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APR 5 (2:30 matinee & 7:00 & 9:10) APR 6 (7:00 & 9:10)

TTHHEE WWRREESSTTLLEERRDarren Aronofsky (USA, 2008,110 minutes; 14A)

Cast: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel WoodWINNER! BEST ACTOR – MICKEY ROURKE —Golden Globes�����! The Wrestler is that rare film where actor and roleconverge perfectly and powerfully. Mickey Rourke, a once-great actor whose career has been on the ropes almostfrom the start, inhabits the battered bleach-blond bruiserRandy “Ram” Robinson, a past-his-prime pro wrestler stillclinging to hopes of a comeback. It’s also a comeback forRourke, who gives the most brutally honest performance ofthe year. Rourke never makes a mockery of Ram or playson our sympathy or pity. More than merely Raging Bull withwrestling, The Wrestler has startling depth and humour.The tiny film feels both intimate and epic - and entirelyheartbreaking. —Now Magazine“The comeback acting performance of the yearbelongs to Mickey Rourke.” –The Globe and Mail

APR 7, 8, 9 (6:45 & 9:15)

TTHHEE CCLLAASSSS // EENNTTRREE LLEESS MMUURRSSLaurent Cantet (France, 2008, 130 minutes; French with English subtitles; rated PG)

Starring François Bégaudeau

“UNMISSABLE!” –Rolling Stone

“RIVETING!” –The Globe and Mail

“A REMARKABLE MOVIE.” –New York Magazine

“IN A CLASS BY ITSELF.” –Entertainment Weekly

“A LOVELY, EXHILARATING WORK.” –Salon.com

“THIS UNASSUMING MOVIE WILL NAIL YOU TO YOUR SEAT.” –Slate�����! The Class won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, and no surprise. It’s a razor-sharp look at one year in the life of a French high school class. It’s a terrific, cohesive work that makesthe intellectual challenges of educating today’s youth seem thrilling rather than hopeless. It’s also builtaround a tremendous debut performance by François Bégaudeau, who co-authored the screenplay fromhis own novel - which in turn was based on his own experiences as a schoolteacher. —Now Magazine

I would be surprised if this brilliant and touching film didn’t become required viewing for teachers all over. Everyone else should see it as well—it’s a wonderful movie. –The New YorkerThis is one of the screen’s most rewarding explorations of the teacher/student relationship in any language. –Chicago Tribune

APR 10 (7:10 & 9:10)APR 11 (2:30 matinee & 7:10 & 9:10)SSTTOONNEE OOFF DDEESSTTIINNYYCharles Martin Smith (Canada/UK/ 2008, 97 minutes; PG)

Cast: Charlie Cox, Kate Mara, Robert Carlyle, Billy Boyd, Stephen McCole, Ciaron KellyWINNER! AUDIENCE FAVOURITE AWARD — VICTORIA FILM FESTIVAL!A skirl of the bagpipes and a sweeping view of rugged countryside set the tone for this lively comedycaper. Stone of Destiny will stir the heart as a group of students liberate the ancient Stone of Scone –a beloved symbol of Scottish independence – from Westminster Abbey. –Victoria Film FestivalThe Stone of Destiny is an oblong block of redsandstone, weighing approximately 152 kg. Itwas used for centuries in the coronation of themonarchs of Scotland, the monarchs of England,and, more recently, British monarchs. In 1296 theStone was captured by Edward I and taken toWestminster Abbey, where it was fitted into awooden chair on which all subsequent Englishsovereigns except Queen Mary II have beencrowned... On Christmas Day 1950, a group offour Scottish students took the Stone fromWestminster Abbey for return to Scotland. Andthereby hangs the hook upon which CharlesMartin Smith has hung this charming, witty andatmospheric film. –Vancouver International FilmFestival

APR 14, 15, 16 (7:10 & 9:00)ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE – BEST FOREIGN FILM

WWAALLTTZZ WWIITTHH BBAASSHHIIRRAri Folman (Israel, 2008, 91 minutes; Restricted)

