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Best picture and actress nominees this week at CinemaSalem. Ocscar nominations out this morning!

Starting Friday at CinemaSalem: The Descendants and My Week with Marilyn and back for a second week, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. That’s two Best Picture nominees and a nominee for Best Actress (also Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay, but who’s counting?)  And coming soon? The Artist

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Dates set for Salem Film Fest award winners to return for a week in the screening room.

If you missed Salem Film Fest 2011, we have a few treats in store. We customarily bring back the Jury Award Winner and Audience Award winner for one week bookings in the screening room, and the dates for this year’s winners are set. We’ll be starting with Kinshasa Symphony, which won the Jury Prize, and…

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Local actor appearing in new genre film “Rubber”

The Boston Herald posted this article about one of our own, Salem/Swampscott native Blake Robbins and his role in the upcoming film Rubber. Rubber is the story of a telepathic killer tire. If that doesn’t sound like your cup of tea, these reviews may sway your opinion. Rubber opens in the CinemaSalem screening…

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Kereth’s take on the Oscar nominated short films

Head over to Art Throb for brief reviews of each short and my picks to win.

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Poetry Coming To The Screening Room


Chang-dong Lee’s new drama, Poetry, is coming to the Screening Room for the week of March 11. It focuses on an older woman diagnosed with Alzheimer’s who decides to start learning poetry. It looks simultaneously beautiful and heartbreaking, which means I’m sure I’ll love it. Check out the trailer below.
 
 

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Mamachas of the Ring–Best of Salem Film Fest part 2, starting Feb 11th in the screening room.

As a member of the Salem Film Fest selection committee, I get to see all the films we show at the Salem Film Fest every year. One of my favorites from last year was Betty Park’s Bolivian wrestling doc, Mamachas of the Ring. The film focuses on four female wrestlers, but in particular on Carmen…

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Little Fockers opens 12/22, Gulliver’s Travels 12/25

Hey everyone! Take in a film or two during the holiday break this year at CinemaSalem. We’re bringing in Little Fockers, the third installment in the wildly popular and hilarious film franchise starring Ben Stiller, Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, and Barbara Streisand. For the young and young at heart, we’ll have Gulliver’s Travels starring Jack…

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Waiting for “Superman” comes to CinemaSalem Nov 12-18

In Waiting for “Superman,” writer/director Davis Guggenheim puts forward the charter school as the solution to our nation’s education crisis. Are we buying it? Come take a look and see. K-12 educators, show your faculty ID and receive a discount at the door.

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Spanish horror sequel [REC] 2 lands in the screening room this week.

The horror flick [REC] 2 starts in the screening room on Friday, October 15. Picking up right where the first film left off, [REC] 2 is sure to help quench your Halloween horror cravings! Unfamiliar with the franchise? Well, as you probably know, we here at CinemaSalem use the screening room to bring you a…

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Peter’s take on The Killer Inside Me, opening Sept. 17

The Killer Inside Me, directed by Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, A Mighty Heart) is an examination of one man’s descent into becoming a psychotic killer. Adapted from the novel written by Jim Thompson, Casey Affleck plays Lou Ford, a small town west Texas sheriff with a dark secret. Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson,…

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