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Special anniversary 35mm release! SEPT 18 (7:00 & 9:00) KIDS MATINEE Sat 1:00! SEPT 16 & 17 (7:00 & 9:00) UP BICYCLE THIEVES ROCKSTEADY: back by popular demand! Vittorio de Sica (Italy, 1948, 93 min; Italian with subtitles) THE ROOTS OF back by popular demand! “THIS FILM SEEMS MORE RELEVANT, MORE POWERFUL, REGGAE MAYBE MORE REAL THAN EVER!” – Stasha Bader “ONE OF THE GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME!” – (Canada/Switzerland, 2009, 99 “A MASTERPIECE. THE MOST UNIVERSALLY PRAISED MOVIE ON minutes; rated G) With Hopeton SEPT 15 (7:00 & 9:00) EARTH SINCE WWII.” – Lewis, Judy Mowatt, Ken Boothe, Leroy Sibbles, Marcia AWAY WE GO The Bicycle Thief is Everyman’s search for dignity - is as though Griffiths, The Tamlins, Rita Marley. the soul of a man had been filmed. The Bicycle Thief is about a man, What a delight it is to watch Jamaican musicians of the late Director: Sam Mendes (USA, 2009, 98 mins; 14A) Cast: John a worker, who must have a bike in order to work at his job. He is Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Daniels, Maggie Gyllenhaal. sixties reunite for this film. There’s such a combination of desperate, pawns everything to regain his machine, goes to work, personal warmth, talent, history and creativity that it’s impos- SEPT 19 (1:00 & 3:00 & 7:00 & 9:00) SEPT 13 & 14 (7:00 only) Don’t let anyone spoil the secrets in this delicate dazzler. See it has the thing stolen from him while his back is turned, and then sible not to get caught up in their pride and love for the music and then start talking. You will. The pregnant Verona (Maya goes on a search through Rome to find it. That is about all there is DEPARTURES Director: Yojiro Takita (Japan, 2008, 131 min; Japanese with subtitles; rated G) they created. Rudolph), a medical illustrator of mixed race, loves Burt (John to it. But it happens to be very close to a lyrical masterpiece. And UP ACADEMY AWARD WINNER! BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM! this is not because we see Rome as it is, or poor people, or rags. It Rocksteady was a transitional genre, a slow and soulful style Krasinski), a white guy who sells insurance, but she doesn’t Director: Pete Docter is because these actual details are organized by a humane view of that only lasted for about three or four years, between the want to marry him — bad family histories. Burt and Verona take (USA, 2009, 96 minutes; rated G – violence) Departures was 2009’s surprise Oscar winner in the foreign language category. See it and you’ll understand why. When Daigo life. The film is unafraid to examine openly, straightforwardly, the cranked up rhythms of ska (typified by the 1964 Millie Small to the road, visiting friends in search of a place not to be lost in hit, My Boy Lollypop ) and the more rock-influenced reggae (Masahiro Motoki) loses his gig as cellist in a failing orchestra, he and his wife (Ryoko Hirosue) move to his childhood home in terrible distorted, destructive world which Man has made for him- “ANOTHER MASTERWORK FROM !” – America. Director Sam Mendes deftly follows the twists in the music of Bob Marley and other bands that became Jamaica’s small-town Japan. He takes a job assisting in the funeral ritual known as encoffining, in which the deceased is cradled gently, tartly funny and achingly tender script by novelists Dave Eggers self. This man’s work has been stolen from him, and the city of his dressed and prepared for burial. Under the tutelage of Ikuei (a sensational Tsutomu Yamazaki), Daigo moves from repulsion to home turns into a jungle around him. This picture, perhaps above biggest cultural export. The film is smartly directed by The first 10 minutes of Up are flawless; the final 80 and Vendela Vida. Rudolph can speak volumes with the tilt of an Stascha Bader, who lets the musicians tell their own stories appreciation for the complex rite and its powerful impact on mourners. Sounds like a bummer, but at times Departures is total- eyebrow. She and Krasinski, of The Office, are absolutely all others, performs the central function of art. Without warping the minutes, close enough. (Though, note this: Do not see ly hilarious. Yamakazi is often a riot, and people do the damnedest things at funerals. Shot and written with brilliant economy, life it depicts, it discovers the meaning of that life, its significance in a series of interviews, interspersed with in-studio musical Up in 3-D. It’s inessential to the tale and altogether dis- extraordinary. Ditto the film, which sneaks up and floors you. performances. –The