From rocky at rosetheatre.com Wed Jan 4 12:52:27 2006 From: rocky at rosetheatre.com (The Rose Theatre) Date: Wed Jan 4 12:54:54 2006 Subject: [Rose-movies] Rose Theatre Newsletter for Wednesday, January 4, 2006 Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20060104112552.00ba53f0@mail.olympus.net> This week's newsletter includes: * MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA held over * THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA held over * BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN starts Friday, January 13 - 7 Golden Globe Nominations * 3 Free Showings of THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL - Jan. 14-16 * Silent Comedies with Live Music - Sunday, January 29 * School of Athens Lecture Series - Sunday, January 8, 1:00 - Kathleen Murphy * Admission Prices * Gift Suggestions * Coming Attractions * Rose Theatre Movie Challenge Show Times: Wednesday, January 4 - Thursday, January 12 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA - showing in the Rose Theatre Jan. 4-6 3:30, 7:30 Jan. 7 12:30, 3:30, 7:30 Jan. 8-12 3:30, 7:30 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA - showing in the Rosebud Cinema Jan. 4-6 4:00, 7:00 Jan. 7 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 Jan. 8-12 4:00, 7:00 ______________________________________________________________ MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA Directed by Rob Marshall Cast: Ziyi Zhang, Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li, Ken Watanbe Rated PG-13 for mature subject matter and some sexual content. 144 min. It may be true that they don't make movies like they used to, but every year around this time Hollywood manages to muster itself for one hugely expensive historical epic that goes all out for quality and flies in the face of what's supposed to work at the box office. This year that film is MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, the sweeping film version of Arthur Golden's 1997 best seller that director Rob Marshall has chosen to be the follow-up to CHICAGO, which received the Oscar for Best Picture in 2002. The movie works because of its trio of star performances, its sumptuous production values, its sprawling sets of old Kyoto, its sweeping John Williams score and haunting cello solos by Yo-Yo-Ma. It's the self-narrated saga of Sayuri (Ziyi Zhang), who, as a very young girl in the '20s, is sold by her impoverished parents to be trained as a geisha, which, the script makes clear, is not a prostitute but an entertainer and "artist of the floating world." She's resistant, and her life is hard until an act of kindness from a handsome business -man (Ken Watanabe) gives her a vision of life's possibility, and in no time she's a contender in the field and a rival of the area's leading geisha: the shrewish Hatsumomo (Gong Li). Tension in the okiya rise to impossible levels, as Hatsumomo plots to subvert the gorgeous girl she fears will threaten her own popularity. Gong Li rightly pulls out all the stops as the flamboyant geisha queen desperate to stay on her throne, gives her performance a delicious melodramatic spin that puts one in mind of Bette Davis or Joan Crawford in their primes. She is achingly vulnerable and appealing, and Michelle Yeoh is a paragon of graceful political wisdom. If this movie has a Scarlett O'Hara, she's it. (Excerpted from the SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER and VARIETY) "Rob Marshall has made an emotionally sumptuous love story, a work of art"-TIME. "Meticulously directed and hypnotically acted"-THE NEW YORK OBSERVER. ________________________________________________________________ THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE Directed by Andrew Adamson Cast: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Tilda Swinton Rated PG for battle sequences and frightening moments. 140 min. Readers of C.S. Lewis' beloved fantasy novel THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE may remember its touching dedication, to the author's goddaughter Lucy. "I wrote this story for you," he writes, "but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales...but some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again." Appropriately, the central human figure in the book is a little girl named Lucy - and just as appropriately, the heart of Andrew Adamson's movie version of the book belongs firmly to the little girl who plays her. Georgie Henley, just 8 years old when cast, is a West Yorkshire schoolgirl making her professional acting debut. She's a beguiling, watchful child with a real-kid cuteness (her slightly crooked teeth are refreshingly non-Hollywood), and she effortlessly steals the movie version from an icicle-wearing Tilda Swinton - no small feat. Lucy is our guide for this journey through an old wardrobe into the magical land of Narnia, where lampposts bloom in the snow, shirtless fauns wear red scarves, and beavers prepare fish and chips for hungry visitors. With her three siblings, she quickly learns that Narnia loyalists fear the evil White Witch (Swinton), who has made it forever winter and never Christmas, and await the return of their true leader, the lion Aslan (voiced nobly, but with a touch of humor, by Liam Neeson). While the film is replete with elaborate scenery, lavish battle scenes and nifty CGI effects, you might just find yourself dazzled by Henley, who's clearly still young enough to believe in fairy tales. She gazes at the proceedings with happy wonderment, never doubting the magic. Movie versions of beloved books are always best approached with a little distance, as nothing can ever supplant the movie each of us created in our imagination while reading of Narnia on some rainy afternoon. But Adamson's THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, helped along by Henley's shining eyes, finds a little enchantment of its own. You don't have to be a child to appreciate this movie, just old enough to enjoy fairy tales again. (Excerpted from THE SEATTLE TIMES) "A triumph. Gorgeous to look at, superbly cast, wittily directed and funny and exciting by turns"-THE GUARDIAN. "Poignant and meticulously executed"-TALKING PICTURES __________________________________________________________________ BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN - 7 Golden Globe Nominations - Starts Friday, January 13 Directed by Ang Lee Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Anna Farris, Randy Quaid Rated R for sexuality, nudity, language and some violence. 134 min. Ang Lee's unmissable and unforgettable BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN hits you like a shot in the heart. It's a landmark film and a triumph for Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, who bring deep reserves of feeling to the defiantly erotic love story about two Wyoming ranch hands and the external and internal forces that drive them from desire to denial. Directed with piercing intelligence and delicacy by Lee, the film of Annie Proulx's 1997 short story - the unerring script by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana is a model of literary adaptation - wears its emotions on its sleeve. The film spans some 20 years in the lives of Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger), from their first and only summer together working as sheepherders on Brokeback Mountain to their pot-bellied middle age. Over the years, they each marry, raise children and meet every few years for fishing trips, during which little fishing takes place. Theirs is an electric connection, begun in a too-small tent on Brokeback and never fading. Both are all too aware of the price of anyone finding out. Ennis, the less articulate of the two, manages to frame his fears precisely: "This thing grabs hold of us again, in the wrong place, the wrong time, and we're dead." Lee fills his film with long, waiting silences, punctuated by the endless horizontal lines of the Wyoming and Texas plains. And he gives his actors room to work small miracles of character. Ledger's performance is a revelation; nothing he has done on screen indicated that he was capable of this. He's a tightly wound man of few words and a few visible emotions, which Ledger lets slip out like flickers from an ember: the nervous eagerness with which he waits at the window for a visit from Jack, the ever-so-slight softening of his voice when he speaks of his daughters, the way he sets his jaw against impossible dreams of a happier future with Jack. "If you can't fix it," he says, "you've got to stand it." Michelle Williams does beautiful work as Ennis' young wife, Alma, a woman a little bit afraid of something she can't name. Finally, she sees evidence of what she fears - Ennis and Jack in a stairwell - and her face freezes: Her world has ended. The emotional impact of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is all the more stunning for its quietness. Little that's dramatic happens on screen, and its central image couldn't be more prosaic: two worn-soft western shirts, hanging together. But Lee, a master of yearning, has created a classic and heartbreaking love story that won't be easily forgotten. It stays with you after you've seen it, like a haunting strain of music; both love song and elegy for what might have been. (Excerpted from THE SEATTLE TIMES and ROLLING STONE) "A big sweeping and rapturous Hollywood love story. It could turn out to be the most revolutionary movie of the year. A film in which love feels almost as if it were being invented. It is also a rare crowd-pleaser with the potential to change hearts and minds"-ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Voted Best Picture of the Year: New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, San Francisco Film Critics Circle. ____________________________________________________________________ 3 Free Showings of THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL - January 14-16 In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - January 16th - the Rose Theatre is presenting three free showings of THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL, a powerful documentary about the murder of young Emmett Till, which sparked the civil rights movement. Saturday, Jan. 14 1:00 Sunday, Jan. 15 1:00 Monday, Jan. 16 1:00 Free advance tickets may be requested at the box office during regular business hours. THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL Directed by Keith Beauchamp Not rated: for mature audiences, graphic photos. 