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We’re at UVic Apr - May 2009 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 showtime. 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.) sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday 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) Charles Martin Smith (Canada/UK/ 2008, 97 minutes; PG) Starring François Bégaudeau Cast: Charlie Cox, Kate Mara, Robert Carlyle, Billy Boyd, Stephen McCole, Ciaron Kelly THE WRESTLER “UNMISSABLE!” –Rolling Stone WINNER! AUDIENCE FAVOURITE AWARD — VICTORIA FILM FESTIVAL! Darren Aronofsky (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: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood “A REMARKABLE MOVIE.” –New York Magazine a beloved symbol of Scottish independence – from Westminster Abbey. –Victoria Film Festival WINNER! BEST ACTOR – MICKEY ROURKE –Entertainment Weekly 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 England, great actor whose career has been on the ropes almost ! The Class won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, 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 screenplay 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. –The New Yorker 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. –Vancouver International Film belongs to Mickey Rourke.” –The Globe and Mail language. –Chicago 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) Ron Howard (USA, 2008, 122 min; PG) Cast: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Rebecca Hall, Toby AUDIENCE FAVOURITE AWARD “AN ABSOLUTE STUNNER!” –Wall Street Journal Jones, Matthew Macfadyen, Kevin Bacon, Oliver Platt, and Sam Rockwell 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 M. 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- the interview 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 docudrama. It cuts to action, it’s unlike any film you’ve seen, period. –Los Angeles 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! REVOLUTIONARY ROAD APR 19 (2:30 matinee & 7:00) I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG MILK Sam Mendes (USA, 2008, 119 minutes; 14A) APR 20 (7:00 only) IL Y A LONGTEMPS QUE JE T’AIME Gus Van Sant (USA, 2008, 129 minutes; PG) With Cast: Kate Winslet, Leonardo Directed by Philippe Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, James Franco, Emile DiCaprio, Kathy Bates, DEFIANCE Claudel (France, 2008, Hirsch, Diego Luna, and Alison Pill. “DEVASTATING!” –Roger Ebert 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, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos WINNER of 2 ACADEMY AWARDS! 2008” –San Francisco Chronicle Kristin Scott Thomas’ per- On the basis of Glory, Courage Under Fire, The Siege, The BEST ACTOR – SEAN PENN What does a cult 1961 Richard Yates 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.