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sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM JAN 18 & 19 (7:00 & 9:10) JAN 20 (7:00 & 9:15) JAN 21 (3:00 matinee & 7:00) JAN 22 (3:45 matinee & 7:00) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG INSIDE JOB TAMARA DREWE JAN 16 (3:00 matinee & 7:00) Director: Charles Ferguson (USA, 2010, 110 min; PG) Director: Stephen Frears (UK, 2010, 112 minutes; PG) Cast: Gemma Arterton, Roger Allam, Tamsin Grieg, Dominic Cooper, Luke Evans JAN 17 (7:00 only) This will probably be the most high-profile and important film on the recent financial crisis. Charles Ferguson “A hugely exuberant black comedy, unfolding over four scenic seasons at a writer’s retreat set in a rose-strewn English village.” –NPR (No End in Sight) makes the dizzying complexities - and who’s to blame - explicitly clear in riveting and anger- NEVER LET ME GO ing fashion. You will not believe what you will hear spoken. The end result of the film’s precise and careful analy- The English pastoral life gets an exquisite send-up in veteran director Stephen Frears’ hugely pleasing adaptation of a graphic novel by Posy Director: Mark Romanek (UK/USA, 2010, 104 minutes; PG) sis is that the financial crisis of 2007-10, a series of events that gave rise to losses in the trillions of dollars and Simmonds—itself a modern riff on Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd. Set in bucolic Dorset, at or near a writers’ retreat run by Nicholas Cast: Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Alex Garland kicked the world economy into the worst financial disaster since the Great Depression, could have been avoid- Hardiment (Roger Allam) and his long-suffering wife, Beth (Tamsin Greig), who does most of the pampering of guests. This arrangement gives Nicholas, Here’s a sci-fi story with the seductive allure of a classic ed. Ferguson aims his smoking gun directly at de-regulation, a practice that effectively removed all barriers to a best-selling hack, plenty of time for “mentoring” female fans. Currently, Beth has been getting her own quiet attention from a Hardy scholar (Bill romance. In filming Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, director Mark corruption and exploitation, and paved the way for a fiscal free-for-all. Matt Damon provides suitably wry, even Camp). Romanek maintains the fragile mystery with a cinematic pull all his own. The children at a British board- acidic commentary, on the proceedings, but it is Ferguson himself who proves one of the most astute critics ing school are being raised in what appears to be a parallel universe for a special mission they barely of the campaign to defraud people of their money. In a series of interviews, the filmmaker pins wiggling finan- Into this already pretty kettle flops the title character (Gemma Arterton), who left the mansion next door and now shows up with a swinging career as a understand. One of them, Kathy, played with implosive grit and grace by the astonishing Carey Mulligan ciers to the wall with well-informed and searingly precise arguments. Scenes of bankers, government officials magazine journalist. Her sudden return is observed with keen interest by the retreat’s frequently bare-chested handyman (Luke Evans) and with vicious (An Education), narrates the tale, telling us what happens when she and her friends — Tommy (Andrew and corporate sharks asking that scorn by two local kids (Jessica Barden and Charlotte Christie, both terrific). Garfield, Social Network), whom Kathy loves, and Ruth (a quicksilver Keira Knightley), who steals him the cameras be turned off, under No one above is thrilled when Tamara hooks up with a hot indie rocker (Dominic Cooper) the girls from her — join the others in “the Cottages.” The melancholy attached to the impermanence of life and the force of Ferguson’s intelligent already fancy like mad. They have their own ideas about how stories should play out. Still, the spirit of love suffuses this film, making it memorably haunting and hypnotic. –Rolling Stone and angry assault, are a joy to behold. –Vancouver International Agatha Christie is the heaviest authorial presence; with so many novelists gathered in one place, it’s only a matter