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The Victoria Film Festival: Sidney Series Film Pass
available! $99.00 Pass will grant access to all Festival films playing in
Sidney. Sidney Fesitval series pass can be
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OPEN CINEMA and FOCUS
Magazine present ELECTION DAY IN CANADA:
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The Victoria
Film
Festival is coming back to Sidney! Feb 7th
– 14th, 2015! to view Festival
films playing in Sidney Great Films
and great volunteers required! |
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Office Line: 250-655-3384 9842 Third
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Showtimes NIGHTLY @ 7:00 FRI SAT @ 9:15 SAT SUN TUE WED
THU @ 2:00 |
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PADDINGTON Paddington is a young
bear who travels to the city in search of a home. Finding himself lost and
alone, he begins to realize that city life is not all he had imagined - until
he meets the kindly Brown family who read the label around his neck that says
"Please look after this bear. Thank you," and offer him a temporary
haven. It looks as though his luck has changed until this rarest of bears
catches the eye of a museum taxidermist.
Wildly entertaining, genuinely funny and endearingly heartfelt, Paddington
is a family-friendly adventure you will fall in love with. Rated G 1hr35 |
THE IMITATION GAME Based on the real life
story of legendary mathematician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist Alan
Turing, The Imitation Game portrays the nail-biting race against time
by Turing and his brilliant team at Britain's top-secret Government Code and
Cypher School to break the Nazi Enigma code during WWII. The Imitation Game is a thoroughly
engrossing film that honours the fascinating and
heartbreaking story of Alan Turing.
The film features outstanding performances by Benedict Cumberbatch and
Kiera Knightley. Rated PG (violence) 1hr55 |
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Critics Consensus: Paddington brings
a beloved children's character into the 21st century without sacrificing his
essential charm, delivering a family-friendly adventure as irresistibly
cuddly as its star. 98% tomatometer Average
Rating: 7.9/10 2 |
Critics Consensus: With an outstanding starring
performance from Benedict Cumberbatch illuminating its fact-based story, The
Imitation Game serves as an eminently well-made entry in the "prestige
biopic" genre. 90% tomatometerAverage Rating: 7.7/10
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Individual tickets can be
pirchased online. Limited Tickets will be
available at the Door, so purchashed now! Series Pass can be
purchased at Star Cinema. |
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National Gallery Saturday • Feb 7 3:00pm |
Attention art lovers! If you love wandering galleries around the world,
you will enjoy this film, based in London’s National Gallery. With the
gallery’s collection of 2400 paintings spanning seven centuries, this film
focuses on different aspects of the gallery, from restoring paintings to
educational programs and the artists, scholars and curators that give the
gallery its global reputation. Recently awarded the Venice Golden Leaf for
Lifetime Achievement, Wiseman's work treats us to a view of who we are and
who we have been. |
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Boychoir Saturday • Feb 7 7:00pm |
After his single mother is killed in a car crash, eleven-year-old Stet
is uprooted from his small Texas home- town to an East Coast musical boarding
school. Mourning, angry and out of his comfort zone, he finds himself in a
conflict with the Choirmaster (Dustin Hoffman), who hears potential in Stet’s
voice. This feel- good film has an impressive cast including Kathy Bates,
Eddie Izzard, Josh Lucas and Debra Winger. |
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Final Recipe Sunday • Feb 8 3:00pm |
Veteran Michelle Yeoh and newcomer Henry Lau both create fresh
characters in a film where not just the food but also the people combine to
make for memorable experiences. Final Recipe follows Mark (Henry Lau), a
young man with a talent for cooking who, despite his ability, knows his
grandfather insists that he take up a more stable profession. Things take a
turn for the worse when Mark’s grandfather falls ill and the restaurant he
built faces foreclosure. Bent on saving the restaurant, Mark enters a
national cooking competition in Shanghai. |
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The Fifty Year Argument Sunday • Feb 8 7:00pm |
At a time when western culture is questioning the importance of the considered
word, along comes The Fifty Year Argument, a documentary co-directed by
Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi that profiles the dynamic history of The
New York Review of Books in a surprisingly accessible way. The fall of communism, the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement and,
of course, the books that shaped, and were shaped by, the changing cultural
landscape of the time. This is a documentary of ideas and the personalities
who wrote about them. The film recounts memorable pieces including one by
Gore Vidal that led to a feud with Norman Mailer, Joan Didion’s questioning
of the guilt of young black men accused of raping a jogger in Central Park,
and many more. |
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Granny Power Monday • Feb 9 7:00pm |
"Well behaved women seldom make history." Granny Power is a
documentary about a unique activist movement – the Raging Grannies. What
started, 25 years ago, as a satirical protest group in Victoria, B.C., has
since grown into an international movement. Filmed over 10 years, Montréal
director Magnus Isacsson, who passed away before seeing his film finished,
follows several passionate, activist grandmothers who use the principles of
street theatre, guerilla action, and satire - as well as flowery hats - to
demonstrate for social justice and the environment. This is a documentary
about an important, growing and radically under-represented segment of the
population, though the humour and audacity of the Raging Grannies make this
film ‘serious fun’. |
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Samba & Jazz Tuesday • Feb 10 7:00pm |
A warm musical beat to heat up February’s chilly weather. Samba &
Jazz compares the samba of Rio de Janeiro to the jazz of New Orleans. Despite
being continents apart and stylistically distinct, Samba & Jazz uncovers
surprising harmonies between the two iconic music capitals and the sounds
