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sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM OCT 5 & 6 (7:00 & 9:10) OCT 7 & 8 (3:00 matinee & 7:10 & 9:10) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM KUNG FU PANDA 2 OCT 4 (7:15 & 9:00) CARS 2 back by popular SNOW FLOWER LIFE IN A DAY OCT 2 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:15) demand! Director: Kevin Macdonald AND THE SECRET USA/UK, 2011, 96 minutes; PG OCT 3 (7:00 & 9:15) MARION FAN “A PROFOUND ACHIEVEMENT.” THE TRIP WOODMAN: Director: Wayne Wang –Washington Post Director: Michael Winterbottom DANCING IN China/USA, 2011, 105 min; PG UK, 2010, 112 minutes; PG “A FASCINATING GLIMPSE OF THE WAY WE THE FLAMES Cast: Li Bingbing, Gianna Jun LIVE TODAY.” –Empire “TERRIFIC!” –San Francisco Chronicle Director: Adam Reid Like Wayne Wang’s The Joy Luck Club, “EARTHY AND AT TIMES EUPHORIC!” Canada, 2009, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan enters “LACED WITH LACERATING LAUGHS!” – Times – 86 minutes; DVD the world of women with complete open- ness to its sensory sights and sounds, its “SERVES AS A FINE TIME CAPSULE.” What if life and death are In The Trip, Michael Winterbottom (Tristram codes of behavior, secrets of the heart –The A.V. Club Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story)’s riotous and not divided against each other but are instead and sturdiness of the soul. It does this resplendent road movie, two of Britain’s comedy titans face off in an epic match of dueling impressions. part of a mysterious, harmonious whole? That’s through parallel stories, one set in con- “A TESTAMENT TO THE MESSY JOY OF Does Steve Coogan, the acerbic, hangdog star of 24 Hour Party People, do a better Michael Caine? Does the thesis of this enlightening documentary about temporary Shanghai and the other taking EXISTENCE!” –Time Out New York Rob Brydon, stocky, spry, and much loved in his homeland for his hit BBC series, do the more nuanced spiritual intellectual Marion Woodman. A Jungian place in 19th century Hunan province in Sean Connery as James Bond? It’s a relentless and relentlessly funny game of one-upmanship as the analyst, author and educator, she’s renowned for central China. Sometimes the switches in This compilation of several hundred home videos, two men, playing somewhat exaggerated versions of themselves, roam the hills and dales, posh inns and her contributions to feminist thought, the study of time and use of the same two actresses all shot on July 24, 2010, and submitted by citizens poetic ruins of England’s Lake District. The Trip was originally shot for British television and reedited as addiction, and the endeavour to join spirituality with playing roles a century-and-a-half apart around the globe, is so freshly edited, the clips so a rambling but illuminating odyssey that has as much to do with friendship as it does with celebrating professional psychology. This inspiring documentary are awkward. But so strong are the emo- free of the usual YouTube Stupid Human Tricks coy- the comedic chops of its two stars. The jokes, the riffing, the almost scary channeling of Richard Burton radiates passion and intellectual curiosity - indeed, tions — and, yes, the melodrama — that Snow Flower represents one of Wayne Wang’s best films to ness, that it’s easy to get addicted to its clear-eyed and Anthony Hopkins, Al Pacino and Woody Allen, will throw you into paroxysms - but Winterbottom it’s about the essential link between the two. As a date. Based partially on Lisa See’s 2005 novel, the film begins by introducing the concept of “laotong,” a celebration of the rituals and dislocating comedy isn’t merely playing it for laughs. By the end, when Coogan and Brydon have returned to their respective thinker, Woodman draws on religion and myth to contractual arrangement between women, even from different classes, that makes them sworn sisters for of life in the 21st century. It’s our equivalent of that London abodes (Brydon to a loving wife, Coogan to no one), The Trip is awash in a kind of cathartic mel- explain the mind; hers is a philosophy of dynamic life. Everything about the period story speaks to women’s oppression in the near feudal society of provincial ‘80s art-film kaleidoscope Koyaanisqatsi. What’s ancholy…If anything, The Trip, the second time around, is even funnier. –Philadelphia Inquirer opposites. --Vancouver International Film Festival China. The contemporary Shanghai women are seen as cosmopolitan English-speakers rising to the top of transporting about Life in a Day is that it’s so much corporations and having their choice of men…. -- warmer and less abstract. –

KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM OCT 12 & 13 (7:00 & 9:00) OCT 14 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:30) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM CARS 2 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4 PROJECT NIM OCT 15 (3:40 matinee & 7:00 & 9:30) OCT 9 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:00) Director: James Marsh CAPTAIN AMERICA: OCT 10 & 11 (7:00 & 9:00) USA, 2011, 101 minutes; PG THE FIRST AVENGER THE FUTURE This trenchant documentary by James Director: Joe Johnston Director: Miranda July Marsh (Man on Wire) exposes the fool- USA, 2011, 124 minutes; PG ishness of our tendency to anthropomor- USA, 2011, 92 minutes; PG Cast: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Stanley Tucci, phize animals. In 1973 a baby chimpan- Hayley Atwell, Tommy Lee Jones Cast: Miranda July, Hamish Linklater zee called Nim was torn from its mother The Future begins as a floppy little drama about a couple of at a primate research lab in Oklahoma to “A THRILL RIDE.” –Portland Oregonian limp-flower thirtysomethings who, cocooned in their thrift-shop- become the subject—and media star— furnished L.A. apartment, dither about whether they’re adult of a Columbia University study in lan- “OLD-FASHIONED PULP FUN!” enough to adopt an ailing cat. The movie ends in a deep and guage development. A surrogate mother, –Entertainment Weekly extraordinary demonstration of how the world spins forward, Stephanie LaFarge (the former lover of Certainly the most stylish comics-derived enter- whether we’re ready or not. In between, this daring, singular proj- project head Herbert Terrace), took the tainment of the year. This is the fifth film in the ect blithely risks accusations of cutesiness: The movie is framed infant chimp into her Manhattan apart- interconnected Marvel comics universe, wherein by narration from Paw Paw, the cat in question (voiced by the ment and reared it as part of her own the whole gang — Captain America, Iron Man, movie’s writer-director-star, Miranda July), with only those witty- large family, teaching it to communicate the Hulk and Thor— will come together to form bitty paw-paws visible. through sign language for the deaf. But LaFarge’s resistance to strict scientific protocol resulted in Nim being relocated to a sprawling estate in Riverdale, and its signing ability increased rapidly under the tutelage a boy band next May in “The Avengers.” The The Future belongs to Sophie (July), who teaches dance to little kids while dreaming of sharing her own choreography with a YouTube audience, and to her of undergraduate Laura-Ann Petitto (who would also become romantically involved with Terrace). Sexual movie takes its mythology seriously without boyfriend, Jason (The New Adventures of Old Christine’s marvelous Hamish Linklater), who would like to grow up to be maybe, oh, a world leader but meanwhile politics, family dynamics, the debate over heredity versus environment, and the dubious ethics of scientific choking on it. Director Johnston knows and loves provides tech support from his home phone. As she did in her striking 2005 debut, Me and You and Everyone We Know, July creates a fluid cinematic universe, research on animals are rigorously explored in this ambitious, bittersweet work. –Chicago Reader the story’s period; he brings a zest for retro detail flexible enough to embrace the artist’s favorite interests; she weaves in performance art and Internet culture (the couple are glued to their laptops). And she cre- in the service of an early 1940s story dealing in ates perfect images of supernatural everydayness. In The Future, everything is possible. --Entertainment Weekly I’ll be forever grateful to this movie for introducing me to Nim’s story, a tale so powerful and sugges- Nazis and World War II. --Chicago Tribune tive that it functions as a myth about the ever-mysterious relationship between human beings and “The magical, metaphorical strain in ‘The Future’ is what makes it powerful, unsettling and strange, as well as charming.” –The New York Times animals. –Dana Stevens, Slate

KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM OCT 21 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:15) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4 OCT 18, 19, 20 Antimatter Film Festival www.antimatter.ws • 250 385 3327 HARRY POTTER 8 OCT 22 (3:30 matinee & 7:00 & 9:15) OCT 16 TUES, OCT 18 WED, OCT 19 THURS, OCT 20 FRIENDS WITH (3:40 matinee 7pm Songs 7pm The Ballad 7pm Everyday BENEFITS & 7:00 & 9:00) from the Nickel of Genesis & Sunshine: The Director: Will Gluck OCT 17 (7:00 & 9:00) Alina Skrzeszewska, Story of Fishbone USA, 2011, 110 minutes; 14A USA/Germany, 83min Lady Jaye Marie Losier, USA/France, 72min Lev Anderson & Chris Metzler, Cast: Mila Kunis, Justin Timberlake, Patricia Clarkson, Richard Jenkins THE TREE Stories from an invisible Los Angeles: an intimate USA, 107min Director: Julie Bertuccelli portrait of people who found their home in the An intimate, affecting portrait of A documentary about the band Fishbone, musical “SEXY!” –The Hollywood Reporter “IT WORKS LIKE A CHARM.” –Boston Globe France/Australia, 2010, rhythms of street life and cheap downtown hotels. the life and work of ground-breaking performance pioneers who have been rocking on the margins of Another shag-buddies comedy, but it’s much better than the last one, No Strings Attached. Dylan 101 minutes; PG Songs from the Nickel is about the lives of outcasts, artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge pop culture for the past 25 years. From the streets (Justin Timberlake), a Los Angeles Web designer who takes a magazine job in New York, and Jamie and the sadness, beauty and freedom that accom- (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) and his wife and of South Central LA and the competitive Hollywood Starring Charlotte Gainsbourgh (Mila Kunis), the headhunter who recruits him, hop into bed and make very particular demands on pany them. collaborator, Lady Jaye, centred on the daring music scene of the 1980s, Everyday Sunshine exam- Sadness and longing haunt the sexual transformations the pair underwent for their ines the trajectory of the band rise to prominence, each other, but they agree not to indulge in anything so dirty or squalid as emotion. The movie is fast, films of the French director Julie “Pandrogyne” project. only to fall apart on the verge of “making it.” allusive, urban, glamorous. The director, Will Gluck, keeps the characters racing ahead and trying Bertuccelli, whose gorgeous second 9pm And Again to outsmart each other, in and out of bed. Timberlake, swinging his lithe body around the room, has feature is set in Queensland, Australia, on the outskirts of Brisbane. Here, on the edge of the outback, the Adele Horne, USA, 60min 9pm Blinding become a shrewdly likable actor. Kunis, of the almond-shaped eyes and dusky skin, is all teasing environment is so luminous that every outdoor shot has an aura of magical realism. The title refers to a 9pm Mexicali mischief and easily hurt feelings. --The New Yorker In a New Mexico ghost-town Steve Sanguedolce, Canada, 72min Juan Palacio & Max Herrlander, marvelous, many-limbed tree, a Moreton Bay fig, that rises like a giant, woody mushroom with cradling revived by the US Department Mexico/USA/Sweden, 68min OCT 21 & 22 (11:30pm) separate admission arms next to the ramshackle farmhouse of the O’Neils. –The New York Times of Homeland Security, locals Blinding is a hand-processed, Juxtaposed perceptions of the play the parts of terrorists and hand-coloured film about the Mexico/US border intersect in The fig tree looms over the home of Dawn O’Neil (Charlotte Gainsbourg). When her loving husband and victims in simulation training beauty and curse of vision. It THE SHINING a story about attaining a higher Director: Stanley Kubrick (USA, 1980, 119 min; BluRay; 18A) father of three dies of a heart attack in one of the opening scenes, the truck in which he was driving stops exercises. And Again juxtapos- follows the story of three people knowledge through a dedicated Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall with a bump against the giant trunk. Seven-year-old Simone (Morgana Davies) gets it into her pretty es these training exercises with who have experienced major dis- practice of excess and aban- little head that dad’s soul has taken up residence in the branches of the tree.…The willowy, expres- a theatre workshop in which the local community ruptions to their lives. An ex-cop, Stanley Kubrick’s chilling version of the Stephen King novel don. This transgressive DIY epic combines varying sive Gainsbourg does an excellent job here portraying Dawn’s mix of openness and depression. She’s acts out the stories of their town. a fighter pilot, and a writer slowly going blind: each which many consider to be one of the best horror movies levels of documentary and narrative on a road trip stumped by the presence of a leviathan that overhangs and threatens to overwhelm her home and family. grappling with fear and trauma amidst inner trans- ever made. --National Post formations. through the underbelly of the border city Mexicali.

KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM OCT 25 (7:00 only) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM HARRY POTTER 8 OCT 26 & 27 (7:00 & 9:15) OCT 28 & 29 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:20) THE WIZARD OF OZ THE SHAWSHANK THE CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. OCT 23 (1:00 & 3:30 matinees & Director: Glenn Ficarra USA, 2011, 118 min; PG 7:00 & 9:30) REDEMPTION WHISTLEBLOWER Cast: Steve Carrell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Marisa Tomei Director: Frank Darabont USA, 1994, 140 min; 14A Director: Larysa Kondracki OCT 24 (7:00 & 9:30) “AN ENCHANTING LIGHT COMEDY OF ROMANTIC CONFUSION.” –Entertainment Weekly THE #1 RATED MOVIE ON THE INTERNET MOVIE Germany/Canada, 2010, 112 minutes; 14A HARRY POTTER DATABASE! Smart, sophisticated adult comedies are increasingly rare—but this is a crazy funny delight in Cast: Rachel Weisz, Monica Bellucci, which Steve Carell, a faithful but boring husband, is thrust into the perilous life of a swinging single and the DEATHLY “A thumpingly good ode to friendship, hope, wit, David Strathairn, and Vanessa Redgrave guy. Being unused goods on the wiles and wisdom…If you don’t love Shawshank, market creates complications for chances are you’re beyond redemption.” –Empire In Canadian director Larysa Kondracki’s HALLOWS: Part 2 gripping based-on-a-true-story debut Carell when he’s approached at a bar by swinging single savant Director: David Yates A 21-year friendship between a lifer (Morgan Rachel Weisz delivers a riveting perfor- Ryan Gosling who decides to UK/USA, 2011, 130 minutes; Freeman) and a New England banker convicted of mance as a cop who confronts the heart show him how the modern dat- PG – violence; frightening scenes murder (Tim Robbins) is the focus of this gripping of darkness – sex-slave trafficking – after ing world is sliced and diced. prison drama, capably directed and adapted by taking a job with an international police Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, A superb ensemble cast makes Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Frank Darabont from Stephen King’s short novel. task force supporting peacekeeping in the most of the comedy. Gosling Rickman, Matthew Lewis, Tom –Chicago Reader Sarajevo in 1999. One of few women seems to be quietly longing for Felton, Michael Gambon, Evanna on the force, Kathy Bolkovac (Weisz) is the kind of life Carell once had. Lynch, Warwick Davis, Helena Bonham “REMARKABLE.” –Washington Post asked to head the local gender office This becomes clear in his own Carter, Maggie Smith, David Thewlis, Ciarán by an official (Vanessa Redgrave) in the new relationship with the bubbly Hinds U.N.’s human rights high commission. The job involves investigating crimes related to women, including sex trafficking. It’s clear the U.N. brass hard-to-get Emma Stone. ..Carell Deathly Hallows, Part 2 puts a triumphant in this film are aware the region’s sex-slave industry involves not only the patronage but also complicity of has never been better—here, he capper on a decade of Pottermania. Fans peacekeepers, U.N. workers and members of the police task force…Rachel Weisz won a best supporting proves he is perhaps the top film will be wild about Harry and the way the actress Oscar for her role in The Constant Gardener. Her performance in The Whistleblower elevates her comedian of the moment. But quietly dazzling Daniel Radcliffe has grown into the Oscar-worthy ranks of Norma Rae, Karen Silkwood and Erin Brockovich – a real-life crusader who Gosling and Stone threaten to in the role, from the 11-year-old orphan steps outside her comfort zone to do the right thing, whatever the cost. --The Globe and Mail steal the show from underneath to the haunted old soul we now see. So hip-hip and a blast of hurrays for Radcliffe. Well played, sir. him. --Boxoffice Magazine – KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM NOV 1 (7:00 & 9:25) NOV 2 & 3 & 4 (7:10 & 9:00) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM THE WIZARD OF OZ WINNIE THE POOH BRIDESMAIDS CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS OCT 30 (3:00 matinee & Director: Paul Feig USA, 2011, 125 min; Blu-ray; Director: Werner Herzog 14A Canada/USA, 2010, 90 minutes; rated G NOV 5 7:00 & 9:00) Cast: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, OCT 31 (7:00 & 9:00) Melissa McCarthy, Chris O’Dowd German filmmaker Werner Herzog petitioned the French government for an unprecedented chance to film inside the Chauvet cave of southeastern France. Chauvet, the most recently TO BE ANNOUNCED DON’T BE “A BREATHROUGH COMEDY!” –Boxoffice Magazine discovered and by far the oldest of the great Paleolithic cave-painting sites of Western Europe, has been visited only by a small group of scholars since it was found in 1994. Since a long-ago please check AFRAID OF THE “SMART