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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre...<BR>
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</B><I>Kenworthy Film Society</I> presents<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Best of Youth, part 1 (R)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Sunday, April 2<BR>
3:10 & 7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5/adult<BR>
<B>(See Review below)<BR>
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University of Idaho presents<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>American Indian Film Festival<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>March 29 - April 1<BR>
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MOSCOW, Idaho “American Indian Activism and Leadership” is the theme of this year’s American Indian Film Festival hosted by the University of Idaho. <BR>
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The films selected for this year’s festival bring to light national and local issues and concerns, including dam removal, young tribe members struggle with pop-culture and American Indian leadership representation. <BR>
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The four day festival begins March 29 with ceremonial opening with remarks by Rebecca Miles, a member of the Nez Perce Tribe, and the first female elected chairman in the tribe’s history, and ends April 1 with a presentation by John Trudell, American Indian activist and actor. <BR>
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<B>The free films, partially funded by the Idaho Humanities Council, will be shown at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre at 7 p.m. each day, with panel discussions following the screening. <BR>
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The following is the film schedule with brief descriptions: <BR>
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<B><U>Wednesday March 29<BR>
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</B>Film: <FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5">“Thunderbird Woman-Winona LaDuke”<BR>
</FONT></FONT> Filmed on the White Earth Reservation: A story of Winona LaDuke Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), a leading figure in the struggle for American Indian land rights and sovereignty, vice-presidential candidate, novelist, environmentalist, anti-nuclear activist and mother.<BR>
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Panel: American Indian women leaders and activists, including Rebecca Miles. <BR>
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<B><U>Thursday March 30<BR>
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</B>Film: <FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5">“Doing it?”<BR>
</FONT></FONT> An abstinence-education documentary. Three Nez Perce high school students are influenced by the images and messages they see on television and want to find out if everyone is “doing it”. Filmed in Lapwai in March 2005, it was produced by Nez Perce Tribe Students for Success Program.<BR>
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Film: <FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5">“Surviving Lewis and Clark: The Nimiipuu Story”<BR>
</FONT></FONT> This documentary focuses on the contributions of the Nez Perce people to the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Highlights the major events that have contributed to some of the social and economic difficulties in today’s Nez Perce homeland.<BR>
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Panel: Dialogue with filmmakers and actors<BR>
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<B><U>Friday March 31<BR>
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</B>Film: <FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5">“Unconquering the Last Frontier”<BR>
</FONT></FONT> This documentary chronicles the Elwha Klallam Tribe’s struggle to survive in the midst of hydroelectric development in Washington. <BR>
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Film: <FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5">“The Snowball effect”<BR>
</FONT></FONT> Film explores the controversy surrounding the recently proposed ski resort expansion and snowmaking with wastewater on the San Francisco Peaks. American Indian tribal officials, spiritual leaders, Forest Service officials and concerned citizens discuss the issues of economic misconceptions, threats to the environment, global warming, sacred lands protection and public health concerns associated with groundbreaking studies on wastewater. <BR>
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Panel: Native Americans and non-Native Americans working with treaty rights, salmon preservation, sacred land, economic development and private property right issues.<BR>
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<B><U>Saturday April 1</U> <BR>
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</B>5 p.m. - 8 p.m. UI Native American Student Association will be selling Indian tacos outside the Kenworthy. <BR>
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Film: <FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5">“Trudell - The Movie”<BR>
</FONT></FONT> A documentary about American Indian activist John Trudell, a poet, singer and powerful voice of the human spirit. His work began as an activist for American Indian rights and freedoms and was the national spokesperson during the Indians of All Tribes Occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969. He assisted in the formation of American Indian Movement (AIM) in the ‘70s and has appeared in several movies, including “Incident at Oglala,” “Thunderheart,” “On Deadly Ground” and “Smoke Signals.” <BR>
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Presentation / Question and answer: with John Trudell.<BR>
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Contacts: Katie Dahlinger, UI Communications and Marketing, (208) 885-7251, <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><I><U>kdahlinger@uidaho.edu<BR>
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<B>Next week at the Kenworthy-<BR>
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<B><I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> </B>presents<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2><I>A Walk in the Woods<BR>
</I></H2></FONT><B>Thursday, Friday & Saturday, April 6, 7 & 8<BR>
7:30 PM<BR>
Saturday, April 8<BR>
2:00 PM<BR>
</B>$15/Adult, $10/Senior, $5/Student<BR>
<U>All seats for opening night only $5 each<BR>
</U>Tickets available at BookPeople of Moscow<BR>
<B>(see press release below)<BR>
