[ThisWeek] Lost Embrace at the Kenworthy/ KFS passes/ Job opening for projectionist

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Job announcement at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre

The Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre seeks a part time
projectionist/cashier.
Experience operating a 35mm movie projector preferred.  Technical experience
with PA sound systems a plus.
Must be able to lift and carry 60 lbs.  Must be 19 years old and a high
school graduate. 
Must be willing to work nights and weekends.  Starting pay range is $6.25 -
$6.50 per hour, depending on experience.

Submit resume, cover letter, and 3 references by May 20 to Julie Ketchum,
KPAC, P.O. Box 8126, Moscow, ID 83843.
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Kenworthy Film Society Passes on sale

Kenworthy Film Society pass prices will increase on July 1 to $30 for a
10-punch card and $75 for a $30-punch card.
That's still only $3.00 and $2.50 per movie, respectively -- the best deal
on movies in Moscow.

Why are prices increasing?  Specifically, because the cost of film shipping
has increased. 
Generally, because the cost of doing business has increased.

Passes can be purchased at the current prices through June 30, 2005, so get
yours now.
Passes are available at BookPeople and at the Kenworthy box office during
regular showtimes.

Thanks for your continued support of independent and foreign films on the
Palouse!
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This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-

Lost Embrace (NR)
Friday, May 13
7:00 PM
Saturday & Sunday, May 14 & 15
4:30 PM / 7:00 PM
$5 adults, $2 children 12 and under
KFS passes accepted for Sunday movies
(See Review below)
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Next week at the Kenworthy-

Eric Anderson
in concert
May 20 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $5 at Bookpeople

Long-time Moscow resident Eric Anderson will return to the area in May for a
concert to promote his new CD, ³Cataldo.²

Doors open for the concert at 7:30 p.m. with music beginning at 8 p.m., May
20 at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre. Tickets are $5 and are available
at BookPeople in Moscow or at the door.  Anderson, who is musically known as
Cataldo, will be performing songs from his album of the same name. The
opening act will be another Moscow native, Travis Hasko-Young.

Anderson, 18, recorded ³Cataldo,² which took one year to complete, with
Martin McGreevy ³in the basements and backrooms of Idaho.²  McGreevy, a
University of Idaho freshman, graduated with Anderson from Moscow High
School in 2004.  ³In addition to fantastic taste and work ethic, he brought
the software skills and technical expertise required for a successful
recording project,² Anderson said of McGreevy.

Anderson will continue his tour after Moscow.  ³I have shows in June across
the northwest including the Old Fire House in Seattle and the Bossanova
Ballroom in Portland,² he said. Cataldo refers to the Cataldo Mission in
Idaho, ³my beloved home,² Anderson said.

Anderson is a freshman at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.  Eric¹s
Web site is <http://www.cataldomusic.com/> .
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First-Ever Rendezvous ŒPeople¹s Choice¹ Scheduled for May 21
Rendezvous Music Showcase
May 21 at 7PM
$5 admission

Six local bands will be participating in the first-annual ³Rendezvous
People¹s Showcase ­ a Showcase of Local Talent² on May 21, at 7 p.m. at
the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre in Moscow. The fundraising event
will showcase talented local bands, which will be competing for the
opportunity to be warm-up acts at this year¹s Rendezvous in the Park
concert series.

The six bands selected to play at the event are the Alexander-Stephens
Band, Bare Wires, Brian Gill, Erik Smith, Little Red and the Criminals,
and Off the Leash.  During this fundraising event, each audience member
will have the opportunity to cast one ballot that will be tallied to
pick a band as the ³popular vote² winner.  In a second "vote," each
audience member will have the opportunity to vote for his/her favorite
band with cash.  The band receiving the most "voted" cash wins this
fundraising component and will also be chosen to perform at Rendezvous.
A third band will be determined by the Rendezvous Board of Directors.

Rendezvous in the Park is an annual music festival held in Moscow¹s East
City Park each July. The organization also supports a two-day children's
arts festival. For many years, Rendezvous has been able to showcase some
of the country's best musicians, many of whom have gone on to win honors
such as the Grammy Award, the Country Music Award and the Handy Award.
The exciting line-up for this year's series on July 21-24, 2005 will be
Belinda Bowler, Rosie Ledet and the Zydeco Playboys, Jude Bowerman, CoCo
Montoya, Jim West, Jesse Cook, and the Rendezvous Chamber Orchestra.
Funds raised at this First-Annual Rendezvous Music Showcase will be used
to underwrite much of the costs of bringing these groups in, thus making
ticket prices affordable to local residents.

Tickets to the Showcase are $5 and are available at the door. Tickets for
Rendezvous in the Park are available on line at <www.moscowmusic.com>
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Next week¹s KFS movie at the Kenworthy-

Hard Goodbyes my Father (NR)
Sunday, May 22
4:30 / 7:00 PM
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Also in May at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre . . .

