sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM APRIL 26 & 27 (7:15 only) APRIL 28 APRIL 29 & 30 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:00) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM GNOMEO AND SPECIAL EVENT! (7:00 & 9:10) BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Disney’s TANGLED BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Director Michael Ostroff will be here both evenings to answer your questions! CAT ON A WASTE LAND APRIL 24 (3:00 matinee & 6:45 & 9:10) Director: Lucy Walker Brazil/UK, 2010, 100 minutes; HOT TIN English & Portuguese with subtitles; rated G APRIL 25 (6:45 & 9:10) WINDS OF HEAVEN “HHHH FOUR STARS! TRANSENDENT! Director: Michael Ostroff ROOF – ANOTHER YEAR (Canada, 2010, 87 min; BluRay; rated G) Director: Richard Brooks Director: UK, 2010, 130 min; PG USA, 1958, 108 min; DVD WINNER! AUDIENCE AWARD -- Sundance Film Festival Cast: , Ruth Sheen, This is a must-see - possibly one of the best films ever Cast: , made about our province, these forests, and our his- Paul Newman, Burl Ives “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness” says one tory as newcomers. Few of us were as sensitive as WINNER! AUDIENCE AWARD -- Berlin Film Festival of the characters in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, Emily Carr, and no one has interpreted this place more “One of Elizabeth which could almost serve as the tag line for Mike profoundly in their art. Hats off to director Michael Taylor’s greatest WINNER! PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD -- Leigh’s beautifully-balanced mixture of melancholy Ostroff, cinematographer John Walker, and everyone roles!” –Moderns and Classics International Film Festival and humour, hope and empathy, as it follows a involved in this project; it is, for us, a very important story Winner of more than a half-dozen top prizes from Sundance to Berlin, this rightfully exalted docu- long and happily-married couple, Tom and Gerri well-told, and surely for everyone, a sight to behold. The powerful, highly-charged, moving story of a mentary about the transformative power of art is one of the most inspiring films this year. (Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen), through the Subtitled Emily Carr, Carvers, and the Spirits of the neurotic, dysfunctional Southern family with its Acclaimed filmmaker Lucy Walker travels with cutting-edge Brazilian artist Vik Muniz deep into the cycle of four seasons in a suburb. While Forest, the project was to make “a filmic journey into the deep brooding mystery and inner beauty of rivalries, tensions, and avarice was adapted from world’s largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio to create a large-scale art project using garbage as his the progress of the seasons is shown in couple’s garden allotment, we dip into the lives of some of the Emily Carr’s paintings - a lyrical, luminescent and entertaining impression of the life of Carr and her the play by Tennessee Williams. Elizabeth Taylor material and the spirited trash pickers as his muses. –Chicago Film Festival less happy people in their orbit. Mary (Lesley Manville) is a middle-aged secretary in Gerri’s office, who connection to the First Nations people of the Northwest Coast.” Shot in Super 16mm film in Haida is the passionate, sexually-frustrated Maggie (“The dresses girlishly, flirts desperately, and has a bad habit of getting drunk and maudlin about her lonely life. Cat”) whose advances and lustful sensuality are Gwai, Victoria and Vancouver, details of Carr’s paintings are folded into haunting images of our coastal That a beautiful film could be set in the world’s largest garbage dump sounds like an oxymoron, but Manville’s performance, startlingly funny and heartbreaking, is the centrepiece here, but Leigh’s script is thwarted by the unloving temperament of her landscapes, and fresh archival material. On a cinema screen, there is a spiritual intensity in the bright acclaimed documentarian Lucy Walker has pulled off precisely that feat in her profoundly moving delicately tuned to characters who go through the motions of interacting, while each is lost in his or her alcoholic husband (Paul Newman). --The Greatest fauvist extravagance emerging from the deep, dark and often wet shadows. –Vancouver