of time until someone gets killed, published, or both. --Georgia Straight JAN 16 & 17 (9:00 only) separate admission Film Festival “Inside Job insists on a kind of JAN 21 & 22 (9:15 only) separate admission FIGHT CLUB revolution, as many such docu- Director: David Fincher (USA, 1999, 138 min; 18A) Cast: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, mentaries do. But this is one Helena Bonham Carter of the few with the goods to THE SHINING Director: Stanley Kubrick (USA, 1980, 119 min; BluRay; 18A) Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall A cynical, white-collar insomniac (Edward Norton) finds everything he is not in Brad Pitt who plays the send you rioting in the streets.” confident inventor of a macho basement slugfest ritual and the author of a personal code that has the --Boston Globe Stanley Kubrick’s chilling version of the Stephen King novel. All work and no play makes Jack a dull appeal of a religious cult. Fight Club delivers a sucker punch to the audience. It is sensational. It is also boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work Sponsored by UVic Greens Club grimly funny. –San Francisco Chronicle and no play makes Jack a dull boy…

KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM JAN 26 & 27 (7:15 only) JAN 28 & 29 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:10) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG FANTASTIC MR. FOX CARLOS CONVICTION JAN 23 (3:45 matinee & 7:10 & 9:00) Back by popular demand! Director: Olivier Assayas Director: Tony Goldwyn (USA, 2010, 108 minutes; 14A) Cast: Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Minnie Driver, Melissa Leo, Juliette Lewis JAN 24 & 25 (7:10 & 9:00) (France/Germany, 2010, 165 min; Various languages with subtitles; 14A) Hilary Swank has a jaw built for gumption, and all her best characters make use of that interesting WINDS OF HEAVEN “A TOUR-DE-FORCE CINEMATIC stubbornness. Betty Anne Waters, the remarkable real-life crusader at the heart of this well-made Director: Michael Ostroff (Canada, 2010, 87 min; DVD; rated G) BIOGRAPHY!” --The Globe and Mail biopic is a worthy addition. Convinced that her beloved brother, Kenny (Sam Rockwell), was inno- cent of the murder charge for which he received a life sentence in 1983, Betty Anne worked for 18 This is a must-see - possibly one of the best films ever made about our province, these forests, and our his- Although his body count is quite modest years to free him. And she did. It’s how she did that makes this story so powerful, a tale of justice tory as newcomers. Few of us were as sensitive as Emily Carr, and no one has interpreted this place more by contemporary standards, Ilich Ramírez served told with respectful restraint. Betty Anne, a working-class mother and dropout, stepped up profoundly in their art. Hats off to director Michael Ostroff, cinematographer John Walker, and everyone Sánchez remains the world’s only celeb- to put herself through law involved in this project; it is, for us, a very important story well-told, and surely for everyone, a sight to behold. rity terrorist. The Venezuelan-born “Carlos” school so she could rep- Subtitled Emily Carr, Carvers, and the Spirits of the Forest, the project was to make “a filmic journey into was the perfect Cold War villain. Known for resent the despondent the deep brooding mystery and inner beauty of Emily Carr’s paintings - a lyrical, luminescent and entertain- blasting his way out of a Paris ambush and Kenny. The casting is ing impression of the life of Carr and her connection to the First Nations people of the Northwest Coast.” tossing a grenade into a crowded café, this choice: The ever-magnetic Shot in Super 16mm film in Haida Gwai, Victoria and Vancouver, details of Carr’s paintings are folded into Communist playboy began to be noticed. It was in 1975, however, that he really “made his bones”. First, he Sam Rockwell is Kenny, haunting images of our coastal landscapes, and fresh archival material. On a cinema screen, there is a attacked the OPEC conference in Vienna, kidnapping a slew of the world’s oil ministers after causing three Minnie Driver is full of spiritual intensity in the bright fauvist extravagance emerging from the deep, dark