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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: , , Amy & CLIMATE CHANGE the U.K., France, The Netherlands, Brazil, Germany, Argentina, and the U.S. (of course). There’s Adams and “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 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: , Hailee Steinfeld, ANOTHER YEAR FICTION LANGUAGE FILM! Director: UK, 2010, 130 min; Director: Quentin WINNER! UN CERTAIN REGARD AWARD PG Cast: , , Tarantino (USA, – NOMINATED FOR 10 ACADEMY 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 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. Jackson and Stergioglou), the only one who leaves the compound. Educated in line with their parents’ bizarre whims, a 14-year-old girl who hires a “one-eyed fat people in their orbit. Most vivid is Mary (Lesley Manville), a middle-aged secretary in Gerri’s office, who as hit men; Bruce Willisas a boxer out of a the siblings have been taught strange ideas. Everything about them – how they move and talk – is odd, but man” to hunt down her father’s killer. Mr. Portis’s tall tale was brought to the screen custom-fitted dresses girlishly, flirts desperately, and has a bad habit of getting drunk and maudlin about her lonely life. 1940s B-movie; and , whose dance the black humour throughout the film is never at the characters’ expense. Recently, their father has been for John Wayne, who rode the role of Rooster Cogburn straight to an Oscar. Now it’s scene-stealer Manville’s performance, startlingly funny and heartbreaking, is the centrepiece here, but Leigh’s script is sequence with Travolta proved an instant classic. paying a female security guard from his work to have sex with his son. When this woman plays a secret Jeff Bridges in the saddle. A deputy U.S. marshal, Rooster has attracted the interest of Mattie Ross delicately tuned to characters who go through the motions of interacting, while each is lost in his or her --New York Times With , , game of her own with the eldest daughter, exposing her to outside cultural influence, the family dynamic (Hailee Steinfeld, in a terrific film debut), a half-pint who, with her bloodlust and severely braided hair, universe. –The Globe and Mail , Eric Stoltz, Amanda Plummer, is irreversibly changed…Dogtooth leaves bite marks that stick around long after you are released from its is an authentic American Gothic. As she listens to Rooster recount his bloody deeds and high body . grip. --The Globe and Mail count, her eyes shine with a true believer’s excitement. — The New York Times

KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM MAR 29 (7:00 & 9:20) MAR 30 & 31 (7:00 & 9:00) APR 1 (3:00 & 7:00 & 9:35) THE ILLUSIONIST NARNIA: DAWN TREADER 90s CULT CLASSIC! SOMEWHERE APR 2 (3:20 & 7:00 & 9:35) MAR 27 (1:00 & 3:00 & 7:15 & 9:00) Director: Sophia Coppola USA, 2010, DEAD MAN 98 min, PG BARNEY’S VERSION MAR 28 (7:15 & 9:00) Director: Jim Jarmusch (USA, 1995, 120 min; 18A) Director: Richard J. Lewis (Canada, 2010, 134 min; PG) Cast: Stephen Dorff, A hypnotic and beautiful black-and-white western. Cast: , , , Minnie Driver, Scott Speedman THE ILLUSIONIST plays an accountant from Cleveland “A FASCINATING, MATURE, NOMINATED FOR 11 GENIE AWARDS including BEST PICTURE! Director: Sylvain Chomet BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED WORK OF named William Blake who travels west with the Paul Giamatti gives a holy hell of a performance as Barney Panofsky, the Montreal pro- UK/France, 2010, 80 minutes; rated G ART.” –Salon.com promise of a job to the infernal town of Machine. ducer at the center of Mordecai Richler’s 1997 novel, and a character who feels like a new screen ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE! BEST ANIMATED FEATURE! Blake is guided by a Native American outcast “EXQUISITE, MELANCHOLY AND type: a mensch and a pill at the same time. The movie, which covers Barney’s search for love and named Nobody (Gary Farmer) while a trio of bounty happiness over 35 years, is episodic, with too much Montreal Jewish kitsch. But it’s also full of feel- “A HANDCRAFTED JEWEL OF A MOVIE.” _-Boston Globe hunters and various others try to track him down. FORMALLY AUDACIOUS.” –New York Times ing. Barney meets the love of his life (Rosamund Pike) at his own wedding, and their subsequent This masterpiece is simultaneously a