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veryone is welcome at Cinecenta! We are a non-profit division of the University of Victoria Students’ Society, conceived as an inexpensive alternative for students, the University community and the public. JUNE - JULY 2017 EThe theatre is in the Student Union Building at UVic. Many buses come to UVic and stop right outside the SUB. UVic charges for parking except UVSS Students $5.75 on Sundays and Holidays, when it is free. PARKING HELP LINE: 250-721-6386. Special for UVSS students Tickets and memberships go on sale 40 minutes before showtime. Please 9pm shows (or later) $4.75 arrive early to avoid disappointment. Seniors, Children (12 & under) $5.75 LOCATED IN THE STUDENT UNION BUILDING Other Students $6.75 EVERYONE IS WELCOME AT CINECENTA! Cinemagic Members $6.75 But if you aren’t affiliated with UVic Alumni, Faculty, Staff, UVic and are going to come and guests (1 only) of above $6.75 more than once a year, you can 50 cinemagic save money by purchasing a MEMBERSHIP Non-members $7.75 Cinemagic Membership! TWO COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS All films are in English, or with $6.75 ADMISSION FOR YOU + English subtitles where noted. $17. 1 ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION TEN FILM DISCOUNT PASS Cinecenta office: 250-721-8364 UVSS Students, Seniors $50.00 24-hour info Line: 250-721-8365 Members, UVic Staff $57.50 (unavailable to non-members) MANAGER: LISA SHEPPARD PROGRAMMER: MICHAEL HOPPE DESIGN: KATIE HULBERT CLASSIC CONCERTS - 60 s, 70 s & 80 s

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ENHANCE YOUR ENJOYMENT WITH A $7 COSMOPOLITAN AT FELITICA’S IN THE SUB BEFORE OR AFTER THE SHOW! june 25 (4:15 & 7:00) june 26 (7:00 & 9:25) june 27 (7:00 & 9:10) 80s june 28 & 29 (7:00 & 9:00) “A FILM OF EMPATHY, GRACE AND WIT THAT june 30 (7:00 & 9:15) july 1 (7:00 only) Classic! GOES A LONG WAY TO EXPLAINING THE POPULIST THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE I, DANIEL BLAKE ANGER SO EMBLEMATIC OF THESE TIMES.” THE CIRCLE “A SWANKLY SINISTER LITTLE MIND Director: Niki Caro, Czech Republic/UK, 2017, 127 min; 14A Emile Ardolino, USA, 1987, 101 min; PG Director: Ken Loach –Toronto Star Director: James Ponsoldt, USA, 2017, 110 min; PG TEASER OF A THRILLER.” –Variety Jessica Chastain and director Niki Caro (‘Whale Rider’) turn this World War II drama into an Set in the summer of ‘63, it’s the story of UK, 2016, 101 min; 14A Cast: Emma Watson, Tom Hanks emotional experience that is straight-ahead but satisfying. The story of Antonina Zabinska Baby (Jennifer Grey) who meets Johnny Winner of the Palme D’Or in Cannes, veteran British director Ken Loach doesn’t break “The Circle,” based on Dave Eggers’ novel, is chilling. Yet the world it depicts is our (Chastain), who along with her husband Jan (Johan Heldenbergh) hid some 300 Jews (Patrick Swayze), a dance instructor who any new cinematic ground, but he draws a dynamite performance from Dave Johns as a world, just a tiny leap into the future. A young woman goes to work at a company that’s on the grounds of the Warsaw zoo they ran, may sound like a standard Holocaust tale of teaches the mambo by day and does his middle-aged carpenter who has a Kafkaesque encounter with the state welfare system like a hellish cross between Facebook, Apple and Google. Young Mae (Emma Watson) is rescue and redemption, but even if there was such an animal, “Zookeeper’s Wife” is not it. own kind of steppin’ by night. The chore- after he’s injured on the job. Witty, tender and oh so relevant, it’s a lot more fun than it thrilled to be welcomed onto the Circle’s campus. Everyone is so friendly, yet everything —L.A. Times ography by Kenny Ortega is phenomenal. sounds. —Maclean’s is so weird. The place is run by its two founders who are played by the inherently likable “A TRULY MOVING AND ORIGINAL FILM.” –The New Republic —Cinema Blend Tom Hanks and Patton Oswalt. What harm could those guys do? —SF Chronicle

