July 11–14, 23–26
THE LONE RANGER
Disney, Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp are reunited post-Pirates in this reshaping of the stories of the legendary masked hero. Sidekick Tonto tells the untold tales of John Reid’s fight for justice as the two unite against greed and corruption. A roller-coaster ride with as many ups as downs, but always entertaining.
July 15–18
TO THE WONDER
Legendary Terrence Malick boldly and lyrically explores the physical and spiritual complexities of love in all its forms. Marina and Neil fall madly in love in France and relocate to Oklahoma with Marina’s young daughter to start a life together, but things work out differently. ‘There will be many who find To the Wonder elusive and too effervescent … (Roger Ebert). ‘A film that seems drained of life and ideas rather than sustained by them’ (Hollywood Reporter).
July 19–22
NOW YOU SEE ME
… now you don’t. An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track, often frustratingly, a team of philanthropic illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money. Fantasy fiction in the real world. ‘The film itself is sly and smug in kind, fleetingly enjoyable for all of its old-school showmanship and high-tech hokiness’ (film.com). ‘I left this movie feeling I’d been had. And not in a good way’ (Rolling Stone).
June 23, 9pm
BLUE VELVET
Sensual and sinister, David Lynch’s Blue Velvet follows the investigations of college student Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) into the origins of a severed ear he finds in a field, investigations which will lead him deep into the seedy underworld of his hometown. Blue Velvet is ‘the only one of Lynch’s works to marry his nightmarish concerns to a story that (very nearly) makes sense, and the result is a movie that brought the clammy terrors of this avant-garde film maker kicking and screaming into the mainstream’ (BBC Movies).
Odeon
piazza Strozzi 2, tel. 055/295051
