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 JULIET 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 –The Globe and Mail ANOTHER YEAR (Canada, 2010, 87 min; BluRay; rated G) Director: Richard Brooks Director: Mike Leigh UK, 2010, 130 min; PG USA, 1958, 108 min; DVD WINNER! AUDIENCE AWARD -- Sundance Film Festival Cast: Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville This is a must-see - possibly one of the best films ever Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, 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 -- Vancouver 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 London 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. -- Los Angeles 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 –Cannes Film Festival 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 Academy Awards, including strength of its faith... Based on a true story, Xavier Beauvois’ classical drama stars best picture, director, screenplay, cinematography and a trio of acting nominations.- Lambert Wilson and Michael Lonsdale, and is close to perfection. It captured the -Los Angeles Times 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 --Entertainment Weekly 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 Helen Mirren 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, Ben Whishaw, Djimon Hounsou, Felicity Jones, Russell Brand, Alfred Molina, 2010, 75 minutes; English, Swedish & Finnish with Barry Pepper, Kelly Preston, Graham Tom Conti, David Strathairn, Alan Cumming, 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.