[Rose-movies] Rose Theatre Newsletter for Tuesday, March 13

The Rose Theatre rocky at rosetheatre.com
Tue Mar 13 17:43:24 PDT 2007


This week's newsletter includes:
    * BREACH starts Friday, March 16
    * THE PAINTED VEIL starts Friday, March 16
    * THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND ends Thursday, March 15
    * CHILDREN OF MEN ends Thursday, March 15
    * LITTLE CHILDREN ends Thursday, March 15
    * THE LIVES OF OTHERS starts Friday, March 23
    * SWEET LAND starts Friday, March 23
    * School of Athens Lecture Series Continues April 8: Cloning and Beyond
    * Student Tickets Now Available
    * Advance Tickets On Line: <http://www.rosetheatre.com>
    * Admission Prices, Wheelchair Accessibility & Assisted Listening Devices
    * Gift Suggestions
    * Coming Attractions
    * Rose Theatre Movie 
Challenge 


Show Times: Tuesday, March 13 - Thursday, March 22

BREACH - showing in the Rose Theatre
March 16..............4:30, 7:00
March 17..............1:40, 4:30, 7:00, 9:20
March 18..............1:40, 4:30, 7:00
March 19-22.........4:30, 7:00

THE PAINTED VEIL - showing in the Rosebud Cinema
March 16..............4:00, 7:20
March 17..............1:20, 4:00, 7:20, 9:45
March 18..............1:20, 4:00, 7:20
March 19-22.........4:00, 7:20

THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND - showing in the Rose Theatre
March 13-15..........4:00, 7:20

CHILDREN OF MEN - showing in the Rosebud Cinema
March 13-15.........4:30

LITTLE CHILDREN - showing in the Rosebud Cinema
March 13-15..........7:00

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BREACH
Directed by Billy Ray
Cast: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney
Rated PG-13 for violence, sexual content and language.  110 min.
View The Trailer:  <http://www.breachmovie.net>

One of the best elements of this lean, tense, cooly believable story 
about the internal hunt for FBI turncoat Robert Hanssen is how its 
visual style and dearth of formulaic structural ingredients run 
counter to almost any other spy movie.

There is good reason scenes unfold with steady rhythm and locations 
are drab fluorescent hallways of government bureaucracy, ordinary 
homes or perfectly framed outdoor locales drained of all prettiness 
by slate-gray winter.  Stillness and calm can be rife with tension 
and suspense, and since Breach is about internal struggles, the 
external dreariness does much to enhance the turmoil, suspicion and 
volleys of lies told by and to professional liars.

Chief in the web of deceit is Hanssen, who, as an FBI desk jockey, 
had been selling classified documents to the Soviet Union since the 
Cold War, then continued passing secrets to Russia until his arrest 
in February 2001.  His actions are known to have caused the deaths of 
numerous agents working for the U.S.

He got away with it for 22 years, all while maintaining boring 
employee-of-the-month behavior at work and a devout pious Catholic 
family life at home. Chris Cooper brings the deceptions of Hanssen's 
dour existence together in a remarkable performance that breeds more 
dread than any undercover spy lurking in shadowy alleys. (Excerpted 
from The Seattle Times)

"A wonderfully taut cat-and-mouse thriller"-Newsweek.  "A tough, 
bare-knuckle film that holds you captive from start to finish"-The 
New York Observer.  "Filled with tension, deception and bravura 
acting"-Los Angeles Times.  "A thriller that manages to excite and 
unnerve"-The New York Times
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THE PAINTED VEIL
Directed by John Curran
Cast: Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, Diana Rigg
Rated PG-13 for some mature sexual situations, partial nudity, 
disturbing images and brief drug content.  125 min.
View The Trailer:  <http://www.thepaintedveilmovie.com>

John Curran's The Painted Veil is reminiscent of a Merchant-Ivory 
film, and that's no small praise.  While its period details are 
precise and careful, its performances are stark and honest, with 
nothing prettified about them.  In it, two people discover new sides 
to each other, both dark and light.