“AN ABSOLUTE STUNNER!” –Wall Street Journal“ASTONISHING, UNFORGETTABLE: YOU HAVE TO SEE IT.” –EmpireProfound, and profoundly affecting, Ari Folman’s “animated documentary” isbased on actual interviews with veterans of Israel’s war with Lebanon in theearly eighties. Folman too is a veteran, and thus a principal figure in his ownfilm. Indeed, it’s the vast gaps in his repressed memory that motivate theinterviews - they talk, he talks, and slowly the blank slate begins to fill withthe sights and sounds of a horror long past. Brace yourself for the extraordi-nary climax...Waltz with Bashirmakes us feel what few war pictures ever have- the palpable shock of the real, penetrating like a mortal blow. —The Globeand Mail‘Speak, memory,’ commanded Vladimir Nabokov—but in the Israeli animatedmasterpiece Waltz With Bashir, memory only stutters, yowls, and babbles. Totranslate, a new form is needed, with more fluid boundaries between docu-mentary and fantasy, reality and dreams, life and art. What we get is both adetective story and a head-trip.... It has taken an animated film to go wherelive-action dramas and even documentaries haven’t—to tickle our synapsesand slip into our bloodstream. The end of Waltz With Bashir rockets us out ofthe unconscious: —New York MagazineProvocative, hallucinatory, incendiary, in its seamless mixing of the realand the surreal, the personal and the political, animation and liveaction, it’s unlike any film you’ve seen, period. –Los Angeles Times

APR 17 (7:00 & 9:20)APR 18 (2:30 matinee & 7:00 & 9:20)FFRROOSSTT//NNIIXXOONNRon Howard (USA, 2008, 122 min; PG) CCaasstt:: FFrraannkk LLaannggeellllaa,, MMiicchhaaeell SShheeeenn,, RReebbeeccccaa HHaallll,, TToobbyyJJoonneess,, MMaatttthheeww MMaaccffaaddyyeenn,, KKeevviinn BBaaccoonn,, OOlliivveerr PPllaatttt,, aanndd SSaamm RRoocckkwweellll

A film version of a play abouttwo talking heads. It shouldn’twork at all. But it does work,spectacularly, as a matter offact. The two people are dis-graced President Richard M.Nixon and British charm boyDavid Frost, the TV interviewerwho waved millions in front ofthe Watergate trickster to lurehim on camera for the trial henever had. Ancient history? Well,the interview took place in 1977,and we know the outcome inadvance. All the more remark-able, then, that director RonHoward has turned PeterMorgan’s stage success into agrabber of a movie laced withtension, stinging wit and potenthuman drama... Frost/Nixon, one of the year’s best films, far exceeds its roots as docudrama. It cuts tothe core of a toxic culture that sees politics as show business. —Rolling Stone

KIDS MATINEE Sun 12:30!HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3

KIDS MATINEE Sun 12:30!HOTEL FOR DOGS

KIDS MATINEE Sat 12:30!HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3

KIDS MATINEE Sat 12:30!CORALINE

APR 12 (2:30 matinee & 7:10)APR 13 (7:10 only)

SSTTOONNEE OOFF DDEESSTTIINNYYCharles Martin Smith (Canada/UK, 2008, 97minutes; PG)

Cast: Charlie Cox, Kate Mara, RobertCarlyle, Billy Boyd, Stephen McCole,Ciaron Kelly

A skirl of the bagpipes and a sweeping viewof rugged countryside set the tone for thislively comedy caper. Stone of Destiny willstir the heart as a group of students liberatethe ancient Stone of Scone – a beloved sym-bol of Scottish independence – fromWestminster Abbey. –Victoria Film Festival

WINNER! AUDIENCE FAVOURITE AWARDat the VICTORIA FILM FESTIVAL!

MAY 22

SPECIAL

Today only!See either film atregular price or seeboth for a special

price!

