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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-<BR>
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<I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I></B> announces <BR>
<FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5"><B>Auditions</B></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"> for <I>Sight Unseen</I>, by Donald Margulies<BR>
</FONT>-- Obie award for Best New American Play in 1992<BR>
(Script available for preview at BookPeople of Moscow)<BR>
Prepared monologues appreciated, but not required<BR>
<H2>7 pm - Thursday, December 8th<BR>
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Rehearsals begin the first week of January; performances February 2-4 & 9-11, 2006<BR>
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<B><U>Characters:<BR>
</U></B>Jonathan, 35-40<BR>
Patricia, 35-40<BR>
Nick, 40s<BR>
Grete, 25-30<BR>
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Jonathan and Patricia are American; Nick is English. Grete is German; her English is excellent, if accented. Jonathan has maintained his working-class Brooklyn accent; Nick’s rural, working-class speech finds its way into his University accent, particularly when he’s been drinking; and Patricia’s dialect suggests that of an expatriate New Yorker living in England.<BR>
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For more information about the play or to volunteer with <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre<BR>
</I>contact Pam Palmer, Managing Artistic Director, at 208-596-2270 <siriusidahotheatre@gmail.com><BR>
or visit the web site of <B><I>Sirius Idaho Theatre </I></B><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.siriusidahotheatre.com/<BR>
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Sirius Idaho Theatre is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.<BR>
Tax-deductible donations are appreciated - and essential.<BR>
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“<I>Let the beauty you love, be what you do.”<BR>
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<I>Kenworthy Film Society</I> presents<BR>
</B><FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Junebug (R)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Friday, December 9<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Saturday & Sunday, December 10 & 11<BR>
4:15 & 7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5/Adults<BR>
KFS passes accepted for Sunday showings<BR>
<B>(see Review below)<BR>
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<B>Next week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-<BR>
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<H2>Serenity (PG-13)<BR>
</H2><B>Friday, December 16<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Saturday & Sunday, December 17 & 18<BR>
4:15 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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Coming in January: The Squid & the Whale, Paradise Now, Oliver Twist<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 12 or younger <BR>
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!<BR>
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This week’s review-<BR>
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</B><H2><I>Junebug<BR>
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Directed by Phil Morrison<BR>
Rated R for sexual content and language.<BR>
Running Time: 1 hour, 47 minutes<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by G. Allen Johnson writing for the San Francisco Chronicle<BR>
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If there's any justice at all at next year's Academy Awards, we have our first can't-miss nominee for best supporting actress: Amy Adams. As the scatterbrained but smarter-than-you-think pregnant sister-in-law, Adams doesn't just steal Phil Morrison's wonderful Southern comedy-drama "Junebug" -- she outright powers it. <BR>
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An independent film set in North Carolina, "Junebug" is about a Chicago art dealer, Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz), who is chasing down an eccentric artist (Frank Hoyt Taylor) who happens to live near her new husband's family, whom she's never met. <BR>
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There are the parents. Mom (Celia Weston) has a clear suspicion of outsiders and a growing sense of a wasted life, while dad (Scott Wilson) putters around the house, saying as little as possible. Living with them is their son, Johnny (Benjamin McKenzie), a maladjusted redneck whose life revolves around looking for cigarettes and staying as far away as possible from his pregnant wife, Ashley (Adams). And there is George (Alessandro Nivola), Madeleine's husband, who is so disturbed by coming in contact with the life he left behind that he's absent for much of the visit, until he's really needed. <BR>
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Morrison, in his feature film debut, handles the material with just the right delicate touch, resisting any temptation to veer into broad comedy and remain grounded in potent observations about life, love and family.<BR>
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"Junebug" immerses itself in a part of the American experience Hollywood doesn't touch anymore, and has sharp, perceptive talents behind camera. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Kimberley Jones writing for the Austin (TX) Chronicle<BR>
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First-time filmmaker Phil Morrison announces himself with assurance and uniqueness of vision.<BR>
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The superlative script, by the playwright Angus MacLachlan, is essentially a tweaking of “Meet the Parents,” in which a bride undergoes all the awkwardness, culture clash, and failed connections attendant to that trial by fire: the first immersion into her husband’s family. It’s a marital initiation rite, and for art dealer Madeleine and new husband George, it’s also the first hint of marital strife in their six-month-old union. <BR>
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Madeleine’s a world traveler and consummate sophisticate who specializes in "outsider" art, in which the artist lacks formal training. Her arrival in George’s tiny North Carolina town and homestead is met with trepidation by most and outright hostility by his mother, Peg; only her eager-to-please, pregnant sister-in-law, Ashley, is wowed by this double-cheek-kissing anomaly. <BR>
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“Junebug” is built on a host of remarkably nuanced characters; in the push and pull for audience sympathy, every side gets its say. As with its wholly of-this-earth characters, Junebug presents a true portrait of the environs: in the banquet hall of a church potluck, in Peg’s mail-order-pretty living room. Morrison likes to film these places when they are quiet and empty, but even more affecting is when he captures his characters alone in these places, when they can shake off the forced smiles and settle into their more natural selves. There is Madeleine, desperately rummaging for a cigarette; George, in the go-to pose for many adult children returning home, sleeping on the couch; and Ashley, stripped for once of her über-cheer and clutching a photo of her negligent husband who is only rooms away but, emotionally, on an alternate plane. Small moments, all of them, but the sum is something deeply profound: about awkwardness, culture clash, failed connections, and – ultimately – the strength that comes from surviving a trial by fire.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Roger Ebert writing for the Chicago Sun-Times<BR>
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"Junebug" is a movie that understands, profoundly and with love and sadness, the world of small towns; it captures ways of talking and living I remember from my childhood, with the complexity and precision of great fiction. It observes small details that are important because they are details. It has sympathy for every character in the story and avoids two temptations: It doesn't portray the small-town characters as provincial hicks, and it doesn't portray the city slickers as shallow materialists. Phil Morrison, who directed this movie, and Angus MacLachlan, who wrote it, understand how people everywhere have good intentions, and how life can assign them roles where they can't realize them.<BR>
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"Junebug" is a great film because it is a true film. It humbles other films that claim to be about family secrets and eccentricities. It understands that families are complicated and their problems are not solved during a short visit, just in time for the film to end. Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.<BR>
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Consider a guarded moment between Madeleine and Eugene, her father-in-law. She observes cautiously of his wife: "She's a very strong personality." This is putting it mildly. Eugene replies quietly, "That's just her way. She hides herself. She's not like that inside." And then he adds two more words: "Like most." Thank God for actors like Scott Wilson, who know how those two words must be said. They carry the whole burden of the movie. <BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart<BR>
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<B><I>Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
</I>508 S. Main Street, Moscow, Idaho<BR>
</B>208-882-4127<BR>
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PAMELA PALMER, <B>Volunteer<BR>
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Film and Events Committee <BR>
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
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