[Rose-movies] Rose Theatre Newsletter for November 16, 2004
The Rose Theatre
rocky at rosetheatre.com
Tue Nov 16 11:35:50 PST 2004
This week's newsletter includes:
* RAY held over
* THE POLAR EXPRESS held over
* THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES coming soon
* AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN reunion showing this Sunday, November 21
* 2004-2005 Lecture Series Continues January 9, 2005 With Nancy Pearl
* Admission Prices
* Gift Suggestions
* Coming Attractions
* Rose Theatre Movie Challenge
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Show Times: Tuesday, November 16 - Thursday, November 25
RAY - showing in the Rose Theatre
November 16 7:10
November 17-19 4:00, 7:10
November 20 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00
November 21 4:00, 7:10
November 22, 23 7:10
November 24, 25 4:00, 7:10
THE POLAR EXPRESS - showing in the Rosebud Cinema
November 16 7:30
November 17-19 4:30, 7:30
November 20 2:15, 4:30, 7:30, 9:35
November 21 2:15, 4:30, 7:30
November 22, 23 7:30
November 24, 25 4:30, 7:30
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RAY
Directed by Taylor Hackford
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King
Rated R drug addiction, sexuality and thematic elements. 153
min. <http://www.raymovie.com>
On stage, Ray Charles rocked his body back and forth, jolted by the
pleasure of the music he was making, and he'd swivel his head upward as if
channeling those jolts straight from heaven. Jamie Foxx, in his brilliant
performance in RAY, captures those joyfully severe movements with uncanny
spiritual precision, to the point that you forget you're watching an
impersonation. Lip-synching to the sexed-up gospel tumult of actual
Charles recordings like "Mess Around" or "I Got a woman," Foxx feels his
way into every groove and tremor of that voice - the sheer locomotive power
of it, and the shades of gravelly tenderness, too. As a musical biography,
RAY is driven by the primal excitement of rock-and-soul at the moment of
its discovery. The songs are staged not as "classics" but as spontaneous,
thrilling eruptions of sound and temperament that flowed right out of the
brusque life force of Charles' personality.
At one point, Ray is on stage with his band and has to fill out 20 minutes
of performance time, and he essentially makes up "What'd I Say" on the
spot. He tosses off that ominous bass line, topped by sparkly curlicues,
then improvises the outrageously erotic call-and-response with his backup
singers, The Raelettes. The music gets everyone so delirious that they're
only too happy to moan out the chorus. Even off-stage, Ray has a supple
musical charm. Foxx plays him with the eager singsong purr of a jazz
hipster, yet his slightly hurried, skip-stutter voice, accompanied by a
tuck of the head, is an elaborate seduction. He always appears to be
posing a question, but by the time he's done he has given you an order
without you knowing it. When things don't go his way, the purr turns to a
cutting growl. In a hotel room with his chief mistress (Regina King), who
has just announced that she's pregnant, Ray tinkles away at a new song -
"Hit the Road Jack" - then forces her to sing it. They face each other
down in a indelible duet of resentment.
At the film's center is a man of startling complexity and egocentric
magnetism who forged every moment of his destiny, thereby sentencing
himself to stand alone. RAY is the rare Hollywood biopic that does justice
to the heroism, as well as the demons, of an American genius. (Excerpted
from ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY)
"'Ray' is electrifying. It's inspiring. Jamie Foxx's fierce, funny,
deeply felt performance deserves to be legendary"-ROLLING STONE. "Jamie
Foxx seems to leap right inside the skin of Ray Charles, creating a
multileveled portrait of a man who triumphed over his lack of sight by
pushing everything to the limit"-ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY. "'Ray' is
superb. It is as true as the blues to Charles' pain, as ecstatic as rock
'n' roll to his triumph. It sings, and it swings"-TIME
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THE POLAR EXPRESS
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Tom Hanks, Michael Jeter, Peter Scolari, Nona Gaye.
