[ThisWeek] Two Brothers, My Town and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at the Kenworthy

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This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-

Insty Prints & North Idaho Athletic Club present
Two Brothers (PG)
Wednesday, July 27
1:00 PM
$1/child under 13, $4/adult

My Town, a film by Michael Hayes
Thursday, July 28
7:00 PM
$5/adult, $3/student or senior
(See press release below)

Hitchhiker¹s Guide to the Galaxy (PG)
Friday, Saturday & Sunday, July 29, 30 & 31
7:00 PM
$5 adult, $2 child under 13
KFS passes accepted for Sunday showing
(see REVIEW below)
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Tickets for The Beauty Queen of Leenane
available at Moscow Farmers¹ Market this Saturday

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 through the end
of August and at BookPeople of Moscow beginning August 1, 2005
$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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³MY TOWN²

On Thursday, July 28 at 7:00 PM, the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre will
hold an encore showing of the film, "My Town".  The 70 minute film by
Washington State University Associate Professor, Michael Hayes focuses on
the cultural clash in Moscow involving Christ Church Pastor Doug Wilson.

In the film Hayes includes interviews with Wilson, his brother Evan Wilson,
New St. Andrews College President Roy Atwood, as well as community
representatives including JoAnn Muneta, Bill London, and Rosemary Huskey.
Hayes also includes film of Wilson¹s history conference and the controversy
regarding Wilson¹s pamphlet, ³Southern Slavery As It Was.²

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion including Roy Atwood,
President of New Saint Andrews College; Joe Keim Campbell, WSU Professor of
Philosophy; Barbara  Richardson Crouch, Director of the Latah Economic
Development Council; and Dean Stewart, Pastor of Emmanuel Lutheran Church.
The roundtable discussion will be moderated by Jack Miller, UI Professor of
Law.

Tickets are $5, general admission and $3, seniors and students.  Proceeds
from the screening will benefit the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre.

For more information, call 208-882-4127.
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Coming next month to the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre . . .

Tom and JoAnn Trail present
Because of Winn Dixie (PG)
Aug 3 at 1:00 PM

Star Wars Episode III (PG13)
Aug 5 - 7 at 7:00 PM

Wells Fargo Bank presents
Robots (PG)
Aug 10 at 1:00 PM

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (PG13)
Aug 12 - 14 at 7:00 PM

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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This week¹s review-

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Directed by Garth Jennings; written by Douglas Adams and Karey Kirkpatrick,
based on the book by Douglas Adams
Rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). It has gentle scares, fantastical
monsters and some zap gun action.
Running time: 1 hour, 43 minutes


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

Douglas Adams fans: don't panic. The long-awaited feature film based on the
inspired radio show (and subsequent spin-offs) is a respectable tribute to
the creation of the late British author and absurdist.

To those not acquainted with the story that launched a cottage industry
(novels, a TV series, records, etc.), "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
begins with the demolition of Earth and ends on a quest to find the answer
to the meaning of life, the universe and everything, or at least a better
definition of the question.

Bathrobed Brit Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) survives the abrupt Armageddon
thanks to his intergalactic hitchhiker buddy Ford Prefect (a loose and
understated Mos Def) and an improbable streak of luck, both good and bad.

Arthur gets a tour of a galaxy ruled by bureaucratic pettiness and guided by
the grace of coincidence and infinite improbability while the interactive,
animated Hitchhiker's Guide (which sounds like Stephen Fry) patiently
explains the finer points of intergalactic culture.

Science fiction only in that the science is pure fiction, Adams' comedy is
sci-farce with an epic sweep, a juvenile love of silly names, and a droll
take on creationism (which is at least as plausible an explanation of life
as we know it in "The Matrix," and much funnier than the Bible).

Sam Rockwell is perhaps too much of a good thing as the manic Zaphod
Beeblebrox, the larcenous delinquent of a galactic president who is walking
proof that two heads are not necessarily better than one. Otherwise, the
distinctly British flavor of dry absurdity and philosophical whimsy is only
slightly Americanized in its big-screen translation.

