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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>Quinceañera (R)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Thursday & Friday, October 19 & 20<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Saturday & Sunday, October 21 & 22<BR>
4:45 & 7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5/adult<BR>
KFS pass good for Sunday movies<BR>
<B>(Review below)<BR>
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<U>October is Scary Movie Month<BR>
</U><B>Late Night Scary Movie<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5">Psycho</FONT></FONT></B><FONT SIZE="5"> (the original)<BR>
</FONT><B>Saturday, October 21<BR>
10:00 PM<BR>
</B>$3/includes popcorn<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><B>Late night. Dark theater. Big screen. Free popcorn.<BR>
And a crowd of friends of the verge of screaming.<BR>
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Check out our web-site for more information, ratings, and reviews. This is<BR>
your chance to see some of your favorite flicks on the BIG screen.<BR>
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Next week at the Kenworthy-<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2>Something Serious (not rated)<BR>
</H2></FONT>A film by Nate Dail<BR>
<B>Tuesday, October 24<BR>
8:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5/general admission<BR>
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<U>Plot Summary<BR>
</U>Chris (played by Peter Beard), a depressed and lonely teenage boy, moves to Moscow with his mother (played by Pam Palmer) from California. He is introduced to the life of the small town through a kind, flirtatious female classmate, (played by Leah Meredith Payton). The story is broken into three acts, depicting the beginning, peak, and collapse of their relationship. The plot centers on Chris, who has built his entire foundation of happiness upon Leah, and his growing dependence on her as the relationship progresses and how he copes with the final breakup.<BR>
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Kyle Miller helped edit and film <I>Something Serious</I>.<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2>A Scanner Darkly (R)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Thursday & Friday, October 26 & 27<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Saturday & Sunday, October 28 & 29<BR>
4:35 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2>Poltergeist<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Saturday, October 28<BR>
10:00 PM<BR>
</B>$3/includes popcorn<BR>
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<B>Coming in November:</B> Half Nelson; Factotum; This Film is Not Yet Rated; <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> presents a staged reading of <I>The Oldest Profession</I> by Paula Vogel<BR>
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Regular movie prices: $5/adult, $3/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, <BR>
visit our website at www.kenworthy.org or call 208-882-4127.<BR>
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This week’s Review-<BR>
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</B><FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Quinceañera<BR>
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Written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland<BR>
Rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It has sexual situations and some strong language.<BR>
Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by James Greenberg writing for the Hollywood Reporter<BR>
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For many people living in Los Angeles, the Latino culture of Echo Park is so foreign to them that it may as well be another planet. Two white male directors, Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, were so taken with the neighborhood where they live that they wanted to change that. The result is " Quinceañera," a loving look at the rituals surrounding a girl's fifteenth birthday. Life-affirming without being saccharine and enormously entertaining, film could be one of those rare specialty pictures that crossover to a mainstream audience.<BR>
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Film is book-ended by two celebrations symbolizing a young girl's arrival at womanhood, and a lot happens in between. The first Quinceañera is for Eileen (Alicia Sixtos), a well-off, popular and pretty Mexican-American girl. It's a joyous occasion, similar to a coming out party or a sweet 16, but with religious as well as secular meaning. Food, dance and family are the main ingredients and things are going splendidly until the arrival of Eileen's black-sheep brother Carlos (Jesse Garcia).<BR>
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"Quinceañera " is indeed a neighborhood affair. Many of the actors are local non-professionals who just happen to have a great presence on camera. Rios, making her feature debut, has a wonderful naturalness, and Garcia, who has appeared in a number of national commercials and TV shows, brings a smoldering intensity to his role.<BR>
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Shot with a HD camera, mostly hand-held, by Eric Steelberg, film has a remarkable vibrancy, as does the infectious traditional and contemporary music supplied by Micko Westmoreland and Victor Bock. "Quinceañera " proves once again that filmmakers can make movies about anything--even things outside their realm of experience--if they do it with respect.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Stephen Holden writing for the Ney York Times<BR>
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“Quinceañera,” a portrait of a Mexican-American family in Los Angeles, is as smart and warmhearted an exploration of an upwardly mobile immigrant culture as American independent cinema has produced. Set in Echo Park, a working-class Latino neighborhood in the early throes of gentrification, it has a wonderfully organic feel for the fluid interaction of cultures and generations in the Southern California melting pot.<BR>
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Without pinning smile buttons onto its characters, the film, a prize winner at this year’s Sundance festival, takes a benign look at the conflicts and crises of three generations of a resilient family whose principal breadwinner, Ernesto (Jesus Castanos-Chima), operates a storefront church. Illegal immigration is not an issue here, and the film optimistically assumes that newcomers to the country carry with them a surge of vitality.<BR>
