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monday KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM wednesday OCT 4 (7:15 & 9:00) back by popular demand! KUNG FU PANDA 2 OCT 2 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:15) OCT 3 (7:00 & 9:15) MARION WOODMAN: THE TRIP Director: Michael Winterbottom “TERRIFIC!” –San Francisco Chronicle In The Trip, Michael Winterbottom (Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story)’s riotous and resplendent road movie, two of Britain’s comedy titans face off in an epic match of dueling impressions. Does Steve Coogan, the acerbic, hangdog star of 24 Hour Party People, do a better Michael Caine? Does Rob Brydon, stocky, spry, and much loved in his homeland for his hit BBC series, do the more nuanced Sean Connery as James Bond? It’s a relentless and relentlessly funny game of one-upmanship as the two men, playing somewhat exaggerated versions of themselves, roam the hills and dales, posh inns and poetic ruins of England’s Lake District. The Trip was originally shot for British television and reedited as a rambling but illuminating odyssey that has as much to do with friendship as it does with celebrating the comedic chops of its two stars. The jokes, the riffing, the almost scary channeling of Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins, Al Pacino and Woody Allen, will throw you into paroxysms - but Winterbottom isn’t merely playing it for laughs. By the end, when Coogan and Brydon have returned to their respective London abodes (Brydon to a loving wife, Coogan to no one), The Trip is awash in a kind of cathartic melancholy…If anything, The Trip, the second time around, is even funnier. –Philadelphia Inquirer KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM USA, 2011, 92 minutes; PG Cast: Miranda July, Hamish Linklater The Future begins as a floppy little drama about a couple of limp-flower thirtysomethings who, cocooned in their thrift-shopfurnished L.A. apartment, dither about whether they’re adult enough to adopt an ailing cat. The movie ends in a deep and extraordinary demonstration of how the world spins forward, whether we’re ready or not. In between, this daring, singular project blithely risks accusations of cutesiness: The movie is framed by narration from Paw Paw, the cat in question (voiced by the movie’s writer-director-star, Miranda July), with only those wittybitty paw-paws visible. 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 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 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, 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 creates perfect images of supernatural everydayness. In The Future, everything is possible. --Entertainment Weekly “The magical, metaphorical strain in ‘The Future’ is what makes it powerful, unsettling and strange, as well as charming.” –The New York Times KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4 OCT 18, 19, 20 from the Nickel Alina Skrzeszewska, USA/Germany, 83min THE TREE Director: Julie Bertuccelli France/Australia, 2010, 101 minutes; PG Starring Charlotte Gainsbourgh Sadness and longing haunt the films of the French director Julie Bertuccelli, whose gorgeous second feature is set in Queensland, Australia, on the outskirts of Brisbane. Here, on the edge of the outback, the environment is so luminous that every outdoor shot has an aura of magical realism. The title refers to a marvelous, many-limbed tree, a Moreton Bay fig, that rises like a giant, woody mushroom with cradling arms next to the ramshackle farmhouse of the O’Neils. –The New York Times The fig tree looms over the home of Dawn O’Neil (Charlotte Gainsbourg). When her loving husband and father of three dies of a heart attack in one of the opening scenes, the truck in which he was driving stops with a bump against the giant trunk. Seven-year-old Simone (Morgana Davies) gets it into her pretty little head that dad’s soul has taken up residence in the branches of the tree.