[Rose-movies] Rose Theatre Newsletter for Tuesday, Nov. 8

[The Rose Theatre]

This week's newsletter includes:
    * PROOF starts Friday, November 11
    * THE ARISTOCRATS 2 shows only - Friday & Saturday at 9:10
    * A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE ends Thursday, November 10
    * TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE ends Thursday, November 10
    * GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK held over
    *  Lecture by  Robert Pyle - Butterflies of Cascadia - this Sunday, 
Nov. 13
    * Admission Prices
    * Gift Suggestions
    * Coming Attractions
    * Rose Theatre Movie Challenge
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Show Times: Tuesday, November 8 - Thursday, November 17

PROOF - showing in the Rosebud Cinema
Nov.     11             4:30, 7:00
Nov.     12             2:15, 4:30, 7:00
Nov.13-17               4:30, 7:00

THE ARISTOCRATS - showing in the Rosebud Cinema
Nov.11-12               9:10

A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE - showing in the Rosebud Cinema
Nov.  8-10              7:00

TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE - showing in the Rosebud Cinema
Nov.  8-10              4:30

GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK - showing in the Rose Theatre
Nov.   8-11             4:00, 7:20
Nov.      12            1:45, 4:00, 7:20, 9:30
Nov. 13-17              4:00, 7:20
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PROOF
Directed by John Madden
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal, Hope Davis
Rated PG-13 for sexual content, language and drug references.  99 
min.  <http://www.proof-movie.com>

The title of David Auburn's play PROOF refers to two things: a specific 
mathematical proof that comes to dominate the plot as well as the human 
need to offer proof, to demonstrate to others our value, our worth, the 
truth of our talents and the sincerity of our emotions.  In that sense 
PROOF is an especially appropriate title for a film that ended up having a 
lot to prove.

For despite its Pulitzer Prize-winning pedigree, and in some ways through 
no fault of its own, the John Madden-directed film raised several 
potentially troubling questions.  Could this quintessentially theatrical 
vehicle be successfully transferred to the screen?  And could star Gwyneth 
Paltrow handle this kind of powerful, seriously dramatic starring role?

Against considerable odds and despite a shaky start, PROOF proves itself in 
every area.  Thanks largely to Paltrow's beautifully unadorned performance, 
an exceptional portrait of psychological fragility that is honest, direct 
and devastating, this is a film that really has to be seen.

It's a measure of both the tabloidization of our culture and the nature of 
Paltrow's filmography that her work here will surprise those who only 
follow her private life and didn't catch her fine work as Sylvia Plath in 
the little-seen SYLVIA or don't remember her stark performance in 1993's 
FLESH AND BONE.

Though three of it's four main characters are mathematicians, PROOF is 
intent not on exploring math itself but on using the subject as a vehicle 
for investigating issues like the excitement and painful fragility of both 
creativity and personal relationships and the unnerving proximity of 
madness and genius.

PROOF is blessed in all its key roles.  Hopkins, the heart of the film's 
extensive flashbacks, has the kind of great-man presence his role 
demands.  Hope Davis takes the character that veers closest to cliche and 
gives it intensity and believability, while Gyllenhaal in his most adult 
part to date brings essential sweetness to the contradictory persona of a 
heartthrob math geek.

Finally, however, PROOF is incontrovertibly Paltrow's movie.  Her 
performance is so emotionally naked, her on-screen uncertainty and 
insecurity so piercing, that the raw pain at the core of this story never 
fades from view.  Hers is a performance that redeems everything else about 
this film, and allows for the hope that there will be many more to come in 
this gifted actress' career.  (Excerpted from LOS ANGELES TIMES)

"'Proof' will for sure get an Oscar nomination for Paltrow"-CBS.  "...As 
good as it gets"-Ebert & Roeper
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THE ARISTOCRATS
Directed by Paul Provenza
With: Jason Alexander, Drew Carey, George Carlin, Phyllis Diller, Whoopi 
Goldberg, Gilbert Gottfried, Eric Idle, Eddie Izzard, Lisa Lampanelli, 
Kevin Pollak, Paul Reiser, Don Rickles, Chris Rock Bob Saget, Sarah 
Silverman, Jon Stewart, Robin Williams and others.
Not rated, not for the faint of heart, contains vulgar language from 
beginning to end.  90 min.  <http://www.thearistocrats.com>

We live in a round-the-clock comedy culture, in which the trade secrets of 
professional joke tellers have long ago been dragged out of the 
closet.  It's now an official cliche that humor is rooted in insecurity and 
pain, that comedy is aggression directed against the audience.  But unless 
you dare to see the sick-joke documentary THE ARISTOCRATS, you may have no 
idea exactly how much the minds of comedians resemble those of serial 
killers.  For this is a movie about the rudest, dirtiest secret in the 
world of comedy - a joke so vulgar and despicable that it is told only by 
comedians to other comedians, told late at night after the audiences have 
gone, told less as a joke than as a ritual, a bebop monologue of hideous 
kink, binding everyone who tells it or listens to it into an underground 
fraternity of forbidden laughter.

