Local Events

June 18th, 2010 – June 21st, 2010

Location: The State Theatre

Time: 4PM – 9:30PM

Fri, June 18 @ 7 & 9:30pm
Sat, June 19 @ 4, 7 & 9:30pm
Sun, June 20 @ 4 & 7pm
Mon, June 21 @ 7 & 9:30pm

Cost: $8*, $6* Students and Seniors

Directed by Don Argott

Official Selection – Toronto International Film Festival 2009, New York Film Festival 2009, AFI Film Festival 2009

An un-missable look at one of the art world’s most fascinating controversies and a celebrated selection of the Toronto, New York and AFI Film Festivals, Don Argott’s gripping documentary THE ART OF THE STEAL chronicles the long and dramatic struggle for control of the Barnes Foundation, a private collection of art valued at more than $25 billion.

In 1922, Dr. Albert C. Barnes formed a remarkable educational institution around his priceless collection of art, located just five miles outside of Philadelphia. Now, more than 50 years after Barnes’ death, a powerful group of moneyed interests have gone to court for control of the art, and intend to bring it to a new museum in Philadelphia. Standing in their way is a group of Barnes’ former students and his will, which contains strict instructions stating the Foundation should always be an educational institution, and that the paintings may never be removed. Will they succeed, or will a man’s will be broken and one of America’s greatest cultural monuments be destroyed?

Country of Origin: US
Language: English

Tagged as: State College, The State Theatre

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June 13th, 2010 – June 17th, 2010

Location: The State Theatre

Time: 4PM – 9:30PM

Sun, June 13 @ 4 & 7pm
Mon, June 14 @ 7 & 9:30pm
Tue, June 15 @ 7 & 9:30pm
Wed, June 16 @ 4, 7 & 9:30pm
Thu, June 17 @ 7 & 9:30pm

Cost: $8*, $6* Students and Seniors

Directed by Noah Baumbach

In Greenberg, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter/director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) brings us the funny, touching and poignant story of two souls adrift in Los Angeles, trying to forge a connection.

Florence Marr (Greta Gerwig), an aspiring singer, is struggling to find her place in the world. She works as a personal assistant to the Greenberg family, beginning and ending each day tending to other people’s needs. In sharp contrast to the Greenbergs’ bustling life in their elegant Hollywood Hills home, Florence lives alone in a tiny studio apartment and sings at open-mike nights.

When Phillip Greenberg (Chris Messina) takes his wife and children on an extended trip abroad, Florence is suddenly left more to her own devices. She makes the occasional visit to their home to check up on the family’s dog Mahler, and look in on Phillip’s brother Roger (Ben Stiller), who has come to L.A. to housesit.

Single and fortyish, Greenberg is intelligent, witty, sharp-tongued – and, like Florence, something of a lost soul; he is at a crossroads in his life. He has been working as a carpenter in New York after an early career as a musician in L.A. petered out. Greenberg claims to be “doing nothing” and his most tangible projects include drafting letters of complaint and building a doghouse for Mahler. Roger tries to reconnect with friend and former band mate Ivan (Rhys Ifans) and old flame Beth (Jennifer Jason Leigh), but they’ve moved on with their lives while Greenberg has been stuck treading water. In trying to restart his life, Greenberg finds that times have changed and old friends aren’t necessarily still best friends.

After years of living in New York City, Greenberg doesn’t drive and finds himself stranded at his brother’s house. His vulnerability immediately endears him to Florence, who helps him navigate Los Angeles and take care of Mahler. What begins as a courtesy to her employer develops into a charmingly eccentric and unexpectedly significant connection. As Greenberg discovers there is only so much “nothing” you can do, the awkward beauty of what he builds with Florence starts to look more and more like a reason to be happy.

