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veryone is welcome at Cinecenta! We are a non-profit division of the University of Victoria Students’ Society, conceived as an inexpensive alternative for students, the University community and the public. The April 7-june 1 2019 Etheatre is in the Student Union Building at UVic. Many buses come to UVic and stop right outside the SUB. UVic charges for parking except on UVSS Students $5.75 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 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 affiliated with UVic and are going to come UVic Alumni, Faculty, Staff, more than once a year, you can and guests (1 only) of above $6.75 save money by purchasing a 50 cinemagic Cinemagic Membership! MEMBERSHIP Non-members $7.75 All films are in English, or with TWO COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS Matinees $4.75 English subtitles where noted. $6.75 ADMISSION FOR YOU +

$17. 1 ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION TEN FILM DISCOUNT PASS UVSS Cinecenta office: 250-721-8364 Students, Seniors $50.00 24-hour info Line: 250-721-8365 Members, UVic Staff $57.50 MANAGER: LISA SHEPPARD PROGRAMMER: MICHAEL HOPPE (unavailable to non-members) art + Design: Brent Parrish & Leanne Weflen

april 6 & 7 - 12:45pm PADDINGTON 2 UK, 2017, 104 min; rated G April 13 & 14 - 12:45pm THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE SECOND PART USA, 2019, 107 min; rated G april 20 & 21 - 12:30Pm Kids MARY POPPINS RETURNS 131 min, rated G April 27 & 28 - 12:45pmMatinees!75 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD USA, 2019, 105 min, PG – violence, Age 7+ $4. Matinees WILL RETURN IN SEPTEMBER!

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Academy APR 11 (7:00 Only) free admission Award Winner! Best apr 7 (3:00, 5:10 & 7:15) APR 9 (7:00 & 9:20) APR 10 (7:00 & 8:45) APR 12 & 13 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:20) Actress apr 8 (6:45 & 9:10) DISASTERS ON FREE SOLO IF BEALE STREET THIS MOUNTAIN LIFE THE FAVOURITE USA, 2018, 101 minutes, PG Grant Baldwin, Canada, 2018, 78 minutes, PG THE BIG SCREEN Yorgos Lanthimos, Ireland/UK, 2018, 120 min, 14A SHOPLIFTERS Showcasing video clips from the far-fetched Featuring a trio of Oscar-nominated performances from Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, You don’t have to be a fan of rock climbing Japan, 2018, 122 min, PG, A stunning visual experience and a pro- to love “Free Solo.” The documentary and its COULD TALK found spiritual journey. Chances are, you and poorly acted movie “Disaster Wars: and Best Actress Olivia Colman comes the “true” story of England’s Queen Anne Japanese w/ subtitles USA, 2018, 120 min, PG, CC protagonist transcend the sport. When Alex have never seen British Columbia quite like Earthquake vs. Tsunami,” Teron Moore, Safety (Colman) and the two consorts who vie for her favour. A fabulously entertaining, wick- Honnold scaled the infamous El Capitan in Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-eda took the Palme Love-intimate, familial and fraternal- infuses this before. Our province is 75% mountains, Program Manager from Ocean Networks edly witty, and juicy power tangle of a film, this divinely-assembled trio are a delight to California’s Yosemite National Park without d’Or at Cannes for this gentle story of a director Barry Jenkins’ ravishing adaptation but few of us have ventured as far as the Canada and Captain Maegan Thompson behold—right along with the incredible costumes, production design, and bold cinema- the use of any equipment beyond his own multi-generational family of grifters that of the 1974 James Baldwin novel about a hardy folk profiled here, such as a mother from the Saanich Emergency Program will tography. —The Bijou well-toned body and instinctual skills, it was slowly reveals its secrets. What begins as a battered romance that refuses to be a trage- and daughter who embark on a six-month provide commentary about local tsunami a feat beyond superhuman. —Toronto Star heist movie is transformed into a moving dy. It’s the sort of cinema that feels steeped trek through the Coast Mountain Range risk, earthquake safety, the importance of “COLEMAN IS ASTONISHING.”–Vulture meditation on what truly constitutes a in the past, completely of the moment and from Squamish to Skagway. —VIFF preparedness and emergency management. yyyyy family. —Toronto Star timeless all at once. —Rolling Stone A fun way to learn important information for “I COMMAND YOU TO SEE IT!”–TORONTO STAR ages 14 years and older. Special Event! “MOVING AND PROFOUND” –San Francisco Chronicle

