• Enjoy our Theatrepub

    Unlike conventional theaters, the Bear Tooth offers freshly prepared food and draft beer and wine for consumption inside the theatre while watching the movie. But don’t worry about spilling; every other row of movie chairs has been removed and replaced with tables, providing you with the perfect place to set a cold draft beer, enjoy our famous pizza or a decadent Turtle Pie Dessert and stretch out the legs. And if you’re not 21 or older, the theater has an all ages seating area for enjoyment of everything except the beer and wine.

The Host

The Host

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What if everything you love was taken from you in the blink of an eye? The Host is an epic sci-fi love story from Stephenie Meyer, worldwide bestselling author and creator of The Twilight Saga. When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over their bodies and erasing their memories, Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan,Atonement) will risk everything to protect the people she cares most about — Jared (Max Irons), Ian (Jake Abel), her brother Jamie (Chandler Canterbury) and her Uncle Jeb (William Hurt), proving that love can conquer all in a dangerous new world. Screenwritten and directed by Andrew Niccol (In Time, Gattaca).

Showtimes: Sat 5/18 12:30 PM, Sat 5/18 10:20 PM, Sun 5/19 12:30 PM, Tue 5/21 5:30 PM, Wed 5/22 5:30 PM, Thu 5/23 5:30 PM

Run time: 2:15

Movie Rating: PG-13. For some sensuality and violence.

Jason and the Argonauts – 50th Anniversary

Jason and the Argonauts 1963

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The Bear Tooth is proud to present the 50th Anniversary of this beautifully restored classic.

Arguably the most intelligently written film to feature the masterful stop-motion animation of Ray Harryhausen,  Jason and the Argonauts is a colorful adventure that takes full advantage of Harryhausen’s “Dynarama” process. Inspired by the Greek myth, the story begins when the fearless explorer Jason (Todd Armstrong) returns to the kingdom of Thessaly to make his rightful claim to the throne, but the gods proclaim that he must first find the magical Golden Fleece. Consulting Hera, the queen of gods, Jason recruits the brave Argonauts to crew his ship, and they embark on their eventful journey. Along the way they encounter a variety of mythic creatures, including the 100-foot bronze god Talos, the batlike Harpies, the seven-headed reptilian Hydra, and an army of skeletons wielding sword and shield. This last sequence remains one of the finest that Harryhausen ever created, and it’s still as thrilling as anything from the age of digital special effects. Harryhausen was the true auteur of his fantasy films, and his brilliant animation evokes a timeless sense of wonder. Jason and the Argonauts is a prime showcase for Harryhausen’s talent–a wondrous product of pure imagination and filmmaking ingenuity. –Jeff Shannon

Before Steven Spielberg dabbled with aliens, dinosaurs, and Nazi-fightin’ archeologists, before Peter Jackson dreamt of J.R.R., and before James Cameron captured sinking ships and blue-skinned tree-huggers, we had Jason and the Argonauts. Everything about this movie is big. Big sets, big vistas, big drama, and big, big, monsters. Although antiquated in a few ways, this old-timey epic holds up nicely today.

As we all know, the movie’s centerpiece is the visual effects, including but not limited to eye-popping stop motion animation by the legendary special effects whiz Ray Harryhausen. Maybe some jaded viewers will balk at the datedness of the stop motion, but I say it’s just as thrilling as ever. This is because Harryhausen’s stop motion creations are filled with personality. When the metal titan first turns his head, you can tell that he’s royally ticked off. When the skeletons first rise, there’s this moment when they look at each other and at themselves, as if to say, “Hey, check it out, we’re a bunch of badass skeletons.” The effects are more than just effects, they’re characters. That sense of personality was Harryhausen’s gift, and it’s on full display throughout. -Mac McEntire

Showtimes: Sat 5/18 3:10 PM, Sun 5/19 3:10 PM

Run time: 1:54

Movie Rating: G. Nothing objectionable

Quartet

Quartet

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Dustin Hoffman makes his directorial debut with Quartet, a dramatic comedy written by Ronald Harwood (The Pianist, Being Julia), based on his play of the same name. Beecham House is abuzz. The rumor circling the halls is that the home for retired musicians is soon to play host to a new resident. Word is, it’s a star. For Reginald Paget (Tom Courtenay), Wilfred Bond (Billy Connolly) and Cecily Robson (Pauline Collins), this sort of talk is par for the course at the gossipy home. But they’re in for a special shock when the new arrival turns out to be none other than their former singing partner, Jean Horton (Maggie Smith). Her subsequent career as a star soloist, and the ego that accompanied it, split up their long friendship and ended her marriage to Reggie, who takes the news of her arrival particularly hard. Can the passage of time heal old wounds? And will the famous quartet be able to patch up their differences in time for Beecham House’s gala concert?