july 2 (4:30 & 7:00) july 3 (7:00 only) july 4, 5 & 6 (7:00 & 9:15) “A PUNGENT, DEMYSTIFYING PORTRAIT OF THE ROWDY july 7 & 8 (7:00 & 9:10) “A BRILLIANTLY BIZARRO SATIRE OF GENDER POLITICS!” –Rolling Stone THE SECOND TIME AROUND “A LITTLE GEM!” CÉZANNE ET MOI LATE-19TH-CENTURY PARISIAN ART WORLD.” –The New York Times COLOSSAL Director: Leon Marr, Canada, 2016, 108 min; PG –Montreal Gazette Director: Danièle Thompson, France, 2016, 117 min; French with subtitles Director: Nacho Vigalondo, Canada/Spain, 2016, 110 min; PG Seniors have their moments in this small, agreeable romantic tale, in which a vibrant widow “Cézanne et moi” captures the world when art was worth fighting about and had the power to change the world. The “moi” is the novel- Cast: Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Dan Stevens mouths the words to Verdi, but doesn’t allow herself to experience the operatic passions ist Emile Zola; the film chronicles the near-lifelong friendship between two men who became starving artists together in Paris, fought A hard-drinking New Yorker (Anne Hathaway) gets kicked out by her boyfriend, returns to she’s in thrall with. She’s Katherine, played by Linda Thorson (Tara King of The Avengers). over women and money and artistic principles, and finally met two ironically different fates. Guillaume Canet delivers a watchful por- her hometown to pull herself together, and discovers one night that she’s the animating Opposite her is Isaac (the great Rockford Files actor Stuart Margolin). He’s a grouchy retired trayal of Zola, an Italian immigrant. Paul Cézanne (Guillaume Gallienne) detests the business world his father wants for him; when Zola force behind a giant monster periodically attacking Seoul, South Korea. —Chicago Reader tailor who fixes Katherine’s hem and, eventually, much more. The soundtrack is Mozart and moves to Paris, Cézanne arrives with a flourish. Soon the two are drinking with the likes of Renoir, Manet and Pissarro, and embarking Verdi, the tone is gentle and the themes of loneliness and second acts are handled deftly. on picnics with other artists and bohemian friends. Toggling between scenes of youth and an acrimonious reunion in 1888, this is an It’s a sci-fi/horror/psychodrama/comedy/thriller/revenge/romance film. It will stomp —The Globe and Mail examination of two men determined to blow open the formal languages they’re working in. —Washington Post through your brain, long after you’ve left the theatre. —Toronto Star Classic concerts: the 60s Celebrate pride! “AN ENDLESSLY CHARMING FILM FOCUSED ON A WOMAN WHOSE VIEW OF LIFE IS ONE TO BE ENVIED.” –The Guardian 4K RESTORATION! 50TH ANNIVERSARY RELEASE! JULY 9 & 10 (7:00 & 9:00) “BRASH AND EMPOWERING… july 11 (7:00 & 8:45) july 12 & 13 (7:00 & 8:45) ERROL MORRIS’S LATEST! july 14 & 15 (7:00 & 9:25) “LET’S CUT TO THE CHASE: BON COP BAD COP 2 IS FUN AND YOU REALLY SHOULD KIKI IT EXPLODES WITH ENERGY!” MONTEREY POP THE B-SIDE: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography BON COP BAD COP 2 GO SEE IT.” –Montreal Gazette Director: Sara Jordenö, USA, 2016, 94 min –Montreal Gazette D.A. Pennebaker, USA, 1968, 78 min Director: Errol Morris, USA, 2016, 76 min Director: Alain Deroshers, Canada, 2017, 127 min; 14A The various bodies moving through this energetic and enveloping documentary about June, 1967. During the Summer of Love, This portrait of the artist as an old woman is a gentle-hearted gem. The film follows The long-anticipated sequel to buddy-cop comedy ‘Bon Cop, Bad Cop’ reunites Patrick New York City’s LGBT ‘ballroom’ scene are capable of astonishing, even superhuman the first Monterey Pop Festival ushered in the septuagenarian Elsa Dorfman as she explains how various snapshots came to be. Huard and Colm Feore as odd-couple lawmen, and it’s not just very good, but also trés physical feats. They pour themselves into stunningly elaborate costumes before hitting the a new era of rock and roll. It launched Jimi Dorfman managed to meet a host of literary characters, in particular Allen Ginsberg. bien. Well worth waiting for. Both lawmen are greyer but they haven’t slowed much. The dance floor. The documentary cuts briskly among seven young principals, all of them LGBT Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, The poet became one of Dorfman’s most frequent subjects, which also included Bob story will cross not just provincial limits but also the Canada-U.S. border, as a hi-tech people of color, letting them show off their moves and tell their personal stories. It leaves and also included Simon and Garfunkel, Dylan, Anais Nin, Jorge Luis Borges, and Joni Mitchell. In the 80s she took thousands terror plot unfolds, making this comedy also a thriller. The characters move effortlessly you with the bracing sense that however tough and resilient its subjects might be forced to the Mamas and the Papas, the Who, the of oversized color portraits, shooting famous artists, herself, and ordinary families alike. between English and French, profanity included (there are subtitles). —Toronto Star become, their hope of a better, more tolerant future will never go out of style. —L.A. Times Byrds, Hugh Masekela, and Ravi Shankar. She makes for excellent company. Director Errol Morris is obviously enraptured. —Variety Classic concerts: the 70s “RICHARD GERE IS DELIGHTFUL!” –Seattle Times

