[Rose-movies] Rose Theatre Newsletter for January 23, 2006
The Rose Theatre
rocky at rosetheatre.com
Mon Jan 23 21:42:57 PST 2006
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
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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. <http://www.syrianamovie.com>
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
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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. <http://www.silent-film-music.com>
"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
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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.
<http://www.9livesmovie.com>
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
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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.
<http://www.brokebackmountain.com>
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.
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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.
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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.
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Admission Prices
General admission to the Rose is $8, senior citizens (62+) $7, children (12
& under) $6. The matinees are $1 less. The box office opens 30 minutes
before the first show of the day, and tickets may be purchased at that time
for any show through Thursday, 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)
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Gift Suggestions
Rose Theatre T-Shirts - $16.00
Rose Theatre Sweatshirts - $32.00
Admission Gift Certificates - $8, $7, $6
Discount Cards - $35.00 - (five admissions) Saves $1 on each general
admission ticket.
Concession Gift Certificates for any denomination
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Coming Attractions*
CAPOTE - 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. <http://www.sonyclassics.com>
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. <http://www.prideandprejudicemovie.com>
PARADISE NOW - tba - Of all the shocks in this political thriller, the most
unsettling may be the dignity bestowed on a pair of prospective Palestinian
suicide bombers - not horrified condemnation, not rabid support, just calm
regard for two young men prepared to kill themselves and others for what
they believe is a just cause. "A heart-stopping story whose urgency is
startling"-LOS ANGELES TIMES. "Undeniably
powerful"-PREMIERE. <http://www.paradisenowthemovie.com>
*schedule subject to change.
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Rose Theatre Movie Challenge: 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 at 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.
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Last Week's Question: Heath and Michelle have a new baby girl. What is
her middle name?
Answer: Rose
Congratulations to AH, our winner this week, and to CS, last week's winner.
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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.
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