Show Times: Tuesday, July 22 - Thursday, July 31

The Dark Knight - showing in the Rose Theatre
July 22............4:00, 7:00
July 23............1:00, 4:00, 7:00
July 24,25.......4:00, 7:00
July 26............1:00, 4:00, 7:00
July 27............1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00
July 28,29.......4:00, 7:00
July 30............1:00, 4:00, 7:00
July 31............4:00, 7:00

Mongol - showing in the Rosebud Cinema
July 22............7:20
July 23............1:20, 7:20
July 24,25........7:20
July 26............1:20, 7:20
July 27............1:20, 7:20, 9:50
July 28,29........7:20
July 30............1:20, 7:20
July 31............7:20

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl - showing in the Rosebud Cinema
July 22-31........4:30

General Admission: $8 - Seniors: $7 (62 and over) and Students (middle & high school with ASB card or student ID) - Children: $6 (12 and under) - Matinees: $1 less

The Dark Knight
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Aaron Eckhart
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and some menace
View the Trailer: www.thedarkknightmovie.com

Heads up: A thunderbolt is about to rip into the blanket of bland we call summer movies. The Dark Knight, director Christopher Nolan's stunner of a follow-up to 2005's Batman Begins, is a potent provocation decked-out as a comic book movie. Feverish action? Check. Dazzling spectacle? Check. Devilish fun? Check. But Nolan is just warming up. There's something raw and elemental at work in this artfully imagined universe. Striking out from his Batman origin story, Nolan cuts through to a deeper dimension. How can a conflicted guy in a bat suit and a villain with a cracked, painted-on clown smile speak to the essentials of the human condition? Just hang on for a shock to the system.

Everything gleams like sin in Gotham City, and the bad guys seem jazzed by their evildoing. But it's what's going on inside the Bathead that pulls us in. Bale is electrifying as a fallibly human crusader at war with his own conscience.

I can only speak superlatives of Ledger, who is mad-crazy-blazing brilliant as the Joker. No plastic mask for Ledger; his face is cracked with moldy makeup that highlights the red scar of a grin, the grungy hair and the yellowing teeth of a hound fresh out of hell. The Joker represents the last completed role for Ledger, who died in January at 28 before finishing Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. It's typical of Ledger's total commitment to films as diverse as Brokeback Mountain and I'm Not There that he does nothing out of vanity or the need to be liked.

Gary Oldman is so skilled that he makes virtue exciting as Jim Gordon, the ultimate good cop and as such a prime target for the Joker. Eckhart earns major props for scarily and movingly portraying the DA's transformation into the dreaded Harvey Two-Face.

No fair giving away the mysteries of The Dark Knight. It's enough to marvel at the way Nolan - a world-class filmmaker, be it Memento, Insomnia or The Prestige - brings pop escapism whisper-close to enduring art. The haunting and visionary Dark Knight soars on the wings of untamed imagination. It's full of surprises you don't see coming. And just try to get it out of your dreams. (Excerpted from the Rolling Stone review by Peter Travers)

"Prepare to Be Wowed"-Rolling Stone

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Mongol
Directed by: Sergei Bodrov
Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Khulan Chuluun, Odnyam Odsuren, Bayartseteg Erdenebat
Rated R for sequences of bloody warfare. In Mongolian with English subtitles. 124 min.
View the Trailer: www.mongolmovie.com

When a film called Mongol takes as its story the formative years of Genghis Khan, a conqueror who eventually controlled a fifth of the Earth, you know what you'll be getting. But with this film you'll be getting that and more.

But it wasn't the carnage that earned this project, made with the stately unhurried pace of Old Hollywood, one of the five foreign-language Oscar nominations earlier this year. It was its epic imagery and the unexpectedly humanistic attitudes, at least as far as this film is concerned, of its protagonist.

After a brief prelude set in the year 1192, which shows Temudgin (Khan) inexplicably imprisoned in an Asian border town, Mongol heads to the past for an extended flashback starting 20 years earlier, when the 9-year-old Temudgin, in the company of his tribal leader father, is off looking for a young girl to be betrothed to. Though his father has specific plans for this match, Temudgin makes a poweful connection with 10-year-old Borte, and ends up outmaneuvering his dad and getting betrothed to the girl he wants. Terrifically played at this young age by Odnyam Odsuren, Temudgin is already a self-possessed little guy with a strong will of his own.

When the Japanese actor Tadanobu Asano takes over as the adult Temudgin and Khulan Chuluun becomes the grown-up Borte, the transition clicks immediately. Physically they're a close match for the child actors, and their passion is as obvious as the obstacles to their union that persist throughout the movie.

Nominated for an Oscar earlier this year (it lost to The Counterfeiters), Mongol has its slow and solemn moments, though it rarely feels too long. Indeed, when the movie ends at the beginning of the 13th century, just as Temudgin is becoming the unifying conqueror Genghis Khan, you may feel that you've witnessed only part of the story. (Excerpted from the Los Angeles Times and The Seattle Times)

"Emotionally intimate yet on a vast scope and epic cinema landscape. Just great."-Ain't It Cool News

"A brawny, old-school epic."-The Village Voice

"Epic scale and stunning visuals that would make Kurosawa and David Lean proud."-Emanuellevy.com

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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
Directed by: Patricia Rozeman
Cast: Abigail Breslin, Chris O'Donnell, Julia Ormond, Joan Cusack, Stanley Tucci, Jane Krakowski
Rated G for general audiences. 100 min.
View the Trailer: www.kitkittredge.com

Plucky, likable and determined to succeed, much like its heroine, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl is a throwback to the kinds of movies they don't make anymore. Anchored by a fine performance by Abigail Breslin, this wholesome, engaging entertainment offers something for viewers ages 7 to 107.

The story unfolds in Cincinnati circa 1934, with 10-year-old Kit about to see the effects of the Great Depression firsthand. Keenly observant (and a remarkably good typist), Kit aspires to be a reporter and visits the Cincinnati Register, hoping to pitch a story on the Chicago World's Fair to hard-nosed, fast-talking editor Mr. Gibson.

The sudden appearance of a foreclosure sign next door, an encounter with a pair of hobos and spirited classroom debates begin to change Kit's sense of her world, often glimpsed safely from the tree-house in her front yard. But nothing prepares her for the moment she discovers her own father has joined the ranks of the newly unemployed. Played without dialogue, it's a beautifully restrained scene of mutual realization and tacit shame.

When Jack heads for Chicago to find work, Margaret takes on boarders to make ends meet. The friendly young hobos, Will and Countee, do repairs on the Kittredge property in exchange for food. For her next pitch to the Register, Kit decides to track Will and Countee for a day and learns about riding the rails, the pictograph-specific hobo language and life inside a hobo jungle.

All of this is both engaging and well elucidated. Beyond that, though, the story feels remarkably current; the era and specifics may be different, but the climate of economic anxiety is something to which contemporary American audiences can easily relate.

A study in tolerance wrapped in a Nancy Drew mystery, Kit Kittredge, with its all-American ideals and old-fashioned rhythms [is a] classy, heart-on-its-sleeve movie packed with laudable life lessons. (Excerpted from Variety and The New York Times)

"Enchanting...spells entertainment with a capital 'E'...one of the summer's most pleasing surprises."-The New York Observer

"Abigail Breslin is spunky perfection."-New York Post

"Some Kind of miracle...intelligent and sincere."-Roger Ebert

"A rare gift for young girls."-The Wall Street Journal

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