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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>Neil Young: Heart of Gold (PG)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Thursday, Friday & Saturday, May 11, 12 &13<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Sunday, May 14<BR>
4:30 & 7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5/adult, $2/child 12 or younger<BR>
KFS pass accepted for Sunday movies<BR>
<B>(See Review below)<BR>
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<B>Next week at the Kenworthy-<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2>Match Point (R)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Thursday & Friday, May 18 & 19<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Sunday, May 21<BR>
4:10 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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2nd annual<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2>Rendezvous Talent Showcase<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Saturday, May 20<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$10 at the door<BR>
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<U>Rendezvous will highlight 6 bands</U> in a showcase format to be considered as one of the three warm-up bands at the Rendezvous concerts. Bands will be selected by 1) audience vote (vote with your ticket) 2) audience monetary donations (vote with dollars) and 3) by the Rendezvous Board of Directors.?<BR>
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<B>Featured Bands:</B> Eric Anderson, Bare Wires, Full Circle, Beth Pederson, Shook Twins, Steptoe<BR>
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Part fundraiser, and all fun!<BR>
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<B>Also in May at the Kenworthy-<BR>
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<B>Inside Man (R)<BR>
</B>May 25-27, 7:00 PM<BR>
May 28, 4:05 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Coming in June:</B> Boys of Baraka; Children’s Matinee series: Dreamer; Cheaper by the Dozen 2; Wallace & Gromit<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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This week’s review-<BR>
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</B><FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Neil Young: Heart of Gold<BR>
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Directed by Jonathan Demme<BR>
Rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). It's as clean as a whistle.<BR>
Running time: 1 hour, 43 minutes<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Manohla Dargis writing for the New York Times<BR>
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When the curtain opens, Neil Young is standing onstage, his face full of years. Dressed in a gray western suit, with a plainsman's hat and a well-used acoustic guitar, he looks like an old-time cowboy crooner, but somehow scruffier. The hair curling over his collar seems greasy and the way he ducks his head you might think he hadn't spent much time indoors; he probably needs to knock the dust off his boots before he enters the parlor. It's a fanciful fiction, this gent with the hat, the suit and the aw-shucks reserve, and part of the beautiful story Jonathan Demme tells in his concert film "Neil Young: Heart of Gold."<BR>
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Mr. Demme shot the film over the course of two concerts recorded in Nashville's storied Ryman Auditorium, original home of the Grand Ole Opry. The first half of the film includes 9 of the 10 songs from Mr. Young's most recent album, "Prairie Wind" (Mr. Demme saved one song for the DVD); the second features 10 titles from his songbook, a number of which were first recorded in Nashville. Although this part of the film — this set, really — begins with "I Am a Child," which he recorded with his former band Buffalo Springfield, many of the other titles in this section — "Old Man," "Old King" and "The Old Laughing Lady" — suggest that Mr. Young, who turned 60 in November, is in a ruminative state of mind.<BR>
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The film provides no real back story about the production, but in interviews Mr. Young has said that the idea for it arose out of a phone conversation he had with Mr. Demme. The director explained that he had a year off and asked Mr. Young what he was up to. As it happens, the musician had just finished "Prairie Wind," which he had begun recording right after discovering that he had to undergo surgery for a brain aneurysm. He cut some of the songs in Nashville, had the surgery (twice) and then finished the recording.<BR>
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Those who welcome each of his new albums will probably feel as generously disposed toward the film. Like the album, which features some of Mr. Young's memorable colleagues — the steel guitarist Ben Keith, the bass guitarist Rick Rosas and Emmylou Harris, among others — the film has the feel of a family reunion. There are a lot of gray and white hairs amassed on that stage, plenty of wrinkles and jowls too. Working with the cinematographer Ellen Kuras and nine cameras, including one mounted on a Steadicam, Mr. Demme doesn't shy away from the lines and the jowls; he gives them their due. To watch these weathered faces exchanging practiced glances or temporarily alone in a riff is greatly pleasurable, as well as a nice break from pop culture's plastic unreality.<BR>
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The camera tends to move only if Mr. Demme wants us to notice something, like the worn-away varnish on Mr. Young's guitar; both the camera movements and the editing take it nice and easy, like the songs. A shot of the full moon over the Ryman before the concert is especially lovely, not only because it alludes to one of Mr. Young's favorite images ("blue moon sinking," "full moon risin'," "yellow moon," "silver moon," "unfulfilled moon") but also because, I swear, it looks like a beacon.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Joel Selvin writing for the San Francisco Chronicle<BR>
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Facing brain surgery for an aneurism, Neil Young went to Nashville and recorded an album while he waited for his operation the following week. "Prairie Wind," the resulting work, easily ranks among the 10 best albums in the prolific career of the bard of La Honda.<BR>
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Perhaps not surprisingly, mortality looms over songs such as "Painter," "Falling Off the Face of the Earth," "No Wonder." He dedicates "Prairie Wind" to his father, who died shortly before the sessions, and "Here for You" to his young adult daughter.<BR>
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Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme ("The Silence of the Lambs"), who made one of the greatest rock concert movies ever with the Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense," keeps the action focused on the stage of Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, spiritual home of country music where the Grand Ol Opry was broadcast every week for the first 60 years or so.<BR>
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Young is backed in a largely acoustic performance by a large ensemble that, at times, includes a full string section and the Memphis Horns of Stax/Volt soul music fame. Emmylou Harris joins his wife, Pegi Young, on harmony vocals and Young, for his part, plays a guitar that once belonged to Hank Williams.<BR>
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Outside of a couple of yellow painted backdrops on the Ryman stage that give the film a golden glow and a set of cowboy stage outfits made especially for the shoot, "Heart of Gold" is an unvarnished, no-frills concert documentary that captures Young giving the warmhearted songs from the album -- plus a handful of his well-known pieces in the film's second half -- his typically soulful performance.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Sam Adams writing for the Philadelphia City Paper<BR>
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Neil Young's Prairie Wind makes a better movie than it does an album. Holding court at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, former home of the Grand Ole Opry, Young makes his way through all but one of Prairie Wind's 10 songs, a loosely focused suite whose intimations of mortality were prompted by a brain aneurysm. <BR>
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Jonathan Demme, whose music films form a body of work equal to and even surpassing his fiction films, holds tight on Young's deep-lined face, amplifying the sense of solitude even though he's sometimes only one of several dozen musicians on stage. The cutting is languorous, the settings fairly sedate—only a few backdrop changes and lighting effects bridge the gap between years as the movie slides into its second extended-encore half. <BR>
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But it turns out the reaper has always been Young's co-pilot; stretching back as far as "Old Man" and "The Needle and the Damage Done," the run through Young's back catalogue fitfully extends Prairie Wind's focus on the harsh beauty of the natural order.<BR>
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Heart of Gold doesn't feel like a swan song. It's just the latest step in Young's journey, and we're along for the ride.<BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart<BR>
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