In THE ARISTOCRATS, we watch more than 100 different comedians, old and 
young, male and female, mainstream and cult as they tell this joke, dissect 
it, meditate on it, recall anecdotes about it, and generally revel in the 
lurid, disgusting glory of its existence.  It is, as more than one of the 
storytellers points out, a lousy joke - all lurid setup leading to an 
innocuous vaudeville whiff of a punchline.  Yet the badness, in its way is 
the point.  Devoid of true wit, the joke is unabashedly a showcase for 
depravity, providing each comedian with a chance to unlock the outhouse of 
his or her fantasies.  It's an Olympic contest of can you top this?  It's 
at once a comedy, a horror film, and a hilariously unsettling testament to 
the deepest reality of what comedians are: rim-shot madmen, driven to seek 
out and destroy all that's taboo.  The joke, of course, is ultimately about 
them,our aristocrats of unhinged anarchy.  (Excerpted from ENTERTAINMENT 
WEEKLY)

"Obscene, disgusting, vulgar and vile, 'The Aristocrats' might be the 
funniest movie you'll ever see"-THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.  "Hands down the 
funniest of the year"-NEWSWEEK
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A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
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 one of 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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TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE
Directed by Tim Burton
Cast: with the voices of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, 
Tracy Ullman, Joanna Lumley, Albert Finney, Christopher Lee.
Rated PG for some scary images and action, and brief mild language.  77 
min.  <http://www.corpsebridemovie.com>

Some days you just can't catch a break.  Poor Victor Van Dort (voiced by 
Johnny Depp), a nervous soon-to-be-bridegroom, practices his vows in a dark 
forest.  He slips the ring onto what looks like the branch of a dead tree - 
and suddenly the ground begins to crack, and a wide-eyed ghoul named Emily 
(Helena Bonham Carter) in a tattered wedding gown is standing next to him, 
gazing dreamily at his ring on her finger.  She's pale as death - for good 
reason - and she's now his new bride.  Oops.

Yes, we're in Tim Burton territory here, and a stop-motion animation 
musical, at that.  With the trademark Burton blend of wistful sweetness and 
Edward Gorey-ish macabre, TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE - co-directed by Burton 
and Mike Johnson - is an often dazzling trip down a very dark rabbit 
hole.  The movie presents two distinct worlds, both topsy-turvy.  The 
bustling, vaguely European-looking town of the living, where Victor's 
social-climbing parents have schemed for him to marry a timid heiress 
(Emily Watson) is done in grays, indigos and mauves, like a Victorian 
mourning wardrobe.  And the underworld, where the corpses frolic in a 
dead-person's bar is done in delicate jewel tones.

What makes CORPSE BRIDE sing, ultimately, is the breadth of imagination 
that it demonstrates; creating a cluttered, textured and mysteriously 
beautiful world that we're loathe to leave at the end.  Watch a scene in 
which Emily's bridal veil becomes a flock of lacy white butterflies, 
swirling around her head before flying away into the gray sky, and it just 
might take your breath away.  Never mind the talking maggots; this BRIDE is 
a beauty.  (Excerpted from THE SEATTLE TIMES)

"The Oscar for this year's best animated feature belongs right 
here"-ROLLING STONE.  "An instant classic...it's unlike anything else out, 
to the delight of adults and kids alike"-NEW YORK POST.
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GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK
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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2005-06 School of Athens Lecture Series continues this Sunday, November 13

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.

  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 17.

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*

WALK THE LINE - November 18 - Joaquiin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon star 
as Johnny Cash and June Carter in this heartfelt, musically vibrant film 
from director James Magold.

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: In one biography of Edward R. Murrow, he is 
quoted saying, "She knows me better than any person in the world.  The part 
of me that is decent, that wants to do something, be something, is the part 
she created."  Who is Murrow referring to?

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, November 11 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:  How many sunflowers are there on the poster of 
EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED?

Answer: 79

Congratulations to N&V, our winners this week.

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