Based on W. Somerset Maugham's elegant novel, The Painted Veil tells 
of a marriage gone awry.  Walter Fane marries society girl Kitty in 
1920s London.  She has, we learn, been on the shelf a bit too long, 
and so she reluctantly agrees to marry a man to whom she is not 
attracted.  They marry and move to Shanghai, where he works in 
infectious-disease research and where she quickly meets another man, 
the caddish Charlie.  An affair unfolds, as does a beautifully 
underplayed scene in which Kitty realizes that Walter knows exactly 
what's going on.  He's not sad, but resigned and bitter, and he 
abruptly announces that the couple will move to a remote village 
ravaged by a cholera epidemic.

And here, after all this plot, is where The Painted Veil really 
begins.  In a green-hilled village that seems a universe away from 
the clatter of London and Shanghai, Walter and Kitty experience each 
other anew, leading to changes both expected and unexpected.

A thoughtful and beautifully mounted story for grown-ups, The Painted 
Veil brings the quiet pleasures of a fine novel, showing us that the 
world's complicated geography is no match for the terrain of the 
human heart.  (Excerpted from The Seattle Times)

"'The Painted Veil' has the power and intimacy of a timeless love 
story...let it sweep you away"-Rolling Stone. "Norton and Watts truly 
shine"-Chicago Sun Times.  "Brilliantly written, superbly directed 
and impeccably acted"-The New York Observer
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THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND
Directed by Kevin MacDonald
Cast: Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Simon 
McBurney, Gillian Anderson
Rated R for strong violence and gruesome images, sexual content and 
language.  121 min.  <http://foxsearchlight.com>

Forest Whitaker has given a lot of extraordinary performances in his 
career, but none quite as high-voltage as his portrayal of the 
maniacal and, in his own mind at least, maniacally charming Ugandan 
dictator Idi Amin in this intense, sometimes hallucinatory, and often 
gruesome drama adapted from a novel by Giles Foden.  The film's title 
refers to the honor Amin once bestowed on himself, on account of his 
defiance of Britain; the movie's other main character is a young 
Scottish doctor (James McAvoy, who also played the little faun feller 
in The Chronicles of Narnia), who, in a combination of dumb luck and 
catastrophically poor judgement, becomes Amin's personal physician.

The physician, Nicholas Garrigan, is Foden's fictional composite of 
several real-life figures in the real-world story of Amin's atrocious 
regime, and the film's screenwriters employ a risky strategy with 
this character.  The witness to all manner of blustering, feinting, 
paranoid, vengeful, and sadistic actions on Amin's part, Garrigan 
functions as a sort of audience surrogate; but Garrigan himself is so 
self-deluding, selfish, foolhardy and downright stupid that he's 
something of a turnoff.  This is all the point of course, that the 
artists are making apropos Western involvement in African 
affairs.  But it compromises the movie's dramatic immediacy at 
times.  Never when Whitaker is on screen though.

Often seemingly encased in a film of sweat, so hyperconscious of his 
larger-than-lifeness that he comes off as almost serene in his 
derangement, Whitaker's Amin is the kind of raging lunatic that only 
an actor who has made a speciality of quiet caginess could pull off 
so convincingly.  It's great, and scary, to see Whitaker turn it up 
to 11 for once.  (Excerpted from Rollling Stone)

Academy Award - Best Actor, Forest Whitaker.  "An intelligent 
thriller that keeps audiences on the edge of their seat"-Newsweek
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CHILDREN OF MEN
Directed by Alfonso Cuaron
Cast: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine.
Rated R for strong violence, language, drug use, some nudity.  109 min.
View The Trailer:  <http://www.childrenofmen.com>

Thrilling and important, Children of Men is one of the very best 
movies to come out of 2006.  Yet, to my enduring regret, I failed to 
include Children of Men on my list of last year's top 10 movies.  So 
now I'll call it number 10 with an asterisk.  And I'll defend the 
delay by adding that sometimes leisurely, private consideration is a 
more fitting movie-loving response than instant assessment - 
especially when it comes to the power of this prophetic dystopian 
dazzler by the maker of Y Tu Mama Tambien and Harry Potter and the 
Prisoner of Azkaban.