mystical, marriage is long, deep-rooted, and heartrending. – “GORGEOUS.” –Philadelphia Inquirer highly poetic account of dying; a well-researched By taking her sweet, subtle time to appreciation of Native American cultures; a fright- tell the story of a Hollywood child (Elle “A FEISTY DOMESTIC COMEDY!” –The Globe and Mail “REMARKABLE.” –San Francisco Chronicle ening portrait of modern American violence and Fanning) spending time with her neglect- capitalist greed; a warm, hilarious depiction of “EXQUISITE.” –Wall Street Journal ful movie-star daddy (Stephen Dorff), cross-cultural friendship; and a hallucinatory trip writer-director Sofia Coppola defies across the American wilderness. With Gabriel Sylvain Chomet, the talented French animator who created American audiences who want their films Byrne, , Mili Avital, , The Triplets of Belleville, has gotten his hands on an irresistible like their food: fast. Got to love the Coppola resistance. She gives Somewhere the hypnotically deliberate Iggy Pop and (in his last screen screen property: an original script that comic giant Jacques pace of a European art film, as Cleo, 11, hangs with her father, Johnny, around L.A.’s Chateau Marmont. The performance). –Chicago Reader Tati wrote in the late 50s but never filmed. Chomet creates a two play video games, slouch around the lobby and pool, and jet off to an awards show in Milan. Through wonderful cartoon version of Tati, playing not his familiar Mr. the awkward boredom, we are meant to discern a relationship between a man in crisis and a daughter on Hulot but a stage magician who goes on tour to Scotland and there adopts a sweet, orphaned teen as the cusp of womanhood. Dorff and Fanning could not be better at embodying those states. As in Lost in his surrogate daughter. The movie is rife with drolly inventive slapstick. It’s also a warm and melancholy Translation, Coppola keeps an eye out for the broken places. That’s when Somewhere is really some- farewell to the music halls of Tati’s youth, then being supplanted by the first bluster of teen culture and thing. –Rolling Stone rock ‘n’ roll. The dialogue is multilingual but largely incidental to the action; the physical comedy is grace- fully rendered and often magical. –Chicago Reader “COPPOLA IS A FASCINATING DIRECTOR.” –Roget Ebert

KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM APR 5 (7:00 & 9:20) APR 6 & 7 (7:15 & 9:00) NARNIA: DAWN TREADER APR 8 & 9 (3:00 & 7:00 & 9:45) OCEANS 90s CULT CLASSIC! MARWENCOL APR 3 THE BIG LEBOWSKI Director: Jeff Malmberg USA, 2010, 83 minutes; PG Director: Mexico/Spain, 2010, 149 min; English & Spanish with subtitles; 14A (3:20 & 7:00 & 9:10) Directors: Joel & Ethan Coen USA, 1998, 117 “Exactly the sort of mysterious and almost holy expe- ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE – BEST ACTOR: JAVIER BARDEM APR 4 (7:00 & 9:10) min; 14A rience you hope to get from documentaries and rarely If ever there was a philosophy to be gleaned from do.” –Village Voice It would be impossible to list the Oscar-worthy performances of 2010 without highlighting Javier BLUE the , then Jeff ‘The Dude’ Lebowski Bardem. Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel, 21 Grams, Amores Perros) describes Marwencol is a strange and very beautiful documentary might well be the embodiment of it. Not only is Uxbal, the character Bardem embodies in flesh and spirit, as “devoted father, tormented lover, mysti- about the gray area between obsession and art — about VALENTINE this classic Coen Brothers, it’s exemplary Jeff fied son, underground businessman, ghost seeker, spiritual sensitive, consumer-goods pirate, guilty the compulsive need to create something when the world Director: Derek Cianfrance USA, Bridges. As for the plot, it’s about as skewed conscience and urban survivor.” All of this and more can be seen on Bardem’s expressive face. Uxbal leaves you with nothing. Its subject is Mark Hogancamp, 2010, 113 min; 14A as The Dude’s mind. A case of mistaken iden- wanders the mean a small-town nobody with an epic inside him. Actually, Cast: , Michelle tity leads a couple of thugs to The Dude’s Venice streets of Barcelona he’s Mark Hogancamp version 2.0. The first Mark was Williams Beach home where they relieve themselves on trying to put his life a Kingston, N.Y., artist and alcoholic who had the bad his prized carpet. He then becomes entangled