International Waste Land…A resounding tribute to the transforming power of art. -- Times universe. –The Globe and Mail Film Festival Films KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM Disney’s TANGLED Exclusive engagement! MAY 1 – 7 (7:00 & 9:25) 3:00 matinee on May 1st only. Algeria’s Atlas Mountains, the quotidian activity of the monks (gardening, dispensing medical help to the locals, and religious observances) proceed with humble grace. OF GODS AND MEN Even as the mounting threat of terrorist violence looms, the brotherhood maintain In the face of terror, their greatest weapon was faith. their mission. –Vancouver International Film Festival Director: Xavier Beauvois France, 2010, 123 minutes; Arabic & French with English subtitles; rated PG Cast: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, “Starring a gifted ensemble cast led by the empathetic Lambert Wilson (as resident Philippe Laudenbach religious scholar Brother Christian), the film begins as a bucolic chronicle of these simple men of God and their gentle relationship with their Muslim neighbors. When WINNER! BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM –National Board of Review the insurgents arrive, they find themselves faced with an impossible decision: to flee, or to stand their ground and fulfill their spiritual mission. Magnificently photographed WINNER! GRAND PRIX – by cinematographer Caroline Champetier in compositions that suggest Renaissance paintings, Of Gods and Men is a poetic, austerely beautiful triumph.” - Film Comment “A LUMINOUS TALE OF FAITH AND HEROISM.” –Time Magazine Of Gods and Men is a thrilling adventure of the spirit. Austere yet provocative, this is “ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOVIES I KNOW. NOTHING LESS THAN not only a film about faith, it also has faith that the power generated by complex moral SUBLIME!” –The Wall Street Journal decisions can be as unstoppable as any runaway locomotive. Of Gods and Men has been nothing less than a sensation in its native France. The film won the grand jury A French brotherhood stationed in Algeria holds off Islamic fundamentalists with the prize at Cannes, and has been nominated for 11 French , including strength of its faith... Based on a true story, Xavier Beauvois’ classical drama stars best picture, director, , cinematography and a trio of acting nominations.- Lambert Wilson and Michael Lonsdale, and is close to perfection. It captured the - Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes festival. The thematic area of international terrorism, while deeply mined, is given close and thoughtful attention in Xavier Beavois gravely “GRAVELY SERENE AND SUFFUSED WITH TENDERNESS.” beautiful drama. Of Gods and Men is based on the 1996 Tibhirine attack, in which an -- order of Cicstercian monks confront Islamic fundamentalists. Against the majesty of

MAY 8, 9, 10 (7:00 & 9:10) Exclusive engagement! MAY 11 & 12 (7:30 & 9:00) MAY 13 & 14 (7:10 & 9:15) THE TEMPEST is Prospera INTO ETERNITY CASINO JACK Director: Julie Taymor USA, 2010, 110 minutes Director: Michael Madsen Denmark/Finland/Sweden, Director: George Hickenlooper USA, 2010, 109 minutes; 14A Cast: Kevin Spacey, Cast: Helen Mirren, , Djimon Hounsou, , Russell Brand, Alfred Molina, 2010, 75 minutes; English, Swedish & Finnish with Barry Pepper, Kelly Preston, Graham Tom Conti, David Strathairn, , Chris Cooper subtitles Greene, Jon Lovitz It’s suiting that director Julie Taymor (Titus, Frida, Across the Universe) should recast “A HAUNTINGLY COOL DOCUMENTARY!” Not to be confused with the documentary the lead role in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” for Helen Mirren. Taymor is a real vision- - The Mail on Sunday UK Casino Jack and the United States of Money, ary in a medium generally dominated by men, and Shakespeare’s Prospero (here renamed “JAW-DROPPING! Tackles a subject almost beyond this is the dramatic take on Jack Abramoff’s Prospera) is one of literature’s classic stand-ins for the artist-as-prestidigitator, using comprehension.” --Guardian (UK) high-rolling career as a Washington lobby- magic to direct, as it were, the emotions of the others in the story. Taymor does the ist and his precipitous fall amid charges of same for her audience, and when she’s in form, which