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veryone is welcome at Cinecenta! We are a non-profi t division of the University of Victoria Students’ Society, conceived as an inexpensive JAN - FEB 2019 alternative for students, the University community and the public. The theatre is in the Student Union Building at UVic. Many buses come E $5.75 to UVic and stop right outside the SUB. UVic charges for parking except on UVSS Students Sundays and Holidays, when it is free. PARKING HELP LINE: 250-721-6386. Special for UVSS students Tickets and memberships go on sale 40 minutes before showtime. Please arrive 9pm shows (or later) $4.75 early to avoid disappointment. Seniors, Children (12 & under) $5.75 SPOTLIGHT ON LOCATED IN THE STUDENT UNION BUILDING, UVIC Other Students $6.75 Everyone is welcome at Cinecenta! Cinemagic Members $6.75 But if you aren’t a liated with UVic Alumni, Faculty, Sta , UVic and are going to come and guests (1 only) of above $6.75 more than once a year, you can save money by purchasing a 50 cinemagic Non-members $7.75 Cinemagic Membership! MEMBERSHIP All fi lms are in English, or with TWO COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS Matinees $4.75 English subtitles where noted. $6.75 ADMISSION FOR YOU + TEN FILM DISCOUNT PASS UVSS $17. 1 ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION Cinecenta o ce: 250-721-8364 Students, Seniors $50.00 24-hour info Line: 250-721-8365 Members, UVic Sta (unavailable to non-members) $57.50 MANAGER: LISA SHEPPARD PROGRAMMER: MICHAEL HOPPE ART + DESIGN: BRENT PARRISH Kids MARGARETHE VON TROTTA’S Matinees! NEW DOCUMENTARY Jan 12 & 13 - 12:15pm THE INCREDIBLES 2 Plus his classics USA, 2018, 127 min, PG JAN 19 & 20 - 12:45pm $4.75FEB 9 & 10 - 1:00pm Searching WILD STRAWBERRIES SMALLFOOT THE LAST USA, 2018, 97 min, rated G for PERSONA UNICORN Ingmar THE MAGIC FLUTE JAN 26 & 27 - 11:30Am USA, 1982, 92 min, rated G THE SOUND OF MUSIC Bergman FANNY AND ALEXANDER USA, 1965, 172 min plus intermission, Feb 16 & 17 rated G To Be Announced FEB 2 & 3 - 12:45pm CHARLOTTE’S WEB USA, 2006, 97 min, rated G cinecenta.com // JAN-FEB 2019

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JAN 6 & 7 (7:00 & 9:00) “CHALAMET IS ALREADY JAN 8, 9, & 10 (6:45 & 9:10) BEST FILM OF THE YEAR! Jan 11 & 12 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:00) yyyyy BEAUTIFUL BOY A MASTER.” --VULTURE ROMA --NEW YORK, L.A, SAN FRANCISCO, CHICAGO, TORONTO FILM CRITICS NOTHING LIKE A DAME AKA TEA WITH THE DAMES Felix van Groeningen, USA, 2018, 121 minutes, 14A, CC Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico, 2018, 135 minutes, Spanish with subtitles Roger Mitchell, UK, 2018, 84 minutes; PG Timothée Chalamet (“Call Me By Your Name”) might be the male actor of his “A masterpiece at once understated and otherworldly;” “cinema at its purest and most human;” “hypnotic and transporting and The laughter and pure hysteria are infectious in this wildly enjoyable fi lm. I can’t for the generation. He gives an extraordinary performance in this story of a young man’s sublime;” “a majestic feat of filmmaking;” “the blend of the humane and the artistic within nearly every scene is breathtaking;” life of me think of any other recent documentary in which I have laughed pretty much all descent into methamphetamine addiction and the years-long attempt of his journal- “movies with this much empathy and humanity don’t come along very often.” “Roma” isn’t just as good as you’ve been hearing, the way through. It is nothing more nor less than an acerbic round-table chat between ist father (Steve Carell) to pull him out. it’s even better. The latest triumph from Oscar-winner Alfonso Cuarón (“Gravity,” “Children of Men”) is a quotidian epic, a semi- four of British theatre’s most famed dames: , Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins Chalamet is so good it’s worth seeing for his work alone. With moments reminiscent autobiographically inspired film set in Mexico City in the early ‘70s. It’s beautiful, unforgettable, and the complete experience, and , which takes place at the country home Plowright shared with her late of James Dean, Chalamet makes the part his own, allowing us to feel we’ve never seen according to Cuarón, “is unquestionably in a movie theater.” --The Bijou husband, Laurence Olivier. --Peter Bradshaw, a character like this. Based on memoirs by the real-life father and son, David and Nic Sheff. --Los Angeles Times THE MOST ACCLAIMED FILM OF 2018!