Rated G for General Audiences. 92 min. <http://www.polarexpressmovie.com>
Unwrapped as the closing-night film at the Chicago International Film
Festival, THE POLAR EXPRESS was a resounding hit with a Middle America
family audience and a fitting coming home celebration for Chicagoan Robert
Zemeckis. A technical landmark for Zemeckis and hundreds of visual effects
specialists at Sony Imageworks, this computer-generated family film, has,
to boot, five Tom Hanks stuffed into its story-telling stocking.
Based on Chris Van Allsburg's best-selling 29-page novel about a boy's
waning faith in Santa Claus and his revitalizing trip to the North Pole,
THE POLAR EXPRESS is the first computer-generated film based on the
performances of humans. But the film is not sheer wizardry; it also has
heart. Zemeckis and co-writer William Broyles Jr. have etched an honorable
transposition of the popular story of Hero Boy, who is roused one Christmas
Eve to board a train that will take him to the North Pole on a journey of
self-discovery. While seeing is believing, Hero Boy learns that the things
that are most real in the world are those we cannot see.
The train contains a diverse mix of traveling kids, most enchanting are
Nona Gaye for her voicing of the confident and tender Hero Girl and Eddie
Deezen for Know-It-All Boy, that thick-headed brain we all remember from
our school days.
Visually, this train ride is both majestic and edge-of-your-seat. Most
fittingly, Van Allsburg's drawings are integrated into the look of the
movie. Alan Silvestri's lushly sweeping score, whose locomotion often
seems to be churned out by Gene Krupa, is bolstered by his and Glen
Ballard's stirring songs. There's also some perennial standards from Bing
Crosby and Frank Sinatra. (Excerpted from THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)
"Tom Hanks is absolutely stunning...He delivers not just one, but five
extraordinary performances...It's a remarkable, jaw-dropping
achievement"-WIRELESS MAGAZINE. "An absolute masterpiece...It's bound to
become a holiday classic of the first order"-NBC-TV
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THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES coming soon
THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES is a beautifully wrought account of the dawning of
the social conscience of one of the 20th century's most romanticized
revolutionaries. Brazilian director Walter Salles' best film to date
reveals how an eight-month trip through South America in 1952 opened the
eyes of 23-year-old upper-middle-class Argentinean med student Ernesto
Guevara, who a few years later emerged as the charismatic Che. Based on
the books of Guevara and traveling companion Alberto Granado, this
intelligently made picture is arful but not arty, political without being
didactic.
Although episodic in nature - the film charts the two young men on their
journey from Buenos Aires through Chile, Peru and finally to
Venezuela. And while never descending into travelogue or exotica, Salles
takes great advantage of the fact that the tale unfolds against a
constantly changing backdrop of extraordinary locations that will be
bracingly un-familiar to most viewers.
Politically, too, THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES makes itself accessible even to
nonpartisans of Che's legacy by maintaining its intimate human focus and
remaining resolutely faithful to the aim of representing the impact the
trip had on these two young men, how it affected their views of the world
and their decisions about what to do with the rest of their lives. Almost
in a manner of dramatized snapshots, the film attempts to re-create what
Guevara and Granado saw and experienced, and thereby to provide an honest
account for how the journey expanded their minds and hearts.
(Excerpted from VARIETY)
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AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN reunion showing this Sunday, November 21
The Jefferson County Historical Society is presenting a reunion showing of
AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN this Sunday at the Rose Theatre. This screening
is part of the Museum's current exhibit, Port Townsend Goes
Hollywood. Tickets for this fundraising event are $15 and include a
post-screening reception at the Museum, as well as admission to the
exhibit. Tickets are available at the Museum, 540 Water Street, by calling
360.385.1003 or at the Rose Theatre box office beginning at noon Sunday.
