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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (PG)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Wednesday, June 22<BR>
1:00 & 3:15 PM<BR>
</B>$1/ages 12 and under, $4/ages 13 and over<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>My Town<BR>
</H2></FONT>Documentary film<BR>
<B>Thursday, June 23<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5 suggested donation, $3 for seniors, students, or those on fixed income.<BR>
<B>(See full press release below)<BR>
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</B><FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Melinda and Melinda (PG13)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Friday, June 24<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Saturday, June 25<BR>
4:45/7:00/9:15 PM<BR>
Sunday, June 26<BR>
4:45 & 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><H2>Summer Matinee Series<BR>
</H2><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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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2>Fat Albert (PG)<BR>
</H2></FONT>Wednesday, June 29<BR>
1:00 & 3:15 PM<BR>
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<B>The Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre will be closed July 1 – 4.<BR>
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<B>Coming in July-<BR>
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<B>Racing Stripes (PG)<BR>
</B>July 6, 1 & 3:30 PM<BR>
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<B>Sahara (PG13)<BR>
</B>July 8 – 10, 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Millions (PG)<BR>
</B>Presented by US Bank<BR>
July 13, 1:00 PM<BR>
July 14, 16 & 17, 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Ala Zingara</B> in concert<BR>
July 15, 7:30 PM<BR>
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<B>Napoleon Dynamite (PG)<BR>
</B>July 20, 1:00 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Sin City (R)<BR>
</B>July 22 – 24, 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Two Brothers (PG)<BR>
</B>Presented by Insty Prints & NIAC<BR>
July 27, 1:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (PG)<BR>
</B>July 29 – 31, 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Coming in August: </B>Because of Winn Dixie, Robots, Madagascar, Mad Hot Ballroom, Howl’s Moving Castle<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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<FONT SIZE="5">Moscow Documentary Film Premieres at Kenworthy<BR>
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The premiere showing of the documentary film, “<B>My Town</B>,” is scheduled for <B>7pm on Thursday, June 23</B>, at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Center in downtown Moscow. 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.<BR>
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In the film Hayes includes interviews with Wilson, his brother Evan Wilson, New St. Andrews College Dean Roy Atwood, as well as community representatives including JoAnn Muneta, Bill London, and Rosemary Huskey. Hayes also includes film of Wilson’s history conference and the controversy regarding Wilson’s pamphlet, “Southern Slavery As It Was.”<BR>
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The suggested donation price for tickets for the premiere are $5, with $3 suggested for seniors, students, and those on fixed income.<BR>
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The premiere is sponsored by the Auntie Establishment and Brother Carl radio show which is heard on Moscow radio station KRFP-FM. Moscow writer Joan Opyr, who appears as Auntie Establishment, explained that all proceeds from the premiere will be donated in support of community radio.<BR>
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Questions about the premiere may be directed to Opyr at 882-6640 or by email to <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>auntiestablishment@hotmail.com<BR>
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<B>This week’s review-<BR>
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</B><H2>Melinda and Melinda<BR>
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Written and Directed by Woody Allen<BR>
Director of photography Vilmos Zsigmond<BR>
This film is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It has many sexual references and situations, some off-color language, and some substance abuse. <BR>
Running time: 1 hour, 39 minutes.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Wendy Ide writing for the London Times<BR>
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Woody Allen’s latest picture, Melinda and Melinda, is a cinematic sigh of relief for those who thought that New York’s favorite clarinet-playing neurotic had lost his touch. <BR>
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Both the Melindas of the title are played by the Australian actress Radha Mitchell, their tales unfolding in parallel as part of an ongoing debate between two playwrights about whether life is inherently comic or tragic. <BR>
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Comedy Melinda is a ditzy blonde with a taste for pink cardigans. Her tragic incarnation is a more complicated creature, a self-medicating, self-fulfilling prophecy of doom with kohl-smudged ashtray eyes and a more than passing familiarity with the inside of a mental institution. She’s the friend in need who never stops needing, the one whose cries for help you guiltily stop answering after a while. <BR>
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In reality, as in life, the division between comedy and tragedy is not so clear-cut, so tragic Melinda’s story has its share of laughs and comedy Melinda’s tale has touches of pathos. Allen pulls off with aplomb the task of juggling the two stories. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Sheri Linden writing for The Hollywood Reporter<BR>
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In his most substantial and satisfying feature since 1999's "Sweet and Lowdown," Woody Allen revisits favorite themes: storytelling, love and duplicity, the neuroses of hyperarticulate but emotionally lost Manhattanites. Using a simple hook that intertwines two versions of the same story, he's created a memorable ensemble piece with Radha Mitchell especially compelling in the dual roles that drive "Melinda and Melinda." Allen's first film for Fox Searchlight should draw the best reviews and business the writer-director has seen in a while.<BR>