Country of Origin: US
Language: English

Tagged as: State College, The State Theatre

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June 28th, 2010 – June 30th, 2010

Location: The State Theatre

Time: 4PM – 9:30PM

Mon, June 28 @ 7 & 9:30pm
Tue, June 29 @ 7 & 9:30pm
Wed, June 30 @ 4, 7 & 9:30pm

Cost: $8*, $6* Students and Seniors

Directed by Tomm Moore

Nominated for 2009 Oscar, Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

Do not miss the highly anticipated new animated masterpiece from the producers of Kirikou and the Sorceress and Triplets of Belleville! Magic, fantasy and Celtic mythology come together in a riot of color and detail that dazzle the eyes in this sweeping story about the power of imagination and faith to carry humanity through dark times. Features the voices of Brendan Gleeson (Harry Potter, In Bruges), Mick Lally, Evan McGuire and Christen Mooney.

Young Brendan lives in a remote medieval outpost under siege from barbarian raids. But a new life of adventure beckons when a celebrated master illuminator arrives from foreign lands carrying an ancient but unfinished book, brimming with secret wisdom and powers. To help complete the magical book, Brendan has to overcome his deepest fears on a dangerous quest that takes him into the enchanted forest where mythical creatures hide. It is here that he meets the fairy Aisling, a mysterious young wolf-girl, who helps him along the way. But with the barbarians closing in, will Brendan’s determination and artistic vision illuminate the darkness and show that enlightenment is the best fortification against evil?

Country of Origin: France, Belgium, Ireland
Language: English

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June 5th, 2010 – June 7th, 2010

Location: The State Theatre

Time: 7PM

Saturday, June 5 at 7pm – Free ’09 -’10 (Member’s-Only Showing)
Monday, June 7 at 7pm

Tickets: $5*

Member’s-Only June 5 at 7pm: As a current member of The State Theatre you are invited to a FREE ’09 – ’10 Members Only showing of The Godfather and FREE popcorn on Saturday June 5 at 7PM. To guarantee a seat, please contact the box office at 272-0606 for your 2 film tickets.  We hope to “make you an offer you can’t refuse” as that evening will be an opportunity for you to renew your membership.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Starring Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, James Caan, Robert Duvall and Diane Keaton

Won three Oscars for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Marlon Brando), Best Picture (Albert S. Ruddy) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola

Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga The Godfather is a touchstone of cinema: one of the most widely imitated, quoted and lampooned movies of all time. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino star as Vito Corleone and his youngest son, Michael, respectively. It is the late 1940s in New York and Corleone is, in the parlance of organized crime, a “godfather” or “don,” the head of a Mafia family. Michael, a free thinker who defied his father by enlisting in the Marines to fight in World War II, has returned a captain and a war hero. Having long ago rejected the family business, Michael shows up at the wedding of his sister, Connie, with his non-Italian girlfriend, Kay, who learns for the first time about the family “business.”

Country of origin: USA
Language: English

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June 1st, 2010 – June 3rd, 2010

Location: The State Theatre

Time: 4Pm – 9:30PM

Tue, June 1 @ 7 & 9:30pm
Wed, June 2 @ 4, 7 & 9:30pm
Thu, June 3 @ 7 & 9:30pm

Cost: $8*, $6* Students and Seniors

Directed by Marco Bellocchio

A cinematic tour-de-force, Vincere is Italian master Marco Bellocchio’s (Fists In the Pocket) portrait of Benito Mussolini, and the fiery woman who was his secret wife and the mother of his abandoned child. The film was a standout selection of the 2009 Cannes, Telluride, Toronto, New York, AFI film festivals, and received awards for Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Actor at the Chicago IFF.

In Vincere, the closely guarded story of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s secret lover and son is revealed in fittingly operatic proportions. Thunderstruck by the young Mussolini’s charisma, Ida Dalser gives up everything to help champion his revolutionary ideas. When he disappears during World War I and later resurfaces with a new wife, the scorned Dalser and her son are locked away in separate asylums for more than a decade. But Ida will not disappear without a fight…

Country of Origin: Italy

Language: Italian/German with English subtitles

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