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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre...<BR>
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</B><FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Inside Man (R)<BR>
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7:00 PM<BR>
Sunday, May 28<BR>
4:05 & 7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5/adult<BR>
KFS pass accepted for Sunday movies<BR>
<B>(See Review below)<BR>
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Next week at the Kenworthy-<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2>The Boys of Baraka (R)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Thursday, Friday & Saturday, June 1, 2 & 3<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Sunday, June 4<BR>
4:50 & 7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5/adult<BR>
KFS pass accepted for Sunday movies<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5"><B>Take a seat!</B></FONT></FONT> We mean that literally. The Kenworthy is offering you the opportunity to purchase one of a limited number of theater chairs in the main auditorium. Your gift will entitle you to an engraved, brass name plate mounted on the back of the seat of your choice (based upon availability). One individual or business name per seat, please.<BR>
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This naming opportunity, back by popular demand, is available for a donation of $500 per chair. You may purchase a chair in two installments of $250 over two years, or in three installments of $200 over three years.<BR>
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Your gift will assist with the ongoing operation and renovation of the Kenworthy Theater and fulfillment of our mission to be Moscow's premiere, historic, downtown, community performing arts venue and cinematic art house.<BR>
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For information about the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, call Julie Ketchum, Executive Director, at 208-882-4127.<BR>
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Coming in June at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre...<BR>
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<B>The World’s Fastest Indian (PG-13)<BR>
</B>June 8-10, 7:00 PM<BR>
June 11, 4:05 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Dreamer (PG)<BR>
</B>June 14, 1:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Friends With Money (R)<BR>
</B>June 15-17, 7:00 PM<BR>
June 18, 4:45 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (PG)<BR>
</B>June 21, 1:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Thank You For Smoking (R)<BR>
</B>June 22-24, 7:00 PM<BR>
June 25, 4:45 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (G)<BR>
</B>June 28, 1:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Coming in July:</B> Hoot; Nanny McPhee; Ice Age: The Meltdown<BR>
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Regular movie prices: $5/adult, $2/child 12 or younger<BR>
Wednesday matinee prices: $4/adult, $1/child 12 or younger<BR>
KFS series pass prices: $30/10 films, $75/30 films. KFS pass good only for<BR>
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>Inside Man<BR>
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Directed by Spike Lee<BR>
Rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Some gun violence, some sexual innuendo, and a lot of bad, bad words.<BR>
Running time: 2 hours, 8 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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"Inside Man" is a jolt, partly because it comes equipped rather incongruously with the name of Mr. Lee's company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, but mostly because this is the kind of seamless diversion that should be a stock item in Hollywood, but isn't. "Inside Man" works because it takes a familiar setup — in this case, a Wall Street bank heist that mutates into a hostage crisis — and twists it ever so slightly. A particularly solid screenplay helps here, as do stars who can actually act — this film's holy trinity being Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster — along with an excellent supporting cast and the best lineup of pusses and mugs outside "The Sopranos."<BR>
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Here's how it goes down: Mr. Owen stares into the camera and announces that he is about to commit "the perfect bank robbery." Whether his character, Dalton Russell, succeeds is immaterial to how he gets from the first act to the third, which is where Mr. Lee's movie love comes in. This is the least overtly personal of Mr. Lee's films, but it's also his most polished and satisfying work in years, with none of the raggedness that sometimes mars even his best intentions. Taking his cue from the surprising, witty screenplay by the newcomer Russell Gewirtz, the filmmaker frames the heist and subsequent standoff as a really big show — namedropping "Dog Day Afternoon" along the way — then cuts his actors loose and lets them play.<BR>
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As the action pings between Russell working his wicked ways inside the bank; Mr. Washington's smooth operator, a veteran detective named Keith Frazier; and Ms. Foster's Madeline White, a fixer hired by the bank, you might find yourself trying to unknot the increasingly tangled plot. Don't bother. Filled with playful noise and nonsense, clever feints and digressions, "Inside Man" has a story to tell, but its most sustained pleasures come from its performances, especially the three leads. To watch Mr. Washington breeze into a scene smooth as silk, smooth as Bogart and Easy Rawlins combined, or to listen to Mr. Owen murmur sweet nothings into the camera, is to experience the ineffable pleasures that only big-screen stars can provide.<BR>