In the picture's scenario, set just a calendar page or two ahead of 
our own, the birthrate has dropped to zero, as if a mysterious 
worldwide plague of infertility were the inevitable by-product of 
societal rot.  Apathy has led to privation, which in turn has led to 
conflagrations of lawlessness, even in Britain.  In such a dead zone, 
Theo (Clive Owen), a callous bureaucrat has long since given up, 
settling for thick-skinned cynicism as defense against despair.

All that begins to change, with a request, just this side of a bribe, 
from Julian (Julianne Moore), his former lover, for Theo's assistance 
in spiriting one particular refugee out of the country.  Because the 
young "fugee" woman called Kee is key indeed: She's pregnant, a 
modern-day Madonna ripe with the possibility of the planet's first 
new human life in 18 years.  And so Theo, who sticks his neck out for 
no one, becomes involved, and like Rick in Casablanca, helps obtain 
precious letters of transit to a new tomorrow.

There's certainly a flash of George Orwell and a glint of Blade 
Runner in such glitteringly downbeat prognostications. But what sets 
the picture apart from its poli-sci-fi forebears is Cuaron's unique, 
full-throttle storytelling talent for blending propulsiveness of 
staging and seriousness of political content into one urgent piece; 
there's no gap between entertainment and art, no lulls to make room 
for flights of philosophy.  My biggest movie-loving anxiety these 
days is that this great, dark specimen of fine 2006 filmmaking will 
be lost too soon in the jumble of last year's more classifiable 
classy fare.  (Excerpted from Lisa Schwarzbaum's Entertainment Weekly review)

"'Children of Men' is filled with scenes which dazzle you with their 
technical complexity and visual virtuosity.  On this level alone it's 
easily one of the best films of the year"-Film Journal International
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LITTLE CHILDREN
Directed by Todd Field
Cast: Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Connelly, Jackie Earle 
Haley, Noah Emerich
Rated R for strong sexuality and nudity, and some disturbing content
View The Trailer:  <http://www.littlechildrenmovie.com>

Sarah Pierce (Kate Winslet), the thirtyish heroine of Todd Field's 
extraordinary new movie, Little Children, dropped out of graduate 
school to marry and older man - a business consultant - and moved 
into a neo-Colonial house near Boston that he inherited from his 
mother.  Some years have gone by, and the marriage is not in the best 
shape.  Sarah is the latest version of the baffled Americans that 
Betty Friedan wrote about forty years ago in "The Feminine Mystique" 
- the women supposedly living the American dream.  What's 
particularly embittering in this case is that Sarah knew all about 
the trap and still stepped into it.

Little Children is a sharply intelligent and affecting view of 
suburban blues - a much bigger canvas than Field's previous movie, In 
the Bedroom (2001).  It's smarter, tougher, closer to the common 
life.  Field has grown in ambition, but he still works on an intimate 
scale.  He surrounds his characters with an intense stillness, and 
then slowly introduced the ungovernable into their lives.

