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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>Paradise Now (PG-13)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Friday, January 20<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Saturday & Sunday, January 21 & 22<BR>
4:30 & 7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5/Adult; $2 children 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>The Squid & the Whale (R)<BR>
</B>Friday, January 27<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Saturday & Sunday, January 28 & 29<BR>
4:45 & 7:00 PM<BR>
$5/Adult<BR>
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<U>Coming in February:</U> <B><I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> presents Sight Unseen</B> (see press release below); Capote; Pride & Prejudice<BR>
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Regular movie prices: $5/adult, $2/children 12 and 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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<H2><I>Sight Unseen<BR>
</I></H2>by Donald Margulies<BR>
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Evening performances:<BR>
Thursday, Friday & Saturday, February 2, 3, & 4 at 7:30 PM<BR>
Thursday, Friday & Saturday, February 9, 10, & 11 at 7:30 PM<BR>
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Matinee:<BR>
Saturday, February 11 at 2:00 PM<BR>
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Directed by Pam Palmer<BR>
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<U>CAST<BR>
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Jonathan - Donal Wilkinson<BR>
Nick - Peter Aylward<BR>
Patricia - Sally Eames-Harlan<BR>
Grete - Anna Cottle<BR>
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<B>Tickets available at BookPeople of Moscow </B>(521 S. Main St.)<BR>
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$15 for Adults, $10 for Seniors, $5 for Students<BR>
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Tickets also available an hour before each performance at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre box office. <BR>
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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"<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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<I>Sight Unseen </I>contains language that may offend some audience members.<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>Paradise Now<BR>
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Directed by Hany Abu-Assad; written (in Arabic and Hebrew, with English subtitles) by Mr. Abu-Assad and Bero Beyer<BR>
Rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It has strong language and graphic talk about suicide and murder. <BR>
Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Sean Axmaker writing for the Seattle <BR>
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Hany Abu-Assad's "Paradise Now" follows the last days of two young Palestinian friends from the West Bank chosen for a suicide bombing mission in Tel Aviv. It's a volatile subject and Abu-Assad's thoughtful thriller stokes the debate.<BR>
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Said (Kais Nashef), the centered, easygoing mechanic, and his short-fused childhood buddy Khaled (Ali Suliman), are separated when they discover Israeli police waiting for them before the mission has even begun. While Khaled scrambles to find his friend (the group assumes the missing Said is an informant), Said finds himself on an odyssey, seeing his West Bank village though fresh eyes.<BR>
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Abu-Assad isn't above provocation (the ritual cleansing of the men ends in a scene designed to evoke Leonardo Da Vinci's "The Last Supper"), but his concern is exploring the conditions and the attitudes that transform young men into terrorists. Suha (Lubna Azabal), a European-raised Arab woman who has brought her hope and idealism back to the West Bank, takes the opposing argument in the more polemic scenes of the film. <BR>
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The real story is glimpsed in the poverty, the oppression and the culture around them. Videos of martyrs and collaborators are hot commodities among the young, yet the community elders reject violent resistance. They've seen how it only perpetuates the cycle, breeding a new generation of angry young men driven by rage, righteous indignation and a radical reading of the Quran, less interested in justice than retribution.<BR>
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It's an explosive topic and Abu-Assad walks a fine line through a minefield of issues, all of them explored with intelligence and integrity. He gives a voice to every argument (Said provides a chillingly articulate justification for his decision) and a dignity to all of his characters. That's what gives the film its tragic dimension. The cycle continues.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Stephen Holden writing for the New York Times<BR>
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"And what happens next?" a young Palestinian terrorist asks after receiving his instructions for carrying out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. <BR>
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"You will be met by two angels," comes the offhand, none too convincing reply in "Paradise Now," a taut, ingeniously calculated thriller that fixates on the flashpoint where psychology and politics ignite in self-destructive martyrdom. <BR>
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Said (Kais Nashef) and Khaled (Ali Suliman), best friends from childhood, belong to a terrorist cell in Nablus on the West Bank that is about to undertake its first suicide mission in two years. The film, directed by Hany Abu-Assad, an Israeli-born Palestinian, from a screenplay he wrote with Bero Beyer, the film's Dutch producer, follows them over the two days leading up to the climactic deed. Beginning shortly before they are tapped by an unidentified Palestinian organization to carry out the mission, the movie culminates less than 48 hours later in a denouement whose outcome remains uncertain until the last second. <BR>
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Along the way, "Paradise Now" sustains a mood of breathless suspense. Politics aside, the movie is a superior thriller whose shrewdly inserted plot twists and emotional wrinkles are calculated to put your heart in your throat and keep it there. <BR>
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The movie carries off two tricky balancing acts. One is to give the story a political context without bogging it down in essayistic debate and laborious historical background. The other is to maintain a balanced political perspective given the one-sided views of these all-too-human terrorists. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Ruthe Stein writing for the San Francisco Chronicle<BR>
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What sort of person would strap on explosives, conceal them under his jacket and catch a bus in the fervent hope of killing everyone onboard, including himself? "Paradise Now," a compelling, tightly made political thriller set in the West Bank, attempts an answer by turning the camera on two Palestinian suicide bombers during what they assume to be their final 48 hours. <BR>
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The easy approach would be to present them as the embodiment of evil. Instead the film, which unfortunately continues to be timely, takes the riskier and more controversial course of attempting to humanize the pair by giving them sad histories of growing up rootless. <BR>
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The details of their transformation into human time bombs have an almost documentary feel, the result of extensive research that went into the screenplay. Hany Abu-Assad, the gifted director and co-writer (with Bero Beyer), read Israeli official reports and transcripts of interrogations with failed suicide bombers and also interviewed family and friends of those who died. <BR>
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The film captures the bleakness of the West Bank and, more powerfully, shows us lives so grim that the thought of paradise now seems enticing. <BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart<BR>
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