April 17: national canadian APR 18 (7:00) Tickets: $5.00 APR 14 (3:00, 5:10 & 7:15) apr 15 (7:00 & 9:10) apr 16 & 17 (7:00 & 9:00) film day! Cinecenta passes and comps not valid. APR 19 (7:00 only) apr 20 (12:30 Matinee, 3:00 & 7:00) THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD FALLS AROUND HER THE RADICALS MARY POPPINS RETURNS Peter Jackson, UK/New Zealand, 2018, 100 min, 14A Darlene Naponse, Canada, 2018, 96 min, PG Canada, 2018, 58 min Rob Marshall, USA, 2018, 131 min, rated G, CC Peter Jackson was tasked by the Imperial War Museum to rummage through their vast World Featuring legendary Cree and Métis actor Tantoo Cardinal’s first lead role in a feature Presented by Blue Dot Victoria, an initiative Cast: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Meryl Streep War I archives and present them in a way that speaks to a 21st-century audience. Jackson and film – and she’s enthralling in it. Cardinal (known for the TV series, North Of 60) plays of the David Suzuki Foundation. There will Emily Blunt is practically perfect in every way in this sequel set 30 years after the first his team digitally restored 100 hours of footage of British soldiers on the Western Front – a Mary Birchbark, a famous Anishinaabe musician who returns to the Northern Ontario be a discussion about the film and envi- film. It’s a rapturous piece of nostalgia — a film that devotes itself, in every frame, to harrowing theater of combat. By coupling century-old footage with the voice-over accounts reserve where she grew up after years of touring. Surrounded by her sister Betty (Tina ronmental rights. “The Radicals” follows a making you feel happy in the guileless way a movie still could back in 1964. —Variety of veterans recorded in the ‘60s and ‘70s, he has come up with a sort of magic trick that hits Keeper) and old friends, Mary tries to adjust to a quieter life while wrestling with the life group of professional snowboarders and you in the gut. Nowhere is this more stunning than when the jerky black-and-white images she left behind. Written and directed by Naponse of the Atikameksheng Anishnawbek surfers who drift into the world of activ- “There’s more than a spoonful of sugar in this felicitous revisitation.” transition into color. It’s a totally immersive experience unlike anything you’ve seen before. First Nation, “Falls Around Her” touches on some contemporary Indigenous issues but ism. Together they journey across the West —Entertainment Weekly at its core, the film is a story of one woman’s resilience as she regains her independence. Coast of B.C., weaving a story of learning, –TORONTO STAR —Now Toronto inspiration and resistance. 2019 SEASON OF GREAT CLASSIC THEATRE!

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apr 23 (6:45 & 9:10) Academy WINNER OF 4 apr 21 (12:30 Matinee, 3:00 & 7:00) apr 22 (7:00 Only) Award Nominee: Academy Awards Best including CAPERNAUM apr 24 & 25 (7:00 & 9:00) documentary apr 26 & 27 (3:00 matinee 6:45 & 9:20) BEST ACTOR! MARY POPPINS RETURNS Lebanon, 2018, 124 min, 14A, subtitles feature! Rob Marshall, USA, 2018, 131 min, rated G, CC Nadine Labaki’s film tells the story of Zain Cast: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Meryl Streep (Zain al Rafeea), a Lebanese boy who sues MINDING THE GAP BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY his parents for the “crime” of giving him life. Bing Lui, USA, 2018, 94 min, 14A Bryan Singer, USA, 2018, 135 min, PG Emily Blunt is practically perfect in every way in this sequel set 30 years after the first It follows this gutsy streetwise child as he sur- film. It’s a rapturous piece of nostalgia — a film that devotes itself, in every frame, to In a year of stellar documentaries, Minding the Gap takes its place with the cream of the A whirligig tour through Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek)’s rise, “Bohemian Rhapsody” vives through his wits on the streets and takes making you feel happy in the guileless way a movie still could back in 1964. —Variety crop. In his debut feature, Bing Liu started with 12 years of footage that he shot in his might have started out as an ode to the supernatural talent of one man. It ends as a care of Ethiopian refugee Rahil (Yordanos hometown of Rockford, Illinois, to trace the lives of his skateboarder buddies; what he testament to Queen, and simply how good they made their fans feel. —Washington Post Shiferaw) and her baby son. “Capernaum” ended with was a larger statement about the shifting definitions of what it means to be a “Emily Blunt is hypnotically charming in the year’s sweetest surprise— was made with a cast of non-professionals man. Weaving sensational boys-on-the-board footage as they try to negotiate the sharp There’s only praise to heap on Rami Malek whose tour de force performance as playing characters whose lives closely parallel turns and tumbles of their lives, Liu creates an unforgettable film experience that will a big-hearted contact high.” –Time Out their own. —Minneapolis Star-Tribune knock the wind out of you. —Rolling Stone Freddie Mercury will definitely rock you.” –Rolling Stone BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! 100% ON ROTTON TOMATOES!

