Five Academy Awards for The Artist including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor! Come enjoy The Artist the way it was meant to be seen; in a 1920's silent movie house with a pre-show concert on the Mighty Wurlitzer.
Hollywood 1927. George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit - major movie stardom awaits. The Artist tells the story of their interlinked destinies.
Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including best picture.
Bring you children or grand-children so they can experience what it was like to see a movie back when the film industry was in it's infancy.
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, James Cromwell, John Goodman, Penelpoe Ann Miller
Reviews:
97% on the Tomatometer
'A crowd-pleasing tribute to the magic of silent cinema, The Artist is a clever, joyous film with delightful performances and visual style to spare.'
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Reviewed by: Mike ScottJan
'If nothing else, this is a cinematic high-wire act.'
USA Today
Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
'Drama, comedy, action and romance are intertwined in this gorgeously photographed and brilliantly directed film. Lead performances are thoroughly engaging despite - or perhaps because of - being wordless.'
Philadelphia Inquirer
Reviewed by: Steven Rea
'Strangely, wonderfully, The Artist feels as bold and innovative a moviegoing experience as James Cameron's bells-and-whistles Avatar did a couple of years ago. Retro becomes nuevo. Quaint becomes cool.'
Boston Globe
Reviewed by: Ty Burr
'Michael Hazanavicius's love letter to classic cinema isn't perfect but it's close enough to make just about anyone who sees it ridiculously happy - and that includes children and grown-ups who have never come across a silent film.'
Tampa Bay Times
Reviewed by: Steve Persall
'Hazanavicius crafted more than a replica of the silent era; this feels like a time capsule found 80 years later, right on time to be revolutionary in a louder world. Yet The Artist is a masterwork that likely won't be imitated. How many movies in 2011 can you say that about? Only the best one.'
Arizona Republic
Reviewed by: Bill Goodykoontz
'The Artist is such an engaging, delightful film that, if you like movies, you will walk out of the theater with a smile. You just will; it's that inspired.'
Chicago Sun-Times
Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
'Here is one of the most entertaining films in many a moon, a film that charms because of its story, its performances and because of the sly way it plays with being silent and black and white.'
San Francisco Chronicle
Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
'In many ways - in all ways - The Artist is a profound achievement.'
Movieline
Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
'It's a picture that romances its audience into watching in a new way - by, paradoxically, asking us to watch in an old way. The Artist is perhaps the most modern movie imaginable right now.'
The New York Times
Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
'This is not a work of film history but rather a generous, touching and slightly daffy expression of unbridled movie love.'
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Reviewed by: Liam Lacey
'With elements of "A Star Is Born" and "Singing in the Rain," The Artist is a rarity, an ingenious crowd-pleaser.'
NPR
Reviewed by: Bob Mondello
'The delighted gasps in the theater will make you glad you took a chance on The Artist. Silent black-and-white movies are not coming back, but this one is such a rewarding labor of love by all of the artists involved that it just might make you wish they could.'
New York Observer
Reviewed by: Rex Reed
'Get ready for a smash hit. Gimmicky but delicious, this is a valentine to the movies I promise you will cherish.'
Boxoffice Magazine
Reviewed by: Pete Hammond
'The film's charm and delight of discovery, plus its sterling international performances, could make it a breakout hit in theaters.'
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General: $9.00
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Members: $7.00
Children 12 and under: $6.00
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General: $7.00
Members: $5:00
Children 12 and under: $4.00
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