POTSDAM – Cinema 10 begins its Fall 2011 season Monday, Sept. 12 with a showing of Beginners, a 2010 US film about a son recalling his father's decision to "come out" during his senior years.

Films are shown on Mondays at 7:15 p.m. in the Roxy Theater, Main St.

Tickets are $4.50 general / $35 season or $3.50 student/senior/$25 season.

Past and present merge for lonely graphic designer Oliver (Ewen McGregor), as he recalls his father’s (Christopher Plummer) exuberant final years after coming out as a gay man at the age of 75, while at the same time pursuing his own relationship with a French actress, Anna (Melanie Laurent).

Other films this season are:

• 9/19 The Greenhorns (2010, USA, d. Severine von Tscharner Fleming) 50 min NR. Post film panel to include Patrick Kiley, national Outreach Director for The Greenhorns organization, and local young farmers. Filmmaker-farmer-activist Severine von Tscharner Fleming spent two years with camcorder in hand, shooting well over 200 hours of footage documenting the revolutionary spirit of young farmers who have mobilized to bring small farms back to the heart of the American food landscape.

• 9/26 Incendies (2010, Canada/France, d. Denis Villeneuve) 130 min R. Adapted from contemporary Lebanese playwright Wajdi Mouawad's work, Incendies is a thrilling movie that tells parallel stories of a mother and a daughter's journey through both sides of a civil war.

• 10/3 The Tree of Life (2011, USA, d. Terrence Malick) 139 min PG-13. Malick’s latest combination of visual lyricism and spirituality focuses on the O’Brien family, living in the suburbs of Waco, Texas, in the 1950s, particularly on the three boys, whose relationship with their father (Brad Pitt) is the film’s center.

• 10/17 The Illusionist/L'illusionniste (2010, France, d. Sylvian Chomet) 80 min PG. Based on a script written by legendary French actor/comedian Jacques Tati in 1956, The Illusionist pays homage to Tati: its hero is drawn with not just Tati’s looks, but his distinctive body language as well.

• 10/24 Dissection of an Olive (2011, USA, d. Summer Dorr) 60 min NR. Local film premiere. Speakers include Summer Dorr (Writer/Director), Kamal Turner (Assistant Director/Actor), Jesse Clark Stone (Executive Producer), Ben Hull (Cinematographer/Editor), Chris Clarke (Actor/Acting Coach). With a cast and crew of North Country natives and students, the film follows twenty-something Olive, as she struggles to find stability amidst a sea of quirky intimacy, grief, and the antics of her eccentric mother.

• 10/31 Page One: Inside the New York Times (2011, USA, d. Andrew Rossi) 88 min R. Page One is a documentary by filmmaker Andrew Rossi about The New York Times, the changing face of modern media, and the future of democracy in the digital age.

• 11/7 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives / Loong Boonmee raleuk chat (2010, Thailand, d. Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 114 min NR. Uncle Boonmee is a wonderful excursion through Boonmee's past and current lives as the titular character prepares for the approaching end.

• 11/14 Tales from the Golden Age (2009, Romania, d. Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, and 3 others) - 150 min NR. Tales from the Golden Age is a Romanian comedy that consists of five short films, each one a dark satire set in the laughably titled "golden age" of late-communist Romania.

• 11/28 Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010, Canada, USA, France, Germany, UK, d. Werner Herzog) 90 min G. Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a stunning documentary that explores (literally and figuratively) the remarkable Chauvet Cave in south France, which the public is prohibited from entering.