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sunday
monday
KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM
wednesday
JAN 18 & 19 (7:00 & 9:10)
LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS
Director: Mark Romanek (UK/USA, 2010, 104 minutes; PG)
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Alex Garland
Here’s a sci-fi story with the seductive allure of a classic
romance. In filming Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, director Mark
Romanek maintains the fragile mystery with a cinematic pull all his own. The children at a British boarding school are being raised in what appears to be a parallel universe for a special mission they barely
understand. One of them, Kathy, played with implosive grit and grace by the astonishing Carey Mulligan
(An Education), narrates the tale, telling us what happens when she and her friends — Tommy (Andrew
Garfield, Social Network), whom Kathy loves, and Ruth (a quicksilver Keira Knightley), who steals him
from her — join the others in “the Cottages.” The melancholy attached to the impermanence of life and
love suffuses this film, making it memorably haunting and hypnotic. –Rolling Stone
separate admission
FIGHT CLUB
Director: David Fincher (USA, 1999, 138 min; 18A) Cast: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt,
Helena Bonham Carter
A cynical, white-collar insomniac (Edward Norton) finds everything he is not in Brad Pitt who plays the
confident inventor of a macho basement slugfest ritual and the author of a personal code that has the
appeal of a religious cult. Fight Club delivers a sucker punch to the audience. It is sensational. It is also
grimly funny. –San Francisco Chronicle
The English pastoral life gets an exquisite send-up in veteran director Stephen Frears’ hugely pleasing adaptation of a graphic novel by Posy
Simmonds—itself a modern riff on Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd. Set in bucolic Dorset, at or near a writers’ retreat run by Nicholas
Hardiment (Roger Allam) and his long-suffering wife, Beth (Tamsin Greig), who does most of the pampering of guests. This arrangement gives Nicholas,
a best-selling hack, plenty of time for “mentoring” female fans. Currently, Beth has been getting her own quiet attention from a Hardy scholar (Bill
Camp).
Into this already pretty kettle flops the title character (Gemma Arterton), who left the mansion next door and now shows up with a swinging career as a
magazine journalist. Her sudden return is observed with keen interest by the retreat’s frequently bare-chested handyman (Luke Evans) and with vicious
scorn by two local kids (Jessica Barden and Charlotte Christie, both terrific).
Director: Stanley Kubrick (USA, 1980, 119 min; BluRay; 18A)
Director: Olivier Assayas
(France/Germany, 2010, 165 min; Various
languages with subtitles; 14A)
“A
TOUR-DE-FORCE
CINEMATIC
BIOGRAPHY!” --The Globe and Mail
Director: Michael Ostroff (Canada, 2010, 87 min; DVD; rated G)
This is a must-see - possibly one of the best films ever made about our province, these forests, and our history as newcomers. Few of us were as sensitive as Emily Carr, and no one has interpreted this place more
profoundly in their art. Hats off to director Michael Ostroff, cinematographer John Walker, and everyone
involved in this project; it is, for us, a very important story well-told, and surely for everyone, a sight to behold.
Subtitled Emily Carr, Carvers, and the Spirits of the Forest, the project was to make “a filmic journey into
the deep brooding mystery and inner beauty of Emily Carr’s paintings - a lyrical, luminescent and entertaining impression of the life of Carr and her connection to the First Nations people of the Northwest Coast.”
Shot in Super 16mm film in Haida Gwai, Victoria and Vancouver, details of Carr’s paintings are folded into
haunting images of our coastal landscapes, and fresh archival material. On a cinema screen, there is a
spiritual intensity in the bright fauvist extravagance emerging from the deep, dark and often wet shadows.
This is indeed British Columbia, but as reflected in critical - not promotional - eyes. Incisive commentary
by art historians Gerta Moray and Susan Crean, art critic Marcia Crosby and museum curator Laurel Smith
Wilson, represents in person the interweaving of aboriginal and Western sensibilities that the film dramatizes.
