SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY MAR 5 (7:00 & 9:00) MAR 7 & 8 (7:10 & 9:00) KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM THE SEVENTH SEAL MAR 9 & 10 KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM Director: Ingmar Bergman CRAZY WISDOM: THE LIFE AND TIMES (3:00 matinee, 7:00 & 10:00) PUSS IN BOOTS BABE Sweden, 1957, 96 min; Swedish with sub- titles; Blu-ray OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA, RINPOCHE MAR 4 (3:00 matinee, 7:00 & 9:15) THE GIRL WITH “ ! EXTRAORDINARY!” –The Guardian ***** Director: Johanna Demetrakas DOLBY STEREO Canada/USA, 2011, 89 min; Blu-ray PEOPLE OF Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece centres on a THE DRAGON meeting between a knight (Max Von Sydow) A FEATHER For most of us, the image of a Tibetan lama is that returning from the Crusades and Death (Bengt MAR 6 (7:10 & 9:00) TATTOO Director: Joel Heath Canada, 2011, 90 Ekerot). Cowled, pasty-faced and vaguely sar- of a serene monk with a shaven head; not that of Director: David Fincher USA, 2011, min; English Inuktitut with subtitles donic, Death is tricked into staying his scythe SON OF THE SUNSHINE a man with a modern haircut, dressed in an admi- 159 minutes; 18A ral’s uniform, smoking a cigar. Yet that was one of NOMINATED FOR 5 when Block challenges him to a game of chess. Director: Ryan Ward Cast: Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, the many guises of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, WINNER! Environmental Film Audience Award – Full of haunting, iconic images and a touch of Canada, 2009, 88 min; Blu-ray Christopher Plummer, Robin Wright, ACADEMY AWARDS CINEMAGIC MEMBERSHIP FEB–APR 2012 Vancouver International Film Festival hopeful humanity, The Seventh Seal is cinema the most memorable Tibetan teacher to leave his Stellan Skarsgard country in the 1950s after the Chinese occupation. including BEST ACTRESS, at its most artful, a philosophical meditation on “A gem of filmmaking genius.”-National Post $17.50 (HST included) “A BREATHTAKING JOURNEY!” –Now Trungpa became fluent in English, allowing him UVSS Students $5.60 the meaning(lessness) of this mortal coil. –BBCi “Sublime, heart-wrenching magic.”-Toronto Star You can’t take your eyes off Rooney BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY * Two complimentary tickets * Opportunity to purchase Magazine to shine intellectually at a time when many were Mara, who plays the notorious punk looking to the East for answers. He gained his big- * $6.50 ticket price for you + guest Member 10 Film Discount Pass Special for UVSS students Sonny Johnns (Ryan Ward), a young man with hacker Lisbeth Salander in the American & BEST EDITING! Please see March 2-3 for gest audience in the US, where he founded Naropa Institute, the first Buddhist university, in Boulder, movie version of Stieg Larsson’s page- * Annual schedule subscription 9pm shows (or later) $2.75 Tourette Syndrome, spends his savings from Colorado, where luminaries such as Allen Ginsberg, Robert Thurman and Ram Dass came to teach. description. years of disability payments to undergo an turner. Slender, sheathed in black leather, Almost 25 years after his death, filmmaker Joanna Demetrakas is able to tell Trungpa’s story with more with short ebony hair, Mara cuts through scene after scene like a swift, dark blade. A good Seniors, Children (12 & under) $5.60 experimental procedure that promises to eradi- objectivity than would have been possible while he was alive. Along with archival footage of key figures cate his symptoms. Sonny soon discovers that part of the movie is set on a private island controlled by the Vanger clan, a wealthy Swedish like Pema Chodron, Demetrakas interviews a number of students, who now take a mostly positive view family peopled with criminals, perverts, solitaries, exiles, dead Nazis, and one grieving old man the surgery has somehow smothered an amaz- of the controversial aspects of Trungpa’s life. In the long and rich history of Tibetan Buddhism, his Other Students $6.50 ing supernatural gift he has had all his life: the (Christopher Plummer) who has never got over the disappearance of his grandniece, forty years outrageous “crazy wisdom” teaching style was a bona fide tradition, but perhaps not one that fit our earlier... –The New Yorker Student Union Building, UVic uncanny ability to heal the sick and the dying. preconceptions of Buddhist teachers. –Vancouver International Film Festival Cinemagic Members $6.50 CINECENTA FILMS is a non-profit division of the University of Victoria Students’ Society, conceived as an inexpensive alternative for students, the University commu- KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM MAR 16 & 17 MARCH 14 & 15 (7:15 only) nity and the public. The theatre is in the Student Union Building at UVic. The follow- KIDS (3:00 matinee, 7:15 & 9:00) and guests (1 only) of above $6.50 PUSS IN BOOTS ing buses come to UVic: 4, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 26, 29, 33, 39, 51, 80. MATINEES 1 PM Non-members $7.75 MAR. 12 & 13 ONCE UPON