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An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Sat, Nov 17, noon
English w/ Spanish subtitles, 100 minutes
Teatro Santa Ana
Biblioteca Pùblica
Insurgentes 25
By donation, limited seating

Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.

If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom—think again. From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, An Inconvenient Truth, which offers a passionate and inspirational look at his fervent crusade to halt global warming’s deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the course of his life to focus on a last-ditch, all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. In this eye-opening and poignant portrait of Gore and his “traveling global warming show,” Gore also proves himself to be one of the most misunderstood characters in modern American public life. Here he is seen as never before in the media—funny, engaging, open and downright on fire about getting the surprisingly stirring truth about what he calls our “planetary emergency” out to ordinary citizens before it’s too late.

With 2005, the worst storm season ever experienced in America just behind us, it seems we may be reaching a tipping point—and Gore pulls no punches in explaining the dire situation.

Excerpted from www.climatecrisis.net 

CINEMATECA

José Luis’ Pick and Tip

The Pick:Calendar Girls

What a delightful and refreshing movie. I will just tell you all the great things about the movie. It is a movie that celebrates friendship. It shows that sometimes friendships are put to the test. It also celebrates love. But most off it celebrates the beauty of all women. These women are neither young nor have the bodies of the super models. But they have been embraced by thousands of fans. One part even shows them hanging out with the heavy metal band Anthrax when they come to Hollywood. The cast is wonderful. This is just such a powerful movie for women. Even though I recommend it for men, too; as I said, this movie celebrates the beauty of all women, so get your friend of spouse and run to the Santa Ana. Don’t miss this excellent comedy. 

The Tip: 

Important: In order to provide the best viewing experience, the show times for some movies may be adjusted to accommodate their length. Be sure to check the schedule carefully. I also want to remind you of our new ticket price: 50 pesos and discount cards buy 12 shows for 450 pesos.

Starting Monday, after 11am, buy your tickets in advance for any movie or show of the week. If you have a discount card, collect your pass to assure you a seat; don’t take the risk of being locked out. … Nos vemos en el Cine.…

You want to receive this info by email? Write to José Luis at 

alephamour@hotmail.com.  Thank you.


Knocking; The Untold Story of 
Jehovah’s Witnesses (2006)
Tuesday, November 20 at 3pm
Documentary, English, 64 minutes.
A film by: Joel P. Engardio and Tom Shepard
Knocking opens the door on Jehovah’s Witnesses. They are moral conservatives who stay out of politics and the Culture War, but they won a record number of court cases expanding freedom for everyone. They refuse blood transfusions on religious grounds, but they embrace the science behind bloodless surgery. In Nazi Germany, they could fight for Hitler or go to the concentration camps. They chose the camps. Following two families who stand firm for their controversial and misunderstood Christian faith, Knocking reveals how one unlikely religion helped to shape history beyond the doorstep.



Planet Earth Series
“Great Plains” and “Jungles”
Tuesday, November 20 at 5pm, 60 minutes each.
“Great Plains” deals with savanna, steppe, tundra and prairie, whose vast expanses contain the largest concentration of animal life. In Outer Mongolia, a herd of gazelle flees a bush fire. On the Arctic tundra during spring, millions of migratory snow geese arrive to breed and their young are preyed on by Arctic foxes. Meanwhile, time-lapse photography depicts moving herds of caribou as a calf is brought down by a chasing wolf. On the North American prairie, bison engage in the ritual to establish the dominant males. The Tibetan Plateau is the highest of the plains and despite its relative lack of grass, animals do survive there, including yak and wild ass. However, the area’s most numerous resident is the pika, whose nemesis is the Tibetan fox. In tropical India, the tall grasses hide some of the largest creatures and also the smallest, such as the pygmy hog. The final sequence depicts the African savannah and elephants that are forced to share a waterhole with a pride of 30 lions that gain the upper hand at 
night when their hunger drives them to kill one of the pachyderms. Planet Earth Diaries explains how the lion hunt was filmed in darkness using infrared light. 

“Jungles” examines environments that occupy only 3% of the land yet are home to over half of the world’s species. New Guinea is inhabited by almost 40 kinds of birds of paradise, which avoid conflict with each other by living in different parts of the island. Some of their elaborate courtship displays are shown. Within the dense forest canopy, sunlight is prized, and the death of a tree triggers a race by saplings to fill the vacant space. Figs are a widespread and popular food, and as many as 44 types of bird and monkey have been observed picking from a single tree. The sounds of the jungle throughout the day are explored, from the early morning calls of siamangs and orangutans to the nocturnal cacophony of courting tree frogs. The importance of fungi to the rainforest is illustrated, and the mutual benefit of the relationship between carnivorous pitcher plants and red crab spiders is also discussed. In the Congo, roaming forest elephants are shown reaching a clearing to feed on essential clay minerals withi
n the mud. Finally, chimpanzees are one of the few jungle animals able to traverse both the forest floor and the canopy in search of food. In Uganda, members of a 150-strong community of the primates mount a raid into neighboring territory in order to gain control of it. Planet Earth Diaries looks at filming displaying birds of paradise.



Calendar Girls (2003)
Wednesday, November 21 at 3pm
Thursday, November 22 at 5pm
Director: Nigel Cole, Cast: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Linda Bassett, Penelope Wilton, Annette Crosbie. 
UK Comedy, English with Spanish subtitles, 108 minutes.
The members of the Rylstone Women’s Institute of North Yorkshire are resilient, resourceful and refined. They’re also about to shock the residents of this little English town. When one of their own discovers her husband has cancer and needs treatment, the group decides to put out their yearly calendar to raise money for the local cancer center. But instead of the usual Yorkshire dales, they’ll be gracing the pages in the nude.



Running with Scissors (2006)
Friday, November 23 at 2:30pm
Dark Humor & Black Comedy, English w/ Spanish subtitles, 120 minutes
Rated R For strong language and elements of sexuality, violence and substance abuse
Director: Ryan Murphy. Cast: Annette Bening, Gwyneth Paltrow, Alec Baldwin, Vanessa Redgrave, Joseph Fiennes., etc.
When Deirdre Burroughs (Annette Bening) impulsively decides that her adolescent son Augusten (Joseph Cross) should be raised by her unconventional psychiatrist (Brian Cox), her choice to give him away changes the course of his life forever. An all-star ensemble cast drives this quirky adaptation of Augusten Burroughs’s bestselling memoir.



Musical Saturdays
The Dead City (Die Tote Stat)
Saturday, November 24 at 2:30pm, 145 minutes

Die tote Stadt (German for The Dead City) is an opera in three acts by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The libretto is by Korngold and Paul Schott (a pseudonym of the composer’s father Julius Korngold), based on Bruges-la-Morte, a short novel by Georges Rodenbach.

At its premiere on December 4, 1920, Korngold was just 23 years old with two short one-act operas, Der Ring des Polykrates and Violanta, already to his name. The success of these earlier works was so great that Die tote Stadt was subject to a fierce competition among German theaters for the right to the world premiere. In the end, an unusual double premiere was arranged and the opera opened simultaneously in Hamburg and Cologne. The theme of overcoming the loss of a loved one resonated with contemporary audiences of the 1920s who had just come through the trauma and grief of World War I. Within two years of its premiere it had circled the globe and even received several performances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Later the work was banned by the Nazis because of Korngold’s Jewish ancestry and since the end of World War II it has fallen into obscurity, with only a few sporadic revivals.