Million Dollar Baby (PG13)
May 27 at 7PM
May 28 - 29 at 4 and 7PM

Regular Movie prices:  $5 adults, $2 children 12 and younger.
KFS passes accepted for Sunday movies

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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This week¹s review-

Lost Embrace (el Abrazo Partido)

Directed by Daniel Burman
Written by Marcelo Birmajer and Mr. Burman
In Spanish, with English subtitles
Running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes
Advisory: The film has no MPAA rating, but contains mature themes

"Lost Embrace" won a grand jury prize and Handler received the best actor
award at last year's Berlin International Film Festival. The movie was
Argentina's selection for the 2004 best foreign film Oscar.

As reviewed by Peter Keough writing for the Boston Phoenix

In a Buenos Aires mini-mall that¹s a microcosm of the Argentine melting pot,
Ariel (Daniel Hendler), whose mother, Sonia (Adriana Aizemberg), runs a
lingerie shop, dreams of emigrating to Europe. That means obtaining his
grandma¹s documents from the old country, which in turn means forcing her to
confront her memories of Holocaust Poland. It also means confronting the
mystery of his absent father. When Ariel was born, dad left for Israel,
served in the 1973 Six Days War and never returned. Mostly, though, Ariel
must deal with the everyday eccentricities of the delightful inhabitants of
the mall, whom Burman captures with an affection and an irony that match
François Truffaut. 

Be sure to remain through the end credits for a moving musical treat.

As reviewed by Walter Addiego writing for the San Francisco Chronicle

The hero of "Lost Embrace" wants nothing more than to bolt the scruffy
Buenos Aires shopping mall where he helps his mother run a lingerie shop
that may be doing a bit better than most of the other marginal businesses
there but doesn't exactly promise a bright future. In his 30s and restless,
Ariel Makaroff is angling to move to Poland, a land of opportunity in his
view -- it's also the place his Jewish grandmother fled during World War II.
But that old dame is reluctant to provide the documents he needs to get a
European passport. 

Ariel also has issues with his father, who left the family behind to fight
for Israel in the Yom Kippur War (1973) and never came back. It's unlikely
material for a comedy, but comedy is what Argentine director Daniel Burman
makes of it. 

The mall is a world of its own, where everyone knows everyone else's
business (or thinks they do). We see Ariel interacting with, among others,
the Saliganis, the Italian family that runs a radio repair shop and beauty
parlor; with the Kims, Korean newlyweds who sell feng shui items; with Rita,
the sex goddess who works in the Internet shop and has an ambiguous
relationship with an older man there; and with Ariel's brother, Joseph, who
wanted to be a rabbi and now runs a somewhat shady import-export business.

Meanwhile, Ariel's mother has kept the family business going, but seems to
spend much of her time making and eating lekach (honey cake). The lekach,
which everyone seems to be munching, is a running gag, one of the mall's
idiosyncrasies that Burman delights in showing (among them is a competition
between deliverymen pushing dollies -- the mall's equivalent of a day at the
races). 

The film is a gentle comedy that tackles some serious issues, resolving them
in a way that may be less than profound but carries emotional heft. Burman's
use of handheld camera and his editing convey the messiness of life in the
mall's large extended family, but he never allows the hurly-burly of the
setting to overwhelm Ariel's story.

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

''Lost Embrace,'' a scruffy, engaging comedy directed by Daniel Burman,
takes place in a down-at-the-heels shopping mall in Buenos Aires, a cluster
of shops populated by multiethnic characters who are just idiosyncratic
enough to avoid being stereotypes.

The atmosphere at the mall, though hectic, is also a little weary, as if the
place and the rich, cacophonous urban life it represents were gradually
running out of energy. The proprietors of most of the stores are growing
old, and the younger people seem restless, either running in place or
scheming to move on.

Our guide through this self-contained world of kibitzing and commerce is an
anxious young man, Ariel, who sees in his surroundings the reflection of his
own identity crisis. He is moody and manic -- a character out of Philip Roth
or Neil Simon, whose comic anxiety is inflected with a romantic, Latin
American melancholy.

Mr. Burman, who wrote the script with Marcelo Birmajer, presents the story
in a casual, almost distracted fashion that matches his hero's scattershot
attention span. There is a lot going on -- preparations for a big race
between deliverymen pushing hand trucks, semi-clandestine love affairs
between various denizens of the mall, noisy arguments between aging
businessmen -- but ''Lost Embrace'' never feels strenuous or overdone. The
tenderness of the family drama at its center, and the deep,
hard-to-articulate feelings of a son for his enigmatic father and his
heroically patient mother, emerge with a charming haphazardness. This is a
small movie about a small world, but its modesty is part of what makes it
durable and satisfying.

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

Ariel Makaroff, an Argentine-born Polish Jew and college dropout, isn't
exactly caught up in an identity crisis. That would suggest some sort of
urgency about it. Ariel's only urgent task is to secure a Polish passport
and escape to Europe. Because ... well, it seems as good a plan as any.

"Lost Embrace" is a film of minor pleasures. Burman recognizes the emotional
bruises friends and family cause and he doesn't judge when his characters
are unable to forgive and unwilling to understand. He simply gives them
another chance to heal the wounds, with the confidence that they just may
get it right the next time.


Film reviews researched and edited by Peter A. Haggart

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PAMELA PALMER, Volunteer
Mailto:ppalmer at moscow.com
Film and Events Committee
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre

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