[Rose-movies] Rose Theatre Newsletter for Monday, November 28, 2005

[The Rose Theatre]

This week's newsletter includes:
    * SHOPGIRL held over
    * WALK THE LINE held over
    * School of Athens Lecture Series Continues in 2006
    * Admission Prices
    * Gift Suggestions
    * Coming Attractions
    * Rose Theatre Movie Challenge
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Show Times: Monday, November 28 - Thursday, December 8

SHOPGIRL - showing in the Rosebud Cinema
Nov.28-Dec. 2           4:30, 7:20
Dec.     3              1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 9:30
Dec.  4-8               4:30, 7:20

WALK THE LINE - showing in the Rose Theatre
Nov.28-Dec. 2           4:00, 7:00
Dec.     3              1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45
Dec.  4-8               4:00, 7:00
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SHOPGIRL
Directed by Anand Tucker
Cast: Claire Danes, Steve Martin, Jason Schwartzman
Rated R for nudity, sexual content, brief language.  106 
min.  <http://www.shopgirlmovie.com>

Every year, Hollywood cuts yards of so-called romantic comedy from bolts of 
synthetic cloth.  The elegant and exquisitely tailored SHOPGIRL, written by 
Steve Martin, based on his slender novel of the same name, and directed by 
Anand Tucker, puts most of them to shame.  As it relates the delicate, 
almost anecdotal story of a young woman looking for love in modern Los 
Angeles, the movie reveals what is missing from most others of its kind: 
the fact of sex and the possibility of heartbreak, which is to say the very 
conditions of romance itself.

American commercial cinema is happy to crack dirty jokes and sing maudlin 
hymns to matrimony, but SHOPGIRL, which is both funny and sweetly sad, aims 
for something other than salaciousness or sentimentality.  It is party 
about how the specter of love can give ordinary life a feeling of risk and 
enchantment, a process that Mr. Tucker discreetly recapitulates on 
screen.  The movie's jewel-like moments of humor and disappointment are 
tastefully laid out on the velvet cushion of Barrington Pheloung's 
luxurious orchestral score.

All that string-heavy music makes SHOPGIRL feel a bit like an older movie - 
a 1950's Technicolor romance or a 40's weepie, perhaps - but the setting 
and characters are thoroughly contemporary.  Mirabelle Buttersfield (Claire 
Danes), as charming as her name, with just the right hint of oddness, 
commutes every day from her modest apartment in Silver Lake to her job 
selling gloves at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills.

Ms. Danes, whose performance is flawless, is certainly lovely enough to 
invite admiration, but she does not go out of her way to solicit it.  What 
Mirabelle needs, Mr. Martin's introductory voiceover tells us, is someone 
to recognize and appreciate her, to pluck her out from the crowd and confer 
a sense of specialness on her.  The movie does this, of course, and so do 
the other two main characters, who become unwitting rivals for Mirabelle's 
attention.

The first suitor is Jeremy (Jason Schwartzman), who chats her up one night 
in a Laundromat.  (To judge from his overall personal hygiene, it's 
probably a rare visit.)  And then along comes Ray Porter (Steve Martin), a 
well-dressed older man with impeccable taste and unlimited resources.

There is something attractively wistful about Ray, and also something 
calculating.  In the course of his affair with Mirabelle you can feel a 
chilly whiff of cynicism troubling the warm, romantic air.  The literature 
of an earlier age would have used words like mistress or kept woman to 
describe Mirabelle, who happily accepts Ray's impressive generosity.  The 
idea of buying and selling is right there in the film's title.

SHOPGIRL is a resolutely small movie, finely made and perhaps a bit 
fragile.  Under the pressure of too much thought, it might buckle and 
splinter; the characters might look flimsy, their comings and goings too 
neatly engineered, their lovability assumed rather than proven.  And it's 
true that none of them are perfect.  From where I sit, though, the film 
they inhabit comes pretty close.  (Excerpted from THE NEW YORK TIMES)

"Claire Danes plays the semi-lovelorn heroine with a poignant grace that 
can leave you breathless or break your heart"-THE WALL STREET 
JOURNAL.  "'Shopgirl' is a rare commodity: a grown-up romance"-ROLLING 
STONE.  "Danes can fill a scene with one wounded glance"-LOS ANGELES TIMES
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WALK THE LINE
Directed by James Mangold
Cast: Joaquin Pheonix, Reese Witherspoon
Rated PG-13 for language, thematic material, depiction of drug 
dependency.  135 min.  <http://www.walkthelinethemovie.com>

It's an exceptional time for biographical performances in Hollywood films, 
what with Philip Seymour Hoffman in CAPOTE and David Strathairn in GOOD 
NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK already stirring excitement.  Add to those the lead 
turns in WALK THE LINE.  Reese Witherspoon does a sensational job as 
lifelong performer June Cater, while Joaquin Pheonix gains in conviction as 
the picture builds to put over a very credible Johnny Cash.  Their 
surprisingly good vocal performances on the many well-known songs are icing 
on the cake.

