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University of Victoria Students’ Society, conceived Admission Prices as an inexpensive alternative for students, the (GST included) University community and the public. The theatre is in the Student Union Building at UVSS Students $4.75 UVic. The following buses come to UVic: 4, 7, 11, Seniors, Children (12 & under) $4.75 14, 26, 39, 51. Please note: the university charges Other Students $5.75 Cinemagic Members $5.75 on Saturdays. $2.00 permits now available at Parking remains free and guests (1 only) of above $5.75 on Sundays and holidays. Non-members $6.75 Matinees (all seats) $3.75 Tickets and memberships go on sale 40 24-hour Info Line: 721-8365 minutes before . Please arrive early Our matinees return in September! to avoid disappointment. Manager: Michael Ryan TEN FILM DISCOUNT PASS Programmer: Michael Hoppe Students, Seniors $40.00 where noted. Films are 35mm prints unless other- $50.00 wise indicated. Design: Joey MacDonald (Unavailable to non-members.)

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KIDS MATINEE Sun 12:30! APR 7, 8, 9 (6:45 & 9:15) APR 10 (7:10 & 9:10) KIDS MATINEE Sat 12:30! HOTEL FOR DOGS APR 11 (2:30 matinee & 7:10 & 9:10) HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3 APR 5 (2:30 matinee & 7:00 & 9:10) THE CLASS / ENTRE LES MURS STONE OF DESTINY Laurent Cantet (France, 2008, 130 minutes; French with English subtitles; rated PG) APR 6 (7:00 & 9:10) (Canada/UK/ 2008, 97 minutes; PG) Starring François Bégaudeau Cast: , , , Billy Boyd, Stephen McCole, Ciaron Kelly THE WRESTLER “UNMISSABLE!” – WINNER! AUDIENCE FAVOURITE AWARD — VICTORIA FILM FESTIVAL! (USA, 2008,110 minutes; 14A) “RIVETING!” –The Globe and Mail A skirl of the bagpipes and a sweeping view of rugged countryside set the tone for this lively comedy caper. Stone of Destiny will stir the heart as a group of students liberate the ancient Stone of Scone – Cast: , , “A REMARKABLE MOVIE.” –New York Magazine a beloved symbol of Scottish independence – from Westminster Abbey. –Victoria Film Festival WINNER! BEST ACTOR – MICKEY ROURKE – The Stone of Destiny is an oblong block of red —Golden Globes “IN A CLASS BY ITSELF.” sandstone, weighing approximately 152 kg. It “A LOVELY, EXHILARATING WORK.” –Salon.com #####! The Wrestler is that rare film where actor and role was used for centuries in the coronation of the converge perfectly and powerfully. Mickey Rourke, a once- “THIS UNASSUMING MOVIE WILL NAIL YOU TO YOUR SEAT.” –Slate monarchs of Scotland, the monarchs of , great actor whose career has been on the ropes almost ! The Class won the Palme d’Or at last year’s , and no surprise. It’s a razor- and, more recently, British monarchs. In 1296 the from the start, inhabits the battered bleach-blond bruiser ##### sharp look at one year in the life of a French high school class. It’s a terrific, cohesive work that makes Stone was captured by Edward I and taken to Randy “Ram” Robinson, a past-his-prime pro wrestler still the intellectual challenges of educating today’s youth seem thrilling rather than hopeless. It’s also built Westminster Abbey, where it was fitted into a clinging to hopes of a comeback. It’s also a comeback for around a tremendous debut performance by François Bégaudeau, who co-authored the from wooden chair on which all subsequent English Rourke, who gives the most brutally honest performance of his own novel - which in turn was based on his own experiences as a schoolteacher. sovereigns except Queen Mary II have been the year. Rourke never makes a mockery of Ram or plays —Now Magazine crowned... On Christmas Day 1950, a group of on our sympathy or pity. More than merely Raging Bull with four Scottish students took the Stone from wrestling, The Wrestler has startling depth and humour. Westminster Abbey for return to Scotland. And The tiny film feels both intimate and epic - and entirely I would be surprised if this brilliant and touching film didn’t become required viewing for thereby hangs the hook upon which Charles heartbreaking. —Now Magazine teachers all over. Everyone else should see it as well—it’s a wonderful movie. – Martin Smith has hung this charming, witty and “The comeback acting performance of the year This is one of the screen’s most rewarding explorations of the teacher/student relationship in any atmospheric film. – International Film belongs to Mickey Rourke.” –The Globe and Mail language. – Tribune Festival