Cast: Billy Connolly, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Pauline Collins, Tom Courtenay

Director: Dustin Hoffman

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic:
“Hoffman wisely gives his actors plenty of room to maneuver, and that they do. It’s surprisingly fun to watch them play against each other.”

Showtimes: Sat 5/18 5:30 PM, Sun 5/19 5:30 PM

Run time: 1:48

Movie Rating: PG-13. For brief strong language and suggestive humor.

Olympus Has Fallen

Olympus Has Fallen

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In the action thriller Olympus Has Fallen, when the White House (Secret Service Code: “Olympus”) is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President (Aaron Eckhart) is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning (Gerard Butler, 300) finds himself trapped within the building. As our national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning’s inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger crisis. Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) directs an all-star cast featuring Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Melissa Leo, Ashley Judd and Rick Yune.

 

Showtimes: Sat 5/18 7:45 PM, Sun 5/19 7:45 PM, Tue 5/21 8:15 PM, Wed 5/22 8:15 PM, Thu 5/23 8:15 PM

Run time: 2:00

Movie Rating: R. For strong violence and language throughout.

Leviathan

Leviathan

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One of the most critically-acclaimed documentaries in recent years, Leviathan is a groundbreaking, immersive portrait of the contemporary commercial fishing industry.

Filmed off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts – at one time the whaling capital of the world as well as Melville’s inspiration for Moby Dick; it is today the country’s largest fishing port with over 500 ships sailing from its harbor every month.

Leviathan follows one such vessel, a hulking groundfish trawler, into the surrounding murky black waters on a weeks-long fishing expedition. But instead of romanticizing the labor or partaking in the longstanding tradition of turning fisherfolk into images, filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor ( Sweetgrass ) and Verena Paravel ( Foreign Parts ) present a vivid, almost-kaleidoscopic representation of the work, the sea, the machinery and the players, both human and marine.

Employing an arsenal of cameras that passed freely from film crew to ship crew; that swoop from below sea level to astonishing bird’s-eye views in the sky, the film that emerges is unlike anything that has been seen before. Entirely dialogue-free, but mesmerizing and gripping throughout, it breaks new ground in both cinema and anthropology, while presenting a cosmic portrait of one of mankind’s oldest endeavors.

Directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, France, UK, USA

“Looks and sounds like no other documentary in memory.” – Dennis Lim, The New York Times

“ Leviathan is in every way sensational. Aurally clamorous and visually ravishing, shot mainly at night and mostly in close-up with a precipitously lurching camera, Leviathan abstracts the harvesting and processing of seafood into a vision of terrible beauty.” – J. Hoberman, Artinfo

“Imbued with America’s history of economic dependence upon sea life… Leviathan embodies the frenzy, nerve, and vigor behind the effort to apprehend the world.” – Film Comment

“A watery knockout. Leviathan explodes the antiquated paradigm of the documentary or ethnographic film.” – Melissa Anderson, Village Voice 

“A highly original film of uncompromising, other-worldly beauty. Demands to be seen.” – Hollywood Reporter

 

Showtimes: Mon 5/20 5:30 PM

Run time: 1:37

Movie Rating: Not rated. Some disturbing content

Upstream Color

Upstream Color

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Kris is derailed from her life when she is drugged by a small-time thief. But something bigger is going on. She is unknowingly drawn into the life cycle of a presence that permeates the microscopic world, moving to nematodes, plant life, livestock, and back again. Along the way, she finds another being – a familiar, who is equally consumed by the larger force. The two search urgently for a place of safety within each other as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of their wrecked lives. Writer/director Shane Carruth’s much anticipated sophomore effort (following his 2004 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner, Primer) is a truly remarkable film that lies beyond the power of language to communicate while it delivers a cohesive sensory experience. With its muscular cinematic language rooted in the powerful yearnings felt before words can be formed, Upstream Coloris an entirely original, mythic, romantic thriller that goes in search of truths that lie just beyond our reach.

Directed by Shane Carruth, sci-fi drama USA 2012

“Bold, impassioned, ecstatically beautiful … in a class by itself.”- Scott Foundas, Village Voice

“Intense and hypnotically powerful, Upstream Color is somehow at once emotionally direct, while narratively abstract.”- Mark Olsen, LA Time

Showtimes: Mon 5/20 7:45 PM

Run time: 1:46

Movie Rating: Not rated. Contains some disturbing images, sensuality and drug content.