Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Winter Schedule 2006/2007

Dec 15 - 21 HEADING SOUTH Nightly at 7, Fri & Sat 7 & 9pm, Sun Matinee 3pm. NR 105min. D: Laurent Cantet. Set in the 1970’s and based on stories by Dany Laferriere; Charlotte Rampling, Karen Young, and Louise Portal head a group of single middle-aged women who travel to the Caribbean in winter for sun, fun, and romance. They desire the solicitous attention of attractive young Haitian men, and teenaged Legba (award-winning Menothy Cesar) is an especially prized companion for whom the women vie "A compact drama boiling over with political and sexual subtext, Heading South gives us yet another opportunity to soak up the wonder that is Charlotte Rampling.Robert W. Butler KANSAS CITY STAR

Dec 22 - 28 FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION Nightly at 7pm, Fri & Sat 7pm, Sun Mat at 3pm. PG13 84min. D: Christopher Guest. Christopher Guest turns the camera on Hollywood for his film, "For Your Consideration.” The film focuses on the making of an independent movie and its cast who become victims of the dreaded awards buzz. Like Guest's previous films, "Waiting For Guffman", "Best In Show" and "A Mighty Wind", this latest project features performances from his regular ensemble, including co-writer Eugene Levy. Truly, the level of tender, ruthless, inspired, lethally accurate study that has gone into the follicular expression of each and every character in Guest's latest hilarious cultural corrective is something inspiring to behold.Lisa Schwarzbaum ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

Dec 29 - Jan 4 FAST FOOD NATION Nightly at 7pm, Fri & Sat 7pm, Sun Mat at 3pm. R 156min. D:Richard Linklater. Greg Kinnear, Kris Kristofferson, Wilmer Valderama. When it was published in 2001, Fast Food Nation quickly became a New York Times bestseller, with its no-holds-barred, non-fiction exploration of "the dark side of the All-American meal.The movie is not a documentary, but a character study of the lives behind the facts and figures. Effectively balanced between the nonfiction muckraking of Eric Schlosser's bestselling exposé and the loosely structured character drama of Richard Linklater's adaptation, the film is fascinating food for thought.Colin Covert MINNESOTA STAR REVIEW

Jan 5 - 11 JESUS CAMP Nightly at 7pm, Fri & Sat 7pm, Sun Mat at 3pm. PG13 85min. D:Heidi Ewing. A growing number of Evangelical Christians believe there is a revival underway in America whereby Christian youth must take up the leadership of the conservative Christian movement. This film, a first-ever look into an intense training ground that recruits born-again Christian children to become an active part of America's political future, follows Pastor Becky Fischer's Kids on Fire summer camp in North Dakota, where kids as young as 6 years-old are taught to become dedicated Christian soldiers in God's army.Often funny (just listen to Becky fulminate against Harry Potter), but it's also a scary, sobering inside look at the attempts of an increasingly powerful group to erode the separation of church and state.Ann Hornaday WASHINGTON POST

Jan 12 - 18 STRANGER THAN FICTION Nightly at 7pm, Fri & Sat 7 & 9pm, Sun Mat at 3pm. PG13 117min. D:Marc Forster. Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman. One morning, IRS agent Harold Crick begins to hear a female voice narrating his every action, thought and feeling in alarmingly precise detail. Harold's carefully controlled life is turned upside down by this narration only he can hear, and when the voice declares that Harold Crick is facing imminent death, he realizes he must find out who is writing his story and persuade her to change the ending. Stranger Than Fiction is a meditation on life, art and romance, and on the kinds of responsibility we have. Such an uncommonly intelligent film does not often get made.Roger Ebert CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

Jan 19 - 25 SHUT UP AND SING. Nightly at 7pm, Fri & Sat 7 & 9pm, Sunday Matinee 3pm. R 99min. D:Barbara Kopple. Natalie Maines, Emily Robison, Marty Maguire. When a rabidly right-wing group picked up on an anti-Bush comment made at a London concert in 2003, the band the Dixie Chicks found themselves in the center of controversy regarding the nature of patriotism, freedom of speech, feminism, and the split between pro- and antiwar Americans. Through the crises, they keep their sense of humor and sisterhood, not backing down from their liberal stance, and turning the backlash into a triumph. They also make some great music, and the film includes plenty of riveting, intense footage of the band in performance onstage and in the studio. Going in with just a rudimentary knowledge of their music, by the time Natalie Maines utters one of the best closing lines of the year, I had never been so proud to be an American.Erik Childress eFILMCRITIC.COM

Jan 26 - Feb 1 VOLVER Nightly at 7pm, Fri & Sat 7 & 9pm, Sun Mat at 3pm. R 120min. D: Perdo Almodovar. Penelope Cruz, Carmen Manra. Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by means of goodness, lies and boundless vitality. Volver is not a surrealistic comedy although it may seem so at times. The living and the dead coexist without any discord, causing situations that are either hilarious or filled with a deep, genuine emotion. Pedro Almodóvar has made yet another picture that moves beyond camp into a realm of wise, luxuriant humanism.A.O. Scott NY TIMES

Feb 2 - 8 FLAG OF OUR FATHERS Nightly at 7pm, Fri & Sat 7 & 9:15pm, Sun Mat at 3pm. R 132min. D:Clint Eastwood. Jaime Bell, Ryan Phillippe. A human drama of friendship and love, sacrifice and manipulation, set against the violent conflict of the battle of Iwo Jima, director Clint Eastwood focuses on the images of war. "Flags of Our Fathers" shows how the famous AP photograph became the very beginning of celebrity worship, the film questions our need to create and celebrate heroes, sometimes at a cost. Flags of Our Fathers is a film of awesome power and blistering provocation.Peter Travers ROLLING STONE

Feb 9 - 15 BABEL Nightly at 7pm, Fri & Sat 7pm, Sun Mat at 3pm. R 142min. D:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt. BABEL reaches new heights of ambition with a tale that, in the absence of traditional narrative and protagonist, relies on numerous incredible performances to evoke an affecting relevance by framing contemporary issues in very human struggles and mistakes. The misunderstandings born of cultural, language, and class barriers are on par with those that occur between family members, depicting a world that, while connected in the least expected of ways, is also faced with a deep-seated crisis that threatens to alienate humanity from itself. The film explores the ways in which cultural assumptions and biases tend to obscure reality even when reality is plain, and the way our perceived differences keep us from finding a human connection to one other.Carina Chocano LA TIMES


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