UVSS Students & Seniors: $ 7.75Members, UVic Faculty/Staff/Alumni: $ 8.75

Non-members: $ 10.75

6:45 - CHE PART ONEplus

9:10 - CHE PART TWOplease see May 19, 20, 21 and 26, 27, 28

for descriptions

APR 19 (2:30 matinee & 7:00)APR 20 (7:00 only)

DDEEFFIIAANNCCEEEdward Zwick (USA, 2008, 137 minutes; 14A) Cast: DDaanniieellCCrraaiigg, LLiieevv SScchhrreeiibbeerr, JJaammiiee BBeellll, AAlleexxaa DDaavvaallooss

On the basis of Glory, Courage Under Fire, The Siege, TheLast Samurai and Blood Diamond, it’s easy to conclude thatEdward Zwick has few contemporary equals as a director ofintelligent war epics. And he proves himself one more timewith this adaptation of Nechama Tec’s nonfiction book abouta band of quarreling Jewish brothers who fled into the woodsof their native Belorussia (Belarus) when the Nazis invaded;the brothers then organized the war’s largest Jewish partisanband. It’s an exciting action spectacle and a thoughtful, cumu-latively moving family drama that opens in 1941, as theGermans have overrun the country, 50,000 Jews have beenarrested and thousands more summarily executed, includingthe parents of the Bielski brothers — Tuvia (Daniel Craig), Zus (Liev Schreiber), Asael (Jamie Bell) and Aron(George MacKay). Escaping into a dense part of the national forest that the two older brothers know well,they form a partisan band to avenge their parents’ deaths, fight the occupation and eliminate Belorussian col-laborators who support it. —Seattle Post-Intelligencer

APR 21 (7:00 & 9:15) BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

II’’VVEE LLOOVVEEDD YYOOUU SSOO LLOONNGGIILL YY AA LLOONNGGTTEEMMPPSS QQUUEE JJEE TT’’AAIIMMEEDirected by PhilippeClaudel (France, 2008,118 minutes; French withsubtitles; rated G)

Kristin Scott Thomas’ per-formance is acting at itsmost exalted. This is filmbeing used for its supremepurpose, to show us thegrand movements of asoul. We meet Juliette(Thomas) waiting to bepicked up in an airport,and she looks ravaged. Wesoon find out that she has just been released after 15years in prison. Her younger sister, Lea (ElsaZylberstein), brings Juliette home to stay with her fam-ily. Juliette has survived for 15 years by staying con-tained, and so she gives as little as possible. How theconflict within Juliette resolves is the essential dramaof the film. —San Francisco Chronicle

APR 24 & 25 (7:00 & 9:20)REVOLUTIONARY ROADSam Mendes (USA, 2008, 119 minutes; 14A)

Cast: Kate Winslet, LeonardoDiCaprio, Kathy Bates,“DEVASTATING!” –Roger Ebert“THE BEST AMERICAN FILM OF2008” –San Francisco ChronicleWhat does a cult 1961 Richard Yatesnovel about a 1950s marriage rottingin the burbs have to say to a new cen-tury? Plenty, and hold on, because theraw and riveting Revolutionary Roadhits you where it hurts. Kate Winsletand Leonardo DiCaprio could not bebetter in the roles of young marriedswho move from Manhattan to the sub-urbs, promising themselves it’s all justtemporary. April dreams of taking offfor Paris, where she’ll work whileFrank pursues his artistic impulses.Add two kids, thwarted ambitions, adultery — plus April’s unwanted third pregnancy, and the whoosh-ing sound you hear is a dream in free-fall. Directed with extraordinary skill by Sam Mendes (AmericanBeauty). This movie takes a piece out of you. —Rolling Stone

APR 26 & 27 (7:00 only)

LLAASSTT CCHHAANNCCEE HHAARRVVEEYYJoel Hopkins (UK/USA, 2008, 93 minutes; PG)Cast: DDuussttiinn HHooffffmmaann, EEmmmmaa TThhoommppssoonn, KKaatthhyyBBaakkeerr, JJaammeess BBrroolliinn, EEiilleeeenn AAttkkiinnss

