[Rose-movies] Rose Theatre Newsletter for October 11, 2005

[The Rose Theatre]

This week's newsletter includes:
    * TOUCH THE SOUND starts Friday, October 14
    * JUNEBUG ends Thursday, October 13
    * WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT held over
    * GRIZZLY MAN starts Friday, October 21
    * School of Athens Lecture Series is sold out, but last minute seats 
are often available
    * Admission Prices
    * Gift Suggestions
    * Coming Attractions
    * Rose Theatre Movie Challenge
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Show Times: Tuesday, October 11 - Thursday, October 20

TOUCH THE SOUND - showing in the Rosebud Cinema
Oct      14             4:30, 7:20
Oct      15             2:20, 4:30, 7:20, 9:20
Oct 16-20               4:30, 7:20

JUNEBUG - showing in the Rosebud Cinema
Oct 11-13               4:30, 7:30

WALLACE & GROMIT - showing in the Rose Theatre
Oct 11-14               4:00, 7:00
Oct      15             1:45, 4:00, 7:00, 9:00
Oct 16-20               4:00, 7:00
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TOUCH THE SOUND: A SOUND JOURNEY WITH EVELYN GLENNIE
Directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer
Not rated.  99 min.  <http://shadowdistribution.com>

Two years after his portrait of landscape artist Andy Goldsworthy, RIVERS 
AND TIDES, documentary filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer focuses his 
inquisitive lens on another artist deeply connected to the natural 
world.  The subject of his lovely new film is an extraordinary solo 
percussionist who is profoundly deaf.

Vibrant and engaging, Grammy winner Glennie began losing her hearing as a 
young girl in Scotland and within a few years was all but completely 
deaf.  With the support of her farmer parents, especially her musically 
talented father, she remained in mainstream classrooms, pursued her drum 
playing and discarded her hearing aids.

For Glennie, hearing is a form of touch, her body a resonating chamber 
through which she hears.  She wearies of being asked to explain precisely 
how this happens; so-called hearing people, she points out, can no better 
answer that question about themselves than she can.

Director-cameraman-editor Riedelsheimer's intimate, lyrical visuals capture 
her playful spirit and serious joy, whether she's soloing in Grand Central 
Station, playing exploratory duets with avant-garde musician Fred Frith in 
a cavernous Cologne industrial building, improvising with Japanese drum 
troupe Za Ondekoza or teaching a hearing-impaired girl the wonders of 
percussion.

If Ms. Glennie declares her favorite instrument to be the snare drum, it is 
the marimba on which she creates the film's most haunting music.  TOUCH THE 
SOUND concludes with a sustained meditation for percussion and guitar, in 
which Mr. Frith, stationed on an elevated platform on the other side of the 
room, elicits plaintive, shivery cries from an electric guitar while Ms. 
Glennie taps out a deep, quiet musical prayer on the marimba.  This is 
synergy of a high order.  (Excerpted from THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER & THE NEW 
YORK TIMES)

"Exquisitely beautiful for the eyes as for the ears"-CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
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JUNEBUG -
Directed by Phil Morrison
Cast: Amy Adams, Embeth Davidtz, Ben McKenzie, Alessandro Nivola, Celia 
Watson, Scott Wilson
Rated R for sexual content and language.  107 
min.  <http://www.sonyclassics.com>

There's a moment in Phil Morrison's marvelous JUNEBUG that is so pure and 
moving, in such an unexpected way, that it's as if the world were opening 
up before you.  Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz), a Chicago art gallery owner who 
is tall and angular, with a post transatlantic accent, has arrived in North 
Carolina with her new husband, George (Alessandro Nivola).  The two are 
staying with his family who could modestly be described as truly, madly, 
deeply Southern.  We're primed for a ripely funny culture clash, and the 
movie doesn't disappoint, as Madeleine, with her Euro double kisses, does 
her best to mingle with the unvarnished members of George's moody, polite, 
yet barely welcoming middle-class clan.  For a while, George himself, a 
sexy Southern boy-turned-urban professional appears nearly as alien to his 
family's taciturn, Formica-and-wood-paneling style as his glamorous wife 
is. Then they attend a church supper, and George, reuniting with old 
friends, stands up to lead a hymn.  As he sings about Jesus calling him 
home, his voice is suffused with reverence, and Madeleine stares at her 
husband in shock, as if seeing him for the very first time.  In a sense, 
she is.