The sexual awakening of a disappointed wife may seem like an old 
movie turn, but when has it been done with such candor?  At the 
beginning of the movie, Kate Winslet's hair looks dead, and she hides 
her body in denim overalls.  When she falls in love with Brad 
(Patrick Wilson), the transformation comes slowly and painfully: at 
first, a nervous gesture, a smile that turns anxious, and then a 
golden aureole of beauty, a body in movement. The sex scenes are 
brief, naked, heated, startling.  But Winslet never loses the 
awkwardness and uncertainty that will always be Sarah's 
signature.  At first Sarah and Brad seems prematurely defeated.  Yet 
the filmmakers hold out the possibility of a new life stirring under 
the domestic halter and intellectual sloth.  Adults may not be 
happier than overgrown children, but at least they have a chance of 
finding out who they are.  (Excerpted from The New Yorker)

"The film pulls you in like a magnetic force.  A never-better Kate 
Winslet goes so deep into her character you can almost feel her nerve 
endings-Rolling Stone
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THE LIVES OF OTHERS - Academy Award, Best Foreign Language Film - 
Opens Friday, March 23
Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Cast: Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Muhe, Sebastian Koch
Rated R for some sexuality and nudity.  In German with English 
subtitles.  137 min.
View The Trailer:  <http://www.sonyclassics.com>

George Orwell foretold the spiritual and political morass that 
results from Communism gone rotten in 1984, when Big Brother - more 
concretely, the Stasi, the country's relentless secret police - was, 
in point of fact, watching everyone in the Communist German 
Democratic Republic.  The utterly riveting fictional drama The Lives 
of Others re-creates that dismaying recent era of paranoia and 
privation without an ounce of the nostalgia popular in recent, wry, 
post-ironic movies escapes like 2004's Good Bye, Lenin!

In [The lives of Others] everyone has reason to look over his 
shoulder, especially with a Stasi officer like Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich 
Muhe, perfecting an X-ray stare) on the job.  An unwavering believer 
in his country's political philosophy and the need for vigilance to 
enforce those "ideals," Wiesler prides himself on his ability to 
expose even the smallest chinks in the armor of citizen compliance.

Brought to the theater by a colleague to see the latest play by Georg 
Dreyman, a successful, model "non-subversive" artist with a 
respectful following in the West, the Stasi man is convinced he can 
find the wrong behind the playwright's apparent veneer of right.  And 
so, having thoroughly bugged Dreyman's apartment, he sets up his 
listening post on a floor above to begin spying on (and interfering 
with) lives of others that are as humanly fluid, inconsistent, and 
unpredictable as his is rigid.

The filmmaker's control of story and pacing is so wily, his script so 
literate that to reveal much more would interfere with the thrill of 
the tentacled plot's twists.  The Lives of  Others is, at heart, a 
thriller, and thrillers depend on turns of event that are inevitably 
artificial.  No one is likely to confuse this Stasi man's story with 
"reality."  But no one can doubt the veracity of the human 
unpredictability the movie captures, either.  (Excerpted from 
Entertainment Weekly)

"The best kind of movie: One you can't get out of your head"-Rolling 
Stone.  "Potent and unmissable"-Time Magazine.  "A terrific tale.  As 
timely as it is timeless"-The Wall Street Journal
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SWEET LAND
Directed by Ali Selim
Cast: Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Alan Cumming
Rated PG; some material may not be suitable for children.  110 min.
View The Trailer:  <http://www.sweetlandmovie.com>

If [director] Terrence Malick could ever banish the wispy art clouds 
from his brain and give in to the storyteller inside, perhaps he 
might make a movie as stirring as Sweet Land.  I want to be 
absolutely clear about what an independent triumph this is.  The 
writer-director, Ali Selim, has taken a low budget, two characters 
who barely speak broken English, and a pace that's rigorously true to 
the rhythms of rural life in 1920, and he has forged a visually 
indelible movie that's a grand dream of the American past - a tale 
that links up with the images so many of us have of our relatives and 
ancestors: the nation's seed sowers.

Inge (Elizabeth Reaser), who grew up in Norway but speaks only 
German, arrives on the dappled plains of Minnesota toting a Victrola 
but without her papers, so when she connects with Olaf (Tim Guinee), 
the dour, strapping Norwegian farmer it has been arranged for her to 
marry, the two aren't allowed to go through with the 
ceremony.  Instead, they coexist in an awkward limbo, which turns out 
to be God's romantic gift to them.  Selim unveils an organic 
community: the farmers and capitalist land scavengers, the beauty of 
making a pie, the brute hardship of harvesting a corn crop the size 
of several baseball fields.

