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Movie Museum APRIL 2007 COMING ATTRACTIONS THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY Spanish Ching Ming Good Friday Hawaii Premiere! Easter Sunday THE SILENT PARTNER VOLVER MRS. PALFREY AT THE THE MYSTERY OF THE MRS. PALFREY AT THE (1978-Canada) (2006-Spain) CLAREMONT YELLOW ROOM CLAREMONT in widescreen in Spanish with English (2005-UK/USA) aka Le Mystère de la (2005-UK/USA) subtitles & in widescreen in widescreen Chambre Jaune in widescreen with Elliott Gould, Christopher (2003-Belgium/France) with Joan Plowright, Rupert with Joan Plowright, Rupert Plummer, Susannah York, Ken with Penélope Cruz, Carmen in French with English Friend, Zoe Trapper, Anna Pogue, Celine Lomez, Michael Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca subtitles & in widescreen Friend, Zoe Trapper, Anna Portillo, Yohana Cobo. Massey, Robert Lang. with Denis Podalydès, Jean- Massey, Robert Lang. Kirby, John Candy. Noël Brouté, Claude Rich, Written and Directed by Directed by Sabine Azéma. Directed by Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Dan Ireland. Dan Ireland. Daryl Duke. Directed by Bruno Podalydès. 12:30, 3, 5:30 & 8pm 5 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 6 12:30, 3, 5:30 & 8pm 7 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 8 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 9 THE AURA Hawaii Premiere! THE AURA KEEPING MUM Hawaii Premiere! (2005-Argentina/France/ THE PERFECT CRIME (2005-Argentina/France/ (2005-UK) THE PERFECT CRIME Spain) aka Crimen Ferpecto Spain) in widescreen aka Crimen Ferpecto in Spanish with English (2004-Spain/Italy) in Spanish with English with Rowan Atkinson, Kristin (2004-Spain/Italy) in Spanish with English subtitles & in widescreen Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, in Spanish with English subtitles & in widescreen subtitles & in widescreen with Ricardo Darin, Dolores subtitles & in widescreen with Ricardo Darin, Dolores Patrick Swayze, Tamsin with Guillermo Toledo, Mónica Egerton, Toby Parkes, with Guillermo Toledo, Mónica Fonzi, Pablo Cedrón, Nahuel Fonzi, Pablo Cedrón, Nahuel Cervera, Luis Varela, Enrique Cervera, Luis Varela, Enrique Liz Smith, Emilia Fox. Pérez Biscayart. Villén, Fernando Tejero. Pérez Biscayart. Villén, Fernando Tejero. Written and Directed by Directed and Co-written by Written and Directed by Directed by Directed and Co-written by Fabián Bielinsky. Álex de la Iglesia. Fabián Bielinsky. Niall Johnson. Álex de la Iglesia. 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 12:30, 3, 5:30 & 8pm 12 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 13 12:30, 3, 5:30 & 8pm 14 15 16 Earth Day Abelard & Heloise Story THE HISTORY BOYS KEEPING MUM THE HISTORY BOYS Hawaii Premiere! STEALING HEAVEN (2006-UK) (2005-UK) (2006-UK) (1988-UK/Yugoslavia) in widescreen SAMSARA in widescreen in widescreen (2001-Italy/France/India/ uncut, unrated version in widescreen with Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Germany) with Samuel Anderson, James with Samuel Anderson, James with Kim Thomson, Derek de Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, in Tibetan/Ladakhi w/English Corden, Stephen Campbell Corden, Stephen Campbell subtitles & in widescreen Lint, Denholm Elliott, Mark Patrick Swayze, Tamsin Moore, Richard Griffiths, Moore, Richard Griffiths, Egerton, Toby Parkes, with Shawn Ku, Christy Chung, Jax, Bernard Hepton, Kenneth Frances de la tour, Andrew Frances de la Tour, Andrew Liz Smith, Emilia Fox. Neelesha BaVora, Lahkpa Cranham, Angela Pleasence. Knott, Russell Tovey. Knott, Russell Tovey. Tsering, Tenzin Tashi. Directed by Directed by Directed by Directed by Niall Johnson. Directed and Co-written by Clive Donner. Nicholas Hytner. Nicholas Hytner. Pan Nalin. 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 12:30, 3, 5:30 & 8pm 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 19 20 21 12:30, 3, 5:30 & 8pm 22 23 New Restored Print Hawaii Premiere! THE LAST KING OF THE QUEEN C. S. Forester's BROKEN SILENCE SAMSARA SCOTLAND (2006-UK/France/Italy) SAILOR OF THE KING (1995-Switzerland) (2001-Italy/France/India/ (2006-UK) in widescreen aka Brown on Resolution in widescreen Germany) in widescreen (1953-UK) in Tibetan/Ladakhi w/English with Forest Whitaker, James with Helen Mirren, Michael with Jeffrey Hunter, Michael with Martin Huber, subtitles & in widescreen McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Sheen, James Cromwell, Sylvia Rennie, Peter van Eyck, Ameenah Kaplan, Michael with Shawn Ku, Christy Chung, Gillian Anderson, Simon Syms, Alex Jennings, Helen Wendy Hiller, Bernard Lee, Moriarty, Colonel Kappor. Neelesha BaVora, Lahkpa McBurney, David Oyelowo, McCrory, Roger Allam, Tim Victor Maddern, Patrick Barr, Tsering, Tenzin Tashi. Abby Mukiibi Nkaaga. McMullan, Douglas Reith. Robin Bailey. Written and Directed by Directed and Co-written by Directed by Directed by Directed by Wolfgang Panzer. Pan Nalin. Kevin Macdonald. Stephen Frears. Roy Boulting. 12:30, 3, 5:30 & 8pm 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 26 27 12:30, 3, 5:30 & 8pm 28 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 29 30 $5 General Admission / $4 Members All films will be presented Reservations Recommended. Call 735-8771. with digital sound. MOVIE MUSEUM April 2007 $5 General Admission / $4 Members COMING ATTRACTIONS Reservations Recommended. Call 735-8771. VOLVER (2006-Spain) 121m **** D: Pedro Almodóvar. Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, THE HISTORY BOYS (2006-UK) 109m *** D: Nicholas Hytner. Samuel Anderson, James Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave, Antonio de la Torre. Corden, Stephen Campbell Moore, Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Andrew Knott, Cruz plays a hardworking woman named Raimunda who supports a teenage daughter Russell Tovey, Jamie Parker, Dominic Cooper, Samuel Barnett. Allan Bennett’s brilliant (Cobo) and a layabout husband. Her family is shattered by an act of violence, but play makes a triumphant crossover to screen, using the same National Theater director begins to heal again when her mother (Maura) apparently returns from the dead. and cast. The year is 1983, and the setting is an all-boys grammar school in Yorkshire Intense, colorful and poetic, this paean to motherhood and female relationships won mostly attended by working class students. The “history boys” are seven chosen to take an impressively long list of awards, including Best Screenplay (Almodóvar) and Best the Oxbridge (Oxford and Cambridge) entrance exams in history. The boys must absorb Actress (the entire female cast) at Cannes; five Goya awards, including Best Picture; the lessons of strikingly different teachers: the methodical and traditional Mrs. Lintott the FIPRESCI Film of the Year at San Sebastian; and Best Foreign Language Film from (de la Tour), and a young new teacher, Irwin (Moore). Irwin cynically believes the Oxbridge the National Board of Review. Radiant Penélope Cruz was nominated for both an dons would be more impressed by the revisionist spin the boys could put on history, not Oscar and a Golden Globe for her performance. Happy Ching Ming! their understanding of it, while Lintott insists the boys consider history’s omissions to get a full picture of the truth. A fascinating study of the value of education, this film was MRS. PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT (2005-UK/USA) 108m *** D: Dan Ireland. nominated for two BAFTA awards and four British Independent Film Awards for acting Joan Plowright, Rupert Friend, Zoe Trapper, Anna Massey, Robert Lang, Marcia War- and screenplay. ren, Georgina Hale, Millicent Martin. Mrs. Palfrey (Plowright) checks into a retirement hotel in London to start a life of independence. When her ingrate grandson (who THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND (2006-UK) 123m *** ½ D: Kevin Macdonald. Forest works nearby) doesn’t return her calls, she soon feels embarrassed by not having any Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Simon McBurney, David visitors—as the other guests in the hotel are terribly nosey. The solution arrives in the Oyelowo, Abby Mukiibi Nkaaga. Whitaker is monumental and monstrous as Ugandan form of a charming young street musician named Ludovic (Friend), who rescues Mrs. dictator Idi Amin in this fascinating drama fictionalizing events seen by his personal Palfrey when she stumbles on the sidewalk. He agrees to pose as her grandson, and physician in the 1970s. Young and brash Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan (McAvoy) their masquerade grows into a genuine friendship. Plowright’s delightful performance handles a roadside emergency and impresses Amin with his resourcefulness and nerve. won her the title of Actress of the Year by AARP. Happy Easter! Amin charms Garrigan into becoming his personal physician, a position that expands to presidential adviser. What starts out as a glamorous and comfortable job becomes steadily THE MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW ROOM aka Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune more frightening as the mercurial nature of Idi Amin brings violence and chaos to the (2003-Belgium/France) 118m *** D: Bruno Podalydès. Denis Podalydès, Jean-Noël country. Winner of the prestigious Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film and Best Brouté, Claude Rich, Scali Delpeyrat, Sabine Azéma, Michael Lonsdale (MUNICH), Screenplay from BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts). Whitaker’s pow- Julos Beaucarne, Olivier Gourmet. An attempt is made on the life of Mathilde (Azéma) erhouse performance won a well-deserved Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe. while she in her bedroom, a yellow room with barred windows, one locked door and no other means of entrance or exit. Her screams and gunshots are heard in the laboratory SAMSARA (2001-Italy/France/India/Germany) 138m *** D: Pan Nalin. Shawn Ku, Christy next door by her inventor father and the estate’s housekeeper. They break down the Chung, Neelesha BaVora, Lhakpa Tsering, Tenzin Tashi, Jamayang Jinpa. Samsara is the door to find her alone and unconscious, with strangulation marks on her neck and a secular world: the endless cycle of birth and rebirth that can only be broken by enlight- bloody handprint on the wall. Eccentric young reporter Joseph Rouletabille enment. After coming out of a deep meditation lasting three years, the dedicated monk (Podalydès) and his photographer sidekick Sainclair (Brouté) vie with the police to Tashi (Ku) finds himself troubled by intense sexual cravings. When he meets beautiful solve the mystery. Based on the Gaston Leroux (Phantom of the Opera) classic of Pema (Chung), a local farmer’s daughter, he decides to leave the monastery to marry her.