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TONIGHT ONLY! FRIDAY APRIL 3rd |
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THE BIG SHARK
Rated PG-13 (1h 45m)
Horror/Comedy
Big Shark is a 2023 American adventure comedy action film written, directed and produced by Tommy Wiseau, and starring Wiseau, Isaiah LaBorde and Mark Valeriano as three firefighters who must save New Orleans from a killer shark.
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
$20 admission!
Fri 4/3 - 10:00pm
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TWO DAYS ONLY: SAT 4/4 & SUN 4/5 at 3:00pm |
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DAS FILMFEST PRESENTS:
THE SHEPHERD AND THE BEAR
Not Rated (1h 41m)
Documentary
High in the French Pyrenees, the reintroduction of wild bears in a traditional shepherding community provokes deep conflict. An aging shepherd struggles to find a successor as bears prey on his flock, and a teenage boy becomes obsessed with tracking the bear. Directed by Max Keegan.
Review by Sebastian Heiduschke:
SHOOT THE BEAR?
One of the neat things about growing up in Europe was the proximity of countries to each other. When we drove from Germany to Switzerland every winter - a five-hour drive at most - we crossed through Austria in one hour and through Liechtenstein in about ten minutes, before we hit the mountains of Switzerland. In all of my years in the Alps, I never saw a bear.
After watching THE SHEPHERD AND THE BEAR, my curiosity took over. Were there any bears in the Alps? According to Wikipedia, yes, 98 individuals, give or take - ten more than in the French Pyreness, where the film is set. In 2004, the last brown bear, a female named Cannelle, was shot and killed by a hunter. Since then, the European Union started to reintroduce bears back to the region, to the delight of conservationists and adventure tourists, but much to the chagrin of local farmers whose life stock gets killed by the occasional bear attacks. This is the point where British film-maker Max Keagan inserted himself to document a conundrum.
This is Keagan's first feature documentary, and he went all out. He learned French from scratch and spent two years living with the locals, a commitment that clearly paid off. Apparently, he took on such a heavy local accent that Parisians did not understand him, but the local population accepted him and his co-director of photography, Clément Beauvois, on the pastures and in gatherings. As we venture along the rolling green hills, watching seasoned shepherd Yves who spent more than fifty years in the mountains, we form a bond with him, with the animals, and with the nature surrounding him. We take delight in watching a big herd undulating up and down the alpine hills until they reach their grazing spot - only to be yanked from the pastoral idyl when more and more accidents happen.
Whose side should we take? Nature, represented by the bear, or that of the locals who have been grazing their sheep in that region for over 6,000 years, evidenced by cave paintings? Should we believe the researchers, activists, and wildlife experts shown in a documentary about bears that the villagers watch in Yves' mountain cabin? When the program states that bears are "mostly vegetarian," the locals can't stop laughing.
And yet, it becomes clear that they don't hate bears. Their intrinsic knowledge of nature allows them to accept the relationship between predator and prey. They have a hard time understanding why the government would drop off bears as we see in the opening shots of the film in an effort to repopulate the region with an endangered species. And yet, we are not forced to take a side in this discussion. We can enjoy the breathtaking scenery, and we should talk about the pros and cons, knowing that there is no completely right or wrong answer.
I am thankful that the film's working title, SHOOT THE BEAR, was changed into something much more palatable and appropriate. This is the film you want to see on a big screen, and it seems appropriate to end with a quote by Keagan: "We shot this knowing we wanted it to be a cinematic experience. At several points in the edit we took it to a big screen to check that it was working in terms of timing at that scale as well. So we're delighted that people will actually be able to see it like that."
TWO DAYS ONLY!
SAT 4/4 - 3:00
SUN 4/5 - 3:00
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STARTING FRIDAY, APRIL 3rd |
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THE DRAMA
Rated R (1h 45m)
Romance
A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails. Starring Zendaya, Robert Pattinson. Directed by Kristoffer Borgli.
FRI 4/3 - 7:00 / 9:30
SAT 4/4 - 5:00 / 7:30
SUN 4/5 - 5:00 / 7:30
MON 4/6 - 7:30 (matinee pricing)
TUE 4/7 - 5:00 / 7:30
WED 4/8 - 7:30
THUR 4/9 - 7:30
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WTO-99
Not Rated (1h 42m)
Documentary
An immersive archival documentary that reanimates the clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the more than 40,000 people who took to the streets of Seattle to protest the WTO’s impacts on human rights, labor, and the environment. Directed by Ian Bell.
FRI 4/3 - 5:30
SAT 4/4 - 5:30 / 8:00
SUN 4/5 - 5:30 / 8:00
MON 4/6 - 8:00 (matinee pricing)
TUE 4/7 - 7:30
WED 4/8 - 8:00
THUR 4/0 - 8:00
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ONE NIGHT ONLY: TUESDAY, APRIL 7th |
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CMNYK PRESENTS: SCI-FI EXTRAVAGANZA!
THE DEVIL BAT
Not Rated (1h 8m)
Horror/Sci-Fi
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company’s profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. Starring Bela Lugosi. Directed by Jean Yarbrough.
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Fri 4/7 - Preshow: 6:15 / Feature: 7:00
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CRAFTY CLASSICS: WEDNESDAY, 4/8 at 11:00am |
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CRAFTY CLASSICS
Romance / Comedy
Not Rated (equivalent to PG)
Less than two hours.
Join us for a SURPRISE MOVIE from the Golden Age of Hollywood (1930-1959) which will be screened with the lights up! Bring your knitting, crocheting, or other small crafts for a cozy, crafty, classic rom-com. Bottomless tea, coffee, and cocoa with the purchase of a ticket!
WED 4/8 - 11:00am
and each second Wednesday, monthly
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