july 18 (7:00 & 9:20) july 16 (4:30 & 7:00) july 17 (7:00 & 9:15) july 19 & 20 (7:00 & 9:10) july 21 & 22 (7:00 & 9:00) “A WARM, SHARPLY CHARACTERISED AND “DIANE LANE IS IRRESISTIBLE.” THE LAST WALTZ ABSORBING MELODRAMA.” –Time Out London –Rolling Stone NORMAN: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer , USA, 1978, 117 min, G THE COMMUNE PARIS CAN WAIT Director: Joseph Cedar, USA, 2017, 118 min; PG With Band members—, Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark, 112 min; Danish with subtitles; 14A Director: , USA, 2017, 92 min; G Richard Gere triumphs in the role of his career, as a scrappy Manhattan schmoozer Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard After Rik (Ulrich Thompson) inherits his father’s large house in 1970s Copenhagen, this Eleanor Coppola serves up a sweet little divertissement with this slight but charming of questionable ethics who gets in over his head. Gere’s never been better. Norman, Manuel and Rick Danko. Also with Joni architecture prof moves in with his TV reporter wife (Trine Dyrholm). “I’m bored, Erik,” travelogue/food-a-thon about two middle-aged acquaintances (Diane Lane, Aarnaud constantly on the make, is trying to be a big deal. After he lures a minor Israeli deputy Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Eric says his wife. “This huge, fantastic house should be filled with fantastic people.” The Viard) on a two-day road trip from Cannes to Paris. Making several scenic and mouth- minister (Lior Ashkenazi) into his confidence, the deputy becomes his country’s prime Clapton, Muddy Waters, , commune they form is the backdrop for an affectionate marital melodrama. Thomas watering stops along the way, the light-hearted tale is underscored by the possibility of an minister and Norman can almost taste his own arrival to the major leagues. But scandal Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John, the Staples, Vinterberg (“The Celebration,” “The Hunt”) says he draws on his experiences growing up adulterous romance, but their main preoccupations are beautiful towns, fine local wines rains down, while Norman’s rabbi (a brilliant Steve Buscemi) expects his congregant to Ringo Starr, Paul Butterfield, Emmylou on a commune: “It was a crazy, warm and fantastic time, surrounded by genitals, beer, and fabulous meals. —The Hollywood Reporter deliver on a promised windfall. —Time Out New York Harris, Neil Diamond. highbrow academic discussions, love and personal tragedies.” —Chicago Sun-Times Classic concerts: the 80s yyyy 100% RATING ON ROTTEN TOMATOES!

A new digital restoration of Tarkovsky’s 1979 classic! july 23 (4:30 & 7:00) july 24 (7:00 & 9:00) july 25 (7:00 & 9:00) july 26 & 27 (7:00) “VISUALLY UNFORGETTABLE AND POSSIBLY july 28 & 29 (7:00 & 9:00) “FLUSTERED, FLIRTY AND FILLED TO THE STRANGERS ON THE EARTH STOP MAKING SENSE STALKER TARKOVSKY’S FINEST WORK.” –The Observer THE LOVERS BRIM WITH COMPASSION.” –Washington Post Director: Tristan Cook, Spain/USA, 96 min , USA, 1984, 88 min, G Director: Andrei Tarkovsky, Russia, 1979, 161 min; Russian with subtitles Director: Azazel Jacobs, USA, 2017, 97 min; 14A There have been many works about seekers taking the 600-mile pilgrimage along This is at their creative One of the most immersive and rarefied experiences in the history of cinema, Andrei Mary (Debra Winger) and Michael (Tracy Letts) are married. She has something going Spain’s Santiago de Compostela Camino. But this transcendent new doc takes a broad, peak, with late great director Jonathan Tarkovsky’s ‘Stalker’ embarks on a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic post- on the sly with an Irish novelist (Aidan Gillen); he’s been sneaking around with a ballet expansive view, and it’s got another hook: music from J.S. Bach’s six suites for solo Demme keeping the focus directly on the apocalyptic landscape. A hired guide leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the teacher (Melora Walters). Both are counting the days until they can move in with their new cello. Cellist Dane Johansen is walking the route – with his cello strapped to his back. band, including in his iconic Zone, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to fulfill one’s partners. Then, on the brink of separation, Mary and Michael decide they still turn each His intention was to perform Bach in some of the ancient churches along the path. big suit. The result is euphoric. Songs most deeply held desires. At once a religious allegory, a reflection of political anxieties, other on – and start cheating on their side dishes with each other. Winger and Letts are Spectacular images from the Camino are interwoven with philosophical reflections. include “,” “Once and a meditation on film itself—among many other interpretations—‘Stalker’ envelops the perfection, and you can’t take your eyes off them. —Rolling Stone —NOW Toronto in a Lifetime,” “This Must Be the Place.” viewer. —Films We Like

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