[ThisWeek] Robots and Mr. & Mrs. Smith at the Kenworthy

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This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-

Wells Fargo Bank presents
Robots (PG)
Wednesday, August 10
1:00 PM
$1/child under 13, $4/adult

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (PG13)
Friday, Saturday & Sunday, August 12, 13 & 14
7:00 PM
$5 adult, $2 child under 13
KFS passes accepted for Sunday showing
(see REVIEW below)
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Next week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre . . .

AUDITIONS for Moscow Community Theater

Auditions for NOODLEHEAD, the Fall production of Moscow Community Theater,
will take place August 15th and 16th from 6:30 to 10 pm at the Kenworthy
Performing Arts Center (KPAC), Main Street, Moscow, ID. 
 
NOODLEHEAD, an original musical by local resident Lisa Kliger, will be
directed by Valerie McIlroy.  It is a tale of old Russia, part folk tale and
part fairy tale, which will appeal to a wide audience. The cast call for ten
men and four women ages 16 - 60, some of whom are required to sing and/or
dance. Singers should be prepared to perform a piece of their own choice.
There are also non-speaking roles for men, women and children. 

There will be a separate call for several young female dancers. 
 
The production will take place at the KPAC  and the dates of performance are
November 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 10th, 11th and 12th. For further information
contact Valerie Mcilroy at 208-882-4119.
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Gritman Medical Center presents
Madagascar (PG)
Aug 17 at 1:00 PM
Aug 18 - 21 at 7:00 PM

Howl¹s Moving Castle (PG)
Aug 26 - 28 at 4:15 & 7:00 PM

Thanks to the following Wednesday matinee sponsors:
Insty Prints & North Idaho Athletic Club, Tom & JoAnn Trail, U.S. Bank,
Wells Fargo Bank, Gritman Medical Center

Regular Movie prices:  $5 adult, $2 child 12 or younger.
Wednesday matinee prices:  $4/adult, $1/child 12 or younger
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!
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Coming in September-

Sirius Idaho Theatre presents
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
by Martin McDonagh

Directed by Forrest Sears

September 8-10 & 15-17 at 7:30 pm
September 10 & 17 at 2:00 pm

Performances at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre

Tickets available at Moscow Farmers¹ Market every Saturday and at BookPeople
of Moscow
$15 adults, $10 seniors, $5 students

Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, in western Ireland, The
Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a
plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative ageing
mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving
relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as extraordinarily
funny as it is horrific.

The Beauty Queen of Leenane received four Tony Awards in 1998.

For more information about the play or to sign up as an usher for one
performance, email John Dickinson <johnd at moscow.com> or visit the web site
of Sirius Idaho Theatre http://www.siriusidahotheatre.com/
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Fall 2005 at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre

Batman Begins (PG13)
Sept 2 - 4 at 4:00 & 7:00 PM
Tickets $5/adult, $2/child under 13

Sirius Idaho Theatre presents
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Sept 8 - 10, 15 - 17 at 7:30 PM
Sept 10 & 17 at 2:00 PM
Tickets $15/adult, $10/senior, $5/student
Advance tickets at BookPeople of Moscow

American Values:  American Wilderness
A documentary film with Christopher Reeve
Sept 18 at 5:00 & 7:00 PM
Tickets $5/adult, $2/child under 13

Rock School
A documentary film
Sept 23 - 25
Tickets $5/adult, $2/child under 13

m-pact in concert
Sept 30 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $12/adult, $6/student

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Oct 7 - 9
Tickets $5/adult, $2/child under 13

Darol Anger Republic of Strings in concert
October 27 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $16/adult, $12/senior or student

Moscow Community Theatre presents
Noodlehead
November 3 - 5, 10 - 12 at 7:30 PM
November 6 & 12 at 2:00 PM
$11/adult, $9/student or senior

Coming attractions:  My Summer of Love, Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Mad
Hot Ballroom, March of the Penguins.  Check web site for dates & times.
http://www.kenworthy.org
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This week¹s reviews-

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Directed by Doug Liman
Rated PG-13 for a great number of sequences of violence, intense action,
sexual content, and brief strong language
Running time: 1 hour, 52 minutes

As reviewed by Roger Ebert writing for the Chicago Sun-Times

There is a kind of movie that consists of watching two people together on
the screen. The plot is immaterial. What matters is the "chemistry," a term
that once referred to a science but now refers to the heat we sense, or
think we sense, between two movie stars. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have
it, or I think they have it, in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," and because they do,
the movie works. If they did not, there'd be nothing to work with.

The screenplay is a device to revive their marriage by placing them in
mortal danger, while at the same time providing an excuse for elaborate
gunfights and chase scenes. I learn from Variety that it was written by
Simon Kinberg as his master's thesis at Columbia. If he had been studying
chemistry instead of the cinema, he might have blown up the lab, but it
wouldn't have been boring.

