Bayview Street Cinema

June 22 - 28 THE NAMESAKE Nightly at 7 & 9pm, Sun Matinee 3pm. PG13 122min. D: Mira Nair. Kal Penn, Jacinda Barrett. Based on the bestselling book by Jhumpa Lahiri, the film follows two generations of the Ganguli family. After wedding via an arranged marriage, Ashima moves with Ashoke from her native Calcutta to New York. As Ashima struggles to adjust to life in her new home, a true love grows between the newlyweds. When they give birth to Gogol, the family decides to stay in America for their child’s sake. While the parents attempt to balance their new life with Indian traditions, their children have the very different experience of being raised first-generation Americans. "This gorgeously designed and photographed movie artfully depicts the immigrant experience in ways that transcend its setting." Lou Lumenick NY POST

June 29 - July 5 THE VALET Nightly at 7 & 9pm, Sun Mat at 3pm. PG13 125min. D: Francis Veber. Gad Elmleh, Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas. Francis Veber, the living master of French farce, has combined his classic elements of hilarious slapstick with quick-witted dialogue in his new film. The tale begins when a restaurant car service valet at a posh Paris hotel gets caught-up in a billionaire industrialist's sneaky infidelities. “This latest French farce from Oscar-nominee Francis Veber is another sophisticated screwball comedy right up there with the best of Billy Wilder.” Kam Williams, NEWSBLAZE

July 6 - 12 AWAY FROM HER Nightly at 7 & 9pm, Sun Mat at 3pm. PG13 110min. D:Sarah Polley. Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis. The plot concerns the way in which the 50-year marriage of Grant and Fiona deteriorates with the progression of Fiona’s Alzheimer’s disease. Rich scenery, intimate cinematography, and familiar songs like Neil Young’s "Helpless" create a private world of two people enviably in love. Fiona and Grant have carved out a piece of the world for themselves, and have lived together happily in their later years until Fiona’s memory started to wane. “Portrays the ravages of [Alzheimer's] with clear-eyed honesty, tracking not only the effects on its victims but also on the caretakers who provide support even as their loved ones are fading away right before their eyes.” Matt Brunson, CREATIVE LOAFING

July 13 - 19 RED ROAD Nightly at 7 & 9pm, Sun Mat at 3pm. NR 113min. D: Andrea Arnold. Tony Curran, Kate Dickie. Developed at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival, Red Road is a bristling, atmospheric thriller that rumbles with intensity. In the squalor of urban Glasgow, Jackie works at a video-surveillance firm that is in charge of protecting people who live on a single block of Red Road. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again. That man is an ex-con named Clyde. Clearly shocked to see him free from prison, Jackie begins stalking Clyde, compelled to confront him for his crimes. “A slow-burning but enticing thriller, it captures its working class Glaswegian setting in absorbing detail.”

July 20 - 26 WAITRESS Nightly at 7 & 9pm, Sun Mat at 3pm. PG13 104min. D: Adrienne Shelley. Keri Russell, Jeremy Sisto, Cheryl Hines. As a favorite waitress at Joe's Diner, Jenna is also a "pie genius," naming her tantalizing confections after the tumultuous events and emotions of her daily life. She's hoping that one of her pastries, like her "Kick In The Pants" Pie, might even change her life – if she can just win that $25,000 pie contest. But when Jenna discovers that she's pregnant, she immediately bakes an "I Don't Want Earl's Baby" Pie – a quiche of egg and cheese with a smoked ham center. After all, her husband Earl is a jealous jerk that is essentially a child himself and the last thing they need to do is start a family together. “It's the kind of sly, witty independent gem that rolls through every few years, lighting up crowds and forcing men to admit they were wrong when they thought they were being dragged to another chick flick.” Bill Clark, FROM THE BALCONY

July 27 - Aug 2 JINDABYNE Nightly at 7 & 9pm, Sun Mat at 3pm. R 123min. D: Ray Lawerence. Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne. Friends on an annual fishing trip, in isolated high country, find a girl's body in the river. It's too late in the day for them to hike back to the road and report their tragic find. The next morning, instead of making the long trek back, they spend the day fishing. Their decision to stay on at the river is a little mysterious — almost as if the place itself is exerting some kind of magic over them. When the men finally return home to Jindabyne, and report finding the body, all hell breaks loose. “A coiled and enigmatic psychodrama that cements Australian director Ray Lawrence's standing as a fine, if not prolific, filmmaker.” Megan Lehmann, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Aug 3 - 9 EVENING Nightly at 7 & 9pm, Sunday Matinee 3pm. PG13. D: Lajos Koltai. Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, Toni Collette, Claire Danes. Evening is a deeply emotional film that illuminates the timeless love which binds mother and daughter – seen through the prism of one mother’s life as it crests with optimism, navigates a turning point, and ebbs to its close. Two pairs of real-life mothers and daughters – Vanessa Redgrave and Natasha Richardson, and Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer – portray, respectively, a mother and her daughter and the mother’s best friend at different stages in life. Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters; Constance and Nina. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But who is this “Harris,” wonder her daughters, and what is he to our mother?

Aug 10 - 16 ONCE Nightly at 7 & 9pm Sun Mat at 3pm. PG 85min.
D: John Carey. Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova. A modern day musical set on the streets of Dublin. Featuring Glen Hansard and his Irish band "The Frames," the film tells the story of a street musician and a Czech immigrant during an eventful week as they write, rehearse and record songs that reveal their unique love story. “Even the uninitiated will be hard-pressed to resist the movie's charms, from its likable leading players and its charming Dublin setting to its wistful take on modern love.” Ann Hornaday, WASHINGTON POST

Aug 17 - 23 MIGHTY HEART Nightly at 7 & 9pm, Sun Mat at 3pm. NR 103min. D: Michael Winterbottom. Angelina Jolie. On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl's world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi where a go-between had promised access to an elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told Mariane he might be late for dinner. He never returned. In the face of death, Danny's spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief in the power of journalism led Mariane to write about his disappearance, the intense effort to find him and his eventual murder in her memoir A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl. Six months pregnant when the ordeal began, she was carrying a son that Danny hoped to name Adam. She wrote the book to introduce Adam to the father he would never meet. Transcending religion, race and nationality, Mariane's courageous desire to rise above the bitterness and hatred that continues to plague this post 9/11 world, serves as the purest expression of the joy of life she and Danny shared. “A straightforward, highly competent thriller. As you'd expect from English director Michael Winterbottom, the picture possesses levels of moral complication that are at first invisible.” Andrew O’Heir, SALON.COM