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Mr. Lee rarely treats his actresses or female characters as well as their male counterparts, but whether by design or neglect, he helps Ms. Foster deliver her wittiest, most relaxed performance in ages. Part Mata Hari, part Ilsa the She Wolf, she stalks the sets in form-fitting suits and nose-bleed heels that show off her spectacular legs wonderfully. In a story dominated by men, in which most of the women are either desexualized or double-D babes, her character presents an amusing fantasy of female power. <BR>
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Like everyone else in the film, Madeline seems interested only in getting hers. Russell wants his ill-gotten gains, Detective Frazier wants his promotion, and the bank bigwig (Christopher Plummer) wants his secrets kept — it's a Hobbesian world, after all. Mr. Lee, meanwhile, most likely wants the respect that he has always been due. Consistently underrated and underappreciated, this filmmaker is an erratic talent, if no more so than many ensconced in Hollywood, and his insistence that race matters has cost him dearly with the mainstream (i.e., white) audience. He's right, of course, that race matters, which is why, in between plot points and star turns, he gently and, at times, rather hilariously, insists on reminding us that it does. He may have sublet this "Spike Lee Joint" to out-of-towners, but it's good to see that he hasn't left the neighborhood.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Ruthe Stein writing for the San Francisco Chronicle<BR>
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Yes, there's a hostage situation in "Inside Man," but thank goodness it doesn't rely on that tired plot device for kicks. The thrills in Spike Lee's singularly savvy thriller are in small unexpected moments -- such as Denzel Washington's detective stopping to put on a rakish straw hat and adjust the brim in a police station mirror before heading off to a bank heist to negotiate a hostage standoff, or a little run of a trumpet as the camera scans an architecturally grand 1920s financial institution from left to right for evidence of the robbers' malfeasance.<BR>
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When Detective Keith Frazier (Washington) finally confronts the main perp, Dalton Russell, he warns the bad guy that this isn't going to turn out well and asks if he's seen "Dog Day Afternoon." While both take full advantage of their New York setting -- Lee begins with a virtual tour of the skyline shot from odd angles -- "Inside Man" is more like the anti-"Dog Day," a film in which the crooks outthink the cops on every move.<BR>
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Russell Gewirtz's smart script, amazingly the first he's written, outthinks the audience as well. Gewirtz takes the conventional format of a heist flick and does something completely unorthodox with it. Not until an ending I defy anyone to predict does it even become clear what the Dalton gang came to steal.<BR>
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As hostages are slowly released, Detective Frazier considers the possibility they could be accomplices while grilling them. Because they're a mix of races, this allows for a little lesson on racism in America. It wouldn't be a Spike Lee movie without some lecturing, but at least it's done here with humor. When one hostage, who proudly identifies himself as a Sikh, complains about being stopped at airports for so-called random searches, Frazier counters with, "Yeah, but you can always get a cab."<BR>
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The interrogation scenes are shot in sepia tones and focus on close-ups of Washington, who's ready for them. Maybe because this is his fourth collaboration with Lee, Washington seems completely at ease in front of the camera. His dazzling smile and way of sauntering -- he moves with more grace than any actor around -- are in full evidence. Best of all, he's been given a girlfriend he gets to talk dirty to, exhibiting a sexual side rarely seen on screen.<BR>
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As much as anything, "Inside Man" is a treatise on power. The banker has it and uses it to intimidate White, who, in turn, attempts to let Frazier know she's on top. But, as the movie cleverly shows, you don't need a title in front of your name or a load of money to attain power. All you need is something that someone else wants. When the bank is bugged and the robbers are heard speaking Albanian, the police are in desperate need of a translator. The former wife of a bystander is recruited. She comes in carrying a bagful of parking tickets that she expects to be fixed and immediately lights up a cigarette. Told there's no smoking, she just laughs.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Todd McCarthy writing for Variety Magazine<BR>
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A thriller that aims to be different, "Inside Man" stirs some very tasty flavors into its familiar bank robbery/hostage crisis plot, which helps conceal the modest portion of the central ingredient, suspense. A flashy cast, clever script and vibrant showcasing of New York City as the ultimate melting pot are strong plusses for Spike Lee's most mainstream studio venture, which Denzel Washington's name should propel to solid returns for Universal.<BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart<BR>
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