She Likes to Watch

Bored of those holiday blockbusters?
The Palm Theatre, San Luis Obispo’s sole arthouse movie theater, has a solution: thoughtful documentaries, indie comedies and dark dramas.
“The Rape of Europa,” a stunning new documentary about the fate of European art during World War II, opens this week.
Narrated by Joan Allen, “The Rape of Europa” chronicles the Nazis’ 12-year campaign to plunder Europe’s treasures, looting museums and robbing countless priceless artworks while destroying others deemed “inferior.”
Countries sought to hide their most prized pieces while soldiers, art historians and curators battled to save centuries of Western culture.
Filmmakers Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen and Nicole Newnham examine the aftershocks half a century later, using newsreel footage, eyewitness accounts and interviews with historians.
With rave reviews from The New York Times, The Boston Globe and Variety magazine, “The Rape of Europa” could be in the running for a best documentary Oscar.
Showtimes at the Palm Theatre, 817 Palm St. in San Luis Obispo, are 4 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. weekdays, and 1:15 p.m., 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. The film’s runtime is 1 hour, 57 minutes.

Also playing at the Palm:

“Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead”
Two brothers plot to rob a mom-and-pop jewelry store … owned by their own parents. Another dark, complex drama from auteur Sidney Lumet.

“Bella”
A single day in New York City transforms three lives: a waitress, an international soccer star-turned-cook and his brother.

“The Darjeeling Limited”
Three feuding brothers search for spiritual enlightenment in India in Wes Anderson’s quirky new comedy.

“Into the Wild”
The fascinating true story of Christopher McCandless, who, after graduating from college in 1992, abandoned his possessions and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.

For more information, call 541-5161 or visit www.thepalmtheatre.com.

– Sarah L.