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Summer 2010 NOW@The Music Hall

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WISH YOU WERE HERE!

...having a drink in the Founders Lobby Lounge and looking so cool as we hang out before The Big Lebowski – love that SummerFilm Cult Classics series!

...getting a preview of SummerFilm at the Members-Only Trailer Party June 3rd!

...catching the latest from the London stage on our screen –London Assurance looks hysterical – Fiona Shaw is legendary!

...sitting on the decks downtown, watching our working harbor from “the best seat in Portsmouth” and then grooving to the vibe of the legendary Herbie Hancock!

...chilling out and sipping a cocktail to DJ Mike Marchand in the Founders Lobby at Summer Underground on June 18.

...with the family for Kids RULE! movies each month – the documentary on Babies looks so intriguing.

The Red Riding Trilogy
Blue Velvet
The Kids Are All Right

Friday, June 4, 2010 • 8pm • Tickets: $29, $25

The guitarist and harmony singer will be joined by longtime musical partner bluegrass singer/songwriter Gillian Welch, and members of Old Crow Medicine Show.

“songcraft as soul-baringly timeless as Twenties Delta blues” – R olling S tone

SPONSORS: Clear Eye Photo

OZOMATLI

Saturday, July 10, 2010 • 8pm

Tickets: $34, $28

Double Grammy Award-winning LA rock/ hip-hop/Latin band returns!

“brass-infused Latin dance party” – B ill B o ARD

SPONSOR: Clear Eye Photo

Tickets: $90, $75

HERBIE HANCOCK

Wednesday June 16, 2010 • 7:30pm

Blending funk, jazz, and pure musical genius! Come see the legendary musical icon in his Music Hall debut!

“brilliant” – Rolling Stone

SPONSORS: Barbara Henry, Hampton, NH; Olde Port Properties; Seaport Fish; Clear Eye Photo

Sunday, July 11, 2010

7:30pm • Tickets: $57, $45

Opening Act: Jamie McLean

The soul/folk/rock/pop diva.

“a cult favorite” – Rolling Stone

SPONSORS: Carpe Diem Coffee Roasting Company; Olde Port Properties; Robert’s Maine Grill; Smuttynose Brewing Company; Clear Eye Photo

England!

The best concert experience in New

Friday, July 23, 2010 • 8pm Tickets: $64, $48

The Queen of Folk Music!

“she is needed as much as ever” – ne W Yo RK ti M e S

SPONSORS: Barbara Henry Hampton, NH; Lamprey Brothers; Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC; Clear Eye Photo

On sale to the public Saturday, July 10 at noon. Become a member and buy

Wednesday June 30, 2010 • 7:30pm

Tickets: $39, $28

Led by the legendary Buena Vista Social Club member Juan de Marcos González, the All Stars create a night of Cuban music and dancing!

SPONSORS: Bottomline Technologies, Inc.; Clear Eye Photo

An Evening with JOAN BAEZ Jonny Lang

Thursday, August 12, 2010 • 8pm

Tickets: $62, $49

Opening Act: Sharon Little

Grammy Award winner with the voice of an ancient bluesman.

“moves the music into the next millennium” – Lu TH er A LL i SO n

SPONSOR: The Oar House; Clear Eye Photo; Squamscott Press Air conditioned. Rain or shine. Mosquito free!

Tickets for the 2010-2011 season on sale to members Saturday, June 5! 10am: Box Office walk up sales. Noon: online and over the phone.

SERIES SPONSOR:

When a young American (Amanda Seyfried) travels to the city of Verona, home of the star-crossed lover Juliet Capulet, she joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love. Also stars Vanessa Redgrave. (PG, 105mins, US, 2010)

A smart and charming comedy exploring the secrets people choose to keep from their loved ones and the realization that the truth is easier to cope with than well-intentioned white lies. Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Alan Arkin. (PG13, 100mins, US, 2009)

This international smash hit from the makers of Gomorrah is an utterly charming tale of good food, feisty ladies and unlikely friendships during Italy’s biggest summer holiday, Pranzo di Ferragosto. Subtitled (NR, 75mins, It, 2008)

Syracuse (Colin Farrell) is a fisherman who catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his nets. At first appearing to be dead, she comes alive before his eyes. This is just the beginning of the magic Ondine brings. From Neil Jordan. (PG13, 111mins, Ir, 2009)

Tilda Swinton turns in a masterful performance in this sumptuous and complex drama that tells the story of a wealthy family in Milan whose lives are rapidly changing. From acclaimed writer/director Luca Guadagnino. Subtitled (R, 120mins, It, 2009)

Hailed at Sundance, 2010 - The first film by renowned and anonymous graffiti artist Banksy, whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. (R, 87mins, US, 2010)

Amelie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet brings his trademark style and whimsy back to the screen in a film about a group of friends who come up with an intricate and original plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers.