KIDS MATINEE Sun 12:30! APR 14, 15, 16 (7:10 & 9:00) APR 17 (7:00 & 9:20) KIDS MATINEE Sat 12:30! ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE – BEST FOREIGN FILM CORALINE HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3 APR 18 (2:30 matinee & 7:00 & 9:20) WALTZ WITH BASHIR FROST/NIXON WINNER! Ari Folman (Israel, 2008, 91 minutes; Restricted) (USA, 2008, 122 min; PG) Cast: , , , Toby AUDIENCE FAVOURITE AWARD “AN ABSOLUTE STUNNER!” –Wall Street Journal Jones, Matthew Macfadyen, , Oliver Platt, and at the VICTORIA FILM FESTIVAL! “ASTONISHING, UNFORGETTABLE: YOU HAVE TO SEE IT.” –Empire A film version of a play about Profound, and profoundly affecting, Ari Folman’s “animated documentary” is two talking heads. It shouldn’t based on actual interviews with veterans of Israel’s war with Lebanon in the work at all. But it does work, APR 12 (2:30 matinee & 7:10) early eighties. Folman too is a veteran, and thus a principal figure in his own spectacularly, as a matter of APR 13 (7:10 only) film. Indeed, it’s the vast gaps in his repressed memory that motivate the fact. The two people are dis- interviews - they talk, he talks, and slowly the blank slate begins to fill with graced President Richard . STONE OF DESTINY the sights and sounds of a horror long past. Brace yourself for the extraordi- Nixon and British charm boy nary climax...Waltz with Bashir makes us feel what few war pictures ever have David Frost, the TV interviewer Charles Martin Smith (Canada/UK, 2008, 97 - the palpable shock of the real, penetrating like a mortal blow. —The Globe who waved millions in front of minutes; PG) and Mail the Watergate trickster to lure Cast: Charlie Cox, Kate Mara, Robert ‘Speak, memory,’ commanded Vladimir Nabokov—but in the Israeli animated him on camera for the trial he Carlyle, Billy Boyd, Stephen McCole, masterpiece Waltz With Bashir, memory only stutters, yowls, and babbles. To never had. Ancient history? Well, Ciaron Kelly translate, a new form is needed, with more fluid boundaries between docu- took place in 1977, mentary and fantasy, reality and dreams, life and art. What we get is both a and we know the outcome in detective story and a head-trip.... It has taken an animated film to go where advance. All the more remark- A skirl of the bagpipes and a sweeping view live-action dramas and even documentaries haven’t—to tickle our synapses able, then, that director Ron of rugged countryside set the tone for this and slip into our bloodstream. The end of Waltz With Bashir rockets us out of Howard has turned Peter lively comedy caper. Stone of Destiny will the unconscious: —New York Magazine Morgan’s stage success into a stir the heart as a group of students liberate grabber of a movie laced with Provocative, hallucinatory, incendiary, in its seamless mixing of the real the ancient Stone of Scone – a beloved sym- tension, stinging wit and potent and the surreal, the personal and the political, animation and live bol of Scottish independence – from human drama... Frost/Nixon, one of the year’s best films, far exceeds its roots as . It cuts to action, it’s unlike any film you’ve seen, period. – Times Westminster Abbey. –Victoria Film Festival the core of a toxic culture that sees politics as show business. —Rolling Stone sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday KIDS MATINEE Sun 12:30! APR 21 (7:00 & 9:15) APR 22 & 23 (7:00 & 9:30) APR 24 & 25 (7:00 & 9:20) CORALINE BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! APR 19 (2:30 matinee & 7:00) I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG MILK (USA, 2008, 119 minutes; 14A) APR 20 (7:00 only) IL Y A LONGTEMPS QUE JE T’AIME (USA, 2008, 129 minutes; PG) With Cast: , Leonardo Directed by Philippe , , , Emile DiCaprio, , DEFIANCE Claudel (France, 2008, Hirsch, Diego Luna, and Alison Pill. “DEVASTATING!” – 118 minutes; French with WINNER! BEST PICTURE —New York Film Critics Edward Zwick (USA, 2008, 137 minutes; 14A) Cast: Daniel subtitles; rated G) “THE BEST AMERICAN FILM OF Craig, , , WINNER of 2 ! 