…The willowy, expressive Gainsbourg does an excellent job here portraying Dawn’s mix of openness and depression. She’s stumped by the presence of a leviathan that overhangs and threatens to overwhelm her home and family. --National Post KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM Stories from an invisible Los Angeles: an intimate portrait of people who found their home in the rhythms of street life and cheap downtown hotels. Songs from the Nickel is about the lives of outcasts, and the sadness, beauty and freedom that accompany them. 9pm And Again Adele Horne, USA, 60min In a New Mexico ghost-town revived by the US Department of Homeland Security, locals play the parts of terrorists and victims in simulation training exercises. And Again juxtaposes these training exercises with a theatre workshop in which the local community acts out the stories of their town. OCT 25 (7:00 only) HARRY POTTER 8 THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION OCT 23 (1:00 & 3:30 matinees & 7:00 & 9:30) OCT 24 (7:00 & 9:30) Director: Frank Darabont USA, 1994, 140 min; 14A THE #1 RATED MOVIE ON THE INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE! HARRY POTTER and the DEATHLY HALLOWS: Part 2 “A thumpingly good ode to friendship, hope, wit, wiles and wisdom…If you don’t love Shawshank, chances are you’re beyond redemption.” –Empire Director: David Yates A 21-year friendship between a lifer (Morgan Freeman) and a New England banker convicted of murder (Tim Robbins) is the focus of this gripping prison drama, capably directed and adapted by Frank Darabont from Stephen King’s short novel. –Chicago Reader UK/USA, 2011, 130 minutes; PG – violence; frightening scenes Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman, Matthew Lewis, Tom Felton, Michael Gambon, Evanna Lynch, Warwick Davis, Helena Bonham Carter, Maggie Smith, David Thewlis, Ciarán Hinds “REMARKABLE.” –Washington Post Deathly Hallows, Part 2 puts a triumphant capper on a decade of Pottermania. Fans will be wild about Harry and the way the quietly dazzling Daniel Radcliffe has grown in the role, from the 11-year-old orphan to the haunted old soul we now see. So hip-hip and a blast of hurrays for Radcliffe. Well played, sir. –Rolling Stone NOV 1 KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM THE WIZARD OF OZ (7:00 & 9:25) Director: Paul Feig USA, 2011, 125 min; Blu-ray; 14A Cast: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Chris O’Dowd DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK “A BREATHROUGH COMEDY!” –Boxoffice Magazine “SMART LAUGHS AND SIDE-SPLITTING FARCE!” –Empire Director: Troy Nixey USA/Mexico, 2010, 100 minutes; 14A “ONE OF THE BEST—AND SCARIEST—HORROR FILMS OF 2011!” –Fangoria The brilliant Saturday Night Live player Kristen Wiig finally gets the big-screen vehicle she deserves. In this raucous comedy Wiig plays a depressed loser whose lifelong friendship with pal Maya Rudolph is threatened when the latter gets engaged and another of the bridesmaids starts angling to be maid of honor. The gags are often rowdy, yet they spring from a genuinely female perspective… the movie maintains a surefooted balance between the sentimentality of most chick flicks and the crudity of most dick flicks.–Chicago Reader “A TESTAMENT TO THE MESSY JOY OF EXISTENCE!” –Time Out New York This compilation of several hundred home videos, all shot on July 24, 2010, and submitted by citizens around the globe, is so freshly edited, the clips so free of the usual YouTube Stupid Human Tricks coyness, that it’s easy to get addicted to its clear-eyed celebration of the rituals and dislocating comedy of life in the 21st century. It’s our equivalent of that ‘80s art-film kaleidoscope Koyaanisqatsi. What’s transporting about Life in a Day is that it’s so much warmer and less abstract. –Entertainment Weekly I’ll be forever grateful to this movie for introducing me to Nim’s story, a tale so powerful and suggestive that it functions as a myth about the ever-mysterious relationship between human beings and animals. –Dana Stevens, Slate www.antimatter.ws • 250 385 3327 THURS, OCT 20 7pm Everyday of Genesis & Lady Jaye Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone Marie Losier, USA/France, 72min Lev Anderson & Chris Metzler, USA, 107min An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) and his wife and collaborator, Lady Jaye, centred on the daring sexual transformations the pair underwent for their “Pandrogyne” project. A documentary about the band Fishbone, musical pioneers who have been rocking on the margins of pop culture for the past 25 years. From the streets of South Central LA and the competitive Hollywood music scene of the 1980s, Everyday Sunshine examines the trajectory of the band rise to prominence, only to fall apart on the verge of “making it.” Blinding Steve Sanguedolce, Canada, 72min Blinding is a hand-processed, hand-coloured film about the beauty and curse of vision. It follows the story of three people who have experienced major disruptions to their lives. An ex-cop, a fighter pilot, and a writer slowly going blind: each grappling with fear and trauma amidst inner transformations. 