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AUG 10 & 11 (7:00 & 9:00) AUG 12 (7:30 ONLY) DIRECTOR & aug 13 & 14 (7:00 & 9:00) AUG 15 & 16 (7:00 & 9:25) Special Event! PRODUCER Cinecenta passes/ WALKING THE CAMINO: comps not valid. IN DESERT RUNNERS GODZILLA ATTENDANCE Director: Jennifer Steinman USA, 2013, 99 min Director: Gareth Edwards The athletes profiled here really go the extra mile. The 14 folks we spend time with are USA, 2014, 123 min; PG SIX WAYS TO SANTIAGO FOR A Q&A! all on their way to something called the 4 Deserts Grand Slam, in which contestants Cast: Bryan Cranston, Aaron Director: Lydia B. Smith have a year to tackle epic wastelands of brutal hot and numbing cold in China, Chile, Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olson, USA/Spain, 2013, 84 min North Africa, and Antarctica. Of particular interest are Irishman David, at 56 the old- Ken Watanabe, Sally Hawkins, est person to attempt it; 25-year-old student Samantha, from Australia; and ex-Brit- Juliette Binoche special-forces dude Tremaine Kent, 40. The initial trek across Chile’s Atacama Desert “Camino” follows various pilgrims as they It’s not hard to see the endur- is beautiful enough to suggest that things won’t be so tough. But subsequent treks attempt to cross an entire country on foot -- ing appeal of the Godzilla myth. across the Gobi and Sahara prove less forgiving….. –Georgia Straight with only a backpack, a pair of boots and an There’s basic fun to be had in open mind. Each person throws themselves watching a reptile as big as a heart and soul into their challenging 500-mile skyscraper reduce an entire city walk of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage to rubble beneath his gargan- “DELIVERS PLENTY OF GOOSEBUMPS!” route in Spain. The film is gorgeous, filled with tuan stomping feet. Plus, by now beautiful landscapes. Godzilla, with his radioactive fire- –The A.V. Club breath, stumpy waving forelegs, yyyy and aversion to intact skylines, is STRESS POSITION an archetypal, almost lovable fig- A.J. Bond Canada, 2013, 79 minutes ure. A smooth, sleek, technologi- “AWE-INSPIRING!” “HUGELY INSPIRING AND cally awe-inspiring blockbuster “Stress Position” is a genre-bending feature with a top-shelf cast. –Slate.com film about two close friends who make a –Eye on Film UK –Thoughts on Film UK 9 BACK BY OVERWHELMING POPULAR DEMAND! 0 bet to see which of them can withstand a COMPELLING!” week of psychological torture at the hands of the other. AUG 17 & 18 (7:00 & 8:50) “A QUIETLY GRIPPING GEM.” “FEEDS THE HEART AND THE SOUL!” UVUNGA –Chicago Sun-Times –New Orleans Times-Picayune Directors: Marie-Hélène Cousineau & Madeline Ivalu Canada, 2013, 88 min; English and Inuktitut with subtitles; PG Cast: Starring Pakak Innuksuk, Marianne Farley, Madeline Piujuq Ivalu, Lukasi Forrest, Travis Kunnuk. Set in a high Arctic summer landscape of candy-coloured houses and blue water, this Canadian drama is a story of homecoming and reconciliation told in the patient, rhythmic cadences of Inuit voices. Set in the Nunavut hamlet of Igloolik, Uvanga (“myself”) centres on Montrealer Anna (Marianne Farley) and her 14-year-old son, AUG 21, 22 & 23 (7:00 & 9:15) Tomas (Lukasi Forrest). Anna once taught school in the north and had a brief affair “A SLOW-BURNING SUSPENSE THRILLER, WITH with married Inuk man Caleb, leaving when she became pregnant with Tomas. Caleb’s AUG 19 & 20 (7:00 & 9:10) mysterious death and a sense of responsibility to help her son learn about his heri- AN ENDING YOU’LL ARGUE ABOUT ALL NIGHT.” tage prompt Anna to bring him to Igloolik, while perhaps dealing with some ghosts CHEF herself….Experiences achieved amid laughter in the midnight sun punctuate Uvanga, –Slate.com Director: Jon Favreau USA, 2014, 115 min; 14A which is bolstered by natural performances from local actors that draw us in while NIGHT MOVES Cast: Jon Favreau, Scarlett Johansson, Oliver Platt, John Leguizamo, Sofia Vergara, Robert Downey Jr. Dustin Hoffman. sharing the secrets of a place both strange and beautiful in its isolation. –Toronto Star Director: Kelly Reichardt USA, 2013, 112 min Chef is an artful surprise and an exuberant gift, a dish served with simplicity and loving finesse. It’s one from the heart. Jon Favreau Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard stars as Carl, the master chef at a chic L.A. restaurant. His workaholism has cost Carl his marriage to Inez (Sofia Vergara) and a fulfill- Three conspirators (Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, and Peter Sarsgaard) living in a ing relationship with their 11-year-old son, Percy (a terrific Emjay Anthony). Creatively, Carl is stuck in a successful rut. The catalyst valley in southern Oregon decide to blow up a local dam as a protest against the use of for change comes in the person of a much-feared food blogger (Oliver Platt, superb), who decides to review Carl. Foodies will sali- water for such luxuries as golf courses and the disruption of salmon life for the produc- vate at the scenes in the kitchen, as Carl preps a new menu. These moments come vibrantly alive. It’s the restaurant owner (Dustin tion of electricity. What happens at the dam, filmed at night, with only shimmering light, Hoffman) who interrupts Carl’s orgasmic joy. He insists Carl serve his greatest hits. Carl complies. The review is scalding….Having lost is the most nerve-racking sequence in recent movies. Oregon’s natural magnificence his job, Carl refurbishes an old food truck, supplied by Inez’s ex-husband (Robert Downey Jr.), and hits the road (Miami, Austin, New (photographed with sombre beauty by Chris Blauvelt) adds to our ambivalence toward Orleans), making gourmet Cuban food with his friends and his son by his side. Chef is deliciously entertaining, comic, touching and the three—they are both protectors and violators of the environment, both righteous and often bitingly true. All the actors are aces. Buoyed by a Latin-flavored score, Chef is the perfect antidote to Hollywood junk food. Like criminal. –The New Yorker the best meals and movies, this irresistible concoction feels good for the soul. –Rolling Stone AUG 24, 25 & 26 (7:15 & 9:00) AUG 27, 28, 29 & 30 (7:00 & 9:00) “A FUNNY AND MOVING FILM ABOUT AGING, BUT IT’S ALSO A WACKY JOURNEY SUPERMENSCH: THE LEGEND LAND HO! ACROSS ICELAND WITH TWO CHARACTERS WHO ARE INSTANTLY LIKEABLE.” –HitFix Directors: Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz OF SHEP GORDON Iceland/USA, 2014, 94 min; PG Director: Mike Meyers USA, 2014, 86 min; PG You’re never too old to soak in a hot spring, get high on good weed, or give a marvelous screen performance — or so goes the charming Can revered entertainment manager Shep Gordon, pro- logic of this gently elegiac road comedy about two aging buddies filed in this so-crazy-you-wouldn’t-believe-it documentary, vacationing in Iceland. A bawdy, bittersweet ode to friendship’s last- really have entered the business as Jimi Hendrix’s drug ing joys and life’s inevitable regrets, the film showcases pitch-perfect dealer? Stranger things have happened. As Gordon now turns from Paul Eenhoorn and Earl Lynn Nelson. Mitch (Nelson), a gre- remembers it, this was after being punched in the face by garious, American loudmouth, tells Colin (Eenhoorn), a softer-spoken Janis Joplin. With winning candor, Gordon brushes off his Australian, that he’s planned an impromptu trip to Iceland for the two best stories, like the one about putting a chicken onstage of them. Before long the two men land in Reykjavik, where Mitch has for glammy client Alice Cooper, then calling the cops on an effortlessly pleasurable agenda in store: stay in nice hotels, eat at his own show, for publicity’s sake. It worked. Viciously the finest restaurants, and possibly smoke some premiere local pot funny and a touch sentimental, the doc bears a vervy style before moving on to the scenic countryside, with its hot springs and for first-time filmmaker, Wayne’s World star Mike Myers, hiking. (The superb cinematography includes staggeringly beautiful who touches on his own rough patch and Gordon’s saintly outdoor vistas.) That a comedy starring two actors of a certain age intervention. It’s a portrait that’s equal parts shtick and will touch on its characters’ encroaching sense of mortality is more soul. –Time Out New York or less a given; it’s considerably less assured that it will cover this Capitalist, protector, hedonist, pioneer, showman, sha- territory as gracefully as “Land Ho!” does. The film’s pleasures as man... Shep Gordon is the consummate Hollywood insid- eye-candy travelogue are delivered without apology; certainly the er. His unlikely story will be told by those who know him Icelandic Tourist Board can expect a small uptick in business. But best, including Alice Cooper, Michael Douglas, Sylvester what gives the story its moment-to-moment buoyancy is the pleasure Stallone, Anne Murray, Willie Nelson, Emeril Lagasse and of watching two actors working brilliantly in tandem. –Variety more. “LONG LIVE AUG 31 (7:00 & 9:00) “WILL LEAD YOU TO A PLACE OF QUIET WONDER.” THE FEMINIST “HILARIOUS!” “UPROARIOUSLY “HYSTERICAL!” SEPT 1 (7:00 ONLY) –The Telegraph –Village Voice FUNNY!” –Total Film REVISIONIST sept 3, 4, 5 & 6 BACK STORY!” MALEFICENT –HitFix –The Globe and Mail Director: Robert Stromberg USA, 2014, 98 min; PG Cast: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, “SUPRISINGLY Sharlto Copley IMAGINATIVE!” Angelina Jolie doesn’t chew the scen- sept 2 (7:00 & 9:15) for uvic undergrads ery in Maleficent — she infuses it, –Entertainment Weekly wielding a magnetic and effortless TOONIE MADNESSsept 5 & 6 (7:00 & 9:15) power as the magnificently