[ThisWeek] Goal! The Dream Begins at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre

[This Week at the Kenworthy]

This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre...

Goal! The Dream Begins (PG)
Thursday, Friday & Saturday, August 3, 4 & 5
7:00 PM
Sunday, August 6
4:15 & 7:00 PM 
$5/adult, $3/child under 13
KFS pass accepted for Sunday movies
(See movie review below)
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Next week at the Kenworthy-

Water (PG-13)
August 10, 11 & 12
7:00 PM
August 13
4:15 & 7:00 PM
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Sirius Idaho Theatre announces

Auditions for the World Premiere of
Cow-Tipping and Other Signs of Stress
By Gregory Fletcher

Winner of the 2005 Mark Twain Award for Comic Playwriting

Directed by Stan Brown

Monday, August 14
6:00 ­ 8:00 pm
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre
To schedule appointment, call Pam at 208.596.2270 or email
ppalmer at moscow.com

One contemporary piece for auditions

Four characters
2M (25-45), 2W (35-50)

After years of perseverance and rejection letters, undiscovered playwright
Christopher Post asks for a sign from the universe confirming that he¹s on
the right path.  The signs flood in, each contradicting the next.  When
Christopher runs into an old college buddy who works for role model and star
playwright Ward Edington, Christopher begins sneaking, stealing, hiding,
conniving, teasing, fighting, and his life continues to snowball from there.
Saving his marriage and career will be the hardest rewrite of his life.  A
romantic dramedy laced with farce and cows.

Copy of the script available for preview at BookPeople of Moscow.

Non-equity stipend for actors
Housing provided
Four week rehearsals start August 20
Six performances, September 21 ­ 30

www.SiriusIdahoTheatre.com

Sirius Idaho Theatre is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Tax-deductible donations are appreciated!

Pamela Palmer, Managing Artistic Director
Sirius Idaho Theatre
P.O. Box 8762
Moscow, Idaho 83843
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August 1, 2006
For immediate release:

On Friday, August 25 the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre and NorthWest
Public Radio will join together for a very special night at the movies.

The fun will begin at 6:30 PM with live music featuring Moscow's own Charlie
Sutton and Ben Walden, food, prizes, and a screening of the new Robert
Altman film, A Prairie Home Companion at 8:00 PM.

The event will be held at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre and proceeds
will be shared equally with Northwest Public Radio.

"We are very excited about this event," says Tom Hungate from NorthWest
Public Radio.  It will be a great time on a Friday night to support two
worthwhile community groups."  This is a match made on the Palouse, says
Julie Ketchum, executive director of KPAC.

Tickets for the event are $20 and are on sale at Bookpeople in Moscow and
Brused Books in Pullman.  Tickets may be charged to Visa or MC by calling
882-4127.

For more information, visit www.kenworthy.org or nwpr.org.
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Coming in August at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre:

An Inconvenient Truth (PG)
August 17-19, 7:00 PM
August 20, 4:45 & 7:00 PM
Panel discussion Aug. 20, 8:45 PM

KPAC & NWPR present
A Prairie Home Companion Benefit
August 25, 6:30 PM
$20/general admission

A Prairie Home Companion (PG-13)
August 26, 7:00 PM
August 27, 4:30 & 7:00 PM
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Coming in September:
Superman Returns; Sirius Idaho Theatre presents Cow-Tipping and Other Signs
of Stress

Regular movie prices:  $5/adult, $3/child 12 or younger
Wednesday matinee prices: $4/adult, $1/child 12 or younger
KFS series pass prices:  $30/10 films, $75/30 films.  KFS pass good only for
Sunday movies.

For more information on movies, events, rental rates, and/or to download a
schedule, visit our website at www.kenworthy.org
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This week¹s movie review-

Goal: The Dream Begins
Directed by Danny Cannon

Rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). A hint of sex, a whiff of drugs and
an avalanche of corn. Plus, this movie contains brawling soccer players and
rowdy pubgoers.

Running time: 2 hours, 15 minutes

As reviewed by G. Allen Johnson writing for the San Francisco Chronicle

"Goal! The Dream Begins" is almost a foreign film: It is about soccer, which
is the world's most popular sport, but which most Americans think is just
something nifty for their middle school kids to play; it tells the story of
a Mexican immigrant living in Los Angeles who has a special talent; and it
takes place mostly in England.

Yet it is the best American-made sports film since "Miracle." It's a
pitch-perfect achievement by director Danny Cannon, a skilled professional
("Judge Dredd," "CSI: Miami") not known for his artistry.

If you didn¹t get excited about the World Cup in Germany, this movie, with
lots of soccer action filmed during actual Premier League games, plenty of
time spent in the pubs and cameo appearances by such soccer stars as David
Beckham, Zinedine Zidane and Alan Shearer, will make you wish you had.

Santiago (Mexican actor Kuno Becker) has lived illegally in Los Angeles,
where he and his father (Tony Plana) are lawn caretakers (Santiago has
another job as a cook in a Chinese restaurant). They live with his
grandmother (Miriam Colon) and Santiago's younger brother (Jorge Cevera).

