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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-<BR>
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</B>University of Idaho Department of Physics presents<BR>
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</H2></FONT><B>Thursday, November 17<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
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Philip Deutchman, UI Emeritus Professor of Physics, will make a presentation entitled “How Einstein Rocked the World of Physics in 1905: A 100 Year Celebration” at 7 PM Thursday evening, 17th Nov. at the Kenworthy Theater, 508 South Main St., Moscow. The event is free and open to the public.<BR>
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In the year 1905 Einstein, then 26 years old, published 5 papers any one of which would have assured his reputation as one of the great physicists of all time. This presentation, aimed at general audiences, will be a discussion of these five papers. There will be a gentle introduction, with visual examples, to the basic ideas contained in each paper and the emphasis will be on the impact which each paper had on the field of physics. Phil’s hope is to convey the pleasure and excitement of these ideas to the audience and to marvel at how Einstein could have produced work of such profusion, profundity and prescience in such a short period of time.<BR>
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Professor Deutchman taught physics at the undergraduate and graduate levels and conducted research in Nuclear and Particle Theory at the University of Idaho for 34 years. He retired in 2002. His interests are in understanding the fundamental ideas, interpretations and phenomena described by Quantum Theory and Relativity, and in conveying the pleasure and excitement contained in these ideas to audiences curious about such notions.<BR>
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This event is sponsored by the UI Department of Physics as part of the internationally sanctioned “World Year of Physics” , a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s “miracle year” of 1905. For further information, contact the Department of Physics at (208)885-6099 or visit the web site www.phys.uidaho.edu.<BR>
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<B>Also this week at the Kenworthy-<BR>
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<I>Kenworthy Film Society</I> presents<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Everything is Illuminated (PG-13)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Friday, November 18<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Saturday & Sunday, November 19 & 20<BR>
4:30 & 7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5/Adults, $2/Children under 13<BR>
KFS passes accepted for Sunday showings<BR>
<B>(see Review below)<BR>
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Next week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre . . .<BR>
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<B>Wallace & Gromit<BR>
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (G)<BR>
</B>Friday, Saturday & Sunday - November 25, 26 & 27<BR>
4:45 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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Coming in December: 2046, Junebug<BR>
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Check KPAC’s web site for dates & times. <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.kenworthy.org<BR>
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</U></FONT><B>Regular Movie prices</B>: $5 adult, $2 child under 13 <BR>
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!<BR>
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This week’s review-<BR>
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</B><FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Everything is Illuminated<BR>
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Directed by Liev Schreiber; written by Mr. Schreiber, based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer<BR>
Rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned) for some scenes of violence, though more is implied than shown, and sexual content and language.<BR>
Running time: 1 hour, 44 minutes<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Roger Ebert writing for the Chicago Sun-Times<BR>
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Liev Schreiber's "Everything is Illuminated" begins in goofiness and ends in silence and memory. How it gets from one to the other is the subject of the film, a journey undertaken by three men and a dog into the secrets of the past. The movie is narrated by Alex (Eugene Hutz), a Ukranian whose family specializes in "tours of dead Jews." Alex and his grandfather (also named Alex) drive American Jews in search of their roots to the places where many of their ancestors died.<BR>
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The trip through a bewildering but beautiful Ukrainian countryside involves a Soviet-era car that may not exactly have air bags. The grandfather is the driver, although he claims to be blind and insists on going everywhere with his "seeing eye bitch," whose name is Sammy Davis Junior Junior. Alex's English seems learned from a thesaurus that was one word off. He tortures words to force them into sentences from which they try to escape, and keeps a journal with chapters like Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Search.<BR>
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The movie's hero is Jonathan (Elijah Wood), a solemn, goggle-eyed American known as "The Collector" because he accumulates bits and pieces of his life and stores them in Ziploc bags, carefully labeled. He has come to the Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather's life. To this woman is due much gratitude, because Jonathan's grandmother passed along the belief that the Ukraine treated Jews so badly that if the Nazis invaded, it might be an improvement.<BR>
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I described Jonathan as the hero of the film, but perhaps he is too passive to be a hero. He regards. He collects. Alex is the active character, cheerfully inventing English as he goes along, making the best of the journey's hardships, humoring his grandfather, telling the rich American what he wants to hear. Eugene Hutz, a singer in a punk gypsy band, brings notes of early John Turturro to the performance. Elijah Wood's performance is deliberately narrow and muted -- pitch-perfect, although there is a distraction caused by his oversized eyeglasses so thick they make his eyes huge. He visits, he witnesses, he puts things in Ziploc bags.<BR>
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Then again, perhaps the real hero of the film is the grandfather, unless by default it is the old lady, who is a Collector, too. For Grandfather, this is as much a journey of discovery as it is for Jonathan, and the changes that take place within him are all the more profound for never once being referred to in his dialogue. He never discusses his feelings or his memories, but in a way he is the purpose of the whole trip. The conclusion he draws from it is illustrated in an image that, in context, speaks more eloquently than words.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Anita Katz writing for the San Francisco Examiner<BR>
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"Everything Is Illuminated" is an offbeat road tale, a culture-clash comedy and a Holocaust drama — a potentially problematic mix that Liev Schreiber generally pulls off in his debut as a writer-director.<BR>
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Streamlined from Jonathan Safran Foer's acclaimed novel, the film isn't as penetrating or moving as it should be, given the historical elements that shade its storyline. But as a Ukrainian- and Jewish-condition journey, it's touchingly bittersweet and appealingly whimsical.<BR>
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Displaying the same earnestness as a director that he's shown as an actor (most recently in 2004's "The Manchurian Candidate"), Schreiber takes his characters seriously and inspires us to do likewise. He also delivers the eccentric humor winningly. (A running bit about Jonathan's vegetarianism in a country where meat seems to rank with oxygen among life's essentials is particularly amusing.)<BR>
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And even at his weakest, Schreiber doesn't lose sight of Foer's themes. He's made a thoughtful crowd-pleaser about how history shapes and mars the psyches of families and cultures for generations, and how connecting with one's familial and cultural history can enlighten and strengthen an individual.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Steve Persall writing for the St. Petersburg (FL)Times<BR>
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Everything Is Illuminated begins as an absurdist comedy and ends with darker realism, a difficult path for any filmmaker to navigate, especially a first-timer like Liev Schreiber. Nobody will accuse the actor of lacking ambition, directing his adaptation of a novel previously considered unfilmable.<BR>
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It's an auspicious debut, full of wonderful little moments that only an assured artist would discover. Some are verbal, lifted from Jonathan Safran Foer's book, such as the mangled English translations of a Russian tour guide named Alex. Others are visual; sunflowers in the midst of nowhere, and a wall of sealed, otherwise insignificant artifacts from the life of Alex's latest customer who shares the author's name.<BR>
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Foer's novel reportedly included detailed histories of Ukrainian villages and families preceding Jonathan's story by centuries. Schreiber's screenplay ditches all that, opting for a few World War II flashbacks to focus attention on the grandfathers and their descendents. Literary purists may grumble, but it's a fine job of streamlining for cinematic needs.<BR>
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Everything is Illuminated is flawed yet always interesting, lovely to behold - Matthew Libatique's cinematography is award caliber - and eventually quite moving. Above all, it has a genuinely dedicated creator in Schreiber, whose instincts seem to come from another time and certainly a place other than Hollywood. This may be regarded as the best foreign film created by an American this year. That must count for something.<BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart<BR>
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