MOVIE MANIA Enjoy 13 Critically Acclaimed MOTION PICTURES on 13 Saturdays DECEMBER 6 to FEBRUARY 28 3Pm — Festival Theatre
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Presented by the Shaw Festival in association with Film Circuit, a division of the Toronto International Film Festival Group MOVIE MANIA Enjoy 13 critically acclaimed MOTION PICTURES on 13 Saturdays DECEMBER 6 TO FEBRUARY 28 3pm — Festival Theatre Dec 6 THE VISITOR Dec 13 THE BAND’S VISIT Dec 20 AMAL Dec 27 THE WACKNESS Jan 3 THE COUNTERFEITERS Jan 10 VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA Jan 17 HAPPY GO LUCKY Jan 24 THE DUCHESS Jan 31 I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND $10 per film Feb 7 ELEGY FESTIVAL MOTION PICTURE PASS (13 films) $119 CHRISTMAS STOCKING STUFFER (10 films) $89 Feb 14 FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING FESTIVAL DOCUMENTARY PASS (6 films) $54 Feb 21 TELL NO ONE Feb 28 I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG TICKETS NOW ON SALE! Advance and same day tickets available GOING TO THE DOCS! at the Shaw Festival Box Office Enjoy 6 critically acclaimed DOCUMENTARIES 905-468-2172 1-80 0-511- 7429 on 6 Wednesdays JANUARY 14 TO FEBRUARY 18 For information, contact Jane Dagg at 5:30pm — Festival Theatre 905-468-2153 ext 211 or [email protected] Jan 14 YOUNG @ HEART Supported by: Jan 21 MAN ON WIRE Jan 28 RELIGULOUS Feb 4 UP THE YANGTZE Feb 11 ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED Feb 18 FLOW: FOR THE LOVE OF WATER With the support of — Osprey Niagara Publishing Group MOVIE MANIA FEATURE SERIES Enjoy 13 critically acclaimed MOTION PICTURES on 13 Saturdays DECEMBER 6 TO FEBRUARY 28 3pm — Festival Theatre DECEMBER 6 In THE VISITOR , the sophomore feature from director JANUARY 24 There were three people in her marriage! A chronicle THE VISITOR Thomas McCarthy, professor and lonely widower THE DUCHESS of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess Walter Vale reluctantly goes into New York City for a of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant Rating: PG-13 Rating: PG-13 conference, where he finds an undocumented couple political and personal life. living in his long-vacant Manhattan pied-à-terre. JANUARY 31 Jirí Menzel directs this larger-than-life black comedy DECEMBER 13 In director Eran Kolirin’s debut feature, a uniformed which tells the rags-to-riches story of amoral everyman Egyptian police band becomes lost in rural Israel on I SERVED THE BAND’S THE KING OF Jan Dite, who schemes his way up the hospitality ladder VISIT their way to a concert. They unexpectedly encounter not through the grand halls and hotels (not to mention only tensions and friendships with the townspeople who ENGLAND bedrooms) of thirties Prague. Rating: PG-13 take them in for the night, but valuable lessons as well. Rating: R DECEMBER 20 In chaotic New Delhi, an aged and irascible man, FEBRUARY 7 ELEGY charts the passionate relationship between a AMAL seemingly homeless, cheats everyone he meets. When ELEGY celebrated college professor (Ben Kingsley) and a young Amal, an auto-rickshaw wallah, allows him to dodge his woman (Penelope Cruz) whose beauty both ravishes Rating: 14A Rating: R fare, both are affected in a way that has far-reaching and destabilizes him. consequences. An ambitious and heartfelt debut from Richie Mehta. FEBRUARY 14 A sweeping political thriller. Martin (Jim Sturgess) FIFTY DEAD is a young lad from west Belfast in the late 1980s DECEMBER 27 Luke (Josh Peck) is a teenage pot dealer who trades who is recruited by the British Police to spy on the IRA. THE WACKNESS weed for sessions with a therapist, Dr. Squires MEN WALKING He works his way up the ranks as a volunteer for the (Ben Kingsley). Squires is an unlikely role model, Rating: 14A Rating: R IRA whilst feeding information to his British handler but the two forge a friendship. Written and directed (Ben Kingsley) and saving