–Vancouver International Film Festival
Although his body count is quite modest
by contemporary standards, Ilich Ramírez
Sánchez remains the world’s only celebrity terrorist. The Venezuelan-born “Carlos”
was the perfect Cold War villain. Known for
blasting his way out of a Paris ambush and
tossing a grenade into a crowded café, this
Communist playboy began to be noticed. It was in 1975, however, that he really “made his bones”. First, he
attacked the OPEC conference in Vienna, kidnapping a slew of the world’s oil ministers after causing three
deaths. Then he flew his hostages to one Arab capital after another before allegedly receiving a whopping
great ransom in return for their release. After that, his violent career continued for decades, but he was
now a mysterious presence lurking in the shadows, not a high-profile triggerman. Finally, he was captured
in Khartoum and imprisoned in France…French director Olivier Assayas was so taken by this story that he
made not one but two films. The first was a 330-minute epic that was originally meant to be shown in three
parts. The second is a 160-minute condensation of same in which events occur in a more linear manner.
Happily, this distillation in no way results in a diminution of Carlos’s on-screen power. As we travel from
country to country, from attack to attack, we rediscover an underworld that has only recently vanished. The
pace is superfast, and star Edgar Ramírez turns in an intense performance. Quite simply, biopics don’t
get any better than this. --Georgia Straight
Presented in partnership with the Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery. Limited edition prints of Emily Carr’s 1939 painting Happiness ($60, tax included) will be on sale in
the lobby.
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall
Stanley Kubrick’s chilling version of the Stephen King novel. All work and no play makes Jack a dull
boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work
and no play makes Jack a dull boy…
CARLOS
WINDS OF HEAVEN
separate admission
THE SHINING
Sponsored by UVic Greens Club
Back by popular demand!
No one above is thrilled when Tamara hooks up with a hot indie rocker (Dominic Cooper) the girls
already fancy like mad. They have their own ideas about how stories should play out. Still, the spirit of
Agatha Christie is the heaviest authorial presence; with so many novelists gathered in one place, it’s
only a matter of time until someone gets killed, published, or both. --Georgia Straight
JAN 21 & 22 (9:15 only)
JAN 26 & 27 (7:15 only)
JAN 23 (3:45 matinee & 7:10 & 9:00)
JAN 24 & 25 (7:10 & 9:00)
KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
“A hugely exuberant black comedy, unfolding over four scenic seasons at a writer’s retreat set in a rose-strewn English village.” –NPR
“Inside Job insists on a kind of
revolution, as many such documentaries do. But this is one
of the few with the goods to
send you rioting in the streets.”
--Boston Globe
KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM
saturday
Director: Stephen Frears (UK, 2010, 112 minutes; PG) Cast: Gemma Arterton, Roger Allam, Tamsin Grieg, Dominic Cooper, Luke Evans
This will probably be the most high-profile and important film on the recent financial crisis. Charles Ferguson
(No End in Sight) makes the dizzying complexities - and who’s to blame - explicitly clear in riveting and angering fashion. You will not believe what you will hear spoken. The end result of the film’s precise and careful analysis is that the financial crisis of 2007-10, a series of events that gave rise to losses in the trillions of dollars and
kicked the world economy into the worst financial disaster since the Great Depression, could have been avoided. Ferguson aims his smoking gun directly at de-regulation, a practice that effectively removed all barriers to
corruption and exploitation, and paved the way for a fiscal free-for-all. Matt Damon provides suitably wry, even
acidic commentary, on the proceedings, but it is Ferguson himself who proves one of the most astute critics
of the campaign to defraud people of their money. In a series of interviews, the filmmaker pins wiggling financiers to the wall with well-informed and searingly precise arguments. Scenes of bankers, government officials
and corporate sharks asking that
the cameras be turned off, under
the force of Ferguson’s intelligent
and angry assault, are a joy to
behold. –Vancouver International
Film Festival