Globe and Mail it’s mostly just profound and deeply beautiful. #####! —Now Magazine – for the race. —Arthur Miller, playwright Sponsored by UVic's Film Studies Program tracting.) –The Village Voice KIDS MATINEE Sun 1:00! SEPT 20 (1:00 & 3:00 & 7:00) SEPT 22, 23, 24 (7:00 & 9:00) SEPT 25 & 26 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:25) KIDS MATINEE Sun 1:00! UP SEPT 21 (7:00 only) NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2 UP FOOD, INC. STAR TREK Director: J.J. Abrams (USA, 2009, 127 mins; PG) Director: Pete Docter (USA, 2009, 96 minutes; rated G – violence) Director: Robert Kenner (USA, 2008, 93 minutes; rated G) Cast: John Cho, Ben Cross,, Bruce “ESSENTIAL VIEWING!” – Greenwood, Simon Pegg,, , “CAPTIVATING!” –Variety ,, Winona Ryder, Zoe “ARGUABLY THE FUNNIEST PIXAR EVER!’ “EXPERTLY CRAFTED DOCUMENTARY!” –The Village Voice Saldana,, Karl Urban,, Anton Yelchin,, Eric Bana, and Leonard Nimoy –The Hollywood Reporter “A scary movie that’s also funny, touching and good for you.”—Baltimore Sun ####! An ingenious reboot that brings the ####! Two cranky old men and a plucky kid, a house tied to ballons I gave up the thought of “reviewing” this documentary and decided, instead, to beloved franchise back to square one while still and a giant airship, a goofy bird and another animated masterpiece from exhort you: See it. Bring your kids if you have them. Bring someone else’s kids if delivering a thoroughly contemporary sci-fi Pixar’s Pete Docter (Monsters, Inc.). With the voices of Edward Asner, you don’t. The message is nothing new if you’ve read Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food adventure rooted in the spirit of Gene Christopher Plummer and Jordan Nagai.–Roger Ebert Nation or Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma (both are in the film). But every Roddenberry’s original conception. J.J. Abrams frame makes you choke on your popcorn—if for no other reason than the focus on and his screenwriters have dug deeply into the SEPT 20 & 21 (9:00 only) separate admission government-underwritten corn and the companies who put it into everything from rich lore of the show to come up with a story- soda to Midol to the gassy, E. coli–ridden bellies of factory-farmed cows. The sheer line that nods affectionately to established Trek scale of the movie is mind-blowing—it touches on every aspect of modern life. It’s dogma even as it tears it to shreds and MOON the documentary equivalent of The Matrix: It shows us how we’re living in a sim- starts all over again. And now it’s got a Director: Duncan Jones (UK, 2009, 98 mins; PG) ulacrum, fed by machines run by larger machines with names like Monsanto, new warp core. –Now Magazine Cast: Sam Rockwell, . Perdue, Tyson, and the handful of other corporations that make everything. We humans can win, but we should hurry, before Monsanto makes a time machine and SEPT 25 & 26 (11:50pm) separate admission This mesmerizing mind-bender sneaks up on you. Sam Rockwell is an astronaut fin- sends back a Terminator to get rid of Schlosser and Pollan. –David Edelstein, New ishing up a three-year stint on the moon, mining energy. He wants back on Earth York Magazine with his wife and daughter. His only contact is GERTY, a robot with the sweet-sinis- THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Smart and gripping, this muckraking documentary transcends anticorporate ter voice of Kevin Spacey. There’s an accident. I’ll say no more. Director Duncan Director: Jim Sharman (UK, 1975, 101 min; 18A) demonology to build a visceral but reasoned case against modern agribusi- Jones (son of David Bowie) relies on ideas instead of computer tricks to stir up ness. –Chicago Reader excitement. –Rolling Stone The most popular cult film of all time! and Barry Bostwick star as a squeaky-clean couple stranded in a scary mansion inhabited by a sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania (Tim Curry), his Sponsored by Slow Food Vancouver Island & The Gulf Islands “ONE OF THOSE RARE GEMS OF THE SCI-FI GENRE.” –Film Threat hunchback Riff Raff, Magenta, and other assorted oddballs. Let’s Do The Time-Warp Again! sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday

KIDS MATINEE Sun 1:00! KIDS MATINEE Sat 1:00! “EXTRAORDINARY.” –Chicago Reader SEPT 30 & OCT 1 NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2 (7:00 & 9:20) ICE AGE 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs “HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL.” –New York Magazine OCT 2 & 3 SEPT 27 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:40) (3:00 matinee & 7:00) TOKYO SEPT 28 (7:00 only) PUBLIC ENEMIES SONATA Director: Michael Mann (USA, 2009, 140 min; 14A) SUMMER Cast: , , Marion Cotillard, Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan, 2008, 121 min; Japanese with subtitles; Giovanni Ribisi, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff, Rory HOURS PG) Cochrane, and Channing Tatum Director: Olivier Assayas (France, “A work of tremendous passion, “MOVIE DYNAMITE!” –Rolling Stone 2008, 102 min; French with subti- SEPT 29 (7:00 only) daring and delicacy.” –Salon.com tles; rated PG) Cast: Juliette see it the way it was meant to be seen! One of the most compelling, finely “INTELLIGENT AND CHALLENGING CRIME EPIC!” —Empire Binoche, Jérémie Renier, Charles Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino orchestrated and oddly enchanting Berling, and Edith Scob (USA, 2007, 192 minutes; 18A) films of the year.” –The Globe and A grave and beautiful work of art. It revisits with meticulous Mail detail and convulsions of violence a short, frantic period in the Three grown siblings (Juliette In their crazily funny and exciting tribute to the grimy glory days of life and bank-robbing times of John Dillinger, an Indiana farm In Tokyo Sonata, filmmaker Kiyoshi Binoche, Charles Berling, and 1970s exploitation films, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez boy turned Depression outlaw, played by Johnny Depp. Much Kurosawa - no relation to Akira - composes an extraordinary work in three movements about the Sasakis, a seemingly ordinary Jérémie Renier) divide up the well- re-create the junk cinema of their youth. Grindhouse Is an old- of what makes the movie pleasurable is the vigor with which family. In this unpredictable work, the clan implodes, explodes, and glues itself back together. loved art collection of their late school, three-hour night at the movies, a trash-heaven double bill it restages our familiar romance with period criminals, a mother (elegant Edith Scob) in complete with scratchy mismatched prints and trailers for When management at his firm finds it can hire two Chinese workers for the price of one Japanese employee, Mr. Sasaki (Teruyuki perennial affair. But what also makes it more than the sum of preparation for selling her country unspeakably bad slasher films. The first movie is Rodriguez’s Kagawa) loses his job - and face. Rather than swallow his pride and be open with his wife and sons, the salaryman swallows his its spectacular shootouts is the ambivalence about this house. Summer Hours, director Olivier Assayas’ tender, sun-kissed, Chekhovian drama, brims with life and loveliness even as Planet Terror, a living-dead thriller, with zombies that spurt rasp- anger - and chokes on it. Sasaki’s secret has seismic reverberations for his wife and sons. They, in turn, privately nurse their own romance that seeps into the filmmaking, steadily darkening it meditates on the loss of childhood. The shimmering production, with its sophisticated appreciation of the objets accrued over berry Jell-O blood. Death Proof, Tarantino’s crash-and-burn hom- secrets. As communication breaks down, so does the strict routine of the household and, ultimately, Sasaki’s authority. All of this the skies and draining the story of easy thrills. —The New a fortunate lifetime (and its perceptive examination of generational bonds), was conceived out of a project to celebrate the 20th age to the road-demon genre, is a flawed yet audacious hell-bent is expressed in visual compositions compartmentalized as a bento box and in an unsettling use of sound. In this film where music York Times anniversary of Paris’ Musée d’Orsay. –Entertainment Weekly head trip. Tarantino sets us up for the wildest, rowdiest two-car is most significant, it is silence that achieves maximum emotional impact. It is silence that isolates the individual Sasakis more road duel since the grind-house era. It will leave you laughing, effectively than soundproof booths. It is silence where their inner demons are loudest. It is silence that creates the palpable sense Mann’s exhilarating movie exists in a state of perpetual France’s most important contemporary director has created a work of almost magisterial calm.