9pm Mexicali Juan Palacio & Max Herrlander, Mexico/USA/Sweden, 68min Juxtaposed perceptions of the Mexico/US border intersect in a story about attaining a higher knowledge through a dedicated practice of excess and abandon. This transgressive DIY epic combines varying levels of documentary and narrative on a road trip through the underbelly of the border city Mexicali. Director: Joe Johnston USA, 2011, 124 minutes; PG Cast: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Stanley Tucci, Hayley Atwell, Tommy Lee Jones “A THRILL RIDE.” –Portland Oregonian “OLD-FASHIONED PULP FUN!” –Entertainment Weekly Certainly the most stylish comics-derived entertainment of the year. This is the fifth film in the interconnected Marvel comics universe, wherein the whole gang — Captain America, Iron Man, the Hulk and Thor— will come together to form a boy band next May in “The Avengers.” The movie takes its mythology seriously without choking on it. Director Johnston knows and loves the story’s period; he brings a zest for retro detail in the service of an early 1940s story dealing in Nazis and World War II. --Chicago Tribune FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS Director: Will Gluck USA, 2011, 110 minutes; 14A Cast: Mila Kunis, Justin Timberlake, Patricia Clarkson, Richard Jenkins “SEXY!” –The Hollywood Reporter “IT WORKS LIKE A CHARM.” –Boston Globe Another shag-buddies comedy, but it’s much better than the last one, No Strings Attached. Dylan (Justin Timberlake), a Los Angeles Web designer who takes a magazine job in New York, and Jamie (Mila Kunis), the headhunter who recruits him, hop into bed and make very particular demands on each other, but they agree not to indulge in anything so dirty or squalid as emotion. The movie is fast, allusive, urban, glamorous. The director, Will Gluck, keeps the characters racing ahead and trying to outsmart each other, in and out of bed. Timberlake, swinging his lithe body around the room, has become a shrewdly likable actor. Kunis, of the almond-shaped eyes and dusky skin, is all teasing mischief and easily hurt feelings. --The New Yorker OCT 21 & 22 (11:30pm) separate admission THE SHINING Director: Stanley Kubrick (USA, 1980, 119 min; BluRay; 18A) Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall Stanley Kubrick’s chilling version of the Stephen King novel which many consider to be one of the best horror movies ever made. OCT 26 & 27 (7:00 & 9:15) OCT 28 & 29 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:20) THE WHISTLEBLOWER CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. “AN ENCHANTING LIGHT COMEDY OF ROMANTIC CONFUSION.” –Entertainment Weekly Cast: Rachel Weisz, Monica Bellucci, David Strathairn, and Vanessa Redgrave In Canadian director Larysa Kondracki’s gripping based-on-a-true-story debut Rachel Weisz delivers a riveting performance as a cop who confronts the heart of darkness – sex-slave trafficking – after taking a job with an international police task force supporting peacekeeping in Sarajevo in 1999. One of few women on the force, Kathy Bolkovac (Weisz) is asked to head the local gender office by an official (Vanessa Redgrave) in the U.N.’s human rights high commission. The job involves investigating crimes related to women, including sex trafficking. It’s clear the U.N. brass in this film are aware the region’s sex-slave industry involves not only the patronage but also complicity of peacekeepers, U.N. workers and members of the police task force…Rachel Weisz won a best supporting actress Oscar for her role in The Constant Gardener. Her performance in The Whistleblower elevates her into the Oscar-worthy ranks of Norma Rae, Karen Silkwood and Erin Brockovich – a real-life crusader who steps outside her comfort zone to do the right thing, whatever the cost. --The Globe and Mail Smart, sophisticated adult comedies are increasingly rare—but this is a crazy funny delight in which Steve Carell, a faithful but boring husband, is thrust into the perilous life of a swinging single guy. Being unused goods on the market creates complications for Carell when he’s approached at a bar by swinging single savant Ryan Gosling who decides to show