sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM OCT 15 & 16 KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON OCT 12, 13, 14 • ANTIMATTER FESTIVAL • www.antimatter.ws (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:45) RAMONA & BEEZUS OCT 10 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:20) • OCT 11 (7:00 only) TUES, OCT 12 WED, OCT 13 THURS, OCT 14 INCEPTION back by popular demand! Director: Christopher Nolan (USA, 2010, 148 minutes; PG) Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, 7pm ATOMIC SUBLIME 7pm MARWENCOL 7pm BEATS OF FREEDOM Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, TomHardy, MAO’S LAST DANCER Jesse Lerner, USA, 72min Jeff Malmberg, USA, 83min Wojciech Slota, Leszek Gnoinski, Poland, 78min Director: Bruce Beresford Ken Watanabe, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine, Lukas Haas (Australia, 2009, 119 min; English & Mandarin Using found footage, After a brutal assault An entrancing docu- with subtitles; rated G) Cast: Chi Chao, Bruce AS repositions the leaves him brain dam- mentary about rock “WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HAD Greenwood, Joan Chen, Kyle MacLachlan. New York School of aged and broke, Mark music and indepen- YOUR MIND BLOWN BY A MOVIE?” abstract expression- Hogancamp seeks dence behind the Iron –New York Daily News Bruce Beresford delivers one of his best films in the ist painters within the recovery in Marwencol Curtain. The film jour- story of Chinese ballet star Li Cunxin. Like Nureyev context of The Cold - a miniature World neys through three Dreaming is life’s great solitary adventure. We and Baryshnikov, Li Cunxin was a ballet dancer too War, examining some War II-era town that decades of Polish rock experience them alone or not at all. But what if talented to be hidden from the eyes of the West, and ideological contra- he builds in his back- and revolution through other people could literally invade our dreams, too canny not to defect at the earliest opportunity. dictions and deploy- yard. “P P P P P - one of interviews with legends what if a technology existed that enabled inter- He made his grand jeté to freedom in 1981 while a ments. the best movies you’ll of the underground lopers to create and manipulate sleeping life guest artist at the Houston Ballet. Later, he moved to see this year.” - Now music scene and never- with the goal of stealing our secret thoughts, Australia with his wife and joined the Australian Ballet. Magazine before-seen footage of Poland under communism. or more unsettling still, implanting ideas in the His memoirs were a surprise international bestseller. deepest of subconscious states and making Spotted at Madame Mao’s Beijing Dance Academy us believe they’re our own? Welcome to the by Houston Ballet director (Bruce Greenwood), Li 9pm CITY BREATH 9pm WE DON’T CARE 9pm HORI SMOKU curated by Kai Lossgott, 70min world of Inception, written and directed by the (played by Birmingham Royal Ballet principal Chi masterful Christopher Nolan, a tremendously Chao) is seconded to America, where he quickly Through their common theme, these short video ABOUT MUSIC ANYWAY... SAILOR JERRY Cédric Dupire & Gaspard Kuentz, France/Japan, 80min Erich Weiss, USA, 73min exciting science-fiction thriller that’s as dis- realises that the West is not the den of decadence ‘gasps’ or ‘breaths’ of South African cities give voice turbing as it sounds. This is a popular enter- the party’s propagandists would make out. After fall- to the private dreams and nightmares of local poets, “Gloriously loud and abrasive but not without its The roots of American tattooing through the life of tainment with a knockout punch so intense ing for an American dancer (Amanda Shull), Li starts dancers, performance thoughtful side, this film invites you to take an its most iconoclastic figure, Norman “Sailor Jerry” and unnerving it’ll have you worrying if it’s safe hatching plans to stay with the help of immigration artists and filmmak- ears-first plunge into Collins. Considered by to close your eyes at night. Having come up lawyer (Kyle MacLachlan), but faces the agonising ers. They interrogate, Japan’s experimen- many the foremost tat- with the idea when he was 16, Nolan wrote the possibility of never seeing his family back in China with or against rational tal music scene... a too artist of all time, first draft of Inception eight years ago and in again. The production enjoyed a surprising amount logic, the way South bracing showcase for Collins is the father of the interim his great success with The Dark of access to Chinese locations and these scenes are Africans understand the aberrant activi- modern day tattooing, Knight, not to mention the earlier Memento, exquisite to look at. Mao’s Last Dancer’s two hours their cities and urban ties of artists like whose uncompromising put him in a position to cast Leonardo DiCaprio go by in a flash, and the ballet sequences are an life. Otomo Yoshihide and lifestyle and larger than and six other Oscar-nominated actors and added visual treat in a film with an embarrassment of Sakamoto Hiromichi.” life persona made him spend a reported $160 million in a most daring riches. Bruce Beresford has delivered one of his best - Eyeweekly an American legend. way. –Los Angeles Times movies. –Time Out Australia
KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM OCT 19 (7:00 & 9:10) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM RAMONA & BEEZUS DESPICABLE ME Alfred Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW OCT 22 & 23 Director: Alfred Hitchcock (USA, 1954, 112 minutes; (3:00 matinee & 7:15 & 9:15) DVD, G) Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter SALT Director: Philip Noyce (USA, 2010, 100 min- Now this is a movie. The experience is like ... well, like utes; PG) Cast: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, spying on your neighbors. Hitchcock traps us right Chiwetel Ejiofor from the first. Jimmy Stewart is a photographer who “A THRILL RIDE!” –Salon.com is stuck at home in a wheelchair, with his leg up in a cast. He starts spying on his neighbors. He begins to “A SENSELESS BLAST!” –New York Magazine notice odd behavior on the part of the couple across the way. They fight. The woman is not seen again. A spy thriller more than worth its salt. Angelina What happened to her? Was she murdered? How will Jolie, for all intents and purposes, is James the man dispose of the body? Seeing this movie with Bond in Salt, and it’s really no surprise that OCT 17 (3:00 matinee & 7:00) • OCT 18 (7:00 only) an audience adds a whole additional dimension to it. the only female action star in Hollywood more We are all asked to join Stewart in his voyeurism, and than measures up to Daniel Craig. Donning GET LOW A true tall tale we cheerfully agree. –Roger Ebert OCT 20 & 21 (7:10 & 9:00) several guises while on the run she even -- Director: Aaron Schneider (USA, 2010, 104 min; PG) Cast: Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek, Bill with the help of considerable facial latex, mind Cobbs, Lucas Black A WOMAN, A GUN, AND A NOODLE SHOP you -- turns up as a guy in one scene. It makes “A CAPTIVATING STORY! ROBERT DUVALL BLOWS YOU AWAY!” –Elle Director: Zhang Yimou (China, 2009, 91 min; Mandarin with subtitles; PG) an amusing gag, a kind of acknowledgment “HILARIOUS!” –Time Out Hong Kong that kick-ass action heroes now come in both Robert Duvall is an indisputably great actor. As Felix Bush, a Depression-era hermit out of the Tennessee genders. In Jolie’s case, it’s more convincing backwoods, Duvall finds the soul of a character who has shrouded himself in mystery for four decades. Get Zhang Yimou’s remake of the Coen brothers’ Blood Simple is exhilarating and inventive. The setting is as than ever. Salt is a better Bond movie than Low, from first-time feature director Aaron Schneider, holds its cards close to the vest. The plot goes from far removed from conventional film noir territory as can be imagined. The drama plays out in the deserts of most recent Bond movies, as its makers keep simmer to sizzle when Felix decides to throw a funeral party – his own. Better yet, he wants to be present northern China. It is also set in a time when guns are new and swords and spears are still the weapons of the stunts real and severely limit CGI gimmick- at the service, which sounds more like a public stoning. Local funeral director Frank Quinn (Bill Murray) is choice. The film is gorgeous to look at, shot (in the initial scenes) in eye-popping colour. As in the best film ry. This is a slick, light entertainment. It’s fun eager to help Felix get low. With the help of his young assistant (Lucas Black), Frank rustles up speakers noirs, the plotting is embroiled. Wang (Ni Dahong) is a noodle shop owner who treats his wife (Yan Ni) with to watch Jolie’s Salt escaping from a virtual at Felix’s funeral by selling raffle tickets with Felix’s property as the prize. Lots of folks show up, including contempt. The wife buys a gun from a merchant passing through town and demands that her lover uses it lockdown, dodging cars and bullets, making widow Mattie (Sissy Spacek), a former love of Felix’s, and the Rev. Charlie Jackson (the superb Bill Cobbs), to kill her husband. In the meantime, the husband has recruited a patrol officer (Sun