2008” – Chronicle ’ per- On the basis of Glory, Courage Under Fire, The Siege, The BEST ACTOR – SEAN PENN What does a cult 1961 formance is acting at its Last Samurai and Blood Diamond, it’s easy to conclude that BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY novel about a 1950s marriage rotting most exalted. This is film Edward Zwick has few contemporary equals as a director of “A TOTAL TRIUMPH, BRIMMING WITH HUMOR in the burbs have to say to a new cen- being used for its supreme intelligent war epics. And he proves himself one more time AND HEART. A CLASSIC.” —Rolling Stone tury? Plenty, and hold on, because the purpose, to show us the with this adaptation of Nechama Tec’s nonfiction book about raw and riveting Revolutionary Road grand movements of a “AN ABSOLUTE MUST. COME PREPARED TO BE a band of quarreling Jewish brothers who fled into the woods hits you where it hurts. Kate Winslet soul. We meet Juliette INSPIRED!” -- of their native Belorussia (Belarus) when the Nazis invaded; and Leonardo DiCaprio could not be (Thomas) waiting to be Gus Van Sant’s vibrantly entertaining bio-pic re-cre- the brothers then organized the war’s largest Jewish partisan better in the roles of young marrieds picked up in an airport, ates the San Francisco life of the gay activist and band. It’s an exciting action spectacle and a thoughtful, cumu- who move from Manhattan to the sub- and she looks ravaged. We politician (Sean Penn), who was assassi- latively moving family drama that opens in 1941, as the urbs, promising themselves it’s all just soon find out that she has just been released after 15 nated in 1978, along with Mayor George Moscone, by Germans have overrun the country, 50,000 have been temporary. April dreams of taking off years in prison. Her younger sister, Lea (Elsa a fellow-politician, the family-values conservative arrested and thousands more summarily executed, including for , where she’ll work while Zylberstein), brings Juliette home to stay with her fam- Dan White (Josh Brolin). The righteous march of the parents of the Bielski brothers — Tuvia (), Zus (Liev Schreiber), Asael (Jamie Bell) and Aron Frank pursues his artistic impulses. ily. Juliette has survived for 15 years by staying con- events is warmed by the candor of the gay milieu in the giddy seventies, the period just before AIDS, when life (George MacKay). Escaping into a dense part of the national forest that the two older brothers know well, Add two kids, thwarted ambitions, adultery — plus April’s unwanted third pregnancy, and the whoosh- tained, and so she gives as little as possible. How the was free and easy...A ROWDY ANTHEM OF TRIUMPH! —The New Yorker they form a partisan band to avenge their parents’ deaths, fight the occupation and eliminate Belorussian col- ing sound you hear is a dream in free-fall. Directed with extraordinary skill by Sam Mendes (American conflict within Juliette resolves is the essential drama laborators who support it. —Seattle Post-Intelligencer “MILK IS A MARVEL!” – “A WORK OF ART.” –Slate Beauty). This movie takes a piece out of you. —Rolling Stone of the film. — APR 28 (7:10 & 9:15) BEST PICTURE & BEST ACTRESS! WINNER OF 8 ACADEMY APR 26 & 27 (7:00 only) – Film Critics Association AWARDS including BEST : PICTURE! ####! –The Globe and Mail I’M YOUR MAN MAY 1 & 2 (7:00 & 9:20) Joel Hopkins (UK/USA, 2008, 93 minutes; PG) Directed by Lian Lunson Cast: , , Kathy (USA, 2006, 98 minutes; APR 29 & 30 (7:15 & 9:00) Baker, James Brolin, Eileen Atkins rated G) Dustin Hoffman is a sad sack who writes jingles featuring performances WENDY AND LUCY (UK 121 minutes; 14A) for an ad agency. He doesn’t like his job but he’s from , NICK CAVE, Kelly Reichardt (USA, 2008, 81 minutes; PG) #####! is an energetic, holding onto it so