is pretty often here, it’s marvelous. It begins with the camera gliding into a long, dark fraud, conspiracy, and tax evasion. Kevin Taymor’s “Tempest” overflows with startling imagery, much of it associated with Prospera’s tunnel, which leads to the world’s first “permanent” Spacey contributes a wonderfully flamboy- two underlings, the sprite Ariel (played wondrously by Ben Whishaw) and the indigenous repository for radioactive nuclear waste, currently ant performance as Abramoff, making him laborer Caliban (a powerful Djimon Hounsou). There are dazzling fantasies and evocative being blasted out of solid rock 500 meters below more dimensional—funny, ironic, ruthless, landscapes (Hawaiian, it happens) and so many great, great faces: Tom Conti, Chris Cooper, Finland. The underground site won’t be completed for another century and it has to last for 100,000 years! greedy, tender with his family, vicious with Alan Cumming and David Strathairn as conspirators; Russell Brand and Alfred Molina as This visually mesmerizing, multiple award-winning documentary, made by Danish director and conceptual his enemies—than the cartoonish figure in clowns; and Mirren, projecting anger and genius and a softening rue with fabulous authority. artist Michael Madsen, is addressed to future generations as a sober warning. Containing compelling inter- black hat and trench coat who paraded It’s an uneven film -- perhaps inevitable with “The Tempest,” as it deals with 3 groups of shipwreck views with a number of experts (who frequently disagree), the film poses technical, legal and philosophical through the TV news. Director George survivors stumbling blindly around an island. But the language is the thing here (only Brand grates questions about just how in hell this toxic tomb is supposed to remain eternally undisturbed. Hickenlooper (who died last October) wasn’t in speaking it -- as, perhaps, he’s meant to). And although there is some gimmickry, this is one what you’d call a stylist, but he and screen- of the most straightforward versions of the “Tempest” ever filmed, making it edifying as well as “Intelligent, visually striking! An eerie, provocative, poetic film.” -- Observer (UK) writer Norman Snider deserve credit just for wrestling Abramoff’s epic tangle of con games into a -- when Taymor hits a groove -- dazzling. –Portland Oregonian comprehensible story line. –Chicago Reader “A quietly philosophical meditation on time and infinity.” -- (UK)

MAY 15 & 16 MAY 17 (7:15 & 9:00) MAY 18 & 19 (7:15 & 9:00) MAY 20 & 21 (7:00 & 9:20) (7:15 & 9:00) THE THE SUN BEHIND THE THE KING’S SPEECH Director: Tom Hooper UK, 2010, 119 minutes; TRIGGER PG Cast: , , Helena Director: Bruce McDonald Canada, 2010, ILLUSIONIST CLOUDS: TIBET’S STRUGGLE Director: Sylvain Chomet Bonham Carter, , Timothy 80 minutes; PG Cast: , Molly UK/France, 2010, Spall, Derek Jacobi Parker, Don McKellar, , Calum FOR FREEDOM 80 minutes; rated G Directors: Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam Austria/France/India, Keith Rennie According to The King’s Speech, King George VI “GORGEOUS.” 2010, 79 minutes, DVD; English/Mandarin/Tibetan with subtitles - “Bertie” to his intimates - had such a paralyzing HHHH FOUR STARS! Trigger marks –Philadelphia Inquirer the final cinematic appearance of beloved “The Tibet film China loves to hate.” –Salon.com stutter that it was a struggle for him to say his actress Tracy Wright and there is “REMARKABLE.” own name. Telling bedtime stories to his daugh- In a departure from many previous films about the friction between a genuinely bittersweet mix of aching sad- –San Francisco Chronicle ters, the future Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Tibet and China, this documentary provides a two-sided view of ness and celebratory joy in watching her Margaret, was a trial, not a pleasure. The oppo- Sylvain Chomet, the talented French animator the complex political and social dynamics within and outside Tibet. perfectly portray an aging riot grrrl guitar- site is true of Tom Hooper’s rousing comedy of who created The Triplets of Belleville, has gotten For the “struggle” in the film’s title is not merely against China but ist in Bruce McDonald’s film. When Vic manners, a tale of the king and the court jester his hands on an original script