CARNAGE The university charges a fee of $2.25 for parking on campus after 6pm and all day on THE MUPPETS MAR 11 (3:00 matinee, 7:00 & 9:00) Director: Roman Polanski France/Germany, Saturdays. There is no charge for parking on Sundays and holidays. Matinees $4.75 MAR 12 A TIME IN (7:00 & 9:00) 2011, 80 minutes; PG Cast: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Tickets and memberships go on sale 40 minutes before showtime. TEN FILM DISCOUNT PASS MY WEEK WITH MARILYN ANATOLIA Waltz, John C. Reilly Please arrive early to avoid disappointment. Director: Simon Curtis UK/USA, 2011, 98 min; PG UVSS Students, Seniors $50.00 Cast: Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie “Think ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,’ but then All films are in English, or with English subtitles where noted. Films are 35mm Redmayne, Judi Dench, Julia Ormond think fun.” –Philadelphia Inquirer prints unless otherwise indicated. $57.50 MAR 13 (7:15 & 9:00) Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Unavailable to non-members.) NOMINATED FOR 2 ACADEMY AWARDS: BEST Turkey, 2011, 150 minutes; Turkish with subtitles; Blu-ray A four-hander adapted from Yasmina Reza’s Tony-award winning Broadway play. Roman 24-hour info Line: 250-721-8365 Cinecenta office: 250-721-8364 ACTRESS – MICHELLE WILLIAMS & BEST PEACE OUT Polanski modulates body language and escalating vocabulary to show two affluent New SUPPORTING ACTOR – KENNETH BRANAGH Director: Charles Wilkinson Canada, A metaphysical road movie about life, death and the limits of knowledge. It was directed York couples meeting to discuss a run-in between their sons, and find themselves 2011, 80 minutes; DVD by the Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan, whose earlier movies include “Distant” and KIDS embroiled in their own run-in. Juicy performances by Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Yes, Michelle Williams can play Marilyn Monroe. She has “Three Monkeys” and who in recent years has emerged as one of the consistently most Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly. –Roger Ebert Cinecenta’s program is subject to change without notice. To avoid disappointment, Manager: Lisa Sheppard the walk, the sexual sweetness, and the hurt, lost look. This award-winning documentary on the costs of exciting directors on the international scene. His latest, which shared the grand prize MATINEES 1 PM please check our 24-hour phone line or website for the most up-to-date information. Programmer: Michael Hoppe This charming and touching production is at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, takes the unassuming form of a police investigation energy extraction in North Western Canada is a MAR. 16, 17, 18 MAR 16 & 17 (10:45pm) separate admission Design: Marc Junker based on two memoirs by a young long, hard look at our technological affluence and that, as miles and words mount, evolves into a plangent, visually stunning meditation Daily Show Info: 250-721-8365 cinecenta.com man (Eddie Redmayne) who its price. We hear from climate change experts, on what it is to be human. The story is direct, if the journey less so. A man has been THE MUPPETS THE BIG LEBOWSKI became Laurence Olivier’s energy policy scholars and business profession- murdered, and a small battalion — a doctor, a prosecutor, a few policemen, several Directors: Joel & Ethan Coen USA, 1998, 117 min; DVD assistant in 1956, when als. This is a generously inquisitive film, made soldiers, diggers with shovels — has invaded the countryside with the suspect to dig The Dude abides! When Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is mistaken for a mil- Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) with an open mind and a fierce sense of com- up the body. The trouble is that the accused claims to have been drunk when he com- lionaire, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt. was directing and act- mitted the murder and can’t remember where he buried the body. And so off the men go mitment. It’s these two qualities that combine to And it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists FEB. 25 & 26 ing in “The Prince and the make its conclusion so powerfully convincing. driving up and down the sensuous, rolling hills of Anatolia…The dead haunt “Once Upon a want something from The Dude. With John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Showgirl”. –The New Yorker –Vancouver International Film Festival Time in Anatolia,” but so does beauty. –The New York Times John Turturro, Julianne Moore. ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED 88 minutes; rated G MAR 21 & 22 (7:10 & 9:15) MAR. 3 & 4 MARCH 18 (3:00 matinee, 7:00 & 9:00) MAR 23 (3:00 matinee, 7:10 & 9:15) KIDS MATINEE SAT/SUN 1 PM MARCH 19 & 20 (7:00 & 9:00) MAR 24 (1:00, 3:10, 7:10, 9:15) BABE SHAME MAR 24 & 25 92 minutes; rated G Director: Steve McQueen UK, 2011, 102 minutes; 18A ADVENTURES OF TINTIN The utterly charming 1995 fable about a barn- A DANGEROUS Cast: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan yard pig that doesn’t seem to fit in.