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Stay for a Q&A after the film! regular cinecenta prices. JAN 13 (3:00 matinee & 5:00 & 7:00) JAN 14 (7:00 & 9:20) JAN 15 (7:00) JAN 16 & 17 (7:00 & 8:45) JAN 18 & 19 (3:00 MATINEE 7:00 & 9:00) NOTHING LIKE A DAME CRAZY RICH ASIANS SHARKWATER THIS MOUNTAIN LIFE THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN Jon M. Chu, US, 2018, 121 min; PG, CC Grant Baldwin, Canada, 2018, 78 minutes; PG David Lowery, USA, 2018, 93 minutes; PG, CC One of the very best romantic comedies BC fi lmmaker Grant Baldwin’s portrait of the local mountain men and women who In this charming, elegiac heist fi lm, Casey A eck’s detective makes a gesture to Robert AKA TEA WITH THE DAMES in years. Adapted from Kevin Kwan’s EXTINCTION choose to breathe the thin, pure air of adventure and isolation is a stunning visual Redford’s bank robber, a knowing reference to “The Sting.” The gesture is from one actor Roger Mitchell, UK, 2018, 84 minutes; PG bestseller, it’s a sublimely entertaining Canada, 2018, 86 min; PG experience and a profound spiritual journey. to another, this being Redford’s fi nal fi lm (so he says). He plays a true-life gentleman fi sh-out-of-water story with a glamorous Chances are, you have never seen British Columbia quite like this before. Our province is PLEASE SEE JAN 11 & 12 FOR DESCRIPTION A thrilling journey that follows the late Rob crook and prison escapist who has used a smile to steal money. plays oppo- setting, swoon-worthy romance, a pitch- Stewart as he exposes the billion dollar 75% mountains, but few of us have ventured as far as the hardy folk Baldwin introduces site him: The two veterans share graceful scenes and a gently used luminosity. perfect cast, laugh-out-loud humor, and illegal shark fi n industry and the corruption here, such as: a mother and daughter who embark on a daunting six-month, 2,300 km --Globe and Mail “A CONSISTENTLY HILARIOUS 90-MINUTE resonant emotional truth. Rachel Chu behind it. From West Africa, Spain, Panama, trek through the Coast Mountain Range from Squamish to Skagway. These people share (Constance Wu) goes to Singapore to meet Costa Rica and France, to California, a very special connection with the natural world. Watching Baldwin’s fi lm, we marvel at CHAT THAT COULD HAVE GONE ON FOR her boyfriend’s family -- and has no idea of Stewart’s third fi lm dives into the often- their daring and resolve, their ingenuity and endurance, and with them, we savour a taste “REDFORD GIVES A VIRTUOSO PERFORMANCE THAT FEELS LIKE A VALEDICTORY. --THE WRAP what she’s walking into! --Bijou Theatre violent underworld of the pirate fi shing of the sublime. --Vancouver International Film Festival TWICE AS LONG.” trade. YOU WANT TO SALUTE HIM.” --ROLLING STONE JAN 20 KIDS MATINEE 12:45PM SMALLFOOT SPOTLIGHT ON INGMAR BERGMAN SPOTLIGHT ON INGMAR BERGMAN JAN JAN26 KIDS30 KIDS MATINEE MATINEE 11:30AM 1PM THE PEANUTSSOUND OF MOVIE MUSIC

JAN 20 (3:00 matinee & 5:15 & 7:30) JAN 21 (7:00 & 9:10) JAN 22 & 23 (7:00 & 9:00) JAN 24 (7:00 & 9:00) JAN 25 & 26 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:10) CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? SEARCHING FOR INGMAR BERGMAN THE SEVENTH SEAL BEN IS BACK Marielle Heller, USA, 2018, 107 minutes, PG, CC Margarethe von Trotta, Germany/France, 2018, English, German, Swedish with subtitles; 99 Sweden, 1957, 96 min, Swedish with Peter Hedges, USA, 2018, 103 minutes, 14A Melissa McCarthy is a lock for an Oscar nomination for this true story of Lee Israel, a lone- minutes, PG subtitles. Suburban mother Holly Burns (Julia Roberts) cautiously welcomes her 19-year-son Ben Returning exhausted from the Crusades ly, embittered author of celebrity biographies who took up forgery to pay the bills when The Swedish theater director and fi lmmaker, who died in 2007, remains one of the most (Lucas Hedges) home for the holidays. Why the hesitation? The young