[ThisWeek] Howl's Moving Castle at the Kenworthy

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This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-

Howl¹s Moving Castle (PG)
Friday, August 26
7:00 & 9:45 PM
Saturday & Sunday, August 27 & 28
4:15 & 7:00 PM
$5/adults, $2/children under 13
(see REVIEW below)
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Auditions

Moscow Community Theatre will be holding auditions to complete the cast of
their production of the original musical ³Noodlehead!²

Saturday, August 27th at 10:00 a.m.
At the Retro Fit Gallery on Main Street between 2nd and 3rd.

Be prepared to read from the script and sing!
The cast will be announced at 1:00 p.m. followed by introductions of the
production crew and a full read through of the script.

This production has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the
Arts and the Idaho Commission on the Arts.

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Next week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre . . .

Batman Begins (PG13)
Friday, September 2
7:00 & 10:00 PM
Saturday & Sunday, September 3 & 4
4:00 & 7:00 PM
$5/adults, $2/children under 13
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Purchase your KFS (Kenworthy Film Society) pass this weekend.

Purchase a new KFS punch card at the Moscow Farmers¹ Market this Saturday.
Available at the Sirius Idaho Theatre ironing board, where you can also
purchase tickets for the first play of SIT¹s 2005-06 season.

KFS passes also available at BookPeople of Moscow or the Kenworthy
Performing Arts Centre box office.
10 films for $30 or 30 films for $75. Passes accepted for all Sunday night
films.

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

"The most wickedly, brilliantly abrasive young dramatist on either side of
the Irish Sea..." The New York Times

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

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
508 S. Main St. Moscow, Idaho

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

Written by Martin McDonagh in eight days and winner of four Tony awards, The
Beauty Queen of Leenane premiered in 1996 in Galway, Ireland. Set in
Leenane, a small town in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, 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.

Cast
Maureen Folan ­ Pam Palmer
Mag Folan ­ Valerie McIlroy
Pato Dooley ­ Peter Aylward
Ray Dooley ­ Michael Carpenter

For more information about the play, group ticket sales or to volunteer with
Sirius Idaho Theatre,
contact John Dickinson at 208-301-4361 or <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

Sirius Idaho Theatre presents
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
By Martin McDonagh
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 and the Moscow Farmers¹ Market

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

Regular Movie prices:  $5 adult, $2 child under 13
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!

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 review-

Howl¹s Moving Castle

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki (the original Japanese version) and Pete Docter
and Rick Dempsey (the English-language version); written by Mr. Miyazaki,
based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones. With The Voices of: Jean Simmons
(Grandma Sophie), Christian Bale (Howl), Lauren Bacall (Witch of the Waste),
Blythe Danner (Madame Suliman), Emily Mortimer (Young Sophie), Josh
Hutcherson (Markl) and Billy Crystal (Calcifer).

This film is rated PG: It has some scenes that could frighten younger
children. 
Running time: 1 hour, 58 minutes

As reviewed by A. O. Scott writing for the New York Times

''Howl's Moving Castle,'' freely adapted from a children's fantasy novel by
Diana Wynne Jones, is the latest animated tour de force from Hayao Miyazaki,
the director of, among other masterpieces, ''Princess Mononoke,'' ''My
Neighbor Totoro'' and ''Spirited Away.''

Admirers of his work, which is wildly imaginative, emotionally intense and
surpassingly gentle, will find much to appreciate in this film because it
demonstrates, once again, his visual ingenuity and his sensitivity as a
storyteller. 

For newcomers to his world, ''Howl's Moving Castle'' is a fitting
introduction to one of modern cinema's great enchanters. Mr. Miyazaki's
heroines tend to be plucky young women who combine guileless decency with
tough-mindedness. During their journeys, they often encounter wise older
women who sometimes serve as foils, sometimes as mother figures. Ms. Wynne
Jones's novel, which Mr. Miyazaki encountered in Japanese translation a few
years ago, allows him to combine these two types into a single character.
His heroine, Sophie, starts out as a shy 18-year-old hat maker, but then a
witch's curse transforms her into a stooped, gray-haired 90-year-old. At
first horrified by the change, she comes to embrace it as a liberation from
anxiety, fear and self-consciousness, and discovers in herself a new zest
for adventure. 

There is certainly plenty of adventure in store. Mr. Miyazaki's capacity for
narrative invention has yet to find its limit, and this movie is filled with
strange and marvelous creatures and incidents, some inspired by the book,
others entirely of his own devising. His images have a richness and delicacy
that is almost too much to take in at one viewing, as the mood shifts from
pastoral quiet to operatic spectacle. Rolling hills and tidy city streets
give way to whirling celestial battlefields, and moments of exquisite
tenderness alternate with scenes of violence and destruction.

About that castle: It is surely one of the most extraordinary contraptions
to appear on screen recently, more ingenious in its way than the
intergalactic armada in ''Revenge of the Sith.'' Ambling through fields and
mountains on chicken legs, its architectural details suggesting human faces,
the castle is a perfect emblem for Mr. Miyazaki's filmmaking methods. It is
clearly handmade, oddly proportioned, funny, sometimes creepy and
unaccountably sublime. It ranges freely from place to place and is also,
somehow, in several places at once, its magical front door opening onto
different landscapes with the flip of a knob. It is not exactly haunted, but
it is nonetheless infused with whimsical and sometimes somber spirits.

Children are not the only viewers likely to be haunted and beguiled by
''Howl's Moving Castle'' -- all that any viewer needs are open eyes and an
open heart. 


As reviewed by Sean Axmaker writing for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

In a "steampunk" 19th-century past of magic and mechanical wonders, shy
British shop girl Sophie (voiced by Emily Mortimer) lives a timid life of
self-pity. Then the handsome, notoriously mysterious wizard Howl (Christian
Bale) sweeps her off her feet (they quite literally walk on air) and the
decadent and jealous Witch of the Waste (Lauren Bacall) blows through her
like a ghostly wind and leaves with her stolen youth.

Bent and creaky (and now voiced by Jean Simmons), Sophie staggers out of the
city, where steam engines roll down cobblestone streets and English
gentlemen buzz about in air cars lifted by fluttering wings, and off into
the wastelands where she stumbles upon Howl's clanking, steam- driven
castle. A marriage of the organic and the mechanical, the massive,
beetle-like contraption skitters across the countryside on spindly legs,
powered by a cranky fire demon, Calcifer (Billy Crystal), who enters into a
pact with Sophie to cure their respective curses.

These and other wonders (a pogoing scarecrow, a wheezy old palace dog, giant
blobule spies that look like giant drops of crude oil squeezed into vaguely
humanoid shape) are designed and executed with the delicate textures of
hand-drawn animation, a disappearing art in the age of smooth, shiny
computer-animated movies.

The original Japanese version, with English subtitles, played the Seattle
International Film Festival for one special showing, on the same day the
dubbed version opened in theaters across the country.


Marc Salvo writing for the Austin (TX) Chronicle

The films of legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki have often paired
adult themes with the sort of whimsical lightness that Walt Disney, once
upon a time, so effortlessly conjured, and this newest, the third-highest
grossing film in Japanese history, is no exception.

>From Princess Mononoke¹s bounding ecological storyline to Spirited Away¹s
story of greed and redemption, Miyazaki constructs the most adult children¹s
films around, and ones that are firmly rooted in a heady sort of Japanese
mysticism that echoes and multiplies the films¹ pleasantly intoxicating
surrealism.

While it may not be Miyazaki¹s very best work, it is leagues beyond any
traditional 2-D animation out of 3-D-mad Hollywood lately, and more
beguiling than anything Disney¹s done in ages.


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