Primarily filmed in Port Townsend and at Fort Worden State Park, the movie
took the town by storm. Scenes included the former Town Tavern, the
swimming pool at Mountain View Elementary School, the Tides Inn Motel and
the Port Townsend Paper Mill. Many locals were hired as cast and crew and
they are encouraged to attend Sunday's event to share their stories. If
you'd like to share these stories please contact JCHS Director Bill Tennent
at 360.385.1003 or billtennent at hotmail.com
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2004-2005 Lecture Series Continues January 9, 2005 with Nancy Pearl
Six speakers of national renown will lecture in Port Townsend this fall and
winter in a new humanities series that its organizers hope will become an
annual contribution to the intellectual and imaginative life of Port
Townsend.
The talks will range from species extinction to civil rights, from a love
of books to underwater volcanoes, from Chinese scholarship to chimpanzees
and cognitive neurology. Talks are scheduled at the Rose Theatre, at 1:00
PM, every second Sunday, October through April, excepting December.
The 2004-2005 speakers are:
Peter Ward, paleontologist and University of Washington earth science
professor, led new research on a mass extinction that occurred 200 million
years ago killing off more than fifty-percent of all species on
Earth. Evidence from the extinction was gathered at sites in the Queen
Charlotte Islands, off Canada's British Columbia coast. Ward is lead
author on a paper detailing the evidence in the journal "Science." October
10, 2004
John R. Delaney, Ph.D., marine geologist at the School of Oceanography,
University of Washington, studies active submarine volcano-hydrothermal
systems. After recovering a unique set of rocks with the submarine ALVIN
from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in 1980. Delaney focused on establishing a
permanent seafloor observatory to study submarine volcanoes. His recent
publications include "Life on the seafloor and elsewhere in the solar
system," Oceanus, 1998. November 14, 2004
Nancy Pearl, former director of the Washington Center for the Book and
Youth Services at Seattle Public Library, now writes, reviews books for
local and national publications and speaks to library and community groups
full time. She reviews books regularly on KUOW, a Seattle affiliate of
National Public Radio, as well as Wisconsin and Tulsa, OK., public radio
stations. January 9, 2005
Pramila Jayapal is executive director and founder of Hate Free Zone
Campaign of Washington and has been a voice for immigrant and refugee
communities targeted after 9/11. Jayapal has worked for social justice for
over twelve years in Africa, Asia, Latin America and in Washington. She
serves on the board of Chaya, the Institute of Current World Affairs, and
Hedgebrook Woman Writers Retreat. February 13, 2005
Bill Porter, also known by his literary pseudonym, Red Pine, is a
translator of Chinese literary and religious texts. He studied
anthropology at Columbia University before moving to a Buddhist monastery
in Taiwan for four years. Later, he produced 1,100 short programs of trips
he took throughout China for a Hong Kong radio station. Recently he
focused on China's great Zen monasteries, and traveled to scores of
remaining abodes of ancient Zen teachers. He lives in Port
Townsend. March 13, 2005
William H. Calvin, Ph.D., author of "A Brief History of the Mind: From Apes
to Intellect and Beyond," is affiliate professor of psychiatry and
behavioral sciences at the University of Washington, School of
Medicine. He co-authored a study, "Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the
Human Brain," with Derek Bickerston. Calvin's "A Brain for All Seasons"
was awarded the Phi Beta Kappa book award for science in 2002. April 10, 2005
The organizers, a group of local citizens including Leslie Cox, Rocky
Friedman, Rick Kenney, and Peter Simpson have established an informal
organization they call The School of Athens, Port Townsend Extension. The
self-styled School of Athens takes its name from the Vatican fresco by
Raphael. This painting depicts the ancient Greek gymnasia, or speaker's
forum, with all the philosophers of that period including Aristotle, Plato,
Socrates, Zeno and many others. With interest in all things, the local
chapter of the School of Athens brings an array of first-rank original
thinkers to Port Townsend to speak about their research, passions, and
concerns.
