[Rose-movies] Rose Theatre Newsletter for August 2, 2005

[The Rose Theatre]

This week's newsletter includes:
    * ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW starts Friday, August 5
    * RIZE starts Friday, August 5 - 3 Days Only
    * MARCH OF THE PENGUINS held over
    * CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY ends Thursday, August 4
    * Annual Outdoor Movie At Memorial Field August 20th
    * Admission Prices
    * Gift Suggestions
    * Coming Attractions
    * Rose Theatre Movie Challenge
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Show Times: Tuesday, August 2 - Thursday, August 11

ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW - showing in the Rosebud Cinema
Aug 5                   4:00, 7:20, 9:20
Aug 6                   1:30, 7:20, 9:20
Aug 7                   1:30, 7:20
Aug 8-11                4:00, 7:20

RIZE - evening shows in the Rose, matinees in the Rosebud
Aug 5                   10:45
Aug 6                   4:00, 10:45
Aug 7                   4:00

MARCH OF THE PENGUINS - showing in the Rose Theatre
Aug 2-5         4:30, 7:00, 8:50
Aug 6,7         2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 8:50
Aug 8-11                4:30, 7:00, 8:50

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY - showing in the Rosebud Cinema
Aug. 2-4                4:00, 7:20
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ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW
Directed by Miranda July
Cast: Miranda July, John Hawkes, Miles Thompson, Brandon Ratcliff, Carlie 
Westerman,l Natasha Slayton.
Rated R for disturbing sexual content involving children, and for 
language.  90 min.  <http://www.meandyoumovie.com>

The wording of the Special Jury Prize awarded at this year's Sundance Film 
Festival to Miranda July for her breathtaking feature debut, ME AND YOU AND 
EVERYONE WE KNOW, suggests a fashion-forward taste in eyewear rather than a 
superior quality of filmmaking.  But it'll have to do, since definition 
eludes the delicate pleasures of this marvelous, idiosyncratic movie 
collage from a doe-eyed artist whose projects to date have jumped from 
radio plays to short stores to performance pieces to interactive video 
art.  (Even her name sounds like a piece of fiction or one-act play.)

In ME AND YOU, July's theme is the human longing for connection, distilled 
into a handful of touching, weird, everyday trial-and-error encounters 
among a collection of interrelated characters who could exist only in - 
well, in a Miranda July story.  The filmmaker herself plays a video artist 
(she drives elderly people in a taxi service to pay the rent) who is 
attracted to a shoe salesman raising two boys after having separated from 
his wife.  And I can't even begin to describe the bizarro yet tenderly 
ordinary happenstances that befall the boys, the most extraordinary of 
which involves that powerful identity-disguising phenomenon, the online 
chat room.

Around this hub of longing and retreat is a cast of equally disconnected 
characters who turn to sex - or at least their skewed ideas of it - for 
affirmation.  There is an unsettling undercurrent to some of these scenes, 
yet even the most discomforting elements become oddly innocent under July's 
benign outlook.  No predators are lurking here, merely empty souls looking 
for connection.  In her guileless world, trust is rewarded with affection 
and acceptance.

July's handmade movie is so unique and so true to the artist's elementally 
feminine self, both in form and content, that it's impossible not to 
respond strongly to it.  Or, heck, against it, if that's what her 
originality of vision evokes. Either way, hers is an artwork not to be 
missed.  (Excerpted from ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY and THE SEATTLE 
POST-INTELLIGENCER)

"A moonbeam romance laced with startling wit.  Miranda July's unique take 
on the world is cause for celebration"-ROLLING 
STONE.  "Whimsical...playful...brazen...touching and funny"-THE NEW YORK 
TIMES.  Winner - Camera d'Or - 2005 Cannes International Film Festival.
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RIZE
Directed by David LaChapelle
Cast: Tommy the Clown, Lil Tommy, Larry, Lil C, Dragon, Tight Eyez, Baby 
Tight Eyez, Ms. Prissy, Swoop, El Nino, Daisy, Big X, La Nina and Quinesha.
Rated PG-13 for suggestive content and language, drug references and brief 
nudity.  85 min.  <http://www.rizemovie.com>

RIZE, the new enthralling documentary by the fashion photographer David 
LaChapelle, begins with an unusual disclaimer: "The footage in this film 
has not been sped up in any way."