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The central character, Magdalena (Emily Rios), Ernesto’s ebullient 14-year-old daughter, is anticipating her Quinceañera, the traditional ceremony that celebrates a girl’s official passage into womanhood at 15. The movie opens with this jubilant rite of passage for her cousin Eileen (Alicia Sixtos), who is decked out like a princess. Magdalena has unrealistically high expectations for her own Quinceañera. To her parents’ chagrin, she dreams of being transported to the event with her entourage in a Hummer limousine. In reality, Magdalena will have to wear a hand-me-down: her cousin’s dress, refitted.<BR>
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Magdalena’s future is thrown into disarray when she suddenly finds herself pregnant by her puppyish boyfriend, Herman (J. R. Cruz), and her father throws her out of the house in a rage. (Her pregnancy comes as a complete surprise because it is a rare instance of a girl’s conceiving while remaining technically intact during intense petting.) But when Magdalena insists that she is still a virgin, her father refuses to believe her. Herman’s mother, fiercely ambitious for her college-bound son, won’t listen to her story and keeps him out of her reach.<BR>
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Magdalena goes to live with her great-uncle Tomas (Chalo Gonzalez), who rents the back house on the property of Gary (David W. Ross) and James (Jason L. Wood), a gay white yuppie couple on the forefront of the neighborhood’s imminent real estate boom. Eileen’s brother Carlos (Jesse Garcia) is already staying with Tomas, having been ousted from home by his father, who caught him cruising a gay Web site.<BR>
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The film’s most pointed scenes deal with Carlos’s work problems at a car wash and his emerging sexuality when he becomes the plaything of Tomas’s landlords. Gary and James are a typical upscale gay couple with a semi-open relationship whose rules allow them to seduce Carlos together but forbid their seeing him individually. To them, Carlos with his tattoos and slightly thuggish aura is a sexy trophy to show off to their friends.<BR>
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When Gary, who works in television but is temporarily unemployed, breaks the rules to have afternoon trysts with Carlos, things get messy, and Carlos foolishly begins entertaining fantasies of working in television himself.<BR>
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The exiled children and their caretaker face a final blow when Gary and James sell their cramped little rental, and they have to find new quarters. <BR>
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To its credit, “Quinceañera” doesn’t offer any magic solutions. But it believes in its characters enough to leave you feeling that they will not only survive but also flourish.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Ruthe Stein writing for the San Francisco Chronicle<BR>
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"Quinceañera'' beguilingly begins with an elaborate celebration. From the money lavished on it, it could be a wedding -- except that a single figurine sits atop a tiered cake where a bride and groom would be. The ceremony, from which this warmly appealing film takes its title, marks a Latina's 15th birthday when she ostensibly becomes a woman.<BR>
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This particular quinceañera is in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park. Watching with barely concealed envy is 14-year-old Magdalena (Emily Rios). With her turn to be queen for a day approaching, she worries that her parents never will be able to afford the big blowout her cousin is luxuriating in, including a Hummer limo for a chariot.<BR>
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Just when you think, oh, here's a Cinderella story about a poor relation who miraculously outdoes her rich ones, it veers off in a completely different direction -- actually numerous directions, all of which will entice you to follow. One of the pleasures of "Quinceañera,'' which won the audience and jury prizes at Sundance, is its big reach for such a seemingly little film. Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland collaborated on a nuanced script, which they directed with obvious love. It shows the transformation of Echo Park, an area undergoing gentrification, along with the seismic changes affecting a multigenerational Mexican American family.<BR>
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To begin with, Magdalena discovers she's pregnant when her cousin's pink strapless quinceañera gown, being altered for her, has to be let out at each successive fitting. Rios effectively portrays the teen's shock at the news. Although she and her boyfriend are hot and heavy, Magdalena swears her virginity is intact.<BR>
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Even her adoring mother -- the closeness of Mexican American families is encapsulated in their loving relationship -- can't quite buy her story. As a preacher at a neighborhood storefront church, Magdalena's father is mortified and refuses to talk to her.<BR>
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She takes refuge with her great-great uncle Tomas (veteran character actor Chalo González, who got his start in "The Wild Bunch''), who also has taken in another of Magdalena's cousins, Carlos (Jesse Garcia). His rebellious attitude stems from realizing he's gay and knowing that his traditional family disapprove of his sexual preference. Carlos becomes involved in a three-way sexual relationship with the new owners of the building where his uncle lives. This is one subplot that seems to have been tacked on, and "Quinceañera" could have done without it.<BR>
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González's hypnotic performance radiates the wisdom some people acquire with age. Tomas, who was the 15th of 22 children born in a village in Mexico, is content with his simple life selling champurrado (a thick chocolate brew) on the streets of Echo Park and then retiring to his cottage filled with a lifetime of memories.<BR>
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The neighborhood becomes a character in the movie. Lenses pick up freshly gentrified houses nestled next to their worn neighbors. The area has gained something, but is losing its identity in the process.<BR>
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Glatzer and Westmoreland live in Echo Park, and they have given their film a remarkable sense of place. It's refreshing at a time when you have to sit through the entire credits to tell if a movie was actually shot where it's supposedly set.<BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart<BR>
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