Sweet Land is a movie of extraordinary tenderness, in which Reaser 
and Guinee, using a language of looks, make you happy to think about 
what love once might have been.  (Excerpted from Entertainment Weekly)

"Think of 'Sweet Land' as a gift, a kind of delicate but deeply 
emotional love story shot in a beautiful epic style.  Few actresses 
own the camera with as much authority as Elizabeth Reaser does 
here.  Everyone who worked on 'Sweet Land' seems to have understood 
why this story mattered, everyone felt its emotional power, and it's 
hard to imagine an audience member who won't feel it as well"-Los Angeles Times
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PASSIONATE MINDS Fall/Winter Lecture Series Presented by School of 
Athens - Port Townsend Extension

Lectures take place at the Rose Theatre at 1:00 PM.  Doors open at 
12:30 PM, and there is no late seating.  Series passes: 
$50.  Individual tickets: $10.  Both available at Quimper Sound and 
the Analog Lounge, 230 Taylor Street.

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.  For 
more information visit <http://www.athens-pt.org>

The Passionate Minds Lectures Series is made possible in part through 
the generous support of Homer Smith Insurance, Island Blueback, Inc., 
Port Townsend-Jefferson County Leader, William James Bookseller and 
The Rose Theatre.

October 8, 2006
John Varley: Will Yellowstone Survive to the End of This Century?
With degrees in zoology and entomology, John Varley spent the first 
20 years of his career as a fisheries researcher and manager.  John 
was a leading force in the now famous resurgence of Yellowstone 
fisheries in the 1970s.  He was one of the principal architects for 
the restoration of wolves and grizzly bears and for ten years was 
director of all natural and cultural resources, planning and research 
in Yellowstone.  He is co-author with Paul Schullery of Freshwater 
Wilderness:Yellowstone Fishes and Their World (1983), and most 
recently, Yellowstone Fishes: Ecology, History and Angling in the 
Park (1998).  John and his wife, Anita, lived 30 years in Yellowstone.

November 12, 2006
Dan Lamberton: The Curious Mr. Matsura
This presentation concerns the life of Frank Matsura, who left Japan 
in 1901, settled in Seattle and then moved to Okanogan in 1903 where 
he took remarkable and distinctive photographs of the region, its 
citizens (of all races), and inspired the county's loyalty.  His 
photographs are compiled in the WSU Library and at the Okanogan 
County Historical Society.  Dan Lamberton's fascination with the 
sense of place emerges from years on his family's Okanogan Valley 
farm and the back country of the Northwest.  Since 1994 he has been 
chair of the Humanities Program at Walla Walla College where he is a 
member of the honors faculty.  He holds a masters degree in English 
literature  and an MFA in poetry.  Lamberton is a singer, and also a 
published poet.

January 14, 2007
Mott Greene: Science and Democracy: Can This Marriage be Saved?
U.S. constitutional democracy is married to 17th century Newtonian 
physics, and though it has allowed an ongoing menage with 
mid-Victorian Darwinism, it has refused acquaintance with any of the 
younger generation of suitors - relativity, quantum mechanics, 
theoretical population genetics.  Most college educated U.S. 
residents have a scientific world view between 150-250 years out of 
date.  What would a modern scientific world view look like (if anyone 
had one)?  How could it be acquired, and what would its political and 
social consequences (very useful, very positive) likely be?  Mott 
Greene is John Magee Professor of Science and Values and Director of 
the Program in Science, Technology and Society at the University of 
Puget Sound.