Hunglei) to kill the wife her way to New York and through subway tun- who knows things about Felix nobody else does. All you need to know is that Get Low puts Duvall and and the lover (rising comedian Xiao Shenyang)…You could quibble that the film is a formal exercise – but nels to confront the Russian president, then Murray in the same movie. Only a fool would want to miss that. Murray gets big laughs without skimping it is a bravura one. As he has shown in epics like Hero and House of Flying Daggers Zhang is an expert take on, seemingly, every Russian and CIA op on the minute details that build a fully rounded character. And watching Murray spar with Duvall is pure in choreographing balletic action sequences…Many American westerns looked to Asian samurai or action in her way. --The Hollywood Reporter pleasure. By the end of this funny, touching and acutely observed film, Felix reveals his secret heart. And movies. Zhang is following a long tradition of cultural exchange. Now what we need is for the Coens to give Duvall, without a word wasted or fumbled, holds you in thrall. –Rolling Stone us their version of House of Flying Daggers. --The Independent
KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM OCT 26 (7:00 & 9:25) OCT 27 & 28 (7:00 & 9:15) OCT 29 & 30 (3:00 matinee & 7:15) DESPICABLE ME THE WIZARD OF OZ Alfred Hitchcock’s UNCLE JOAN RIVERS: A OCT 24 (3:00 matinee & 7:00) • OCT 25 (7:00 only) VERTIGO BOONMEE PIECE OF WORK WILD GRASS Director: Alfred Hitchcock (USA, 1958, 128 min; Directors: Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg (USA, Director: Alain Resnais (France, 2009, 104 min; French with subtitles; rated G) Cast: Sabine Azéma, DVD, rated G) WHO CAN 2010, 85 min; PG) André Dussollier, Mathieu Amalric Alfred Hitchcock’s surrealistic 1958 masterpiece. “CONVULSIVELY FUNNY!”–The New York Times “A VISUAL PLEASURE!” –Roger Ebert James Stewart plays a detective who has left the RECALL HIS “FUNNY AND FASCINATING…IMMENSELY police force because his fear of heights has caused a ENTERTAINING!” –The New Yorker. Alain Resnais’s mind-bending new feature begins tragedy. When an old friend summons him to investi- PAST LIVES Joan Rivers is a comedian of historical impor- innocently enough: Dentist Marguerite Muir (Sabine gate the eccentric actions of his psychologically per- Director: Apichatpong tance, the most successful female stand-up of Azéma) goes shopping for shoes, luxuriating in a plexing wife (Kim Novak), Stewart’s life takes a new, Weerasethakul (Thailand, all time, with an influential career that has lasted almost 50 years - and she’s still funny. A Piece of carefree day until a thief snatches her purse. This obsessive course from which he never recovers…To 2010, 114 minutes; Thai with Eng Work is one of the best documentaries ever made about show business, about what it really consists sets Marguerite on a collision course with Georges watch this movie is too primal an experience to miss. subtitles) of and what it demands. Along the way, by showing us a woman in her mid-70s still driven to pursue Palet (André Dussollier), a suburbanite who finds her Do yourself an aesthetic favor: Take the plunge. You’ll PALME D’OR WINNER! this life of stress and punishment, it offers insight into the performer personality. Yes, the plastic sur- stolen wallet and develops a fervent obsession. What love the fall all the way down. --Washington Post –2010 Cannes Film Festival gery is bizarre - but the woman herself is grounded, self-aware and plugged into the current culture. follows might best be described as a “stalker farce,” It’s been called Hitchcock’s most personal film (often Her new material is observant and daring, and there’s nothing remotely nostalgic about it…Joan in which Georges and Marguerite play increasingly cited as his best film), James Stewart’s darkest role, A FILM TO INSPIRE. It’s barely Rivers is an extraordinary person, and this is a great documentary. –San Francisco Chronicle destructive games of one-upmanship. And then the Kim Novak’s best work, Bernard Herrmann’s greatest a film; more a floating world. To watch it is to feel many things – balmed, seduced, amused, mystified. power roles shift…Georges and Marguerite’s comi- film score and it is often found on many top 10 lists Weerasethakul has created his most accessible and most enchanted film to date. Uncle Boonmee (Thanapat cally tinged dalliances are always counterbalanced of greatest films, Sight and Sound and American Saisaymar) is dying and has retired to the countryside in North-East Thailand to see out his days in the OCT 29 & 30 (9pm only) separate admission by a sense of impending mortality. Indeed, the