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
friday
TAMARA DREWE
Director: Charles Ferguson (USA, 2010, 110 min; PG)
NEVER LET ME GO
thursday
JAN 20 (7:00 & 9:15) JAN 21 (3:00 matinee & 7:00) JAN 22 (3:45 matinee & 7:00)
INSIDE JOB
JAN 16 (3:00 matinee & 7:00)
JAN 17 (7:00 only)
JAN 16 & 17 (9:00 only)
tuesday
JAN 28 & 29 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:10)
CONVICTION
KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM
FANTASTIC MR. FOX
Director: Tony Goldwyn (USA, 2010, 108 minutes; 14A) Cast: Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell,
Minnie Driver, Melissa Leo, Juliette Lewis
Hilary Swank has a jaw built for gumption, and all her best characters make use of that interesting
stubbornness. Betty Anne Waters, the remarkable real-life crusader at the heart of this well-made
biopic is a worthy addition. Convinced that her beloved brother, Kenny (Sam Rockwell), was innocent of the murder charge for which he received a life sentence in 1983, Betty Anne worked for 18
years to free him. And she did. It’s how she did that makes this story so powerful, a tale of justice
served told with respectful restraint. Betty Anne, a working-class mother and dropout, stepped up
to put herself through law
school so she could represent the despondent
Kenny. The casting is
choice: The ever-magnetic
Sam Rockwell is Kenny,
Minnie Driver is full of
beans as Betty Anne’s
best friend, Melissa Leo is
wicked good as an ornery
cop, and Juliette Lewis
reminds fans why we want
her to run free forever.-Entertainment Weekly
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KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM
FANTASTIC MR. FOX
JAN 30 (3:00 matinee & 7:00)
JAN 31 (7:00 only)
FEB 1
(7:00 & 9:15)
FEB 2 & 3 (7:10 & 9:00)
ROCK DOC
Director: Lucy Walker (USA, 2010, 90 minutes; rated G)
The Band and
friends
HEREAFTER
THE LAST
WALTZ
Director: Clint Eastwood (USA, 2010, 129 minutes; PG)
Cast: Matt Damon, Cecile de France, Bryce Dallas Howard,
Richard Kind, Jay Mohr
“FASCINATING AND ENRICHING!” –San Francisco Chronicle
Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter considers the idea of an afterlife
with tenderness, beauty and a gentle tact. I was surprised to
find it enthralling. This is a film about the afterlife that avoids
committing itself. The closest it comes is the idea of consciousness after apparent death. This is a film for intelligent
people who are naturally curious about what happens when
the shutters close. Hereafter stars Matt Damon as George, a
man who sincerely believes he’s able to have communication
with the dead, but has fled that ability and taken a low-profile
job; Cecile de France as Marie, a newsreader on French television; Bryce Dallas Howard as a young
cooking student with a fearful dark place inside; Richard Kind as a man mourning his wife; and Frankie
and George McLaren as twin brothers. I won’t describe the traumatic surprises some of them experience.
Eastwood and his actors achieve a tone that doesn’t force the material but embraces it: Not dreamlike,
but evoking a reverie state. The movie is an original screenplay by Peter Morgan (The Queen). Eastwood
told me Morgan doesn’t believe in an afterlife. I don’t know if Eastwood does, either. His film embodies
how love makes us need for there to be an afterlife. --Roger Ebert
KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM
Director: Martin
Scorsese (USA, 1978, 117 min; BluRay; G)
Arguably, the best of all rock-concert documentaries. Martin Scorsese’s film of The Band’s
Thanksgiving 1976 performance in San Francisco
is intensely satisfying. Visually, it’s dark-toned and
rich and classically simple. With Band members—
Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson,
Richard Manuel and Rick Danko. Also with performers who represent the different styles of rock
and the traditions that have fueled it—Joni Mitchell,
Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Muddy
Waters, Neil Young, Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John,
the Staples, Ringo Starr, Paul Butterfield, Emmylou
Harris, Neil Diamond, and others. –Pauline Kael
FEB 8 (7:10 & 9:00)
MEGAMIND
ROCK DOC
FEB 6 (3:00 matinee & 7:00)
FEB 7 (7:00 only)
Talking Heads
STOP MAKING SENSE
VISION: From the life of Hidegard
von Bingen
Director: Jonathan Demme (USA, 1984, 88 min;
BluRay; G)
Director: Margarethe von Trotta (Germany, 2010, 106 min;
German & Latin with subtitles; PG) Starring Barbara Sukowa
“A MUST-SEE FOR SERIOUS FILMGOERS!”