LAUGHS AND SIDE-SPLITTING FARCE!” landslide sealed off this cave from the outside world for at least 20,000 years—the Chauvet cave –Empire is a fragile ecosystem that could easily be destroyed. www.cinecenta.com DARK The brilliant Saturday Night Live player Kristen Wiig Herzog and a skeleton crew descended into the cave to give the rest of the world what may be Director: Troy Nixey finally gets the big-screen vehicle she deserves. In the closest look we will ever get at some of the world’s earliest works of art. The resulting movie USA/Mexico, 2010, 100 minutes; 14A this raucous comedy Wiig plays a depressed loser is itself a work of art—one that partakes, across imponderable millennia of remove, in some of whose lifelong friendship with pal Maya Rudolph the uncanny beauty and mystery of these caves. If you’re interested in the history of the human “ONE OF THE BEST—AND is threatened when the latter gets engaged and race—if you’re a member of the human race—you owe it to yourself to see this movie. SCARIEST—HORROR FILMS OF 2011!” –Fangoria another of the bridesmaids starts angling to be maid of honor. The gags are often rowdy, yet they spring Herzog’s camera is constantly roving over the surface of the cave walls—a surface that’s undu- Producer/co-writer Guillermo del Toro, the visionary filmmaker responsible for Pan’s Labyrinth, performs from a genuinely female perspective… the movie lating, pocked, scratched in places by the claws of the now-extinct cave bears that once inhab- the neat trick of adapting the original 1973 television horror movie into a tastefully suspenseful work of kid- maintains a surefooted balance between the senti- ited the place. And though there are ample chunks of that irreplaceable Herzogian voiceover, friendly art. In spite of some glaring plot inconsistencies, DBAOTD is sure to scare the heebeejeebies out mentality of most chick flicks and the crudity of most there are also stretches of near-silence in which we hear nothing but the dripping of water from rock formations. Sometimes, there’s music—a strange, beautiful of willing audiences. Bailee Madison (Bridge to Terabithia) plays Sally, the ten-year-old daughter of hot- dick flicks.–Chicago Reader score by cellist Ernst Reijseger that sounds like something Bach might have composed if he’d lived in the Stone Age. shot architect Alex Hurst (Guy Pearce). Alex invites Sally away from his ex-wife to come stay with him and his new girlfriend Kim (Katie Holmes) at a Gothic New England mansion he’s busy restoring. The spooky As for the art, well, the whole reason you need to see this movie is that it’s hard to get across a sense of these paintings’ brilliance in language—or in photo- house holds secrets from its original owner... Things go bump in the night (and in the day) after Sally goes graphs, for that matter. For the first time seeing this film, I realized that painted caves, when you’re in them, feel like not museums but chapels. poking around where she shouldn’t, namely the basement... There’s very little blood in this horror movie built on suspense--think The Others. DBAOTD is a nuanced horror movie modulated to incur just the Watching Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a seductive, vertiginous experience. The dimly lit walls, the stalactites and stalagmites sparkling with crystal formations, right quality of nightmare. You might want to sleep with the light on after seeing it. --ColeSmithey.com the weird music, the impossible-to-conceive durations of geological time—all lend the quality of a drug trip. But when the camera does venture above ground, the film can be down-to-earth and bracingly funny. --Slate Ryan

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OCT 1 & 2 KUNG FU PANDA 2 91 minutes; rated G - violence Po joins forces with a group of new kung-fu mas- ters to take on an old enemy in this animated com- edy-adventure with voices by Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, and Dustin Hoffman. OCT 8 & 9 CARS 2 107 min; rated G Larry the Cable Guy, & Michael Caine lend their voices to this animated sequel in which star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix OCT 15 & 16 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES 137 minutes; rated PG – violence Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) embark on a quest to find the elu- sive fountain of youth. With Penélope Cruz. OCT 22 & 23 HARRY POTTER & the DEATHLY HALLOWS: Part 2 130 minutes; PG – violence; frightening scenes The final chapter in the legendary series begins as Harry, Ron, and Hermione continue their quest of finding and destroying the Dark Lord’s remaining Horcruxes… OCT 29 & 30 THE WIZARD OF OZ 102 minutes; rated G Judy Garland as Dorothy goes over the rainbow to meet the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion in one of the most magical movies of all time. NOV 5 & 6 WINNIE THE POOH CINECENTA 63 minutes; rated G An all-new animated story that’s short and sweet. Sept-Oct 2011 Eyeore has lost his tail, so Pooh and his friends hold a contest to get him a new one. www.cinecenta.com

sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday SEPT 18 FREE ADMISSION! SEPT 19-25 Organized by the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Victoria. It has been made possible through the generous support of the Faculties of The Japan Foundation Presents Humanities and Social Sciences, the Division of Continuing Studies and the Office of Community Relations at the University of Victoria. We also acknowledge the help of the TWO FILMS FROM JAPAN 2nd LATIN AMERICAN AND SPANISH FILM WEEK Consulate General of Argentina in Toronto and the contributions as consultant of Mr. Christian Sida-Valenzuela, Director of the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival. Japanese with English subtitles; both rated G All films will be shown with English subtitles. For more information about this event, please contact Prof. Dan Russek ([email protected]) 5:30pm LINDA LINDA LINDA SEPT 19 (7:00 & 9:00) SEPT 20 (7:00 & 9:00) SEPT 21 (7:00 & 9:00) SEPT 22 (7:00 & 9:00) SEPT 23 (7:00 & 9:00) SEPT 24 (7:00 & 9:00) 2005 / 114min / Director: Yamashita Nobuhiro BROTHER [Hermano] PERPETUUM MOBILE POST MORTEM SMOKE GETS IN YOUR SINS OF MY FATHER THE MAN NEXT DOOR Only three days before their high school festival, gui- by Marcel Rasquin (Venezuela, 2010, 96 min.) by Nicolás Pereda by Pablo Larrain (Chile, 2009, 98 min.) tarist Kei drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are (Mexico/Canada, 2009, 86 min.) EYES [É Proibido Fumar] [Pecados de mi padre] [El hombre de al lado] forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. Daniel is an exceptional footballer, a striker. Julio Psychological thriller and political drama, it tells by Anna Muylaert (Brazil, 2009, 86 min.) by Nicolás Entel (Argentina-Colombia, 2009, 93 min). by Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn They choose Korean exchange student Son, though is the team’s captain, a born leader. They were Gabino is a 24-year old man who still lives with the story of 55 year-old Mario, a clerk at the (Argentina, 2009, 101 min.) her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It’s raised as brothers and play football in their slum in his mother and works as a moving truck driver in city’s morgue who makes a living typing autopsy Aby (Gloria Pires), a chain-smoking guitar teacher Tells the story of Pablo Escobar, head of the promi- a race against time as the group struggles to learn Caracas. Daniel dreams to play professional foot- Mexico City. He constantly witnesses the perils and reports. He daydreams of his neighbour Nancy, in her forties, craves a romantic relationship. When nent Medellín drug cartel in the 1980s, narrated by Leonardo, a successful industrial designer, lives three tunes for the festival’s rock concert... ball while Julio feeds the family with dirty money: he distress that others have to endure as they move a cabaret dancer, who disappears mysteriously musician Max (Paulo Miklos) moves into the apart- his son, Sebastian Marroquín. Sebastian recounts with his family in an architectural wonder, a has no time to dream. The opportunity of their lives out of their homes and out of other people’s lives. on September 11, 1973, the fateful day Pinochet ment next door, she sees the possibility of turning the extraordinary tale of his childhood, living with mid-century Le Corbusier home in the city of La 7:40pm ALWAYS—SUNSET arrives when a football scout invites them to try out Perpetuum Mobile won best Mexican film at the staged his coup d’état. her lonely life around. Instead, she unexpectedly his beloved father, who was also Colombia’s Plata, Argentina. One morning, he wakes to dis- with the city’s best team: Caracas Football Club… Guadalajara Film Festival. finds herself involved in a love triangle leading to enemy number one. This outstanding documentary cover that workmen next door are building a large ON THIRD STREET 2 a terrible jealous rage. Winner of 10 awards at takes a look at Colombia’s recent political past, window that faces directly into his home. The 2007 / 146 min / Director: Yamazaki Takashi the Brazilia Film Festival including Best Film and and includes a narrative of two victims killed by small incident escalates and starts to take over Best Actor. Escobar, told by their sons. Winner of the audience Leonardo’s life, until it leads to an unexpected This heart-warming, feel-good sequel to the award- award at the Miami International Film Festival. outcome. Winner of the Best Argentine Feature winning 2005 film is set in post-war Tokyo in the Film at the 24th Mar del Plata Film Festival. 1950s, and the story follows the intertwined lives and characters of a working-class neighbourhood.