lives in the process — until by Jonathan Levine and propelled by an exuberant one day he is exposed hip hop score, The Wackness is a funny, offbeat tale of two lost souls stumbling towards maturity. FEBRUARY 21 A pediatrician, still devastated by the murder of his TELL NO ONE wife eight years ago, receives an anonymous email JANUARY 3 Director Stefan Ruzowitzky recounts a Nazi scheme that containing a link to real time video of his wife standing Not rated THE involved toppling foreign economies and fuelling the in a crowd. Is she still alive? And why does she instruct COUNTERFEITERS German war effort with counterfeit pounds and dollars. him to ‘tell no one’? A gripping thriller from director The men forced to craft all that money were imprisoned Guillaume Canet. Rating: R Jews who just happened to be bankers, printers and a few forgers. In return, they were offered a chance to live FEBRUARY 28 This powerful story of familial struggles and the high life while fellow prisoners starved. I’VE LOVED YOU redemption follows a shell-shocked Juliette (Kristin Scott-Thomas), who returns to live with her young JANUARY 10 In Woody Allen’s latest film the stunning city of SO LONG sister (Elsa Zylberstein) after being banished from VICKY CRISTINA Barcelona is the setting for the romantic adventures Rating: PG-13 the family for 15 years. of two American girls, Vicky and Cristina. When they BARCELONA meet a flamboyant artist and his beautiful but insane Rating: PG-13 ex-wife, the results can only be described as chaotic. JANUARY 17 From UK director Mike Leigh comes the story of Poppy, HAPPY a London schoolteacher whose optimism exasperates those around her. When her bike is stolen, she GO LUCKY enthusiastically signs up for driving lessons with Rating: R Scott, who turns out to be her nemesis — a fuming, uptight cynic. 905-468-2172 1-80 0-511- 7429 GOING TO THE DOCS! DOCUMENTARY SERIES Enjoy 6 critically acclaimed DOCUMENTARIES on 6 Wednesdays JANUARY 14 TO FEBRUARY 18 5:30pm — Festival Theatre JANUARY 14 For over 25 years, the Young@Heart Chorus has FEBRUARY 11 In 1977, director Roman Polanski was charged with giving YOUNG@HEART entertained audiences with punk, rock and rhythm-and- ROMAN drugs to and having sex with a 13-year-old girl. Eleven blues songs. Of course, the age of most rock ’n’ rollers months later, having pled guilty to one count, he fled to Rating: PG-13 isn’t eighty years young! Stephen Walker’s documentary POLANSKI Europe before sentencing. Marina Zenovich’s film offers the kind of wisdom that can only be cultivated WANTED AND examines the public scandal and the private tragedy with age. DESIRED which led to his flight. JANUARY 21 James Marsh’s look at tightrope walker Philippe Not rated Petit’s daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed MAN ON WIRE FEBRUARY 18 Irena Salina’s documentary investigates what experts between New York City’s World Trade Center twin Rating: PG-13 call the most important political and environmental towers in 1974, in what some consider “the artistic FLOW: issue of the 21st century — The World Water Crisis. crime of the century.” FOR THE LOVE Salina builds a case against the growing privatization JANUARY 28 Larry Charles (BORAT, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM ) OF WATER of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply. RELIGULOUS directs RELIGULOUS , which follows political humourist Not rated and author Bill Maher as he travels around the globe Rating: R interviewing people about God and religion. Maher brings his characteristic honesty and wit to an unusual spiritual journey. FEBRUARY 4 The Three Gorges Dam, gargantuan and hotly contested UP THE YANGTZE symbol of the Chinese economic miracle, provides the epic and unsettling backdrop for UP THE YANGTZE , a Not rated disquieting feature documentary by director Yung Chang on life inside the 21st-century Chinese dream. 905-468-2172 1-80 0-511- 7429.