74 min. THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL, Keith Beauchamp's lean, harrowing inquisition into the murder that catalyzed the civil rights movement, is an incendiary documentary. Released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of his death, the 74 minute film has already made things happen. The Justice Department has reopened the investigation into the murder of Emmett, a 14-year-old African American from Chicago who was slain in Money, Mississippi. The new inquiry is based on evidence presented in the film that the killing was a conspiracy involving many more people than the two Mississippians who were acquitted of the crime in a sham trial. Several witnesses to Emmett's abduction speak up for the first time. Emmett's grave, in Chicago, was recently exhumed for an autopsy that was never performed after his body was fished out of the Tallahatchie River half a century ago. A cornerstone of the defense at the trial was its insistence that a positive recognition of Emmett's remains was impossible. A courtroom transcript of the trial, thought to be lost, has been also discovered. As you watch the film, which weaves televised coverage of the atrocity and interviews with surviving relatives and the victim's mother, Mamie Till Mobley, it is impossible not to be stirred by sadness and outrage. Mrs. Mobley, who died two years ago at age 81, appears throughout the movie, both in vintage new clips and in extensive interviews, conducted by Mr. Beauchamp before her death. In her calm, plainspoken recollections of a horrifying tragedy, and in her courageous pursuit of truth and justice, she is an extraordinarily articulate and compelling figure. The savagery of the killing, in which Emmett's body was mutilated almost beyond recognition, is matched in ugliness by the undisguised glee of both the perpetrators and the spectators at the trial. Television clips of these swaggering racists being congratulated by the townspeople after their acquittal surpass any cartoon caricatures of brazen, self-righteous bigotry with a scary violent undertow. The film's most intense moments revolve around Mrs. Mobley's recollections of Emmett, her only son, who she remembers as smart, playful, fun-loving and good in art and science. When his body was returned to Chicago in a tightly sealed coffin, she demanded it be broken open and his body displayed in an open casket. She wanted American to see what racial hatred is all about. "The most important documentary of the year"-NEW YORK MAGAZINE ____________________________________________________________________ FOUR SILENT COMEDIES WITH LIVE MUSIC Sunday, January 29th the Rose Theatre and the Port Townsend Film Festival are presenting an afternoon of silent comedies with live accompaniment by internationally renown pianist Donald Sosin. The program, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m., includes Buster Keaton in COPS (1922), Charlie Chaplin in ONE A.M. (1916), Laurel and Hardy in BIG BUSINESS (1929) and Max Davidson in PASS THE GRAVY (1928). Advance tickets at $15 may be purchased at the Rose Theatre box office during regular business hours. Donald Sosin has been enthralling audiences in the US and Europe with his silent film music for over thirty years. Born in 1951, he grew up in Rye, NY, and Munich. He studied piano with Kyriena Siloti, and is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia University, studying composition with William Albright and Jack Beeson. He was the resident film accompanist at MoMA in the late 70's, and returns there frequently as a guest pianist. For many years he has performed at the American Museum of the Moving Image, the BAM Rose Cinema, and the Lincoln Center Film Society. He has composed music for screenings of women's films at AMMI and Chinese films at the Guggenheim Museum. In 2001 he was commissioned by the Westchester Film Festival to score the earliest existing American feature film, RICHARD III, for chamber ensemble and voice. At the Whitney Museum he premiered his score for SALOME as part of the Unseen Cinema series, for which he also recorded ninety minutes of music for this unique series of programs of avant-garde cinema currently touring museums around the world. Mr. Sosin lectured on silent film music at the Aspen Institute of Humanities. For DVD release Sosin scored NOSFERATU, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and BLIND HUSBANDS for Kino Video, 19 avant-garde films for the fall 2005 Kino Video and Image Entertainment releases, a group of Edison films for Kino Video, Ozu's A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS and DeMille's KING OF KINGS for Criterion, and a pair of Pickford films for Milestone. He performs each October at Le Giomate del Cinema Muto in Sacile and has appeared at the New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Bellport and Hamptons Film Festivals, Pacific Film Archives' Asian Film Festival, and the Film Forum. Each July for the past four years he has performed at Bologna's Cinema Ritrovato, and has made two appearances at the Telluride Film Festival. In 2001 he and his wife, actress/singer Joanna Seaton, participated in a colloquium on silent film music at the Berlin Filmmuseum. They performed his score for FOOLISH WIVES with a five-piece band at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, featuring new songs by the couple, and a chamber score for the European premiere of MoMA's restoration of EAST SIDE WEST SIDE. The couple has performed at the Virginia Film Festival, the National Gallery, Connecticut's Music Mountain and many college campuses. The couple has led workshops in silent film scoring for talented high school musicians. Their CD of Broadway love songs, SAIL AWAY, was released in 1999. "Donald Sosin...an unflappable pianist"-Dick Hyman, KEYBOARD MAGAZINE. "Sosin's music is droll and intelligent"-VILLAGE VOICE. "For me the process of writing and performing music is a spiritual activity, as well as an enjoyable means of practicing my craft. Ironically, I am often looking for ways to make the film accompaniment more silent, so that the disappearance of music would be perceived as an integral part of the film, and not something forced upon the listener"-Donald Sosin _______________________________________________________________ 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. __________________________________________________________________ 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, January 12th. 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) _______________________________________________________________ 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 ________________________________________________________________ Coming Attractions* BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN - January 13 - This unforgettable love story hits you like a shot in the heart. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal star as Wyoming ranch hands who discover that love is a force of nature. "A big, sweeping, and rapturous Hollywood love story that could turn out to be the most revolutionary movie of the year"-ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY. PRIDE & PREJUDICE - tba - A sumptuous new screen adaptation of Jane Austen's classic tale that makes you believe in true love. "Magical"-Roger Ebert. "Vibrant"-LOS ANGELES TIMES. "Supremely entertaining, lushly romantic and subtly sexy"-USA TODAY. 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. 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. 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. 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. SARAH SILVERMAN: JESUS IS MAGIC tba - Comedian Sarah Silverman (THE ARISTOCRATS) fearlessly and hilariously delves into cultural taboos guaranteed to shock and make you laugh. "Silverman is the most outrageously funny woman alive"-ROLLING STONE. "Simply brilliant"-DARK HORIZONS *schedule subject to change. _______________________________________________________________ Rose Theatre Movie Challenge: How many people are in the 1993 Charlie Chaplin look-alike photo which hangs in the Rose foyer? Rules: Answers must be e-mailed to moviechallenge@rosetheatre.com with Rose Theatre Contest in the subject line. One winner will be selected at random from correct responses received by midnight, January 6 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. ________________________________________________________ Last Week's Question: This actress was Miss Long Beach of 1941. Identify her Answer: Jean Crain Congratulations to JH, our winner this week. ________________________________________________________ Soundtracks to movies featured at the Rose Theatre are available at Quimper Sound Music & Media, 901 Water Street, Port Townsend. Your Rose Theatre ticket stub may be redeemed at Quimper Sound for $1 off any purchase of $10 or more. Offer valid for one month from movie date. One stub per purchase. Not valid on Quimper Sound gift certificates or tickets. E-mail addresses are collected only for the Rose Theatre Newsletter. They are not transferred to any third party for any reason. Our complete Privacy Policy is available at _______________________________________________ Rose-movies mailing list Rose-movies@mailman.olympus.net http://mailman.olympus.net/mailman/listinfo/rose-movies -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.olympus.net/pipermail/rose-movies/attachments/20060104/11f5b1e6/attachment.html From rocky at rosetheatre.com Mon Jan 9 14:56:16 2006 From: rocky at rosetheatre.com (The Rose Theatre) Date: Mon Jan 9 14:56:31 2006 Subject: [Rose-movies] Rose Theatre Newsletter for Monday, January 9, 2006 Message-ID: This week's newsletter includes: ? BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN starts Friday, January 13 - 7 Golden Globe Nominations ? THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL plays Saturday thru Monday - FREE ? MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA held over ? THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA ends Thursday, January 12 ? Silent Comedies with Live Music - Sunday, January 29 ? School of Athens Lecture Series - Sunday, February 12 - Arthur Fine ? Admission Prices ? Gift Suggestions ? Coming Attractions ? Rose Theatre Movie Challenge????????????????????????????????????? Show Times: Monday, January 9 - Thursday, January 19 BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN - showing in the Rose Theatre Jan.??? 13??????????????4:00, 7:00 Jan.??? 14??????????????4:00, 7:00, 9:30 Jan.15-19???????????????4:00, 7:00 THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL - showing in the Rose Theatre Jan.14-16???????????????1:00 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA - showing in the Rose Theatre Jan.? 9-12??????????????3:30, 7:30 Jan.13-19???????????????3:30, 7:30 - moves to the Rosebud Cinema THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA - showing in the Rosebud Cinema Jan. 9-12???????????????4:00, 7:00 ????????????????????????????? ???? ______________________________________________________________ BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN - 7 Golden Globe Nominations Directed by Ang Lee Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Anna Farris, Randy Quaid Rated R for sexuality, nudity, language and some violence.? 