man has gone to fi nd medieval Sweden gripped by her jobs dried up. McCarthy gets laughs here, but the demands of this role — a boozy, praised 20th-century artists. Bergman was a gripping storyteller. You could even call AWOL from rehab. Mom may be mollifi ed by her son’s vow to return to treatment. But will the Plague, a knight () cranky woman with a battered heart and a backbone of steel — are primarily dramatic. him an entertainer. The German director Margarethe von Trotta makes that clear in the he keep his promise? And can he stay clean until then? Roberts runs a gamut of emotions suddenly comes face-to-face with the Lee uses her own creative writing skills to improve on the letters of such luminaries as opening of her new documentary. “The Seventh Seal”, she says, made her want to be a that remind us of what a powerful actress she is. Her vital and touching teamwork with fi gure of Death, and challenges him Noel Coward and Lillian Hellman. She’s so successful that she takes on a partner in crime fi lmmaker. Von Trotta’s search takes her all over Europe, where she interviews collabora- Hedges is what makes the fi lm work. It’s unfl inching and unforgettable. --Rolling Stone to a game of chess. One of the most in fellow barfl y Jack (Richard E. Grant), a gay Brit raconteur. Grant (“Withnail & I”) hasn’t tors, critics, admirers and members of Bergman’s family. Because Bergman’s status is infl uential fi lms of its time, “Seventh Seal” had this juicy a role to feast on in years. He’s simply sublime. --Rolling Stone frequently coded as patriarchal, seeing him through the lens of a female fi lmmaker is is a stunning allegory of man’s search for “REFRESHINGLY UNDERSTATED, ‘BEN IS BACK’ SUBVERTS FAMILY DRAMA STEREOTYPES - salutary. Many of Von Trotta’s interviewees, including , wax rhapsodic over meaning and a work of stark visual poetry. Bergman’s way with actresses and female characters. --New York Times “MCCARTHY’S BEST PERFORMANCE TO DATE!” -- VARIETY --Criterion AND PROVIDES A FORUM FOR TERRIFIC PERFORMANCES. --ROTTEN TOMATOES JAN 27 KIDS MATINEE 11:30AM THE SOUND OF MUSIC Special Event! SPOTLIGHT ON INGMAR BERGMAN FEB 2 KIDS MATINEE 12:45PM CHARLOTTE’S WEB

Golden Globe Nomin : BEST ACTRESS Director in attendance! BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! matinee & & & & & & matinee & & Jan 27 (3:00 5:15 7:30) AUGJAN 28 28 (7:00 (7:00 & 9:00) 9:15) JAN 29 (7:00) Jan 30 (7:00 9:10) JAN 31 (7:00 9:00) FEB 1 2 (3:00 7:00 9:15) “A TOUR-DE-FORCE AT ETERNITY’S GATE THE DESTRUCTION FREE SOLO WILD STRAWBERRIES A PRIVATE WAR Julian Schnabel, Switzerland, UK, France, 2018, 112 min; PG USA, 2018, 101 minutes, PG Sweden, 1957, 92 min, subtitles. PERFORMANCE FROM PIKE!” Matthew Heineman, UK, 2018, 111 minutes; 14A, CC There have been plenty of fi lms about Vincent Van Gogh, but none as evocative and You don’t have to be a fan of rock climbing Traveling to accept an honorary degree, --NEWSDAY OF MEMORY Professor Isak Borg—masterfully played by Rosamund Pike stars as legendary war correspondent Marie Colvin in this fact-based fi lm a ecting. Julian Schnabel’s extraordinary fi lm features a monumental, career-best perfor- Tim Slade, USA, 2016, 81 min. to love “Free Solo.” The documentary and its mance from as the tortured Dutch artist. Schnabel, renowned as a painter, protagonist transcend the sport. When Alex Victor Sjöström—is forced to face his past, that follows Colvin and photojournalist Paul Conroy (Jamie Dornan) to the front lines wants to get inside the head of this tormented artist and make us see what he sees, as The war against culture, and the battle to Honnold scaled the infamous El Capitan in come to terms with his faults, and make of confl icts around the globe, culminating in a fateful trip to the besieged Syrian city of though we’re living his life. This is a ravishment of the senses, capturing the gorgeous save it. Cultural destruction has wrought