film Film Institute, to name a few. –The Cinema Pedant company of his loved ones. One evening, his wife Huay (Natthakarn Aphaiwonk), who died fourteen years has the feel of a final testament. Yet death is not before, appears. So does, a strange-looking simian: he is, albeit in the form of a Monkey Ghost, Boonmee’s THE LAST EXORCISM something to fear in this universe. The transformative long-lost son. And so begins a conversation, laden with joy and sadness, in which a man on the verge of Director: Daniel Stamm (USA, 2010, 87 min; 14A) finale suggests rather that it is something to smile dying questions his wife on what he might find in the afterworld – and, if he will find her there too. Later, at, cheekily, yet acceptingly. The journey may end, he will travel with his family through jungles and deep into a hilltop cave that he likens to a womb…. The “IT’S SCARY FUN AND PACKED WITH COMIC BITS.” but the sublimity (and frequent ridiculousness) of our story that it tells isn’t dramatic; here, reincarnation is widely accepted. Weerasethakul successfully conveys –Boxoffice time on earth remains, forever and always. –Time Out the subtle other-worldliness of this part of Thailand. Mostly though, Uncle Boonmee is a film about what “A SUPERBLY CREEPY STORY.” –Philadelphia Inquirer New York French new wave mainstay Alain Resnais it means to take care of others, and of the importance of caring and of being cared for. And it’s a film, in was once known for “difficult” art house films like its exquisite cinematography, and the patience with which it unfolds, insinuates itself in our imaginations. “GIVES YOU GOOD REASON TO BE VERY AFRAID OF THE Last Year in Marienbad. Then he moved to ensemble --The Telegraph DARK!” –Rolling Stone comedies and melodramas inspired by stage plays. The 88-year-old’s latest, a wackily sublime film, Apichatpong Weerasethakul has come to be recognized as one of the most original voices in Asian and “A SMART FILM THAT SCARES THE HELL OUT OF YOU!” starts in the mode of his light, theatrical efforts, but world cinema. –FilmsWeLike –Ain’t It Cool News then turns much stranger. The irony is that the movie “TRULY CHILLING AND FRIGHTENING IN EVERY WAY!” has tremendous fun becoming increasingly difficult. Sponsored by UVic’s Film Studies Program –Backstage Magazine (Recommended). --NPR
KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM NOV 2 (7:00 & 9:15) NOV 5 & 6 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:15) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM THE WIZARD OF OZ Alfred Hitchcock’s DINNER FOR TBA OCT 31 & NOV 1 Double Feature! THE BIRDS SCHMUCKS Director: Alfred Hitchcock (USA, 1963, 119 min, Director: Jay Roach (USA, 2010, 114 7:10 - BEST WORST MOVIE DVD) Cast: Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy minutes; PG) Cast: Steve Carell, Paul Director: Michael Paul Stephenson Rudd, Jemaine Clement, Jeff Dunham, (USA, 2009, 93 minutes, PG) 95% RATING! –Rotten Tomatoes Bruce Greenwood, Ron Livingston, Only Alfred Hitchcock could take a premise which is Lucy Punch and Zach Galifianakis plus ridiculous - birds try to kill everybody - and construct a beautifully realized thriller. Based on a disturbing “IT’S FUNNY FROM THE 9:00 - TROLL 2 short story by the macabre Daphne DuMaurier, Hitch BEGINNING AND IT STAYS FUNNY!” Director: Claudio Fragasso builds some truly amazing sequences which are as –San Francisco Chronicle (Italy/USA, 1990, 95 minutes) audacious as they are experimental. Tippi Hendren Paul Rudd plays the straight man, “EXTREMELY ENTERTAINING!” –Ain’t it Cool News stars as blonde socialite Melanie Daniels. She arrives in the small coastal town of Bodega Bay to pay a while Steve Carell charitably tackles In 1989, a group of unknown actors starred in TROLL practical joke on handsome lawyer Mitch Brenner the lonely loser who stumbles into his 2, which would be crowned the worst movie of all (Rod Taylor), planning to leave him a caged set of humiliation scheme, in this uproarious time! After two decades of running from this cinematic lovebirds. The pacing is deliberate, yet engrossing. NOV 3 & 4 (7:10 & 9:00) odd-couple remake of Francis Veber’s disaster, the cast can no longer hide from the legion of We are suddenly hit with random bird attacks. They hit French farce The Dinner Game. followers that celebrate them for their ineptitude. BEST swoop down and peck people in the head, slowly JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD Director Jay Roach takes the wick- WORST MOVIE, directed by TROLL 2’s once-disgraced massing for an all out assault…--ZentropaJK Director: Tamara Davis (USA, 2010, 88 minutes; PG) edly un-PC premise