134 min. Ang Lee's unmissable and unforgettable BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN hits you like a shot in the heart.? It's a landmark film and a triumph for Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, who bring deep reserves of feeling to the defiantly erotic love story about two Wyoming ranch hands and the external and internal forces that drive them from desire to denial.? Directed with piercing intelligence and delicacy by Lee, the film of Annie Proulx's 1997 short story - the unerring script by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana is a model of literary adaptation - wears its emotions on its sleeve. The film spans some 20 years in the lives of Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger), from their first and only summer together working as sheepherders on Brokeback Mountain to their pot-bellied middle age.? Over the years, they each marry, raise children and meet every few years for fishing trips, during which little fishing takes place.? Theirs is an electric connection, begun in a too-small tent on Brokeback and never fading.? Both are all too aware of the price of anyone finding out.? Ennis, the less articulate of the two, manages to frame his fears precisely: "This thing grabs hold of us again, in the wrong place, the wrong time, and we're dead." Lee fills his film with long, waiting silences, punctuated by the endless horizontal lines of the Wyoming and Texas plains.? And he gives his actors room to work small miracles of character.? Ledger's performance is a revelation; nothing he has done on screen indicated that he was capable of this.? He's a tightly wound man of few words and a few visible emotions, which Ledger lets slip out like flickers from an ember: the nervous eagerness with which he waits at the window for a visit from Jack, the ever-so-slight softening of his voice when he speaks of his daughters, the way he sets his jaw against impossible dreams of a happier future with Jack.? "If you can't fix it," he says, "you've got to stand it." Michelle Williams does beautiful work as Ennis' young wife, Alma, a woman a little bit afraid of something she can't name.? Finally, she sees evidence of what she fears - Ennis and Jack in a stairwell - and her face freezes: Her world has ended.? The emotional impact of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is all the more stunning for its quietness.? Little that's dramatic happens on screen, and its central image couldn't be more prosaic: two worn-soft western shirts, hanging together.? But Lee, a master of yearning, has created a classic and heartbreaking love story that won't be easily forgotten.? It stays with you after you've seen it, like a haunting strain of music; both love song and elegy for what might have been.? (Excerpted from THE SEATTLE TIMES and ROLLING STONE) "A big sweeping and rapturous Hollywood love story.? It could turn out to be the most revolutionary movie of the year.? A film in which love feels almost as if it were being invented.? It is also a rare crowd-pleaser with the potential to change hearts and minds"-ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Voted Best Picture of the Year: New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, San Francisco Film Critics Circle. ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ______________________________________________________________ ? 3 Free Showings of THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL - January 14-16 In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - January 16th - the Rose Theatre is presenting three free showings of THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL, a powerful documentary about the murder of young Emmett Till, which sparked the civil rights movement. Saturday, Jan.? 14??????????????1:00 Sunday, Jan.??? 15??????????????1:00 Monday, Jan.?? 16???????????????1:00 Free advance tickets may be requested at the box office during regular business hours.? THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL Directed by Keith Beauchamp Not rated: for mature audiences, graphic photos.? 74 min.? THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL, Keith Beauchamp's lean, harrowing inquisition into the murder that catalyzed the civil rights movement, is an incendiary documentary.? Released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of his death, the 74 minute film has already made things happen. The Justice Department has reopened the investigation into the murder of Emmett, a 14-year-old African American from Chicago who was slain in Money, Mississippi.? The new inquiry is based on evidence presented in the film that the killing was a conspiracy involving many more people than the two Mississippians who were acquitted of the crime in a sham trial.? Several witnesses to Emmett's abduction speak up for the first time. Emmett's grave, in Chicago, was recently exhumed for an autopsy that was never performed after his body was fished out of the Tallahatchie River half a century ago.? A cornerstone of the defense at the trial was its insistence that a positive recognition of Emmett's remains was impossible.? A courtroom transcript of the trial, thought to be lost, has been also discovered. As you watch the film, which weaves televised coverage of the atrocity and interviews with surviving relatives and the victim's mother, Mamie Till Mobley, it is impossible not to be stirred by sadness and outrage.? Mrs. Mobley, who died two years ago at age 81, appears throughout the movie, both in vintage new clips and in extensive interviews, conducted by Mr. Beauchamp before her death.? In her calm, plainspoken recollections of a horrifying tragedy, and in her courageous pursuit of truth and justice, she is an extraordinarily articulate and compelling figure. The savagery of the killing, in which Emmett's body was mutilated almost beyond recognition, is matched in ugliness by the undisguised glee of both the perpetrators and the spectators at the trial.? Television clips of these swaggering racists being congratulated by the townspeople after their acquittal surpass any cartoon caricatures of brazen, self-righteous bigotry with a scary violent undertow.? The film's most intense moments revolve around Mrs. Mobley's recollections of Emmett, her only son, who she remembers as smart, playful, fun-loving and good in art and science.? When his body was returned to Chicago in a tightly sealed coffin, she demanded it be broken open and his body displayed in an open casket.? She wanted American to see what racial hatred is all about. "Courageous filmmakers can change the course of history"-BLACK PRESS USA.? "Required viewing"-CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR.? "If you don't believe film can change the world you haven't seen 'The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till'"-CHICAGO TRIBUNE.? "It is impossible not to be stirred by sadness and outrage"-NEW YORK TIMES ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? _________________________________________________________ ? MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA Directed by Rob Marshall Cast: Ziyi Zhang, Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li, Ken Watanbe Rated PG-13 for mature subject matter and some sexual content.? 144 min.? It may be true that they don't make movies like they used to, but every year around this time Hollywood manages to muster itself for one hugely expensive historical epic that goes all out for quality and flies in the face of what's supposed to work at the box office. This year that film is MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, the sweeping film version of Arthur Golden's 1997 best seller that director Rob Marshall has chosen to be the follow-up to CHICAGO, which received the Oscar for Best Picture in 2002. The movie works because of its trio of star performances, its sumptuous production values, its sprawling sets of old Kyoto, its sweeping John Williams score and haunting cello solos by Yo-Yo-Ma. It's the self-narrated saga of Sayuri (Ziyi Zhang), who, as a very young girl in the '20s, is sold by her impoverished parents to be trained as a geisha, which, the script makes clear, is not a prostitute but an entertainer and "artist of the floating world."? She's resistant, and her life is hard until an act of kindness from a handsome business -man (Ken Watanabe) gives her a vision of life's possibility, and in no time she's a contender in the field and a rival of the area's leading geisha: the shrewish Hatsumomo (Gong Li).? Tension in the okiya rise to impossible levels, as Hatsumomo plots to subvert the gorgeous girl she fears will threaten her own popularity.? Gong Li rightly pulls out all the stops as the flamboyant geisha queen desperate to stay on her throne, gives her performance a delicious melodramatic spin that puts one in mind of Bette Davis or Joan Crawford in their primes.? She is achingly vulnerable and appealing, and Michelle Yeoh is a paragon of graceful political wisdom.? If this movie has a Scarlett O'Hara, she's it.? (Excerpted from the SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER and VARIETY) "Rob Marshall has made an emotionally sumptuous love story, a work of art"-TIME.? "Meticulously directed and hypnotically acted"-THE NEW YORK OBSERVER. ?????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????? ________________________________________________________________ THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE Directed by Andrew Adamson Cast: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Tilda Swinton Rated PG for battle sequences and frightening moments.? 140 min.? Readers of C.S. Lewis' beloved fantasy novel THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE may remember its touching dedication, to the author's goddaughter Lucy.? "I wrote this story for you," he writes, "but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books.? As a result you are already too old for fairy tales...but some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again." Appropriately, the central human figure in the book is a little girl named Lucy - and just as appropriately, the heart of Andrew Adamson's movie version of the book belongs firmly to the little girl who plays her.? Georgie Henley, just 8 years old when cast, is a West Yorkshire schoolgirl making her professional acting debut.? She's a beguiling, watchful child with a real-kid cuteness (her slightly crooked teeth are refreshingly non-Hollywood), and she effortlessly steals the movie version from an icicle-wearing Tilda Swinton - no small feat. Lucy is our guide for this journey through an old wardrobe into the magical land of Narnia, where lampposts bloom in the snow, shirtless fauns wear red scarves, and beavers prepare fish and chips for hungry visitors.? With her three siblings, she quickly learns that Narnia loyalists fear the evil White Witch (Swinton), who has made it forever winter and never Christmas, and await the return of their true leader, the lion Aslan (voiced nobly, but with a touch of humor, by Liam Neeson).? While the film is replete with elaborate scenery, lavish battle scenes and nifty CGI effects, you might just find yourself dazzled by Henley, who's clearly still young enough to believe in fairy tales.? She gazes at the proceedings with happy wonderment, never doubting the magic. Movie versions of beloved books are always best approached with a little distance, as nothing can ever supplant the movie each of us created in our imagination while reading of Narnia on some rainy afternoon.? But Adamson's THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, helped along by Henley's shining eyes, finds a little enchantment of its own.? You don't have to be a child to appreciate this movie, just old enough to enjoy fairy tales again.? (Excerpted from THE SEATTLE TIMES) "A triumph.? Gorgeous to look at, superbly cast, wittily directed and funny and exciting by turns"-THE GUARDIAN.? "Poignant and meticulously executed"-TALKING PICTURES ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ______________________________________________________________ ????????????????????????????????????????????????????? FOUR SILENT COMEDIES WITH LIVE MUSIC Sunday, January 29th the Rose Theatre and the Port Townsend Film Festival are presenting an afternoon of silent comedies with live accompaniment by internationally renown pianist Donald Sosin. The program, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m., includes Buster Keaton in COPS (1922), Charlie Chaplin in ONE A.M. (1916), Laurel and Hardy in BIG BUSINESS (1929) and Max Davidson in PASS THE GRAVY (1928). Advance tickets at $15 may be purchased at the Rose Theatre box office during regular business hours.? Donald Sosin has been enthralling audiences in the US and Europe with his silent film music for over thirty years. Born in 1951, he grew up in Rye, NY, and Munich.? He studied piano with Kyriena Siloti, and is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia University, studying composition with William Albright and Jack Beeson.? He was the resident film accompanist at MoMA in the late 70's, and returns there frequently as a guest pianist.? For many years he has performed at the American Museum of the Moving Image, the BAM Rose Cinema, and the Lincoln Center Film Society. He has composed music for screenings of women's films at AMMI and Chinese films at the Guggenheim Museum.? In 2001 he was commissioned by the Westchester Film Festival to score the earliest existing American feature film, RICHARD III, for chamber ensemble and voice.? At the Whitney Museum he premiered his score for SALOME as part of the Unseen Cinema series, for which he also recorded ninety minutes of music for this unique series of programs of avant-garde cinema currently touring museums around the world.? Mr. Sosin lectured on silent film music at the Aspen Institute of Humanities. For DVD release Sosin scored NOSFERATU, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and BLIND HUSBANDS for Kino Video, 19 avant-garde films for the fall 2005 Kino Video and Image Entertainment? releases, a group of Edison films for Kino Video, Ozu's A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS and DeMille's KING OF KINGS for Criterion, and a pair of Pickford films for Milestone.? He performs each October at Le Giomate del Cinema Muto in Sacile and has appeared at the New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Bellport and Hamptons Film Festivals, Pacific Film Archives' Asian Film Festival, and the Film Forum.? Each July for the past four years he has performed at Bologna's Cinema Ritrovato, and has made two appearances at the Telluride Film Festival.? In 2001 he and his wife, actress/singer Joanna Seaton, participated in a colloquium on silent film music at the Berlin Filmmuseum.? They performed his score for FOOLISH WIVES with a five-piece band at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, featuring new songs by the couple, and a chamber score for the European premiere of MoMA's restoration of EAST SIDE WEST SIDE.? The couple has performed at the Virginia Film Festival, the National Gallery, Connecticut's Music Mountain and many college campuses.? The couple has led workshops in silent film scoring for talented high school musicians.? Their CD of Broadway love songs, SAIL AWAY, was released in 1999.? "Donald Sosin...an unflappable pianist"-Dick Hyman, KEYBOARD MAGAZINE.? "Sosin's music is droll and intelligent"-VILLAGE VOICE. "For me the process of writing and performing music is a spiritual activity, as well as an enjoyable means of practicing my craft.? Ironically, I am often looking for ways to make the film accompaniment more silent, so that the disappearance of music would be perceived as an integral part of the film, and not something forced upon the listener"-Donald Sosin ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? _______________________________________________________________ 2005-06 School of Athens Lecture Series continues Sunday, February 12 with Arthur Fine 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. ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? __________________________________________________________________ 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, January 19th. 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) ?????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????? _______________________________________________________________ ???????????????? 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 ???????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ________________________________________________________________ Coming Attractions* CAPOTE - February 3 - 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.? PRIDE & PREJUDICE - tba - A sumptuous new screen adaptation of Jane Austen's classic tale that makes you believe in true love.? "Magical"-Roger Ebert.? "Vibrant"-LOS ANGELES TIMES.? "Supremely entertaining, lushly romantic and subtly sexy"-USA TODAY.? 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.? 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.? SARAH SILVERMAN: JESUS IS MAGIC tba - Comedian Sarah Silverman (THE ARISTOCRATS) fearlessly and hilariously delves into cultural taboos guaranteed to shock and make you laugh.? "Silverman is the most outrageously funny woman alive"-ROLLING STONE.? "Simply brilliant"-DARK HORIZONS? *schedule subject to change. ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? _______________________________________________________________ Rose Theatre Movie Challenge:? This film editor studied oceanography and geology at Johns Hopkins.? He then studied in Paris and Perugia before driving across the United States on a Matchless motorcycle to study film in California.? Identify this person and give the titles of four movies that he has edited. Rules: Answers must be e-mailed to moviechallenge@rosetheatre.com with Rose Theatre Contest in the subject line.? One winner will be selected at random from correct responses received by midnight, January 13 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. ????????????????????????????? ________________________________________________________ Last Week's Question:? How many people are in the 1993 Charlie Chaplin look-alike photo which hangs in the Rose foyer? Answer: 128.? 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Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 32146 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.olympus.net/pipermail/rose-movies/attachments/20060109/8cfa3982/attachment.bin From rocky at rosetheatre.com Mon Jan 16 21:58:23 2006 From: rocky at rosetheatre.com (The Rose Theatre) Date: Mon Jan 16 22:00:49 2006 Subject: [Rose-movies] Rose Theatre Newsletter for Tuesday, January 17, 2006 Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20060116184605.00ba5398@mail.olympus.net> This week's newsletter includes: * THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL held over, Tue., Jan. 17, 1:00 only * NINE LIVES starts Friday, January 20 * JESUS IS MAGIC Friday and Saturday night only * BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN held over * MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA ends Thursday, January 19 * Silent Comedies with Live Music - Sunday, January 29 - tickets going fast * School of Athens Lecture Series - Sunday, February 12 - Arthur Fine * Admission Prices * Gift Suggestions * Coming Attractions * Rose Theatre Movie Challenge Show Times: Tuesday, January 17 - Thursday, January 26 THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL - showing in the Rose Theatre. Due to the large number of people turned away from Monday's screening, we are having an additional free showing Tuesday, January 17 at 1:00. NINE LIVES - showing in the Rosebud Cinema Jan. 20 4:30, 7:20 Jan. 21 1:20, 4:30, 7:20 Jan.22-26 4:30, 7:20 JESUS IS MAGIC - showing in the Rosebud Cinema Jan.20,21 9:50 BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN - showing in the Rose Theatre Jan.17-19 4:00, 7:00 Jan. 20 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Jan. 21 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Jan.22-26 4:00, 7:00 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA - showing in the Rosebud Cinema Jan.17-19 3:30, 7:30 _____________________________________________________________ NINE LIVES Directed by Rodrigo Garcia Cast: Robin Wright Penn, Glenn Close, Holly Hunter, Dakota Fanning, Sissy Spacek, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Mary Kay Place, Aidan Quinn, Ian McShane, Joe Mantegna, William Fichtner Rated R for language, brief sexual content and some disturbing images. 115 min. Rodrigo Garcia's NINE LIVES is that rare episode film that actually accrues a cumulative power and doesn't merely proceed from one segment to the next. By the time it's over it has become a testament to the inner resilience of women in coping with a critical moment in their lives. Each sequence, unfolding powerfully in a single take, links deftly to the next with a smooth yet driving momentum, and individuals from one vignette turn up in another in an unobtrusive, credible manner that plays down coincidence to suggest instead the not-always-apparent interconnectedness of people's lives Each segment seems perfectly shaped and timed, not lasting a second too long yet always of sufficient length to be satisfying in itself. Garcia's large ensemble cast is impeccable and he and his actors have created a film as memorable as it is subtle. Garcia is fascinated by the inner lives of women and his compassion and empathy bring them alive in these vignettes, these brief but intimate character sketches in a 12-minute or so span of life. Even in their most troubled, vulnerable, panicked moments, he reveals grace and beauty and honesty and raw humanity, perhaps especially in those moments of duress. But the stories also take the audience on a journey, from rage and anger to connection and peace, a life cycle told through the moments of time from nine women who have nothing in common but their struggles, their search for happiness and their connection to the tapestry of humanity. (Excerpted from LOS ANGELES TIMES) "I'm not sure how Garcia makes his vignettes so urgent, so satisfying, in such little time. He seems to have an almost clairvoyant grasp of character and has at his command some of the best actresses working. It's a master class in acting. I say give the whole cast a truckload of Oscars."-NEWSWEEK. "Grade A, deeply satisfying"-ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY __________________________________________________________________ JESUS IS MAGIC Directed by Liam Lynch Cast: A concert film starring comedian Sarah Silverman Not rated: for mature audiences, contains language and subject matter that may offend some audiences. 72 min. Call Sarah Silverman shock comedy's pinup girl. The blithely self-absorbed "hot Jewish chick" strolls through taboo topics - race, sex, 9/11, the Holocaust, but notably race - with gleefully insensitive remarks, a clueless grin and eyes that blink "vacant." Her parody of brazen vanity and ignorance is not exactly sophisticated; there's little commentary or satire in her crude act, which gets laughs through a combination of wildly inappropriate subjects, farce and a flirtatious delivery. The film, directed by Liam Lynch, carries her persona off-stage with mock backstage scenes and skits interspersed through the film, along with intermittently inspired musical numbers. The big screen isn't the best venue for her "ain't I cute?" shtick and shock tactics, which play better in the conspiratorial intimacy of a comedy club, and the off-stage material breaks up her stage rhythm, but Silverman is funny and, more often than not, so is the film. (Excerpted from the SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER) "For anyone who found her 'Aristocrats' appearance shocking, you ain't seen nothing yet"-FILMSTEW.COM. "Sarah Silverman is the most outrageously funny woman alive"-ROLLING STONE. "Profane and profound. The funniest movie of the year"-ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS. "God bless her - Silverman fearlessly and hilariously takes on cultural taboos"-THE NEW YORK TIMES ___________________________________________________________ BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Directed by Ang Lee Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Anna Farris, Randy Quaid Rated R for sexuality, nudity, language and some violence. 