that comic giant also between competing Tibetan views regarding the best strat- (Wright) meets up with former bandmate who helped untie the monarch’s tongue and Jacques Tati wrote in the late 50s but never filmed. egy: co-existence or independence. The film includes remarkable Kat ( in an equally flawless take on a different sort of post-punkdom) for a tension-filled dinner enabled him to find his voice. Under Hooper’s Chomet creates a wonderful cartoon version of clandestine footage from the 2008 unrest in the Tibetan capital of and benefit gig, the rapid-fire, subtext-heavy dialogue (written by Daniel MacIvor) is captivating. In the 80 deft direction, it packs the suspense of a thriller: Tati, playing a stage magician who goes on tour Lhasa. This material proves an exception in what is not an angry minutes that we spend with the duo, McDonald revisits a number of the themes from his get-in-the-van Will the monarch falter before the crosshairs of to Scotland and there adopts a sweet, orphaned film but a notably calm, well-considered and balanced one. As masterpiece — selling out, tough-loving your bandmates, reunion baggage, rock ’n’ the microphone or rise to eloquence, rallying his teen as his surrogate daughter. The movie is rife longtime documenters of the Tibetan struggle, Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam are in an excellent position roll nihilism — but with the added tragicomedy of alcohol and drug addiction, all wrapped up in a love people to unite against Fascism? –Philadelphia with drolly inventive slapstick. The dialogue is to capture every side of the Tibetan question, with their considerable personal access to the Dalai Lama letter to Toronto. Though it’s a minor triumph that McDonald has delivered his most mature film to date, Inquirer multilingual but largely incidental to the action; the as well as to those in the grassroots movement opposing what they consider his accommodating stance. Trigger’s success comes overwhelmingly from the chemistry between Parker and Wright — the latter of physical comedy is gracefully rendered and often The arguments over independence or middle-way co-existence seem to reflect a generational divide, with whom deserves every ovation her performance is bound to receive. –eye Weekly, magical. –Chicago Reader younger Tibetans-in-exile leading the independence charge. --Variety

MAY 22 & 23 MAY 24, 25, 26 (7:10 & 9:15) MAY 27 & 28 (7:00 & 9:20) (7:00 & 9:20) CERTIFIED COPY THE LINCOLN WINNER OF 4 ACADEMY Director: Abbas Kiarostami France/Italy/Iran, 2010, 108 minutes; English, French AWARDS! BEST & Italian with subtitles; rated G LAWYER PICTURE, BEST ACTOR, Director: Brad Furman USA, 2011, 119 BEST DIRECTOR, BEST “A shimmering romantic fable of second chances and eternal returns. min; 14A Cast: Matthew McConaughey, SCRENPLAY A sensual and intellectual delight!” -- The New Yorker Ryan Phillippe, , William H. Macy, Frances Fisher THE KING’S Abbas Kiarostami’s deft conversational drama has the appeal of a middle-aged Before Sunrise. In Tuscany, an English art historian (William Shimell) spends a long, rambling day “A SOLID THRILLER!” –Empire with a Frenchwoman () who came to hear him lecture. Then an enchant- SPEECH “ROCK-SOLID ENTERTAINMENT”” ingly odd thing happens: The two start to pretend they know each other...and suddenly the –Rolling Stone Please see May 20 & 21 playacting turns real. They do know each other, and the movie, like an art-house Vertigo, for description passes through a looking glass. The end will haunt you. –Entertainment Weekly Matthew McConaughey stars as a slick, heavily booked criminal defense “COLIN FIRTH IS HHHH FOUR STARS! French art gallery owner pretends to be a long time wife of a man attorney in LA, who operates out of EXCEPTIONAL!” she has just met. Set in Tuscany, she leads him to the village of Lucignano. Impeccably the back of a chauffeur-driven Lincoln –Time Out photographed, philosophically provocative and mischievously rom-comic, –Empire Continental. Most of his clients are probably guilty, and that includes the arrogant Beverly Hills play- “A CLASSIC VIRTUALLY “A delicious brain tickler...a metaphysical labyrinth! – boy (Ryan Phillippe) who’s been accused of a sex murder--and who may have committed an earlier UPON ITS ARRIVAL!” murder for which a previous client went to jail. This pungent neo-noir can be sleazy and over-familiar, –Portland Oregonian “A flawless riff on our indigenous art cinema.” –The Village Voice but like the protagonist, it’s so smart and crafty that you may forgive its flaws. McConaughey, who’s “This is one of the great discoveries of the year.” –Slate been languishing in mediocre romantic comedies, has a lot of fun with his part, and he’s surrounded by an excellent cast: Marisa Tomei, as his ex-wife, William H. Macy, , Josh Lucas,, “Strangely haunting.” –Christian Science Monitor and Frances Fisher. –Chicago Reader