and renders it child star, Michael Paul Stephenson, unravels the sto- positively benign, emerging with a nutty “A remarkably rich documentary possessing depth, range, insight and compassion.” crowd-pleaser in the process. –Variety ries of these unforgettable real-life characters and the –Los Angeles Times colorful army of devotees who continue to revel in the People fall down, things break, funny film’s perfectly flawed brilliance. This is an affectionate and intoxicatingly fun tribute to the single “It places Basquiat’s art in a cultural context with an enthusiasm and zest that make the many pictures accents are used, crazy misunder- greatest bad movie ever made and the people responsible for unleashing it on the world. The result shown come blazingly alive.” –The New York Times standings occur, and an impressively is a hilarious and tender offbeat journey... --Union Pictures high number of witty, bizarre and out- An international art star by the age of 23 and dead from a heroin overdose at 27, Jean-Michel Basquiat was rageous lines are uttered. It is less a …Followed by a complete screening of the hilariously hideous TROLL 2! A freckle-faced moppet’s drawn, in the words of one curator, to “the romance of the person whose life is so intense, it’s more than full-scale comic feast than a buffet deceased grandfather returns to warn him of the existence of malevolent goblins intent on devour- he can bear.” In her elegiac tribute, Tamra Davis, who became friends with the painter in 1983, mercifully of amusing snacks, and while it does ing him and his family! There’s a select class of movies so sublimely, ecstatically dreadful that the avoids much of the gassy nostalgia that typifies documentaries made about artists in New York in the ‘80s. not necessarily exalt or flatter your standard criteria no longer apply.–Salon.com. Yes, TROLL 2 has a coveted zero percent rating on Instead of the platitudes and fatuous art-world rhetoric that defined the 1996 biopic Basquiat by Julian intelligence, it doesn’t treat you like Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer: the lowest-rated film ever made! –Roger Ebert Schnabel (a blustery talking head here), Davis focuses on fascinating specifics. Biographical minutiae (as an idiot, either. –The New York Times he was recovering from a car accident at age six, Basquiat’s mother bought him a copy of Gray’s Anatomy, which influenced his early work) and articulate assessments from friends, former girlfriends, art historians, and gallerists illuminate the life and work of the man who took, in the words of Yale professor Robert Farris Thompson, “all the street energies and translated them into high art.” –The Village Voice
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SEPT 25 & 26 SHREK FOREVER AFTER 94 minutes; rated G - violence To regain his ogre mojo, Shrek confronts what life would be like if he had never existed. OCT 2 & 3 TOY STORY 3 103 minutes; rated G Andy is off to college and his toys wonder what’s going to happen to them in Pixar’s fun and moving instant classic. OCT 9 & 10 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 98 min; rated G – violence, may frighten young children Wonderful animated story about a Viking boy (voiced by Jay Baruchel) who befriends a young, wounded dragon. OCT 16 & 17 RAMONA & BEEZUS 104 minutes; rated G Like the beloved Beverly Cleary books, this capti- s vating film shows what the world looks like from the h perspective of a spirited 9-year-old (Joey King). are OCT 23 & 24 DESPICABLE ME th 95 minutes; rated G e In this critically-acclaimed animated adventure, the love. world’s greatest villain meets his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes. OCT 30 & 31 THE WIZARD OF OZ 102 minutes; rated G Judy Garland as Dorothy goes over the rainbow in one of the most beloved movies of all time. NOV 6 & 7 TO BE ANNOUNCED
sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM SEPT 28 & 29 (7:15 only) back by popular demand! SEPT 30 (7:00 & 9:25) OCT 1 (3pm matinee & 7:00) SHREK FOREVER AFTER OCT 2 (1pm & 3pm matinees & 7pm) BABIES The adventure of a lifetime begins… back by popular demand! SEPT 26 (3:00 matinee & 7:00) • SEPT 27 (7:00 only) Director: Thomas Balmes (France, 2010, 79 minutes; no dialogue; rated G – nudity) THE SECRET IN TOY STORY 3 SPECIAL EVENT! Back by popular demand! Kevin FOUR STARS! The premise is ingeniously simple: Follow four newborns from four Director: Lee Unkrich (USA, 2010, 103 minutes; rated G) Voices: Tom Bazzana, author of the award-winning biography very different corners of the Earth – Namibia, San Francisco, Tokyo, Mongolia – THEIR EYES Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Michael