–The Globe and Mail gasping, and thrilled.” —Entertainment Weekly of unease. And it is music that draws the family back together, calming these agitated souls. Astonishing. –Philadelphia Inquirer forward motion. –The Village Voice KIDS MATINEE Sun 1:00! OCT 7 & 8 (7:00 & 9:20) KIDS MATINEE Sat 1:00! ICE AGE 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs EARTH IL DIVO OCT 9 & 10 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:30) OCT 4 (3:00 matinee & 7:00) ONE OF THE BEST REVIEWED FILMS OF 2009! OCT 5 (7:00 only) Director: Paolo Sorrentino (Italy, 2008, 118 min; Italian with subtitles; 14A) CHERI “As operatic cinema, it ranks alongside the best of Director: Kathryn Bigelow (USA, 2009, 131 mins; 14A) Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola!” Director: Stephen Frears (UK, 2009, 94 minutes; 14A) –The New York Times Cast: , Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, , Guy Pearce. Cast: , Rupert Friend, Kathy Bates, and Felicity Jones If you plan to see Il Divo — and you should — be prepared to hold on to your seat. Simultaneously exhilarating and con- “AN INSTANT CLASSIC!” –Wall Street Journal Stephen Frears (The Queen) never makes the same movie twice. In founding, dazzling and confusing, this is filmmaking of such Cheri, he has another dandy. With a radiant Michelle Pfeiffer as his hero- OCT 6 (7:00 & 9:15) verve and style that you likely won’t care that you can’t fol- “A GREAT FILM, AN INTELLIGENT FILM.” –Roger Ebert ine, Frears and his Dangerous Liaisons screenwriter Christopher low it completely. Hampton team up again for a French period piece although this time it’s AMERICAN GRAFFITI “ENTERS THE PANTEHON OF GREAT AMERICAN WAR FILMS!” La Belle Epoque — 1906 Paris. The story is by Colette, so naturally it’s One of two breakthrough Italian films (the other was Director: George Lucas (USA, 1973, 110 min; DVD, rated G) –San Francisco Chronicle about the demi-monde where courtesans are celebrated for their beauty Gomorrah) to receive prizes at Cannes last year, Il Divo and ability to please and ruin famous men in equal measure. Our heroine Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles comes by its intricacy honestly. Seven times Italy’s prime #####! The Hurt Locker is about a bomb squad in present-day is Pfeiffer’s Lea, a breathtaking beauty who is seeing her career coming Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Mackenzie minister, made senator for life in 1991 and still active at age Iraq, but it could be taking place anywhere in the world, at virtually to a thankful end. An old rival, Mme Peloux (a pitch-perfect Kathy Bates), Phillips, Wolfman Jack, Harrison Ford. 90, Giulio Andreotti is best understood by his nicknames: the any time in the last century. Our guide to this sand-blasted land- invites her for lunch to pick her brain about her indolent 19-year-old son, Sphinx, the Hunchback, the Black Pope. Enigmatic and scape of sudden, pulverizing death is a cowboy named William whom Lea long ago nicknamed Cheri (Rupert Friend). He flirtatiously WHERE WERE YOU IN ’62? American Graffiti is not only a great inscrutable, his country’s most powerful and feared politician James (Jeremy Renner), whose arrogance and cocksure manner demands a kiss from Lea. Both are staggered by the passion each sens- movie but a brilliant work of historical fiction; no sociological trea- for more than 50 years, Andreotti is as controversial as only frankly terrify his new squadmates (an excellent Anthony Mackie es in the other. The chemistry between Pfeiffer and Friend is positively tise could duplicate the movie's success in remembering exactly someone who understands power to the nth degree can be. and Brian Geraghty), who have just 38 days left in their rotation and combustible. There is no false moment or off-key note in this movie. The how it was to be alive at that cultural instant. On the surface, One of Italy’s best actors, Toni Servillo, delivers a mesmeriz- are already frazzled enough. Working from a spare script by jour- mood-catching cinematography, eye-catching costumes and gorgeous George Lucas’s teenagers cruise Main Street and stop at Mel's ing performance. —Los Angeles Times nalist Mark Boal, Bigelow follows these characters through one life- sets are all entertainment in themselves. Alexandre Desplat’s nostalgic, Drive-In and listen to Wolfman Jack on the radio and neck and lay You need know nothing about Italian politics to completely or-death situation after another, ratcheting up the tension over and romantic, melancholy score evokes the period perfectly. Frears simply rubber and almost convince themselves their moment will last for- enjoy the fantastical, tragi-comic, biographical fun-for-all Il over again, letting it subside only when absolutely necessary. This brings out the best in his collaborators. –The Hollywood Reporter ever. –Roger Ebert Divo. —Entertainment Weekly is the best movie she’s made in two decades. —Now Magazine KIDS MATINEE Sun 1:00! OCT 