[Rose-movies] Rose Theatre Newsletter for June 13, 2005
The Rose Theatre
rocky at rosetheatre.com
Mon Jun 13 14:32:48 PDT 2005
This week's newsletter includes:
* BATMAN BEGINS starts Wednesday, June 15
* MAD HOT BALLROOM starts Friday, June 17
* STAR WARS - EPISODE III ends Tuesday, June 14
* MADAGASCAR ends Thursday, June 16
* VOICES IN WARTIME - Sunday, June 19
* VOICES IN WARTIME Screens for Teen Peace Project Benefit Saturday,
June 18
* Admission Prices
* Gift Suggestions
* Coming Attractions
* Rose Theatre Movie Challenge
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Show Times: Monday, June 13 - Thursday, June 23
BATMAN BEGINS - showing in the Rose Theatre
June 15,16 4:00, 7:00
June 17,18 4:00, 7:00, 9:45
June 19-23 4:00, 7:00
MAD HOT BALLROOM - showing in the Rosebud Cinema
June 17 4:30, 7:20, 9:30
June 18 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 9:30
June 19 1:30, 4:30, 7:20
June 20,23 4:30, 7:20
STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH - showing in the Rose Theatre
June 13,14 4:00, 7:00
MADAGASCAR - showing in the Rosebud Cinema
June 13-16 4:30, 7:20
VOICES IN WARTIME - showing in the Rose Theatre
June 19 1:00
VOICES IN WARTIME - Teen Peace Project Benefit
June 18 1:00
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BATMAN BEGINS
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Katie
Holmes, Liam Neeson
Rated PG-13 for violence. 140 min. <http://www.batmanbegins.com>
Batman is back. After four films about the caped crusader, beginning
famously in 1989 with Tim Burton's Gothic original and ending infamously in
1997 with Joel Schumacher's version, the fanchise suffered a run of aborted
rebots until Warner Bros. brought in Christopher Nolan, the 34-year-old
gifted mind behind MEMENTO, whose no-frills approach was just what the
bloated Batman saga needed.
The film is a stylistic rebirth. Nolan's vision doesn't have a trace of
comic-book-movie excess; it's a globetrotting epic - Bruce Wayne goes to
Bhutan! - in a mold of the adventure movies he grew up adoring. "We were
thinking about David Lean and John Huston," says co-writer David
Goyer. "Not STARLIGHT EXPRESS."
The rugged charm of BATMAN BEGINS, which stars Welsh actor Christian Bale,
lies partly in its refusal to join the visual-effects arms race that the
summer-movie season has lately become. When Nolan does turn to digital
wizardry, he uses it to amplify the action, not supply it. "I think
there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more
unreal," says Nolan. "The demand we put on ourselves was to be as
spectacular as possible, but not depend on computer graphics to do it." In
BATMAN BEGINS, most of the fireworks come from old-fashioned places: story
and character. (Excerpted from NEWSWEEK)
"One of the year's best films. It's the 'Batman' movie I've been waiting
for"-Roger Ebert. "A rugged, rousing adventure"-NEWSWEEK. "A brilliant,
complex, intelligent action thriller"-NBC-TV
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MAD HOT BALLROOM
Directed by Marilyn Agrelo
Cast: Jatnna, Amber, Wilson, Priscilla, Vai-Wen, Ronnie, Michael, Zeb,
Cyrus, Tara
Rated PG for some thematic elements. 105
min. <http://www.paramountclassics.com/madhot
The more unlikely the cultural marriage, the better it plays on-screen,
which is why the incongruous combination of gritty New York City public
school kids and the rarefied, privileged world of ballroom dancing makes
MAD HOT BALLROOM a documentary experience to savor.
Warm, funny and very difficult to resist, this engaging film combines the
charm of SPELLBOUND with the kinetic energy of STRICTLY BALLROOM in a way
that will make you want to laugh, cry and do a little dancing yourself,
maybe all at the same time.
Directed by Marilyn Agrelo, MAD HOT BALLROOM couldn't exist without a
program, run by the American Ballroom Institute, that has brought trained
teachers to what at last count was some 7,000 fourth and fifth graders in
68 elementary schools across the five boroughs.
More than that, the kids take part in an annual citywide competition that
encompasses the program's five dances - fox trot, merengue, rumba, tango
and swing - and culminates in an emotional dance-off for the enormous
trophy that goes to New York's No. 1 dance team.