that defined them. With a cinema verité aesthetic, director Jefferson Mello
takes the viewer into the heart of the authentic street culture of each
musical metropolis, teasing out the rhymes and reasons why samba and jazz
jive so well together. |
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Phoenix Wed • Feb 11 7:00pm |
Nelly Lenz is a badly disfigured, concentration camp survivor, who has
been collected by Lene, from the Jewish Agency, and brought back to Berlin
for her reconstructive facial surgery. Once her face heals, her main focus is
to find her husband, Johnny, even though he believes her to be dead. Once she
finds him, he doesn’t recognize her but sees similarities and asks her to “be
Nelly” so he can claim her inheritance from the govern- ment. A whole new
meaning of doppelgänger is born... |
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Seventy-One Years Thursday • Feb 12 7:00pm |
In October 2013, three forestry engineers outside Port Renfrew stumbled
upon the wreckage of a 1940's war-time aircraft, sparking an investigation
into a mystery with a wing span of 71 years. On a routine navigational
exercise out of what is now the Victoria Airport, an Avro Anson L 7056
aircraft went missing and was presumed lost at sea, along with its four-man
crew. |
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All the Time in the World Friday • Feb 13 7:00pm |
For every Canadian curious about “going North”, Suzanne Crocker’s
intimate documentary about a family going off the grid perfectly illustrates
how disconnecting from today's technology driven society can reconnect us
with our real priorities. Director Suzanne Crocker, her husband Gerard, and
their three children leave their Dawson City, Yukon life behind and live in a
cabin in the wild for nine months. Without electricity, plumbing, or even
clocks, Suzanne and her family rely on the setting of the sun and the
changing of the seasons to tell the
passage of time. "Inside is our storage space, outside is our
home." Living a life outside of the hustle and hurry of modernity can
offer a different perspective on the things that matter most. |
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Song of the Sea Saturday • Feb 14 3:00pm |
A dazzling and wonderful animated adventure for the whole family from the
Academy-nominated director of The Secret of Kells! Young Ben and his sister
Saoirse lived alone in a lighthouse by the sea with their widow father. One
fateful day though, they discover their moth- er's special shell-flute. Its
enchanting melodies unlock deep memo- ries within them that will let them
bring their mother's stories back to life once again. That is, if they can
escape their overprotective grandmother. |
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Clouds of Sils Maria Saturday • Feb 14 7:00pm |
A rich study of an actors’ insecurity is central in this tantalizing
psychological drama. Mature actress, Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche), engages
with her personal assistant, Valentine (Kristen Stewart), on everything from
men troubles to career decisions. The two are on their way to collect a
lifetime achievement award on behalf of the director who launched Maria’s
career. En route, they learn that he has passed away. |
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The Metropolitan Opera2014 – 2015 Season |
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2014-2015 Met Opera Brochure
Tickets on sale now! |
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Offenbach’s
Les Contes d’Hoffmann
German
w/English subtitles Sat, Jan 31, 2015 @10:00 Running
Time: 3hrs45 |
Synopsis: The magnetic tenor
Vittorio Grigolo takes on the tortured poet and
unwitting adventurer of the title of Offenbach’s operatic masterpiece, in the
Met’s wild, kaleidoscopic production. Soprano Hibla
Gerzmava faces the operatic hurdle of singing all
three heroines—each an idealized embodiment of some aspect of Hoffmann’s
desire. Thomas Hampson portrays the shadowy Four Villains, and Yves Abel
conducts the sparkling score. Conductor: James Levine/Yves Abel |
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Double Bill Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta
Russian
w/English subtitles
Bartok’s Bluebeard’s
Castle
Hungarian
w/English subtitles
Running
Time: 3hrs40 |
Synopsis: On the heels of her
triumphant Met performances in Eugene Onegin,
soprano Anna Netrebko takes on another Tchaikovsky
heroine in the first opera of this intriguing double bill, consisting of an
enchanting fairy tale (Iolanta)followed
by an erotic psychological thriller (Duke Bluebeard’s Castle).
Netrebko stars as the beautiful blind
girl who experiences love for the first time in Iolanta,
while Nadja Michael is the unwitting victim of the
diabolical Bluebeard, played by Mikhail Petrenko.
Both operas are directed by Mariusz Trelinski, who was inspired by classic noir films of the
1940s. Iolanta also stars Piotr Beczala,
and Valery Gergiev conducts both operas. Conductor: Valery Gergiev |
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Rossini’s
La Donna del Lago
Italian
w/English subtitles
Running
Time: 3hrs30 |
Synopsis: Bel canto superstars
Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez
join forces for this Rossini showcase of vocal virtuosity, set in the
medieval Scottish highlands and based on a beloved novel by Sir Walter Scott.
DiDonato is the “lady of the lake” of the title,
and Flórez is the king who relentlessly pursues
her, their vocal fireworks embellishing the romantic plot in this Met
premiere production conducted by Michele Mariotti. Conductor: Michele Mariotti |
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Double Bill Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci
Italian
w/English subtitles Mascagni’s Cavalleria
Rusticana
Italian
w/English subtitles
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Synopsis: Opera’s most enduring
tragic double bill returns in an evocative new production from Sir David McVicar, who sets the action across two time periods but
in the same Sicilian village. Marcelo Álvarez rises
to the challenge of playing the dual tenor roles of Turiddu
in Cavalleria Rusticana
and Canio in Pagliacci.
Rae Smith (War Horse) has designed the moodily atmospheric 1900 village
square setting of Cavalleria, which transforms to a
1948 truck stop for the doomed vaudeville troupe of Pagliacci.
Eva-Maria Westbroek (Cav) and Patricia Racette (Pag) sing the unlucky
heroines, and Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi
is on the podium. Conductor: Fabio Luisi |
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