The reason for such reassurance soon becomes clear.  Twenty-four frames per 
second, the rate at which film traditionally moves through a camera seems 
too sluggish for Mr. LaChapelle's purpose, which is to record a form of 
dance that flourishes in some African-American neighborhoods in greater Los 
Angeles.

Called "clowning" or "krumping" - the terms refer to distinct but related 
styles - this kind of dancing is fierce, fast and frenetic, turning its 
practitioners into whirlwinds of flying limbs.  Part of the pleasure of 
watching RIZE is the sheer astonishment at their performances, which are 
shot and edited cleanly, with the focus on dance rather than movie-making 
technique.

Sometimes the dancers appear to have been possessed by angry spirits or set 
on fire, which in a sense they have been.  This movie is, among other 
things, a celebration of the daemon of creative discipline and of the 
burning need for self-expression, community and pride.

That, at any rate, is how the clowners and krumpers describe what they do, 
and Mr. LaChapelle wisely lets them do most of the talking, rather than 
stepping in to interpret their experiences for us.  He begins with images 
of urban upheaval - the Watts riots of 1965 and the Rodney King 
disturbances 27 years later - to establish that krumping is an art form 
that has risen against a backdrop of poverty, violence and despair.  These 
hard facts are never far from the minds of the dancers themselves, many of 
whom have joined clowning and krumping groups as an alternative to gangs.

"A knockout! A visual miracle"-ROLLING STONE.  "A vibrant eruption of 
motion and attitude"-ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY.  "Pulses with raw, passionate 
revelation"-ELLE.  "Electrifying"-USA TODAY
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MARCH OF THE PENGUINS
Directed by Luc  Jacquet
Cast: Countless Beautiful Penguins, with narration by Morgan Freeman
Rated G: Some frightening moments may be too intense for small 
children.  80 min.  <http://www.marchofthepenguins.com>

Tired of human movie stars, with their over-hyped romances and breakups, 
their arrests and trials, their mindless talk-show chitchat?

Maybe it's time for new screen idols.  And here they come, in their elegant 
black and white plumage, trudging along the ice in a majestic waddle like a 
procession of formal maitre d's.  They don't have press agents or makeup 
people.  And simply by going about their business - finding mates, hatching 
eggs, hunting food in one of the harshest terrains on Earth - they are 
riveting.

Luc Jacquet's gripping documentary, MARCH OF THE PENGUINS, packed with more 
romance and nail-biting adventure than a summer of Hollywood movies, 
chronicles the emperor's arduous journey in intimate detail that draws you 
in emotionally to such an extent that you'll be shocked back to reality 
when the end credits remind you that a crew of humans had to be present to 
capture the drama.

MARCH OF THE PENGUINS is as uplifting as anything you will find in theaters 
as the birds' struggle encompasses all the elements of great 
drama.  Jacquet risks over-anthropomorphizing the penguins at times, but 
it's a gamble that pays off.  Rather than projecting human traits onto the 
penguins, what happens is that the audience begins to identify with these 
odd birds and their incredible journey, and through this empathy we feel 
more human.

The stars of MARCH OF THE PENGUINS are exotic, funny, glorious birds.  And 
this 80-minute movie, narrated by actor Morgan Freeman in comforting basso 
tones, should trigger a wave of penguin frenzy - and perhaps more awareness 
that these birds (like many other species)  are endangered by global 
warming.  (Excerpted from THE SEATTLE TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES)

"Mind-blowing.  A real life action movie"-NEW YORK MAGAZINE.  "Birth, 
death, romance, danger...don't miss it"-TIME OUT NEW YORK.  "An amazing 
achievement"-ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT.
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CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Directed by Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter, 
Noah Taylor, James Fox, Christopher Lee, Deep Roy
Rated PG.  116 min.  <http://www.chocolatefactorymovie.com>

The wondrous surfaces have a weird undercurrent that won't go away in 
CHARLIE AND CHOCOLATE FACTORY, Tim Burton's richly elaborated take on Roald 
Dahl's beloved children's book.  Entertaining and fabulously imaginative in 
many ways, this second big screen rendition of the late author's modest 
morality tale on the wages of unbridled excess sports excesses of its own.

