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Cinema 10 in Potsdam to present ‘The Tree of Life’ on Monday

Posted 10/2/11

POTSDAM – Cinema 10 continues its Fall 2011 season Monday, Oct. 3 with a showing of The Tree of Life, a 2011 US film by legendary director Terrence Malick. Films are shown on Mondays at 7:15 p.m. …

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Cinema 10 in Potsdam to present ‘The Tree of Life’ on Monday

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POTSDAM – Cinema 10 continues its Fall 2011 season Monday, Oct. 3 with a showing of The Tree of Life, a 2011 US film by legendary director Terrence Malick.

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.

“Including glimpses of Sleeping Beauty in her glass coffin, the rings of Saturn, and a roadside Texas BBQ, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life bears forth a variety of forms—and invites as many reactions. Better than a masterpiece—whatever that is—The Tree of Life is an eruption of a movie, something to live with, think, and talk about afterward,” Nick Pinkerton of The Village Voice writes.

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.

Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times comments, “If I set out to make an autobiographical film, and if I had Malick's gift, it would look so much like this: the film evoked my own memories of such time and place. About wide lawns. About a town that somehow, in memory, is always seen with a wide-angle lens. About houses that are never locked.”