sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM OCT 5 & 6 (7:00 & 9:10) OCT 7 & 8 (3:00 matinee & 7:10 & 9:10) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM KUNG FU PANDA 2 OCT 4 (7:15 & 9:00) CARS 2 back by popular SNOW FLOWER LIFE IN A DAY OCT 2 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:15) demand! Director: Kevin Macdonald AND THE SECRET USA/UK, 2011, 96 minutes; PG OCT 3 (7:00 & 9:15) MARION FAN “A PROFOUND ACHIEVEMENT.” THE TRIP WOODMAN: Director: Wayne Wang –Washington Post Director: Michael Winterbottom DANCING IN China/USA, 2011, 105 min; PG UK, 2010, 112 minutes; PG “A FASCINATING GLIMPSE OF THE WAY WE THE FLAMES Cast: Li Bingbing, Gianna Jun LIVE TODAY.” –Empire “TERRIFIC!” –San Francisco Chronicle Director: Adam Reid Like Wayne Wang’s The Joy Luck Club, “EARTHY AND AT TIMES EUPHORIC!” Canada, 2009, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan enters “LACED WITH LACERATING LAUGHS!” –Los Angeles Times –The New York Times 86 minutes; DVD the world of women with complete open- ness to its sensory sights and sounds, its “SERVES AS A FINE TIME CAPSULE.” What if life and death are In The Trip, Michael Winterbottom (Tristram codes of behavior, secrets of the heart –The A.V. Club Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story)’s riotous and not divided against each other but are instead and sturdiness of the soul. It does this resplendent road movie, two of Britain’s comedy titans face off in an epic match of dueling impressions. part of a mysterious, harmonious whole? That’s through parallel stories, one set in con- “A TESTAMENT TO THE MESSY JOY OF Does Steve Coogan, the acerbic, hangdog star of 24 Hour Party People, do a better Michael Caine? Does the thesis of this enlightening documentary about temporary Shanghai and the other taking EXISTENCE!” –Time Out New York Rob Brydon, stocky, spry, and much loved in his homeland for his hit BBC series, do the more nuanced spiritual intellectual Marion Woodman. A Jungian place in 19th century Hunan province in Sean Connery as James Bond? It’s a relentless and relentlessly funny game of one-upmanship as the analyst, author and educator, she’s renowned for central China. Sometimes the switches in This compilation of several hundred home videos, two men, playing somewhat exaggerated versions of themselves, roam the hills and dales, posh inns and her contributions to feminist thought, the study of time and use of the same two actresses all shot on July 24, 2010, and submitted by citizens poetic ruins of England’s Lake District. The Trip was originally shot for British television and reedited as addiction, and the endeavour to join spirituality with playing roles a century-and-a-half apart around the globe, is so freshly edited, the clips so a rambling but illuminating odyssey that has as much to do with friendship as it does with celebrating professional psychology. This inspiring documentary are awkward. But so strong are the emo- free of the usual YouTube Stupid Human Tricks coy- the comedic chops of its two stars. The jokes, the riffing, the almost scary channeling of Richard Burton radiates passion and intellectual curiosity - indeed, tions — and, yes, the melodrama — that Snow Flower represents one of Wayne Wang’s best films to ness, that it’s easy to get addicted to its clear-eyed and Anthony Hopkins, Al Pacino and Woody Allen, will throw you into paroxysms - but Winterbottom it’s about the essential link between the two. As a date. Based partially on Lisa See’s 2005 novel, the film begins by introducing the concept of “laotong,” a celebration of the rituals and dislocating comedy isn’t merely playing it for laughs. By the end, when Coogan and Brydon have returned to their respective thinker, Woodman draws on religion and myth to contractual arrangement between women, even from different classes, that makes them sworn sisters for of life in the 21st century. It’s our equivalent of that London abodes (Brydon to a loving wife, Coogan to no one), The Trip is awash in a kind of cathartic mel- explain the mind; hers is a philosophy of dynamic life. Everything about the period story speaks to women’s oppression in the near feudal society of provincial ‘80s art-film kaleidoscope Koyaanisqatsi. What’s ancholy…If anything, The Trip, the second time around, is even funnier. –Philadelphia Inquirer opposites. --Vancouver International Film Festival China. The contemporary Shanghai women are seen as cosmopolitan English-speakers rising to the top of transporting about Life in a Day is that it’s so much corporations and having their choice of men…. --The Hollywood Reporter warmer and less abstract. –Entertainment Weekly KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM OCT 12 & 13 (7:00 & 9:00) OCT 14 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:30) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM CARS 2 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4 PROJECT NIM OCT 