and often wet shadows. deaths. Then he flew his hostages to one Arab capital after another before allegedly receiving a whopping beans as Betty Anne’s This is indeed British Columbia, but as reflected in critical - not promotional - eyes. Incisive commentary great ransom in return for their release. After that, his violent career continued for decades, but he was best friend, Melissa Leo is by art historians Gerta Moray and Susan Crean, art critic Marcia Crosby and museum curator Laurel Smith now a mysterious presence lurking in the shadows, not a high-profile triggerman. Finally, he was captured wicked good as an ornery Wilson, represents in person the interweaving of aboriginal and Western sensibilities that the film dramatizes. in Khartoum and imprisoned in France…French director Olivier Assayas was so taken by this story that he cop, and Juliette Lewis –Vancouver International Film Festival made not one but two films. The first was a 330-minute epic that was originally meant to be shown in three reminds fans why we want parts. The second is a 160-minute condensation of same in which events occur in a more linear manner. her to run free forever.- Presented in partnership with the Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery. Happily, this distillation in no way results in a diminution of Carlos’s on-screen power. As we travel from -Entertainment Weekly Limited edition prints of Emily Carr’s 1939 painting Happiness ($60, tax included) will be on sale in country to country, from attack to attack, we rediscover an underworld that has only recently vanished. The the lobby. pace is superfast, and star Edgar Ramírez turns in an intense performance. Quite simply, biopics don’t get any better than this. --Georgia Straight Sponsored by OPEN CINEMA www.opencinema.ca

KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM FEB 1 FEB 2 & 3 (7:10 & 9:00) FEB 4 & 5 (3:00 matinee & 7:15 & 9:15) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM FANTASTIC MR. FOX MEGAMIND (7:00 & 9:15) COUNTDOWN TO ZERO DUE DATE JAN 30 (3:00 matinee & 7:00) Director: Lucy Walker (USA, 2010, 90 minutes; rated G) Director: Todd Phillips (USA, 2010, 96 minutes; PG) ROCK DOC Cast: Robert Downey, Jr., Zack Galifianakis, Michelle JAN 31 (7:00 only) The Band and “HAIR RAISING!” –The Wall Street Journal Monaghan HEREAFTER friends “A TERRIFYING AND HIGHLY EFFECTIVE DOCUMENTARY!” –Salon “Fast, lazy, and out of control in a manner that’s Director: Clint Eastwood (USA, 2010, 129 minutes; PG) basically commendable.” –The Village Voice Cast: Matt Damon, Cecile de France, Bryce Dallas Howard, THE LAST Countdown to Zero makes old terrors radioactively new again. Lucy Walker (Waste Land), the director of Richard Kind, Jay Mohr this documentary about the still clear-and-present danger of nuclear weapons, has her finger on the ulti- It’s a long way from Atlanta to Los Angeles, and it’s WALTZ mate hot-button topic, and she doesn’t let go. The film features spine-tingling descriptions of the moments longer still without identification, money, or the legal “FASCINATING AND ENRICHING!” –San Francisco Chronicle Director: Martin when we risked toppling into a nuclear conflagration — like in, say, 1995, when a wayward U.S. missile ability to board a plane, and with the forced company Scorsese (USA, 1978, 117 min; BluRay; G) caused the Russian nuclear football to be opened in front of Boris Yeltsin. (Fortunately, he wasn’t drunk.) of a man whose nonstop chatter includes a boast Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter considers the idea of an afterlife The film also illustrates how easy about having 90 friends on Facebook, 12 of them with tenderness, beauty and a gentle tact. I was surprised to Arguably, the best of all rock-concert docu- it is to buy enriched uranium pending. But when deadlines loom, you do what you find it enthralling. This is a film about the afterlife that avoids mentaries. Martin Scorsese’s film of The Band’s on the black market. At times have to do, as Robert Downey Jr. discovers in Due committing itself. The closest it comes is the idea of con- Thanksgiving 1976 performance in San Francisco Countdown to Zero comes close Date. A successful, tightly wound architect working