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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><H2>Schultze Gets the Blues (PG)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Friday, June 3<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Saturday & Sunday, June 4 & 5<BR>
4:15 & 7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5 adults, $2 children 12 and under<BR>
KFS passes accepted for Sunday shows<BR>
<B>(See Review below)<BR>
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<B>Next week at the Kenworthy-<BR>
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<B>The Upside of Anger (R)<BR>
</B>Friday, June 10<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Saturday & Sunday, June 11 & 12<BR>
4:15 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>June at the Kenworthy-<BR>
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<B>Dear Frankie (PG13)<BR>
</B>June 17, 7:00 PM & 9:30 PM<BR>
June 19, 4:30 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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Wonderworks presents <BR>
<B>Cool Cat<BR>
</B>by Elizabeth Eagles, with music by Dan Bukvich<BR>
Saturday, June 18<BR>
7:30 PM<BR>
Tickets- $6 adults, children under 3 years are free<BR>
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On Saturday, June 18, at 7:30 PM, Wonder Works will present “Cool Cat,”<BR>
written and directed by Elizabeth Eagles with music by Dan Bukvich. This<BR>
premier evening of theatre, music, and dance features the Gemberling<BR>
Brothers, guest choreographer Greg Halloran, and dancers from the University<BR>
of Idaho Center for Dance and Spectrum II Dance Studio. Tickets are $6 for<BR>
adults. Children under age 3 are free. Tickets can be purchased at<BR>
BookPeople prior to the performance or at the door.<BR>
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A silent art auction will take place in the lobby of the theater before the<BR>
performance and during intermission.<BR>
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<B>Melinda & Melinda (PG13)<BR>
</B>June 24, 7:00 PM<BR>
June 25, 4:45/7:00/9:15 PM<BR>
June 26, 4:45 & 7:00 PM<BR>
<BR>
<H2>Summer Matinee Series<BR>
Wednesdays in June-<BR>
</H2><B><BR>
Shrek (PG)<BR>
</B>Wednesday, June 15<BR>
1:00 PM & 3:15 PM<BR>
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<B>Spongebob Squarepants (PG)<BR>
</B>Wednesday, June 22<BR>
1:00 & 3:15 PM<BR>
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<B>Fat Albert (PG)<BR>
</B>Wednesday, June 29<BR>
1:00 & 3:15 PM<BR>
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<B>Wednesday matinee prices: $4/adult, $1/child 12 or younger<BR>
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<U>Thanks to the following Wednesday matinee sponsors:<BR>
</U>Insty Prints & North Idaho Athletic Club, Tom & JoAnn Trail, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo Bank<BR>
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<B>Coming in July</B>: Ala Zingara, Racing Stripes, Millions, Two Brothers<BR>
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<B>Regular Movie prices</B>: $5 adult, $2 child 12 or younger. <BR>
Wednesday matinee prices: $4/adult, $1/child 12 or younger <BR>
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!<BR>
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</TT></FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana">Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
508 S. Main Street, Moscow, Idaho<BR>
For more information, call 208-882-4127 or visit http://www.kenworthy.org<BR>
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<B>This week’s review-<BR>
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</B><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><H2>Schultze Gets the Blues<BR>
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Directed by Michael Schorr<BR>
In German, with English subtitles<BR>
Running time: 114 minutes<BR>
Rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). It has nudity. <BR>
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<B><U>As reviewed by Stephen Holden writing for the New York Times<BR>
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''Schultze Gets the Blues'' rediscovers the world through the astonished eyes of a retired German salt miner on a musical pilgrimage to the United States. As the title character (Horst Krause) ambles around the Texas Gulf Coast and Louisiana bayou country, the screen drinks in the sultry, humid atmosphere. Puttering on the local waterways in a battered blue motorboat, using his few words of broken English to communicate, Schultze is like a benign visitor from another galaxy who has simply dropped out of the sky. <BR>
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The film's contemplation of the wonders of the everyday isn't limited to Schultze's American odyssey. The German director and screenwriter Michael Schorr, in his feature film debut, studies everything in sight from the same childlike perspective. <BR>
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As the movie begins, Schultze, who spent his life toiling in a salt mine, is reluctantly pushed into early retirement along with several other miners, including his best friends, Jürgen and Manfred. With nothing much to do, they while away their days drinking beer, fishing, playing cards and squabbling over chess. An amateur accordionist, Schultze belongs to a music club whose members meet regularly to perform the same antique chorales and polkas they have been recycling for decades. <BR>
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At home one afternoon, Schultze's ears perk up at the accordion sounds of a Texan zydeco band on the radio. He picks up the tune on his instrument and soon becomes obsessed with it. Before long, he is experimenting in his kitchen with Cajun dishes, including a spicy jambalaya that he serves to his delighted friends. <BR>