15 (3:40 matinee & 7:00 & 9:30) OCT 9 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:00) Director: James Marsh CAPTAIN AMERICA: OCT 10 & 11 (7:00 & 9:00) USA, 2011, 101 minutes; PG THE FIRST AVENGER THE FUTURE This trenchant documentary by James Director: Joe Johnston Director: Miranda July Marsh (Man on Wire) exposes the fool- USA, 2011, 124 minutes; PG ishness of our tendency to anthropomor- USA, 2011, 92 minutes; PG Cast: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Stanley Tucci, phize animals. In 1973 a baby chimpan- Hayley Atwell, Tommy Lee Jones Cast: Miranda July, Hamish Linklater zee called Nim was torn from its mother The Future begins as a floppy little drama about a couple of at a primate research lab in Oklahoma to “A THRILL RIDE.” –Portland Oregonian limp-flower thirtysomethings who, cocooned in their thrift-shop- become the subject—and media star— furnished L.A. apartment, dither about whether they’re adult of a Columbia University study in lan- “OLD-FASHIONED PULP FUN!” enough to adopt an ailing cat. The movie ends in a deep and guage development. A surrogate mother, –Entertainment Weekly extraordinary demonstration of how the world spins forward, Stephanie LaFarge (the former lover of Certainly the most stylish comics-derived enter- whether we’re ready or not. In between, this daring, singular proj- project head Herbert Terrace), took the tainment of the year. This is the fifth film in the ect blithely risks accusations of cutesiness: The movie is framed infant chimp into her Manhattan apart- interconnected Marvel comics universe, wherein by narration from Paw Paw, the cat in question (voiced by the ment and reared it as part of her own the whole gang — Captain America, Iron Man, movie’s writer-director-star, Miranda July), with only those witty- large family, teaching it to communicate the Hulk and Thor— will come together to form bitty paw-paws visible. through sign language for the deaf. But LaFarge’s resistance to strict scientific protocol resulted in Nim being relocated to a sprawling estate in Riverdale, and its signing ability increased rapidly under the tutelage a boy band next May in “The Avengers.” The The Future belongs to Sophie (July), who teaches dance to little kids while dreaming of sharing her own choreography with a YouTube audience, and to her of undergraduate Laura-Ann Petitto (who would also become romantically involved with Terrace). Sexual movie takes its mythology seriously without boyfriend, Jason (The New Adventures of Old Christine’s marvelous Hamish Linklater), who would like to grow up to be maybe, oh, a world leader but meanwhile politics, family dynamics, the debate over heredity versus environment, and the dubious ethics of scientific choking on it. Director Johnston knows and loves provides tech support from his home phone. As she did in her striking 2005 debut, Me and You and Everyone We Know, July creates a fluid cinematic universe, research on animals are rigorously explored in this ambitious, bittersweet work. –Chicago Reader the story’s period; he brings a zest for retro detail flexible enough to embrace the artist’s favorite interests; she weaves in performance art and Internet culture (the couple are glued to their laptops). And she cre- in the service of an early 1940s story dealing in ates perfect images of supernatural everydayness. In The Future, everything is possible. --Entertainment Weekly I’ll be forever grateful to this movie for introducing me to Nim’s story, a tale so powerful and sugges- Nazis and World War II. --Chicago Tribune tive that it functions as a myth about the ever-mysterious relationship between human beings and “The magical, metaphorical strain in ‘The Future’ is what makes it powerful, unsettling and strange, as well as charming.” –The New York Times animals. –Dana Stevens, Slate KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM OCT 21 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:15) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4 OCT 18, 19, 20 Antimatter Film Festival www.antimatter.ws • 250 385 3327 HARRY POTTER 8 OCT 22 (3:30 matinee & 7:00 & 9:15) OCT 16 TUES, OCT 18 WED, OCT 19 THURS, OCT 20 FRIENDS WITH (3:40 matinee 7pm Songs 7pm The Ballad 7pm Everyday BENEFITS & 7:00 & 9:00) from the Nickel of Genesis & Sunshine: The Director: Will Gluck OCT 17 (7:00 & 9:00) Alina Skrzeszewska, Story of Fishbone USA, 2011, 110 minutes; 14A USA/Germany, 83min Lady Jaye Marie Losier, USA/France, 72min Lev Anderson & Chris Metzler, Cast: Mila Kunis, Justin Timberlake, Patricia Clarkson, Richard Jenkins THE TREE Stories from an invisible Los Angeles: an intimate USA, 107min Director: Julie Bertuccelli portrait of people who found their home in the An intimate, affecting portrait of A documentary about the band Fishbone, musical “SEXY!” –The Hollywood Reporter “IT WORKS LIKE A CHARM.” –Boston Globe France/Australia, 2010, rhythms of street life and cheap downtown hotels.