sciousness after apparent death. This is a film for intelligent is intensely satisfying. Visually, it’s dark-toned and to being nuclear-anxiety porn, yet away from his expectant wife, Downey winds up shar- people who are naturally curious about what happens when rich and classically simple. With Band members— it’s the rare film that could trig- ing a rental car with Zach Galifianakis, who plays an the shutters close. Hereafter stars Matt Damon as George, a Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, ger and unite the reflexes of the aspiring actor of dubious talent, eager to make it in man who sincerely believes he’s able to have communication Richard Manuel and Rick Danko. Also with per- left and the right. It makes get- Hollywood. Well, not so eager that he can’t make their with the dead, but has fled that ability and taken a low-profile formers who represent the different styles of rock ting rid of nukes seem less like first stop a side trip to buy some weed. So begins a job; Cecile de France as Marie, a newsreader on French television; Bryce Dallas Howard as a young and the traditions that have fueled it—Joni Mitchell, a ‘’cause’’ than an imperative. rambling cross-country journey that makes a lot of familiar buddy-movie stops along the way, but cooking student with a fearful dark place inside; Richard Kind as a man mourning his wife; and Frankie Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Muddy --Entertainment Weekly seldom suffers for it. Directing with more focus— and eventually, more heart—than he brought to and George McLaren as twin brothers. I won’t describe the traumatic surprises some of them experience. Waters, Neil Young, Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John, The Hangover, Todd Phillips smartly lets his leads’ chemistry power the movie. Galifianakis keeps Eastwood and his actors achieve a tone that doesn’t force the material but embraces it: Not dreamlike, the Staples, Ringo Starr, Paul Butterfield, Emmylou his character interesting by refusing to define what type of weirdo he’s playing. The situations but evoking a reverie state. The movie is an original screenplay by Peter Morgan (The Queen). Eastwood Harris, Neil Diamond, and others. –Pauline Kael sometimes feel contrived, but the characters never do, particularly because Galifianakis remains told me Morgan doesn’t believe in an afterlife. I don’t know if Eastwood does, either. His film embodies simultaneously charming and unrelentingly irritating. It’s easy to believe Downey would come to feel how love makes us need for there to be an afterlife. --Roger Ebert for the guy, equally easy to understand why he’d want to throttle him. --The Onion AV Club

KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM FEB 8 (7:10 & 9:00) FEB 11 & 12 (3:00 matinee & 7:10 & 9:20) MEGAMIND FEB 9 & 10 (7:00 & 9:20) THE PRINCESS BRIDE ROCK DOC An uplifiting comedy about FAIR GAME FEB 6 (3:00 matinee & 7:00) Director: Doug Liman (USA, 2010, 108 minutes; PG) Cast: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Sam Shepard, Talking Heads a true BAND of misfits. Noah Emmerich FEB 7 (7:00 only) STOP MAKING SENSE THE CONCERT “TERRIFICALLY ENTERTAINING!” –The New York Times VISION: From the life of Hidegard Director: Jonathan Demme (USA, 1984, 88 min; BluRay; G) / LE CONCERT You’d have to go back to All the President’s Men (1976) for a better example of fresh American political von Bingen Director: Radu Mihaileanu (France/Russia, 2009, scandal being turned into slam-bang, star-powered drama. Sean Penn plays Joseph Wilson, the U.S. This concert film by the New York New Wave diplomat who publicly disputed the Bush administration’s evidence for weapons of mass destruction Director: Margarethe von Trotta (Germany, 2010, 106 min; rock band Talking Heads is a continuous rock 123 min; French/Russian with subtitles; DVD; PG) German & Latin with subtitles; PG) Starring Barbara Sukowa in Iraq, and Naomi Watts is his wife, Valerie Plame, who was outed as a CIA agent in retaliation. The experience that keeps building, becoming ever The Concert does some pretty skilful tear-jerking. Its hero screenplay is adapted from Plame’s and Wilson’s respective memoirs, and their relationship in the “A MUST-SEE