Pitt and Jolie play John and Jane Smith, almost certainly not their real
names, who met in Bogota "five or six" years ago, got married and settled
down to a comfortable suburban lifestyle while not revealing to each other
that they are both skilled assassins. John keeps his guns and money in a pit
beneath the tool shed. Jane keeps her knives and other weapons in trays that
slide out from under the oven.

As the movie opens, they're in marriage counseling; the spark has gone out
of their relationship. On a typical day, they set off separately to their
jobs: He to kill three or four guys, she to pose as a dominatrix while
snapping a guy's neck. Can you imagine Rock Hudson and Doris Day in this
story? Gable and Lombard and Hepburn and Tracy have also been invoked, but
given the violence in their lives, the casting I recommend is The Rock and
Vin Diesel. In the opening scene, they could fight over who has to play Mrs.
Smith.

Sorry. Lost my train of thought. Anyway, John and Jane individually receive
instructions to travel to a remote desert location in the Southwest and take
out a mysterious target. They travel there separately, only to discover that
their targets are each other. It's one of those situations where they could
tell each other, but then they'd have to kill each other. "If you two stay
together, you're dead," says Eddie (Vince Vaughn) another tough guy, who
lives at home with his mother because it's convenient and she cooks good and
on and on.

The question becomes: Do John and Jane kill each other like the
professionals they are, or do they team up to save their lives? The solution
to this dilemma requires them to have a fight that reminded me of the
showdown between Uma Thurman and Daryl Hannah in "Kill Bill Vol. 2." After
physical violence which should theoretically have broken every bone in both
their beautiful bodies, they get so excited that, yes, they have sex, which
in their case seems to involve both the martial and marital arts.

The movie pauses from time to time for more sessions with the marriage
counselor, during which it appears that professional killing is good for
their relationship. After we get our money's worth of action, their problems
are resolved, more or less. Although many lives have been lost, the marriage
is saved.

None of this matters at all. What makes the movie work is that Pitt and
Jolie have fun together on the screen, and they're able to find a rhythm
that allows them to be understated and amused even during the most alarming
developments. There are many ways that John and Jane Smith could have been
played awkwardly, or out of synch, but the actors understand the material
and hold themselves at just the right distance from it; we understand this
is not really an action picture, but a movie star romance in which the
action picture serves as a location.


As reviewed by Jon Niccum writing for the Lawrence (KS) Journal-World

John Smith (Brad Pitt) sits before a therapist and begins to vent about his
wife, Jane (Angelina Jolie). ³There¹s this huge space between us that¹s
filling up with everything we don¹t say to each other. What¹s that called?²

³Marriage,² the therapist replies.

The problems the Smiths are going through in their fifth year of
togetherness (actually the sixth year, Jane constantly corrects) is typical
of most couples. John views his wife as a control freak; Jane considers her
husband uncommunicative and aloof.

This relationship is complicated by the fact that they are both shadowy
assassins for hire who work for competing firms ‹ and neither knows the
truth about the other.

³Mr. & Mrs. Smith² is a fine wedding between salient humor and energetic
action. Director Doug Liman proves the perfect choice for this project,
having handled comedy (³Swingers²), comedy-action (³Go²) and straight-up
action (³The Bourne Identity²).

He makes great sport of blending the Smiths¹ amoral job duties with their
faux suburban lifestyle. Jane stores her weapons in a high-tech display case
that pops out of her oven. John doesn¹t try to conceal lipstick on his
collar when he returns from work; he tries to hide bloodstains.

Liman¹s utter lack of sentimentality gives the film its dramatic weight.
These aren¹t nice people; they¹re remorseless killers pretending to be nice
people.

In a scene at a neighbor¹s dinner party, Jane accidentally ends up holding a
friend¹s baby on her lap. A more conventional picture would have shown John
observing the scene and having it strike some kind of emotional chord.
Instead, he views it the same way she does: It¹s as comfortable as if she
were holding a urinating porcupine.

Adding to the fish-out-of-water aura is Liman¹s old ³Swinger¹s² pal Vince
Vaughn, who shows up as one of John¹s agency buddies. It¹s a quintessential
Vaughn role: a fast-talking, loud-mouthed, goofball hipster. Only this time
he¹s a pathetic bachelor living with his mom in a home packed with all types
of deadly assassin gear.

But despite Liman¹s obvious contributions, this isn¹t really a director¹s
movie. It¹s more a throwback to the era of pure star power.

It¹s no surprise the couple that launched 1,000 tabloids started dating
after they made the movie. They¹re too cool and beautiful not to be
together, and their chemistry is undeniable onscreen. This helps the film
immensely because the plot line gives plenty of reasons for the Smiths to
dissolve their marriage ‹ both legally and mortally ‹ yet the audience needs
to pull for them to remain a couple.

What makes the movie unique is that when these killers discover their
respective secrets, it doesn¹t necessarily alter their relationship.

They get into the same types of arguments. Only now instead of spats
involving the color of the new drapes, they concern things like who should
be the one driving the car and who should take shooting duties when being
chased on the freeway by machine-gun blasting assailants.

Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart
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508 S. Main Street, Moscow, Idaho
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