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<I>Kenworthy Film Society</I> presents<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2>Best of Youth, part 2 (R)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Sunday, April 9<BR>
3:10 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Also in April at the Kenworthy-<BR>
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<B><I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> </B>presents<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2><I>Collected Stories<BR>
</I></H2></FONT><B>Thursday, Friday & Saturday, April 13, 14, & 15<BR>
7:30 PM<BR>
Saturday, April 15<BR>
2:00 PM<BR>
</B>$15/Adult, $10/Senior, $5/Student<BR>
<U>All seats for opening night only $5 each<BR>
</U>Tickets available at BookPeople of Moscow<BR>
<B>(see press release below)<BR>
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<B>Caché (R)<BR>
</B>April 21, 7:00 PM<BR>
April 22 & 23, 4:10 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Why We Fight (PG-13)<BR>
</B>April 28, 7:00 PM<BR>
April 29 & 30, 4:30 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Coming in May:</B> Brokeback Mountain, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, Match Point, Rendezvous Showcase<BR>
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Regular movie prices: $5/adult, $2/child 12 or younger<BR>
KFS series pass prices: $30/10 films, $75/30 films. KFS pass good only for Sunday movies.<BR>
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For more information on movies, events, rental rates, and/or to download a schedule, visit our website at www.kenworthy.org<BR>
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For immediate release:</B> March 28, 2006<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="5">Sirius Idaho Theatre</FONT></FONT></I><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="5"> celebrates Two Seasons<BR>
</FONT></FONT><B>Two Men, Two Women, Two Shows in Two Weeks<BR>
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To celebrate the end of their second season of theatre, <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> is bringing two shows to the stage, a two-man play followed by a two-woman play. The final two shows of their 2005-06 season include <I>A Walk in the Woods</I>, by Lee Blessing and <I>Collected Stories</I> by Donald Margulies. All performances will be at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, Moscow, Idaho.<BR>
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<I>A Walk in the Woods</I>, nominated for both the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize in 1988, takes place in a “pleasant woods on the outskirts of Geneva.” The story follows the differences dividing two arms negotiators, one Soviet and one American. It is a refreshing and humorous look at the frustrations inherent in the negotiating process and allows us to understand the humanity of these wise and decent men. Directed by Luis Guerrero, the cast consists of two men: Andrey Botvinnik, a 57 year old career Soviet diplomat, played by John Dickinson and John Honeyman, a 45 year old American negotiator, played by Gregory Newell Smith. <BR>
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<I>Collected Stories</I>, directed by Forrest Sears, follows the interconnected lives of two women. An accomplished and respected short-story writer and teacher, Ruth Steiner, played by Valerie McIlroy, has carved out a comfortable life for herself in a Greenwich Village apartment she has occupied for decades. Lisa Morrison, a child of suburban privilege, played by Isabella Whitfield, is a callow yet talented graduate student and aspiring writer when she meets Ruth and offers to become her assistant. Over six years, in as many scenes, <I>Collected Stories</I> eavesdrops on Ruth and Lisa as their relationship evolves (from mentor/protégée to loving friends to adversaries) and ultimately disintegrates -- touching on issues of age, artistic license, and betrayal.<BR>
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The two plays will be staged at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre in consecutive weeks. <I>A Walk in the Woods</I> opens Thursday, April 6 at 7: 30 pm, with additional evening performances on April 7 & 8 and a Saturday matinee April 8 at 2:00 pm. <I>Collected Stories</I> opens Thursday, April 13 at 7:30 pm, with additional evening performances on April 14 & 15, and a Saturday matinee April 15 at 2:00 pm. Tickets for the opening night of each play will be only $5 for all seats. For the other performances, ticket prices will be $15 Adults, $10 Seniors, and $5 Students. Tickets are available at BookPeople of Moscow and at the Kenworthy box office an hour before each performance.<BR>
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For more information about the plays or to volunteer with <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I>, contact Pam Palmer, Managing Artistic Director, at 208-596-2270 <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>siriusidahotheatre@gmail.com</U></FONT> or visit the web site of <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.siriusidahotheatre.com/<BR>
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Contact information:<BR>
Sirius Idaho Theatre, P.O. Box 8762, Moscow, ID 83843<BR>
(208) 596-2270<BR>
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This week’s movie review-<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>The Best of Youth<BR>
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Miramax presents a film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana<BR>
Written by Sandro Petragia and Stefano Rulli<BR>
In Italian, with English subtitles<BR>
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<B>Running time: 6 hours, 6 minutes – Presented in 2 Parts<BR>
</B>Rated R (for language and brief nudity)<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Roger Ebert writing for the Chicago Sun-Times<BR>
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Every review of "The Best of Youth" begins with the information that it is six hours long. No good movie is too long, just as no bad movie is short enough. I dropped outside of time and was carried along by the narrative flow; when the film was over, I had no particular desire to leave the theater, and would happily have stayed another three hours. The two-hour limit on most films makes them essentially short stories. "The Best of Youth" is a novel. <BR>
