[Rose-movies] Rose Theatre Newsletter for October 25, 2005

[The Rose Theatre]

This week's newsletter includes:
    * EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED starts Friday, October 28
    * GRIZZLY MAN held over
    * WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT held over - matinees only
    * GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK starts Friday, November 4
    * A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE starts Friday, November 4
    * School of Athens Lecture Series: Robert Pyle - Butterflies of 
Cascadia, Nov. 13th
    * Admission Prices
    * Gift Suggestions
    * Coming Attractions
    * Rose Theatre Movie Challenge
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Show Times: Tuesday, October 25 - Thursday, November 3

EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED - showing in the Rose Theatre
Oct.    28              4:30, 7:20
Oct.    29              2:15, 4:30, 7:20, 9:30
Oct. 30-Nov.3           4:30, 7:20

GRIZZLY MAN - showing in the Rose Theatre
Oct. 25-27              4:30, 7:20
Oct.      28            7:00 - moves to the Rosebud Cinema
Oct.      29            1:45, 7:00, 9:10
Oct. 30-Nov.3           7:00

WALLACE & GROMIT - showing in the Rosebud Cinema
Oct.     25-27          4:00, 7:00
Oct.28-Nov.3            4:00
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EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED
Directed by Liev Schreiber
Cast: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin
Rated PG-13 for language, some violence, adult themes.  In English, 
Ukranian and Russian with English subtitles.  103 
min.  <http;//www.everythingisilluminated.com>

Elijah Wood's night-creature eyes, magnified by the thick lenses of old-man 
eyeglasses, convey a lot about the cracked intensity of the young man 
called Jonathan Safran Foer in EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED.  That such a 
comically somber investigator of his own family's old-country roots carries 
the same name as the author of the acclaimed novel on which this loving 
adaptation is based is just one of the book's meta flourishes 
enthusiastically embraced by first-time feature filmmaker Liev Schreiber.

Actors talk about wanting to stretch, but few would hazard a project with 
such a high degree of difficulty as Schreiber, who also wrote the 
screenplay.  And under the circumstances, Schreiber's heartfelt project 
earns points for disciplined ambition.  The gloomy tenderness Wood brings 
to Foer as he searches for his grandfather's vanished birthplace is offset 
by the maniacal Eastern European practicality of Eugene Hutz's Alex, a 
truly terrible interpreter.  For one of those obstreperously original books 
that are themselves impossible to translate, EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED is 
impressively well lit.  (Excerpted from ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY)

"Liev Schreiber makes an astonishing directorial 
debut"-MOVIELINE.  "Schreiber's stylish indie adaptation is...undeniably 
moving, hewing as it does to the novel's central virtue, its astounding 
empathy"-NEW YORK MAGAZINE
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GRIZZLY MAN
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, Treadwell 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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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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GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK - starts Friday, November 4
Directed by George Clooney
Cast: David Strathairn, Robert Downey, Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Frank 
Langella, Jeff Daniels, George Clooney.
Rated PG for mild thematic elements and brief language.  93 
min.  <http://www.goodnightandgoodluck.com>

Does George Clooney have a box office death wish?  You have to wonder why 
the star of OCEAN'S ELEVEN would risk his standing as a pinup for ka-ching 
to direct, co-write and co-star in a movie set in the 1950s, shot in black 
-and-white and focused on a fifty-year-old battle between TV newsman Edward 
R. Murrow, indelibly played by David Strathairn, and the Commie-hunting 
Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

Wonder no more.  Clooney knows exactly what he's doing: blowing the dust 
off ancient TV history to expose today's fat, complacent news media as even 
more ready to bow to networks, sponsors and the White House.  As Murrow 
said in a 1958  speech, which frames Clooney's dynamite film, the powers 
that be much prefer TV as an instrument to "distract, delude, amuse and 
insulate."  Challenge is a loser's game.

Not in this movie.  In ninety-three tight, terrifically exciting minutes, 
Clooney makes integrity look mighty sexy.  With the help of cinematographer 
Roberts Elswit and editor Stephen Mirrione, Clooney turns the CBS newsroom 
into a hothouse of journalistic risk-taking.  As a director, Clooney moves 
with admirable speed and economy and emerges as a powerhouse filmmaker.

A word here about the guy who plays McCarthy.  You have to forgive the way 
he overdoes the sweaty, manipulative monster aspects of the role, because, 
thanks to Clooney's judicious use of actual film footage, McCarthy plays 
himself.  The studio is pushing for a posthumous Oscar nomination.

