sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON NIGHTLY 7:00 & 9:00 • MaTINees: MarcH 6, 11 - 3:00, MarcH 12 - 3:25 TRON: Legacy Winner of more than a half-dozen top prizes from Sundance to Berlin, this rightfully Special one-week engagement– one of the most exalted documentary about the transformative power of art is one of the most uplifting films you’ll ever see! inspiring films this year. Acclaimed filmmaker Lucy Walker travels with cutting-edge Brazilian artist Vik Muniz deep into the world’s largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio WASTE LAND to create a large-scale art project using garbage as his material and the spirited trash Director: Lucy Walker Brazil/UK, 2010, 100 minutes; English & Portuguese pickers as his muses. –Chicago Film Festival with subtitles; rated G That a beautiful film could be set in the world’s largest garbage dump sounds like an ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE! oxymoron, but acclaimed documentarian Lucy Walker has pulled off precisely that feat in her profoundly moving Waste Land. She follows renowned Brazilian-born artist Vik BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE! Muniz on a singularly ambitious project: going to a vast landfill north of Rio de Janeiro, photographing its catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, and then collaborating FOUR STARS! –The Globe and Mail with them in transforming these photos into portraits created with recyclable materials. His purpose is to inspire his pickers to see themselves in a new way and even to re- WINNER! AUDIENCE AWARD -- Sundance Film Festival imagine their lives. The group of catadores he works with could scarely be more char- ismatic: They are vital, striking-looking and of various ages. Many catadores comes WINNER! AUDIENCE AWARD -- Berlin Film Festival from Muniz’s own lower-middle-class background. Happily, Waste Land, which is WINNER! PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD -- Vancouver International Film shot through with subtle ironies regarding the rich and the poor, could scarcely be a Festival more resounding tribute to the transforming power of art. -- Los Angeles Times WINNER! AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AWARD -- Berlin Film Festival “TRANSENDENT! Vibrant, colourful, majestically shot, the award-winning docu- mentary deserves the accolades it has reaped, as well as the Oscar buzz. --The Cinecenta is thrilled to have the Victoria premiere of this outstanding, Globe and Mail inspiring documentary that had audiences cheering at film festivals around the world. “AN INSPIRING, DEEPLY MOVING CROWD PLEASER!” –Huffington Post (It was also our Mystery Movie back in November.) Sponsored by UVic Greens Club KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM MARCH 15 & 16 & 17 SPRING BREAK MATINEE 1pm ALL SEATS: $4.75 MAR 18 & 19 (3:00 & 7:00 & 9:30) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM TRON: Legacy TANGLED TANGLED 101 minutes; G – violence • Disney’s stylish and sassy animated version of Rapunzel. 2010 CANNES INTERNATIONAL MAR 13 (3:25 & 7:00 & 9:15) MAR 15 & 16 (7:15 & 9:00) MAR 17 (7:15 only) SPECIAL EVENT! ADVERTISING FESTIVAL MAR 14 (7:00 & 9:15) A DRUMMER’S Join director and UVic researcher Dr. Ian Various directors International, 2010, 128 minutes Victoria premiere! THE FIGHTER Mauro after the film for a discussion! From all the ads created by all the ad agencies in all the countries of the world, there are many Director: David O. Russell USA, 2010, 116 DREAM gems. This year, we enjoyed a bumper crop. From over 4,000 entries, judges of the Cannes min; 14A Director: John Walker Canada, 2010, 84 minutes, INUIT KNOWLEDGE International Advertising Film Festival 2010 selected 95 prize winners, representing the absolute BluRay, PG best commercials you’ll see all year. There are spots from all over the world, including ads from Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy & CLIMATE CHANGE the U.K., France, The Netherlands, Brazil, Germany, Argentina, and the U.S. (of course). There’s Adams and Melissa Leo “THIS MOVIE IS NOT TO BE MISSED!” Directors: Zacharias Kunuk & Ian Mauro Canada, 2010, 60 minutes; Inuktitut with English subtitles) even a special section of Canadian win- –Macleans ners. Featured are celebrity spokespeo- NOMINATED FOR 7 ACADEMY AWARDS Nunavut-based director Zacharias Kunuk ple, cute kids, and even cuter animals. “This is one hell of a feel good movie and including BEST PICTURE, DIRECTOR, (Atanarjuat The Fast Runner) and UVic researcher And because sex still sells, there are lots the applause at the end was thunderous.” BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR and TWO and filmmaker Dr. Ian Mauro (Seeds of Change) of beautiful women and beautiful men -- The Montréal Gazette BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESSES! have teamed up with Inuit communities to docu- (including that hunky Old Spice guy). The ment their knowledge and experience regarding essential ingredient – humour – is here, In this old-school fight picture from David Feel the beat! This vibrant, energizing doc records climate change. The world’s first Inuktitut language too, in a big way. Audiences won’t be dis- O. Russell, Mark Wahlberg realizes his long-held dream of playing “Irish” Micky Ward, a working-class a unique gathering of master drummers on a remote island in rural Canada. In veteran John Walker’s film, documentary on the topic, takes the viewer “on the appointed with the wit and flat-out fun of lug from Lowell, Massachusetts, whose promising career as a welterweight boxer in the early 90s was they’ve come together to bond, share secrets, teach enthusiastic young prodigies and jam like hell. It’s a land” with elders and hunters to explore the social this year’s collection.