival

Starring Kevin Durand, Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer
Directed by Ryan Coogler

Oscar Grant (Jordan) is a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: being a better father, boyfriend and son. His resolve takes a tragic turn, however, when BART officers shoot him in cold blood the next day. Oscar's life and tragic death would shake the Bay Area - and the entire nation - to its very core.

Ain't Them Bodies Saints

Ain't Them Bodies Saints

UR | 1 hr. 45 min. | in English
Winner – U.S. Dramatic Cinematography Award – 2013 Sundance Film Festival

Starring Rooney Mara, Ben Foster, Casey Affleck
Directed by David Lowery

Set against the backdrop of 1970's Texas Hill Country, Ain't Them Bodies Saints is a romantic American story that follows three characters on various sides of the law - outlaw Bob Muldoon (Affleck), his wife Ruth Guthrie (Mara), and a local sheriff named Patrick Wheeler (Foster), who gets caught in their crosshairs. The film, which is the second feature from writer-director David Lowery, was developed at the Sundance Institute's Writing and Producing Labs and also stars Nate Parker and Keith Carradine.

Prince Avalanche

Prince Avalanche

UR | 1 hr. 34 min. | in English
Winner – Silver Berlin Bear (Best Director) – 2013 Berlin International Film Festival

Starring Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance LeGault
Directed by David Gordon Green

Driven by striking performances from Rudd and Hirsch, Prince Avalanche is an offbeat comedy about two men painting traffic lines on a desolate country highway that's been ravaged by wildfire. Against this dramatic setting, the men bicker and joke with each other, eventually developing an unlikely friendship.

Blue Jasmine

Blue Jasmine

PG-13 | in English

Starring Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard
Directed by Woody Allen

The latest film from Woody Allen has been kept pretty tightly under wraps – Sony Pictures Classics says it is "the story of the final stages of an acute crisis and a life of a fashionable New York housewife." We do know that it is also set in San Francisco and features acting roles from comedians Andrew Dice Clay and Louis C.K.

Kill Your Darlings

Kill Your Darlings

UR | 1 hr. 35 min. | in English
Nominated – Grand Jury Prize – 2013 Sundance Film Festival

Starring Dane DeHaan, Daniel Radcliffe, Elizabeth Olsen
Directed by John Krokidas

It is 1944 and Allen Ginsberg (Radcliffe) is a young student at Columbia University hopelessly under the spell of his charismatic classmate Lucien Carr (DeHaan). When an older outsider named David Krammerer (Michael C. Hall), also in love with Carr, dies under mysterious circumstances, police arrest him along with his friends Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) and William Burroughs (Ben Foster), paving the way for an investigation that would have a major impact on the lives of the three emerging artists. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kyra Sedgwick and David Cross co-star.

Girl Most Likely

Girl Most Likely

PG-13 | 1hr. 43min. | In English

Starring Kristen Wiig, Matt Dillon, Darren Criss
Directed by Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini

Imogene (Wiig) is a young playwright whose promise has fizzled. Heavily in denial after a breakup, she uses her skill for drama to stage an elaborate fake suicide as an appeal for her ex's sympathy. But her attempt backfires when she's put into the custody of her estranged gambling addict mother Zelda (Annette Bening) and must return to the Jersey Shore. Desperate to get back to her Manhattan circle of so-called friends, Imogene must finally deal with her family, including Zelda's new boyfriend The Bousche (Dillon) and a cute young lodger (Criss),who together help Imogene sort out her place in the world.

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