malevo- lent fairy who places a curse on a TRACKS newborn princess. She’s the heart and soul of Disney’s revisionist, live- John Curran, Australia, 2013, 112 min; PG sept 3 & 4 (7:10 & 9:15) EDGE OF TOMORROW action look at its most popular car- Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver toon villain, the Mistress of All Evil A journey of arduous physical challenges Only $2 for UVic undergrads! from 1959’s “Sleeping Beauty”. A few and incalculable spiritual rewards is evoca- Only $2 for UVic undergrads! bumpy patches notwithstanding, the tively rendered in this superb adaptation. NEIGHBORS Director: Doug Liman USA, 2104, 114 min; PG new feature is an exquisitely designed, Robyn Davidson’s remarkable journey in Director: Nicholas Stoller USA, 2014, 97 min; 18A Cast: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Brendan Gleeson, Bill Paxton “WATCH ANGELINA JOLIE DEVOUR THE SCENERY IN emotionally absorbing work of dark 1977 across 1700 miles of Australian desert Cast: Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron, Lisa Kudrow It’s a familiar sci-fi mashup, but director Doug Liman knows how to find the fun and THE ROLE SHE WAS BORN FOR.” –The Diva Review enchantment. The handsome prince to the Indian Ocean with four camels and “Neighbors” is one of the funniest, most visually inventive studio comedies in recent the thrills in this tale of an alien-fighting soldier who lives the same day over and over is a bit player in a story whose true a dog is given a richly sensorial screen memory. Seth Rogen and his adorable wife, played by “Bridesmaids” star Rose Byrne, again. Tom Cruise has a killer case of déjà vu and he’s not the only one; viewers will center is a love that has nothing to do treatment. This is a visually majestic film have just moved into a lovely suburban home with their new baby girl. They face an pick out plot elements from “Groundhog Day,” “Starship Troopers,” “Source Code,” with happily-ever-after romance. –The of transfixing moods and textures. –The obstacle when their domestic tranquility is threatened when a fraternity, led by Zac Efron and “The Butterfly Effect” from this exciting sci-fi action epic. The familiarity never Hollywood Reporter Hollywood Reporter and Dave Franco, moves in next door. –The Playlist gets in the way of the fun. –The Wrap sept 7 & 8 (6:45 & 8:50) sept 10 & 11 (7:00 & 8:50) “A REFRESHING, COMEDIC TAKE ON THE ABORTION ISSUE!” BELLE sept 9 (7:00 ONLY) OBVIOUS CHILD Director: Amma Asante UK, 2013, 104 min; G Director: Gillian Robespierre – National Post sept 12 & 13 (7:00 & 9:30) Cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, USA, 2014, 85 min; PG Sam Reid, Sarah Gadon, Miranda Richardson, The only agenda of this scruffy Penelope Wilton, Emily Watson, Tom Felton, LAWRENCE OF and urbane comedy, about a young X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST James Norton and Matthew Goode comic contemplating abortion, is to Director: Bryan Singer USA, 2014, 132 min; PG Cast: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, This rousing historical fantasia, loosely based be true and funny. It will no doubt Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Ellen Page, Peter Dinklage, Ian draw the accusation that it treats on a true story, uses Jane Austen’s novels as ARABIA: RESTORED VERSION McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Anna Paquin, Evan Peters, Nicholas Hoult. a template. In the late eighteenth century, David Lean, UK, 1962, 227 min; PG abortion like it’s nothing. What this fresh and witty film actually does See the 2014 blockbuster that gets damn near everything right. “XM:DFP” tries to stuff two beautiful half cousins, Elizabeth (Sarah Cast: Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec the whole X-Men universe – past, present and future – into one movie. Fans are in for Gadon) and Dido Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), is even bolder: it treats abortion Guiness like it’s something. “Obvious Child” an exhilarating rush. Bryan Singer combines the pow of his early films with the playful- live together as loving friends under the pro- ness of “First Class”, which introduced James McAvoy as the boyish version of Patrick tection of their uncle (Tom Wilkinson), the Utterly magnificent--a colossally flamboy- acknowledges the reality of young ant mixture of pomp and neurosis. It is women. The film takes an intelli- Stewart’s Professor X and Michael Fassbender in a youthful take on Ian McKellen’s Chief Justice of England. Dido, the daughter of Magneto. A rousing epic of mind and heart. –Rolling Stone a British sea captain and his African slave mis- certainly the greatest epic of the postwar gent look at its characters and their tress, becomes an heiress. She’s now capable Anglo-American cinema. 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