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Student Union Building, UVic JAN - FEB 2010 University of Victoria Students’ Society, conceived Admission Prices as an inexpensive alternative for students, the (GST included) University community and the public. The UVSS Students $5.25 theatre is in the Student Union Building at Jan/Feb special for UVSS students UVic. The following buses come to UVic: 4, 7, 11, 9pm shows (or later) $2.50 14, 26, 33, 39, 51. $6.00 Seniors, Children (12 & under) $5.25 Other Students $6.00 The university charges a at fee of $2.00 for parking Cinemagic Members $6.00 on campus after 6pm and all day on Saturdays. There is no charge for parking on Sundays and holidays. and guests (1 only) of above $6.00 Non-members $7.25 Tickets and memberships go on sale 40 24-hour Info Line: 250-721-8365 Matinees (all seats) $4.25 minutes before showtime. Please arrive early Cinecenta Oce: 250-721-8364 to avoid disappointment. Manager: Michael Ryan TEN FILM DISCOUNT PASS Programmer: Michael Hoppe UVSS Students, Seniors $45.00 where noted. Films are 35mm prints unless other- $52.50 wise indicated. Design: Joey MacDonald (Unavailable to non-members.) DAILY SHOW INFO: 250-721-8365 www.cinecenta.com sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday KIDS MATINEE Sun 1:00! NOV 6 & 7 (3:00 matinee & 7:00) KIDS MATINEE Sat 1:00! WALLACE & GROMMIT: CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT NOV 4 & 5 (7:10 & 9:10) G-FORCE NOV 3 one show only at 7:15 JULIE & JULIA SOUL Director: Nora Ephron (USA, 2009, 123 min; PG) NOV 1 (3:00 matinee & 7:00) POWER Cast: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, NOV 2 (7:00 only) Director: Jeffrey Levy-Hinte Chris Messina. (USA, 2009, 93 minutes; PG) “DELICIOUSLY FUNNY!” –Empire Meryl Streep takes on the larger-than-life character of Julia FOOD, INC. “DAZZLING!” –The Onion Director: Robert Kenner (USA, 2008, 93 minutes; Child with smashing success in this Nora Ephron movie that rated G) “VIBRANT AND JOYOUS!” tells Child’s life story in tandem with a modern-day tale about –Los Angeles Times personal empowerment. Amy Adams plays real life blogger “ESSENTIAL VIEWING!” –Los Angeles Times An annual Cinecenta event, this is a Julie Powell, a woman who worked her way through Child’s special advance sneak preview of a brand new recipes. — Katherine Monk “EXPERTLY CRAFTED DOCUMENTARY!” “EXPLOSIVELY EXCITING!” –Philadelphia Inquirer One of the gentlest, most charming American movies of the –The Village Voice feature film. So new, it hasn’t yet been released in Victoria, but will be opening soon. We’re sure that past decade. Its subject is food as the binding and unifying ele- “A scary movie that’s also funny, touching “ONE OF THE MOST ENERGTIC MUSIC ment of dinner parties, friendship, and marriage. –The New everyone will enjoy this year’s choice! DOCS IN YEARS!” –The Village Voice and good for you.”—Baltimore Sun Back by hungry demand! Yorker A partial list of the reasons to see Soul Power See it. Bring your kids if you have them. Bring some- NOV 6 & 7 (9:30 only) separate admission Be among the first exclusive few to see a new film might go as follows: James Brown, Celia Cruz and the Fania All-Stars, B. B. King, Miriam Makeba, the Spinners and Bill Withers. A one else’s kids if you don’t. The message is nothing new if you’ve read Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation or Michael Pollan’s The partial list, as I say, of performers captured with remarkable sonic brilliance and visual immediacy on an outdoor stage in Kinshasa, Omnivore’s Dilemma (both are in the film). But every frame makes you choke on your popcorn—if for no other reason than the specially selected for Cinecenta’s smart audience! Zaire (now Congo), in 1974. If you have any knowledge of these musicians, you must see this extravagantly entertaining documen- THE HANGOVER Todd Phillips (USA, 2009, 103 min; 18A) focus on government-underwritten corn and the companies who put it into everything from soda to Midol to the gassy bellies of It could be a comedy or drama or documentary; it tary, assembled by Jeffrey Levy-Hinte from a trove of hundreds of hours of footage captured by some of the world’s finest cinéma Cast: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Heather Graham, factory-farmed cows. The sheer scale of the movie is mind-blowing—it touches on every aspect of modern life. It’s the docu- vérité camera operators some 35 years ago. —The New York Times mentary equivalent of The Matrix. –New York Magazine could be in English or have subtitles…. Leap into Justin Bartha, and Jeffrey Tambor In 1974, the most celebrated American R&B acts of the time came together with the most renowned musical groups in Africa for a Four guys go to Vegas for a bachelor party weekend that they will never forget. Smart and gripping, this muckraking documentary transcends anticorporate demonology to build a visceral but rea- the unknown! And then tell your friends that 12-hour, three-night long concert held in Zaire. SOUL POWER is a verité documentary about this legendary music festival. Unfortunately, they forget it. Finding out what exactly happened becomes the adven- soned case against modern agribusiness. –Chicago Reader –Mongrel Media YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST! ture.