16 (3:00 matinee & 7:00) EARTH THE DIRECTORS WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE AT www.antimatter.ws OCT 13, 14, 15 OCT 17 (1:00 & 3:50 & 7:00) EACH SCREENING TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS! Film Festival 250 385 3327 TUES, OCT 13 7pm WED, OCT 14 7pm THURS, OCT 15 7pm and the OCT 11 (3:00 matinee & 7:00) DER SPIEGEL WANDERING THROUGH SECRET STORMS SOFT SCIENCE: The OCT 12 (7:00 only) HALF-BLOOD PRINCE 84 min 66 min Human Animal Director: David Yates (USA, 2009, 154 min; PG – violence; may frighten From papparazzi to puppets, 75 min young children) Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, , From Iraq to Taiwan, North SAVING LUNA monologues to musicals -- , Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Michael Korea to the United States: A collection of ten short films from through a glass darkly. Nine Gambon, , Maggie Smith, , David Thewlis, Directed by Suzanne Chisholm & Michael Parfit short films from around the the intersection of science and art, films exploring the nature of and (Canada, 2007, 100 minutes; rated G) world exposing political cor- Soft Science: the Human Animal identity and celebrity in the 21st Music by Tobin Stokes. ruption, media manipulation investigates human-animal relationships and systems: allegor- Based on the penultimate book in the series, where all the elements that century. and the true costs of interna- ical stories, explorations in anthropomorphism, experimental have been locked in a holding pattern since the first chapter finally start documentation and interspecies collaborations. “A DELIGHT.“ The Globe and Mail 9pm tional conflicts. lining up for a payoff. That means director Yates can focus more on the ####! —Katherine Monk, Canwest News emotional resonance of that plot, as Daniel Radcliffe’s older, wiser Harry LOKI: ARNALDO BAPTISTA 9pm 9pm investigates the origin of arch-nemesis Voldemort and aces his potions “AN ASTONISHING DOCUMENTARY.“ — Times-Colonist Paulo Henrique Fontenelle, Brazil, 2008, 120 min JUST ONE KISS: The VISUAL ACOUSTICS: class, but mostly discovers that Ginny Weasely has blossomed over the “ONE OF THE MOST HEART-WARMING THINGS I’VE EVER SEEN.”—indieWIRE summer. One of the film’s unexpected pleasures is the realization that An award-winning biography of the Fall of Ned Kelly The Modernism of Harry himself shares our impatience with the formulaic nature of his fran- The true story of a lone orca, nicknamed Luna, who was separated from his pod in 2001 while only a calf. On the West Coast former lead singer of Os Mutantes, Sami Van Ingen, Finland, 2009, 55 chise; he’s well past ready for some action. ####! —Now Magazine of Vancouver Island, over 200 miles from his family, this young killer whale ends up lost in Nootka Sound. Orcas normally spend Brazil's most influential and endur- min Julius Schulman their entire lives in family groups, but Luna is alone. Friendship is what this intelligent and playful orca is after, as he makes ing rock band. Through archival and Live music by Lee Hutzulak Eric Bricker, USA, 2008, 83 min OCT 16 & 17 (10:00 only) separate admission contact with humans. Humans do not know how to react. The government and scientists tell people to stay away; soon after, contemporary footage, LOKI traces (Dixies Death Pool) Visual Acoustics celebrates the life Director: Stanley Kubrick (USA, 1980, 119 min; DVD) making it illegal to even look at Luna. As this one little orca becomes an international news story, people debate how best to Baptista's career from the drug- The world premiere of Van Ingen's and career of Julius Shulman, the THE SHINING save him. To co-directors Suzanne Chisholm and Michael Parfit, Luna is a lovable street kid whale who needs help and changes soaked psychedelia of the 60s, to recreation of the first feature film (Ned Kelly and His Gang) con- world's greatest architectural pho- Cast: , Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd their lives. Compassionate and enchanting, Saving Luna tells the journey of a wild beauty lost in a sea of human reasoning.— his re-emergence as respected solo structed from appropriated footage, intertitles, and what little tographer, whose images brought All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no Vancouver International Film Festival artist and international ambassador remains of the original. Like the 1906 film, the work is present- modern architecture to the American play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a of Brazilian music. “STUNNING...A FILM THAT WILL STIR EVEN THE HARDEST HEART.”