There have, by now, been so many strenuously cute indie comedies about 
"quirky" dysfunctional families and what it takes to overcome them that as 
you watch JUNEBUG, you may find yourself caught entrancingly off guard by 
the conflicting shades of love, suspicion, tradition, and mystery that 
infuse this tale of lost innocence, deep roots, and what it means to come 
from the world of the South.  Morrison, in his debut feature, views 
George's family with serene comic grace: Madeleine, so wary yet eager to 
please, is our catalyst for getting to know these folks, and she forges her 
most surprising bond with the brother's pregnant wife, Ashley (Amy Adams), 
a gloriously arrested chatterbox - she's Scarlett O'Hara with ADD - played 
by Adams  in a performance as deep as it is delightful.  She's the film's 
heart and also its flaky, wonderstruck soul.  (Excerpted from ENTERTAINMENT 
WEEKLY)

"A wise, bittersweet, beautifully acted comedy...envelopes us into the 
texture of a world that movies rarely visit"-THE NEW YORK TIMES.  "As with 
all the best movies, 'Junebug' has something everybody will be able to 
relate to"-SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE.  "Amy Adams is a revelation"-MOVIELINE
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WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
Directed by Nick Park and Steve Box
Voices: Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Nicholas Smith, 
Peter Kay, Liz Smith
Rated G for general audiences.  85 min, plus an 11 min. 
short.  <http://www.WandG.com>

After breaking in their act in several hilarious shorts - two won Oscars - 
and a TV series, Wallace and Gromit get their very own feature film with 
WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT. Wallace, of course, is that 
daft inventor extraordinaire, and Gromit is his silent though sage canine 
who quietly cleans up his master's disasters.

In this adventure Wallace and Gromit run a humane extermination company 
called Anti-Pesto, which collects rabbits savaging vegetable patches in a 
comfy British suburb and brings them back to the house.  (The basement is 
getting rather overrun by rabbits, truth be told.)

Anti-Pesto faces its greatest challenge when a monster rabbit devours patch 
after patch in the days leading up to the annual Giant Vegetable 
Competition, sponsored by Lady Tottington.  The team must also outwit the 
blustery Victor Quartermaine who means to kill the monster rabbit with a 
24-carat gold bullet.

Then the unthinkable happens, (but I'm not going to tell you what it 
is.)  From here on, the movie rolls merrily along with slapstick action and 
whimsical characters.  And as always there's Gromit working feverishly to 
prevent disaster after disaster.  (Excerpted from THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

"The flat-out funniest movie in dog years"-TIME MAGAZINE.  "What an 
ingenious, witty, wonderful film...the funniest comedy duo to hit the 
screen since Laurel and Hardy"-ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT.  "Endless fun...one 
of the most enjoyable family films of the year"-NBC-TV
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GRIZZLY MAN - starts Friday, October 21
Directed by Werner Herzog
Rated R for language.  103 min.  <http://www.grizzlymanmovie.com>

In GRIZZLY MAN, the indefatigable Werner Herzog has made a brilliant 
documentary about an American saint and fool - a man who understands 
everything about nature except death.  This innocent is one Timothy 
Treadwell, a college athlete from Long Island who dropped out of school 
after an injury, failed as an actor, and became a California surfer who 
drank too much.  He was a routine product of American dislocation - a 
washout, even - until the moment in 1989 when he had an epiphany in 
Alaska.  Up there in the wilds, Teadwell fell in love with the enormous 
grizzlies that come down from the mountains in the warm weather, when the 
salmon are running.  Starting in 1992, and for a dozen summers after that, 
he lived among the animals in the Katmai National Park and Preserve, almost 
always alone, and always without a weapon.  His special province was a 
densely shrubbed plot of land - the Grizzly Maze, he called it - which he 
turned into a private petting zoo.  He gave the animals - many of the 
weighing seven or eight hundred pounds - such names as Mr. Chocolate and 
Aunt Melissa, stroked their noses with his hand, and reigned in this 
peaceable kingdom as a kind of benevolent god.

In his own eyes he was protecting the bears from poachers and from the 
indifference of the park service.  Treadwell was a fearless man, who could 
face down an enraged animal with a pointed finger and the words, "Don't do 
that.  I love you."  He was also an implacable cornball and a 
sentimentalist.  His Dr. Doolittle act worked extremely well, right up to 
the moment when it stopped working at all.  In October 2003, Treadwell and 
his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, were attacked and devoured by a hungry 
long-nosed grizzly that either came down from the mountains late or 
lingered after the other bears left.