FOR SERIOUS FILMGOERS!” more intense and euphoric. In its own terms, is a once-revered conductor (Aleksei Guskov) who was movie is so compelling that it generates an emotional force quite apart from the political skulduggery. –Los Angeles Times the movie is close to perfection. The lead singer, blacklisted when he got on the wrong side of Brezhnev 30 Scrupulous with the David Byrne, is a stupefying performer who gives years ago. Now working as a cleaner in a Moscow theatre, facts on weapons of The 12th-century Benedictine nun, Hildegard von Bingen–today a cult the group its undertone of repressed hysteria, he intercepts an invitation to the Bolshoi Orchestra to mass destruction, figure–is luminously portrayed by Barbara Sukowa in her 5th collaboration with director Margarethe which he blends with freshness and a driving beat. perform in Paris, and decides to pass off his own gaggle the movie does a real von Trotta (Rosa Luxemburg). Hildegard, a polymath by any century’s definition, was a composer of He designed the elegantly plain performance-art of washed-up musicians as the real thing. A rollicking service in showing Gregorian chants, a playwright, poet, and scientific pioneer in the fields of healing, herbal medicine and environment. The sound seems better than live farce gets under way, but The Concert grows deeper and how important Plame botany. As an iconoclastic religious figure who insisted on separate and independent abbies for nuns, sound: it is better. The film was shot during three richer when it brings on a French violinist (Mélanie Laurent, was to the agency’s she ran up against the church’s authoritarian and patriarchal hierarchy; as a mystic and visionary, she performances in 1983. –Pauline Kael Inglourious Basterds), and reveals more and more of the counterprolifera- insisted on her right to preach and interpret the Gospels. Sukowa infuses Hildegard with the will of a characters’ hidden agendas and secret histories. It mis- tion efforts in Iraq modern feminist, but one tethered to a medieval universe. Von Trotta makes that world believable and judges some of its multi-octave leaps between sentiment and how screwed lush, and at times as scary and alluring as a 900-year-old fairy tale. –Vancouver International Film Festival and silliness, but it’s warm-hearted enough to leave you her foreign sources glowing. –The Independent were when the story The sympathy of Vision lays in joy...von Trotta’s film seems to be exploring the nuances of love broke. Doug Liman on this earth.– MUBI There are highs in The Concert that few movies this year will touch….It ends in a place of transcen- (The Bourne Identity) dent emotion that sends everyone out of the theater in a swirl of transport. –San Francisco Chronicle directed. –Chicago Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) stands out as one of the most visionary and incredibly gifted spiritual Reader women of all time. --Spirituality and Practice

KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM FEB 14 (7:10 & 9:15) FEB 15 FEB 16 & 17 (7:00 & 9:10) THE PRINCESS BRIDE FEB 18 & 19 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:10) TBA CASABLANCA (7:00 & GASLAND MORNING GLORY FEB 13 (3:00 matinee & 7:00) Director: Michael Curtiz (USA, 1942, 102 min; G) 9:35) Director: Josh Fox (USA, 2010, 107 minutes; G) Director: Roger Michel (USA, 2010, 108 min; PG) Cast: Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, Patrick Wilson 2001: A SPACE THE MOST SPLENDIDLY ROMANTIC MOVIE ROCK DOC WINNER! BEST DOCUMENTARY –Environmental EVER MADE. Set against the backdrop of Media Association “BREEZY AND ENJOYABLE.” –Movieline ODYSSEY espionage in WWII French Morocco, the story Rolling Director: Stanley Kubrick (UK/USA, 1968, of enigmatic Casablanca nightclub owner Rick WINNER! SPECIAL JURY PRIZE –Sundance Film Morning Glory is a funny entertainment 141 min; BluRay; G) Co-written by Arthur C. Clarke (Humphrey Bogart) and his unwitting reunion with Stones Festival to begin with, and then Rachel McAdams an old flame (Ingrid Bergman) unfolds. The iconic transforms it. And Harrison Ford trans- “TRANSCENDENT!” – Roger Ebert performances from the Bogart, Bergman, and SHINE A “MESMERIZING! Warm-hearted…darkly humorous! forms