WINNER OF 3 APR 30 (6:45 & 9:15) Academy Awards including BEST APR 28 (3:00, 5:00 & 7:00) APR 29 (7:00 & 9:00) GREEN BOOK PICTURE! May 1 & 2 (6:45 & 9:20) may 3 & 4 (7:00 & 9:00) Peter Farrelly, USA, 2018, “AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE MOVIE” “Gives you the sensation that you’ve been “This sweet, small film makes you 131 min, PG Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali are –San Francisco Chronicle transported right into the middle of history.” STAN & OLLIE smile most of the way through” masterful in this rousing period piece, APOLLO 11 –Rolling Stone Jon S. Baird, UK/Canada, 2018, rated 98 min, G, CC alternating belly laughs with an unflinching Jia Zhang-ke, China, 2018, 136 min, Mandarin with subtitles Todd Douglas Miller, USA, 2019, 93 min, rated G, CC Cast: Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly –Hollywood Reporter view of a nation at war with itself. It’s a In this love story, Jia Zhang-ke, the revered Chinese director (“Mountains May Depart”), Very few things really inspire a sense of slack-jawed wonder. But the NASA mission at Laurel & Hardy, one of the world’s great comedy teams, set out on a variety hall tour of true tale that happened in 1962. “Tony Lip” subtly distills nearly two decades of social change into the story of a small-town gangster the heart of this must-see documentary reminds you what it feels to be truly awestruck. Britain in 1953. Diminished by age and with their golden era as the kings of Hollywood Vallelonga (Mortensen) gets an unlikely gig and his moll. A beautiful marriage of the political and the personal, the movie opens with It allows you to experience the first moon landing, on July 20, 1969, in an entirely new comedy now behind them, they face an uncertain future. As the charm and beauty of their at the invitation of Don Shirley (Ali, superb), a Guo Bin (Liao Fan), a member of the underworld, running a mahjong parlor. But it’s Bin’s and intimate light. Assembled from a newly discovered archive of 65 mm footage, the performances shines through, they re-connect with their adoring fans. —Rose Theatre finicky black jazz pianist who requires a tough girlfriend, Qiao (), who magnetizes the camera’s attention. The film undergoes film looks so crisp and pristine, it feels like it was shot yesterday instead of a half-century driver to escort him on a tour of the Deep a series of thrilling narrative reversals but always keeps Qiao at the fore. “Ash” is fierce, ago... It’s, in a word, awesome. —Entertainment Weekly South. —Time Out gripping, emotionally generous and surprisingly funny. —Los Angeles Times