California’s Yosemite National Park without peace with his death. Through fl ashbacks Homs in 2012. Colvin is one of the most celebrated war correspondents of her generation, play of sunlight on fl owers, wheat fi elds and anything that else that seized Van Gogh’s catastrophic results globally. This fi lm looks the use of any equipment beyond his own and fantasies, dreams and nightmares, it driven to the front lines of confl icts in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia in order to attention. It’s also a study of the agony Van Gogh endured in his fi nal years (he committed not just at contemporary situations, but the well-toned body and instinctual skills, it was dramatizes one man’s remarkable voyage bear witness and give a voice to the voiceless – while testing her own notions of bravery suicide in 1890 at 37), mad with talent and his own violent delirium….An artistic triumph. decisions of the past that kept the issue a feat beyond superhuman. --Toronto Star of self-discovery. This richly humane and bravado. A New Yorker transplanted to London, she remains as comfortable amongst --Rolling Stone hidden in the shadows. Sponsored by the masterpiece, full of iconic imagery, is one her adoptive city’s high society as she is traversing war zones and confronting dictators. Orion Fund in UVic’s Faculty of Fine Arts yyyyy of Bergman’s most widely acclaimed and Yet her personal life starts to unravel as the trauma she’s witnessed on the job takes its “NOT JUST AN EXQUISITE FILM BUT AN ARGUMENT FOR ART.” --NEW YORK TIMES infl uential fi lms. --Criterion Collection toll. --Toronto International Film Festival FEB 3 KIDS MATINEE 12:45PM CHARLOTTE’S WEB SPOTLIGHT ON INGMAR BERGMAN FEB 9 KIDS MATINEE 1:00PM THE LAST UNICORN

FEB 3 (3:00 matinee & 5:30 & 8:00) FEB 4 (7:00 & 9:15) FEB 5 & 6 (7:00 & 8:50) FEB 7 (7:00 & 9:00) FEB 8 & 9 (3:00 MATINEE & 7:00 & 9:10) BOY ERASED THE GUILTY PERSONA WIDOWS Joel Edgerton, USA, 2018, 115 minutes, 14A, CC Gustav Moller, Denmark, 2018, 89 min, PG; Danish with subtitles. Sweden, 1966, 83 min, subtitles Steve McQueen, Canada/USA, 2018, 130 minutes, 14A, CC With the radical “Persona,” Bergman It’s taken a long time for Western culture to mostly understand that sexual orientation is as This thriller set in an emergency response call centre was a Sundance hit and will be From Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen (“12 Years a Slave”) and author Gillian Flynn innate as eye colour. But there still persists among a community of conservative Christians Denmark’s contender for Best Foreign Language fi lm at the Oscars. Jakob Cedergren, attained new levels of visual poetry. Liv Ullmann plays a stage actor who (“Gone Girl”) comes a blistering, modern-day thriller set against the backdrop of crime, that it is mutable and that is the issue “Boy Erased” tackles with poignancy and a respect superb, plays an edgy cop named Asger Holm, a suspended police o cer who is obliged passion and corruption. It’s the story of four women (Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, for points of view that would appear to be irreconcilable. Based on a true story, the fi lm to work the phones at Copenhagen’s equivalent of the 911 distress line. When Asger has inexplicably gone mute; an equally Michelle Rodriguez, Cynthia Erivo) with nothing in common except a debt left behind by boasts a range of great performances. Lucas Hedges plays Jared, a Southern boy raised receives a distress call from a mysterious woman who may have been abducted, Asger mesmerizing Bibi Andersson is the young in a loving Christian home. When forced to tell the truth to his parents, his pained father, Holm becomes a Sherlock Holmes of the digital age. Clever sound design helps sculpt the nurse caring for her in a remote island their dead husbands’ criminal activities. Set in Chicago, tensions build when they conspire a Baptist preacher (Russell Crowe), tells him he