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Tuner
Leo Woodall, Dustin Hoffman!
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With his once-promising musical career over, a gifted piano tuner’s heightened sense of hearing draws the attention of criminals, who see his talents as useful for opening safes as well as for tuning Steinways.

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Disclosure Day
Spielberg's Latest!
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If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to eight billion people in a new original event film created and directed by Steven Spielberg.

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Time and Water
One Show Only!
Wed., July 1 @ 7:30PM

Facing the death of his countrys glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away — family, memory, time, and water.

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Colors of Time
Opening Fri, Jul 3
From the director of
L'Auberge Espagnole
Coming Soon

Brought together by the unexpected inheritance of an abandoned house in rural Normandy, four cousins discover they share a mysterious family history. It’s 1895 and their ancestor Adèle leaves her hometown to search for her mother in Paris…

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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Two Days Only!
July 5 & 7 @ 10:30AM
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Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they turn seduction into strategy and weaponise desire.  But when their alliance collapses into rivalry, the battle between them threatens to destroy everyone in their path.

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Franz
One Show Only!
Wed., July 8 @ 8PM

Visionary director Agnieszka Holland brings to life one of literature’s most enigmatic figures in this visually rich and unconventional portrait of legendary 20th-century writer Franz Kafka.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark
One Show Only!
Sun., July 12th @ 10:30AM

Indy, and his feisty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood, dodge booby-traps, fight Nazis and stare down snakes in their incredible worldwide quest for the mystical Ark of the Covenant.

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Two Pianos
One Show Only!
Wed., July 15 @ 8PM

After years of exile, pianist Mathias returns to France when his former mentor Eléna invites him to perform a series of concerts. But soon after his arrival, a chance encounter with a child who looks just like him throws Mathias into turmoil.

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The Odyssey
Opening Fri, Jul 17
From Christopher Nolan!
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Coming Soon

Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY is an epic adaptation of Homer’s saga, charting the long and perilous journey of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, as he attempts to return home to his wife Penelope and son Telemachus following the conclusion of the Trojan War.

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
One Show Only!
Sun., July 19th @ 10:30AM

In 1930s Los Angeles, cartoon film star Roger Rabbit hires private eye Eddie Valiant to snoop on Roger’s wife Jessica, who may be playing pattycake with someone else. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.

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The Sheep Detectives
One Show Only!
Wed., July 22 @ 8PM

When their beloved farmer is found dead under mysterious circumstances, a flock of the sheep conclude they will have to solve the murder themselves, learning that the human world isn’t as simple as it appears in books.

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Ghostbusters
One Show Only!
Sun., July 26th @ 10:30AM

When an employee of the Public Library is terrorized by an unseen phantom, Columbia U parapsychologists Ray, Peter, and Egon are hired to investigate. After their funding is revoked, they seize the opportunity to open their own business as paranormal exterminators.

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Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
Art House Theater Day!
One Show • 7/30, 5:15PM

A love letter to a peculiarly Irish cinema experience…Over the course of one evening, we follow the travails of beleaguered cinema owner Earl as he faces a myriad of disasters, any one of which could sink him.

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Network
Art House Theater Day!
One Show Only!
Thu., July 30th @ 7:30PM

Veteran newscaster Howard Beale knows that he is about to be dumped – in turn, he uses his next broadcast to announce that he is going to commit suicide on his final program.

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The Natural
One Show Only!
Sun., Aug. 2nd @ 10:30AM

After his dreams of being a big league baseball player as a young man are shattered, the 35-year-old Roy Hobbs reappears, along with his childhood bat ‘wonderboy’, as a rookie with The New York Knights.

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Airplane!
One Show Only!
Sun., Aug. 9th @ 10:30AM

Ted Striker, ex-fighter pilot with a drinking problem, is forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning from the fish dinner. It’s now up to Ted and his former girlfriend/stewardess Elaine, who had the chicken, to land the plane and save everyone on board.

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Admission: $15.50 Adults, $12.00 Matinee Bargain Shows, $12.25 Seniors (62+), $10.50 Child (12 & under), Student and Military, $11.00 Avalon Members, $10.00 Seniors who are Avalon Members.
Same rates apply to Wednesday Signature Series and Science on Screen programs unless otherwise noted. Weekend Family Matinees, Exhibition on Screen, NT Live and Special Event ticket prices vary; senior discounts may not be available for these programs.

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