I think not.  More Oscar justice would be done in the name of the live 
ones.  For a paltry $8 million, Clooney has crafted a period piece that 
speaks potently to a here-and-now when constitutional rights are being 
threatened in the name of the Patriot Act, and the American media trade in 
truth for access.  "We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason," 
said Murrow.  Amen to that, brother.  Good night, and good 
luck.  (Excerpted from ROLLING STONE)

"By far this year's smartest American film"-NEW YORK POST.  "A passionate, 
thoughtful essay on power, truth-telling and responsibility"-THE NEW YORK 
TIMES.  "One of the best movies of the year"-NEWSWEEK
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A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE - starts Friday, November 4
Directed by David Cronenberg
Cast: Viggo Mortenson, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, William Hurt
Rated R for strong brutal violence, graphic sexuality, nudity, language and 
some drug use.  98 min.
<http://www.historyofviolence.com>

A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE is ticking time bomb of a movie, a gripping, 
incendiary, casually subversive piece of work that marries pulp 
watchability with larger concerns without skipping a beat.  It's a tightly 
controlled film about an out-of-control situation: the predilection for 
violence in America and how that affects both individuals and the culture 
as a whole.

It's the gift of VIOLENCE that it manages to do all these things without 
seeming to make a fuss.  That's how strong and compelling its dead-on plot 
is, and how much command of the medium veteran Canadian director David 
Cronenberg demonstrates.  It's a measure of Cronenberg's confidence in his 
material, his cast and his own skill that he purposely opens this 
ultimately compelling film with a glacially paced sequence of a pair of 
drifters checking out of a motel at a velocity that only Jim Jarmusch in 
BROKEN FLOWERS mode could love.

It's apparent almost at once that these are not the best of men, and with 
the introduction of Mortenson's character, Tom Stall, we know in the pit of 
our stomachs that a collision is inevitable.

Beyond that early confrontation, however, all bets are off as VIOLENCE 
changes narrative direction and focus frequently without ever losing sight 
of the ideas behind its breakneck plot.  For what this film is concerned 
with more than anything is the pernicious, corrosive effect of violence, 
the way its pervasive taint is hard to rub off as blood is to wash 
out.  Each act of mayhem in the film, however seemingly justified, simply 
begets yet another one, until it starts to seem axiomatic that once you let 
violence into your life it will never leave you alone, never allow anything 
to be the same.  The question is, once you've taken someone's life, can you 
ever be a whole person again?

 From an acting point of view this film belongs to Mortenson and Bello as a 
severely challenged husband and wife.  Making use of Mortenson's sweetness 
and vulnerability as well as his LORD OF THE RINGS physicality, Tom Stall 
is oneof the best roles Mortenson has had, and he takes full advantage of 
it.  Matching her costar's level of commitment, Bello gives her most 
involving performance, supplying a level of emotional belief that is the 
film's secret weapon, holding it together no matter where it 
goes.  (Excerpted from LOS ANGELES TIMES)

"An edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller.  Sexy, scary, sometimes oddly 
funny, Cronenberg's masterly movie doesn't have a wasted 
motion"-NEWSWEEK.  "...a super-cool, rapid-fire, brilliantly propulsive 
coup"-THE NEW YORK SUN.  "Sizzles with action, sex and provocation"-ROLLING 
STONE
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2005-06 School of Athens Lecture Series continues November 13th

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.

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, November 3rd.

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*

THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL - January 14-16 - In honor of Martin 
Luther King, Jr. Day the Rose Theatre will be presenting three free 
showings of this important documentary.  This harrowing inquisition into a 
murder that catalyzed the civil rights movement is an incendiary piece of 
filmmaking that is being released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of 
the death of young Emmett Till.  "The most important documentary of the 
year"-NEW YORK MAGAZINE.  <http://www.emmetttillstory.com>

*schedule subject to change.
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Rose Theatre Movie Challenge: LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY is the only other 
movie by Werner Herzog that we've shown at the Rose.  Which former Rose 
manager made the terrific poster for that movie that hangs in the 
concession area?
(hint: the frame is a clue)

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 28 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:  Deanna Durbin supposedly saved Universal, Mae West 
may well have saved Paramount, but the actor who saved Warners - he was 
known as "the mortgage lifter" - was the great and unique 
___________.  Identify this actor.

Answer: Rin Tin Tin

Congratulations to CC, our winner this week.

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or more.  Offer valid for one month from movie date.  One stub per 
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