[Rose-movies] Rose Theatre Newsletter for February 21, 2005

[The Rose Theatre]

This week's newsletter includes:
    * HOTEL RWANDA held over 3 Academy Award Nominations
    * MILLION DOLLAR BABY held over 7 Academy Award Nominations
    * School of Athens Lecture Series Continues March 13 with Bill Porter
    * Admission Prices
    * Gift Suggestions -
    * Coming Attractions
    * Rose Theatre Movie Challenge
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Show Times: Monday, February 21 - Thursday, March 3

HOTEL RWANDA - showing in the Rosebud Cinema
February  21, 22        7:10
February  23-25 4:30, 7:10
February  26            4:30, 7:10, 9:30
February  27            4:30, 7:10
February  28            7:10
March      1            7:10
March      2, 3         4:30, 7:10

MILLION DOLLAR BABY - showing in the Rose Theatre
February  21, 22        7:30
February  23-25 4:00, 7:30
February  26            4:00, 7:30, 10:00
February  27            4:00, 7:30
February  28            7:30
March      1            7:30
March      2, 3         4:00, 7:30

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HOTEL RWANDA
Directed by Terry George
Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Nolte.
Rated PG-13 for violence, disturbing images and brief strong language.  122 
min.  <http://www.hotelrwanda.com>

Paul Rusesbagina (Don Cheadle) is a smooth and accommodating guy.  Neat and 
trim in his habitual jacket and tie, he's a black man managing a luxury 
hotel in Kigali, Rwanda, a decade ago, making friends and doing favors 
across racial and national boundaries.  And he is doing his best to ignore 
the rising tensions between his country's ruling Hutu tribe (of which he is 
a member) and the rebellious Tutsi.

Then, however, tension turns into genocide.  And Rusesabagina turns from 
glorified houseboy into heroic hero.  His hotel can offer hundreds of 
terrified Tutsi food, beds and the protection of a thin, blue-helmeted line 
of U.N. peacekeepers, commanded by Colonel Oliver (Nick Nolte).  The big 
question is, Can the volatile local militia, eager to stamp out 
"cockroaches" (its name for the Tutsi), be kept at bay?

HOTEL RWANDA tells Rusesabagina's story with admirable objectivity, 
possibly because the real-life character said he wouldn't have had it any 
other way.  He turned down several offers to participate in documentaries 
and cable movies because they wouldn't find a large enough audience.

HOTEL RWANDA radically downplays the actual gore, which is observed either 
through fog or from a distance.  Still, the movie does its job.  You are 
left the uncomfortable suspicion that if conditions for such a perfect 
storm of hatred were right, a similar catastrophe could boil up almost 
anywhere.

Courage, Winston Churchill once said, is the virtue that makes all other 
virtues possible.  HOTEL RWANDA reminds us of that with dramatic force and 
compelling poignancy.  (Excerpted from TIME and THE NEW YORK TIMES)

Don Cheadle - Academy Award Nominee - Best Actor; Sophie Okonedo - Academy 
Award Nominee - Best Supporting Actress; Best Original Screenplay - Terry 
George and Keir Pearson

"Provides Don Cheadle with the best role of his career"-THE NEW YORK 
OBSERVER.  "A film of rare courage and imperishable heart"-ROLLING 
STONE.  "The best film of the year"-Ebert & Roeper.  "Breathtaking.  A 
testament to an ordinary man's extraordinary heroism"-ELLE
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MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman
Rated PG-13 for violence, some disturbing images, thematic material and 
language.  133 min.  <http://www.milliondollarbabymovie.net>

Clint Eastwood's MILLION DOLLAR BABY is the best movie released by a major 
Hollywood studio this year, and not because it is the grandest, the most 
ambitious or even the most original.  On the contrary: it is a quiet, 
intimately scaled three-person drama directed in a patient, easygoing 
style, without any of the displays of allusive cleverness or formal 
gimmickry that so often masquerade as important filmmaking these days.

At first glance the story, about a grizzled boxing trainer whose hard heart 
is melted by a spunky young fighter, seems about as fresh as a well-worn 
gym shoe.  This is a Warner Brothers release, and if it were not in color 
(and if the young fighter in question were not female), MILLION DOLLAR 
BABY, with its open-hearted mixture of sentiment and grit, might almost be 
mistaken for a picture from the studio's 1934 lineup that was somehow 
mislaid for 70 years.

Which is not to say that Mr. Eastwood, who is of Depression-era vintage (he 
will turn 75 this year), is interested in nostalgia, or in the 
self-conscious quotation of a bygone cinematic tradition, or even in 
simplicity for its own sake.  With its careful, unassuming naturalism, its 
visual thrift and its emotional directness, MILLION DOLLAR BABY feels at 
once contemporary and classical, a work of utter mastery that at the same 
time has nothing in particular to prove.