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Across a restaurant table, friends debate whether life is essentially comic or tragic. The writer of successful comedies, Sy (Wallace Shawn), believes people seek laughter to escape pain; Max (Larry Pine), who trusts in the power of tragedy, argues that life is absurd. By way of example, each spins a tale based on an anecdote about an uninvited guest. From here, the film alternates between Sy's romantic comedy and Max's tragic saga of a lonely soul, returning occasionally to the storytellers themselves.<BR>
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As the twin stories play out, echoing each other and at times almost blending together (it takes a little work to stay oriented), the line between comedy and tragedy feels increasingly arbitrary, more a matter of style than dramatic ingredients. "Melinda's" moral edge recalls "Husbands and Wives" and "Crimes and Misdemeanors," and the comedy keeps the film from tipping into unrelieved dark territory, even if Allen's script lacks for-the-ages one-liners.<BR>
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In both tellings, the uninvited guest is Melinda (Radha Mitchell), a woman at loose ends. In the dramatic version, she's got a wavy bob and subsists on pills, white wine and cigarettes, traumatized by a difficult divorce in which she lost custody of her children. After being hospitalized for a suicide attempt, she arrives at the downtown loft of old friend Laurel (Chloe Sevigny) and Laurel's peevish actor husband, Lee (Jonny Lee Miller), who isn't thrilled about sharing their pad with someone who's "nuts." Laurel welcomes the break in routine as respite from a troubled marriage.<BR>
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Uptown, the smooth-coiffed Melinda interrupts her neighbors' dinner party after ingesting 28 sleeping pills. Out-of-work actor and neglected husband Hobie (Will Ferrell, taking a while to warm up as the Allen surrogate) finds himself enchanted by the lovely would-be suicide. His filmmaker wife, Susan (Amanda Peet), barely notices his crush as she pursues a financier for her new project, "The Castration Sonata" -- a film that, she promises, will put "male sexuality in perspective."<BR>
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Susan fixes up Melinda with handsome dentist Greg (Josh Brolin), prompting a jealousy-fueled barrage of put-downs from Hobie, which Ferrell puts across with Allenesque inflection. (He also delivers one of the all-time funniest movie reactions to spousal infidelity.) The other Melinda, whom friend Cassie (Brooke Smith) sets up with a widowed dentist, instead falls for the dangerously charming musician Ellis (Chiwetel Ejiofor).<BR>
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Mitchell's nuanced intensity as the vulnerable Melinda, especially in her more high-strung incarnation, is key to the film's success.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Mick LaSalle writing for the San Francisco Chronicle<BR>
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"Melinda and Melinda" is Woody Allen's first film since "Deconstructing Harry" that's not dull, flawed, overly nostalgic or some deadly combination of all three. It's not one of his funnier movies, but "Melinda and Melinda" is more accomplished, adventurous and original. <BR>
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Instead of Allen's usual investigation into the nature of existence, this new film looks at the way stories are created, particularly comedies. It's an area in which Allen really is an expert. <BR>
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Four people, two of them playwrights, are sitting in a cafe in Manhattan. Max (Larry Pine), who specializes in drama, sees life as essentially meaningful. His friend, comic playwright Sy (Wallace Shawn), sees life as essentially absurd. As an exercise, a companion gives them a simple story setup: Young Manhattanites in the midst of a dinner party are interrupted by the sudden appearance of a woman, Melinda, on their doorstep. Is this the beginning of a comedy or a tragedy? <BR>
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Each playwright starts riffing, and what result are two separate stories. The movie depicts these stories, cutting at will from one to another, usually without bothering to tell us which Melinda story we're looking at. We just have to catch up, which is fine, because the film makes it a pleasure to be thrown off balance. Each Melinda story has a completely different cast, except for Radha Mitchell, who plays Melinda in both stories. In the drama, she has curly hair and smokes and drinks heavily, while in the comedy she's more wholesome, has flat hair and looks five years younger. In both, she is newly sprung from a bad relationship, and her friends are trying to pair her off with another man. <BR>
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In an ideal world, the "Melinda" comedy would have been hysterically funny and the "Melinda" drama would have been devastatingly tragic. Neither is the case, and that weakness keeps "Melinda and Melinda" in the second tier of Allen films. To be sure, the film is a lot better than a mere intellectual exercise, but just imagine the impact it might have had if the Melinda stories were farther apart in tone and as effective as the best comedies and dramas can be. Or would that have been too much? After all, who wants another straight, sober drama from Woody Allen, even if it only constitutes half the movie? Obviously, this speculation can lead nowhere, but one thing is undeniable: The conclusion of the dramatic story line is almost entirely without emotional force. It's interesting but should have been more than that. Not surprisingly, the comedy is more satisfying. <BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter 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>
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Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.kenworthy.org<BR>
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</U></FONT>To speak with a KPAC staff member, <BR>
call (208) 882-4127<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>Mailto:kpac@moscow.com<BR>
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