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The film is ambitious. It wants no less than to follow two brothers and the people in their lives from 1963 to 2000, following them from Rome to Norway to Turin to Florence to Palermo and back to Rome again. The lives intersect with the politics and history of Italy during the period: the hippies, the ruinous flood in Florence, the Red Brigades, kidnappings, hard times and layoffs at Fiat, and finally a certain peace for some of the characters and for their nation. <BR>
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The brothers are Nicola and Matteo Carati (Luigi Lo Cascio and Alessio Boni). We meet their parents, Angelo (Andrea Tidona) and Adriana (Adriana Asti), their older sister Giovanna (Lidia Vitale), and their kid sister Francesca. And we meet their friends, their lovers, and others who drift through, including a mental patient whose life seems to follow in parallel. <BR>
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As the film opens, Nicola has qualified as a doctor and Matteo is still taking literature classes. Matteo, looking for a job, has been hired as a "logotherapist" -- literally, a person who takes mental patients for walks. One of the women he walks with is Giorgia (Jasmine Trinca), who is beautiful, deeply wounded by electroshock therapy, and afraid of the world. On the spur of the moment, Matteo decides to spring her from the institution and take her along when he and Nicola take a summer trip to the "end of the world," the tip of Norway. <BR>
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Because of the length of the film, the director Marco Tullio Giordana has time and space to work with, and we get a tangible sense of the characters growing older, learning about themselves, dealing with hardship. The journey of Giulia, the radical, is the most difficult and in some ways the most touching. The way Nicola finally finds happiness is particularly satisfying because it takes him so long to realize that it is right there before him for the taking. <BR>
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The film must have deep resonances for Italians, where it was made for national television; because of its politics, sexuality and grown-up characters, it would be impossible on American networks. It is not easy on Italy. As he is graduating from medical school, Nicola is advised by his professor: "Do you have any ambition? Then leave Italy. Go to London, Paris, America, if you can. Italy is a beautiful country. But it is a place to die, run by dinosaurs." Nicola asks the professor why he stays. "I'm one of the dinosaurs." <BR>
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When you hear that this film is six hours long, reflect that it is therefore also six hours deep. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by A. O. Scott writing for the New York Times<BR>
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The Best of Youth" was shown as part of the 2003 New York Film Festival. One subject of "The Best of Youth," is the transformation of Italy into a modern consumer society. In the montage of newspaper images that introduces Part 1, the major symbol of this change is television, and one of the first things we see is a boxy old set being hauled up the stairs of a Rome apartment building. <BR>
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This is only fitting, since "The Best of Youth" was originally made as a mini-series for Italian television and was broadcast in several other European countries after being released theatrically in Italy. Its genesis as a multi-episode small-screen epic accounts for its length, but also makes it easier to take. The director, Marco Tullio Giordana, is motivated by generosity - toward both his characters and his audience - rather than by self-indulgence. <BR>
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The story he has to tell, written by Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli, is full of nuance and complexity, but it is also as accessible and engrossing as a grand 19th-century novel. Yes, "The Best of Youth" is long. But "War and Peace" is long. "Middlemarch" is long. Life is also long, and there is so much life in these six hours - 37 years, to the extent that you can quantify it - that you may marvel at Mr. Giordana's economy. <BR>
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Despite its unblinking attention to the destructive forces at large in Italian society - from the Red Brigades terror and the political scandals of the 1970's to the anti-Mafia campaigns (and further political scandals) of more recent years - the spirit of "The Best of Youth" is quietly, wryly optimistic. Its political point of view turns out to be precisely the tolerant, middle-class humanism, with its belief in human goodness and the possibility of social progress, that the postwar generation claimed to rebel against. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Sean Axmaker writing for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer<BR>
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Originally made as a television miniseries but released directly to theaters, this compelling and compassionate six-hour experience was both a critical and popular hit in Italy. The rich tapestry of history is enlivened with characters that weave in and out of their lives, who touch and transform the brothers as much as the events around them. Giordana's redemptive vision provides a sense of discovery and a well of hope in the most devastating of troubles, and beautiful surprises in love, friendship and family.<BR>
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Marco Tullio Giordana drifts through 40 years of Italian political and social history via the experiences of brothers Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio) and Matteo (Alessio Boni).<BR>
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Idealistic university students in 1966 Italy, their lives undergo a seismic shock when their rescue of a tormented young woman from a barbaric asylum collapses. While Nicola undergoes an odyssey of self discovery and dedicates himself to reform, Matteo shuts himself off emotionally from the world and retreats into the structure and regimented authority of the army. Nicola's professional life, which occasionally drifts into the foreground of the story, involves him in efforts to improve the treatment of the mentally ill, and this rather specialized cause is the clearest statement of the film's central idea, which is that a commitment to human dignity is ideology enough. Maya Sansa joins the cast as a sensitive photographer who touches the lives of both brothers. <BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter A. Haggart<BR>
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