Show Times: February 1-9, 2012

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.

The Artist
Directed by Michel Hazanavicus
Cast: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, James Cromwell, John Goodman, Penelope Anne Miller
View the Trailer: www.TheArtistMovie.net
Rated PG-13 for a disturbing image and a crude gesture. 100 min.

The Artist is like nothing else you'll see at the cinemas this season: Filmed in soft black-and-white and virtually dialogue-free, it's a love letter to a time long gone. That actor is George Valentin, a silent-movies star with a smile as wide as a Rolls-Royce; the actress is Peppy Miller, a who's-that-girl who dreams of red carpets and flashbulbs; and the time and place is 1927 Hollywood, as silent films are having their last hurrah. Unfolding over several years, The Artist follows the duo as his fortunes fall (with the arrival of the ominous phrase "sound check") and hers rise; it's a gentle, wistful tale, but with an ending so joyous and movie-magical that you just might dance out of the theater. (I did.) (Excerpted from Moira Macdonald's Seattle Times review.)

"An ensemble cast so wonderful that the audience applauds everything...including Uggie, the dog." -The New York Observer

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The Descendants
Directed by Alexander Payne
Cast: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Robert Forster, Judy Greer, Mathew Lillard, Nick Krause, Amara Miller
View the Trailer: www.foxsearchlight.com
Rated R for language, including some sexual references. 115 min.

In Alexander Payne's wonderful new movie The Descendants, George Clooney plays Matt King, a middle-aged father and husband living in Hawaii, a lawyer, a descendant of Hawaiian royalty and a landowner whose family holds title to one of the state's last open spaces. As the movie begins, Matt's wife, Elizabeth lies in a coma after a boating accident, and Matt learns that she had been having an affair. He's stunned, but tries to do the right thing. [This] is one of a hundred such moments that make up a portrait of Matt: flawed but determined, ever-beleaguered, utterly real.

This is Payne's specialty -- darkly comic movies about flawed middle-aged men coping with crisis and taking stock (Election, About Schmidt, Sideways) -- but The Descendants, is arguably his warmest film to date. And it showcases one of Clooney's finest screen performances.

Matt's long been distant from his daughters (Alex, played by Shailene Woodley, is 17; Scottie, played by Amara Miller, is 10.) Woodley, a real find, plays the troubled teen as a flinty, thrill-seeking survivor not at all impressed with her dad. But it's Clooney and Woodley's movie, as they become a team before our eyes. (Excerpted from Moira Macdonald's Seattle Times review.)

"Director Alexander Payne is a master of the human comedy. He walks the high wire between humor and heartbreak with unerring skill." -Rolling Stone

The Enchanted Island
Composers: George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and others.
Devised and written by Jeremy Sams
HD Live - Saturday, January 21, 9:55 A.M.
HD Encore - Wednesday, February 8, 6:30 -(purchase tickets)
Running Time: 3hrs., 40min.

In one extraordinary new work, lovers of Baroque opera have it all: the world's best singers, glorious music of the Baroque masters, and a story drawn from Shakespeare. In The Enchanted Island, the lovers from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream are shipwrecked on his other-worldly island of The Tempest. Inspired by the musical pastiches and masques of the 18th century, the work showcases arias and ensembles by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and others, and a new libretto by Jeremy Sams. Eminent conductor William Christie leads an all-star cast with David Daniels and Joyce DiDonato as formidable foes, Plácido Domingo as Neptume, Danielle de Niese as Ariel, and Luca Pisaroni as Caliban. The dazzling productions is directed and designed by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch.

*Schedule subject to change.

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