hard that, even as he arrives in , ferociously stylish drama that flashes back and for his daughter’s wedding, he’s too dis- JARVIS COCKER, Cast: Michelle Williams, Will Patton. forth through the life of a former street tracted to play his paternal role. Emma ANTHONY, MARTHA #####! Wendy And Lucy is a blistering social cri- urchin () as he explains to his disbe- Thompson is a 40-something in a dispiriting job WAINWRIGHT, BETH tique wrapped in an urgent drama, built around an lieving interrogator (Irrfan Kahn) how he could who has resigned herself to remaining terminally ORTON, KATE & ANNA incredible performance by Michelle Williams as a possibly have known all the answers on the single. These two commiserate over a shared McGARRIGLE woman driving through Oregon on her way to Alaska Indian version of Who Wants To Be A lunch that turns into a long date. They play folks Lian Lunson’s wonderful with a few possessions, a dwindling supply of money Millionaire. Boyle is clearly having a grand time who, on the surface, have nothing in common, documentary portrait of and her enthusiastic dog, Lucy. Unexpected car trouble playing with the form and flash of but in fact both feel left out of their lives. Hoffman Leonard Cohen combines pieces of an extended triggers a cascade of unpleasant events that send the epics and orchestrates a crowd-pleasing pay- and Thompson make real people of these charac- interview with this singer-songwriter, poet and author, increasingly desperate Wendy racing around a small off. But the movie’s real heat comes from the ters who have nothing to lose and everything to with a tribute concert at the Opera House in town, bleeding cash and seeing her options melt away soulful performances of Patel and stunning gain. Hopkins directs with warmth, affection and “ ! 2005.–The New York Times #### A GEM! Shows before her eyes. Wendy and Lucy works powerfully as newcomer as Slumdog‘s star- a simple respect for all the characters, and he how timeless Leonard Cohen’s words and music are. THE both a wrenching character study and a mournful com- crossed lovers. —Now Magazine ####! — adds touching grace notes to their story.—Seattle MOVIE CAPTURES THE ELEGANCE, WIT, AND SPIRITUAL LONG- mentary on the economic desperation of small-town The Globe and Mail ####! —Monday Post-Intelligencer ING OF COHEN’S WORK.” –Philadelphia Inquirer Americans. –Now Magazine WINNER! BEST ACTRESS MAY 5 “FIENDISHLY FUNNY!” – ##### MAY 8 & 9 (7:10 & 9:15) “IF YOU SEE ONLY ONE MOVIE THIS YEAR (7:00 & 9:10) MAY 6 & 7 (7:00 & 9:10) BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! LET THE RIGHT – MAKE IT ONE WEEK.” -SEE MAGAZINE WELCOME TO THE STICKS DOUBT ONE IN (USA, 2008, 103 minutes; MAY 3 & 4 (7:00 & 9:00) Tomas Alfredson (, BIENVENUE CHEZ LES CH’TIS rated G) Starring Meryl Streep, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, , ONE WEEK 2008, 110 minutes; Swedish Dany Boon (France, 2008, 107 minutes; PG) with subtitles; 14A) Cast: Dany Boon, Kad Merad, Zoe Felix, John Patrick Shanley adapted his own Pulitzer- Michael McGowan (Canada, 2008, 94 minutes; PG) “THIS IS A VAMPIRE MOVIE Anne Marivin, Philippe Duquesne. winning play for this compelling drama about Cast: , Liane Balaban LIKE NO OTHER. The biggest box-office smash in French history an archconservative nun (Meryl Streep) and a “A CHARMING ROAD TRIP, FILLED WITH QUINTESSENTIAL MESMERIZING!” – shows the French in the mood to laugh at them- progressive priest () CANADIANA.” --Robert Moyes, Monday Magazine Twelve-year-old Oskar lives in a bleak section of selves. This is a hicks-in-the-sticks tale about a clashing in a working-class Bronx parish in “TRIUMPHANT!” -Metro Canada . One night, Oskar meets the new girl who post office manager (Kad Merad) who has a nice 1964. Principal of the parish school, the nun suspects the priest of molesting a 12-year-old “ONE GREAT CANADIAN MOVIE.” –Montreal Gazette just moved in next door. Eli might smell a little odd, but outpost in the South of France but ends up ban- she's dying of loneliness--as well as the need for ished to a rainy town in