Dustin Hoffman is a sad sack who writes jinglesfor an ad agency. He doesn’t like his job but he’sholding onto it so hard that, even as he arrives inLondon for his daughter’s wedding, he’s too dis-tracted to play his paternal role. EmmaThompson is a 40-something in a dispiriting jobwho has resigned herself to remaining terminallysingle. These two commiserate over a sharedlunch that turns into a long date. They play folkswho, on the surface, have nothing in common,but in fact both feel left out of their lives. Hoffmanand Thompson make real people of these charac-ters who have nothing to lose and everything togain. Hopkins directs with warmth, affection anda simple respect for all the characters, and headds touching grace notes to their story.—SeattlePost-Intelligencer

APR 29 & 30 (7:15 & 9:00)

WWEENNDDYY AANNDD LLUUCCYYKelly Reichardt (USA, 2008, 81 minutes; PG)

Cast: MMiicchheellllee WWiilllliiaammss, WWiillll PPaattttoonn..

�����! Wendy And Lucy is a blistering social cri-tique wrapped in an urgent drama, built around anincredible performance by Michelle Williams as awoman driving through Oregon on her way to Alaskawith a few possessions, a dwindling supply of moneyand her enthusiastic dog, Lucy. Unexpected car troubletriggers a cascade of unpleasant events that send theincreasingly desperate Wendy racing around a smalltown, bleeding cash and seeing her options melt awaybefore her eyes. Wendy and Lucy works powerfully asboth a wrenching character study and a mournful com-mentary on the economic desperation of small-townAmericans. –Now Magazine

MAY 1 & 2 (7:00 & 9:20)

Danny Boyle (UK 121 minutes; 14A)

�����! Slumdog Millionaire is an energetic,ferociously stylish drama that flashes back andforth through the life of a former Mumbai streeturchin (Dev Patel) as he explains to his disbe-lieving interrogator (Irrfan Kahn) how he couldpossibly have known all the answers on theIndian version of Who Wants To Be AMillionaire. Boyle is clearly having a grand timeplaying with the form and flash of Bollywoodepics and orchestrates a crowd-pleasing pay-off. But the movie’s real heat comes from thesoulful performances of Patel and stunningnewcomer Freida Pinto as Slumdog‘s star-crossed lovers. —Now Magazine ����! —The Globe and Mail ����! —Monday

MAY 3 & 4 (7:00 & 9:00)OONNEE WWEEEEKKMichael McGowan (Canada, 2008, 94 minutes; PG)CCaasstt:: JJoosshhuuaa JJaacckkssoonn,, LLiiaannee BBaallaabbaann

“A CHARMING ROAD TRIP, FILLED WITH QUINTESSENTIAL CANADIANA.” --Robert Moyes, Monday Magazine

“TRIUMPHANT!” -Metro Canada “ONE GREAT CANADIAN MOVIE.” –Montreal Gazette����! –Now MagazineWhen a young man is confronted with his mortality, hetakes a cross-country road trip on a vintage motorcycle.ONE WEEK tells the story of Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson),in his mid-twenties, who flees from the confines of hislife—an impending marriage, a job he`s not entirely happywith and a recent diagnosis—in order to attempt to livemore fully. What starts off as an ill-defined venture soonmorphs into a quest for the West Coast. -Mongrel Media

MAY 5 (7:00 & 9:10)LET THE RIGHTONE INTomas Alfredson (Sweden,2008, 110 minutes; Swedishwith subtitles; 14A)

“THIS IS A VAMPIRE MOVIELIKE NO OTHER. MESMERIZING!” –NewsweekTwelve-year-old Oskar lives in a bleak section ofStockholm. One night, Oskar meets the new girl whojust moved in next door. Eli might smell a little odd, butshe's dying of loneliness--as well as the need forhuman blood. Director Tomas Alfredson has reinvent-ed the vampire film with sly wit and surprising sweet-ness. Alfredson's particular genius is apparent in smallperfect touches. The scene where Eli and Oskar danceto bad Swedish disco is a standout, but the film is filledwith wonderful grace notes. A massive hit on the genrefilm circuit, it reminds you of the power that horror cin-ema, done right, can have. --Vancouver InternationalFilm Festival