134 min. Ang Lee's unmissable and unforgettable BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN hits you like a shot in the heart. It's a landmark film and a triumph for Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, who bring deep reserves of feeling to the defiantly erotic love story about two Wyoming ranch hands and the external and internal forces that drive them from desire to denial. Directed with piercing intelligence and delicacy by Lee, the film of Annie Proulx's 1997 short story - the unerring script by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana is a model of literary adaptation - wears its emotions on its sleeve. The film spans some 20 years in the lives of Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger), from their first and only summer together working as sheepherders on Brokeback Mountain to their pot-bellied middle age. Over the years, they each marry, raise children and meet every few years for fishing trips, during which little fishing takes place. Theirs is an electric connection, begun in a too-small tent on Brokeback and never fading. Both are all too aware of the price of anyone finding out. Ennis, the less articulate of the two, manages to frame his fears precisely: "This thing grabs hold of us again, in the wrong place, the wrong time, and we're dead." Lee fills his film with long, waiting silences, punctuated by the endless horizontal lines of the Wyoming and Texas plains. And he gives his actors room to work small miracles of character. Ledger's performance is a revelation; nothing he has done on screen indicated that he was capable of this. He's a tightly wound man of few words and a few visible emotions, which Ledger lets slip out like flickers from an ember: the nervous eagerness with which he waits at the window for a visit from Jack, the ever-so-slight softening of his voice when he speaks of his daughters, the way he sets his jaw against impossible dreams of a happier future with Jack. "If you can't fix it," he says, "you've got to stand it." Michelle Williams does beautiful work as Ennis' young wife, Alma, a woman a little bit afraid of something she can't name. Finally, she sees evidence of what she fears - Ennis and Jack in a stairwell - and her face freezes: Her world has ended. The emotional impact of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is all the more stunning for its quietness. Little that's dramatic happens on screen, and its central image couldn't be more prosaic: two worn-soft western shirts, hanging together. But Lee, a master of yearning, has created a classic and heartbreaking love story that won't be easily forgotten. It stays with you after you've seen it, like a haunting strain of music; both love song and elegy for what might have been. (Excerpted from THE SEATTLE TIMES and ROLLING STONE) "A big sweeping and rapturous Hollywood love story. It could turn out to be the most revolutionary movie of the year. A film in which love feels almost as if it were being invented. It is also a rare crowd-pleaser with the potential to change hearts and minds"-ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Voted Best Picture of the Year: New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, San Francisco Film Critics Circle. ______________________________________________________________ THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL Directed by Keith Beauchamp Not rated: for mature audiences, graphic photos. 74 min. THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL, Keith Beauchamp's lean, harrowing inquisition into the murder that catalyzed the civil rights movement, is an incendiary documentary. Released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of his death, the 74 minute film has already made things happen. The Justice Department has reopened the investigation into the murder of Emmett, a 14-year-old African American from Chicago who was slain in Money, Mississippi. The new inquiry is based on evidence presented in the film that the killing was a conspiracy involving many more people than the two Mississippians who were acquitted of the crime in a sham trial. Several witnesses to Emmett's abduction speak up for the first time. Emmett's grave, in Chicago, was recently exhumed for an autopsy that was never performed after his body was fished out of the Tallahatchie River half a century ago. A cornerstone of the defense at the trial was its insistence that a positive recognition of Emmett's remains was impossible. A courtroom transcript of the trial, thought to be lost, has been also discovered. As you watch the film, which weaves televised coverage of the atrocity and interviews with surviving relatives and the victim's mother, Mamie Till Mobley, it is impossible not to be stirred by sadness and outrage. Mrs. Mobley, who died two years ago at age 81, appears throughout the movie, both in vintage new clips and in extensive interviews, conducted by Mr. Beauchamp before her death. In her calm, plainspoken recollections of a horrifying tragedy, and in her courageous pursuit of truth and justice, she is an extraordinarily articulate and compelling figure. The savagery of the killing, in which Emmett's body was mutilated almost beyond recognition, is matched in ugliness by the undisguised glee of both the perpetrators and the spectators at the trial. Television clips of these swaggering racists being congratulated by the townspeople after their acquittal surpass any cartoon caricatures of brazen, self-righteous bigotry with a scary violent undertow. The film's most intense moments revolve around Mrs. Mobley's recollections of Emmett, her only son, who she remembers as smart, playful, fun-loving and good in art and science. When his body was returned to Chicago in a tightly sealed coffin, she demanded it be broken open and his body displayed in an open casket. She wanted American to see what racial hatred is all about. "Courageous filmmakers can change the course of history"-BLACK PRESS USA. "Required viewing"-CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. "If you don't believe film can change the world you haven't seen 'The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till'"-CHICAGO TRIBUNE. "It is impossible not to be stirred by sadness and outrage"-NEW YORK TIMES _________________________________________________________ MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA Directed by Rob Marshall Cast: Ziyi Zhang, Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li, Ken Watanbe Rated PG-13 for mature subject matter and some sexual content. 144 min. It may be true that they don't make movies like they used to, but every year around this time Hollywood manages to muster itself for one hugely expensive historical epic that goes all out for quality and flies in the face of what's supposed to work at the box office. This year that film is MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, the sweeping film version of Arthur Golden's 1997 best seller that director Rob Marshall has chosen to be the follow-up to CHICAGO, which received the Oscar for Best Picture in 2002. The movie works because of its trio of star performances, its sumptuous production values, its sprawling sets of old Kyoto, its sweeping John Williams score and haunting cello solos by Yo-Yo-Ma. It's the self-narrated saga of Sayuri (Ziyi Zhang), who, as a very young girl in the '20s, is sold by her impoverished parents to be trained as a geisha, which, the script makes clear, is not a prostitute but an entertainer and "artist of the floating world." She's resistant, and her life is hard until an act of kindness from a handsome business -man (Ken Watanabe) gives her a vision of life's possibility, and in no time she's a contender in the field and a rival of the area's leading geisha: the shrewish Hatsumomo (Gong Li). Tension in the okiya rise to impossible levels, as Hatsumomo plots to subvert the gorgeous girl she fears will threaten her own popularity. Gong Li rightly pulls out all the stops as the flamboyant geisha queen desperate to stay on her throne, gives her performance a delicious melodramatic spin that puts one in mind of Bette Davis or Joan Crawford in their primes. She is achingly vulnerable and appealing, and Michelle Yeoh is a paragon of graceful political wisdom. If this movie has a Scarlett O'Hara, she's it. (Excerpted from the SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER and VARIETY) "Rob Marshall has made an emotionally sumptuous love story, a work of art"-TIME. "Meticulously directed and hypnotically acted"-THE NEW YORK OBSERVER. ______________________________________________________________ FOUR SILENT COMEDIES WITH LIVE MUSIC Sunday, January 29th the Rose Theatre and the Port Townsend Film Festival are presenting an afternoon of silent comedies with live accompaniment by internationally renown pianist Donald Sosin. The program, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m., includes Buster Keaton in COPS (1922), Charlie Chaplin in ONE A.M. (1916), Laurel and Hardy in BIG BUSINESS (1929) and Max Davidson in PASS THE GRAVY (1928). Advance tickets at $15 may be purchased at the Rose Theatre box office during regular business hours. Donald Sosin has been enthralling audiences in the US and Europe with his silent film music for over thirty years. Born in 1951, he grew up in Rye, NY, and Munich. He studied piano with Kyriena Siloti, and is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia University, studying composition with William Albright and Jack Beeson. He was the resident film accompanist at MoMA in the late 70's, and returns there frequently as a guest pianist. For many years he has performed at the American Museum of the Moving Image, the BAM Rose Cinema, and the Lincoln Center Film Society. He has composed music for screenings of women's films at AMMI and Chinese films at the Guggenheim Museum. In 2001 he was commissioned by the Westchester Film Festival to score the earliest existing American feature film, RICHARD III, for chamber ensemble and voice. At the Whitney Museum he premiered his score for SALOME as part of the Unseen Cinema series, for which he also recorded ninety minutes of music for this unique series of programs of avant-garde cinema currently touring museums around the world. Mr. Sosin lectured on silent film music at the Aspen Institute of Humanities. For DVD release Sosin scored NOSFERATU, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and BLIND HUSBANDS for Kino Video, 19 avant-garde films for the fall 2005 Kino Video and Image Entertainment releases, a group of Edison films for Kino Video, Ozu's A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS and DeMille's KING OF KINGS for Criterion, and a pair of Pickford films for Milestone. He performs each October at Le Giomate del Cinema Muto in Sacile and has appeared at the New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Bellport and Hamptons Film Festivals, Pacific Film Archives' Asian Film Festival, and the Film Forum. Each July for the past four years he has performed at Bologna's Cinema Ritrovato, and has made two appearances at the Telluride Film Festival. In 2001 he and his wife, actress/singer Joanna Seaton, participated in a colloquium on silent film music at the Berlin Filmmuseum. They performed his score for FOOLISH WIVES with a five-piece band at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, featuring new songs by the couple, and a chamber score for the European premiere of MoMA's restoration of EAST SIDE WEST SIDE. The couple has performed at the Virginia Film Festival, the National Gallery, Connecticut's Music Mountain and many college campuses. The couple has led workshops in silent film scoring for talented high school musicians. Their CD of Broadway love songs, SAIL AWAY, was released in 1999. "Donald Sosin...an unflappable pianist"-Dick Hyman, KEYBOARD MAGAZINE. "Sosin's music is droll and intelligent"-VILLAGE VOICE. "For me the process of writing and performing music is a spiritual activity, as well as an enjoyable means of practicing my craft. Ironically, I am often looking for ways to make the film accompaniment more silent, so that the disappearance of music would be perceived as an integral part of the film, and not something forced upon the listener"-Donald Sosin _______________________________________________________________ 2005-06 School of Athens Lecture Series continues Sunday, February 12 with Arthur Fine 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. __________________________________________________________________ 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, January 26th. 