him how the modern dating world is sliced and diced. A superb ensemble cast makes the most of the comedy. Gosling seems to be quietly longing for the kind of life Carell once had. This becomes clear in his own new relationship with the bubbly hard-to-get Emma Stone. ..Carell has never been better—here, he proves he is perhaps the top film comedian of the moment. But Gosling and Stone threaten to steal the show from underneath him. --Boxoffice Magazine KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM WINNIE THE POOH CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS Director: Werner Herzog NOV 5 Canada/USA, 2010, 90 minutes; rated G German filmmaker Werner Herzog petitioned the French government for an unprecedented chance to film inside the Chauvet cave of southeastern France. Chauvet, the most recently discovered and by far the oldest of the great Paleolithic cave-painting sites of Western Europe, has been visited only by a small group of scholars since it was found in 1994. Since a long-ago landslide sealed off this cave from the outside world for at least 20,000 years—the Chauvet cave is a fragile ecosystem that could easily be destroyed. TO BE ANNOUNCED please check www.cinecenta.com Herzog and a skeleton crew descended into the cave to give the rest of the world what may be the closest look we will ever get at some of the world’s earliest works of art. The resulting movie is itself a work of art—one that partakes, across imponderable millennia of remove, in some of the uncanny beauty and mystery of these caves. If you’re interested in the history of the human race—if you’re a member of the human race—you owe it to yourself to see this movie. Herzog’s camera is constantly roving over the surface of the cave walls—a surface that’s undulating, pocked, scratched in places by the claws of the now-extinct cave bears that once inhabited the place. And though there are ample chunks of that irreplaceable Herzogian voiceover, there are also stretches of near-silence in which we hear nothing but the dripping of water from rock formations. Sometimes, there’s music—a strange, beautiful score by cellist Ernst Reijseger that sounds like something Bach might have composed if he’d lived in the Stone Age. Come and meet our pharmacist: Serving Our ts gh ndayni mo bur www.robf lemingmla.ca camosun.ca/ce 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM Monday to Friday Community. 1020 Hillside Ave. 250.360.2023 rob.fl[email protected] THE WIZARD OF OZ Cast: Steve Carrell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Marisa Tomei Germany/Canada, 2010, 112 minutes; 14A MLA Victoria Swan Lake KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM Director: Glenn Ficarra USA, 2011, 118 min; PG Director: Larysa Kondracki Rob Fleming phone: 250 721-3400 fax: 250 472-5183 [email protected] facebook.com/campuspharmacy KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM HARRY POTTER 8 OCT 21 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:15) OCT 22 (3:30 matinee & 7:00 & 9:15) Watching Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a seductive, vertiginous experience. The dimly lit walls, the stalactites and stalagmites sparkling with crystal formations, the weird music, the impossible-to-conceive durations of geological time—all lend the quality of a drug trip. But when the camera does venture above ground, the film can be down-to-earth and bracingly funny. --Slate with more than 200 continuing education classes this fall. KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER As for the art, well, the whole reason you need to see this movie is that it’s hard to get across a sense of these paintings’ brilliance in language—or in photographs, for that matter. For the first time seeing this film, I realized that painted caves, when you’re in them, feel like not museums but chapels. Ryan Producer/co-writer Guillermo del Toro, the visionary filmmaker responsible for Pan’s Labyrinth, performs the neat trick of adapting the original 1973 television horror movie into a tastefully suspenseful work of kidfriendly art. In spite of some glaring plot inconsistencies, DBAOTD is sure to scare the heebeejeebies out of willing audiences. Bailee Madison (Bridge to Terabithia) plays Sally, the ten-year-old daughter of hotshot architect Alex Hurst (Guy Pearce). Alex invites Sally away from his ex-wife to come stay with him and his new girlfriend Kim (Katie Holmes) at a Gothic