–Los Angeles Times
The 12th-century Benedictine nun, Hildegard von Bingen–today a cult
figure–is luminously portrayed by Barbara Sukowa in her 5th collaboration with director Margarethe
von Trotta (Rosa Luxemburg). Hildegard, a polymath by any century’s definition, was a composer of
Gregorian chants, a playwright, poet, and scientific pioneer in the fields of healing, herbal medicine and
botany. As an iconoclastic religious figure who insisted on separate and independent abbies for nuns,
she ran up against the church’s authoritarian and patriarchal hierarchy; as a mystic and visionary, she
insisted on her right to preach and interpret the Gospels. Sukowa infuses Hildegard with the will of a
modern feminist, but one tethered to a medieval universe. Von Trotta makes that world believable and
lush, and at times as scary and alluring as a 900-year-old fairy tale. –Vancouver International Film Festival
This concert film by the New York New Wave
rock band Talking Heads is a continuous rock
experience that keeps building, becoming ever
more intense and euphoric. In its own terms,
the movie is close to perfection. The lead singer,
David Byrne, is a stupefying performer who gives
the group its undertone of repressed hysteria,
which he blends with freshness and a driving beat.
He designed the elegantly plain performance-art
environment. The sound seems better than live
sound: it is better. The film was shot during three
performances in 1983. –Pauline Kael
The sympathy of Vision lays in joy...von Trotta’s film seems to be exploring the nuances of love
on this earth.– MUBI
KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM
FEB 13 (3:00 matinee & 7:00)
2001: A SPACE
ODYSSEY
Director: Stanley Kubrick (UK/USA, 1968,
141 min; BluRay; G) Co-written by Arthur C. Clarke
“TRANSCENDENT!” – Roger Ebert
“THE GRANDEST OF ALL SCIENCE-FICTION
MOVIES!” –Entertainment Weekly
A countdown to tomorrow, a road map to human
destiny, a quest for the infinite. To begin his voyage into the future, Stanley Kubrick visits our
prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millenia
(via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever
conceived) into colonized space, and ultimately
whisks an astronaut (Keir Dullea) into uncharted
realms of space, perhaps even into immortality.
“Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” Let the awe and
mystery of a journey unlike any other begin.—
Warner Bros.
FEB 14 (7:10 & 9:15)
CASABLANCA
Director: Michael Curtiz (USA, 1942, 102 min; G)
THE MOST SPLENDIDLY ROMANTIC MOVIE
EVER MADE. Set against the backdrop of
espionage in WWII French Morocco, the story
of enigmatic Casablanca nightclub owner Rick
(Humphrey Bogart) and his unwitting reunion with
an old flame (Ingrid Bergman) unfolds. The iconic
performances from the Bogart, Bergman, and
Paul Henreid are genuinely wonderful. And the
supporting cast--which includes Claude Rains,
Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt,
Dooley Wilson--is nothing less than heaven-sent.
Taut direction brings everything together nicely
and makes a sentimental script sound like poetry.
--Mr. Showbiz
“HAIR RAISING!” –The Wall Street Journal
“A TERRIFYING AND HIGHLY EFFECTIVE DOCUMENTARY!” –Salon
Countdown to Zero makes old terrors radioactively new again. Lucy Walker (Waste Land), the director of
this documentary about the still clear-and-present danger of nuclear weapons, has her finger on the ultimate hot-button topic, and she doesn’t let go. The film features spine-tingling descriptions of the moments
when we risked toppling into a nuclear conflagration — like in, say, 1995, when a wayward U.S. missile
caused the Russian nuclear football to be opened in front of Boris Yeltsin. (Fortunately, he wasn’t drunk.)
The film also illustrates how easy
it is to buy enriched uranium
on the black market. At times
Countdown to Zero comes close
to being nuclear-anxiety porn, yet
it’s the rare film that could trigger and unite the reflexes of the
left and the right. It makes getting rid of nukes seem less like
a ‘’cause’’ than an imperative.
--Entertainment Weekly
FEB 9 & 10 (7:00 & 9:20)
An uplifiting comedy about
a true BAND of misfits.
