Once again it is time for The Edina to host the Fall/Winter edition of Talk Cinema, a film series run by Harlan Jacobson that allows its subscribers to screen a unique and varied selection of films before their release dates, and then holds a discussion about them afterwards, which are typically led by film critics, scholars or even the filmmakers themselves. Some of the notably films screened for this series at The Edina last year were Everlasting Moments, The Reader, Joyeux Noel, Two Lovers, Wendy and Lucy, Man on Wire and Slumdog Millionaire.

Tickets run $18 per individual film, or you can buy tickets for the entire series for $168 ($14 per film). But the real advantage of this series is for students, as their tickets are a mere $5 per film, which, when including the fact you are watching these films often several weeks in advance, would mean that is probably the best deal in town. Only caveat to the entire series is the films screen at 10am on Saturdays, but to help ease your suffering free coffee is provided at each film. Please register in advance online or by calling 800-551-9221.

Talk Cinema will screen on the following dates at The Edina Cinema:

September 12, 2009
October 3, 2009
November 7, 2009
November 21, 2009
December 5, 2009
December 19, 2009
January 16, 2010
January 30, 2010
February 13, 2010
February 27, 2010
March 13, 2010
March 27, 2010

Tags: Edina Cinema, everlasting moments, film critic, film critics, film series, films, free coffee, harlan jacobson, Joyeux Noel, Man on Wire, Slumdog Millionaire, talk cinema, The Edina, The Reader, two lovers, Wendy and Lucy

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