—Bermuda Royal Gazette ed differently at each screening. mainstream. dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work KIDS MATINEE Sun 1:00! OCT 23 & 24 (3:00 matinee & 7:15 & 9:15) KIDS MATINEE Sat 1:00! HARRY POTTER and the HALF-BLOOD PRINCE UP (500) DAYS OF SUMMER Director: Marc Webb (USA, 2009, 95 min; PG) Cast: Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In the enchantingly original and romantic (500) Days, Summer (Zooey Deschanel) is a girl — capricious, alluring, and not entirely knowable — and Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) convinces himself that she's ''better than the girl of my dreams.'' Five hundred days is the duration of their relationship, but the movie presents those days out of order, as an impish roman- tic flipbook, so that we keep Enlighten Up! A Skeptic’s Journey into the World of is a skipping forward and back. thought-provoking treatment of one of the most widespread and Director Marc Webb stages OCT 19, 20, 21, 22 (7:15 & 9:00) remarkable spiritual developments of our time. Among the many each scene as a vivid snapshot teachers, mystics, and gurus appearing in the documentary are memory, and his sense of play ENLIGHTEN UP! B.K.S. Iyengar of , Pattabhi Jois of the Ashtanga Yoga is boundless. (500) Days is like a mood ring cued to the Director: Kate Churchill (USA, 2008, 82 minutes; PG) Research Institute, Sharo Gannon and David Life of Jivamukti OCT 18 (3:50 matinee & 7:00 & 9:15) Yoga, the star yogi in Living Arts videos, Alan Finger ups, downs, and confusions of “Enlighten Up! explores its subject with a light touch and of Yogaworks, and of Hard and Soft Yoga. Nick modern love. It's a Gen-Y LITTLE ASHES welcome sense of humor.”—The New York Times also spends time with two eccentric teachers: Diamond Dallas Annie Hall made by a new- style Wes Anderson. Deschanel Director: Paul Morrison (UK, 2008, 113 mins; 14A) Page, a former pro wrestler turned yoga teacher, and Dr. Madan More than 18 million Americans are practicing yoga, and it is makes the lovely, sensuous Cast: , Javier Beltrán, Matthew McNulty. Kataria of Laughing Yoga. a multimillion dollar business. There are books available on Summer just precocious It was a ripe time to live at the Students' Residence in Madrid and every style and even more teachers. Kate Churchill, a yoga Many spiritual teachers will tell you that there is no need to seek enough and Gordon-Levitt lets study at the School of Fine Arts. When he arrived in 1922, Salvador enthusiast, came up with a project that she felt would be enlightenment: it will find you often where you least expect it. you read every glimmer of Dali met the future poet Federico Garcia Lorca and future film- both fascinating and challenging: select an ordinary person Kate learns that, like the river, it cannot be pushed. And Nick dis- hope, pain, lust, and befuddle- maker Luis Bunuel. Dali was a case study, dressed as a British and see if over a six-month period that person could under- covers a connection to his mother, a shamanic healer, that he had ment beneath his nervy dandy of the previous century. Little Ashes focuses on an uncon- go a transformation on the basis of yoga. She choose Nick, a not realized before. He also taps into a fresh appreciation of a facade. It's a feat of star act- summated attraction between Dali (Twilight’s Robert Pattinson) 29-year-old journalist from New York City who was interest- path to happiness that involves rock climbing. Making the docu- ing, and it helps make (500) and Garcia Lorca (Javier Beltran), who in the flower of youthful ed in the quest but made it clear from the outset that he was mentary turns out to be a meaningful journey for both of them Days not just bitter or sweet idealism and with the awakening of the flesh, began to confuse a pragmatist interested in hard facts and resistant to both An entertaining documentary about the practice of yoga filmed in Hawaii and India. and a realization that there are many different ways of being spir- but everything in between. sexuality with artistry. --Roger Ebert religion and spirituality. itual.—Spirituality and Practice --Entertainment Weekly