JUNE 3 & 4 (7:15 & 9:00) MAY 29, 30 & 31 (7:10 & 9:00) we j spalding gray! JUNE 1 & 2 (7:00 & 9:35) AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE BARNEY’S VERSION THE TOPP TWINS: Director: USA, 2010, 89 minutes; starring Spalding Gray Director: Richard J. Lewis (Canada, 2010, 134 min; PG) Cast: , Rosamund UNTOUCHABLE GIRLS And Everything Is Going Fine provides an intimate portrait of master monologist Spalding Gray (Swimming to Cambodia, Pike, , , Scott Dir: Leanne Pooley, New Zealand 2009, 84 min, Monster in a Box), as described by his most critical, irreverent and insightful biographer: Spalding Gray. Speedman BluRay Director Steven Soderbergh, who collaborated on Gray’s Anatomy (1996), has sifted through rare and revealing footage NOMINATED FOR 11 WINNER! MOST POPULAR DOCUMENTARY including BEST PICTURE! to construct a riveting final monologue. There are glimpses of Gray’s father, and of his son Forrest (who provides soaring –Toronto Film Festival, Melbourne Film Festival music for the end credits), but mostly this is an inspired one-man show, a bittersweet display of Spalding’s playful and Paul Giamatti gives a holy hell of a perfor- embattled intelligence, his gift for tracking universal truths by looking himself squarely in the eye. --IFC Films mance as Barney Panofsky, the Montreal WINNER! AUDIENCE AWARD –Portland Film producer at the center of Festival, Goteborg Film Festival Works hauntingly well as the monologist’s posthumous autobiography. Brilliant editing of a slew of performance and Mordecai Richler’s 1997 novel, and a char- “A film that has you falling in love with two interview footage, locates every chilling irony within a deeply poetic life. Eschewing narration, “Everything” pulls from acter who feels like a new screen type: a of the crazier people you never met, the some 90 hours of Gray matter to fashion a new narrative that retains the raconteur’s gift for eccentric pacing and the mensch and a pill at the same time. The Topp Twins… pure fun, very musical, and a can of mixed nuts. What we see are transforma- telling detail. That this experiment comes off so smoothly is a testament to the storytelling skills of both Gray and movie, which covers Barney’s search for love and happiness over 35 years, is episodic, with too much tions worthy of world-class actresses.” –Variety Through interviews, performance footage, and Soderbergh, who collaborated twice before the performer’s death by apparent suicide in 2004. Through footage span- Montreal Jewish kitsch. But it’s also full of feeling. Barney meets the love of his life () at newsreel archives, this documentary introduces audiences to Jools and Lynda Topp, the world’s ning roughly 25 years, “Everything” makes abundantly clear that mortality was a recurrent theme of Gray’s darkly comic, his own wedding, and their subsequent marriage is long, deep-rooted, and heartrending. –Entertainment only yodelling, lesbian, country-and--singing twins! The film combines an array of artful filmic intensely personal work. --Variety Weekly formats, making audiences privy to an honest, intimate and entertaining portrait of two sisters who SPONSORED BY INTREPID THEATRE’S UNO FESTIVAL “A FEISTY DOMESTIC COMEDY!” –The Globe and Mail resist, often through and parody, the political and sexual norms of post-war New Zealand. –Metro Cinema

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APRIL 16 & 17 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 105 minutes; rated G A concert movie jam-packed with home videos and audition tapes of the Stratford, Ontario singing sensation, plus interviews with his friends, family members, gofers, producers, bodyguards, and associates.