MAY 6 & 7 (7:00 & 9:10)

WWEELLCCOOMMEE TTOO TTHHEE SSTTIICCKKSSBBIIEENNVVEENNUUEE CCHHEEZZ LLEESS CCHH’’TTIISSDany Boon (France, 2008, 107 minutes; PG)CCaasstt:: Dany Boon, Kad Merad, Zoe Felix, Anne Marivin, Philippe Duquesne.

The biggest box-office smash in French historyshows the French in the mood to laugh at them-selves. This is a hicks-in-the-sticks tale about apost office manager (Kad Merad) who has a niceoutpost in the South of France but ends up ban-ished to a rainy town in the north. The townspeo-ple speak a dialect called Ch’ti, which to Philippe’sears is little more than gibberish... Dany Boon’sdeeply charming comedy might dispel the notionthat the French cannot laugh at themselves. Thedirector’s own turn as a particularly dim-wittedmailman is also a piece of terrific comedy. AnAmerican remake starring Will Smith is alreadyplanned, but the French original will be very hardto top. –-Vancouver International Film Festival

MAY 10 & 11 (7:00 only)

IITT’’SS NNOOTT MMEE,, II SSWWEEAARR!!CC’’EESSTT PPAASS MMOOII,, JJEE LLEE JJUURREE!!Philippe Falardeau (Quebec, 2008, 110 min; French with Eng subtitles; rating TBA)

Cast: Suzanne Clément, Daniel Brière, Antoine L’Écuyer,Gabriel Maillé, Catherine FaucherA look at the huge cultural shifts of the late ‘60s from the pointof view of a wild child. Leon (Antoine L’Ecuyer) is 10, and proneto apparent suicide attempts. He tells lies. (His beloved motheradvises him to lie with conviction.) He’s appalling, and you willlove him. The household erupts with parental fighting, and dur-ing one particular argument, Leon moves things along by get-ting the fire department involved. Somehow, all this chaos isabsurd and often very funny. When it’s not heartbreaking. It’sNot Me, I Swear! is an entirely magical film about how largethe world looms to children. The film mixes comedy andtragedy with a light hand...Visually, it’s mesmerizing. —SunMedia Often hysterically funny...one of the sharpest andmost entertaining films you will see this year. –VancouverInternational Film Festival From the director of Congorama.

MAY 12 (7:00 & 9:30)TTHHEE RREEAADDEERR

Stephen Daldry (USA/Germany, 2008, 125 minutes;18A) Starring Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, David

Kross, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz..

ACADEMY AWARD WINNER! BEST ACTRESS – KATE WINSLET

����! Set in1958 Berlin,where 16-year-old MichaelBerg (DavidKross, who’sterrific) has hisfirst sexualr e l a t i o n s h i pwith the mucholder Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), who likes it whenhe reads to her. He doesn’t discover her dark pastuntil years later. Adapted superbly by David Hare fromBernhard Schlink’s novel, the film is packed withideas exploring sexuality, shame and forgive-ness...Essential viewing. —Now Magazine

MAY 13 & 14 (7:10 & 9:00)

TTRROOUUBBLLEEtthhee WWAATTEERRTia Lessin & Carl Deal (USA,2008, 90 minutes; rating TBA)