We know all this because Treadwell, a media-type guy, had a digital video 
camera with him during his last five summers in Alaska and shot a hundred 
hours of footage, which after he died, fell into the eager hands of Werner 
Herzog.  The great German filmmaker interviewed some of Treadwell's adoring 
friends and ex-girlfriends; he also talked to a variety of local 
naturalists and park-service officers, most of whom thought that Treadwell 
"stepped over the line" that separates humans from animals.  Herzog then 
wove the "found" footage into a startling meditation on innocence and 
nature.  Narrating in his extraordinary German-accented English, Herzog is 
fair-minded and properly respectful of Treadwell's manic 
self-invention.  He even praises Treadwell as a filmmaker: as Treadwell 
stands talking in the foreground of the frame, the bears play behind him or 
scoop up salmon in sparkling water; in other shots, a couple of foxes leap 
across the grass in the middle of a Treadwell monologue.  The footage is 
full of stunning incidental beauties.

In a way, GRIZZLY MAN is the ultimate nature documentary, for it chronicles 
the nature of man as well as the nature of animals.  Herzog, investigating 
Treadwell's earlier life, interprets him as a spiritually chaotic outcast 
from civilization, an impatient misfit who relieved his misanthropy with 
neurotic protestations of love in the wilderness.  As Herzog frames it, the 
entire movie is a very dark joke.  Yet there's an element in the comedy 
which Herzog may not have intended: the contrast between the 
self-dramatizing American, with his naive egotism and optimism, and the 
hyper-cultivated European, who brings his own burden of despair to 
nature.  Whereas the tormented Treadwell longs for harmony and doesn't seem 
to understand that death is at the center of any ecological balance, Herzog 
sees nothing but death.  Looking into the eyes of a bear that comes close 
to Treadwell's camera, he  discerns cruelty and mercilessness rather than 
hunger.  Neither man, it seems is willing to admit that a bear is a bear is 
a bear.  (Excerpted from THE NEW YORKER)

"One of the most remarkable documentaries produced by any filmmaker in 
recent years"-THE NEW YORK TIMES.  "Truly an amazing piece of work"-Ebert & 
Roeper.  "A work of genius"-L.A. DAILY NEWS.  "Extraordinarily 
moving"-WASHINGTON POST
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All series passes and individual tickets for the 2005-06 School of Athens 
Lecture Series have been sold. Experience tells us, however, that some 
ticket holders do not show up for every lecture, so invariably there are 
last minute seats available.  Our suggestion is that if you hope to 
purchase a last minute ticket, begin lining up outside the entrance to the 
Rose at noon.

2005-06 School of Athens Lecture Series continues November 13th

The School of Athens, Port Townsend Extension, is organized as the 
classical Greek gymnasia, or gathering places, to hear speakers on a wide 
variety of ideas, as represented by Raphael in his Vatican fresco, The 
School of Athens.  The painting depicts the ancient philosophers including 
Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, and Zeno.

Series passes: $50, Individual tickets: $10.  On sale at Quimper Sound, 
cash or check only.  All lectures are on Sundays at 1:00 PM at the Rose 
Theatre.  Doors open at 12:30 PM.  No late seating.

2005-06 Lectures Series Sponsors:  William James Bookseller, Island 
Blueback, Inc., Hildt & Reid, Inc., P.S., Law Offices, Port Townsend 
Leader, Skookum and The Rose Theatre.

October 9, 2005 - ALAN WALKER: The Human Evolutionary Mosaic
Alan Walker, Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University, 
has also taught at Johns Hopkins and Harvard University.  After degrees 
from Cambridge and London University he worked for three decades with 
Richard and Meave Leakey at paleontological digs in Africa.  Among his 
finds were hominid species known as "The Black Skull," and "Turkana 
Boy."  In 1995 Dr.Walker and Meave Leakey unearthed the four-million-old 
skeletal remains of a previously unknown species in the human lineage, 
which they name Australopithecus anamensis.  Among his publications, he 
co-authored The Ape in the Tree: An Intellectual and Natural History of 
Proconsul.

November 13, 2005 - ROBERT PYLE: Butterflies of Cascadia
Robert M. Pyle has authored over fourteen books, including Wintergreen 
(winner, John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing), Where 
Bigfoot Walks, Chasing Monarchs, The Audubon Society Field Guide to North 
American Butterflies, and The Handbook for Butterfly Watchers.  With a 
doctorate in Conservation Ecology from Yale University, he has taught at a 
number of universities.  While a Fulbright Fellow in England, Dr. Pyle 
founded Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.  HIs awards include 
three Washington Governor's Writing Awards, the Harry B. Nehls Award in 
Nature Writing, and the John Adams Comstock Award from the Lepidopterists' 
Society.  He lives in Gray's River, Washington.

January 8, 2006 - KATHLEEN MURPHY: Why Movies Matter
Kathleen Murphy has served on the faculties of the University of 
Pennsylvania and the University of Washington, where she founded a Cinema 
Studies program and headed the UW Arts and Humanities Department in 
Continuing Education.  In 1990 she was appointed Film Society 
Writer-in-Residence at Lincoln Center in New York.  Dr. Murphy has served 
as editor and/or writer for Film Comment, Microsoft Cinemania, Village 
Voice, Seattle Weekly, The Stranger and Newsweek-Japan, and her essays have 
appeared in Women and the Cinema and The Best American Movie Writing 
1998.  A frequent lecturer on film and culture, she also has served on 
selection committees and juries for the Seattle International and New York 
Film Festivals.

