Cinema Sundays 2/7, "The Last Station"   Cinema Sundays Winter 2010 Series 47! Sunday February 7, 2010 Cinema Sundays at the Charles continues its 47th series on February 7th, with the Baltimore Premier of The Last Station. Directed by Michael Hoffman. Screenplay by Michael Hoffman based on the novel by Jay Parini. Starring James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, Paul Giamatti. 2009 UK/Germany/Russia Rated R. Running time 112 minutes. Synopsis Fact and fiction converge in this talent-driven drama based on Jay Parini's novel about Leo Tolstoy. THE LAST STATION focuses on the marriage between Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) and his wife Sofya (Helen Mirren) in its final years. James McAvoy stars as a young man who works for the couple, while Paul Giamatti plays an advisor to the writer who fights his wife over financial issues. Click on the following for trailer and official site. http://www.sonyclassics.com/thelaststation/ Cinema Sundays continues its 47th series on February 7th with the Baltimore Premiere of The Last Station. What a cast, an epic story about Tolstoy, and beautiful Russian countryside replete with intense domestic drama. It doesn’t get better than this! Actually we have been having a fabulous series of winners this Winter and I see no reason that this Sunday’s film shouldn’t be a corker! Our speakers for this week are the husband and wife team of Slavic scholars Robert Fradkin and Goedele Gulikers. Teachers by day, linguists by night, I have wanted to get them to Cinema Sundays for years and it’s finally worked out. Bring your Russian soul, caviar’s on you, bagels on us. I want to thank our speaker from last week Drew Lichtenberg from Center Stage for his super perceptive comments regarding Mitchell Lichtenstein’s Happy Tears. Great job, we look forward to having you back. Looking forward to seeing you on the 7th. Jonathan Palevsky Jpalevsky@aol.com If you’ve never been to Cinema Sundays before, see below for our stimulating, updated, yet official description. Precisely at 9:45 on a given Sunday morning, while birds chirp in the most musical manner, the doors at the Charles Theatre swing open to reveal a lobby replete with tasty bagels, hot coffee and friendly volunteers ready to serve them to you. All of our volunteers have been pre-tested for a complete lack of morning grouchiness and provide the nicest service…within reason! Guarded carefully by the enormous lobby penguin bagels, coffee and scintillating yet improvised conversation continues until 10:30. At precisely 10:30:07 some brief opening remarks by yours truly will be followed by a few remarks from our guest speaker who will never do either of two things. First he or she will never ever give away the plot of the film and second the speaker will not go on too long…especially if the film is one of those 2.5 h our Soviet era documentaries on the Romance of the Seven Tractor Drivers. Following a brief admonition not to talk during the film and a recommendation to sublet your cell phone to a starving student from the third world the screening will take place. Upon completion of the screening a robust question and answer session featuring our guest speaker will include your fascinating observations upon the recently screened movie. This flowery description barely describes the sublime joy and excitement which is Cinema Sundays. If there is a better way to spend Sunday mornings it simply hasn’t occurred to me….yet! Jonathan Palevsky Host of Cinema Sundays and completely reachable at JPalevsky@aol.com Please feel free to visit us at… Http://www.cinemasundays.com Tickets: $15 at the door. Or buy a mini-membership. 1711 N. Charles St. 410-727-3464 info: karenskicsc@comcast.net To unsubscribe from The Charles Theatre Mailing List visit: http://www.thecharles.com/mailinglist/