Mr. Eastwood plays Frankie Dunn, the owner of a tidy, beat-up gym tucked 
away in a shabby corner of Los Angeles.  His best friend, who supplies 
world-weary voice-over narration is Eddie Dupris (Morgan Freeman), a former 
fighter whom Frankie managed long ago.  Both men carry some heavy 
frustration and regret, but they bear the weight gracefully and with 
good-humored fatalism, reconciled to loneliness and the diminishing returns 
of age.

Frankie, a gifted professional whose timidity - he prefers to think of it 
as common sense - has kept him away from the big time - receives a second 
chance in the unlikely person of Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank, in her 
best performance since BOYS DON'T CRY), a waitress who shows up at his gym 
and won't take no for an answer.  Frankie insists that he doesn't train 
girls, and since Maggie is already 30, she's too old to have  much chance 
for glory in any case.  But her combination of eagerness and discipline 
wear down Frankie's resistance, and he and Maggie are soon embarked on a 
classic underdog's journey toward triumph.

It may be a staged tale of an underdog's triumph, but each scene is packed 
with authentic feeling, and if you think you know where MILLION DOLLAR BABY 
is headed - have no fear, you don't.  (Excerpted from THE NEW YORK TIMES & 
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY)

"A stunningly drawn map of the human heart.  Eastwood is a true 
artist"-ROLLING STONE.  "It's not just the exceptional work by costars 
Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman that stands out here, it's Eastwood's own 
performance, in some ways the most nakedly emotional of his 50-year 
career"-LOS ANGELES TIMES
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School of Athens Lecture Series Continues March 13 With Bill Porter

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  SOLD OUT

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  SOLD OUT

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  SOLD OUT

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.  SOLD OUT

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  SOLD OUT*

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  SOLD OUT*

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.

*Although the remaining two lectures are sold out, tickets often become 
available the day of the event.  To purchase these tickets it is advised 
that you arrive at the theatre no later than 12:15.

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.

Assisstive listening devices are available by request at the concession.
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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*

MOOLAADE - March 11 - 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>

HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS - tba - Director Zhang Yimou reinvents himself as 
an action filmmaker with this colorful, kinetic, breathtaking adventure 
about the Flying Daggers, a shadowy squad of assassins waging a guerrilla 
insurgency against a corrupt and decadent government.  "An astonishing 
combination of spectacle, suspense and passionate intensity.  If there's a 
more beautiful movie around I'm not aware of it"-Joe Morgenstern, THE WALL 
STREET JOURNAL.  <http://www.sonyclassics.com>

SPANGLISH - tba - Director James L. Brooks (AS GOOD AS IT GETS, BROADCAST 
NEWS) has created a warm and absorbing story, part comedy, part drama, 
starring Adam Sandler, Tea Leoni, Cloris Leachman and Paz Vega.  "...it 
gives us ideas to chew on, moments to laugh at and performances to 
admire"-LOS ANGELES TIMES  <http://Spanglish.com>

BAD EDUCATION - tba - From director Pedro Almodovar (TALK TO HER) comes 
this delirious, headlong film about the wonder of storytelling and the 
human instinct to embroider reality.  "One of the best pictures of the 
year"-TIME MAGAZINE.  Gael Garcia Bernal is dynamite.  A rapturous 
masterwork"-THE NEW YORK TIMES.  <http://www.sonyclassics.com>  NC-17 - No 
one 17 and under admitted

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - March 11 - "Phantom, which is still running on 
Broadway, is a rapturous spectacle and the movie goes the show one 
better.  It smolders"-ROLLING STONE.  "One of the absolute must-see movies 
of the year...a musical masterpiece...a truly brilliant work of art"ACCESS 
HOLLYWOOD.  <http://www.phantomthemovie.com>

THE SEA INSIDE - tba - Based on a true story (and my favorite movie of 
'04), this Spanish film about a man's dream of a dignified death features 
an altogether believable and beautiful performance by Javier Bardem.  "A 
monumentally moving experience...a potent blend of emotional and cerebral 
filmmaking, anchored by what may be the year's most impressive performance 
by the supremely talented Bardem"-USA TODAY.  "One of the most profound and 
uplifting dramas of the year"-LOS ANGELES TIMES.  <http://www.theseainside.com>

CLOSER - tba - Mike Nichols's haunting and hypnotic film vibrates 
with  eroticism, bruising laughs and dynamic performances from four 
attractive actors doing decidedly unattractive things.  Starring Julia 
Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman & Clive Owen.  "This film is 
mesmerizing"-Roger Ebert.  "Smart, sexy"-NEW YORK 
MAGAZINE.  <http://www.sony.com/Closer>

*schedule subject to change.
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Rose Theatre Movie Challenge  Who said the following, who was it said to, 
and what movie is the comment referring to?  "I made you a star, and you're 
going to throw it all away?  You're a leading man and you're going to play 
this?  "The Graduate" was so clean, and this is so dirty."

Question:

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, February 25 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: Warner Bros. was initially hesitant to cast James 
Dean in "Rebel Without A Cause."  A month before filming was to begin the 
studio was still considering three other actors for the role.  Identify 
these actors.

Answer:  Tab Hunter, Robert Wagner and John Kerr

There were no winners this week.
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