New England mansion he’s busy restoring. The spooky house holds secrets from its original owner... Things go bump in the night (and in the day) after Sally goes poking around where she shouldn’t, namely the basement... There’s very little blood in this horror movie built on suspense--think The Others. DBAOTD is a nuanced horror movie modulated to incur just the right quality of nightmare. You might want to sleep with the light on after seeing it. --ColeSmithey.com “SERVES AS A FINE TIME CAPSULE.” –The A.V. Club OCT 14 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:30) OCT 15 (3:40 matinee & 7:00 & 9:30) This trenchant documentary by James Marsh (Man on Wire) exposes the foolishness of our tendency to anthropomorphize animals. In 1973 a baby chimpanzee called Nim was torn from its mother at a primate research lab in Oklahoma to become the subject—and media star— of a Columbia University study in language development. A surrogate mother, Stephanie LaFarge (the former lover of project head Herbert Terrace), took the infant chimp into her Manhattan apartment and reared it as part of her own large family, teaching it to communicate 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 of undergraduate Laura-Ann Petitto (who would also become romantically involved with Terrace). Sexual politics, family dynamics, the debate over heredity versus environment, and the dubious ethics of scientific research on animals are rigorously explored in this ambitious, bittersweet work. –Chicago Reader 9pm “EARTHY AND AT TIMES EUPHORIC!” –Los Angeles Times NOV 2 & 3 & 4 (7:10 & 9:00) BRIDESMAIDS OCT 30 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:00) OCT 31 (7:00 & 9:00) Suffering from stress? We can help. “A FASCINATING GLIMPSE OF THE WAY WE LIVE TODAY.” –Empire WED, OCT 19 7pm The Ballad TUES, OCT 18 7pm Songs OCT 16 (3:40 matinee & 7:00 & 9:00) OCT 17 (7:00 & 9:00) For service on weekends and holidays, call Cadboro Bay Pharmacy 250 477-2131 “A PROFOUND ACHIEVEMENT.” –Washington Post Like Wayne Wang’s The Joy Luck Club, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan enters the world of women with complete openness to its sensory sights and sounds, its codes of behavior, secrets of the heart and sturdiness of the soul. It does this through parallel stories, one set in contemporary Shanghai and the other taking place in 19th century Hunan province in central China. Sometimes the switches in time and use of the same two actresses playing roles a century-and-a-half apart are awkward. But so strong are the emotions — and, yes, the melodrama — that Snow Flower represents one of Wayne Wang’s best films to date. Based partially on Lisa See’s 2005 novel, the film begins by introducing the concept of “laotong,” a contractual arrangement between women, even from different classes, that makes them sworn sisters for life. Everything about the period story speaks to women’s oppression in the near feudal society of provincial China. The contemporary Shanghai women are seen as cosmopolitan English-speakers rising to the top of corporations and having their choice of men…. --The Hollywood Reporter Antimatter Film Festival CARS 2 USA/UK, 2011, 96 minutes; PG USA, 2011, 101 minutes; PG Director: Miranda July KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM Director: Kevin Macdonald Director: James Marsh THE FUTURE 9am-5pm Mon-Fri LIFE IN A DAY PROJECT NIM OCT 9 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:00) OCT 10 & 11 (7:00 & 9:00) Located next to Cinecenta’s Munchie Bar. SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN OCT 12 & 13 (7:00 & 9:00) CARS 2 saturday OCT 7 & 8 (3:00 matinee & 7:10 & 9:10) Cast: Li Bingbing, Gianna Jun What if life and death are not divided against each other but are instead part of a mysterious, harmonious whole? That’s the thesis of this enlightening documentary about spiritual intellectual Marion Woodman. A Jungian analyst, author and educator, she’s renowned for her contributions to feminist thought, the study of addiction, and the endeavour to join spirituality with professional psychology. This inspiring documentary radiates passion and intellectual curiosity - indeed, it’s about the essential link between the two. As a thinker, Woodman draws on religion and myth to explain the mind; hers is a philosophy of dynamic opposites. --Vancouver International Film Festival friday OCT 5 & 6 (7:00 & 9:10) China/USA, 2011, 105 min; PG Director: Adam Reid Canada, 2009, 86 minutes; DVD LAUGHS!” thursday Director: Wayne Wang DANCING IN THE FLAMES UK, 2010, 112 minutes; PG “LACED WITH LACERATING –The New York Times tuesday ger b & ee r sunday SEP-OCT 2011 Student Union Building, UVic Admission Prices 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, 26, 29, 33, 39, 51, 80. s. (HST included) $17.50 (HST included) $6.50 ($2.25 as of Sept 1) on campus after 6pm & all day Sat. 