Cinema Sundays 6/6, "The City of Your Final Destin   Cinema Sundays Spring 2010 Series 48! Sunday June 6, 2010 Cinema Sundays at the Charles continues its All Star 48th series on June 6th, with the Baltimore Premier of The City of Your Final Destination. Directed by James Ivory. Written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala based on the book by Peter Cameron. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Omar Metwally, Laura Linney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Hiroyuki Sanada. 2010 USA. Rated PG 13. Running time 118 minutes. Synopsis Based on the novel of the same name by Peter Cameron, the protagonist of The City of Your Final Destination is Omar Razaghi (Omar Metwally), an Iranian-born graduate student at the University of Colorado, whose financial aid for a fellowship is contingent on writing an authorized biography of the deceased Latin American author Jules Gund. Shortly into the first semester of the fellowship, Gund’s estate unexpectedly denies Omar authorization. Omar's aggressively supportive girlfriend Deirdre urges him to travel to Uruguay and petition the executors to change their minds. Omar follows this advice and is instantly received into a hornet’s nest of intrigues and idiosyncrasies. The Gund “family,” living together on the author’s isolated and decaying estate, includes Gund’s widow, Caroline (Laura Linney); his mistress, Arden (Charlotte Gainsbourg); Arden’s young daughter, Portia; Gund’s brother, Adam (Anthony Hopkins), and Adam’s partner, Pete (Hiroyuki Sanada). Omar’s unannounced arrival upsets their fragile co-existence and causes all to question their own circumstances and fates, which in turn leads Omar himself to question to what degree, if any, he has been the author of his own existence up until now. . --© Screen Media Click on the following for trailer and official site. http://www.screenmediafilms.net/coyfd/ Cinema Sundays continues its 48th series with the Baltimore Premiere of The City of Your Final Destination. Join us for a classy cast and exotic setting in this latest film by acclaimed director James Ivory. Our speaker for this week is Gavin Witt the amazing Dramaturg Wizz from Center Stage. It’s been awfully hard to book him for Cinema Sundays and it’s a pleasure to welcome him back. Thanks so much to Meredith Ward for her fine noire efforts on The Square. We look forward to having you back. Sunday should be a most interesting film and I look forward to seeing you there! 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/