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The Kimball Theatre

Located in Merchants Square, the Kimball Theatre is home to current films and live performances. On any given day, you might see a Colonial Williamsburg interpreter portray Patrick Henry or enjoy a jazz ensemble of talented students from the College of William and Mary. Perhaps the Peninsula's Jewish Film Festival is in town, or maybe you'll see players performing an 18th-century Grand Medley of Entertainments. Whatever your tastes, the Kimball Theatre is at the center of Williamsburg's community activities. Creative programming alliances with the College of William and Mary, community organizations, and Colonial Williamsburg link our past with the present.

Today at the Kimball Theatre:

A Christmas Tale

January 07, 2009 4:00 PM

Thursday, January 1 Wednesday, Jan. 7

Shows at 4 and 7 p.m.

Not rated

Junon (Catherine Deneuve) and Abel (Jean-Paul Roussillon) are the parents of three grown children: Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) is a melancholic playwright with a tortured teenage son, Paul (Emile Berling); Henri (Amalric) is the self-destructive black sheep, banished from family events by Elizabeth five years ago; the youngest, Ivan (Melvil Poupaud), the peacemaker, is married to the beautiful Sylvia (Chiara Mastroianni) and has two eccentric little boys; while a fourth—Joseph, the eldest—died from leukemia as a boy. When Junon is also diagnosed with leukemia, all are tested to see who can be a donor, and then the whole family—including lovesick cousin Simon (Laurent Capelluto) and Henri’s daft Jewish girlfriend, Faunia (Emmanuelle Devos)returns home for a long Christmas weekend.

All crowded again under the same roof, solidarity quickly—and hilariously—devolves into feuding, drunkenness, and bed-hopping, as everyone struggles to make sense of the mysteries of family, life, and what lies ahead. Directed by Arnaud Desplechin who was nominated for the Golden Palm Award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Jan. 3, 5, 7 screening room.

French with subtitles - 150 mins.

What Just Happened?

January 07, 2009 4:15 PM

Sunday, January 4 - Saturday, January 10

Shows at 4:15 and 6:45 p.m.

Rated: R

What Just Happened? is a winningly sharp comedy about two nail-biting, back-stabbing, roller-coaster weeks in the world of a middle-aged Hollywood producer as he tries to juggle an actual life with an outrageous series of crises in his day job. Academy Award–winning director Barry Levinson reunites with Academy Award–winning actor Robert De Niro and leading producer Art Linson, who wrote the screenplay based on his bestselling memoir.

They join with an all-star cast (including Robin Wright Penn, Sean Penn, Stanley Tucci, Bruce Willis, and John Turturro) in this rollicking, shrewd tale of a man besieged by people who want him to be all sorts of things, a moneymaker, an ego buster, a bad news breaker, an artistic champion, a loyal husband, an all-knowing father, not to mention sexy, youthful and tuned-in—everything except the one thing he and all the preposterously behaved people he's surrounded by really are: bumbling human beings just trying to survive by any means necessary.

January 4, 6, 8 10 screening room. 102 mins.

A Christmas Tale

January 07, 2009 7:00 PM

Thursday, January 1 Wednesday, Jan. 7

Shows at 4 and 7 p.m.

Not rated

Junon (Catherine Deneuve) and Abel (Jean-Paul Roussillon) are the parents of three grown children: Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) is a melancholic playwright with a tortured teenage son, Paul (Emile Berling); Henri (Amalric) is the self-destructive black sheep, banished from family events by Elizabeth five years ago; the youngest, Ivan (Melvil Poupaud), the peacemaker, is married to the beautiful Sylvia (Chiara Mastroianni) and has two eccentric little boys; while a fourth—Joseph, the eldest—died from leukemia as a boy. When Junon is also diagnosed with leukemia, all are tested to see who can be a donor, and then the whole family—including lovesick cousin Simon (Laurent Capelluto) and Henri’s daft Jewish girlfriend, Faunia (Emmanuelle Devos)returns home for a long Christmas weekend.

All crowded again under the same roof, solidarity quickly—and hilariously—devolves into feuding, drunkenness, and bed-hopping, as everyone struggles to make sense of the mysteries of family, life, and what lies ahead. Directed by Arnaud Desplechin who was nominated for the Golden Palm Award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Jan. 3, 5, 7 screening room.

French with subtitles - 150 mins.

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