himself. She plays as lovable a Paul Henreid are genuinely wonderful. And the –Washington Post lead as anyone and he bestirs himself and “THE GRANDEST OF ALL SCIENCE-FICTION supporting cast--which includes Claude Rains, LIGHT creates with gusto a TV newsman who is MOVIES!” –Entertainment Weekly Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt, Director: Martin Scorsese (USA, 2008, With its jolting images of flammable tap water and the third worst person of all time. Diane Dooley Wilson--is nothing less than heaven-sent. 122 minutes; PG) chemically burned pets, New York documentarian Keaton is pitch-perfect a morning TV A countdown to tomorrow, a road map to human Taut direction brings everything together nicely Josh Fox’s Sundance-feted shocker makes an irre- host who can, and must, smile through destiny, a quest for the infinite. To begin his voy- May be the most intimate documentary ever and makes a sentimental script sound like poetry. futable case against U.S. corporate “fracking”—the everything. This comedy is about how age into the future, Stanley Kubrick visits our made about a live rock ‘n’ roll concert. Certainly --Mr. Showbiz Haliburton-hatched scheme of natural gas drilling in people do their jobs. McAdams plays a prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millenia it has the best coverage of the performances and around shale basins. Narrating in the first person, little Energizer Bunny of a TV producer (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever onstage. Martin Scorsese deployed a team of the filmmaker begins by describing a gas company’s who has the good, or bad, luck to be conceived) into colonized space, and ultimately ten cinematographers, all of them Oscar winners six-figure offer to drill on his rural Pennsylvania land, hired to produce a last-place network whisks an astronaut (Keir Dullea) into uncharted or nominees, to blanket a live September 2006 which sits atop what the company trumpets as the morning show. The film was directed by realms of space, perhaps even into immortality. Rolling Stones concert at the smallish Beacon “Saudi Arabia of natural gas.” Refusing the deal, banjo- Roger Michel (Notting Hill) and written by “Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” Let the awe and Theatre in New York. The result is startling imme- strumming Fox takes his show on the road, inviting Aline Brosh McKenna, whose The Devil mystery of a journey unlike any other begin.— diacy, a merging of image and music, edited in citizens who did take big-energy cash to prove the contamination of their groundwater and recount its ill Wears Prada is also about a spunky Warner Bros. step with the performance. The cameras do not effects on their health. Describing himself as “not a pessimist,” Fox nonchalantly exposes conflicts of inter- simply regard the performances; in a sense, the young woman up against a living legend. est and fingers the “Haliburton loophole”—a curious exemption to the 2005 Energy Act as cooked up by ex- --Roger Ebert cameras are performers too, in the way shots are Haliburton exec Dick Cheney. No mere collection of talking heads, the doc expertly juxtaposes instances of cut together by Scorsese and his editor, David natural beauty with those of mechanized incursion, practically making us feel the toxic chemicals spilling off Tedeschi (The Last Waltz). The unmistakable fact the screen and into our laps. There’s only one conclusion to draw here: No fracking way. –The Village Voice is that the Stones love performing. --Roger Ebert Sponsored by UVic Greens Club

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JAN 8 & 9 ALPHA AND OMEGA 89 minutes; rated G Opposites attract and love conquers society’s rules in this animated romantic comedy set among a pack of wolves in Jasper National Park. JAN 15 & 16 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE 97 minutes: rated G – violence The story of a young owl caught in a battle between the noble Guardian owls and the wretched owls that seek a Lord of the Rings-style world of darkness. JAN 22 & 23 CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG 144 minutes; rated G Dick Van Dyke creates a car that flies and it leads him, his two children and his lady friend into a magi- cal world of pirates and castles in this 1968 musical adventure. JAN 29 & 30 FANTASTIC MR. FOX CINECENTA 87 minutes; rated G – violence Wes Anderson’s animated stop-motion fable, based on Roald Dahl’s children’s book, about the adven- tures of a family of foxes. FEB 5 & 6 MEGAMIND 3 CLASSIC CONCERT ROCK DOCS 96 minutes; rated G – violence Amusing animated adventure in which an alien villain with a big blue head becomes hero by default. 