It's a pleasure to see and hear so much wit in a big-budget comedy, and the
fine British cast of supporting actors makes every bon mot a tasty verbal
morsel.


As reviewed by Mick LaSalle writing for the San Francisco Chronicle

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" could not have been an easy movie to
make. Even aside from the technical challenges of bringing a science fiction
universe to the screen, there's the problem of a story that doesn't quite
cohere. The characters change their goals from scene to scene, and the only
thing that holds the movie together is the dazzle of individual episodes.

If this dazzle were merely technological, the movie would start unraveling
after an amusing 45 minutes. But it doesn't. The movie hangs together and
gets by with more than a margin of goodwill because the dazzle it offers is
one of the mind. And although everyone connected with the film deserves
credit, including director Garth Jennings, the mind that we unquestionably
encounter in "Hitchiker's" is that of Douglas Adams, the late sci-fi author
and creator of the "Hitchhiker" series.

It's a singular consciousness -- wildly imaginative, humane, playful and
deflating of all pretense. Audiences will be won over from the first
sequence, in which dolphins keep trying to warn humans that the Earth is
about to be demolished. Finally they give up and leave the earth, saying "So
long, and thanks for all the fish," which becomes the title of the old-time
music hall number that runs under the credits.

It's the end of the world, and no one knows it. The earth is about to be
obliterated to make way for an intergalactic superhighway, but in the
meantime, everyone goes about their mundane concerns, including Arthur.
Arthur, a brooding sensitive soul, becomes one of the lucky ones, when his
friend Ford, secretly an alien, arranges for them to be lifted up to a
spaceship seconds before the big bang.

In the course of their travels, they run into Trillian, whom Arthur once
tried to pick up, and her new boyfriend, Zaphod, the flamboyant and utterly
superficial president of the galaxy. Zaphod is scouring the galaxy for the
secret of the universe, but that's just the movie's transparently flimsy
pretext for keeping the story in motion. In "Hitchhiker's," it's not about
the big picture, and it's not about wondering how it will end. It's about
the moment-to-moment.


As reviewed by Manohla Dargis writing for the New York Times

In the hugely likable, long-awaited film of Douglas Adams's ''Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy,'' the world comes to an end not just with a bang, but
also with something of a shrug.

Adams's ever-expanding ''Hitchhiker'' universe began in 1978 as a BBC radio
series that went on to spawn a novel, still more radio episodes, albums, a
television series, four more novels (the author called the books ''a trilogy
in five parts''), a stage play, comics and a computer game. For years, Adams
and various would-be collaborators tried to add a movie to this list, but
only after the writer died of a heart attack in May 2001 at age 49 did the
project start to take real shape. Among the directors approached was Spike
Jonze, an inspired choice given that all his films feel as if they take
place on another planet. He demurred, but recommended two British music
video and commercial directors who work under the impossibly severe name
Hammer and Tongs. 

Hammer and Tongs are actually Garth Jennings, who directed ''Hitchhiker,''
and Nick Goldsmith, who served as one of the film's producers. Mr. Jennings
and Mr. Goldsmith have held onto a genuine sense of childlike wonder, which
works as a nice corrective to what might otherwise come across as an
overabundance of hip.

Artless, casually knowing and deeply goofy, the first ''Hitchhiker'' book
may have been hip at one time, but what stands out today is just how much
Adams seemed to have been enjoying himself. (It is a condition of hip never
to admit to be having a good time.) The novel is zany, but its humor is
remarkably unstrained and, for the most part, the same goes for the movie.
''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,'' the name of the travel book Ford
lends Arthur and which furnishes loads of practical information about the
universe, has on its cover the legend ''Don't panic.'' Mr. Jennings seems to
have absorbed this sound advice.

When he blew up the planet in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,''
Douglas Adams knew that despite everything, there were a few things about
human beings worth keeping -- friendship, laughter and, of course, those
exceedingly useful opposable thumbs.

Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart
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Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre
508 S. Main Street, Moscow, Idaho
For more information, call 208-882-4127 or visit http://www.kenworthy.org
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Mailto:ppalmer at moscow.com
Film and Events Committee
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre

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