Keaton Director: Jose Campanella (Argentina, 2009, Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould, will through the first year of their existence. Better yet, powered by vérité footage In this installment in Pixar’s animated series, Andy, who once played with shorn of any narration, the execution is sublime. Although the cultural differences 127 min; Spanish with subtitles; 14A) be at Cinecenta at all three shows to introduce the film. toys as a child, is about to go off to college, and the toys are worried are many, it’s the commonalities that linger here – the babies’ keen curiosity, their ACADEMY AWARD WINNER! BEST FOREIGN about their future. Will they accompany Andy to college? Will they be hunger for nourishment in its many forms, their babbling showing the first signs LANGUAGE FILM! A deeply rewarding throw- stored up in the attic? Or will they - horror of horrors - be thrown away? GENIUS WITHIN: THE INNER LIFE of linguistic shape, their cries of frustration, their smiles of contentment. Touching back to the days when cinema still strove The story mixes comedy, drama and action with impressive skill, except and funny and thoughtful too, this is William Blake’s Infant Joy brought to rich to be magical…simply mesmerizing. While this is beyond skill - this is inspired. --San Francisco Chronicle OF GLENN GOULD cinematic life. –The Globe and Mail it packs two generation-spanning love stories, Directors: Michèle Hozer & Peter Raymont (Canada, 2009, 108 minutes; DVD; G) a noirish thriller, some delicious comedy, a SEPT 28 & 29 (9:00 only) separate admission pointed political critique and much food for OCT 1 & 2 (9:10 only) separate admission Near the start of this superb documentary, there’s an audio clip thought into compelling entertainment, the film of Glenn Gould saying that what gives the arts their power is their THIS MOVIE IS BROKEN is still more than the sum of its parts. Recently MR. NOBODY ability to create a “distance from the world.” Genius Within is an Broken Social Scene concert film/love story! retired Benjamin (Ricardo Darin) has decided to Director: Jaco van Dormael (Canada/Belgium, 2009, 140 min; PG) Cast: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, investigation into the ways Gould both engaged with and insulated Director: Bruce McDonald (Canada, 2010, 88 minutes; PG) write a novel based on a rape and murder that and Diane Kruger occurred 20 years ago -- a crime he believes himself from his environment. A wily provocateur and reclusive “JOYOUSLY MESMERIZING!” –Row Three Mr. Nobody is a dazzling feat of philosophical fancy, Broken Social Scene’s fans can argue about the indie rock collective’s best has never been eccentric, Canada’s most famous classical musician was nothing if not complex. It’s a testament to the and it attempts nothing less than the summing up of an entire life, and album, best song, or best live show. But who ever really gets to defend their solved. He shares strength of this film that it breaks through the seeming contradictions of Gould’s strange personality to an epoch or two, with its free-spinning take on recent human history as point in film? Director Bruce McDonald (Hard Core Logo) does and you’ll be on his intentions with show a cohesive, nuanced whole. A musical prodigy born and raised in Toronto, Gould burst onto the projected into possible futures. It also represents a decisive breakthrough board with his view after the film’s first take. TMIB has the up-close visuals that judge Irene (Soledad world stage when he released an audacious interpretation of Bach’s “Goldberg Variations.” There’s lots for Jared Leto, who plays Nemo Nobody from age 20 to a miraculous even fans in the front row of the concert it was filmed at couldn’t see. But it also Villamil), for whom of background and context in this doc, from precise discussion of his playing technique to reminiscences 118. -Georgia Straight A chancy, risky, and sight-gagged monstrosity of includes a fictional love story interwoven with each song. The band footage was he has long car- from his (few) close friends. There’s also a feast of interview material, live performances, and recordings. If a parallel story, bravely mixing cosmology, string theory, time travel, sur- shot at a massive free concert in Toronto. Many ecstatically lucky fans saw an ried a secret torch… you want to know why this man is considered one of the greatest pianists of the last century, or you’ve ever realism, fantasy and a huge dollop of love and heartbreak into one giant amazing show, and being able to re-live it as it’s played in front of you on film is --Variety pondered the links between genius and eccentricity, or if you just want to encounter a veritable fireworks maelstrom, the point of which you can guess at, but which is only finally display of personality, this is the movie to see. –Vancouver International Film Festival as heart-warming as seeing singer Amy Millan push up drummer Justin Perroff’s glasses while he’s playing the encore. –Exclaim.ca revealed in the story’s final moments. –Quiet Earth
KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM OCT 5 & 6 (6:45 & 9:30) OCT 7 ONLY! OCT 8 & 9 KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM TOY STORY 3 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON back by popular demand! DOUBLE FEATURE (3:00 matinee, 7:00 & 9:30) OCT 3 (3:00 matinee & 7:00) THE GIRL WITH THE Two films for the price of One! back by popular demand! OCT 4 (7:00 only) DRAGON TATTOO Today only! THE GIRL back by popular demand! Director: Niels Arden Oplev (Sweden, 2009, 154 6:45 – THE GIRL WITH THE min; Swedish with English subtitles; digital; 18A) WHO PLAYED I AM LOVE DRAGON TATTOO Director: Luca Guadagnino (Italy, 2009, “A mind-bending and mesmerizing thriller… WITH FIRE 120 min; Italian/Russian with subtitles; 14A) immensely satisfying!” –Los Angeles Times plus Director: Daniel Alfredson Cast: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Gabriele (Sweden, 2009, 131 min; Swedish Ferzetti, Pippo Delbono, and Edoardo This dynamite thriller shivers with suspense. So 9:30 – THE GIRL WHO with subtitles; 18A) Gabbriellini if you ignore this film (from the global bestseller by the late Stieg Larsson) because it’s in Swedish PLAYED WITH FIRE “RELENTLESS SUSPENSE! But The grand architecture of Milan and the icy with English subtitles, you probably deserve the it’s the performances of Nyqvist rhythms of composer John Adams set the tone for this elegant Italian drama about the suffocating power remake Hollywood will surely screw up. Pierced, and especially Rapace that keep you coming back for more.” –Rolling Stone Lisbeth Salander, of family, wealth, and tradition. Tilda Swinton stars as a Russian immigrant, long married into a filthy-rich tattooed twentysomething hacker Lisbeth Salander the punked, pierced, dragon-tattooed heroine of Stieg Larsson’s international bestselling Millennium clan of Milanese industrialists, who has surrendered not only her cultural but her personal identity. Pictorial (a dazzling Noomi Rapace in a star-making perfor- trilogy, is back on the high wire, locked in an ever more treacherous game with mysteries much murk- studies of the family’s beautifully ornate mansion eventually give way to simpler images of earth and sky mance) teams up with middle-aged journalist Mikael ier. Though the thriller is in the hands of a different filmmaking team this time led by Swedish director as the repressed woman ventures into the mountains for a steamy, emotionally liberating affair with her Blomqvist (Michael Nyqvist) to unearth secrets in the Daniel Alfredson, they’ve kept the searing intelligence and ruthless bent that turned the first book’s grown son’s best friend. –Chicago Reader family of an industrialist who thinks his niece was adaptation, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (see Oct. 6 & 7), into an international box office hit. murdered 40 years ago. Homicide is just the tip of Most importantly, though, the franchise’s secret weapon is back with brilliant young Swedish actress Amid all the luxuries on display— the chandeliers, tapestries and paneled walls, the paintings, statuary — this Nordic iceberg… –Rolling Stone Noomi Rapace again channeling the alienated, unwilling to be broken tough chick that Larsson envi- nothing holds your gaze as forcefully as Tilda Swinton’s alabaster face. The first time you see that vision, sioned. Veteran actor Michael Nyqvist returns too as the journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, who continues her character, Emma Recchi, is stage-managing the lavish birthday party that opens the film. By the end See THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH to be as intrigued by the enigmatic Lisbeth as the rest of us. With Lisbeth’s fate hanging by a slender of this often soaringly beautiful melodrama, Emma’s face will have crumpled into a ruin. But it will also be thread as the narrative centerpiece, Alfredson is able to ratchet up the stakes and deliver a stomach- fully alive, having been granted, like Pygmalion’s statue, the breath of life. — The New York Times FIRE on Oct. 8 & 9! churning ride as that single life twists in the wind. And ratchet he does.” –Los Angeles Times
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