APRIL 23 & 24 GNOMEO AND JULIET 85 minutes; rated G Shakespeare’s as played by feuding families of garden gnomes, with Elton John songs! Voices of James McAvoy, , , , Jason Statham, Ozzy Osbourne, Hulk Hogan and Dolly Parton.

APRIL 30 & MAY 1 Disney’s TANGLED 101 minutes; G – violence Back by popular demand! Mandy Moore voices a sassy heroine in Disney’s stylish animated re-telling of Rapunzel.

PLEASE NOTE: OUR MATINEES ARE DISCONTINUED DURING THE SUMMER CINECENTA BUT WILL RETURN IN SEPTEMBER! April-May 2011

sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM APRIL 11 APRIL 12, 13, 14 (7:00 & 9:30) APRIL 15 & 16 KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM OCEANS (7:10 & 9:00) (3:00 matinee & 7:10 & 9:20) JUSTIN BIEBER APRIL 10 127 Director: Canada/France, 2010, 132 min; French & BLACK SWAN Arabic with subtitles; PG Cast: , Mélissa Désormeaux- Director: Dar USA, 2010, 109 minutes; 14A (3:00 & 7:00 & 9:10) HOURS Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Rémy Girard Cast: , , Vincent BACK BY POPULAR Director: Danny WINNER OF 8 GENIE AWARDS including BEST PICTURE, Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder DEMAND! Boyle USA/UK, BEST ACTRESS, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY! ACADEMY AWARD WINNER! 2010, 94 min- BEST ACTRESS - Natalie Portman utes; 14A Cast: ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE – BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM! TRUE GRIT James Franco Directors: Joel & Ethan Coen USA, 2010, “This dazzling and disorienting ballet thriller When notary Lebel (Rémy Girard) sits down with Jeanne and Simon is one of the best movies of 2010!” -Salon.com 111 min; 14A Cast: , Hailee Steinfeld, In April 2003 (Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette) to read them their mother Aron Ralston, a 27-year-old hiker, fell and was Nawal’s (Lubna Azabal) will, the twins are stunned to receive a pair of The protagonist is Nina, a New York ballerina trapped in a narrow slot in Blue John Canyon in “A NEW CLASSIC! Great filmmaking. Great acting. envelopes - one for the father they thought was dead and another for played (and largely danced) by Natalie Portman. Utah, his right arm wedged against the rock wall Great movie. Saddle up.” –Rolling Stone a brother they didn’t know existed. With Lebel’s help, the twins piece She is sexually immature, living with an infantiliz- by a boulder. Mr. Ralston’s ordeal was a struggle together the story of the woman who brought them into the world, dis- ing mother (Barbara Hershey), surrounded in for survival and a practical challenge. His solution That old-time American religion of vengeance runs covering a tragic fate forever marked by war and hatred as well as the her pink bedroom by stuffed animals. She’s a was grisly and dramatic: using the blade of a cheap like a river through this comic-serious tale about courage of an exceptional woman. spirit in limbo. Nina is a candidate to play the multipurpose tool, he cut off the immobilized arm some nasty, brutish times. It turns on a 14-year-old Swan Queen in Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, but between the elbow and the wrist, freeing himself girl who hires a “one-eyed fat man” to hunt down FOUR STARS! HHHH Villeneuve’s achievement is considerable and her company’s artistic director (Vincent Cassel) after more than five days. ’s (Slumdog her father’s killer. A deputy U.S. marshal, Rooster his film’s message an increasingly urgent one both inside and out- maintains she’s suited only for half the double Millionaire) new film is frequently dazzling and Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) has attracted the interest side our borders. –eye Weekly role, the innocent White Swan. But for the dark, perpetually surprising…This movie pins you down, of Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld, in a terrific film demonic twin, Nina is sadly lacking in life expe- shakes you up and leaves you glad to be alive.