3 RABBLE-ROUSING DOCUMENTARIES FEB 12 & 13 THE PRINCESS BRIDE 96 minutes; rated G Peter Falk narrates this funny fairy-tale of two True 3 NEW BIOS: LENNON, GINSBERG, ZUCKERBERG Lovers, separated by oceans, villains and vast IQ differences. FEB 19 & 20 TO BE ANNOUNCED

sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM JAN 4 & 5 (7:00 & 9:00) JAN 6 (7:10 & 9:00) ten-film discount pass ALPHA AND OMEGA NOWHERE BOY JAN 7 & 8 (3:00 matinee & 7:10 & 9:00) Director: Sam Taylor-Wood HOWL (UK, 2010, 98 min; PG) Directors: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman (USA, 2010, 85 min; 14A) Cast: Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Cast: James Franco, Mary-Louise Parker, Jon Hamm, Thomas, Anne-Marie Duff David Strathairn, Jeff Daniels. Nowhere Boy is a biopic about John James Franco (127 Hours) delivers an impressive, beguilingly sen- SALE Lennon’s very early days (long before the sitive performance as the poet and Beat Generation avatar Allen jan. 7-13, 2011 Beatles), and it’s a terrific film: insightful Ginsberg in Howl, a part-biopic, part-interpretation of the title poem. and moving, with rock & roll sequences Written in 1955, a few years before Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, that give you a tingle. It starts in 1955, Ginsberg’s audacious, rhapsodically erotic answer to Walt Whitman when Lennon (Aaron Johnson) is just 15 would plant the flag for his literary peers who would help redefine 10 MOVIES and a Liverpool delinquent living with his American culture. aunt Mimi (Kristin Scott Thomas). Before long, two things will rock his world. First, Ginsberg’s poem would also be called obscene, and when the FOR $50! he learns that his mother, Julia (Anne- poet and bookstore owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti published it, he Marie Duff), lives just down the road, and was arrested. Howl mixes a number of story lines and aesthetic Available to he reconnects with her. The second thing that happens is that he decides he wants to be Elvis Presley. The approaches: We get glimpses of Ginsberg’s early days as a poet, power of Nowhere Boy is that it captures how John Lennon’s deeply sordid family life toyed with his soul by including his relationships with Kerouac and Neal Cassady, as well as Cinemagic members, not letting him know who he was. When he’s drawn to the bad-boy catharsis of rock & roll, it gives him more a depiction of the trial, where a parade of critics and professors pronounced Ginsberg’s creation either a work of genius or irredeemable filth. than an outlet — it gives him an identity. (And that’s before he meets a certain eager fellow named Paul, late UVic alumini, in the film.) At first, Aaron Johnson (Kick-Ass) seems too morose to be John Lennon, but then the Lennon Filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman also include Ginsberg reading Howl at City Lights bookstore, which they choose to illustrate with Matisse- UVic faculty & staff, personality — the wit, the casual cruelty — emerges. By the end, you’ll feel you know John Lennon better like animations of figures soaring over the highways of Ginsberg’s burning imagination. than you ever did. --Entertainment Weekly students & seniors If those passages are a tad too obvious, Howl nonetheless builds into a quietly affecting portrait of a poet desperately trying to free himself from societal Nowhere Boy is smart enough not to spell it all out. Lennon’s music plays in your head as the movie works shame to find his own authentic voice. Franco gives generous, compassionate life to that struggle, but the high point of the movie is his deeply moving Limit of two per customer. its subtle magic. –Rolling Stone reading of Howl itself. As the camera pans Ginsberg’s gobsmacked audience at City Lights, what could have been a trivial exercise in nostalgia instead On sale at the Munchie Bar & the box office becomes a powerful case for the cathartic power of art. --Washington Post

KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM JAN 12 (7:10 & 9:00) JAN 13 JAN 14 & 15 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:45) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM ALPHA AND OMEGA LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS BICYCLE DOUBLE FEATURE THE GIRL WHO KICKED JAN 9 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:20) THIEVES Two films for the price of One! HORNETS’ NEST JAN 10 & 11 (7:00 & 9:20) Director: Vittorio De Sica Director: Daniel Alfredson (Sweden, 148 min; Swedish with subtitles; 14A) (Italy, 1948, 93 min; Italian 6:45 – THE GIRL WITH THE SOCIAL NETWORK with subtitles; DVD) The third and final film adaptation of the best-selling Millennium trilogy written by the late Swedish Director: David Fincher (USA. 2010, 121 minutes; PG) Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew THE DRAGON TATTOO author, Stieg Larsson (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire— Garfield, Rooney Mara, Justin Timberlake. “ONE OF THE GREATEST (Sweden, 2009, 154 min; see Jan. 13). In this last installment, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) lies in critical condition, a FILMS OF ALL TIME!” – Swedish with English subtitles; BluRay; 18A) bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her “MESMERIZING!” –The Hollywood Reporter Pauline Kael plus life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand “THE MOVIE OF THE YEAR!” --Rolling Stone “TERRIFIC ENTERTAINMENT!” –NPR trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), Hailed around the world as one of the greatest she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority movies ever made, Vittorio De Sica’s Academy “ONE OF THE BEST PICTURES OF 2010!” –Orlando Sentinel 9:30 – THE GIRL WHO who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she Award–winning Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) will plot revenge – against defined an era in cinema. In postwar, poverty-strick- What makes Mark Zuckerberg run? In The Social Network, David Fincher’s fleet, weirdly PLAYED WITH FIRE the man who tried to kill her, en Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate funny, exhilarating, alarming and fictionalized look at the man behind the social-media phe- (Sweden, 2009, 131 min; Swedish with subtitles; and the corrupt government family with a new job, loses his bicycle, his main BluRay, 18A) nomenon Facebook — 500 million active users, oops, friends, and counting — Mark runs institutions that very nearly means of transportation for work. With his wide-eyed and he runs, sometimes in flip-flops and a hoodie, across Harvard Yard and straight at his destroyed her life. – Music young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. first billion. Quick as a rabbit, sly as a fox, he is the geek who would be king or just Bill Gates. Box Films Simple in construction and dazzlingly rich in human He’s also the smartest guy in the room, and don’t you forget it. The first time you see Mark insight, Bicycle Thieves embodied all the greatest (Jesse Eisenberg, firing on all cylinders) he’s 19 and wearing a hoodie stamped with the word strengths of the neorealist film movement in Italy: Gap, as in the clothing giant but, you know, also not. Eyes darting, he is yammering at his girlfriend, Erica (Rooney Mara), whose backhand has grown weary. As emotional clarity, social righteousness, and brutal they swat the screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s words at each other, the two partners quickly shift from offline friends to foes, a foreshadowing of the emotional storms honesty. –Criterion Collection to come. Soon Mark is back in his dorm, pounding on his keyboard and inadvertently sowing the seeds of Facebook, first by blogging about Erica and then by taking his anger out on the rest of Harvard’s women, whose photos he downloads for cruel public sport: is she hot or not. —The New York Times Sponsored by UVic’s Film Studies Program

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