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Asked to perform at the club's 50th-anniversary celebration, he decides, after much debate, to play the zydeco tune instead of the expected polka. The performance has a mixed reception. Several stunned members view his defection as cultural heresy. The club nevertheless decides to send him as its representative to a folk festival in Texas. Once there, he realizes he's musically far outclassed and spends the rest of his stay enjoying a vacation. <BR>
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''Schultze Gets the Blues'' is close in spirit to sweetly humanist cult films like ''Baghdad Cafe'' that enfold you in a big, reassuring bear hug. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Sean Axmaker writing for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer<BR>
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Schultze, a round, red-faced barrel of a retired mine worker, is the local polka accordion king of his little German burg. When we first see him, he's barely a supporting part in his own story, the companion of fellow pensioners, they bicker over pints of ale and games of chess. Schultze looks on silently. <BR>
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Then, alone one day at home, Schultze spins the radio dial and by chance catches a zippy zydeco tune.<BR>
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It taunts him. It haunts him. He tries to shut it off, but shuffles back for another listen. He walks away, unsettled yet fascinated by the strange, almost sacrilegious use of his traditional polka instrument. The next day, his polka practice segues right into the zydeco song. It's stiff, a bit mechanical, but liberating, and he plays with a runaway spirit. His innocence is over. Zydeco is in his soul.<BR>
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There's a pleasant delight in the comically dour faces of these old Eastern bloc men, an appreciation of sleepy small-town life in a quaint village (the modern world is just making itself felt in whispering windmill farms just outside of town), and a celebration of Schultze's reawakening and rejuvenation. Not that you ever see his expression change, but as his body plays furiously, as if trying to keep up with the outpouring of music, satisfaction and peace settle over his face.<BR>
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That appreciation is extended to everyone in the film, from his fellow German townsfolk to the Americans he meets on his odyssey through the Gulf towns of Texas and Louisiana. It's the warmest, most generous portrait of American hospitality you've seen from a European movie in some time.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Walter Addiego writing for the San Francisco Chronicle<BR>
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After a life of toiling in the salt mines -- literally -- a taciturn and rotund German named Schultze is nudged into early retirement and a "now what?" existence. Unmarried, he spends his days cleaning his garden gnomes, drinking beer with a couple of pals or playing the accordion in the local music club. <BR>
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Time hangs heavy until one night when he's dial-spinning on the radio and hears an astonishing and life-changing sound, a rhythm full of the aural equivalents of peppers and garlic. It's zydeco music, and he tries to walk away from it, but can't. He breaks out his trusty squeezebox and soon is improvising a passable version of this intoxicating sound from America. <BR>
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Schultze is excited to have something different in his life, and a bit alarmed: He reports it to his doctor, as if it might be a sign of dementia. He tries out the new sound on a couple of audiences, with mixed results. Then he goes really wild: He cooks up a batch of jambalaya for his friends. <BR>
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This is a droll, deadpan film, deliberately paced and told with simple cinematic means -- the camera hardly ever budges. In his first feature, writer-director Michael Schorr offers mildly surreal and satirical observations about life in Schultze's dreary industrial hometown, and he mostly sidesteps the sentimentality you might expect in a film about an aging man surrounded by reminders of mortality.<BR>
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A genuinely endearing soul, Schultze earns our admiration not because he indulges himself in a senior citizen's lark but because his journey, like our hero himself, has depths we hadn't suspected. <BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter A. Haggart<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5"><U>Kenworthy Film Society Passes on sale<BR>
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<B>Kenworthy Film Society pass prices will increase on July 1</B> to $30 for a 10-punch card and $75 for a $30-punch card. <BR>
That's still only $3.00 and $2.50 per movie, respectively -- the best deal on movies in Moscow.<BR>
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Why are prices increasing? Specifically, because the cost of film shipping has increased. <BR>
Generally, because the cost of doing business has increased.<BR>
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<B>Passes can be purchased at the current prices through June 30, 2005, so get yours now.<BR>
</B>Passes are available at BookPeople and at the Kenworthy box office during regular showtimes.<BR>
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Thanks for your continued support of independent and foreign films on the Palouse!<BR>
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PAMELA PALMER, <B>Volunteer<BR>
</B><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>Mailto:ppalmer@moscow.com<BR>
</U></FONT>Film and Events Committee <BR>
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
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