THE CONCERT
/ LE CONCERT
Director: Radu Mihaileanu (France/Russia, 2009,
123 min; French/Russian with subtitles; DVD; PG)
The Concert does some pretty skilful tear-jerking. Its hero
is a once-revered conductor (Aleksei Guskov) who was
blacklisted when he got on the wrong side of Brezhnev 30
years ago. Now working as a cleaner in a Moscow theatre,
he intercepts an invitation to the Bolshoi Orchestra to
perform in Paris, and decides to pass off his own gaggle
of washed-up musicians as the real thing. A rollicking
farce gets under way, but The Concert grows deeper and
richer when it brings on a French violinist (Mélanie Laurent,
Inglourious Basterds), and reveals more and more of the
characters’ hidden agendas and secret histories. It misjudges some of its multi-octave leaps between sentiment
and silliness, but it’s warm-hearted enough to leave you
glowing. –The Independent
There are highs in The Concert that few movies this year will touch….It ends in a place of transcendent emotion that sends everyone out of the theater in a swirl of transport. –San Francisco Chronicle
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) stands out as one of the most visionary and incredibly gifted spiritual
women of all time. --Spirituality and Practice
THE PRINCESS BRIDE
COUNTDOWN TO ZERO
FEB 15
(7:00 &
9:35)
FEB 16 & 17 (7:00 & 9:10)
ROCK DOC
WINNER! BEST DOCUMENTARY –Environmental
Media Association
Rolling
Stones
SHINE A
LIGHT
Director: Martin Scorsese (USA, 2008,
122 minutes; PG)
May be the most intimate documentary ever
made about a live rock ‘n’ roll concert. Certainly
it has the best coverage of the performances
onstage. Martin Scorsese deployed a team of
ten cinematographers, all of them Oscar winners
or nominees, to blanket a live September 2006
Rolling Stones concert at the smallish Beacon
Theatre in New York. The result is startling immediacy, a merging of image and music, edited in
step with the performance. The cameras do not
simply regard the performances; in a sense, the
cameras are performers too, in the way shots are
cut together by Scorsese and his editor, David
Tedeschi (The Last Waltz). The unmistakable fact
is that the Stones love performing. --Roger Ebert
GASLAND
Director: Josh Fox (USA, 2010, 107 minutes; G)
WINNER! SPECIAL JURY PRIZE –Sundance Film
Festival
“MESMERIZING! Warm-hearted…darkly humorous!
–Washington Post
With its jolting images of flammable tap water and
chemically burned pets, New York documentarian
Josh Fox’s Sundance-feted shocker makes an irrefutable case against U.S. corporate “fracking”—the
Haliburton-hatched scheme of natural gas drilling in
and around shale basins. Narrating in the first person,
the filmmaker begins by describing a gas company’s
six-figure offer to drill on his rural Pennsylvania land,
which sits atop what the company trumpets as the
“Saudi Arabia of natural gas.” Refusing the deal, banjostrumming Fox takes his show on the road, inviting
citizens who did take big-energy cash to prove the contamination of their groundwater and recount its ill
effects on their health. Describing himself as “not a pessimist,” Fox nonchalantly exposes conflicts of interest and fingers the “Haliburton loophole”—a curious exemption to the 2005 Energy Act as cooked up by exHaliburton exec Dick Cheney. No mere collection of talking heads, the doc expertly juxtaposes instances of
natural beauty with those of mechanized incursion, practically making us feel the toxic chemicals spilling off
the screen and into our laps. There’s only one conclusion to draw here: No fracking way. –The Village Voice
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WISDOM TEETH
FEB 4 & 5 (3:00 matinee & 7:15 & 9:15)
DUE DATE
KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM
MEGAMIND
Director: Todd Phillips (USA, 2010, 96 minutes; PG)
Cast: Robert Downey, Jr., Zack Galifianakis, Michelle
Monaghan
“Fast, lazy, and out of control in a manner that’s
basically commendable.” –The Village Voice
It’s a long way from Atlanta to Los Angeles, and it’s
longer still without identification, money, or the legal
ability to board a plane, and with the forced company
of a man whose nonstop chatter includes a boast
about having 90 friends on Facebook, 12 of them
pending. But when deadlines loom, you do what you
have to do, as Robert Downey Jr. discovers in Due
Date. A successful, tightly wound architect working
away from his expectant wife, Downey winds up sharing a rental car with Zach Galifianakis, who plays an
