Friday, December 22 @ 5pm
Paepcke Auditorium
(2 hr 4 min)
Free admission for veterans

In 2003, 30 years after they served together in the Vietnam War, former Navy Corps medic Larry “Doc” Shepherd (Steve Carell) re-unites with former Marines Sal (Bryan Cranston) and Richard Mueller (Laurence Fishburne) on a different type of mission: to bury Doc’s son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War. Doc decides to forgo a burial at Arlington Cemetery and, with the help of his old buddies, takes the casket on a bittersweet trip up the East Coast to his home in suburban New Hampshire. Along the way, Doc, Sal and Mueller reminisce and come to terms with shared memories of the war that continues to shape their lives. Director Richard Linklater and author Darryl Ponicsan collaborated on the screenplay which follows the trio as they wrestle with the pangs of war both past and present. Winner of Best Narrative Feature from the Virginia Film Festival.

Director: Richard Linklater                                                                                             

Film courtesy of Amazon Studios

For your consideration: Best Performance

Community Partner: Jesse Beckius/Casey Owens Veterans Resource Center, Glenwood Springs, CO

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Saturday, December 23 @ 5pm
Paepcke Auditorium
(2 hr 1 min)

In the audacious documentary ICARUS, director Bryan Fogel’s bold gambit was this: to investigate doping in sports, Fogel (an amateur bike racer) would dope himself, observe the changes in his performance, and see if he could evade detection. In doing so, he was connected to a renegade Russian scientist, Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, a pillar of his country’s “anti-doping” program. Over dozens of Skype calls, urine samples, and badly administered hormone injections, Fogel and Rodchenkov grow closer despite shocking allegations that place Rodchenkov at the center of Russia’s state-sponsored Olympic doping program. When the truth is more complex than imagined, and accusations of illegalities run to Russia’s highest chains of command, the two realize they hold the power to reveal the biggest international sports scandal in living memory. Exemplifying the special bond between filmmaker and subject, this is a vital portrait of the sacrifice some people will make to stand up for truth. ICARUS places you at the heart of an international game of cat and mouse, where a miscalculation can cost you your life. Winner of both the Audience Award and Special Jury Prize in Documentary, 2017 Sundance Film Festival, among others.

Director: Bryan Fogel

Film courtesy of Netflix

For your consideration: Best Documentary Feature

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Wednesday, December 27 @ 5pm
Wheeler Opera House
(1 hr 56 min)

In director Todd Haynes’ WONDERSTRUCK, Ben and Rose are children from two different eras who secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known, while Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his home and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out on quests that unfold with mesmerizing symmetry. Selected for prestigious 2017 Cannes Competition, and awarded Best Director by the International Cinephile Society.  

Director: Todd Haynes

Film courtesy of Amazon Studios

For your consideration: Best Performance, Best Production Design

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Wednesday, December 27 @ 8pm
Wheeler Opera House
(2 hr 14 min)

Set in the post-WWII South, MUDBOUND is an epic story of two families pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad. The film is about friendship, unacknowledged heritage and the unending struggle for and against the land. Newly transplanted from the quiet civility of Memphis, the McAllan family is underprepared and overly hopeful for Henry’s (Jason Clarke) grandiose farming dreams. Laura (Carey Mulligan) struggles to keep the faith in her husband’s losing venture, meanwhile, for Hap (Rob Morgan) and Florence Jackson (Mary J. Blige), whose families have worked the land for generations, every day is a losing venture as they struggle bravely to build some small dream of their own. The war upends both families’ plans as their returning loved ones, Jamie (Garrett Hedlund) and Ronsel (Jason Mitchell) forge a fast, uneasy friendship that challenges them all. Winner of numerous festival prizes for performance and direction, in addition to Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Performance.

Director: Dee Rees

Film courtesy of Netflix

Community Partner: Explore Booksellers

For your consideration: Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Picture

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