the north. The townspeo- boy—the school’s first black student. Lacking ####! –Now Magazine human blood. Director Tomas Alfredson has reinvent- ple speak a dialect called Ch’ti, which to Philippe’s any evidence and hamstrung by the church’s When a young man is confronted with his mortality, he ed the vampire film with sly wit and surprising sweet- ears is little more than gibberish... Dany Boon’s male-dominated chain of command, she takes a cross-country road trip on a vintage motorcycle. ness. Alfredson's particular genius is apparent in small deeply charming comedy might dispel the notion embarks on a vendetta that leads her to the ONE WEEK tells the story of Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson), perfect touches. The scene where Eli and Oskar dance that the French cannot laugh at themselves. The edge of a moral abyss. Shanley skillfully opens in his mid-twenties, who flees from the confines of his to bad Swedish disco is a standout, but the film is filled director’s own turn as a particularly dim-witted up the play’s action on-screen while preserving life—an impending marriage, a job he`s not entirely happy with wonderful grace notes. A massive hit on the genre mailman is also a piece of terrific comedy. An its ambiguity about the characters’ motives. with and a recent diagnosis—in order to attempt to live film circuit, it reminds you of the power that horror cin- American remake starring is already Streep and Hoffman are pitch-perfect, and Amy more fully. What starts off as an ill-defined venture soon ema, done right, can have. --Vancouver International planned, but the French original will be very hard Adams is also superb as a young nun caught morphs into a quest for the West Coast. -Mongrel Media Film Festival to top. –-Vancouver International Film Festival up in the conflict. –Chicago Reader

MAY 10 & 11 (7:00 only) MAY 12 (7:00 & 9:30) MAY 13 & 14 (7:10 & 9:00) MAY 15 & 16 (7:00 & 9:20) IT’S NOT ME, I SWEAR! (USA/, 2008, 125 minutes; TROUBLE THE INTERNATIONAL 18A) Starring , Kate Winslet, David (USA/Germany/UK, 2009, C’EST PAS MOI, JE LE JURE! Kross, Lena Olin, . the WATER 119 min; 14A) Cast: , Philippe Falardeau (Quebec, 2008, 110 min; ACADEMY AWARD WINNER! , Armin Mueller-Stahl. French with Eng subtitles; rating TBA) Tia Lessin & Carl Deal (USA, BEST ACTRESS – KATE WINSLET 2008, 90 minutes; rating TBA) From the director of Run, Lola, Run. Cast: Suzanne Clément, Daniel Brière, Antoine L’Écuyer, ####! Set in In this gripping thriller, Interpol Agent Louis Gabriel Maillé, Catherine Faucher “MORE THRILLING THAN ANY 1958 , SPECTACLE.” Salinger (Clive Owen) and Assistant A look at the huge cultural shifts of the late ‘60s from the point where 16-year- –Salon District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi of view of a wild child. Leon (Antoine L’Ecuyer) is 10, and prone old Michael Watts) are determined to bring to justice WINNER! GRAND JURY PRIZE to apparent suicide attempts. He tells lies. (His beloved mother Berg (David one of the world’s most powerful banks. – advises him to lie with conviction.) He’s appalling, and you will Kross, who’s Uncovering myriad and reprehensible ille- love him. The household erupts with parental fighting, and dur- terrific) has his This astonishingly powerful documentary is at once horrifying and exhilarating. Directed and produced by gal activities, Salinger and Whitman follow ing one particular argument, Leon moves things along by get- first sexual Fahrenheit 9/11 producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, Trouble the Water takes you inside Hurricane Katrina the money from Berlin to Milan to New ting the fire department involved. Somehow, all this chaos is relationship in a way never before seen on screen. The film opens the day before the storm makes landfall—just blocks York to Istanbul. Finding themselves in a absurd and often very funny. When it’s not heartbreaking. It’s with the much away from the French Quarter. Kimberly Rivers Roberts, an aspiring rap artist, is turning her new video camera high-stakes chase across the globe, their