“MORE THRILLING THAN ANYHOLLYWOOD SPECTACLE.”–SalonWINNER! GRAND JURY PRIZE–Sundance Film FestivalThis astonishingly powerful documentary is at once horrifying and exhilarating. Directed and produced byFahrenheit 9/11 producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, Trouble the Water takes you inside Hurricane Katrinain a way never before seen on screen. The film opens the day before the storm makes landfall—just blocksaway from the French Quarter. Kimberly Rivers Roberts, an aspiring rap artist, is turning her new video cameraon herself and her 9th Ward neighbors trapped in the city. As the hurricane begins to rage and the floodwatersfill their world, Kim and her husband Scott continue to film their harrowing retreat to higher ground and the dra-matic rescues of friends and neighbors. The filmmakers document the couple’s return to New Orleans, the dev-astation of their neighborhood and the appalling repeated failures of government. Trouble the Water is aredemptive tale of self-described street hustlers who become heroes. –Zeitgeist Films“ESSENTIAL, UNIQUE VIEWING.” –Entertainment Weekly

MAY 17 & 18 (7:00 only)

1122Nikita Mikhalkov (Russia, 2008, 160 minutes; Russian& Chechen with subtitles; PG)Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscarin 2008, Nikita Mikhalkov’s masterful, engrossing12 is finally finding its way into theaters. —The Village VoiceAn exuberantly Russian reworking of Reginald Rose’sjury-room play, 12 Angry Men; this particular story playsvery differently in post-Soviet Russia. Here the accusedlad is a Chechen Muslim teenager, jailed on charges ofkilling his Russian adoptive father in a newly capitalistRussia, so there’s a back-story involving ethnic hatredand economic tensions. The jury is sequestered in anelementary-school gymnasium. That location, happilyfor the dozen variously ferocious Russian performers, isfilled with all sorts of actor-friendly props, which are putto excellent use. The stories the jurors tell are filled witharguments that reference local tensions and situationspossessing a distinctly Chekhovian flavor. As the menconsider and reconsider the evidence, they end upoffering a vivid portrait of Russian society. –NPR

MAY 19, 20 & 21 (7:00 & 9:30)

CCHHEE PPaarrtt OOnneeSteven Soderbergh (France/Spain/USA, 2008, 132 minutes; English &Spanish with subtitles; PG) Starring Benicio Del Toro, Demian Bichir.Based on the memoirs of Ernesto “Che” Guevara““TTRRUULLYY EEPPIICC......BBOOLLDD!!”” –The New York Times‘‘AA GGRREEAATT MMOOVVIIEE.. ‘‘CCHHEE’’ IISS AA TTHHIINNGG TTOO BBEE EEXXPPEERRIIEENNCCEEDD!!”” –The Village Voice‘NOTHING IF NOT THE MOVIE OF THE YEAR!” —LA WeeklyWhat other director would expect us to follow him through a four-and-a-half-hour epic about Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the Argentine doctorwho helped Fidel Castro pull off the Cuban revolution? Confession:Despite my admiration for Steven Soderbergh and Benicio del Toro, thePuerto Rican Oscar winner who plays Che, I dreaded seeing it. I waswrong. First of all, no one who cares about organic film acting will wantto miss del Toro’s magnificent performance. Del Toro keeps you rivet-ed....Diving into the movie’s riches is an experience you won’t forget orregret. PART ONE shows the young Ernesto meeting Castro (DemiánBichir) in 1956 and joining his rebel force to defeat U.S.-backed Cubandictator Fulgencio Batista. The scenes of warfare are intercut with Chevisiting the United Nations in 1964 and reveling in his image as a Marxisticon. –Rolling Stone

MAY 23 (7:10 & 9:15) CCAASSAABBLLAANNCCAAMichael Curtiz (USA, 1942, 102 minutes)

The most splendidlyromantic pictureever made. Setagainst the back-drop of espionagein wartime FrenchMorocco, the storyof enigmatic night-club owner Rick(Humphrey Bogart)and his unwittingreunion with an oldflame (IngridBergman) unfolds.And the supportingcast—which includes Claude Rains, SydneyGreenstreet, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt, DooleyWilson—is nothing less than heaven-sent. —Mr.Showbiz Sponsored by Capital CityVolunteers, who will be holding a raffle anddraw. There will be some great prizes!