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) _______________________________________________________________ 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 _____________________________________________________________ Coming Attractions* CAPOTE - February 3 - 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. PRIDE & PREJUDICE - tba - A sumptuous new screen adaptation of Jane Austen's classic tale that makes you believe in true love. "Magical"-Roger Ebert. "Vibrant"-LOS ANGELES TIMES. "Supremely entertaining, lushly romantic and subtly sexy"-USA TODAY. 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. *schedule subject to change. _______________________________________________________________ Rose Theatre Movie Challenge: Heath and Michelle have a new baby girl. What is her middle name? Rules: Answers must be e-mailed to moviechallenge@rosetheatre.com with Rose Theatre Contest in the subject line. One winner will be selected at random from correct responses received by midnight, January 20 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. ________________________________________________________ Last Week's Question: This film editor studied oceanography and geology at Johns Hopkins. He then studied in Paris and Perugia before driving across the United States on a Matchless motorcycle to study film in California. Identify this person and give the titles of four movies that he has edited. Answer: Walter Murch; THX 1138, THE CONVERSATION, JULIA, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, THE ENGLISH PATIENT, COLD MOUNTAIN, THE TALENTED MR. 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URL: http://mailman.olympus.net/pipermail/rose-movies/attachments/20060116/e487e6a4/attachment.html From rocky at rosetheatre.com Mon Jan 23 21:42:57 2006 From: rocky at rosetheatre.com (The Rose Theatre) Date: Mon Jan 23 21:43:18 2006 Subject: [Rose-movies] Rose Theatre Newsletter for January 23, 2006 Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20060123141151.00c03c00@mail.olympus.net> This week's newsletter includes: * SYRIANA starts Friday, January 27 * Silent Comedies with Live Music - Sunday, Jan. 29 - 6 tickets remaining * NINE LIVES ends Thursday, January 26 * BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN held over * Diaper Daze Cinema Returns February 2 * School of Athens Lecture Series - Sunday, February 12 - Arthur Fine * Admission Prices * Gift Suggestions * Coming Attractions * Rose Theatre Movie Challenge Show Times: Tuesday, January 24 - Thursday, February 2 SYRIANA - showing in the Rose Theatre Jan. 27 4:30, 7:20 Jan. 28 1:20, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 Jan.29-31 4:30, 7:20 Feb. 1,2 4:30, 7:20 SILENT COMEDIES with LIVE MUSIC - showing in the Rose Theatre Jan. 29 1:00 NINE LIVES - showing in the Rosebud Cinema Jan.24-26 4:30, 7:20 BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN - showing in the Rose Theatre Jan.24-27 4:00, 7:00 - moves to the Rosebud Cinema 1/27 Jan. 28 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Jan.29-31 4:00, 7:00 Feb. 1,2 4:00, 7:00 _____________________________________________________________ SYRIANA Directed by Stephen Gaghan Cast: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt, Mazhur Munir, Tim Blake Nelson, Christopher Plummer, Alexander Siddig Rated R for violence and language. 125 min. SYRIANA is a film of paradoxes, contradictions and complications. It's a political thriller that thrives on misdirection, on hiding information just as it hides glamorous George Clooney behind a rumpled exterior and a full beard. Even its title is a puzzler: The meaning is critical, but no one on screen so much as says the word let alone explains it. Written an directed by Stephen Gaghan, SYRIANA is a fearless and ambitious piece of work, made with equal parts passion and calculation, an unapologetically entertaining major studio release with compelling real-world relevance, a film that takes numerous risks and thrives on them all. An Oscar winner for writing TRAFFIC, Gaghan is not shy about using traditional Hollywood ingredients such as dramatically super-charged plot elements and a major-player cast, but what he does with them is the opposite of standard. Gaghan fiddles with the norms of studio storytelling in ways both nervy and unnerving, including treating all his stars like supporting players, the better to grapple with one of today's biggest stories, the ramifications of the fight to control the planet's dwindling supply of oil. More than that, Gaghan uses the cover of genere picture-making to present a scathing critique of how America acts to protect its interests, how we try to get the world to dance to our tune, and what the consequences of those actions can be. This is a film to make your head spin and, more critically, your mind ponder. This also a film, frankly, that can be as confusing as it is involving, that intentionally tells its story in a way that is all but impossible to follow in detail. That's due both to the complexity of the tale SYRIANA has chosen and Gaghan's subversive determination to use mystification in the service of what he sees as a greater good. Pursing his widely quoted notion that oil was the world's crack addiction, Gaghan made a connection with former top CIA field officer Robert Baer, whose book "See No Evil" gets a "suggested by" credit. Gaghan hung out with Baer for a considerable period of time, meeting major players in the interconnected worlds of espionage and politics, international finance and law, oil and radical Islam. Out of this came SYRIANA's complicated plot, which revolves around a fictional but oil-rich emirate in the Persian Gulf, which begins the narrative by announcing it has transferred drilling rights from Connex, a giant Texas firm, to the higher-bidding People's Republic of China. This change profoundly affects four people, individuals who are not initially aware of one another but are involved in the geopolitical world of Middle Eastern oil and gas. This is conspiracy-theory filmmaking of the most bravura kind, but if only a fraction of its suppositions are true, we - and the world - are in a world of trouble. (Excerpted from LOS ANGELES TIMES) "'Syriana' is brilliant. George Clooney is hypnotic, haunting and quietly devastating. Gaghan mixes potent writing with images that tear at the heart"-ROLLING STONE. "A fearless and ambitious piece of work"-LOS ANGELES TIMES. "'Syriana' demands and rewards close attention"-THE NEW YORK TIMES Golden Globe Award Winner - George Clooney, Best Supporting Actor ___________________________________________________________________ FOUR SILENT COMEDIES WITH LIVE MUSIC Sunday, January 29th the Rose Theatre and the Port Townsend Film Festival are presenting an afternoon of silent comedies with live accompaniment by internationally renown pianist Donald Sosin. The program, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m., includes Buster Keaton in COPS (1922), Charlie Chaplin in ONE A.M. (1916), Laurel and Hardy in BIG BUSINESS (1929) and Max Davidson in PASS THE GRAVY (1928). Advance tickets at $15 may be purchased at the Rose Theatre box office during regular business hours. Donald Sosin has been enthralling audiences in the US and Europe with his silent film music for over thirty years. Born in 1951, he grew up in Rye, NY, and Munich. He studied piano with Kyriena Siloti, and is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia University, studying composition with William Albright and Jack Beeson. He was the resident film accompanist at MoMA in the late 70's, and returns there frequently as a guest pianist. For many years he has performed at the American Museum of the Moving Image, the BAM Rose Cinema, and the Lincoln Center Film Society. He has composed music for screenings of women's films at AMMI and Chinese films at the Guggenheim Museum. In 2001 he was commissioned by the Westchester Film Festival to score the earliest existing American feature film, RICHARD III, for chamber ensemble and voice. At the Whitney Museum he premiered his score for SALOME as part of the Unseen Cinema series, for which he also recorded ninety minutes of music for this unique series of programs of avant-garde cinema currently touring museums around the world. Mr. Sosin lectured on silent film music at the Aspen Institute of Humanities. For DVD release Sosin scored NOSFERATU, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and BLIND HUSBANDS for Kino Video, 19 avant-garde films for the fall 2005 Kino Video and Image Entertainment releases, a group of Edison films for Kino Video, Ozu's A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS and DeMille's KING OF KINGS for Criterion, and a pair of Pickford films for Milestone. He performs each October at Le Giomate del Cinema Muto in Sacile and has appeared at the New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Bellport and Hamptons Film Festivals, Pacific Film Archives' Asian Film Festival, and the Film Forum. Each July for the past four years he has performed at Bologna's Cinema Ritrovato, and has made two appearances at the Telluride Film Festival. In 2001 he and his wife, actress/singer Joanna Seaton, participated in a colloquium on silent film music at the Berlin Filmmuseum. They performed his score for FOOLISH WIVES with a five-piece band at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, featuring new songs by the couple, and a chamber score for the European premiere of MoMA's restoration of EAST SIDE WEST SIDE. The couple has performed at the Virginia Film Festival, the National Gallery, Connecticut's Music Mountain and many college campuses. The couple has led workshops in silent film scoring for talented high school musicians. Their CD of Broadway love songs, SAIL AWAY, was released in 1999. "Donald Sosin...an unflappable pianist"-Dick Hyman, KEYBOARD MAGAZINE. "Sosin's music is droll and intelligent"-VILLAGE VOICE. "For me the process of writing and performing music is a spiritual activity, as well as an enjoyable means of practicing my craft. Ironically, I am often looking for ways to make the film accompaniment more silent, so that the disappearance of music would be perceived as an integral part of the film, and not something forced upon the listener"-Donald Sosin _______________________________________________________________ NINE LIVES Directed by Rodrigo Garcia Cast: Robin Wright Penn, Glenn Close, Holly Hunter, Dakota Fanning, Sissy Spacek, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Mary Kay Place, Aidan Quinn, Ian McShane, Joe Mantegna, William Fichtner Rated R for language, brief sexual content and some disturbing images. 