—Premiere BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! KIDS MATINEE Sun 1:00! NOV 10, 11, 12 (7:00 & 9:10) NOV 13 & 14 KIDS MATINEE Sat 1:00! G-FORCE The best British comedy in years! From the makers of the BBC show ‘The Thick of It.’ (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 10:00) SHORTS ?IN THE LOOP INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS NOV 8 (3:00 matinee & 7:00) NOV 9 (7:30 only) FREE ADMISSION! Director: Armando Iannucci (UK, 2009, 106 minutes; 18A – frequent coarse language) Quentin Tarantino (USA, 2009, 154 minutes; 18A – explicit violence) MARKING THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALL OF THE WALL! Cast: Tom Hollander, James Gandolfini, Anna Chlumsky, Steve Coogan, Chris Addison, Peter Capaldi, and Paul Higgins JULIE & JULIA Starring Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz. Director: Nora Ephron (USA, 2009, 123 min; PG) THE WALL / DIE MAUER “THE FUNNIEST MOVIE ALL YEAR AND ALSO THE SMARTEST!” –Christian Science Monitor “ENERGETIC, INVENTIVE, SWAGGERING FUN!” –The Village Cast: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Director: Jürgen Böttcher (Germany, 1991, 99 minutes; DVD) “A SHARPLY WRITTEN, FAST-TALKING, ALMOST DEMENTEDLY ARTICULATE SATIRE!” –The New York Times Voice Messina. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion. “THE LANGUAGE IS BRILLIANT, and the laugh lines come so quickly that you’d have to watch the movie twice to get them all.” A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall A violent fairy tale, an increasingly entertaining fantasia in PLEASE SEE NOV. 6-7 FOR DESCRIPTION –San Francisco Chronicle which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focus- which the history of World War II is wildly reimagined so that the cinema can play the decisive role in destroying the es on visual elements. From the Potsdamer Platz to the The Brits long ago lost their status as major players on the globe’s political scene. Happily, what hasn’t gone is their wicked wit – they Third Reich. –Variety Brandenburg Gate, the camera captures the historic events still know how to speak sharply and carry a big satirical stick. Of course, political satire is a dying art. But that’s why In the Loop feels from all sides and different angles: on the one hand there are so refreshing: The brainchild of British director Armando Iannucci, it takes on the politicians at their own dirty game, daring to out-spin Tarantino’s big, bold, audacious war movie will annoy some, reporters and tourists from all over the world, children selling the spin doctors. startle others and demonstrate once again that he’s the real pieces of the wall, and people celebrating; on the other we At the outset, the place is London, and the time is some vague period before the U.S. invasion of Iraq. A minister in a junior cabinet post, thing, a director of quixotic delights. For starters, he provides see abandoned subway stations and officials with blank looks Simon Foster (the slyly wonderful Tom Hollander) is giving a radio interview on the vexing problem of diarrhea in the Third World. Straying World War II with a much-needed alternative ending. From the on their faces… from this fascinating topic, he goes off script to opine casually that war in the Middle East is “unforeseeable.” That remark is the peb- Western sound of the Ennio Morricone opening music to a movie The exhibition “From Peaceful Revolution to German Unity” ble in the pond, and, often hilariously, the rest of the movie tracks the ripple effect. theater, the film embeds Tarantino’s love of the movies. Above will be in the Cinecenta foyer. Chief among those ripples is Malcolm Tucker, the PM’s director of communications and the meanest mouth in the land. Peter Capaldi all, there are three iconic characters: the Hero, the Nazi and the Sponsored by UVic’s European Studies Program and the and his Scottish burr are the Coltrane of invective, the Ella of scatology, giving verbal abuse a time signature and a toe-tapping beat – Girl. These three, played by Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz and Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, the his language may be blue but, my, his rhythm is golden. It’s gloriously nasty, it’s vicious fun, and it’s almost all unrepeatable.