MAY 24 & 25 (7:00 only)

BBEEFFOORREE TTOOMMOORRRROOWWMarie-Hélène Cousineau & MadelinePiujuq Ivalu (Canada, 2008, 93 minutes;Inuktitut with subtitles; PG)

WINNER! BEST CANADIAN FEATURE– Victoria Film Festival

On its deceptively simple surface, BeforeTomorrow tells the story of an Inuit elder'sbond with her grandson as they brave theelements and isolation. But with each haunt-ing image and spare line of dialogue, thefilmmakers amass a quiet work of devastat-ing power about an entire culture on the eve of change. Unforgettable. --Canada’s Top Ten Thisremarkable debut feature is reminiscent of Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner). Ningiuq (Ivalu) and her bestfriend Kutuujuk (Mary Qulitalik) are elders in an Inuit family in the mid-nineteenth century. Kutuujuk issick and stories about the Europeans' impending advance are gaining momentum. After a particularlybountiful catch, Ningiuq, her grandson Maniq (Paul-Dylan Ivalu) and Kutuujuk volunteer to dry the fish.On a remote island away from wolves and other animals, Kutuujuk faces her final days. When no onecomes for them, Ningiuq and Maniq start the journey home themselves... Distilling the grand narrativeof first contact, directors Cousineau and Ivalu explore how this historic event changed not only the Inuitpeople, but the entire world. --Toronto International Film Festival

MAY 26, 27 & 28 (7:00 & 9:30)

CCHHEE PPaarrtt TTwwoo Steven Soderbergh

(France/Spain/USA, 2008, 133 minutes; English & Spanish with subtitles; PG)

"CHE is a piece of entertainment that delivers excitement, pathosand pure filmmaking passion; it's a work of art worth thinking aboutand arguing about, one the opens up possibilities and encouragesyou to think and feel without telling you how to think and feel." -CinematicalPART TWO deals with Che in Bolivia, as he leads a 1966 campaign tobring the spirit of the Cuban uprising to South America. Soderberghdetails a punishing series of skirmishes that result in Che’s capture andexecution. This section is nothing less than a blueprint for revolutionand the forces that can make or break it...Che is a work of grand ambi-tion. The cinematographer Peter Andrews (a Soderbergh pseudonym)grabs hold of a newfangled nine-pound digital camera and createsimages of startling beauty and immediacy. Che looks dazzling, whetherthe camera is weaving through a battle or trying to bore into Che’shaunted soul. As for the movie, it’s a reward to audiences eager to breakfrom the play-it-safe pack. Game on. —Rolling Stone

MAY 29 & 30 (6:45 & 9:45)

WWAATTCCHHMMEENN Zack Snyder (USA, 2009, 163 minutes;18A)

Cast: Jackie Earle Haley,Patrick Wilson, MatthewGoode, Billy Crudup,Jeffrey Dean Morgan, MalinAkerman, Carla Gugino,Stephen McHattie, and Matt FrewerABSOLUTELY DEVASTING!Dense, intense, tragic and visionary, this is the kind of movie that keeps setting off bombs in your brainhours after you’ve seen it. Immediately leaps near the top of the list of apocalyptic pop-culture operas,alongside Blade Runner and the first Matrix. TERRIFIC! –Salon Watchmen is set in an alternate1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society. When one ofhis former colleagues is murdered, the outlawed masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plotto kill all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion,Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and cat-astrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity...but who is watchingthe Watchmen? —Warner Bros.

MAY 15 & 16 (7:00 & 9:20)TTHHEE IINNTTEERRNNAATTIIOONNAALLTom Tykwer (USA/Germany/UK, 2009,119 min; 14A) Cast: Clive Owen,Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl. From the director of Run, Lola, Run. In this gripping thriller, Interpol Agent LouisSalinger (Clive Owen) and AssistantDistrict Attorney Eleanor Whitman (NaomiWatts) are determined to bring to justiceone of the world’s most powerful banks.Uncovering myriad and reprehensible ille-gal activities, Salinger and Whitman followthe money from Berlin to Milan to NewYork to Istanbul. Finding themselves in ahigh-stakes chase across the globe, theirrelentless tenacity puts their own lives atrisk as their targets will stop at nothing.—Sony Pictures Featuring stunningarchitectural photography and an eye-popping, heart-stopping set piece inNew York’s Guggenheim Museum.