aspiring actor of dubious talent, eager to make it in
Hollywood. Well, not so eager that he can’t make their
first stop a side trip to buy some weed. So begins a
rambling cross-country journey that makes a lot of familiar buddy-movie stops along the way, but
seldom suffers for it. Directing with more focus— and eventually, more heart—than he brought to
The Hangover, Todd Phillips smartly lets his leads’ chemistry power the movie. Galifianakis keeps
his character interesting by refusing to define what type of weirdo he’s playing. The situations
sometimes feel contrived, but the characters never do, particularly because Galifianakis remains
simultaneously charming and unrelentingly irritating. It’s easy to believe Downey would come to feel
for the guy, equally easy to understand why he’d want to throttle him. --The Onion AV Club
FEB 11 & 12 (3:00 matinee & 7:10 & 9:20)
FAIR GAME
KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM
THE PRINCESS BRIDE
Director: Doug Liman (USA, 2010, 108 minutes; PG) Cast: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Sam Shepard,
Noah Emmerich
“TERRIFICALLY ENTERTAINING!” –The New York Times
You’d have to go back to All the President’s Men (1976) for a better example of fresh American political
scandal being turned into slam-bang, star-powered drama. Sean Penn plays Joseph Wilson, the U.S.
diplomat who publicly disputed the Bush administration’s evidence for weapons of mass destruction
in Iraq, and Naomi Watts is his wife, Valerie Plame, who was outed as a CIA agent in retaliation. The
screenplay is adapted from Plame’s and Wilson’s respective memoirs, and their relationship in the
movie is so compelling that it generates an emotional force quite apart from the political skulduggery.
Scrupulous with the
facts on weapons of
mass destruction,
the movie does a real
service in showing
how important Plame
was to the agency’s
counterproliferation efforts in Iraq
and how screwed
her foreign sources
were when the story
broke. Doug Liman
(The Bourne Identity)
directed. –Chicago
Reader
FEB 18 & 19 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:10)
MORNING GLORY
KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM
TBA
Director: Roger Michel (USA, 2010, 108 min; PG) Cast: Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford,
Diane Keaton, Patrick Wilson
“BREEZY AND ENJOYABLE.” –Movieline
Morning Glory is a funny entertainment
to begin with, and then Rachel McAdams
transforms it. And Harrison Ford transforms himself. She plays as lovable a
lead as anyone and he bestirs himself and
creates with gusto a TV newsman who is
the third worst person of all time. Diane
Keaton is pitch-perfect a morning TV
host who can, and must, smile through
everything. This comedy is about how
people do their jobs. McAdams plays a
little Energizer Bunny of a TV producer
who has the good, or bad, luck to be
hired to produce a last-place network
morning show. The film was directed by
Roger Michel (Notting Hill) and written by
Aline Brosh McKenna, whose The Devil
Wears Prada is also about a spunky
young woman up against a living legend.
--Roger Ebert
ays.
JAN-FEB 2011
Student Union Building, UVic
University of Victoria Students’ Society, conceived
as an inexpensive alternative for students, the
University community and the public. The
theatre is in the Student Union Building at
UVic. The following buses come to UVic: 4, 7, 11,
12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 26, 29, 33, 39, 51, 80.
Admission Prices
(HST included)
$17.50 (HST included)
$6.50
The university charges a flat fee of $2.00 for parking
on campus after 6pm and all day on Saturdays. There
is no charge for parking on Sundays and holidays.
Tickets and memberships go on sale 40
minutes before showtime. Please arrive early
to avoid disappointment.
where noted. Films are 35mm prints unless otherwise indicated.
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Special for UVSS students
9pm shows (or later)
$5.60
Seniors, Children (12 & under)
$5.60
Other Students
$6.50
Cinemagic Members
$6.50
and guests (1 only) of above
Non-members
$6.50
$7.75
$2.75
Matinees all seats $4.75
TEN FILM DISCOUNT PASS
$50.00
UVSS Students, Seniors
$57.50
(Unavailable to non-members.)
JAN 8 & 9 ALPHA
89 minutes; rated G
AND OMEGA
Opposites attract and love conquers society’s rules
in this animated romantic comedy set among a pack
of wolves in Jasper National Park.
