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Sunday

No Film Tonight

2Monday

No Film Tonight

3Tuesday

Extraordinary Cinema: Margin Call 7pm @ Music Hall Loft • R • 107min • 2011 • USA An entangling thriller involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. Starring Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Demi Moore and Stanley Tucci.

4Wednesday

Extraordinary Cinema: Margin Call 7pm @ Music Hall Loft • R • 107min • 2011 • USA

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9Monday

No Film Tonight

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13Friday

Extraordinary Cinema: Melancholia 7pm @ Historic Theater • R • 136min • 2011 • Denmark A couple (Kirsten Dunst and Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrat-ing their marriage at a sumptuous party. Despite best efforts, family tensions mount. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth. Director Lars von Trier; Best Actress for Kirsten Dunst at Cannes and Palme d’Or nomination.

14Saturday

On Screen in HD @ The Music Hall: Sondheim's Company 1pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 150min • Tickets: $18 Neil Patrick Harris leads an all-star cast of Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Jon Cryer, Christina Hendricks, Craig Bierko and Martha Plimpton, as Bobby, a confirmed bachelor facing his 35th birth-day and his inability to commit.

Extraordinary Cinema: Melancholia 7pm @ Historic Theater • R • 136min • 2011 • Denmark

15Sunday


16 Monday

No Film Tonight

17Tuesday

Writers in the Loft: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 7pm @ Music Hall Loft • Tickets: $64 Includes reserved seat, book ($50.00), bar beverage; author presentation, Q+A, and book signing meet-and-greet.One of America’s foremost critics and historians, Harvard University’s Henry Louis Gates joins us to discuss his new landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the 2008 Presidential election. Don’t miss a lively and informative evening!


Historical Tour of The Music Hall: 5:30pm

18Wednesday


19Thursday

Film Matters: Revenge of the Electric Car 7pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 90min • 2011 • USA A follow-up to his 2006 Who Killed the Electric Car? director Chris Paine takes his film crew behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, and the Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors to chronicle the story of the global resurgence of the vehicles. Film will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A.

20Friday

Extraordinary Cinema: Sleeping Beauty 7pm @ Music Hall Loft • NR • 104min • 2011 • Australia University student Lucy (Emily Browning) takes a job where she will have to give into absolute submission to her clients by being sedated. This first feature film by Australian novelist, Julia Leigh, was nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes.


21Saturday

The Met @ The Music Hall: The Enchanted Island (Handel, Rameau, Vivaldi & others) 1pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $27.50Inspired by the masques of the 18th century, the Met presents an original Baroque fantasy, featuring a who’s who of Baroque stars led by eminent conductor William Christie.


Seacoast Local Presents: Skyler & the Band of Thieves 8pm @ Music Hall Loft • Tickets: $12 advance, $15 day of; 18 & under or with student ID: $8 advance, $10 day of

22Sunday

Extraordinary Cinema: Sleeping Beauty 7pm @ Music Hall Loft • NR • 104min • 2011 • Australia

23Monday

No Film Tonight

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Intimately Yours: Carolina Chocolate Drops 7:30pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $24; $19Rolling Stone described their style as “dirt-floor-dance electricity.” Touring behind their new CD, Genuine Negro Jig, which won the 2011 Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album.

27Friday

Wildcard Movie: In Danger of Being Discovered 7pm @ Historic Theater • 2011 • USA Local benefit screening of the new feature documentary with filmmakers Q&A, fundraising and special musical performances!

28Saturday

Broadcast In HD: 3 Superstars in Berlin 1pm @ Historic Theater • PG • 135min Tickets: $20 At Berlin’s stunning Waldbuhne, Anna Netrebko is joined by her husband, baritone Erwin Schrott and tenor Jonas Kaufman. Including duets from Bernstein’s West Side Story, Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and more, the singers are accompanied by Marco Armiliato conducting the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.

Extraordinary Cinema: Like Crazy 7pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 90min • 2011 • USA When British college student (Felicity Jones) falls for her American classmate (Anton Yelchin), they embark on a passionate journey only to be separated when she violates the terms of her visa. Winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, and the Special Jury Prize for Jones’ performance.

29Sunday

Extraordinary Cinema: Like Crazy 7pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 90min • 2011 • USA

30Monday

No Film Tonight

31Tuesday

Extraordinary Cinema: Like Crazy 7pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 90min • 2011 • USA

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DON'T MISS... Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires: Wednesday, February 3!

New Year's Resolution:Expand your mind with Explore + Learn opportunities, Writers

on a New England Stage, or discover some new music!

(Check out Carolina Chocolate Drops on Jan. 26!)

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BOOMTOWN: Sat., Feb. 11 @ 4pm & 8pm

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Soul, Roots, SpiritualsENTERTAINMENT THAT CONNECTS WITH OUR AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY You see the Carolina Chocolate Drops (1/26) on the cover. We first saw them live two years ago and were wowed - an Americana Renaissance

band of the first order. We’ve asked Henry Louis Gates (1/17) here because of both The Music Hall’s and Ports-mouth’s connection to African-American history: from Frederick Douglass speak-ing twice on our site; to featuring one of the first African-American opera stars, Siseretta Jones, after she was

denied a role at the Met; to contemporary performers like the Screaming Eagle of Soul, Charles Bradley and His Extraordi-naires (2/3), (introduced to us by Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings!). Soweto Gospel Choir (2/13) will perform a post-concert song over the African Burying Ground. And to round out all that great programming, the Temptations (pictured) will take the stage on 2/24.

"revisiting string-band and jug-band music of the '20s and '30s...dirt-floor

dance electricity!" – ROLLING STONE

Superstars on Screen! January is already shaping up to be “Superstars on Screen” at The Music Hall. The month is bookended by Sondheim’s Company (1/14) featuring all manner of stars from Neil Patrick Harris to Patti Lupone, Ste-phen Colbert to Christina Hendricks. The other bookend? Three of the biggest names in opera come together for a once in a lifetime perfor-mance: Anna Netrebko, Erwin Schrott and Jonas Kaufman in 3 Superstars in Berlin (1/28).

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