APR 22 & 23 (7:00 & 9:30)BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

MMIILLKKGus Van Sant (USA, 2008, 129 minutes; PG) WWiitthhSSeeaann PPeennnn,, JJoosshh BBrroolliinn,, JJaammeess FFrraannccoo,, EEmmiilleeHHiirrsscchh,, DDiieeggoo LLuunnaa,, aanndd AAlliissoonn PPiillll..

WINNER! BEST PICTURE —New York Film CriticsWINNER of 2 ACADEMY AWARDS!

BEST ACTOR – SEAN PENN BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

“A TOTAL TRIUMPH, BRIMMING WITH HUMORAND HEART. A CLASSIC.” —Rolling Stone“AN ABSOLUTE MUST. COME PREPARED TO BEINSPIRED!” --New York PostGus Van Sant’s vibrantly entertaining bio-pic re-cre-ates the San Francisco life of the gay activist andpolitician Harvey Milk (Sean Penn), who was assassi-nated in 1978, along with Mayor George Moscone, bya fellow-politician, the family-values conservativeDan White (Josh Brolin). The righteous march ofevents is warmed by the candor of the gay milieu in the giddy seventies, the period just before AIDS, when lifewas free and easy...A ROWDY ANTHEM OF TRIUMPH! —The New Yorker“MILK IS A MARVEL!” –The New York Times “A WORK OF ART.” –Slate

KIDS MATINEE Sun 12:30!CORALINE

MAY 8 & 9 (7:10 & 9:15)BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

DDOOUUBBTTJohn Patrick Shanley (USA, 2008, 103 minutes;rated G) Starring Meryl Streep, PhillipSeymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis

John Patrick Shanley adapted his own Pulitzer-winning play for this compelling drama aboutan archconservative nun (Meryl Streep) and aprogressive priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman)clashing in a working-class Bronx parish in1964. Principal of the parish school, the nunsuspects the priest of molesting a 12-year-oldboy—the school’s first black student. Lackingany evidence and hamstrung by the church’smale-dominated chain of command, sheembarks on a vendetta that leads her to theedge of a moral abyss. Shanley skillfully opensup the play’s action on-screen while preservingits ambiguity about the characters’ motives.Streep and Hoffman are pitch-perfect, and AmyAdams is also superb as a young nun caughtup in the conflict. –Chicago Reader

APR 28 (7:10 & 9:15)LLEEOONNAARRDD CCOOHHEENN:: II’’MM YYOOUURR MMAANNDirected by Lian Lunson(USA, 2006, 98 minutes; rated G)

featuring performancesfrom U2, NICK CAVE,RUFUS WAINWRIGHT,JARVIS COCKER, ANTHONY, MARTHAWAINWRIGHT, BETHORTON, KATE & ANNAMcGARRIGLELian Lunson’s wonderfuldocumentary portrait ofLeonard Cohen combines pieces of an extendedinterview with this singer-songwriter, poet and author,with a tribute concert at the Sydney Opera House in2005.–The New York Times “����! A GEM! Showshow timeless Leonard Cohen’s words and music are. THEMOVIE CAPTURES THE ELEGANCE, WIT, AND SPIRITUAL LONG-ING OF COHEN’S WORK.” –Philadelphia Inquirer

WINNER! BEST ACTRESS MERYL STREEP –Screen Actors Guild

BEST ACTOR - Benicio Del Toro -Cannes Film Festival

BEST PICTURE & BEST ACTRESS!––Toronto Film Critics Association

����! –The Globe and Mail

WINNER OF 8 ACADEMYAWARDS including BEST

PICTURE!

“FIENDISHLY FUNNY!” –The Guardian�����“IF YOU SEE ONLY ONE MOVIE THIS YEAR

MAKE IT ONE WEEK.” -SEE MAGAZINE

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