Special Feature

Today, DreamWorks Animation, along with Paramount Pictures, releases the third Madagascar movie, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. To celebrate the filme, we are giving away a Madagascar 3 prize pack to our Hartford members featuring one (1) family-four pack of tickets to see Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, one (1) Madagascar 3: The Novel, and one (1) Madagascar 3: Mad Libsâ„¢!

So how do you win?
Firstly, you must be live in or around Hartford, CT to qualify (that is where the tickets will be valid). To enter to win comment with your answer to the below question. We will pick 1 winner on Monday, email them with info on how to receive their prize.

What animal would you want to be and why?

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

In Theaters Today
Rated: PG
Directed by: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath and Conrad Vernon
Written by: Eric Darnell and Noah Baumbach
Featuring the Voices of: Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith, Chris Rock and more!
Plot: Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman are still fighting to get home to their beloved Big Apple. Their journey takes them through Europe where they find the perfect cover: a traveling circus, which they reinvent - Madagascar style.

Trailer:

This film is rated PG. No purchase necessary. Supplies limited. One winner will be chosen at random.

• Monday - FREE Meet the Filmmakers: Tanya Wexler and Hugh Dancy, "Hysteria"
• Tuesday - FREE Meet Oscar Winning Screenwriter, Actor & Musician, Billy Bob Thornton in Union Square
• Wednesday - Buffalo '66 @ 92Y Tribeca
• Thursday - The Beatles: The Lost Concert @ Ziegfield

Ongoing Series & Festivals

• Star Quality: The World of Noel Coward @ NY Public Library
• Beyond The Image @ Maysles Institute

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As the weather gets warmer, there are more fun screenings! Here are some of the highlights:

• FREE The Vow (2011) @ Sony Wonder Technology Lab
• Yellow Submarine @ IndieScreen
• To Catch a Thief (1955) @ IFC Center
• Stand by Me (1986) @ Nitehawk Cinema
• Tom and Jerry (1963-66) @ Lincoln Center
• Mildred Pierce (1945) @ Museum of the Moving Image
  
• Super Troopers @ 92Y Tribeca

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

• Wild At Heart (1990) @ Nitehawk Cinema
• Big Trouble in Little China (1986) @ IFC Center
• Streets of Fire (1984) @ IFC Center

Ongoing Series & Festivals

• Star Quality: The World of Noel Coward @ NY Public Library
• Beyond The Image @ Maysles Institute

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• Monday - FREE Wayne's World (1992) @ Huckleberry Bar
• Tuesday - Hitchcock's THE BIRDS with Tippi Hedren in person! @ Cinema Village
• Wednesday - FREE What Glass Ceiling? The Remarkable Success of Columbia's Women Filmmakers @ Lincoln Center
• Thursday - Yellow Submarine @ IndieScreen

FESTIVALS

• International Buddhist Film Festival 2012 Hong Kong
• Columbia University Film Festival
• New York Polish Film Festival

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If you're not out seeing The Avengers this weekend, there are plenty more things to do in our fair city.

The Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFFâ„¢) has announced a roster of 16 short, feature and documentary films for its ninth annual event, which will take place May 3-5, 2012 at Tribeca Cinemas, one of New York City's highly regarded film institutions. The program was compiled among more than 30 films received from Austria, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovenia and the United States.

The Columbia University Film Festival is the annual premiere of thesis short films, feature screenplays and teleplays created by graduate MFA students from Columbia University School of the Arts Film Program.

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me @ Nitehawk Cinema
• The Evil Dead (1981) @ Landmark Sunshine
• Asylum Blackout @ IFC Center
• Psycho (1960) @ IFC Center
• They Live (1988) @ IFC Center
• Wild Bill (1995) @ IFC Center

Don't miss The Beatles: “Yellow Submarine” @ Ziegfield on Saturday!

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