“A SUMPTUOUS FEAST FOR THE SENSES” –Cinemania may 7 (6:45 & 9:15) “WARMLY FUNNY” –Hollywood Reporter May 5 (5:00 & 7:00) May 6 (7:00 & 9:00) DEATH IN VENICE Luchino Visconti, Italy, 1971, 131 min May 8 & 9 (7:00 only) May 10 & 11 (7:00 & 9:00) Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this “An atmospheric mystery drama.” GIFT masterpiece is a meditation on the nature –The Guardian Robin McKenna, Canada, 2018, 90 minutes of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescap- SUNSET WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY Inspired by Lewis Hyde’s beloved classic The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern ability of death. A composer, Gustav von László Nemes, Hungary, 2018, 142 min, subtitles, PG Madeleine Olnek, USA, 2018, 84 minutes World, this a richly cinematic film, interweaving character-driven stories. On the Pacific Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde), travels to Venice. The latest from László Nemes (“Son of Saul”). In the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the early Writer/director Madeleine Olnek introduces a different side of beloved poet Emily Northwest Coast, a young indigenous man undertakes the preparations for a potlatch – There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty 1910s, immediately preceding the First World War, the enigmatic Írisz Leiter (Juli Jakab), Dickinson. Her popularized persona has been that of a spinster--a delicate flower. Olnek to make a name for himself by giving everything away. In Rome, a factory occupied by in the form of a boy named Tadzio (Björn while young and beautiful, carries the weight of the past with her. Visiting an elegant presents a more vivacious side to Emily (played beautifully by Molly Shannon) that migrants is transformed into a living museum. At Burning Man, a mutant bumblebee car Andrésen). With the sublime music of Gustav Budapest department store, she is immediately noticed. The store used to belong to utilizes comedy instead of drama to really hit the mark on sexism throughout history. distributes honey. Meanwhile, in New Zealand, an artist prepares a “transformative gift” of Mahler, this one of cinema’s most exalted Írisz’s parents. Her visit is a voyage back into her past and childhood. Nemes recreates The comedic tone is quickly established as we witness Emily and her best friend, Susan song. “Gift” is a tribute to something that can’t be bought or sold. It’s a reflection on the literary adaptations, as sensually rich as it is the pre-World War I era in all its sensual detail - the attention to high fashion and the art (Susan Ziegler) share a passionate kiss and tumble to the floor. Susan maintains her love creative process and a celebration of the imagination. allegorically resonant. —Criterion Collection of millinery here rivals those of “Phantom Thread.” —TIFF for Emily despite marrying Dickinson’s brother, Austin (Kevin Seal). —Birth. Movies. Death. Special Event! “Both spoofs rom-com conventions “Not much happens other than someone and embraces them.” staking her claim to joy. It’s a quiet little movie that speaks the truth like a clarion call.” –SEATTLE TIMES POST MAR 14 (7:00) Regular prices –Washington Post Presented by the Harry Rankin Film Society and the Social Environmental Alliance. May 12 (5:00 & 7:00) May 13 (7:00 & 9:00) May 15 & 16 (7:00 & 9:15) “MACABRE AND MIRTHFUL, MAY 17 & 18 (7:00 & 9:10) THE RANKIN FILE: AUTHENTIC AND ABSURD” ISN’T IT ROMANTIC TO DUST –tonymacklin.net GLORIA BELL Todd Strauss-Schulson, USA, 2019, 89 min, PG, CC LEGACY OF A RADICAL Shawn Snyder, USA, 2018, 105 min, PG Sebastián Lelio, USA, 2016, 102 min, 14A, CC A twist on the rom-com starring Rebel Wilson as Natalie, a New York architect whose A documentary investigation into the His searing performance in “Son of Saul” established Géza Röhrig overnight as a gifted The smile of Julianne Moore is one of the delights of modern cinema. Gloria is divorced, defensive attitudes about romance and rom-coms are nihilist at best. But thanks to a head colourful and sometimes controversial life dramatic actor, but who knew he could also be funny? In this screwball comedy about with two children. During the day, she works in insurance. Come evening, she likes to go injury, Natalie wakes up in a rom-com. The streets are spotless; a dashing investor (Liam of Vancouver lawyer, city councillor and death and mourning, he’s hapless, endearing, and more than a little nuts as an New York out for boogie nights. The writer/director is Sebastián Lelio, who made “Gloria” in 2013, Hemsworth) takes an instant shine to her. Her grouchy neighbor (Brandon Scott Jones) socialist icon Harry Rankin. Hasidic cantor plagued by nightmares about his recently deceased wife’s corpse decay- in his native Chile. Scenes are re-created afresh. Both Glorias yowl along to pop songs becomes her gay best friend and makeover montage maven. For Natalie, this overly Screening followed by panel discussion featuring ing in her grave. He badgers a burned-out community college science teacher (Matthew in their cars; both wear outsized spectacles; both attend classes in yoga and laughter shiny and beautiful world of dream dates is pure hell, but she realizes the only way out filmmaker Teresa Alfeld, lawyer Micah Rankin, Broderick, master of the double take) for some hard data as to when her rauch (soul) therapy….the final sight of her, lost in music, stirred me as if I had witnessed heroic deeds. is through — she’s got to love and be loved. “Isn’t It Romantic” walks the line between Saanich City Councillor Nathalie Chambers and is likely to return to God. Some cockamamie, quasi-scientific, and definitely not kosher Her smile is a badge of honor. —The New Yorker subversive and sendup. —Los Angeles Times Victoria City Council Ben Isitt. experiments ensue. —Chicago Reader