February 12, 2006 - ARTHUR FINE: What Was He Thinking?  Einstein and the 
Quantum
Arthur Fine was one of the first people to explore the Einstein archives, 
which resulted in his book, The Shaky Game: Einstein, Realism and The 
Quantum Theory.  A Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, 
his research concentrates on the philosophy of physics and on general 
philosophical issues relating to the natural and social sciences.  Current 
projects involve both foundational questions (concerning the interplay 
between physics and mathematics) and the exploration of relativism and 
objectivity in science.  Dr. Fine also is author of Bohmian Mechanics and 
Quantum Theory: An Appraisal and numerous articles.  He lives in Port Townsend.

March 12, 2006 - SHARON DEMBRO: Inside Diplomacy
Sharon Mercurio Dembro represented the United States as a diplomat from 
1976 to 2000, retiring to Port Townsend at the highest Senior Foreign 
Service Rank - Minister Counselor.  She served in Stockholm, London, Addis 
Ababa, Milan and Oslo, and in 2004 spent three months inspecting the 
political and economic sections of US embassies in Romania, Bulgaria and 
Moldova.  She has worked on such issues as food aid to victims of famine, 
refugees in Ethiopia, interpretation of the Italian political revolution 
led by Milan magistrates (for which she received Superior Honor Award) and 
organizing mechanisms to deal with nuclear waste in Northwest Russia.  In 
October she leaves for a three-month inspection of the U.S. Embassy and 
Consulates in Saudi Arabia.

April 9, 2006 - STEVE RUNNING: Evidence of Global Climate Change and 
Warming in the Pacific Northwest
Steven W. Running, Professor of Ecology at the University of Montana, 
participated in the authorship of the 4th Assessment of the 
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and is a Team Member for the NASA 
Earth Observing System, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer.  His 
primary research interest is the development of global and regional 
ecosystem biogeochemical models by integration of remote sensing with 
climatology and terrestrial ecology.  Dr. Running currently serves on a 
number of committees including the International Geosphere-Biosphere 
Program Executive Committee and the World Climate Research Program.  He has 
published over 200 scientific articles.
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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, October 20.

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*

GRIZZLY MAN - Oct. 21 - Werner Herzog's remarkable story about the 
adventurous life and tragic death of Timothy Treadwell, who spent 13 years 
living among the grizzlies in the Alaskan wilderness.  "Brilliant.  An 
astonishing portrait"-Roger Ebert.  "One of the most remarkable 
documentaries produced by any filmmaker in recent years"THE NEW YORK 
TIMES.  <http://www.grizzlymanmovie.com>

A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE - tba - Viggo Mortenson, Maria Bello, Ed Harris and 
John Hurt star in David Cronenberg's gripping meditation on violence.  "A 
ticking time bomb of a movie, a gripping, incendiary, casually subversive 
piece of work"-LOS ANGELES TIMES.  "An edge-of-your-seat psychological 
thriller"<http://www.historyofviolence.com>

EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED - tba - Actor Liev Schrieber directs Elijah Wood 
in the screen version of Jonathan Safran Foer's acclaimed novel about an 
American Jew's journey to the Ukraine to find the woman credited with 
saving his grandfather's life.  "Liev Schrieber's stylish indie adaptation 
is...undeniably moving"-NEW YORK 
MAGAZINE.  <http://www.everythingisilluminatedmovie.com>

GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK - tba - An outstanding cast in an outstanding 
movie about broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow and senator Joseph 
McCarthy's investigation of communists in government.  Starring David 
Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson, George Clooney, Jeff Daniels, Robert Downey, 
Jr. and Frank Langella.  "An electrifying movie event.  One of the year's 
best"-ROLLING STONE.  "One of the best movies of the year"-NEWSWEEK.

THE ARISTOCRATS - tba - The ad campaign says it all: "Obscene, disgusting, 
vulgar and vile"  Countless comedians tell their version of the dirtiest 
joke of all time.  "Hands down the funniest of the year"-NEWSWEEK.  "A 
master class in comedy"-TIME  <http://www.thearistocrats.com>

*schedule subject to change.
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Rose Theatre Movie Challenge: List four of the book titles on Wallace's 
book shelf.

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, October 14 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:  Identify the Aardman Animation character in our box 
office.

Answer: Feathers McGraw

Congratulations to GW, our winner this week.

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