Santiago's future looks pretty drab ("The American Dream is winning the
Lotto," his little brother observes), and his only outlet is when he plays
for the neighborhood soccer club. During a game -- one in which he uses a
torn cardboard box as shin pads -- he is noticed by a former English soccer
player and scout, Glen (Stephen Dillane), who is in L.A. visiting his
daughter. Although Glen is out of the soccer business, he tells Santiago he
can get him a tryout for Newcastle of the English Premier League.

Santiago, against his father's wishes, flies to England (to do that, he has
to sneak back into Mexico and fly out of Mexico City) and Glen calls in some
favors. Santiago tries desperately to make the reserve team and to impress
his coach (the gruffly ironic Marcel Iures, a Romanian actor who is
wonderful here).

"Goal!" has two major factors working in its favor: A likable young star,
and authenticity. Much of it was filmed in Newcastle and at its famous
stadium, St. James' Park. Cannon, who grew up in Britain and was a soccer
fan, obviously knows this territory and layers the film with several nice
little touches.

The movie was a hit in England, where it was released last October, and
apparently there are two sequels in the works. It's easy to see why. "Goal!"
hits the back of the net and is an early candidate for the funnest movie of
the summer.


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

"Goal! The Dream Begins" is a rags-to-riches sports saga containing all the
usual elements, arranged in the usual ways, and yet it's surprisingly
effective. We have the kid from Mexico who dreams of soccer stardom, his
impoverished life in Los Angeles as an undocumented immigrant, his dad who
scorns soccer, his grandmother who believes in him, the scout who gets him a
tryout with a top British team, the superstar who befriends him, and even a
pretty nurse. There is also a great deal of soccer, some of it looking real,
some of it not.

The movie works because it is, above all, sincere. It's not sports by the
numbers. The starring performance by Kuno Becker is convincing and
dimensional and we begin to care for him. He plays Santiago Munez, a busboy
in a Los Angeles Chinese restaurant, who plays in an after-work soccer
league so deprived that he wears cardboard shin protectors. Then he's
spotted by a former soccer pro (Stephen Dillane), who tells him he has
potential, and arranges for him to get a tryout with Newcastle United.

That would however involve an air ticket to England. Santiago has some money
saved, but his dad (Tony Plana) nicks it to buy a pickup truck and start his
own landscaping business. This is cruel, but perhaps more practical than
betting the money on a future in soccer. Santiago's grandmother (Miriam
Colon) says she hasn't worked for a lifetime without having some savings,
and pays for him to fly to London out of Mexico City -- a wise precaution,
since he has no American passport or identity.

In Newcastle, Santiago undergoes a rough initiation at the hands of the
hardened soccer pros, gets his first experience of soccer in the mud, and
almost loses his place on the team because of his asthma. What saves him is
an accidental friendship with the team's superstar Gavin Harris (Alessandro
Nivola), a party animal. How the season turns out and how Santiago fares I
will leave for you to discover, not only in this movie, but in "Goal! 2:
Living the Dream," which comes out later this year, and in "Goal! 3,"
scheduled for 2007. The fact that "Goal! 4" is not in pre-production will
soon, I am sure, be remedied.

Before "Goal!" began, I moaned to a colleague that I was dreading the
screening. Any movie named "Goal!" that needs an exclamation mark seems to
be protesting too much, and the words "The Dream Begins" suggest that the
snores will shortly follow. I see an average of one sports movie a month in
which an underdog overcomes the odds in order to earn their exclamation
mark. I know all about the grizzled coaches, the mean teammates, the dad who
doesn't understand and the girl who does.

I was surprised, then, to find myself enjoying the movie almost from the
beginning. It had some of the human reality of Gregory Nava's work in movies
like "Mi Familia" and the PBS series "American Family." Not the depth or
beauty, to be sure, but the feeling for a culture and family ties. And Kuno
Becker, a Mexican star of films and TV and three English-language films
little released in America, has not only star quality but something more
rare, likability. He makes us want his character to succeed.

Where possible, the director Danny Cannon sidesteps some of the clichés. We
suspect Santiago's father may be proud of his son after all, but are
unprepared for the way that plays out, and how Santiago's toughness is both
the right and wrong choice. We know all about the understanding Irish nurse
Roz (Anna Friel), except that she will have insight and understanding. We
are relieved, in a way, to be spared an obligatory sex scene. And it is
interesting that the boss of the Newcastle United team is not made into your
standard Bob Hoskins or Colm Meany role, but is written as a German and cast
with a Romanian, Marcel Iures.

"Goal! The Dream Begins" is a good and caring work, with more human detail
than we should expect. Specifically, it is more about Santiago's life as a
young man than it is about who wins the big match. There's a subtext about
immigrants in America that is timely right now, and a certain sadness in his
father's conviction that some people are intended to be rich and others
poor, and that the Munez family should be content and grateful to be poor.
Santiago is not content, but he is driven not so much by ambition as by pure
and absolute love of soccer, and that gives the movie a purity that shines
through.

Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart
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208-882-4127
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Film and Events Committee
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre

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