KIDS MATINEE Sun 1:00! Sponsored by UVic's Film Studies Program OCT 28 & 29 (7:10 & 9:00) KIDS MATINEE Sat 1:00! UP A NEW VAMPIRE THRILLER FOR HALLOWEEN! WALLACE & GROMIT: CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT THE COVE OCT 25 (3:00 matinee & 7:00) Director: Louie Psihoyos OCT 30 & 31 OCT 26 (7:00 only) (USA, 2009, 92 mins, PG – scenes of animal slaughter) (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:35) In this pulse-pounding eco-thriller, a crack team of divers, activists and special effects experts infiltrate a THIRST THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE secret cove in Japan to expose one of history’s most Director: Chan-wook Park (South Korea, 2009, 135 min; Director: (USA, 2009, 107 min; PG) Cast: Rachel shocking and unimaginable crimes against nature. Korean with subtitles: 18A –explicit violence) McAdams, Eric Bana, Arliss Howard, and Winner of the Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, The Cove is sure to be one of the most JURY PRIZE WINNER! – As a sucker for time-travel romance, I’m over the moon about this OCT 27 (7:00 & 9:00) talked about films of the year. —Roadside Attractions movie, which smooths out the psychological dissonances in Audrey “LIP-SMAKING MOVIE TREAT!” –The Globe and Mail Director Louie Psihoyos knows the secret to making a boffo Niffenegger’s fine novel but is still an emotional workout. With no warn- You can’t wait for that new vampire love story, right? Well, here EASY RIDER activist documentary: a kick-ass narrative, surprising ing, Eric Bana’s Henry is whisked back into the past or ahead to the it is. OK, this one is in Korean, which maybe you weren’t Director: (USA, 1969, 94 min; DVD) twists, heroes you root for, and bad guys you despise. The future, which would be more fun if he knew where he was going and his expecting. And its vampire hero is a Roman Catholic priest. It Cast: , Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson Cove is built like a slick caper melodrama. The movie takes clothes went with him. At age 40 or so, Henry leaps back in time and comes with a heavy dose of religious guilt, some bizarre sex- place on the coast of Japan in the village of Taiji, where wins the heart of a girl named Clare, played by Brooklynn Proulx, then Two pothead bikers--Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis ual slapstick, unpredictable explosions of violence and black- most of the dolphins destined for the world’s aquariums are Rachel McAdams. Ultimately, there’s no explanation for Henry’s gift Hopper)--collect their money for a drug deal and set off on a cross- comic satire. Its cinematic daring, narrative wildness and, yes, trapped. That’s bad enough, but the ones that don’t look as beyond a “genetic abnormality,” and since he can’t alter the past, the country quest for freedom. Hopper directed, Fonda produced, and full-throated romance make it the best vampire love story of cute as Flipper are driven into a secluded cove and … don’t film is steeped in fatalism. It ends up evoking all our emotional waver- they wrote the script, with Terry Southern. The picture--a road the year. (If you’re over of 14, that is.) Winner of the come out. The cove, otherworldly in its beauty, is heavily ings—the ways in which we abandon lovers to relive the past or antic- movie that's also a pop-mythology ballad movie--expressed the Jury Prize at Cannes earlier this year, Thirst is the newest film guarded: No one gets near it. The head of the International ipate the future, only sometimes connecting in the moment. Gracefully primitive religious element in the hippie movement. The two from Korean director Park Chan-wook, best known for the Whaling Commission and Japanese lackeys deny, deny, directed by Robert Schwentke, the film has a perfect performance by encounter a lawyer (Jack Nicholson), a lush with the grin of a kid “Vengeance” trilogy, including the international cult hit deny—and minus pictures of the slaughter, who can prove Bana, rangy and haunted, never at home in his body. –David Edelstein, who hasn't grown up. The film was infused with an elegiac sense Oldboy. Thirst is a brilliant and gruesome work of cinematic them wrong? O’Barry and his team need footage—“a game New York Magazine of American failure, and it had a psychedelic pull to it. The land- invention as well as a passionate and painful human love changer.” The Cove is that game changer. The assembly of scapes had dazzling textures; the terrific music by Jimi Hendrix story. —Salon.com The book is richer, but this is a solid, endearing telling of the same the team—divers, technicians, getaway drivers—is stir- and The Band and The Byrds gave the sluggish scenes a pulse; The essential story, and is well worth it for those who appreciate ring. The killing, when seen, is indescribable. Chan-wook Park is a master filmmaker and Thirst is a terrific film became a ritual experience. –Pauline Kael romantic fantasy. —ReelViews –New York Magazine film. —Film Threat

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