Not Me, I Swear! is an entirely magical film about how large older Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), who likes it when on herself and her 9th Ward neighbors trapped in the city. As the hurricane begins to rage and the floodwaters relentless tenacity puts their own lives at the world looms to children. The film mixes comedy and he reads to her. He doesn’t discover her dark past fill their world, Kim and her husband Scott continue to film their harrowing retreat to higher ground and the dra- risk as their targets will stop at nothing. tragedy with a light hand...Visually, it’s mesmerizing. —Sun until years later. Adapted superbly by David Hare from matic rescues of friends and neighbors. The filmmakers document the couple’s return to New Orleans, the dev- —Sony Pictures Featuring stunning Media Often hysterically funny...one of the sharpest and Bernhard Schlink’s novel, the film is packed with astation of their neighborhood and the appalling repeated failures of government. Trouble the Water is a architectural photography and an most entertaining films you will see this year. –Vancouver ideas exploring sexuality, shame and forgive- redemptive tale of self-described street hustlers who become heroes. –Zeitgeist Films eye-popping, heart-stopping set piece in International Film Festival From the director of Congorama. ness...Essential viewing. —Now Magazine “ESSENTIAL, UNIQUE VIEWING.” –Entertainment Weekly New York’s Guggenheim Museum. MAY 17 & 18 (7:00 only) MAY 23 (7:10 & 9:15) MAY 19, 20 & 21 (7:00 & 9:30) MAY 22 12 SPECIAL CASABLANCA Nikita Mikhalkov (, 2008, 160 minutes; Russian CHE Part One Michael Curtiz (USA, 1942, 102 minutes) & Chechen with subtitles; PG) (France//USA, 2008, 132 minutes; English & The most splendidly Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Spanish with subtitles; PG) Starring , Demian Bichir. “CHE”-A-THON! romantic picture in 2008, Nikita Mikhalkov’s masterful, engrossing Based on the memoirs of Ernesto “Che” Guevara ever made. Set 12 is finally finding its way into theaters. “TRULY EPIC...BOLD!” –The New York Times Today only! against the back- — ‘A GREAT MOVIE. ‘CHE’ IS A THING TO BE See either film at drop of espionage An exuberantly Russian reworking of Reginald Rose’s EXPERIENCED!” –The Village Voice regular price or see in wartime French Morocco, the story jury-room play, 12 Angry Men; this particular story plays ‘NOTHING IF NOT THE MOVIE OF THE YEAR!” —LA Weekly both for a special very differently in post-Soviet Russia. Here the accused price! of enigmatic night- lad is a Chechen Muslim teenager, jailed on charges of What other director would expect us to follow him through a four-and- club owner Rick a-half-hour epic about Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the Argentine doctor () killing his Russian adoptive father in a newly capitalist UVSS Students & Seniors: $ 7.75 Russia, so there’s a back-story involving ethnic hatred who helped Fidel Castro pull off the Cuban revolution? Confession: and his unwitting and economic tensions. The jury is sequestered in an Despite my admiration for Steven Soderbergh and Benicio del Toro, the Members, UVic Faculty/Staff/Alumni: $ 8.75 reunion with an old elementary-school gymnasium. That location, happily Puerto Rican Oscar winner who plays Che, I dreaded seeing it. I was Non-members: $ 10.75 flame (Ingrid for the dozen variously ferocious Russian performers, is wrong. First of all, no one who cares about organic film acting will want Bergman) unfolds. filled with all sorts of actor-friendly props, which are put to miss del Toro’s magnificent performance. Del Toro keeps you rivet- 6:45 - CHE PART ONE And the supporting to excellent use. The stories the jurors tell are filled with ed....Diving into the movie’s riches is an experience you won’t forget or cast—which includes , Sydney arguments that reference local tensions and situations regret. PART ONE shows the young Ernesto meeting Castro (Demián plus Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt, Dooley possessing a distinctly Chekhovian flavor. As the men Bichir) in 1956 and joining his rebel force to defeat U.S.