–The Denis Villeneuve’s latest film has the skeleton of a Greek tragedy and the debut), a half-pint who, with her bloodlust and rience. He lectures her on letting go, losing New York Times flesh of political allegory, reminding us that history repeats itself and that severely braided hair, is an authentic American herself, surrendering completely to her sexuality. Gothic. As she listens to Rooster recount his death isn’t always the end. –Exclaim “Damned if Boyle, with the help of James Black Swan dramatizes that surrender and its bloody deeds and high body count, her eyes shine Franco, doesn’t make the experience almost… overpowering side effects. The camera follows about a foot behind Nina’s slender neck as the set- with a true believer’s excitement. — The New York cheerful.” –Movieline tings change and doppelgängers pop up left and right. --New York Magazine Times

KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM APRIL 17 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:35) APRIL 18, 19, 20 (7:00 & 9:35) APRIL 21 & 22 (7:00 & 9:15) BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM JUSTIN BIEBER GNOMEO AND JULIET THE WAY BACK Director: Nigel Cole UK, 2010, 114 min; PG Cast: , Bob Hoskins, Rosamund Pike, APRIL 23 Director: Peter Weir USA, 2010, 134 minutes; PG Cast: , , Ed Harri, Dragos Bucur , Daniel Mays (3:00 matinee & 6:45 & 9:10) “STUNNINGLY PHOTOGRAPHED!” –Boxoffice “REMARKABLE CINEMATOGRAPHY!” –San Francisco Chronicle “ENGROSSING AND INSPIRING!” –Time BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Part The Great Escape and part Lawrence of Arabia, Peter Weir’s epic is ambitious in scope, grand in vision and rich with examples of the Sally Hawkins - Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go- “MIKE LEIGH’S LATEST LITTLE resilience of the human spirit. It’s the kind of story David Lean (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago) would have loved to tell. Lucky heroine - is back on top form in this MASTERPIECE!” –The Globe and Mail --New Orleans Times-Picayune genuinely uplifting crowd-pleaser from . In 1968, the When they escape a Siberian labor camp in 1940 seven courageous multi-national prisoners discover the true meaning of friendship as the director of Calendar Girls Ford plant at Dagenham is the cornerstone their epic journey takes them across thousands of miles of hostile terrain, including China, the Gobi desert and Tibet, over the Himalays, ANOTHER YEAR of the British car industry. Among 20,000 en-route to India and their freedom. Please see April 24-25 for description. workers, less than 200 are women, most of Peter Weir directed this extraordinary adventure, his first film since Master and Commander. Since this world-class Australian filmmaker them sewing machinists, all of them furious works rarely and his output includes Picnic at Hanging Rock, , Gallipoli, Witness, , The Year of Living to be downgraded in the latest pay round. Dangerously, Fearless and , only cinema illiterates would hesitate. Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe) excels as Janusz, Persuaded to come along to meet with a young Polish prisoner desperate to return home. Janusz, the unofficial leader, has survivalist skills that aid the other escapees, including management because her shop steward Mr. Smith (a superb ). Valka (Colin Farrell), a Russian thug with a hair-trigger temper. Farrell’s feral performance energizes the (Bob Hoskins) believes in out-numbering film. As the men trek 4,000 miles across harsh terrain, they find themselves followed by a 14-year-old Polish refugee who joins the group. the other side, housewife and mother Rita O’Grady (Hawkins) surprises everyone, and Weir has crafted a riveting tale that clings bravely to the integrity of its storytelling, even at the risk of emotional remoteness. It’s the journey most of all herself, by throwing the bosses’ that counts, and Weir makes you feel it in your bones. –Rolling Stone hypocrisy back in their faces. In no time at all she has led the women out on their very first strike with a demand: sexual equality. This is the sort of story the British do better than anyone - restoring an “Beyond its visual splendors, the film achieves searing moral power.” –The Reporter important but largely forgotten slice of social history, related with great populist spirit and rambunc- tious comedy. –Vancouver International Film Festival

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