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. 24-hour Info Line: 250-721-8365 Managers: Lisa Sheppard Programmer: Michael Hoppe Design: Juniper English Graphic Production: Juniper English & Cupcakes $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 Matinees $4.75 $2.75 TEN FILM DISCOUNT PASS $50.00 UVSS Students, Seniors Cinecenta’s program is subject to change without notice. To avoid disappointment, please check our 24-hour phone line or website for the most up-to-date information. DAILY SHOW INFO: 250-721-8365 UVSS Students Special for UVSS students 9pm shows (or later) www.cinecenta.com $57.50 (Unavailable to non-members.) OCT 1 & 2 KUNG FU PANDA 2 91 minutes; rated G - violence Po joins forces with a group of new kung-fu masters to take on an old enemy in this animated comedy-adventure with voices by Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, and Dustin Hoffman. OCT 8 & 9 CARS 2 107 min; rated G Larry the Cable Guy, Owen Wilson & Michael Caine lend their voices to this animated sequel in which star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix OCT 15 & 16 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES 137 minutes; rated PG – violence Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth. With Penélope Cruz. OCT 22 & 23 HARRY POTTER & the DEATHLY HALLOWS: Part 2 130 minutes; PG – violence; frightening scenes The final chapter in the legendary series begins as Harry, Ron, and Hermione continue their quest of finding and destroying the Dark Lord’s remaining Horcruxes… CINECENTA OCT 29 & 30 THE WIZARD OF OZ 102 minutes; rated G Judy Garland as Dorothy goes over the rainbow to meet the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion in one of the most magical movies of all time. NOV 5 & 6 Sept-Oct 2011 WINNIE THE POOH 63 minutes; rated G An all-new animated story that’s short and sweet. Eyeore has lost his tail, so Pooh and his friends hold a contest to get him a new one. sunday SEPT 18 monday FREE ADMISSION! The Japan Foundation Presents TWO FILMS FROM JAPAN Japanese with English subtitles; both rated G 5:30pm LINDA LINDA LINDA 2005 / 114min / Director: Yamashita Nobuhiro Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son, though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It’s a race against time as the group struggles to learn three tunes for the festival’s rock concert... 7:40pm ALWAYS—SUNSET ON THIRD STREET 2 tuesday www.cinecenta.com wednesday SEPT 25 All films will be shown with English subtitles. For more information about this event, please contact Prof. Dan Russek ([email protected]) 2nd LATIN AMERICAN AND SPANISH FILM WEEK SEPT 19 (7:00 & 9:00) SEPT 20 (7:00 & 9:00) BROTHER [Hermano] PERPETUUM MOBILE Daniel is an exceptional footballer, a striker. Julio is the team’s captain, a born leader. They were raised as brothers and play football in their slum in Caracas. Daniel dreams to play professional football while Julio feeds the family with dirty money: he has no time to dream. The opportunity of their lives arrives when a football scout invites them to try out with the city’s best team: Caracas Football Club… Gabino is a 24-year old man who still lives with his mother and works as a moving truck driver in Mexico City. He constantly witnesses the perils and distress that others have to endure as they move out of their homes and out of other people’s lives. Perpetuum Mobile won best Mexican film at the Guadalajara Film Festival. by Marcel Rasquin (Venezuela, 2010, 96 min.) by Nicolás Pereda (Mexico/Canada, 2009, 86 min.) SEPT 26 & 27 (7:00 & 9:00) HORRIBLE BOSSES Director: Seth Gordon USA, 2011, 98 minutes; 14A (7:00 & 9:00) Cast: Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Jaime Foxx EVEN THE RAIN [También la lluvia] “DELIGHTFULLY NASTY!” –Entertainment Weekly by Icíar Bollaín (Spain, 2010, 103 min). Featuring noted actors Gael García Bernal and Luis Tosar, this film was Spain’s Official Selection for the Academy Awards. Costa and Sebastian arrive in Cochabamba, Bolivia, to