SEPT 19-25 KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM SEPT 26 & 27 (7:00 & 9:00) SEPT 28 & 29 (7:10 & 9:00) SEPT 30 & OCT 1 2nd LATIN AMERICAN & SPANISH KUNG FU PANDA 2 FILM WEEK IF A TREE FALLS: A (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:10) All films will be shown with English subtitles. HORRIBLE BOSSES Director: STORY OF THE EARTH BEGINNERS SEPT 25 (7:00 & 9:00) USA, 2011, 98 minutes; 14A Director: Mike Mills USA, 2010, 105 minutes; PG Cast: Cast: , , , Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Melanie Laurent , , , Jaime LIBERATION FRONT Director: Marshall Curry An absorbing, funny and poignant story about love, loss, EVEN THE RAIN Foxx USA/UK, 2011, 85 minutes; Blu-ray fear and hope. Mike Mills has a fabulous cast, a steady [También la lluvia] “DELIGHTFULLY NASTY!” –Entertainment Weekly visual hand, and a tone that’s somewhere between anguished, addled, and whimsical. The result is a by Icíar Bollaín (Spain, 2010, 103 min). “A fascinating and remarkably fair-minded revelation. Ewan McGregor is Oliver, an artist caught up in an eddy of grief after the death of his father, “SCORCHINGLY RAUNCHY!” –Washington Post documentary.” –Salon Hal (Christopher Plummer). In the four or five years prior, since becoming a widower, Hal had come out Featuring noted actors Gael García Bernal and of the closet as a gay man, living loudly and proudly. Oliver meets Anna (Mélanie Laurent, Inglourious Luis Tosar, this film was Spain’s Official Selection Funny and dirty in about that order. The story involves Given the volatility of its subject matter, perhaps the best way to talk about If a Tree Falls is by stating Basterds), an actress with trust and openness issues of her own. Their attraction is mutual, but they for the Academy Awards. Costa and Sebastian three horrible bosses (Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, what it is not. It is not a celebration of the activities of the ELF; it is not an indictment of federal or Oregon have their pasts to overcome….The cast is splendid. Plummer positively exudes joy in Hal’s newfound arrive in Cochabamba, Bolivia, to shoot a period Colin Farrell) and the three employees (Jason Bateman, forestry policy; it is not an attack on extreme environmentalists; it is not an argument, in short, for or liberties and fulfillment. –Portland Oregonian film about Columbus’s arrival in the Americas. Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis) who vow to murder them. against any particular point of view surrounding the vexed questions of how we choose to manage timber Things get complicated when the extras and the What makes the movie work is how truly horrible the or how best to protest those choices. Rather, director Marshall Curry’s clear-eyed, even-handed and hon- Both heartbreaking and hilarious, and bolstered by performances that are sure to earn more than main actor rise up against the privatization of their bosses are, what pathetic victims the employees are est film is chiefly about how one man, Daniel McGowan, became part of an ELF group operating out of a few Oscar nominations —particularly for Christopher Plummer. –eye Weekly city’s drinking water. and how bad the employees are at killing; they’d be the Eugene area, how the group waged a campaign of arson, how they were caught by authorities, and fired in a second by Murder Inc. The bosses display an how McGowan and his co-defendants were treated by the legal system. Curry gets remarkable access to SEPT 30 & OCT 1 (11:15pm) separate admission impressive array of vile behavior. The movie, directed McGowan and his fellow ELF members, to the victims of their crimes, to police, prosecutors and defense with cheerful and wicked energy by Seth Gordon, is attorneys, and, most intimately, to McGowan and his family. Virtually everyone (except the charismatic THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW situation slapstick. Kevin Spacey is superb, but the ELF leader who turned informant) is depicted in a fair, balanced and empathetic light -- which is perhaps Director: Jim Sharman UK, 1975, 101 min; DVD; 18A surprise for many may be Jennifer Aniston. Here she Curry’s most impressive achievement. If a Tree Falls never loses sight of the human beings at the heart The most popular, CRAZIEST cult film returns! Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick are a squeaky- has acute comic timing and hilariously enacts alarming of the conflict -- no matter what side of the conflict they’re on. –Portland Oregonian clean couple in a scary mansion inhabited by a sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania (Tim sexual hungers.-- “A HEAD-SPINNING TANGLE OF ETHICAL QUESTIONS!” –The Village Voice Curry) and other assorted oddballs. Let’s Do The Time-Warp Again!

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