The very idea or remaking the original film is sacrilegious to some who 
grew on it, although it is hard to overlook that film's lackluster musical 
numbers and complete lack of visual style.  Burton's entry is 
scarcely  deficient in the latter category, as CHARLIE rates as one of the 
most riotous explosions of color since THE GANG'S ALL HERE, and the 
advanced sophistication of effects makes so much possible now that was 
inconceivable three decades back.

Dazzling opening credits sequence, a detailing of the chocolate 
manufacturing process instantly creates high expectations, which are indeed 
fulfilled.  In an unnamed great industrial city very much like London, 
little Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore, Depp's splendid co-star in FINDING 
NEVERLAND) lives an emotionally warm but physically threadbare existence 
with his parents and two sets of grandparents in a ramshackle shack.  This 
structure itself is a twisted marvel of design worthy of a great German 
Expressionist film, its occupants a lively lot deftly caricatured by 
superior thespians.

Burton excels at the barbed exposition.  In bold, controlled brush strokes, 
he reveals how Charlie has long heard the tale of Willy Wonka from his 
Grandpa Joe, who toiled at the factory until all the workers were dismissed 
15 years ago.  Since then, chocolate production has continued apace, but no 
one knows how, and not a soul has glimpsed the owner himself.  (Excerpted 
from VARIETY)

"The year's hippest family fantasy"-US WEEKLY.  "Tim Burton and Johnny Depp 
make a sweet treat"-ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY.  'Johnny Depp's delicious take on 
Willy Wonka demands to be seen"-ROLLING STONE
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Annual Outdoor Movie At Memorial Field August 20th

The Rose Theatre's Annual Outdoor Movie Party under the stars at Memorial 
Field takes place Saturday, August 20. The fabulous Rhythm Planet will once 
again kick off the evening festivities with great dance music.  There will 
be a drawing for two, two-month passes to the Rose and for a pass to this 
year's Port Townsend Film Festival (Sept. 23-25).  At dusk - 8:45ish - E.T. 
THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL will light up our humongous inflatable screen.  Bring 
a blanket, a picnic dinner, a warm jacket and friends and enjoy a truly 
great summer event in Port Townsend.  Gates open at 6:30, admission for 
adults $5, children 12 and under $3.  Rose Theatre popcorn (with yeast) 
will be waiting for you.  Couches optional.
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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 30 minutes 
before the first show of the day, and tickets may be purchased at that time 
for any show through Thursday, August 11th.

Assisted listening devices are available by request at the concession.

Both auditoriums are wheelchair accessible, as well as the main floor 
restroom.  If you phone our office  ahead of time we'll be happy to reserve 
for you the designated seating area in either the Rose Theatre or Rosebud 
Cinema.  (360.385.1039)
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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*

MURDERBALL - August 26 - Winner of the Audience Award at this year's 
Sundance Film Festival, this inspirational documentary profiles 
quadriplegic rugby players.  "Mesmerizing.  Creates a new definition of 
courage"-ROLLING STONE.  "Fierce, 
funny"-PREMIERE.  <http://www.murderballmovie.com>

MY SUMMER OF LOVE - tba - A beautifully told, disarming story from 
Polish-born director Pawel Pawlikowski about two young women of very 
disparate backgrounds colliding into a risky, beguiling 
affair.  "Seductive, spellbinding.  A sly and wonderfully atmospheric 
gem"-NEWSWEEK.  "Thrilling and deliciously charged"-VANITY 
FAIR.  <http://www.mysummeroflovemovie.com>

YES - tba - Sally Potter's new film is a stylish meditation on love, world 
politics, science and happiness.  Potter began writing the story in the 
day's following September 11, and the result is a film that responds to 
that catastrophic event in Potter's own unique voice.  "It's as if Ingmar 
Bergman, William Shakespeare and Dr. Seuss had collaborated on a 
project"-THE WASHINGTON POST. <http://www.sonyclassics.com>

*schedule subject to change.
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Rose Theatre Movie Challenge:  Identify the specific class of bird nesting 
under the Rose Theatre awning.

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, August 5 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:  In THE GRADUATE, Benjamin drives up to UC Berkeley 
to find Elaine.  Most of the campus shots, however, are not of UC 
Berkeley.  Identify this "stand in" campus.

Answer:  Most of campus scenes were filmed at the University of Southern 
California.

Congratulations to SG, our winner this week, and to DC, last week's frozen 
waffle winner.
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