Still a few years from the mad hormones of adolescence, the film's fourth
and fifth graders, glimpsed on the dance floor and in candid moments
outside school seem hardly likely to embrace the physical touch and
constant eye contact ballroom dancing demands. But the wonder of MAD HOT
BALLROOM is that these kids embrace dance and even get to love it. Hungry
for a shot at accomplishment, the young dancers get all but addicted to the
chance to do something well and feel good about themselves in the
process. And because they are not old enough to dissemble and hide their
feelings, these kids' earnestness, their disappointments and their joy are
all easy for us to read and share. (Excerpted from LOS ANGELES TIMES)
"An out-of-left-field delight. Can you resist this movie? Don't even
try"-NEWSWEEK. "You'll waltz out exhilarated"-NEW YORK. "Comical and
genuinely touching"-THE NEW YORK TIMES. "A smashing mix of good story and
authentic spirit"-THE EXAMINER
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VOICES IN WARTIME
Directed by Rick King
Starring Lieutenant General William J. Lennox, Jr., Sam Hamill, Chris
Hedges, Todd Swift, and other poets, soldiers, historians and combat experts.
Not rated: Contains wartime scenes. 74 min. <http://www.voicesinwartime.org>
Rick King's stirring documentary VOICES IN WARTIME is not, as you might
guess from the title, a compilation of soldiers' battlefield letters to
their families back home. This intense little film is about poetry, and
not just Homer's "Iliad" ("Hurling down to the house of death so many
sturdy souls") and Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade."
Contemporary poets have a lot to say about war, which the first lady, Laura
bush, learned a little over a two years ago when she invited a number of
them to a White House symposium on Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes and Emily
Dickinson. Sam Hamill, co-founder of Poets Against the War, received his
invitation and promptly organized his fellow writers to submit antiwar
work in response. (The event was promptly canceled.)
Side by side, images of American conflicts from the Civil War to the 2003
invasion of Iraq and the words of poets about those events make an elegant
statement not only about the devastation of war but also about poetry's
power to amaze.
The writers whose work is read include Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon,
Randall Jarrell, Sherman Pearl, Marilyn Nelson, Sinan Antoon, Chris Abani
and Cameron Penny, a 12-year-old boy from Michigan.
The little boy wrote about soldiers on a battlefield who see, instead of
the enemy, reflections of themselves as children. At an event at Lincoln
Center, Marie Howe, who teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, read his poem,
"If You Are Lucky in This Life," which ends:
And they stop fighting
And go home and go to sleep.
When they wake up,
The land is well again.
"Fascinating"-VARIETY. "Thought provoking"-Sixty Second Preview. "My
subject is War, and the pity of War. The poetry is in the pity"-Wilfred
Owen, 1893-1918
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VOICES IN WARTIME - Benefit Screening for Teen Peace Project Saturday, June
18, 1:00
The Teen Peace Project provides education and support for young adults
interested in becoming conscientious objectors and finding alternatives to
military service. Tickets for this benefit may be purchased by phoning Liz
Goldstein at 360.379.9094, or at the door the day of the event.
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Admission Prices
General admission to the Rose is $8, senior citizens (62+) $7, children (12
& under) $6. 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.
Assisted listening devices are available by request at the concession.
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Gift Suggestions
Rose Theatre T-Shirts - $16.00
Rose Theatre Sweatshirts - $32.00
Admission Gift Certificates - $8, $7, $6
Discount Cards - $35.00 - (five admissions) Saves $1 on each general
admission ticket.
Concession Gift Certificates for any denomination
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Coming Attractions*
LOOK AT ME - tba - A sparkling satire in which a French girl struggles with
the burden of having a celebrity father. Winner of Best Screenplay at the
Cannes Film Festival. "Hilariously merciless!"-NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. "A
witty and acute examination of friendship, ambition and betrayal."-THE NEW
YORK TIMES. "A wonderful new film--a tender, indignant, but also very
worldly movie."-THE NEW YORKER. <http://www.sonyclassics.com>
*schedule subject to change.
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Rose Theatre Movie Challenge: Match the dance with the description*
A. Fox Trot
B. Tango
C. Swing
D. Merengue
E. Rumba
1. A marriage of movements, a marriage of cultures; swing, sway, move,
groove, this is the rhythm of life.
2. A jump back, hep-cat full beat rhythm combines with moves that just
don't quit, launching the world into a space that swings, baby, swings.
3. Hips are swaying and sashaying to the beat, beat, beat of this Latin
rhythm. Always fun and full of surprises, cutting loose never looked this
good.
4. One simple movement flowing to the next, slowly and smoothly it winds
its way in an elegant trip around the dance floor.
5. Long limbs and dramatic gestures stretch this sensual dance into a
romantic attitude full of possibilites.
*From MAD HOT BALLROOM
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, June 17 and will be notified
by e-mail. Your free pass will be held at the box office so you must
include your name along with your movie challenge answer. Passes are good
for 30 days.
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Last Week's Question: One-third of the movie audience left the theater in
disgust. If 78 angry patrons walked out, how many were there
originally? (From "Beginning and Intermediate Algebra" by R. David
Gustafson and Peter D. Frisk, Fourth Edition, 2005)
Answer: 234
Congratulations to SM, our winner this week.
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