– ByTowne Cinema hampered by his domineering mother (Melissa Leo) and crack-addicted half-brother (Christian Bale). It’s wonderfully multicultural mix - African-American, Cuban, Filipino and Caucasian players, and a profusion of and ecological impacts of a warming Arctic. This an unusual project for Russell, director of such satirical dramas as Three Kings and I Heart Huckabees, styles, from Latin grooves to pounding rock beats, but everyone is speaking the same universal language. unforgettable film helps us to appreciate Inuit cul- but he easily locates the story’s abrading edge: in Ward’s close-knit little neighborhood, the family and We hear from all the main drummers about their origins as musicians: their fumbling first steps, moments ture and expertise friends cheering him on are the same people selfishly holding him back. Bale dominates the movie as of revelation, the secrets of their techniques, their philosophies of musicianship. It’s an inspiring message: regarding envi- Dicky, a pathetic loudmouth who’s let his own fight career slip away from him, yet what really holds this that the dream is open to anyone with a strong will. It’s a film of contagious positivity and thrilling virtuosity ronmental change together is Wahlberg’s low-key, firmly internalized performance as a man torn between his loyalty to the - what these guys can do with a drum kit is quite something… --VanCity Theatre and indigenous clan and his responsibility to himself. –Chicago Reader ways of adapt- “BRIMS WITH PURE EMOTION. Drumming, for these masters, is about communication, acceptance, and ing to it. –Isuma above all, deep love.” –The Globe and Mail Productions KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM MAR 22 MAR 23 & 24 (7:10 & 9:00) MAR 25 & 26 (3:00 & 7:00 & 9:10) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM TANGLED THE ILLUSIONIST (6:45 & 9:35) DOGTOOTH TRUE GRIT MAR 20 (3:00 & 6:45 & 9:10) 90s CULT CLASSIC! Director: Yorgos Lanthumos Greece, 2009, 94 min; Greek Directors: Joel & Ethan Coen with subtitles USA, 2010, 111 min; 14A MAR 21 (6:45 & 9:10) PULP ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE! BEST FOREIGN Cast: Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, ANOTHER YEAR FICTION LANGUAGE FILM! Matt Damon Director: Mike Leigh UK, 2010, 130 min; Director: Quentin WINNER! UN CERTAIN REGARD AWARD PG Cast: Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Tarantino (USA, –Cannes Film Festival NOMINATED FOR 10 ACADEMY Lesley Manville 1994, 153 min; 18A) AWARDS including BEST PICTURE, WINNER! BEST FILM, DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY ACTOR, DIRECTORS, SUPPORTING “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness” Outrageously violent, & SUPPORTING ACTOR –Greek Film Academy Awards ACTRESS! says one of the characters in Samuel time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Beckett’s Endgame, which could almost Fiction was widely considered the most influen- Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthumos’s accomplished and “A NEW CLASSIC! Great filmmaking. serve as the tag line for Another Year, tial American movie of the 1990s. Director and fascinating Dogtooth pushes the notion of parents screwing Great acting. Great movie. Saddle up.” Mike Leigh’s beautifully-balanced mix- co-screenwriter Quentin Tarantino synthesized up their kids into seriously disturbing and darkly comic ter- –Rolling Stone ture of melancholy and humour, hope such traditions as American gangster movies, rain. It’s an unsettling scenario open to interpretation. Three and empathy, as it follows a long and crime movies, and films noirs mixed up with the siblings, young adults close in age – an older sister (Aggeliki That old-time American religion of ven- happily-married couple, Tom and Gerri wacky violence of cartoons, video games, and Papoulia), younger sister (Mary Tsoni) and brother (Christos geance runs like a river through this comic- (Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen), through Japanese animation; and the fragmented story- Passalis) who have no given names – have lived within serious tale about some nasty, brutish times. the cycle of four seasons in a London telling structures of such classics as Citizen Kane. a walled family compound all their lives. They have been Beautifully adapted by Joel and Ethan Coen suburb. While the progress of the four The Oscar-winning script intertwines three stories, cut off from the influence of the outside world and manipulated into obedience by their father (Christos from the novel by Charles Portis, it turns on seasons is shown in couple’s communal garden allotment, we dip into the lives of some of the less happy featuring Samuel L.