At the Theaters

Portraits of the human experience to embrace

Wed, 04/20/2016 - 12:15pm

The Harbor Theatre

“How to Die in Oregon” is the award-winning documentary about Oregon's right to die (with dignity) law. A Q&A follows the screening led by Valerie Lovelace speaker, educator, and founder of It’s My Death (IMD), a Maine-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission is providing services and education to people wishing to actively explore the meaning of life through embracing the certainty of death. One of IMD’s goals is to help break societal taboos surrounding how we die. A free community discussion event, Wednesday, April 20, 1-4 p.m.

“Hello My Name Is Doris” With help from her best friend’s granddaughter, a smitten woman, Doris, played by Sally Field, concocts schemes to get the attention of the new younger art director (Max Greenfield) in her office.

Directed by Michael Showalter, co-starring Beth Behrs, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Stephen Root, Elizabeth Reaser, Natasha Lyonne and Tyne Daly. “Hello My Name Is Doris,” Rated R, this film plays Wednesday, April 20 and Thursday, April 21 at 7 p.m.,

In “City of Gold,” Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold shows us a Los Angeles where ethnic cooking is a kaleidoscopic portal to the mysteries of an unwieldy city and the soul of America. Combing through colorful neighborhoods in his green pickup truck, Gold is sniffing out his next strip-mall discovery-whether Oaxaca grasshopper soup, hand-cut tonkotsu ramen, or a particularly unctuous pad see ew.

As piping-hot platters are served up, so are stories of immigrants whose secret family recipes are like sacred offerings pledged for the opportunity to build their American Dream. With eternal curiosity, razor-sharp intellect, and existential longing, Gold is a culinary geographer taking us where no critic has gone before in this richly penetrating documentary odyssey.

“City of Gold” is rated R (for some language). It plays at 7 p.m. Friday, April 22, Saturday, April 23, Wednesday, April 27 and Thursday, April 28; Sunday, April 24 at 2 p.m.

The Harbor Theatre is located at 185 Townsend Avenue in Boothbay Harbor. For more information, call 207-633-0438 or visit www.harbortheatre.net.

Lincoln Theater

In “The Finest Hours,” the Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952. Based on a true story. Final screenings Thursday, April 21 at 2 and 7 p.m.

“Taming of the Shrew” is a BBC Shakespeare Series presentation. In this modern retelling of Shakespeare's comedy, Katherine Minola (Shirley Henderson) is a temperamental yet successful politician, and everyone, from her party chairman to her sister, wants her to get married. Is passionate eccentric Petruchio (Rufus Sewell) the answer to her prayers? Playing Friday, April 22 at 2 p.m. Free.

“Race” is Jesse Owens' quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy. Playing Friday, April 22 at 7 p.m., Saturday, April 23 and Sunday, April 24 at 3 and 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 27 at 2 and 7 p.m.