Based on two Cash autobiographies and written with input from the couple up 
to their deaths in 2003, the script spends just enough time on Cash's rural 
'40s Arkansas youth to establish two keys to his personality: the tragic 
death of his older brother, and his father's intransigent disdain for 
Johnny, whom he saw as his "bad" son.

By the time he's 23, in 1955, Johnny has got his first hit, "Cry, Cry, 
Cry,"; he's married, with one daughter born and more on the way; and he's 
on a wild boogie-woogie tour with the equally young Jerry Lee Lewis; and 
June Carter, a bubbly, sassy performer with personality to spare.

The tours just keep on comin' over the next few years.  When June gets 
divorced, Johnny begins coming on to her, but when she bolts after he gets 
too frisky with her on-stage, Johnny comes apart, triggering the writing of 
"I Walk the Line," his indelible evocation of the difficulty of dealing 
with marriage and outside temptation, something Johnny's not always real 
good at.

Giving both Johnny and the picture the strength they need is June's 
absolutely no-BS attitude toward life.  She can't abide Johnny's 
self-destructive behavior and unwillingness to see things as they 
are.  Still, when he hits rock-bottom, she's there to provide him with a 
second chance in life if he's willing.  Winning and tough, Witherspoon 
simply could not be better in her most serious, fully elaborated 
performance.  (Excerpted from VARIETY)

"Joaquin Pheonix as Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter, have 
Oscar written all over them.  The focus on young Johnny and June gives the 
movie a sexual kick that bleeds into the music"-ROLLING STONE.  "Pheonix 
and Witherspoon's emotional acuity rings true.  Both performances have the 
power, precision and humanity to make Academy voters take admiring 
notice"-TIME MAGAZINE
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2005-06 School of Athens Lecture Series continues Sunday, January 8

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, December 8.

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*

CAPOTE - tba - Philip Seymour Hoffman never dreamed of portraying Truman 
Capote, but he ends up delivering one of the finest performances of the 
year in this absorbing picture about Capote's writing of "In Cold 
Blood."  Rapt, absorbing, and thrillingly perceptive.  A must-see feat of a 
performance"-ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY.  "Hoffman caps a decade of brilliant 
work on stage and screen - he and the film are terrific"-TIME 
MAGAZINE.  <http://www.sonyclassics.com>

NINE LIVES - tba - Nine different vignettes about women - each unfolding in 
a single take - accrues a cumulative power to suggest the 
not-always-apparent interconnectedness of people's lives.  Kathy Baker, Amy 
Brenneman, Glenn Close, Dakota Fanning, Holly Hunter, Robin Wright Penn and 
Sissy Spacek star.  "The best stories are powerfully intense and leave you 
breathless when they fade to black"-LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS.  "I say give 
the whole cast a truckload of Oscars"-NEWSWEEK.  <http://www.9livesmovie.com>

THE SQUID AND THE WHALE - tba - With piercing emotion and unsparing 
honesty, this acutely observed story about marital separation and its 
aftermath will make you laugh because you can't bear to cry.  Starring 
Laura Linney, Jeff Daniels, Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline."Exhilaratingly 
funny"-TIME MAGAZINE.  "Sharply comical"-THE NEW YORK 
TIMES.  <http://squidandthewhalemovie.com>

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>

PARADISE NOW - tba - Of all the shocks in this political thriller, the most 
unsettling may be the dignity bestowed on a pair of prospective Palestinian 
suicide bombers - not horrified condemnation, not rabid support, just calm 
regard for two young men prepared to kill themselves and others for what 
they believe is a just cause.  "A heart-stopping story whose urgency is 
startling"-LOS ANGELES TIMES.  "Undeniably 
powerful"-PREMIERE.  <http://www.paradisenowthemovie.com>

*schedule subject to change.
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Rose Theatre Movie Challenge: In the movie SHOPGIRL Mirabelle has one cat 
named Sylvia.  In the novella of the same name she has two cats.  What are 
their names?

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, December 2 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 three movies previously featured at the 
Rose in which Thanksgiving plays a role in the story.

Answer: PIECES OF APRIL, ANTWONE FISHER, THE ICE STORM

Congratulations to RW, our winner this week.

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