[Rose-movies] Rose Theatre Newsletter for Monday, Jan. 30

[The Rose Theatre]

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
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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. 
<http://www.kisskiss-bangbang.com>

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
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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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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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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.  <http://www.sonyclassics.com>

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
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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 9.

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 10 - 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>

MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS - tba - Judi Dench stars in this delightful 
valentine to show business and musical theater, with the stiff-upper-lip 
pluckiness of London as backdrop.  "Highly polished entertainment"-LOS 
ANGELES TIMES.  "One of the wittiest comedies to come our way in a very 
long time"-WALL STREET JOURNAL.  <http://www.mrshendersonthemovie.com>

THE NEW WORLD - tba - Writer-director Terence Malick's new movie is a 
visual tone poem orchestrated around the themes of innocence, discovery and 
loss. The inspiration is the historical legend of the "Indian princess" 
Pochahontas and English soldier of fortune John Smith  "The rapturously 
romantic and haunting 'New World' is a genuine event"-ROLLING 
STONE.  <http://www.thenewworldmovie.com>

MATCH POINT - tba - Woody Allen returns to form with this serious and 
lusciously entertaining adultery drama driven by a lust that turns into 
authentic compulsion.  The movie stars Scarlett Johansson, Brian Cox and 
Jonathan Rhys Meyers.  "Johansson is tart and terrific, exuding enough 
come-on carnality to singe the screen"-ROLLING STONE.  "...the screen comes 
alive whenever Rhys Meyers radiates his cunning magnetism"-TIME.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:   Who gave Buster Keaton his first name?

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, February 3 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:  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."

Answer: Diana.

Congratulations to LP, our winner this week.

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