115 min. Rodrigo Garcia's NINE LIVES is that rare episode film that actually accrues a cumulative power and doesn't merely proceed from one segment to the next. By the time it's over it has become a testament to the inner resilience of women in coping with a critical moment in their lives. Each sequence, unfolding powerfully in a single take, links deftly to the next with a smooth yet driving momentum, and individuals from one vignette turn up in another in an unobtrusive, credible manner that plays down coincidence to suggest instead the not-always-apparent interconnectedness of people's lives Each segment seems perfectly shaped and timed, not lasting a second too long yet always of sufficient length to be satisfying in itself. Garcia's large ensemble cast is impeccable and he and his actors have created a film as memorable as it is subtle. Garcia is fascinated by the inner lives of women and his compassion and empathy bring them alive in these vignettes, these brief but intimate character sketches in a 12-minute or so span of life. Even in their most troubled, vulnerable, panicked moments, he reveals grace and beauty and honesty and raw humanity, perhaps especially in those moments of duress. But the stories also take the audience on a journey, from rage and anger to connection and peace, a life cycle told through the moments of time from nine women who have nothing in common but their struggles, their search for happiness and their connection to the tapestry of humanity. (Excerpted from LOS ANGELES TIMES) "I'm not sure how Garcia makes his vignettes so urgent, so satisfying, in such little time. He seems to have an almost clairvoyant grasp of character and has at his command some of the best actresses working. It's a master class in acting. I say give the whole cast a truckload of Oscars."-NEWSWEEK. "Grade A, deeply satisfying"-ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY __________________________________________________________________ BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Directed by Ang Lee Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Anna Farris, Randy Quaid Rated R for sexuality, nudity, language and some violence. 134 min. Ang Lee's unmissable and unforgettable BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN hits you like a shot in the heart. It's a landmark film and a triumph for Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, who bring deep reserves of feeling to the defiantly erotic love story about two Wyoming ranch hands and the external and internal forces that drive them from desire to denial. Directed with piercing intelligence and delicacy by Lee, the film of Annie Proulx's 1997 short story - the unerring script by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana is a model of literary adaptation - wears its emotions on its sleeve. The film spans some 20 years in the lives of Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger), from their first and only summer together working as sheepherders on Brokeback Mountain to their pot-bellied middle age. Over the years, they each marry, raise children and meet every few years for fishing trips, during which little fishing takes place. Theirs is an electric connection, begun in a too-small tent on Brokeback and never fading. Both are all too aware of the price of anyone finding out. Ennis, the less articulate of the two, manages to frame his fears precisely: "This thing grabs hold of us again, in the wrong place, the wrong time, and we're dead." Lee fills his film with long, waiting silences, punctuated by the endless horizontal lines of the Wyoming and Texas plains. And he gives his actors room to work small miracles of character. Ledger's performance is a revelation; nothing he has done on screen indicated that he was capable of this. He's a tightly wound man of few words and a few visible emotions, which Ledger lets slip out like flickers from an ember: the nervous eagerness with which he waits at the window for a visit from Jack, the ever-so-slight softening of his voice when he speaks of his daughters, the way he sets his jaw against impossible dreams of a happier future with Jack. "If you can't fix it," he says, "you've got to stand it." Michelle Williams does beautiful work as Ennis' young wife, Alma, a woman a little bit afraid of something she can't name. Finally, she sees evidence of what she fears - Ennis and Jack in a stairwell - and her face freezes: Her world has ended. The emotional impact of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is all the more stunning for its quietness. Little that's dramatic happens on screen, and its central image couldn't be more prosaic: two worn-soft western shirts, hanging together. But Lee, a master of yearning, has created a classic and heartbreaking love story that won't be easily forgotten. It stays with you after you've seen it, like a haunting strain of music; both love song and elegy for what might have been. (Excerpted from THE SEATTLE TIMES and ROLLING STONE) "A big sweeping and rapturous Hollywood love story. It could turn out to be the most revolutionary movie of the year. A film in which love feels almost as if it were being invented. It is also a rare crowd-pleaser with the potential to change hearts and minds"-ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Voted Best Picture of the Year: New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, San Francisco Film Critics Circle. ______________________________________________________________ DIAPER DAZE CINEMA RETURNS FEBRUARY 2, 1:00 p.m. - BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN By popular demand, Diaper Daze Cinema, special matinee showings for parents with infants, returns to the Rose Theatre next week. Diaper Daze began many years ago after we received numerous requests from parents who were sorry to be missing new movies on the big screen. Therefore, taking inspiration from the "crying rooms" provided by some theatres around the country, The Rose began offering the entire theatre for crying. Parents are invited to bring their exuberant offspring without trepidation, knowing that disruptions are absolutely guaranteed. Diaper Daze Cinema will take place at 1:00, but the day of the week may vary from movie to movie. The movie will be announced in our e-newsletter, in our weekly Leader ad, on our movie information line (360.385.1089) and on our web site (www.rosetheatre.com). Regular matinee prices apply. Diaper Daze Cinema is for the enjoyment of film-starved parents with infants. As the content of the movie is often adult-oriented, these special matinees are not appropriate for toddlers or young children. _________________________________________________________________ 2005-06 School of Athens Lecture Series continues Sunday, February 12 with Arthur Fine 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. __________________________________________________________________ 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, February 2. 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) _______________________________________________________________ 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 _____________________________________________________________ Coming Attractions* CAPOTE - February 3 - 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. PRIDE & PREJUDICE - tba - A sumptuous new screen adaptation of Jane Austen's classic tale that makes you believe in true love. "Magical"-Roger Ebert. "Vibrant"-LOS ANGELES TIMES. "Supremely entertaining, lushly romantic and subtly sexy"-USA TODAY. 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. *schedule subject to change. _______________________________________________________________ Rose Theatre Movie Challenge: Which character from NINE LIVES said the following: "Five minutes with you and I always feel like my life is a figment of my imagination." Rules: Answers must be e-mailed to moviechallenge@rosetheatre.com with Rose Theatre Contest in the subject line. One winner will be selected at random from correct responses received by midnight, January 27 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. ________________________________________________________ Last Week's Question: Heath and Michelle have a new baby girl. What is her middle name? 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URL: http://mailman.olympus.net/pipermail/rose-movies/attachments/20060123/6041c349/attachment.html From rocky at rosetheatre.com Mon Jan 30 15:24:14 2006 From: rocky at rosetheatre.com (The Rose Theatre) Date: Mon Jan 30 15:26:38 2006 Subject: [Rose-movies] Rose Theatre Newsletter for Monday, Jan. 30 Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20060130125810.00ba5100@mail.olympus.net> This week's newsletter includes: * KISS KISS BANG BANG starts Friday, February 3 - 3 shows only * SYRIANA held over * BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN held over * Diaper Daze Cinema Thursday, February 2, 1:00 * CAPOTE starts Friday, February 10 * School of Athens Lecture Series - Sunday, February 12 - Arthur Fine * Admission Prices * Gift Suggestions * Coming Attractions * Rose Theatre Movie Challenge Show Times: Monday, January 30 - Thursday, February 9 KISS KISS BANG BANG - showing in the Rosebud Cinema Feb. 3 9:40 Feb. 4 1:45, 9:40 SYRIANA - showing in the Rose Theatre Jan.30,31 4:30, 7:20 Feb. 1,2 4:30, 7:20 Feb. 3 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 Feb. 4 1:15, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 Feb. 5-9 4:30, 7:20 BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN - showing in the Rosebud Cinema Jan.30,31 4:00, 7:00 Feb. 1-9 4:00, 7:00 _____________________________________________________________ KISS KISS BANG BANG Directed by Shane Black Cast: Robert Downey, Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan Rated R for language, nudity, graphic violence. 105 min. The deliriously enjoyable noir comedy-thriller KISS KISS BANG BANG, does nothing by halves and everything by doubles. There's the twofer title, evocative of ripe pulp fiction on page and screen - the same muscular phrase with which the late tough-dame film critic Pauline Kael herself defined the basic appeal of movies. There's the cheeky, talk-bedazzled script by Shane Black, making a sharp directorial debut, who machine-guns twice as many words as the average dialogue slinger (and four times as many killer lines.) And the story itself multiplies meanings as it chases the tale of a petty thief, running from the cops down the mean streets of New York City, who is mistaken for an actor wannabe at an audition for a detective movie, then flown out to Tinseltown for a screen test, where he prepares for playing the role of gumshoe by shadowing a tough private eye who goes by the name of Gay Perry, because he is. Gay. Best of all, KISS KISS offers the double-your-pleasure thrills of watching Robert Downey, Jr. at the top of his game playing thief-turned-actor-turned-PI Harry Lockhart, and Val Kilmer, divine as the fabuloulsy macho Gay Perry. The duo make a whole greater than the sum of their parts, a couple of highly flammable actors as famous for their volatile offscreen reputations as for their redoubtable acting chops. And the enjoyment is intense times two, since what gossip pages have already told us about each man adds to our satisfaction in seeing the pair so redeemed by good discipline and good, healthy skin tone. In the gossamer Hollywood conjured by KISS KISS, the character of Harry helps Downey rediscover his shine. Downey helps Kilmer relocate his sparkle. And Black, who first exploded the possibilities of character-driven, buddy flicks two decades ago with his revolutionary script for LETHAL WEAPON, gets a bang bang out of rehabilitating two of the least likely heroes in Tinseltown. (Excerpted from ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY) "Absolutely spectacular"-AINT IT COOL NEWS. "An attitude and adrenaline cocktail"-VILLAGE VOICE. "Outrageous, off-the-wall fun"-ROLLING STONE ________________________________________________________________ SYRIANA Directed by Stephen Gaghan Cast: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt, Mazhur Munir, Tim Blake Nelson, Christopher Plummer, Alexander Siddig Rated R for violence and language. 