-backed Cuban 9:10 - CHE PART TWO Wilson—is nothing less than heaven-sent. —Mr. consider and reconsider the evidence, they end up dictator Fulgencio Batista. The scenes of warfare are intercut with Che Showbiz Sponsored by Capital City offering a vivid portrait of Russian society. –NPR visiting the in 1964 and reveling in his image as a Marxist please see May 19, 20, 21 and 26, 27, 28 Volunteers, who will be holding a raffle and icon. –Rolling Stone for descriptions draw. There will be some great prizes! MAY 24 & 25 (7:00 only) MAY 26, 27 & 28 MAY 29 & 30 BEST ACTOR - Benicio Del Toro -Cannes Film Festival BEFORE TOMORROW (7:00 & 9:30) (6:45 & 9:45) Marie-Hélène Cousineau & Madeline CHE Part Two Piujuq Ivalu (Canada, 2008, 93 minutes; Inuktitut with subtitles; PG) Steven Soderbergh (USA, 2009, 163 minutes;18A) WINNER! BEST CANADIAN FEATURE (France/Spain/USA, 2008, 133 minutes; – Victoria Film Festival English & Spanish with subtitles; PG) Cast: , "CHE is a piece of entertainment that delivers excitement, pathos Patrick Wilson, Matthew On its deceptively simple surface, Before Goode, , Tomorrow tells the story of an Inuit elder's and pure filmmaking passion; it's a work of art worth thinking about and arguing about, one the opens up possibilities and encourages Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin bond with her grandson as they brave the you to think and feel without telling you how to think and feel." Akerman, Carla Gugino, elements and isolation. But with each haunt- -Cinematical Stephen McHattie, and ing image and spare line of dialogue, the Matt Frewer PART TWO deals with Che in Bolivia, as he leads a 1966 campaign to filmmakers amass a quiet work of devastat- ABSOLUTELY DEVASTING! ing power about an entire culture on the eve of change. Unforgettable. --Canada’s Top Ten This bring the spirit of the Cuban uprising to South America. Soderbergh details a punishing series of skirmishes that result in Che’s capture and Dense, intense, tragic and visionary, this is the kind of movie that keeps setting off bombs in your brain remarkable debut feature is reminiscent of Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner). Ningiuq (Ivalu) and her best execution. This section is nothing less than a blueprint for revolution hours after you’ve seen it. Immediately leaps near the top of the list of apocalyptic pop-culture operas, friend Kutuujuk (Mary Qulitalik) are elders in an Inuit family in the mid-nineteenth century. Kutuujuk is and the forces that can make or break it...Che is a work of grand ambi- alongside Blade Runner and the first Matrix. TERRIFIC! –Salon Watchmen is set in an alternate sick and stories about the Europeans' impending advance are gaining momentum. After a particularly tion. The cinematographer Peter Andrews (a Soderbergh pseudonym) 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society. When one of bountiful catch, Ningiuq, her grandson Maniq (Paul-Dylan Ivalu) and Kutuujuk volunteer to dry the fish. grabs hold of a newfangled nine-pound digital camera and creates his former colleagues is murdered, the outlawed masked vigilante sets out to uncover a plot On a remote island away from wolves and other animals, Kutuujuk faces her final days. When no one images of startling beauty and immediacy. Che looks dazzling, whether to kill all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion, comes for them, Ningiuq and Maniq start the journey home themselves... Distilling the grand narrative the camera is weaving through a battle or trying to bore into Che’s Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and cat- of first contact, directors Cousineau and Ivalu explore how this historic event changed not only the Inuit haunted soul. As for the movie, it’s a reward to audiences eager to break astrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity...but who is watching people, but the entire world. --Toronto International Film Festival from the play-it-safe pack. Game on. —Rolling Stone the Watchmen? —Warner Bros.