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Student Union Building, UVic NOV-DEC 2011 www.cinecenta.com University of Victoria Students’ Society, conceived Admission Prices as an inexpensive alternative for students, the (HST included) University community and the public. The $17.50 (HST included) UVSS Students $5.60 theatre is in the Student Union Building at UVic. The following buses come to UVic: 4, 7, 11, Special for UVSS students 12, 13, 14, 15, 26, 29, 33, 39, 51, 80. $6.50 9pm shows (or later) $2.75 Seniors, Children (12 & under) $5.60 ($2.25 as of Sept 1) on campus after 6pm & all day Sat. Other Students $6.50 No charge for parking on Sundays and holidays. Cinemagic Members $6.50 . 24-hour Info Line: 250-721-8365 Tickets and memberships go on sale 40 minutes before showtime. Please arrive early and guests (1 only) of above $6.50 to avoid disappointment. Managers: Lisa Sheppard Non-members $7.75 Programmer: Michael Hoppe Matinees $4.75 Design: Juniper English where noted. Films are 35mm prints unless other- Graphic Production: Juniper English 2011 Nov-Dec wise indicated. & a battery of quail TEN FILM DISCOUNT PASS Cinecenta’s program is subject to change without notice. To avoid disappointment, UVSS Students, Seniors $50.00 please check our 24-hour phone line or website for the most up-to-date information. $57.50 (Unavailable to non-members.) DAILY SHOW INFO: 250-721-8365 www.cinecenta.com CINECENTA NOV 5 & 6 WINNIE THE POOH 63 minutes; rated G An all-new animated story that’s short and sweet. Eyeore has lost his tail, so Pooh and his friends hold a contest to get him a new one. NOV 12 & 13 THE SMURFS 102 minutes; rated G – violence Neil Patrick Harris stars in this kooky combo of live action and animation. NOV 19 & 20 MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS 95 minutes; rated G Jim Carrey inherits six penguins and transforms his apartment into a winter wonderland! NOV 26 & 27 E.T.: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL 120 minutes; rated G Henry Thomas stars in Steven Spielberg’s classic about a boy and his best friend—an alien. DEC 3 & 4 WINNIE THE POOH 63 minutes; rated G An all-new animated story that’s short and sweet. Eyeore has lost his tail, so Pooh and his friends hold a contest to get him a new one. DEC 10 & 11 DOLPHIN TALE 113 minutes; rated G Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd star in a story about the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap. sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM NOV 8 (7:15 only) NOV 9 & 10 (7:10 & 9:00) NOV 11 (7:10 & 9:00) *no Friday matinee KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM WINNIE THE POOH THE SMURFS THE CORPORATION BUCK NOV 12 (3:00 matinee & 7:10 & 9:00) Directors: Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott Director: Cindy Meehl back by popular demand! Canada, 2003, 145 minutes; DVD USA, 2011, 88 minutes; Blu-ray; rated G BILLY BISHOP GOES NOV 6 “ENTERTAINING.” –Variety “A RICHLY TEXTURED AND VISUALLY STUNNING TO WAR (3:00 matinee & 6:45 & 9:25) “SCATHING!” –LA Times FILM!” –Sundance Selects Director: Barbara Willis-Sweete NOV 7 (6:45 & 9:25) Canada, 2011, 86 minutes; Blu-ray Must-see viewing for any Occupy movement! “A HAUNTING, BEAUTIFULLY TOLD TALE!” Cast: Eric Peterson, John Gray Explore the nature and spectacular rise of the –Salon.com dominant institution of our time. Footage from One of the most beloved and widely produced THE TREE OF LIFE pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate Justly picked as the audience favourite at Sundance works in the Canadian theatre canon, John Director: Terrence Malick USA, 2011, propaganda illuminates their dominant grip on this year, Cindy Meehl’s often-dramatic documenta- Gray and Eric Peterson’s Governor General’s 140 minutes; rated G – violence our lives. Taking its legal status as a “person” to ry about real-life horse whisperer Buck Brannaman Award–winning, two-man musical Billy Bishop Goes to War premiered in Vancouver in 1978. Cast: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain its logical conclusion, the film puts the corpora- is far more than the story of a man who can some- tion on the psychiatrist`s couch and declares how get unruly horses to follow him like puppies It has since played to audiences all over the WINNER! PALME D’OR –Cannes Film Festival it a “psychopath.” after one training session. Despite the physical English-speaking world and has had stints on Provocative, witty, scars of horrible child abuse, the wryly philosophical Broadway and in London’s West End. It’s most “HHHHH!” –Monday Magazine sweepingly informa- Brannaman is gentle with both people and animals. recent revival, which once again featured Gray tive, The Corporation “He’s the real deal,” says Robert Redford, who relied at the piano and Peterson giving his marathon HHHHH! On the anniversary of his brother’s death, architect Jack O’Brien (Penn) ponders his place in the includes 40 interviews on Brannaman while making The Horse Whisperer. portrayal of no less than eighteen different char- universe, leading inevitably to powerful memories of his ‘50s childhood in Texas - in particular, his ethereal with corporate insid- Anyone who sees this moving doc will agree. acters, was a major hit in 2010. That production mother (Jessica Chastain) and disciplinarian father (Brad Pitt). For his fifth film in 40 years, Terrence Malick ers and critics - includ- –Toronto Star led to this intimate and entertaining new film. has summoned forth a dizzyingly impressionistic study of family life that doubles as a vaulting enquiry into ing Noam Chomsky, First World War flying ace Billy Bishop shot down the very nature of the universe and the possibility of God. Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY comes Naomi Klein, and Cindy Meehl follows the humble, authoritative seventy-two enemy planes, ultimately becoming close, but Malick’s philosophy pines for the salve of love and spirit. Cycles of life and death on a cosmic Michael Moore - plus cowboy — an ideal of grace and hard work over the Royal Flying Corps’ most honoured member. scale are contrasted with the intricate dynamics of family. What does the loss of a loved one mean against true confessions, adversity — as he travels giving his famous clinics -- Toronto International Film Festival the backdrop of eternity? Much, it transpires. This is a sublime evocation of the tides of ecstasy and tor- case studies and for ‘’horses with people problems.’’ The result is a ment flowing through an American boyhood…Profound, idiosyncratic, complex, sincere and magical; a strategies for change. portrait that expertly mirrors its subject. confirmation that cinema can aspire to art. --Empire –Entertainment Weekly KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM NOV 17 (7:00 only) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM NOV 15 (7:15 only) NOV 16 (7:15 & 9:00) NOV 18 & 19 (3:00 & 7:10 & 9:00) THE SMURFS Special FREE event hosted by UVic Pride! MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS ???MYSTERY CALENDAR OUR IDIOT BROTHER Direction & DIAGNOSING Director: Jesse Peretz USA, 2011, 90 minutes; PG NOV 13 MOVIE??? Screenplay: Atom Cast: Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Emily Mortimer, (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:15) Egoyan DIFFERENCE Zooey Deschanel, Steve Coogan Special Advance Sneak Preview! Armenia/Canada/ Director: Annalise NOV 14 (7:00 & 9:15) Be among the exclusive few in Victoria to see a Germany, 1993, 74 Ophelian USA, 2009, “A WARM, INTELLIGENT AND HIGHLY brand-new feature film! It could be a comedy or a minutes; DVD; rated 64 minutes CONTEMPORARY COMEDY.” –Salon.com THE DEBT drama; in English or have subtitles. See a movie PG “an excellent 101 Don’t be fooled by the title! How beaming doofus Director: John Madden USA, 2011, 113 specially selected for Cinecenta’s discerning audi- Starring Arsinée guide to transgender Ned (Paul Rudd) grew up to be such a mellow male minutes; 14A ence. Take a chance! Leap into the unknown! It’s Khanjian, Ashot identity and issues...”- in such a nutty family of females is a mystery. Ned Cast: Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, only a movie. Adamian, Atom Bitch Magazine is a sunny, Jesus-haired, go-with-the-flow kind of Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Chastain, Ciaran Egoyan Hinds dude who finds the good in everyone. Ned’s three Atom Egoyan wrote, “...mandatory viewing for all medical and mental sisters, on the other hand, are tightly wound malcontents, each character fleshed out by a choice “BRISTLING WITH DANGERS BOTH directed and stars as a health providers...”- Dr. Kimmel, Staff Psychologist, comedienne:(Elizabeth Banks, Emily Mortimer, Zooey Deschanel) Mom (Shirley Knight), meanwhile, CORPOREAL AND CEREBRAL, ‘THE Toronto photographer, Harvard University gets by befogged by copious glasses of white wine.--Entertainment Weekly DEBT’ IS A SUPERBLY CRAFTED who invites a different woman to have dinner with How does it feel to have your gender identity ESPIONGE THRILLER! –Los Angeles him each month. At the end of each meal, the included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Times guest makes a phone call and speaks passionately of Mental Disorders? A documentary about the in a foreign language. We soon learn that when the NOV 18 & 19 (11:00pm) separate admission medicalization of transgender identities in the The Debt is the powerful story of Rachel Singer, a former Mossad agent who endeavored to capture and photographer and his wife were touring Armenia American health care system. bring to trial a notorious Nazi war criminal—the Surgeon of Birkenau—in a secret Israeli mission that ended to collect images for a calendar, she was falling in FOOTLOOSE (1984) with his death on the streets of East Berlin.