125 min. SYRIANA is a film of paradoxes, contradictions and complications. It's a political thriller that thrives on misdirection, on hiding information just as it hides glamorous George Clooney behind a rumpled exterior and a full beard. Even its title is a puzzler: The meaning is critical, but no one on screen so much as says the word let alone explains it. Written an directed by Stephen Gaghan, SYRIANA is a fearless and ambitious piece of work, made with equal parts passion and calculation, an unapologetically entertaining major studio release with compelling real-world relevance, a film that takes numerous risks and thrives on them all. An Oscar winner for writing TRAFFIC, Gaghan is not shy about using traditional Hollywood ingredients such as dramatically super-charged plot elements and a major-player cast, but what he does with them is the opposite of standard. Gaghan fiddles with the norms of studio storytelling in ways both nervy and unnerving, including treating all his stars like supporting players, the better to grapple with one of today's biggest stories, the ramifications of the fight to control the planet's dwindling supply of oil. More than that, Gaghan uses the cover of genere picture-making to present a scathing critique of how America acts to protect its interests, how we try to get the world to dance to our tune, and what the consequences of those actions can be. This is a film to make your head spin and, more critically, your mind ponder. This also a film, frankly, that can be as confusing as it is involving, that intentionally tells its story in a way that is all but impossible to follow in detail. That's due both to the complexity of the tale SYRIANA has chosen and Gaghan's subversive determination to use mystification in the service of what he sees as a greater good. Pursing his widely quoted notion that oil was the world's crack addiction, Gaghan made a connection with former top CIA field officer Robert Baer, whose book "See No Evil" gets a "suggested by" credit. Gaghan hung out with Baer for a considerable period of time, meeting major players in the interconnected worlds of espionage and politics, international finance and law, oil and radical Islam. Out of this came SYRIANA's complicated plot, which revolves around a fictional but oil-rich emirate in the Persian Gulf, which begins the narrative by announcing it has transferred drilling rights from Connex, a giant Texas firm, to the higher-bidding People's Republic of China. This change profoundly affects four people, individuals who are not initially aware of one another but are involved in the geopolitical world of Middle Eastern oil and gas. This is conspiracy-theory filmmaking of the most bravura kind, but if only a fraction of its suppositions are true, we - and the world - are in a world of trouble. (Excerpted from LOS ANGELES TIMES) "'Syriana' is brilliant. George Clooney is hypnotic, haunting and quietly devastating. Gaghan mixes potent writing with images that tear at the heart"-ROLLING STONE. "A fearless and ambitious piece of work"-LOS ANGELES TIMES. "'Syriana' demands and rewards close attention"-THE NEW YORK TIMES Golden Globe Award Winner - George Clooney, Best Supporting Actor ___________________________________________________________________ BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Directed by Ang Lee Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Anna Farris, Randy Quaid Rated R for sexuality, nudity, language and some violence. 134 min. Ang Lee's unmissable and unforgettable BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN hits you like a shot in the heart. It's a landmark film and a triumph for Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, who bring deep reserves of feeling to the defiantly erotic love story about two Wyoming ranch hands and the external and internal forces that drive them from desire to denial. Directed with piercing intelligence and delicacy by Lee, the film of Annie Proulx's 1997 short story - the unerring script by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana is a model of literary adaptation - wears its emotions on its sleeve. The film spans some 20 years in the lives of Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger), from their first and only summer together working as sheepherders on Brokeback Mountain to their pot-bellied middle age. Over the years, they each marry, raise children and meet every few years for fishing trips, during which little fishing takes place. Theirs is an electric connection, begun in a too-small tent on Brokeback and never fading. Both are all too aware of the price of anyone finding out. Ennis, the less articulate of the two, manages to frame his fears precisely: "This thing grabs hold of us again, in the wrong place, the wrong time, and we're dead." Lee fills his film with long, waiting silences, punctuated by the endless horizontal lines of the Wyoming and Texas plains. And he gives his actors room to work small miracles of character. Ledger's performance is a revelation; nothing he has done on screen indicated that he was capable of this. He's a tightly wound man of few words and a few visible emotions, which Ledger lets slip out like flickers from an ember: the nervous eagerness with which he waits at the window for a visit from Jack, the ever-so-slight softening of his voice when he speaks of his daughters, the way he sets his jaw against impossible dreams of a happier future with Jack. "If you can't fix it," he says, "you've got to stand it." Michelle Williams does beautiful work as Ennis' young wife, Alma, a woman a little bit afraid of something she can't name. Finally, she sees evidence of what she fears - Ennis and Jack in a stairwell - and her face freezes: Her world has ended. The emotional impact of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is all the more stunning for its quietness. Little that's dramatic happens on screen, and its central image couldn't be more prosaic: two worn-soft western shirts, hanging together. But Lee, a master of yearning, has created a classic and heartbreaking love story that won't be easily forgotten. It stays with you after you've seen it, like a haunting strain of music; both love song and elegy for what might have been. (Excerpted from THE SEATTLE TIMES and ROLLING STONE) "A big sweeping and rapturous Hollywood love story. It could turn out to be the most revolutionary movie of the year. A film in which love feels almost as if it were being invented. It is also a rare crowd-pleaser with the potential to change hearts and minds"-ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Voted Best Picture of the Year: New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, San Francisco Film Critics Circle. ______________________________________________________________ DIAPER DAZE CINEMA RETURNS FEBRUARY 2, 1:00 p.m. - BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN By popular demand, Diaper Daze Cinema, special matinee showings for parents with infants, returns to the Rose Theatre next week. Diaper Daze began many years ago after we received numerous requests from parents who were sorry to be missing new movies on the big screen. Therefore, taking inspiration from the "crying rooms" provided by some theatres around the country, The Rose began offering the entire theatre for crying. Parents are invited to bring their exuberant offspring without trepidation, knowing that disruptions are absolutely guaranteed. Diaper Daze Cinema will take place at 1:00, but the day of the week may vary from movie to movie. The movie will be announced in our e-newsletter, in our weekly Leader ad, on our movie information line (360.385.1089) and on our web site (www.rosetheatre.com). Regular matinee prices apply. Diaper Daze Cinema is for the enjoyment of film-starved parents with infants. As the content of the movie is often adult-oriented, these special matinees are not appropriate for toddlers or young children. _________________________________________________________________ CAPOTE - opens February 10 Directed by Bennett Miller Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins, Jr., Chris Cooper, Bruce Greenwood, Bob Balaban Rated R for gruesome post-mortem images and a hanging. 114 min. In the bleak winter of 1959, Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman), seated in a Kansas farmhouse, gazes sadly through his horn-rims, explaining to the woman he's interviewing why people have always underestimated him. Capote, the Southern-bred literary star, boozer and gossip queen, has journeyed to Holcomb, Kan., to do a story for The New Yorker about a modest farm family slaughtered in their home, without apparent motive, one horrible night. He senses that the crime, its gruesomeness bursting the facade of "normal" America, has the makings of a drama as potent as any fiction. He is about to spend six tormented years of obsession tearing his soul apart to write the revolutionary true-crime masterpiece In Cold Blood. In CAPOTE, the rapt, absorbing, and thrillingly perceptive biographical drama written by Dan Futterman and directed by Bennett Miller, we can see why folks underestimate Capote. Disarming expectations is the key to his method. His voice is a whine that turns in to a moan that crests with a sigh topped with a baby's gurgle. He sounds like Carol Channing on quaaludes. Hoffman, in his sublime, must-see feat of a performance, plays that famous foppish lilt like a hypnotist's instrument, getting you to forget, in 30 seconds, that you're seeing an impersonation. He makes Capote a mesmerizing raconteur who gets people to trust him by nudging his fragility and genius into the center of every encounter. Capote, assisted by his friend Harper Lee knows how to use his celebrity to gain access to a community's secrets. He makes an ally out of Alvin Dewey, the stern Kansas Bureau of Investigation official, and once the killers, Dick Hickcock and Perry Smith have been captured, tried, convicted, and given the death sentence, he bribes the prison warden to gain access to Perry, who will become the key figure in his story: his portrait of America's hidden, violent heart. CAPOTE honors is subject by doing just what Truman Capote did. It teases, fascinates, and haunts. (Excerpted from ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY) "Golden Globe Winner - Philip Seymour Hoffman - Best Actor. "Philip Seymour Hoffman caps a decade of brilliant work on stage and screen - he and the film are terrific"-TIME MAGAZINE. "Not only does Mr. Hoffman achieve an impressive physical and vocal transformation... he also conveys, with clarity and subtlety, the complexities of Capote's temperament. Ms. Keener performs the role of foil with particular grace. Through her wary, witty performance, she becomes the bridge that connects with the audience"-THE NEW YORK TIMES ______________________________________________________________ 2005-06 School of Athens Lecture Series continues Sunday, February 12 with Arthur Fine 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