“A film stacked with stunning imagery, where the natural and mythical get tangled.” –NOW Magazine may 21 (7:00 Only) winner! Best Screenplay May 19 (5:00 & 7:00) May 20 (7:00 & 9:00) May 22 & 23 (7:00 & 9:00) Cannes Film THE MAGIC FLUTE Festival May 24 & 25 (6:45 & 9:20) Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1975, 135 min, “FARHADI’S STORYTELLING HAS EDGE OF THE KNIFE/ SGAAWAAY K’UUNA subtitles, G 3 FACES OVERPOWERING FORCE.” Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown, Canada, 2018, 100 min, 14A, Haida with subtitles This scintillating screen version of Mozart’s Jafar Panahi, Iran, 2018, 100 min, Persian, Azerbaijani, Turkish w/ subtitles EVERYBODY KNOWS beloved opera shows Ingmar Bergman’s deep Asghar Farhadi, Spain, 2018, 134 min, subtitles, PG –The Guardian Shot on Haida Gwaii, this 19th-century epic is a nod to the grand storytelling traditions Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s fourth feature since he was officially banned from knowledge of music and his gift for expressing Acclaimed Iranian director Asghar Farhadi (“A Separation”) turns his lens to Spain for that lure us to the big screen. The fact that it’s the first narrative scripted and shot in two it. Casting some of Europe’s finest soloists, the filmmaking is one of his very best. It begins with smartphone video shot by a young dialects of the endangered Haida language—which has only 20-odd fluent speakers left— woman (Marziyeh Rezaei) who announces to the camera that her parents have for- this drama about a mysterious kidnapping that stuns a close-knit family and starring director lovingly recreated a baroque theater real-life couple Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem. Cruz stars as a woman from Argentina also certifies it as a landmark work of cinema. Guilt-ridden after a tragic accident, Adiits’ii to stage this celebration of love, forgiveness, bidden her from realizing her dream of acting and then, by all appearances, takes her (Tyler York) retreats into the wilderness where he’s plagued by spirits and transformed own life. The recipient of the video, Behnaz Jafari, playing herself, asks Panahi, playing who brings her family to Spain for her sister’s wedding, only to have her eldest daughter and the brotherhood of man. Considered by abducted, leaving everyone a suspect. —The Bijou into Gaagiixid, the Haida Wildman. A riveting tale of survival and forgiveness unfolds. many to be the most exquisite opera film ever himself, to drive her to the woman’s tiny village near the Turkish border to investigate. —Vancouver International Film Festival made. —Criterion Collection —New York Film Festival

“A transcendent, spine-tingling, uplifting, utterly joyous experience.” –NPR “SMARTLY ENTERTAINING.” –Los Angeles Times May 26 (5:00 & 7:00 Dubbed version) May 27 (7:00 & 9:00 subtitled version) May 28, 29 & 30 (7:00 & 9:00) “A triumph of timeless artistry over transitory May 31 & June 1 (7:00 & 9:20) OKKO’S INN AMAZING GRACE: ARETHA FRANKLIN obstacles; its very existence is a secular miracle.” THE HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT Kitarō Kōsaka, Japan, 2018, 94 minutes Alan Elliott/Sydney Pollack, USA, 2018, 87 minutes –The New Yorker Kim Nguyen, Canada/Belgium, 2018, 111 min, 14A The latest feature from director Kitaro Kosaka, who was a key animator on classic films “Amazing Grace” is two days of Baptist church condensed to 90 minutes and injected directly into your soul. Shot in 1972 over a 48-hour Cousins from New York, Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton (Alexander Skarsgård) are at Studio Ghibli, blends immersive, idyllic landscapes with the storybook charm of period, this stirring document captured the live recording of the most successful gospel album in history, Aretha Franklin’s Amazing players in the high-stakes game of High-Frequency Trading, where winning is measured Okko’s beloved ghosts. After losing her parents in a car accident, Okko goes to live with Grace. At the height of her powers, with 11 number one singles and five Grammys to her credit, she returned to the environment and in milliseconds. Their dream? To build a straight fiber-optic cable line between Kansas and her grandmother, who runs a traditional Japanese inn. Okko soon discovers there are the music that honed her voice and nurtured her soul. The result became her biggest seller, earning a Grammy and quite possibly more New Jersey, making them millions. Constantly breathing down their necks is their old boss welcoming ghosts who keep her company and help her navigate her new environment. than a few conversions. This film is a powerful love letter to the Black Church, offering a soul-shaking introduction for the unfamiliar Eva (Salma Hayek), a powerful and manipulative trader who will stop at nothing to come Ultimately, Okko discovers that dedicating herself to others is the key to taking care of and a grandmotherly yank of the arm for those who know—it drags you from the theater straight into the pews. —RogerEbert.com between them and beat them at their own game. herself. —GKids

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