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sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM JAN 18 (7:00 & 9:15) JAN 19 (7:00 only) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM THE PRINCESS BRIDE JAN 20 (3:00 matinee, 7:00 & 9:40) REAL STEEL SPECIAL EVENT! JAN 21 (3:25 matinee, 7:00 & 9:40) TOUS LES MATINS DU Director Charles JAN 15 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 only) Wilkinson & natural J. EDGAR MONDE gas fracking expert JAN 16 & 17 (7:00 & 9:35) Director: Alain Corneau France, 1991, 115 min; Director: Clint Eastwood Ben Parfitt will be USA, 2011, 137 minutes; PG French with subtitles; PG in attendance for a Cast: Leonard DiCaprio, Armie MELANCHOLIA Q&A session after Director: Lars von Trier Denmark/Sweden, 2011, 136 minutes; PG Cast: This vibrantly beautiful film, about two seventeenth- Hammer, Judi Dench, Naomi the screening. Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgard, century composers who played the viol (cello), toys Watts Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt cleverly with history in the manner of Amadeus. Gerard Depardieu stars as Marais, a dissolute musi- PEACE Say this for Leonardo DiCaprio: “ONE OF THE MOST SPECTACULAR SCREEN ACHIEVEMENTS OF RECENT cian looking back on his youth. The teen Marais — He doesn’t scare off easy from YEARS! GORGEOUS. PROFOUNDLY EMOTIONAL.” –Salon the actor’s son, Guillaume Depardieu, is sensational OUT acting challenges. In J. Edgar, — studies with a stern and reclusive master, Sainte DiCaprio ages from his twenties “A SPECTACLE IMPOSSIBLE TO TURN AWAY FROM. MONUMENTALLY Director: Charles Colombe (Jean-Pierre Marielle). Seduced by the Wilkinson Canada, to his seventies to play America’s AMBITIOUS!” –The Village Voice glamour of the king’s court, the ambitious student 2011, 80 minutes feared and loathed top cop. And ultimately rejects Sainte Colombe’s disipline. It’s the despite being buried in layers WINNER! BEST ACTRESS – Kirsten Dunst – Cannes Film Festival music that gives wings to this rueful tale of art, love This award winning of prosthetic latex, DiCaprio is and loss. –Rolling Stone documentary on the costs of energy extraction in a roaring wonder in the role. He A movie masterpiece. Lars von Trier’s ecstatic magnum opus on the themes of The restlessly creative Danish filmmaker behind Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, North Western Canada is a long, hard look at our needs to be. Until his death in depression, cataclysm, and the way the world might end. The title describes and Antichrist is known to have survived a black depression himself. But here technological affluence and its price. We hear from 1972, J. Edgar Hoover ruled the the mounting sadness and doom pressing down on Justine (Kirsten Dunst, he sets aside all trickster impulses of provocation to create striking visual tab- climate change experts, energy policy scholars and Federal Bureau of Investigation who deservedly took home a 2011 award at the Cannes Film Festival for her leaux that, in their majestic simplicity, convey a profound emotional depth that business professionals. This is a generously inquisi- like a bulldog no one would dare magnificent work), a mood-swinging bride on her wedding day. Justine is transcends words. The filmmaker blends the grand romanticism of Wagnerian tive film, made with an open mind and a fierce sense leash. For half a century Hoover attended to by her protective sister, Claire (a soulful Charlotte Gainsbourg), and music — specifically the famous prelude from Tristan und Isolde — with of commitment. It’s these two qualities that combine nosed into private lives to control his enemies, and some friends. But Hoover had secrets too, and worried over by her bewildered groom (Alexander Skarsgard). But in von Trier’s swooning dreamscape cinematography that magically melts sight and sound to make its conclusion so powerfully convincing. now acclaimed director Clint Eastwood and Oscar-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black are imagined galaxy, Melancholia is also the name of a planet that is hurtling on a into one. (Von Trier has said that Antonioni, Bergman, and Tarkovsky are among –Vancouver International Film Festival doing the nosing around. –Rolling Stone catastrophic collision course with Earth — a cosmic manifestation of that same his influences.) So please, please, for the love of movies, watch this stunner on crushing sadness, discovered through a telescope’s eye by Claire’s astronomer the biggest screen available. It’s a giant achievement. –Entertainment Weekly husband (Kiefer Sutherland). KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM JAN 25 (7:10 & 9:00) JAN 27 & 28 (3:00 matinee, 7:10 & 9:00) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM REAL STEEL JAN 24 (7:00 & 9:40) LABYRINTH back by popular demand JAN 26 (7:10 only) SPECIAL EVENT! back by popular demand! JAN 22 (3:25 matinee, 7:00 & 9:20) THE HELP On Jan. 26th, there will be a panel CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS JAN 23 (7:00 & 9:20) Director: Tate Taylor USA, 2011, 137 min; PG discussion with four experts in the Director: Werner Herzog Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Emma fields of feminism, anti-racism, politics Canada/USA, 2010, 90 minutes; rated G Stone, Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain TAKE SHELTER and popular culture. German filmmaker Werner Herzog petitioned the Director: Jeff Nichols USA, 2011, 122 minutes; PG Based on the bestseller by Kathryn Stockett. French government for an unprecedented chance to Cast: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain Skeeter, a southern society girl, turns her friends’ MISS REPRESENTATION film inside the Chauvet cave of southeastern France. lives--and a small 1960s Mississippi town--upside Chauvet, the most recently discovered and by far the “A MOVIE FOR THIS MOMENT IN TIME, THIS MOMENT IN Director: Jennifer Siebel Newsom down when she decides to interview the black oldest of the great Paleolithic cave-painting sites of OUR LIVES.” –Philadelphia Inquirer USA, 2011, 90 min; DVD; PG women who have spent their lives taking care Western Europe, has been visited only by a small With a 256-billion-dollar advertising industry as its main group of scholars since it was found in 1994. Herzog “TAUT, UNSETTLING, HAUNTING AND POWERFUL.” of prominent southern families. Along the way, opponent, Miss Representation wants to challenge the descended into the cave to give the rest of the world –Washington Post unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges. representation of women in modern American culture. what may be the closest look we will ever get at some of the world’s earliest works of art. The According to the documentary, the media’s foremost “THIS IS MASTERFUL FILMMAKING.” –Roger Ebert resulting movie is itself a work of art—one that partakes, across imponderable millennia of remove, message is that a woman’s value is to be measured by in some of the uncanny beauty and mystery of these caves. If you’re interested in the history of the HHHH! This story of a man afflicted with fearful visions is her youth and beauty, making it difficult for young girls human race—if you’re a member of the human race—you owe it to yourself to see this movie. --Slate hitting the right apocalyptic trumpet call at the right time. to reach their full potential and women to reach posi- Fresh from festivals at Sundance, Cannes and Toronto, tions of power. The consequences are becoming notice- this well-crafted work resonates with the Doomsday eco- able: The US currently ranks 90th in the world in electing JAN 27 & 28 (11pm) separate admission nomic and environmental scenarios and the fear-mongering hyperbole of the airwaves. Michael Shannon or appointing women to government roles. Actress- (Revolutionary Road, Boardwalk Empire), an actor whose features seem so carved in granite that every turned-director Jennifer Siebel Newsom put together THE ROOM grimace feels potentially seismic. He plays Curtis, an Ohio construction worker who’s treading water an impressive array of women to share their own experi- Dir: Tommy Wiseau USA, 2003, 99 min; DVD; 14A financially. He’s a gentle, clumsy father to his hearing-impaired six-year-old daughter. He’s also the bread- ences with sexualization, among them, feminist icons Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda, and politicians like winner for his wife (Jessica Chastain). Curtis’s life may be in trouble. In the film’s eerie prologue, we see Condoleezza Rice and Nancy Pelosi. Miss Representation doesn’t shy away from the role women them- This has become an instant cult classic. You have to see it to believe it! Share with an audience your him standing outside his home, staring at the ominous cloud formations while the wind whips through the selves play in this phenomenon, nor the media’s double standard when dealing with female politicians. gasps of disbelief as you watch. Tommy Wiseau wrote, directed and stars in this dramatic travesty. trees….. --The Globe and Mail —Vancouver International Film Festival When audiences and critics laughed at the results, Wiseau shifted gears and called it a black com- edy. You be the judge. If you can stop laughing long enough. KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM LABYRINTH JAN 31 (7:10 & 9:00) FEB 1 & 2 (7:00 & 9:00) FEB 3 & 4 PUSS IN BOOTS See also Feb. 1 & 2 THE SWELL SEASON (3:00 matinee, 7:00 & 9:20) JAN 29 Directors: Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins & Carlo Mirabella-Davis ONCE Ireland/USA, 2011, 91 minutes; Blu-ray THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN (3:00 matinee, 7:00 & 9:20) Director: John Carney JAN 30 (7:00 & 9:20) Ireland, 2006, 87 min; DVD; PG The Swell Season almost feels like a sequel to the 2006 Irish indie musical Once (see Jan. 31), if the – PART 1 In John Carney’s amiable folk-pop musical medita- two main characters did get together and form a band.