shoot a period film about Columbus’s arrival in the Americas. Things get complicated when the extras and the main actor rise up against the privatization of their city’s drinking water. “SCORCHINGLY RAUNCHY!” –Washington Post Funny and dirty in about that order. The story involves three horrible bosses (Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell) and the three employees (Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis) who vow to murder them. What makes the movie work is how truly horrible the bosses are, what pathetic victims the employees are and how bad the employees are at killing; they’d be fired in a second by Murder Inc. The bosses display an impressive array of vile behavior. The movie, directed with cheerful and wicked energy by Seth Gordon, is situation slapstick. Kevin Spacey is superb, but the surprise for many may be Jennifer Aniston. Here she has acute comic timing and hilariously enacts alarming sexual hungers.--Roger Ebert 3800 FINNERTY RD. SUB B142 STUDENT UNION BUILDING UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA VICTORIA, BC, V8W 3P3 Part of your brain “lights up” when you experience beauty. It’s OK to leave the lights on. • EVERYONE WELCOME! SEPT 21 (7:00 & 9:00) POST MORTEM by Pablo Larrain (Chile, 2009, 98 min.) Psychological thriller and political drama, it tells the story of 55 year-old Mario, a clerk at the city’s morgue who makes a living typing autopsy reports. He daydreams of his neighbour Nancy, a cabaret dancer, who disappears mysteriously on September 11, 1973, the fateful day Pinochet staged his coup d’état. SEPT 22 (7:00 & 9:00) SEPT 23 (7:00 & 9:00) (7:00 & 9:00) SINS OF MY FATHER THE MAN NEXT DOOR [Pecados de mi padre] [El hombre de al lado] Aby (Gloria Pires), a chain-smoking guitar teacher in her forties, craves a romantic relationship. When musician Max (Paulo Miklos) moves into the apartment next door, she sees the possibility of turning her lonely life around. Instead, she unexpectedly finds herself involved in a love triangle leading to a terrible jealous rage. Winner of 10 awards at the Brazilia Film Festival including Best Film and Best Actor. Tells the story of Pablo Escobar, head of the prominent Medellín drug cartel in the 1980s, narrated by his son, Sebastian Marroquín. Sebastian recounts the extraordinary tale of his childhood, living with his beloved father, who was also Colombia’s enemy number one. This outstanding documentary takes a look at Colombia’s recent political past, and includes a narrative of two victims killed by Escobar, told by their sons. Winner of the audience award at the Miami International Film Festival. by Anna Muylaert (Brazil, 2009, 86 min.) SEPT 28 & 29 (7:10 & 9:00) IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT Director: Marshall Curry USA/UK, 2011, 85 minutes; Blu-ray “A fascinating and remarkably fair-minded documentary.” –Salon Given the volatility of its subject matter, perhaps the best way to talk about If a Tree Falls is by stating what it is not. It is not a celebration of the activities of the ELF; it is not an indictment of federal or Oregon forestry policy; it is not an attack on extreme environmentalists; it is not an argument, in short, for or against any particular point of view surrounding the vexed questions of how we choose to manage timber or how best to protest those choices. Rather, director Marshall Curry’s clear-eyed, even-handed and honest film is chiefly about how one man, Daniel McGowan, became part of an ELF group operating out of the Eugene area, how the group waged a campaign of arson, how they were caught by authorities, and how McGowan and his co-defendants were treated by the legal system. Curry gets remarkable access to McGowan and his fellow ELF members, to the victims of their crimes, to police, prosecutors and defense attorneys, and, most intimately, to McGowan and his family. Virtually everyone (except the charismatic ELF leader who turned informant) is depicted in a fair, balanced and empathetic light -- which is perhaps Curry’s most impressive achievement. If a Tree Falls never loses sight of the human beings at the heart of the conflict -- no matter what side of the conflict they’re on. –Portland Oregonian “A HEAD-SPINNING TANGLE OF ETHICAL QUESTIONS!” –The Village Voice by Nicolás Entel (Argentina-Colombia, 2009, 93 min). by Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn (Argentina, 2009, 101 min.) Leonardo, a