Business sponsors of the 2004-2005 series are: William James, Bookseller,
Skookum, Inc., BaDd Habit/Gray Wolf Ranch, Brent Shirley & Associates,
Hildt & Reid, Inc., P.S. Law Offices, Homer Smith Insurance, and the Rose
Theatre.
All series passes to the lecture series have been sold, but individual
tickets for the remaining lectures still available for purchase at $10 each
at Quimper Sound Music & Media, 901 Water Street. Cash or check only.
For more information and links to the speakers and the Vatican fresco see
the web site : <http://www.athens-pt.org>
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Admission Prices
General admission to the Rose is $7, senior citizens (62+) $6, children (12
& under) $5. The matinees are $1 less. The box office opens thirty
minutes before the first show of the day and tickets are only sold for the
next show once the preceding show has either sold out or started.
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Gift Suggestions
Rose Theatre T-Shirts - $16.00
Rose Theatre Mock Turtlenecks - $22.00
Rose Theatre Sweatshirts - $32.00
Admission Gift Certificates - $7, $6, $5
Discount Cards - $30.00 - saves $1 off each general admission
Concession Certificates - any denomination
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Coming Attractions*
MOTORCYCLE DIARIES - tba - From director Walter Salles (CENTRAL STATION)
and actor Gael Garcia Bernal (Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN) comes this
beautifully-told story based on Che Guevara's boyhood memoirs about
motorbiking through South America in the 1950s with his best friend. (One
of my favorite movies at the Telluride Film Festival-rf) "Unabashedly
revives the venerable, romantic ntion that travel can enlarge the soul,
and even change the world"-THE NEW YORK
TIMES. <http://www.themortorcyclediariesmovie.com>
SIDEWAYS - tba - From writer-director Alexander Payne (CITIZEN RUTH,
ELECTION, ABOUT SCHMIDT) comes this wonderful sophisticated comedy wine and
men growing up. Starring Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia
Madsen, Sandra Oh. "A comedy that is...moving, fresh and original"-Roger
Ebert. "...a transcendent human comedy and the best American movie so far
this year"-ROLLING STONE. <http://www.foxsearchlight.com>
VERA DRAKE - tba - Director Mike Leigh (SECRETS AND LIES) has created an
extraordinary portrait of a seemingly ordinary woman. Imelda Staunton in
the title role is truly remarkable. "A powerfully moving film that is
unmissable and unforgettable"-ROLLING STONE. "Perfect down to the last
detail"-NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
BEING JULIA - tba - An intoxicating combination of wicked comedy and smart
drama, starring Annette Bening as the beautiful and beguiling actress Julia
Lambert. "Bening is diva-licious...pure charisma in this big, bravura,
take-no-prisoners performance"-US WEEKLY. "Bening lights up the
screen...full of sparkle and urbanity"-CHICAGO
TRIBUNE. <http://www.sonyclassics.com>
MOOLAADE - tba - Embracing, affirming, world-changing humanist cinema at
its finest. This powerful masterpiece from Senegal is infused with
remarkable buoyancy of spirit, complete with villains, brave heroes and a
finale that will bring tears of amazement to your eyes. "Magnificently
beautiful. A strong, true and useful film..that resonates with life"-THE
CHICAGO SUN TIMES. <http://www.NewYorkerFilms.com>
*schedule subject to change.
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Rose Theatre Movie Challenge
Question: What was the address of the Rocking Chair Club, the Seattle
nightspot where Ray Charles played?
Rules: Answers must be e-mailed to moviechallenge at rosetheatre.com with Rose
Theatre Contest in the subject line. One winner will be selected at random
from correct responses received by midnight, November 19, and will be
notified by e-mail. Your free passes will be held at the box office so you
must include your name with your movie challenge answer.
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Last Week's Question: This child came to America as a refugee at the age
of seven. He worked his way through the University of Chicago, and studied
to become an actor. Then he formed a comedy group with Alan Arkin, Barbara
Harris, Paul Sills and Elaine May. Identify this person.
Answer: Mike Nichols
Congratulations to TT, our winner this week.
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