JAN 15 & 16 LEGEND OF THE
GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE
97 minutes: rated G – violence
The story of a young owl caught in a battle between
the noble Guardian owls and the wretched owls that
seek a Lord of the Rings-style world of darkness.
JAN 22 & 23
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
JAN 29 & 30
FANTASTIC MR. FOX
CINECENTA
144 minutes; rated G
Dick Van Dyke creates a car that flies and it leads
him, his two children and his lady friend into a magical world of pirates and castles in this 1968 musical
adventure.
87 minutes; rated G – violence
Wes Anderson’s animated stop-motion fable, based
on Roald Dahl’s children’s book, about the adventures of a family of foxes.
FEB 5 & 6 MEGAMIND
96 minutes; rated G – violence
Amusing animated adventure in which an alien villain with a big blue head becomes hero by default.
FEB 12 & 13 THE
PRINCESS BRIDE
96 minutes; rated G
Peter Falk narrates this funny fairy-tale of two True
Lovers, separated by oceans, villains and vast IQ
differences.
FEB 19 & 20 TO
sunday
monday
ten-film discount pass
SALE
jan. 7-13, 2011
10 MOVIES
FOR $50!
Available to
Cinemagic members,
UVic alumini,
UVic faculty & staff,
students & seniors
Limit of two per customer.
On sale at the Munchie Bar & the box office
3 CLASSIC CONCERT ROCK DOCS
3 RABBLE-ROUSING DOCUMENTARIES
3 NEW BIOS: LENNON, GINSBERG, ZUCKERBERG
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tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM
JAN 6 (7:10 & 9:00)
JAN 7 & 8 (3:00 matinee & 7:10 & 9:00)
JAN 4 & 5 (7:00 & 9:00)
NOWHERE BOY
saturday
ALPHA AND OMEGA
HOWL
Director: Sam Taylor-Wood
(UK, 2010, 98 min; PG)
Cast: Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott
Thomas, Anne-Marie Duff
Directors: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman (USA, 2010, 85 min; 14A)
Cast: James Franco, Mary-Louise Parker, Jon Hamm,
David Strathairn, Jeff Daniels.
Nowhere Boy is a biopic about John
Lennon’s very early days (long before the
Beatles), and it’s a terrific film: insightful
and moving, with rock & roll sequences
that give you a tingle. It starts in 1955,
when Lennon (Aaron Johnson) is just 15
and a Liverpool delinquent living with his
aunt Mimi (Kristin Scott Thomas). Before
long, two things will rock his world. First,
he learns that his mother, Julia (AnneMarie Duff), lives just down the road, and
he reconnects with her. The second thing that happens is that he decides he wants to be Elvis Presley. The
power of Nowhere Boy is that it captures how John Lennon’s deeply sordid family life toyed with his soul by
not letting him know who he was. When he’s drawn to the bad-boy catharsis of rock & roll, it gives him more
than an outlet — it gives him an identity. (And that’s before he meets a certain eager fellow named Paul, late
in the film.) At first, Aaron Johnson (Kick-Ass) seems too morose to be John Lennon, but then the Lennon
personality — the wit, the casual cruelty — emerges. By the end, you’ll feel you know John Lennon better
than you ever did. --Entertainment Weekly
Nowhere Boy is smart enough not to spell it all out. Lennon’s music plays in your head as the movie works
its subtle magic. –Rolling Stone
KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM
James Franco (127 Hours) delivers an impressive, beguilingly sensitive performance as the poet and Beat Generation avatar Allen
Ginsberg in Howl, a part-biopic, part-interpretation of the title poem.
Written in 1955, a few years before Jack Kerouac’s On the Road,
Ginsberg’s audacious, rhapsodically erotic answer to Walt Whitman
would plant the flag for his literary peers who would help redefine
American culture.
Ginsberg’s poem would also be called obscene, and when the
poet and bookstore owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti published it, he
was arrested. Howl mixes a number of story lines and aesthetic
approaches: We get glimpses of Ginsberg’s early days as a poet,
including his relationships with Kerouac and Neal Cassady, as well as
a depiction of the trial, where a parade of critics and professors pronounced Ginsberg’s creation either a work of genius or irredeemable filth.
Filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman also include Ginsberg reading Howl at City Lights bookstore, which they choose to illustrate with Matisselike animations of figures soaring over the highways of Ginsberg’s burning imagination.
If those passages are a tad too obvious, Howl nonetheless builds into a quietly affecting portrait of a poet desperately trying to free himself from societal
shame to find his own authentic voice. Franco gives generous, compassionate life to that struggle, but the high point of the movie is his deeply moving
reading of Howl itself. As the camera pans Ginsberg’s gobsmacked audience at City Lights, what could have been a trivial exercise in nostalgia instead
becomes a powerful case for the cathartic power of art. --Washington Post
JAN 12 (7:10 & 9:00)
JAN 13
BICYCLE
THIEVES
DOUBLE FEATURE
THE SOCIAL NETWORK
Director: Vittorio De Sica
(Italy, 1948, 93 min; Italian
with subtitles; DVD)
“MESMERIZING!” –The Hollywood Reporter
“ONE OF THE GREATEST
FILMS OF ALL TIME!” –
Pauline Kael
(Sweden, 2009, 154 min;
Swedish with English subtitles; BluRay; 18A)
ALPHA AND OMEGA
JAN 9 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:20)
JAN 10 & 11 (7:00 & 9:20)
Director: David Fincher (USA. 2010, 121 minutes; PG) Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew
Garfield, Rooney Mara, Justin Timberlake.
“THE MOVIE OF THE YEAR!” --Rolling Stone “TERRIFIC ENTERTAINMENT!” –NPR
“ONE OF THE BEST PICTURES OF 2010!” –Orlando Sentinel
What makes Mark Zuckerberg run? In The Social Network, David Fincher’s fleet, weirdly
funny, exhilarating, alarming and fictionalized look at the man behind the social-media phenomenon Facebook — 500 million active users, oops, friends, and counting — Mark runs
and he runs, sometimes in flip-flops and a hoodie, across Harvard Yard and straight at his
first billion. Quick as a rabbit, sly as a fox, he is the geek who would be king or just Bill Gates.
He’s also the smartest guy in the room, and don’t you forget it. The first time you see Mark
(Jesse Eisenberg, firing on all cylinders) he’s 19 and wearing a hoodie stamped with the word
Gap, as in the clothing giant but, you know, also not. Eyes darting, he is yammering at his girlfriend, Erica (Rooney Mara), whose backhand has grown weary. As
they swat the screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s words at each other, the two partners quickly shift from offline friends to foes, a foreshadowing of the emotional storms
to come. Soon Mark is back in his dorm, pounding on his keyboard and inadvertently sowing the seeds of Facebook, first by blogging about Erica and then by
taking his anger out on the rest of Harvard’s women, whose photos he downloads for cruel public sport: is she hot or not. —The New York Times
Hailed around the world as one of the greatest
movies ever made, Vittorio De Sica’s Academy
Award–winning Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette)
defined an era in cinema. In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate
family with a new job, loses his bicycle, his main
means of transportation for work. With his wide-eyed
young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
Simple in construction and dazzlingly rich in human
insight, Bicycle Thieves embodied all the greatest
strengths of the neorealist film movement in Italy:
emotional clarity, social righteousness, and brutal
honesty. –Criterion Collection
Two films for the price of One!
6:45 – THE GIRL WITH
THE DRAGON TATTOO
plus
9:30 – THE GIRL WHO
PLAYED WITH FIRE
(Sweden, 2009, 131 min; Swedish with subtitles;
BluRay, 18A)
JAN 14 & 15 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:45)
THE GIRL WHO KICKED
HORNETS’ NEST
KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM
LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS
Director: Daniel Alfredson (Sweden, 148 min; Swedish with subtitles; 14A)
The third and final film adaptation of the best-selling Millennium trilogy written by the late Swedish
author, Stieg Larsson (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire—
see Jan. 13). In this last installment, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) lies in critical condition, a
bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her
life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand
trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist),
she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority
who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she
will plot revenge – against
the man who tried to kill her,
and the corrupt government
institutions that very nearly
destroyed her life. – Music
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