must go into a Christian gay conversion clockwork narrative. --Toronto Star cottage. While isolated together there, to forge a future on their own terms. Also starring Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Robert program. His mother () acquiesces….An intelligent and emotionally charged the women undergo a mysterious spiritual Duvall, and Daniel Kaluuya. fi lm that will appeal to just about everyone. --Toronto Star and emotional transference. A penetrating, “A CINEMATIC STUDY IN TENSION, SOUND DESIGN, AND HOW TO MAKE A dreamlike work of profound psychological THRILLING MOVIE WITH A LIMITED TOOL BOX.” –ROGEREBERT.COM depth. --Criterion Collection “TAUT, EMOTIONAL, EXCITING AND SURPRISING” --NPR FEB 10 KIDS MATINEE 1:00PM THE LAST UNICORN SPOTLIGHT ON INGMAR BERGMAN SPOTLIGHT ON INGMAR BERGMAN FEB 16 KIDS MATINEE TBA

FEB 10 (3:00, 5:00 & 7:00) FEB 11 (7:00 only) FEB 12 & 13 (7:00 only) yyyyy FEB 14 (7:00 only) FEB 15 & 16 (3:00 MATINEE & 7:00 & 9:00) THE WOMAN WHO LOVES THE MAGIC FLUTE THE WILD PEAR TREE FANNY AND ALEXANDER Sweden, 1975, 135 min, subtitles; G Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey, 2018, 188 minutes; Turkish with English subtitles; PG Sweden, 1982, 188 min, subtitles; PG CANNES BEST This scintillating screen version of Mozart’s A gentle, humane, beautifully made and magnifi cently acted movie from the Turkish Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, GIRAFFES beloved opera shows Bergman’s gift for fi lm-maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan: garrulous, humorous and lugubrious in his unmistakable we witness a sprawling bourgeois clan in Alison Reed, Canada, 2018, 82 min; PG expressing music in fi lmic terms. Casting and very engaging style. It’s an elegiac address to the idea of childhood and your home turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden. COMMERCIALS 2018 In 1956, at the age of 23, Anne Innis Dagg some of Europe’s fi nest soloists, the director town – and how returning to both has a bittersweet savour. As in his previous fi lm, “Winter Bergman intended this as his swan song, International, 2018, 112 minutes, PG made an unprecedented solo journey to lovingly stages the story of a prince and his Sleep,” he draws on the spirit of Chekhov. But his style is all his own. A malcontent young and it is the director’s warmest and IT’S THE BEST COMMERICALS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD! South Africa to become the fi rst scientist sidekick who seek to save a princess from graduate and would-be writer (Aydın Doğu Demirkol), comes back to his rural village most autobiographical fi lm, an Academy to study animal behavior in the wild on that the clutches of evil. A celebration of love, with a diploma but no job. His father is Idris, tremendously played by Murat Cemcir, a Award–winning triumph that combines his The reel showcases the world’s 59 most creative commercials –cinematic mini-movies-- continent. The world’s fi rst ‘gira eologist’, forgiveness, and the brotherhood of man, man whose youthful charm and romanticism has curdled with age….It is another deeply trademark emotional intensity with immense from the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Provocative and often her research fi ndings ultimately became and considered by many to be the most satisfying, intelligent piece of fi lm-making from Ceylan. The indulgent Idris tells his son joy and sensuality. Bergman described it as hilarious, the screening features a collection of global work that pushes boundaries and the foundation for many following in her exquisite opera fi lm ever made. that he often has a wild pear for breakfast and it is delicious. This fi lm is, too. “the sum total of my life as a fi lmmaker.” provides creative perspectives to inspire and entertain. footsteps. --Criterion Collection --The Guardian --Criterion Collection

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