Subtitled. (R, 105mins, Fr, 2009)

miss the chance to see it but please do not crush the tiny Stonehenge. This film goes to 11. (R, 82mins, US, 1984)

Based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk. A pitch-black comedy of striking intensity. Starring Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter in a David Fincher film. Who would YOU fight? (R, 139mins, US, 1999)

Sam Raimi’s classic cult-horror romp. Bruce Campbell returns as Ash. Playing a tape of dark incantations releases a sinister force from the woods around the cabin where Ash has brought his girlfriend. Deadites rise up and rejoice! (R, 84mins, US, 1987)

From 26 year-old first time writer/director Richard Kelly comes a provocative, genre-busting fable that caused quite a stir at Sundance in 2001. “Holden Caulfield meets the spirit of Philip K. Dick in 1988”? (R, 113mins, US, 2001)

A severed ear, a sexy nightclub singer and a nitrous-sniffing psychopath? Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern and Dean Stockwell tear up the screen in David Lynch’s masterpiece. (R, 120mins, US, 1986)

Just remember you’re standing on a planet that’s revolving at 900 miles an hour and do beware of the salmon mousse and the wafer thin mints. Oh, fishy, fishy, fishy fish! From the Terrys Jones and Gilliam and the rest of the

Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo, Max von Sydow, Emily Mortimer, Michelle Williams, Patricia Clarkson, and Jackie Earle Haley. Directed by Martin Scorsese. (R, 138mins, US, 2010)
Acclaimed director James Ivory’s (The Remains of the Day,
Room with a View, Howards End) 23rd collaboration with two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Anthony Hopkins and Laura Linney star. (PG13, 118mins, US, 2009)
Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Amanda Peet and Rebecca Hall star in writer/director Nicole Holofcener’s perceptive and devastatingly funny take on modern life’s contradictions, good intentions and shaky moral bearings. (R, 90mins, US, 2010)
Annette Bening, Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington, Jimmy Smits and Samuel L. Jackson star in a film about the common core in three women's lives: they each have been profoundly affected by adoption. Directed by Rodrigo Garcia. (R, 125mins, US, 2009)
A brother
Jan Kounen directs this drama that chronicles the romance between fashion designer Coco Chanel (Anna Mouglalis, Merci Pour Le Chocolat) and composer Igor Stravinsky (Mads Mikkelsen, Casino Royale). Subtitled (R, 120mins, Fr, 2009)
The granddaddy of cult films. Tim Curry in drag, Barry Bostwick, a very young Susan Sarandon and there’s always room for Meat Loaf. One of the most bizarrely entertaining and satisfying musicals ever made.
(R, 100mins, US, 1975)
The Dude, Walter, Donny, Maude, the Jesus, some Nihilists, a marmot, a soiled rug, a severed toe, Logjammin’, lots of bowling and White Russians add up to form an excellent adventure at the hands of the Coen brothers.(R, 117mins, US, 1998)
Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece purposely confuses crime and punishment, cause and effect, hero and villain, irony and satire, and many other concepts, creating
Rob Reiner’s classic Mock-Rock-umentary including the song classics: Big Bottom, Smell the Glove and Sex Farm. Don’t

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SummerFilm golden Tickets – Golden Single: $150 (admission to all SummerFilms, 1 fountain drink, 1 medium popcorn) Golden Double: $300 (2 admissions to all SummerFilms, 2 fountain drinks, 1 large popcorn). Please note: not valid for HD Broadcast. Cult: \k lt\ (noun) from Latin cultus - care, adoration. - great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work. This Summer our very special Wednesday series features a sampling of films from across the spectrum of movies with their own devoted followings. With help from our friends at The Wire (and other shady sources) we have selected 11 extraordinary films that made up their own rules and cut across the expectations of critics and the mainstream in order to win the hearts of movie fans and earn their place in the cult film pantheon. Learn the lines, study the strange traditions, and plunge into the subculture of the initiated (almost) every Wednesday for a fun fan party featuring signature cocktails from our Founders Lobby bar and other mildly-insane specials.

R e D R i D i N g TR i LO g Y “gripping…watch and you’ll never forget” – l A t i M e S

Mesmerizing neo-noir three-part epic recounts the horror wrought by the “Yorkshire ripper,” a serial killer who terrorized northwest england in the 1970s and 80s. Three films, three directors, three crews. Same screenwriter, same cast. Strongly made. note: each film can certainly stand alone. Caution – adult content!

Red Riding 1974 (nr, 104mins, uK, 2009). Directed by Julian Jarrold (Brideshead Revisited).

Red Riding 1980 (nr, 94mins, uK, 2009). Directed by James Marsh (Man on Wire).

Red Riding 1983 (nr, 100mins, uK, 2009). Directed by Anand Tucker (Shopgirl).

Historic Tours

Fun-for-all-ages behind-the-scenes tours of The Music Hall!

Tickets: $6 ($5 members)

Every other Wednesday 5:30-6:45pm.

June 9th & 23rd

July 7th & 21st

August 4th & 18th

September 1st & 15th

Hiccup’s world is turned upside down when he encounters a dragon that challenges him and his fellow Vikings to see the world from an entirely different point of view. Based on the book by Cressida Cowell.

OC e ANS SAT., 7/24 @ 2pm • 1 SHOW ONLY! narrated by Pierce Brosnan and featuring spectacular never-before-seen imagery captured by the latest technologies, oceans offers an unprecedented look beneath the sea in a powerful motion picture.

by the Sea September 24 - 26, 2010

Patron Pass:

get in, get Underground Friday, June 18 • 9pm-midnight

After the sun goes down DJ unseen Cinema spins rare grooves and classic cuts to kick off the summer - one night only in the city’s best downtown lounge.

Tickets: $8 advance, $10 day of, on sale now, limited to 150 people. 21+ event.

Based on the brilliantly funny play written in 1841 by Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens. Boucicault created two of the great comic roles of the English stage, played by Simon Russell Beale and the legendary Fiona Shaw. The story: Sir Harcourt Courtly is lured away from fashionable London by the promise of a rich and beautiful young bride, Grace, until her charms are eclipsed by her hearty cousin, the foxhunting Lady Gay Spanker.

SPONSOR: Seatrade International Co., Inc.

Photo by Gary Langley/Blind Dog Photography

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