Frontier Cafe, Cinema, & Gallery
FOOD, FILM & ART INSPIRED BY THE WORLD
January 2008
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Enjoy and explore diverse film, food and community programming at Frontier this January.
We hope you are enjoying this holiday season. We look forward to seeing you in 2008. HAPPY NEW YEAR.
:: Food & Drink may be enjoyed with all Films and Events.
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General Admission to Films is $7. Adults over 65, College Students with
ID, Children under 12 and Matinee Shows (before 5pm) pay $6.
:: Please check website for updated show times. Programming subject to change.
Upcoming Films & Events
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 FILM | WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY?
Produced by Morgan Spurlock who directed SUPER SIZE ME
WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY? is a serio-comic look at Bill Talen a New York-based activist and performance artist.
Since the late 1990's he has won notoriety for his character Reverend Billy.
Reverend
Billy is a wildly charismatic street preacher and self-appointed leader
of the Church of Stop Shopping who began his career speaking out
against the gentrification of New York City, the forced renovation of
42nd Street and his favorite symbol of the evils of international
consumerism-Walmart.
WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY? follows Reverend
Billy and his entourage on an odyssey across the United States as he
preaches against the commercialization of the holiday season and warns
of the coming of the "Shopocalypse."
January 2 - 8
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 FILM | BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD
A film by Sidney Lumet
R, 117 minutes
"A dynamite film that ranks with the year's best."
- Rolling Stone
"Sidney Lumet makes his best movie in ages, a crackerjack crime thriller that goes for the jugular."
- Los Angeles Daily News
Master
filmmaker Sidney Lumet directs this absorbing suspense thriller about a
family facing the worst enemy of all - itself. Oscar-winner Philip
Seymour Hoffman plays Andy, an overextended broker who lures his
younger brother, Hank (Ethan Hawke) into a larcenous scheme: the pair
will rob a suburban mom-and-pop jewelry store that appears to be the
quintessential easy target. The problem is, the store owners are Andy
and Hank's actual mom and pop and, when the seemingly perfect crime
goes awry, the damage lands right at their doorstep. Oscar-winner
Marisa Tomei plays Hoffman's trophy wife, who is having a clandestine
affair with Hawke, and the stellar cast also includes Albert Finney as
the family patriarch who pursues justice at all costs, completely
unaware that the culprits he is hunting are his own sons. January 10 - 17 |
FILM | LOCAL ARTIST SERIES | ANNIVERSARY SCREENING
ICE BLINK
By local filmmaker Gregory Roscoe
Dave and Jaja Martin will be present for the screenings
Ice
Blink is the remarkable story of a conventional family of five living a
very unconventional life afloat. Follow Dave and Jaja Martin and
their crew of three children from their beginnings on the 25-foot day
sailer Direction in which they circumnavigated the globe and join them
on a sail to the Arctic where they encounter new friends, icebergs and
polar bears. Share their voyage into opportunities that test
their physical and mental limits, proving that self-sufficiency is the
key to survival and that the world can be had with a commitment to
family, a simple lifestyle and the courage to choose differently.
Jan 12 | 5pm & 7pm
Special admission price $5 ($15 includes DVD)
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 FILM | BILLY THE KID
A film by Jennifer Venditti"I'm not black, I'm not white, not
foreign... just different in the mind - different brains, that's all..."
explains 15 year-old Billy in Jennifer Venditti's provocative coming of
age film. Billy's intuitive commentary and intimate verité footage
reveal a unique attitude as he responds to a painful childhood, first
time love, and his experience as an outsider in small town Maine. By
turns humorous and disturbing, this portrait challenges the viewer to
look beyond labels and contemplate the future of a teen still in the
process of becoming. http://www.billythekiddocumentary.com/ January 18 & 19 |
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 FILM | THE RAPE OF EUROPA
A film by Nicole Newnham
NR, 117 minutes
"Riveting... a history lesson dressed as a measured thriller." -Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly
The
Rape of Europa tells the epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate
destruction and miraculous survival of Europe's art treasures during
the Third Reich and the Second World War. In a journey through seven
countries, the film takes the audience into the violent whirlwind of
fanaticism, greed, and warfare that threatened to wipe out the artistic
heritage of Europe. For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and
destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in history. But young art
professionals as well as ordinary heroes, from truck drivers to
department store clerks, fought back with an extraordinary effort to
safeguard, rescue and return the millions of lost, hidden and stolen
treasures.
January 24 & 25 |
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 FILM | SLEUTH
A film by Kenneth Branagh
NR, 86 min
"Language this
lethal has all but disappeared from the movies, and it's an unmitigated
pleasure to observe Caine and Law attack it with such ferocity. Sleuth
is nasty fun." - Los Angeles Times
Thirty five years after
Anthony Shaffer's classic play was adapted into a hit film with Michael
Caine and Laurence Olivier, Caine switches to the opposite role against
Jude Law in this gripping, character-driven thriller. Harold Pinter's
screenplay and Kenneth Branagh's direction bring a fresh perspective to
the original material, with unexpected results.
Dates TBD
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 SPECIAL EVENT | LA SCALA | TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
Following the highly successful debut screenings of Franco Zeffirelli's
production of Aida, Emerging Pictures continues its acclaimed High
Definition opera series with La Scala's 2007 opening night production
of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Cinemas across the US and
abroad will be participating. Called "A sublime new version" in a
"grave and shockingly intense performance" with "the veteran mezzo
Waltraud Meier (as a) marvelous, poised, unflaggingly intelligent
(Isolde)" by The New York Times, Tristan und Isolde was directed by
film and opera auteur Patrice Chéreau; designed by Richard Peduzzi;
with famed conductor Daniel Barenboim on the podium. Opera lovers
worldwide eagerly anticipated this particular La Scala production as
Tristan had not been staged in Milan for nearly 30 years.
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
La Scala, by Richard Wagner, directed by Patrice Chéreau
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Design: Richard Peduzzi
Cast: Includes Ian Storey (Tristan), Waltraud Meier (Isolde), Michelle
De Young (Brangane), Gerd Grokowski (Kurwenal), Matti Salminen (King
Mark) and Will Hartmann (Melot)
$22 per person, no discounts apply. Advance ticket purchase recommended. Special Opera Discount: Present a ticket stub from Regal Cinema's
January 1st performance of The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel
and receive $5 off admission. SHOWTIMES: Jan 26 & Jan 28 | 2pm
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FOOD | WEEKLY MENU ONLINE Frontier's
weekly menu for our Panini, Wraps and Salads and Market Plates is now
available online. The menu changes on Tuesday. Soups change throughout
the week. Specials, new desserts and new side plates continualy change.
New wine and beer selections await...
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