February 11, 2007
Terence Deacon: Emergent Evolution: Self-organization, Protolife, and 
How DNA Got Its "Aboutness"
Dr. Terence Deacon is professor in the Department of Anthropology and 
in the Wills Neuroscience Institute at University of 
California-Berkeley.  His research has focused on the evolution of 
human brains and cognitive capacities, and also has included studies 
of neural development.  He is currently completing a new book, 
Homunculus, that attempts to develop the concept of emergence and use 
it to illuminate some previously unresolved issues concerning the 
biological conception of information and complex functions and 
includes novel approaches to the origin of life and the evolution of 
consciousness.

March 11, 2007
Janet Dallett: Listening to Rhino: Violence and Healing in a Scientific Age
Janet Dallett has been in private practice as a Jungian analyst since 
1974.  Following post-doctoral training at the C.G. Jung Institute, 
Los Angeles, she served as director of training there and taught 
analytic trainees until 1983.  Then the desire for a more 
contemplative life brought her to Port Townsend where she divides her 
time between two  professions.  As analyst, she specializes in 
psychology of creativity.  As author, she writes in a conversational 
voice to communicate her exploration of the inner world to a general 
audience.  Dr. Dallett has lectured throughout the U.S. and Canada 
and her work is published in both popular magazines and professional journals.

April 8, 2007
Lori B. Andrews: Cloning and Beyond: Making Laws for Making Babies
Loria B. Andrews is Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of 
the Institute of Science, Law and Technology at the Chicago-Kent 
College of Law.  A graduate of Yale Law School, she was a Research 
Fellow with the American Bar Foundation from 1980 to 1992, and for 
ten years was a senior scholar at the Center for Clinical Medical 
Ethics at the University of Chicago.  She has published five books 
and more than eighty scholarly articles, monographs, and book 
chapters on subjects including medical genetics, surrogate parenting, 
and alternative modes of reproduction.  She has engaged in 
path-breaking litigation about reproductive and genetic technologies 
and the disposition of frozen embryos.
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Student Tickets Now Available

The Rose now offers a Student Ticket ($1 less than General Admission) 
for High School and Middle School students.  Present a current ASB or 
Student ID at the box office to receive this discounted ticket.
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Admission Prices
General admission to the Rose is $8, senior citizens (62+) and 
students $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, March 22.

Assisted Listening Devices
Since opening in 1992 the Rose has provided infrared headphones for 
customers with hearing impairment.  While the system has proved 
beneficial for many people, others have not benefited from it.  In an 
effort to provide greater flexibility in this area, we recently 
installed an additional assisted hearing system.

If your hearing aid has a telecoil, this new system might work for 
you.  The sound reaches the telecoil via a neckloop.  The system 
works in both auditoriums and may be requested at the concession.

WARNING: The telecoil/neckloop system is not to be used if you have a 
pacemaker.

Wheelchair Accessible
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*

THE CASE OF THE GRINNING CAT and THE CATS OF MIRIKITANI - March 30 - 
French octogenarian Chris Marker's latest cinematic essay is a 
lively, engaged meditation on post-9/11 France, framed by the 
mysterious appearance of a wide-eyed, broadly smiling feline mascot 
who magically appears on Paris rooftops, building walls, as well as 
at political demonstrations.  "When this genius makes a new film, you 
go.  Wrowr!"-Tribeca Film Festival.  <http://www.frif.com> An 
unqualified hit at the '06 Port Townsend Film Festival, THE CATS OF 
MIRIKITANI is a resonant portrait of octogenarian outsider artist 
Jimmy Mirikitani who was rescued from the streets of New York City 
following 9/11 by filmmaker Linda Hattendorf.  Two short (feline) 
features & our first-ever double bill.  Wrowr is right!

