Show Times: Monday, July 26 - Thursday August 5, 2010
Exit Through the Gift Shop
July 26-29..............................4:30
Micmacs
July 26-29..............................7:00
Inception
July 26-29..............................4:00, 7:20
General admission to the Rose is $9, senior citizens (62+) and students (13 to 18) $8, children (12 & under) $7. The matinees are $1 less.
Micmacs
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cast: Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Omar Sy, Dominique Pinon, Julie Ferrier, Nicolas Marié
Rated R sex and violence. In French with English subtitles. 104 min.
View the Trailer:www.sonyclassics.com
 Micmacs is a whimsical whirligig of a movie filled with salvaged metal and salvaged lives, where a bullet to the brain brings insight and a bunch of clever misfits brings a couple of weapons-making giants to their knees. What fun.
This good-versus-evil fable soon reveals itself to be a wide-ranging philosophical playground for French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet as he settles into a Paris junkyard where discards, human and otherwise, find a second life.
Bazil is our hero. Orphaned when his father was blown to bits by a land mine, he's grown up to be a video store clerk content to pass the time watching classic films. A stray bullet from a drive-by changes everything. Both Bazil and his world are infused with a surreal circus quality to start with, but that sensibility grows sharper when he's taken in by a collection of freaks who make their home in the scrapyard. In Paris, even the dumps are beautiful.
As much sheer pleasure as there is to this comeuppance story, the look of the film pulls more than its weight in layering in context. But whatever the influences, Micmacs is ultimately shaped by Jeunet's unique creative vision -- a fun house of mirrors that is lovely to get lost in. (Excerpted from the Los Angeles Times review by Betsy Sharkey)
"Awesome! An exploded grandfather clock of a movie." -The Village Voice
"Hugely original. Delivers an audio-visual picnic of surprises that makes craziness contagious." -New York Observer
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Exit Through the Gift Shop
Directed by Banksy
Cast: Thierry Guetta
Rated R for language. 86 min.
View the Trailer:www.exitthroughthegiftshop.com
 It would be hard to imagine a documentary more prankishly enjoyable than Exit Through the Gift Shop. On the simplest level, it's the story of a man with an obsession. His name is Thierry Guetta, and in the late 1990s he's the French-born owner of an L.A. boutique who gets fixated on the new global tidal wave of anonymous street art. Through Guetta, we meet folks like Shepard Fairey, who later became famous for his Obama poster. Guetta follows Fairey and others on their midnight guerrilla-art missions, videotaping their exploits for a doc he plans to make.
The holy grail of Guetta's quest is to meet the super secretive London graffiti artist-turned-high-end- gallery star who goes by the handle Banksy. When he does, the street-art legend proves even more devious than he imagined. Instead of allowing a film to be made of him, Banksy decides to make his own movie about Thierry Guetta. And Exit Through the Gift Shop is that film. Yet just as Banksy is turning the tables on Guetta, Guetta turns the tables on him (and us) by becoming a street artist himself -- and by mounting an L.A. exhibition that's either the crassest art show ever assembled or the most deceptively ingenious. Exit Through the Gift Shop is an exhilarating hall-of-mirrors look at what happens when global art fame turns anonymous, artists become objects, fans turn into artists, and the whole what's-sincere-and-what's-a-sham spectacle is more fun than art was ever supposed to be. (Excerpted from Owen Gleiberman's Entertainment Weekly review)
"Acidly funny. Explosively succinct. There is no questioning Banksy's art." -New York Magazine
"Joyous! One of the most inspired, adroit, hilarious debut features ever." -Film Comment
"Funny as hell." -The New Yorker
"Exhilarating and inventive." -Time Out New York
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Inception
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Ken Watanbe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and action throughout. 150 min.
View the Trailer: www.inceptionmovie.com
 Inception, written and directed by the visionary Christopher Nolan, will be called many things, starting with James Bond Meets "The Matrix." You can feel the vibe of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner in it, and Nolan's own Memento and The Dark Knight. But Inception glows with a blue-flame intensity all its own. Nolan creates a dream world that he wants us to fill with our own secrets.
How to cope with a grand-scale sci-fi epic, shot in six countries, that turns your head around six ways from Sunday? Dive in and drive yourself crazy, that's how.
That's what happens to Dom Cobb, a professional invader of the subconscious, played with action-star ferocity and emotional heft by Leonardo DiCaprio. Did you know that getting killed in a dream is the best way to wake up? Ellen Page's Ariadne is the newcomer on the team, a student who learns as she goes, just like the audience. "Whose subconscious are we in now, exactly?" she asks at one point. You may feel her pain.
I'll say no more, except that Inception rewards the attention it demands. The visuals are astounding. Just as impressive is the way Nolan stays true to the rules of his own brain-teasing game. The result is a knockout. But be warned: Inception dreams big. How cool is that? (Excerpted from the Rolling Stone review by Peter Travers).
"The mind-blowing movie event of the summer arrives." -Rolling Stone
"'Inception' dreams big... it's James Bond meets 'The Matrix.'" -Rolling Stone
"Breathless, exhilarating and thoroughly mind- blowing." -Playboy
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