FOR SHOWTIMES CLICK HERE! A Note From CinemaSF Hello Friends and Neighbors, Starting this Friday, IMPOSSIBLE LIGHT plays for one week at the Balboa. IMPOSSIBLE LIGHT provides an inside glimpse at how a small team of visionaries battled numerous obstacles—from the drawing board to the boardroom to 500 feet above San Francisco Bay—to turn an impossible dream into a glimmering reality. It details all of the drama and the joy involved in creating a work of art on the grandest of scales, and demonstrates that the Bay Lights truly is a project whose “impossibility made it possible.” The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opened in 1936 and was almost immediately overshadowed by the Golden Gate Bridge, which opened less than a year later. A dull workhorse next to a glamorous star, it seemed the Bay Bridge would never outshine its sister to the north. That all changed on the evening of March 5, 2013, when the Bay Bridge—thanks to 25,000 LED lights—did just that: shined. As amazing as the lights are, the story of how they got there is perhaps even more so, a story given life by Jeremy Ambers’ captivating new feature-length documentary. Director Jeremy Ambers will be at the Balboa Theater to introduce the film and conduct a rousing Q&A at the 7pm screening on Friday May 16 and the 5pm screening on Sunday May 18. MILLION DOLLAR ARM opens at the Vogue tonight! Based on a true story, Disneys Million Dollar Arm follows JB Bernstein, a once-successful sports agent who now finds himself edged out by bigger, slicker competitors. He and his partner Aash (Aasif Mandvi) will have to close their business down for good if JB doesnt come up with something fast. Late one night, while watching cricket being played in India on TV, JB comes up with an idea so radical it just might work. Why not go to there and find the next baseball pitching sensation? Setting off for Mumbai with nothing but a gifted but cantankerous scout (Alan Arkin) in tow, JB stages a televised, nationwide competition called Million Dollar Arm where 40,000 hopefuls compete before two 18-year-old finalists, Rinku and Dinesh (Suraj Sharma, Madhur Mittal), emerge as winners. JB brings them back to the United States to train with legendary pitching coach Tom House (Bill Paxton). The goal: get the boys signed to a major league team. Not only is the game itself difficult to master, but life in the U.S. with a committed bachelor makes things even more complicated-for all of them. While Rinku and Dinesh learn the finer points of baseball and American culture, they in turn teach JB the true meaning of teamwork and commitment. Ultimately, what began as a purely commercial venture becomes something more and leads JB to find the one thing he was never looking for at all-a family. WALLACE AND GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT plays this Saturday morning at the POPCORN PALACE! Please note that the screening of FROM GHOST TOWN TO HAVANA has moved from Wednesday May 21 to Wednesday June 25. We hope you all can join us for this wonderful baseball documentary! THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 continues to swing through the Balboa this week! Next week: X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST opens at Balboa! We hope to see you all soon! Best, All of Us at CinemaSF At The Balboa At the Vogue Impossible Light (NR) Fri 5/16 & Sat 5/17: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9:30pm Sun 5/18 - Thu 5/22: 1, 3, 5, 7pm Director Jeremy Ambers will introduce the film and conduct a Q&A after the film on Fri 5/16 at 7pm and Sun 5/18 at 5pm. Trailer Buy Tickets The Amazing Spider-man 2 (PG-13) Thu 5/15: (1:00), 4:00, 7:30 Fri 5/16 & Sat 5/17: (1:00), 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sun /518 - Thu 5/22: (1:00), 4:00, 7:00 Trailer Buy Tickets Million Dallar Arm (PG) Thu 5/15: 7:00 Fri 5/16 & Sat 5/17: (1:30), 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Sun 5/18 - Thu 5/22: (1:30), 4:15, 7:00 Trailer Buy Tickets From Ghost Town to Havana (NR) Wed 6/25 at 7pm Q&A with film maker Eugene Corr after the film. Trailer Buy Tickets At The Balboa Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (G) Sat 5/17: 10 AM Part of Balboas Popcorn Palace Series! Trailer Buy Tickets Presented by The SF Zoo! X-Men: Days of Future Past (R)) Opens Fri 5/23 Trailer Buy Tickets Coming To The Balboa Purple Rain (R) Sun 6/8: 7pm Purple Rains 30th Anniversary and Princes birthday party. Prince costume contest, trivia and dance party in the lobby. Trailer Buy Tickets Summer Music Movie Series!!! Dont Follow Me (Im Lost) Thur 6/12: 7:30pm Continuing every Thursday evening through 7/31 at he Balboa Please visit our Balboa website for more details.
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