Show Times: Monday, June 29 - Thursday, July 9, 2009
Every Little Step
July 3-9.........................4:30
Public Enemies
July 3-9.........................4:00, 7:00
Treeless Mountain
July 3-9.........................7:20
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
Every Little Step
Directed by James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo
Rated PG-13; 93 min.
View the Trailer: www.sonyclassics.com
 Chorus Line, as everyone knows, is the sublime Broadway musical (first staged in 1975) in which a bunch of eager, nervous, I'll-die-if-I-don't-get-it-dancers audition for a Broadway musical. So what does that make Every Little Step? It's a documentary, pegged to the 2006 revival of A Chorus Line, that asks you to share the joy, vulnerability, heartbreak, and love of a bunch of dancers trying out for a musical about a bunch of dancers trying out for a musical. It is, in other words, a movie as layered and enthralling as its subject.
The filmmakers, James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo, keep cutting to an audiotape of the interview that director-choreographer Michael Bennett held at midnight on Jan. 26, 1974, when he gathered a handful of dancers to tell their stories and confess their dreams. Every Little Step salutes Bennett's creation of the first reality musical by turning the run-up to the 2006 revival into a fierce backstage reality pageant of its own. And the film offers a tantalizing glimpse into Bennett, who celebrated dancers but also used them to de-exoticize what it means to be gay. It's partly because of A Chorus Line that we now live in a different world. (Excerpted from Owen Gleiberman's Entertainment Weekly review)
"Thrilling, moving and emotionally rich." -Entertainment Weekly
"A superb chronicle of the struggles and the giddy triumphs of the theater." -New York Post
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Public Enemies
Directed by Michael Mann
Cast: Johnny Depp, Marion Cotillard, Christian Bale, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff
Rated R for violence and some language. 143 min.
 Infamous bank robber John Dillinger was at the movies on the steamy July night in 1934 when FBI agents gunned him down outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre. In Michael Mann's jolting Public Enemies, sparked by a ball-of-fire Johnny Depp as Dillinger, America's most wanted man sits in a crowded theater watching Manhattan Melodrama, starring Clark Gable as a racketeer facing the electric chair with attitude -- "Die like you live: all of a sudden." Depp cannily plays the moment as an acknowledgment of how Hollywood romanticizes gangster life in contrast to the bruising reality. The gulf between the two -- violence giving way to existential angst -- is what gives Public Enemies its explosive kick.
Mann, a past master of fictional crime stories (Heat, Manhunter, Collateral, Thief), serves up his first true-life version since 1999's The Insider. Mann shines at revealing the behavior of complex men doing corrupting jobs. Depp, one of the most exciting and original actors this country has ever produced, does the rest. On screen, in Depp's towering performance, Dillinger has blood in his veins, his dreams as vivid as the crimes that debased them. Public Enemies comes at you like Dillinger did: all of a sudden. It's movie dynamite. (Excerpted from Peter Travers' Rolling Stone review)
"A landmark crime saga. Explosive." -Rolling Stone
"One of the best movies of the year." -Rolling Stone
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Treeless Mountain
Directed by So Yong Kim
Cast: Hee Yeon Kim, Soo Ah Lee, Mi Hyang Kim
Not rated. 89 min. In Korean with English subtitles.
 A 6-year-old girl sits on a bus, staring out the window as it passes unfamiliar landmarks. In the manner of children everywhere, she exhales on the glass, then draws shapes and words with a finger. Among them is the name of the aunt she and her 4-year-old sister are headed to visit, far from their home in Seoul, South Korea; a stranger with whom the girls will be left with, while their mother is away.
Korean/American filmmaker So Yong Kim's lovely drama Treeless Mountain is the story of these two soft-faced little girls: Jim, the elder, and Bin, the younger. And it is the story, in many ways, of the difference between being 6 and being 4. Jin is already accustomed to being responsible, to helping take care of her sister while their single mother is busy. Now, she must take even more responsibility for the more carefree Bin in the face of their aunt's indifference. This child, who seems so mature, misses her mother terribly but does not speak of it; the world weighs heavily on her small shoulders.
So Yong Kim has a real gift for putting children at ease before the camera, and her two very young actresses reward her with performances of heartbreaking realism. And the filmmaker, often putting her camera at child's-eye-view, finds the right visual details for telling a story with few words. At the end, the girls sing about wanting to climb a mountain. They don't realize -- but we do -- that they already have. (Excerpted from Moira Macdonald's Seattle Times)
"Life affirming. Beautifully natural performances."
"Lovely. Tremendously affecting performances." -Film Comment
"Poignant. So Yong Kim's lens seems to be absorbing life rather than just recording it." -The New York Times
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