in order, evading the ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE! luck to be beaten into a coma by five men outside a in a complex kidnapping drama involving sinister law while caring for his BEST ACTRESS: MICHELLE bar one night in April 2000. He awoke days later German nihilists, the Art World (of which Julianne two kids, Ana (Hanaa WILLIAMS lacking memories, the ability to write, and his taste for Moore is the affected representative), and the porn Bouchaib) and Mateo booze. After five weeks in the hospital, he was sent back industry…It’s the wealth of great characters and (Guillermo Estrella), Michelle Williams and Ryan home. Since no help was forthcoming, Hogancamp cre- their insane dialogue that make this a memo- since their bipolar Gosling tear up the screen as mismatched lovers, shown in alternating sequences as a giddy young ated his own therapy: a richly detailed World War II-era rable film. With , mother (an amazing couple on their earliest dates and then years later as bitterly divided spouses with a young daughter. European village in his backyard, one-sixth life-size and and . –BBCi “A HILARIOUS POP- Maricel Álvarez) is inca- They’re just getting by on his wages as a house painter and hers as a nurse, and his close, intuitive peopled with modified GI Joes and Barbie-like dolls. CULTURE HASH!”—Rolling Stone pable. Biutiful digs out relationship with the little girl seems to be the only glue holding it all together. In a desperate move, This is Marwencol. It sounds ridiculous until you see the beauty in the rubble. husband and wife retreat for a romantic evening alone in a hotel with theme rooms; theirs is the “future photographs, at which point your jaw hits the floor. Using Shot with a poet’s eye, room,” a garish space-age pad, and—wouldn’t you know it?—the future arrives. –Chicago Reader a point-and-shoot camera with a broken light meter, the film is relentless but Hogancamp shoots eerily lifelike tableaux of wartime as riveting as the world “ONE OF THE SADDEST AND BEST FILMS OF THE PAST YEAR!” –San Francisco Chronicle action and longing. Some of the images look like frames a remarkable actor lets from a long-lost WWII movie — aching moments of frozen melodrama. There’s no other word for these pho- us see through Uxbal’s tos: They are art. Marwencol — the town, the story line, the psychic space — is an infinite universe sprung eyes. Bravo, Bardem. from a loneliness so intense even an audience can’t soothe it away.--Boston Globe –Rolling Stone

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FEB 19 & 20 TANGLED 101 minutes; G – violence Mandy Moore voices a sassy heroine in Disney’s stylish and spirited re-telling of Rapunzel. FEB 26 & 27 HARRY POTTER and the DEATHLY HALLOWS, Part One 146 min; PG – violence Harry, Ron and Hermione set out on their peril- ous mission to destroy the secret to Voldemort’s immortality and destruction--the Horcruxes. MAR 5 & 6 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 98 minutes; rated G – violence Wonderful animated story about a Viking boy who befriends a young, wounded dragon. MAR 12 & 13 TRON: Legacy 126 minutes; PG - violence Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) finds himself pulled into a high-tech digital world where his father (Jeff Bridges) has been trapped for 20 years. Mar 15, 16, 17, 19 & 20 TANGLED 101 minutes; G – violence Mandy Moore voices a sassy heroine in Disney’s stylish and spirited re-telling of Rapunzel. MAR 26 & 27 THE ILLUSIONIST 80 minutes; rated G An old-fashioned animated tale about a stage magician who goes on tour to Scotland and adopts a sweet, orphaned teen as his surrogate daughter. APR 2 & 3 : The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 114 minutes; PG - violence APR 9 & 10 OCEANS 84 minutes; rated G From the creators of Winged Migration comes this Disneynature documentary that focuses on the behaviour of sea life in fascinating detail. CINECENTA

sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM FEB 22 (7:15 only) FEB 23 (7:00 & 9:00) FEB 24 (7:00 & 9:10) FEB 25 (3:00 & 7:00 & 9:40) TANGLED SPECIAL EVENT! WINTER’S BONE INSIDE FEB 26 (1:00 & 3:40 & 7:00 & 9:40) FEB 20 (3:00 & 7:00 & 9:15) After the film, join members of the commu- Director: Debra Granik USA, 2010, 101 min; BluRay; HARRY POTTER nity who will be discussing safety concerns PG Cast: , JOB FEB 21 (7:00 & 9:15) regarding cellular and Wi-Fi technologies. Director: Charles and the DEATHLY Go to cinecenta.com for more info! NOMINATED FOR 4 ACADEMY AWARDS including Ferguson (USA, 2010, MADE IN BEST PICTURE, ACTRESS, SUPPORTING ACTOR! 110 min; PG) FULL SIGNAL HALLOWS, part one Extraordinary: the Missouri Ozarks as a backwoods ACADEMY AWARD Director: US/UK, 2010, 146 DAGENHAM Director: Talal Jabari 2009, 62 minutes min; PG – violence Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Director: Nigel Cole UK, 2010, 114 crime scene in which methamphetamine fosters NOMINEE! BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE! , , Helena Bonham min; PG Cast: , Bob Full Signal exposes the health risks of cell towers paranoia everywhere. Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence), Carter, , Warwick Davis, Ralph Hoskins, Rosamund Pike, Miranda and cellular technology for the sake of conve- an intelligent, determined seventeen-year-old, takes Probably the most important film on the recent Fiennes, , , Richardson, nience. More than half the world’s population now care of her withdrawn mother and her kid brother financial crisis. Charles Ferguson makes the dizzy- owns a cell phone and nearly everyone lives within and sister; she also treks across the colorless winter ing complexities - and who’s to blame - explicitly Richard Griffiths, John Hurt, , “ENGROSSING AND INSPIRING!” the range of a cell tower. UVic itself has a cellular landscape, visiting the rest of the large Dolly clan as clear in riveting and angering fashion. You will not , , , –Time installation, located on the stadium uprights, con- she looks for her father, who cooks meth for a living. believe what you will hear spoken. The end result , , , sisting of at least 10 separate antennae, yet do we If he doesn’t appear in court, Ree and the rest of of the film’s precise and careful analysis is that the Sally Hawkins - Mike Leigh’s Happy- really know to what extent this technology is impact- her immediate family will lose everything. The direc- financial crisis of 2007-10, a series of events that Part 1 breaks the seventh and final book in Go-Lucky heroine - is back on top form in this genuinely uplifting crowd-pleaser from the director ing the health of residents nearby? Full Signal is a tor envelops us in mysteries that can never quite gave rise to losses in the trillions of dollars and J.K. Rowling’s epic modern literary classic into of Calendar Girls. In 1968, the Ford plant at Dagenham is the cornerstone of the British car industry. gripping film that interviews scientists, journalists, be solved. The kicked the world economy into the worst financial two movies, and haunting every frame of this Among 20,000 workers, less than 200 are women, most of them sewing machinists, all of them furious activists, lawyers and lawmakers in ten countries, acting and the disaster since the Great Depression, could have beautiful first half is the knowledge that soon to be downgraded in the latest pay round. Persuaded to come along to meet with management because and investigates the collision between health con- milieu are so been avoided. Ferguson aims his smoking gun the screen journey will be over. I felt a swell her shop steward () believes in out-numbering the other side, housewife and mother Rita cerns and corporate interests. This presentation has closely joined directly at de-regulation, a practice that effectively of love and awe wash over me from the very O’Grady (Hawkins) surprises everyone, and most of all herself, by throwing the bosses’ hypocrisy back some strong parallels with the Wi-Fi debate that is that the movie, in removed all barriers to corruption and exploitation. first wickedly creepy scene until the profoundly in their faces. In no time at all she has led the women out on their very first strike with a demand: sexual raging in local school districts. its quiet, deter- Matt Damon provides suitably wry commentary, moving last one. Under the direction of David equality. This is the sort of story the British do better than anyone - restoring an important but largely mined way, casts on the proceedings. Scenes of bankers, govern- Yates — who gently guided the series to more forgotten slice of social history, related with great populist spirit and rambunctious comedy. –Vancouver a mesmerizing ment officials and corporate sharks asking that consistent excellence with the last two install- International Film Festival spell.--The New the cameras be turned off, under the force of ments — Part 1 is the most cinematically Yorker Ferguson’s intelligent and angry assault, are a joy rewarding chapter yet. –Entertainment Weekly “One of the most entertaining history lessons you could ever hope to sit through.” – Orlando Sentinel to behold. –Vancouver International Film Festival

KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM MAR 1 (7:00 & 9:00) CINECENTA KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM HARRY POTTER..DEATHLY HOLLOWS BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! See all three movies with a Special “GIRL” Pass for $12, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON RABBIT includes one medium popcorn & pop. COMPS AND FEB 27 (3:40 matinee & 7:00 & 9:10) HOLE Available at the Munchie Bar & Box Office. PASSES NOT VALID TONIGHT. FEB 28 (7:00 & 9:10) Director: John Cameron MAR 5 (7:15 only) Mitchell USA, 2010, 93 VISION: From the life of Hidegard von Bingen min; PG Cast: Nicole CineVic 20th Director: Margarethe von Trotta (Germany, 2010, 106 min; Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Diane Weist German & Latin with subtitles; PG) Starring Barbara Sukowa MAR 2 (7:00 only) MAR 3 (7:00 only) MAR 4 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:45) ANNIVERSARY ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE – BEST ACTRESS: “A MUST-SEE FOR SERIOUS FILMGOERS!” –Los Angeles Times THE GIRL WITH THE THE GIRL WHO PLAYED THE GIRL WHO Retrospective Victoria film makers have relied on The 12th-century Benedictine nun, Hildegard von Bingen–today a cult figure–is luminously portrayed What makes Rabbit Hole remarkable is the way it DRAGON TATTOO WITH FIRE KICKED THE CineVic by Barbara Sukowa in her 5th collaboration with director Margarethe von Trotta (Rosa Luxemburg). never does what you think it will do. (Sweden, 2009, 154 min; Swedish with English (Sweden, 2009, 131 min; Swedish with subtitles; Society of Independent Filmmakers to assist Hildegard, a polymath by any century’s definition, was a composer of Gregorian chants, a playwright, subtitles; BluRay; 18A) BluRay, 18A) HORNETS’ NEST them in creating their productions for 20 years. poet, and scientific pioneer in the fields of healing, herbal medicine and botany. As an iconoclastic reli- The story revolves around a couple whose son was (Sweden, 148 min; Swedish with subtitles; This special retrospective screening begins gious figure who insisted on separate and independent abbies for nuns, she ran up against the church’s killed in an auto accident. Eight months later, an BluRay, 14A) CineVic’s 20th anniversary year, celebrating authoritarian and patriarchal hierarchy; as a mystic and visionary, she insisted on her right to preach and uneasy peace has settled into their home. Becca many of the films and filmmakers who have interpret the Gospels. Sukowa infuses Hildegard with the will of a modern feminist, but one tethered to (Nicole Kidman) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart) appear made the centre such a hub of inventive local a medieval universe. Von Trotta makes that world believable and lush, and at times as scary and alluring poised for a breakup. Sounds depressing, although cinema. Expect a range of eclectic, mostly short as a 900-year-old fairy tale. –Vancouver International Film Festival Rabbit Hole isn’t, with David Lindsay-Abaire pre- works from some of Victoria’s most innovative senting a perceptive, subtly dark-humored adapta- filmmakers. Many of the films will have had The sympathy of Vision lays in joy...von Trotta’s film seems to be exploring the nuances of love on tion of his Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Kidman has international festival screenings, and others will this earth.– MUBI rarely been better than she is here, expressing be premieres of new works by local favourites. Becca’s inner turmoil in perfectly calibrated glares, For a complete programme please visit Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) stands out as one of the most visionary and incredibly gifted spiritual gestures and pauses. Watching these actors sink www.cinevic.ca women of all time. --Spirituality and Practice into their roles is a joy to observe. --St. Petersburg Times

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