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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>Kamikaze Girls (not rated)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Friday, January 13<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Saturday & Sunday, January 14 & 15<BR>
4:30 & 7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5/Adult; $2 child 12 and younger<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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<B>Paradise Now (PG-13)<BR>
</B>Friday, January 20<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Saturday & Sunday, January 21 & 22<BR>
4:30 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>The Squid & the Whale (R)<BR>
</B>January 27 at 7:00 PM<BR>
January 28 & 29 at 4:45 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<U>Coming in February:</U> <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> presents Sight Unseen (see press release below); Capote; Pride & Prejudice<BR>
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Regular movie prices: $5/adult, $2/child 12 or younger<BR>
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!<BR>
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For more information, go to www.kenworthy.org or call 208-882-4127.<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5"><I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I></FONT></FONT> presents <BR>
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<FONT SIZE="5"><B><I>Sight Unseen</I></B></FONT><B>, by Donald Margulies</B>, the third play of the 2005-06 season, with evening performances on <B>February 2 - 4 & 9 -11, 2006 at 7:30 pm</B>, and with a Saturday matinee on <B>February 11 at 2:00 pm</B>. All performances are at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre. <BR>
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Ticket prices for <I>Sight Unseen</I> are $15 for Adults, $10 for Seniors, and $5 for Students. Tickets can be purchased at BookPeople of Moscow (521 S. Main St.) beginning January 17, or an hour before each performance at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre box office. If you would like to purchase tickets and have them sent to you, email or call John Dickinson (<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>johnd@moscow.com</U></FONT>, 208-301-4361).<BR>
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<I>Sight Unseen</I> is the story of an American mega-artist so successful he's had the obligatory profile in Vanity Fair and can claim astronomical prices for his works sight unseen from a waiting list of wealthy patrons. In England for a retrospective of his paintings, the artist goes into the countryside to visit his original muse and lover, the "sacrificial shiksa" whom he abandoned in his quest for the opulent life which now devours him. Donald Margulies won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 and <I>Sight Unseen</I> won the Obie Award for best new American Play in 1992. <BR>
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This production is directed by Pam Palmer. The cast includes: Donal Wilkinson, Sally Eames-Harlan, Peter Aylward, and Anna Cottle.<I> Sight Unseen</I> contains one or two words that may offend some audience members.<BR>
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"<I>…you can tell when a play has gripped its audience, for no one seems to breathe, let alone shift in his seat. This phenomenon can be observed…at Sight Unseen....</I>" —NY Times.<BR>
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For more information about the play or to volunteer with Sirius Idaho Theatre contact Pam Palmer, Managing Artistic Director, at 208-596-2270 <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>siriusidahotheatre@gmail.com<BR>
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This week’s review-<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Kamikaze Girls<BR>
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Written (in Japanese, with English subtitles) and directed by Tetsuya Nakashima<BR>
Based on a novel by Novala Takemoto<BR>
Running time: 1 hour, 42 minutes<BR>
This film is not rated. <BR>
Advisory: This film contains comic book violence. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Manohla Dargis writing for the New York Times<BR>
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The yummy Japanese confection "Kamikaze Girls" deserves both a better title and an audience to go with it. Based on the novel "Shimotsuma Story" by the cult writer Novala Takemoto, this unassuming charmer has been saddled with a name that summons up images of fighter pilots self-immolating in the name of family and country. The girls of the film's title mostly just want to have fun (as does the director, Tetsuya Nakashima), which doesn't mean their pretty little heads are empty. It's just that thinking seems more agreeable when you're wearing a frilly bonnet and peek-a-boo knee socks that make grown men cry.<BR>
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Set principally in a small town some 60 miles from Tokyo, the film traces the slow-to-boil friendship between Momoko (played by Kyoko Fukada), a devotee of the Lolita look and all things Rococo, and Ichiko (Anna Tsuchiya), a snarling Goth chick. At first, the story seems little more than an inventory of the early years and fabulous fashion choices of Momoko (the name means peach blossom), the only child of a missing mother and a "useless father." For this isolated 17-year-old, cocooned in baby-doll dresses and dreams of 18th-century art and design, life is nothing more than a performance piece in which she serves as artist, model and lone adoring fan. On Planet Momoko, everything is beautiful and festooned with delicately embroidered hearts.<BR>
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Shot on what appears to be lower-grade digital video (it was actually shot on 35-millimeter film), "Kamikaze Girls" has the cheerful, cheap look of a bazaar. (It even includes a few gaudy anime sequences.) The fashions will be familiar to admirers of Shoichi Aoki's photographs of Tokyo street fashion; the music, meanwhile, sounds neo-Go-Go's, as bouncy as a wad of freshly chewed bubble gum. That makes the film a nice primer to Japanese pop culture, but there's more here than eye candy. Ichiko punctures Momoko's isolation, taking a pin to the bubble the other girl calls self, which may be a metaphor about Japan (or not). What the film does say, with infectious exuberance, is that in a world in which shopping is a Cartesian truism - in the immortal words of Barbara Kruger, "I shop therefore I am" - it's so much nicer to go with a friend.<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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Anyone who's seen a glimpse of Japanese television (even if it was only that hilarious send-up in "Lost in Translation") knows that the frenetic lunacy that passes for entertainment over there can be tough to describe. <BR>
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Japanese movies can be like that, too. But Tetsuya Nakashima's "Kamikaze Girls," while being a silly, freewheeling, candy-colored lollapalooza, is also a heartfelt tale of friendship.<BR>
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The novel upon which the film is based, by Novala Takemoto, became a pop-culture phenomenon in Japan. (The press notes inform us that Takemoto's "empathy with social outsiders and decadent fashion sense have helped cultivate a devoted following among young women, particularly those in the 'Lolita' fashion scene.")<BR>
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Indeed, Momoko (pop idol Kyoko Fukada) is a high school girl who is decked out in the 'Lolita' look -- doll-like series of outfits, complete with parasol, that are her version of her favorite fantasy land: 18th century Versailles. A child of divorce, Momoko moves from the big city to the painfully rural town of Shimotsuma.<BR>
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Momoko is content to live in her self-created world, which excludes all others. That is, until she encounters Ichiko (Anna Tsuchiya), a biker girl who dresses in the "Yanki" style. Ichiko, whose girl biker gang is called the Ponytails, buys knock-off designer clothes from Momoko, and also forces her way into Momoko's life.<BR>
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The two develop a friendship, the strength of which surprises both of them -- and us. That such a seemingly frivolous movie, filmed to approximate a girls' comic book, becomes even slightly touching is a testament to Nakashima. His shots, even those of short duration, are rigorously composed, and he draws warmth from his two young leads. <BR>
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"Kamikaze Girls" is like "Laverne and Shirley" on acid. I think that's a compliment.<BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart<BR>
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