successful industrial designer, lives with his family in an architectural wonder, a mid-century Le Corbusier home in the city of La Plata, Argentina. One morning, he wakes to discover that workmen next door are building a large window that faces directly into his home. The small incident escalates and starts to take over Leonardo’s life, until it leads to an unexpected outcome. Winner of the Best Argentine Feature Film at the 24th Mar del Plata Film Festival. KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM SEPT 30 & OCT 1 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:10) KUNG FU PANDA 2 BEGINNERS Director: Mike Mills USA, 2010, 105 minutes; PG Cast: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Melanie Laurent An absorbing, funny and poignant story about love, loss, fear and hope. Mike Mills has a fabulous cast, a steady visual hand, and a tone that’s somewhere between anguished, addled, and whimsical. The result is a revelation. Ewan McGregor is Oliver, an artist caught up in an eddy of grief after the death of his father, Hal (Christopher Plummer). In the four or five years prior, since becoming a widower, Hal had come out of the closet as a gay man, living loudly and proudly. Oliver meets Anna (Mélanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds), an actress with trust and openness issues of her own. Their attraction is mutual, but they have their pasts to overcome….The cast is splendid. Plummer positively exudes joy in Hal’s newfound liberties and fulfillment. –Portland Oregonian Both heartbreaking and hilarious, and bolstered by performances that are sure to earn more than a few Oscar nominations —particularly for Christopher Plummer. –eye Weekly SEPT 30 & OCT 1 (11:15pm) separate admission THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Director: Jim Sharman UK, 1975, 101 min; DVD; 18A The most popular, CRAZIEST cult film returns! Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick are a squeakyclean couple in a scary mansion inhabited by a sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania (Tim Curry) and other assorted oddballs. Let’s Do The Time-Warp Again! Pick up Six with Fine Arts this fall Experience something beautiful today. With more than 200 courses in topics including history, music, theatre, visual arts, writing and many more—you will find everything you need to inspire your quest for beauty in our NEW fall calendar. www.LearningThatShapes.ca/cinecenta 250-472-5471 without braces - book for a consultation • WE EXTRACT WISDOM TEETH SEPT 24 SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES [É Proibido Fumar] • STRAIGHTEN TEETH PHONE: 250.380.1888 FAX: 250.380.1998 www.campusdentalcentre.com saturday Organized by the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Victoria. It has been made possible through the generous support of the Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Division of Continuing Studies and the Office of Community Relations at the University of Victoria. We also acknowledge the help of the Consulate General of Argentina in Toronto and the contributions as consultant of Mr. Christian Sida-Valenzuela, Director of the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival. This heart-warming, feel-good sequel to the awardwinning 2005 film is set in post-war Tokyo in the 1950s, and the story follows the intertwined lives and characters of a working-class neighbourhood. All films will be shown with English subtitles. friday SEPT 19-25 2007 / 146 min / Director: Yamazaki Takashi SEPT 19-25 2nd LATIN AMERICAN & SPANISH FILM WEEK thursday See all our public events at finearts.uvic.ca 1 2 3 4 Ar ts Business Culture Environment Health Histor y Humanities Languages Science Social Justice Sustainability Teaching Travel 5 6 Rebecca Belmore Acclaimed Canadian aboriginal artist & outgoing Audain professor presents an exclusive exhibit of new work • Audain Gallery in Visual Arts • Sept. 8-30 Terry Glavin Award-winning author & 2011 Southam Lecturer in Journalism debuts new book at a free lecture in UVic’s HSD Bldg. • 7pm Oct. 19 Love Kills Theatre Inconnu’s rock musical is in the Spotlight on Alumni at the Phoenix Theatre • Oct. 13-22 UVic Orchestra: Beethoven, Xenakis & Brahms University Centre Farquhar Auditorium • Oct. 28 Rookery Nook Classic 1920s British farce • Phoenix Theatre • Nov. 3-19 UVic Jazz Orchestra directed by Patrick Boyle Phillip T. Young Recital Hall • 8pm Nov.19