INTO GREAT SILENCE - April 20 - Director Philip Groning brings us 
inside a world as mysterious and often as silent as the dark side of 
the moon, a charterhouse of Carthusian monks in the French Alps.  In 
an overwhelmingly noisy world, the Carthusians seek God in solitude, 
and you soon understand why.  "Exhilarating...A poetic essay on the 
slowed-down rhythms of life...its quiet pleasures carry the viewer 
along at a pace commensurate with the monks' own unhurried sense of 
time"-Variety.  <http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com>

THE LIVES OF OTHERS - March 23 - Nominated for Best Foreign Language 
Film of the Year, this debut feature about East Germany's notorious 
Stasi is a potent narrative about he transformative effects of 
involvement in other people's stories.  Set five years before the 
Berlin Wall collapsed, this brilliant movie chronicles how the secret 
police made it their business to know every secret thing about their 
citizens.  "A startling political thriller and the year's most urgent 
and important film"-Maxim  <http://www.sonyclassics.com>

MAFIOSO - tba - This rediscovered Italian gem from 1962 is a 
crime-comedy travelogue that broke the Mafia code of silence and set 
the stage for films like THE GODFATHER.  "Admirers of the Corleones & 
Tony Soprano will revel"-The New Yorker.  "A humdinger of a 
comedy.  A classic"-Newsday <http://www.rialtopictures.com/mafioso>

SWEET LAND - March 23 - A visually indelible movie about Inge, who 
grew up in Norway, Olaf, a strapping Norwegian farmer, and the 
awkward limbo where they coexist on the dappled plains of 
Minnesota.  "[The movie] celebrates a gutsy, old-fashioned sort of 
love"-The New York Times.  "A gorgeously realized romance"-Village 
Voice.  <http://www.sweetlandmovie.com>

ZODIAC - tba - "A meticulous, mind-bending, nonstop mesmerizer" about 
two homicide detectives, a crime reporter and a political cartoonist 
who spend decades knocking themselves out to catch a serial killer 
who never (officially) gets caught.  Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, 
Robert Downey Jr. star.  "Fascinating and 
uncompromising"-Newsweek.  "Stark, terrifying and magnificently 
directed"-The New York Observer.  <http://www.ZodiacMovie.com>

THE HOST - tba - A hip monster movie from South Korea about a giant 
mutant tadpole.  Really.  It wriggles with bio-energy and cinematic 
life.  "The out-and-out scariest monster movie to come down the pike 
since 'Aliens'"-Premiere.  "A thing of beauty, the perfect mixture of 
the silly and the grave"-The New Yorker.  <http://www.hostmovie.com>

BREAKING AND ENTERING - tba - Jude Law, Robin Wright Penn and Juliet 
Binoche star in Anthony Minghella's contemporary story about a London 
burglary that forever changes the lives of three people.  "A sexy, 
thoughtful, smart film.  A beautiful piece of work"-Richard 
Roeper  <http://www.breakingandentering-movie.com>

STARTER FOR 10 - tba - A cheeky British romantic comedy about 
18-year-olds stretching their wings.  Jolly good show.  "Smart, 
lively"-The Wall Street Journal.  "Refreshingly funny, poignant and 
entertaining"-USA Today.  <http://www.starterfor10.com>

THE NAMESAKE - tba - Director Mira Nair (MONSOON WEDDING) soars with 
her film version of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel, the story of upwardly 
mobile immigrants torn between tradition and modernity as they are 
absorbed into the American melting pot.  "A marvelous and moving 
cross-cultural family saga that is also funny, empathetic and 
sexy"-Entertainment Weekly.  <http://www.foxsearchlight.com>

*schedule subject to change.
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Rose Theatre Movie Challenge:  Who said the following?  "You're not 
too smart, are you?  I like that in a man."

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, March 16, 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:  Who said the following:  "I never could 
understand this quaint habit of making a billboard out of one's 
torso.  I must say, however, you've shown the most commendable 
delicacy in just tattooing the initials and not printing the names, 
addresses, and telephone numbers."

Answer: Talullah Bankhead in Lifeboat

No winner this week
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Soundtracks to movies featured at the Rose Theatre are available at 
Quimper Sound and the Analog Lounge, 230 Taylor Street, Port 
Townsend.  Your Rose ticket stub may be redeemed 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 
<http://www.rosetheatre.com>
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