Video Update - 15 June 2011

Amy Grant Much Music Spotlight
Arthur C. Clarke Mysterious World - 1x08 - Riddle of the Stones
Langoliers Pt 1 (1995)
Langoliers Pt 2 (1995)
Prisoner - 1x05 - The General
Seven Chances (1925)
Tonight Show with Johnny Carson - 19920522
Vancouver 2011 Stanley Cup Riot - 20110615 CBC/CTV (2029-2229PT)
Vancouver 2011 Stanley Cup Riot - 20110615 CBC/CTV (2229-0000PT)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - 1x17 - The Last Battle
Wasp Woman (1959)

Video Update - 14 June 2011

Abba Again (1983) 
Berlin Video 45 (1984) 
Fernwood2Night - 1x43 - Sex Therapy 
Fernwood2Night - 1x45 - Skateboard Angel 
Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night Concert (1987) 
Japanese - 2nd Step - Urging Action Politely 
Japanese - Obtaining What You Need Laura 
Branigan in Concert (1984) 
Linda Ronstadt in Concert w/Nelson Riddle Orchestra (1984) 
Live Earth - (New York) - 20070707 MM(1748-1951ET) 
Madonna Much Music spotlight(1) 
Madonna Much Music spotlight(2) 
Millennium Turnover - 19991231 (2022-2122PT) 
Millennium Turnover - 19991231 (2122-2224PT) 
PSI Factor - 1x11 - The Curse/Angel on a Plane 
Saint - 5x13 - Flight Plan 
Strange Universe - 19970120 

Video Update - 22 May 2011

Car 54, Where Are You - 2x10 - I Hate Captain Block  Car 54, Where Are You - 2x11 - A Star Is Born in the Bronx  Dobie Gillis - 4x10 - Strictly For the Birds  Laverne and Shirley - 3x06 - Cruise (1)  Laverne and Shirley - 3x07 - Cruise (2)  Marshal Dillon - 4x09 - Land Deal  Marshal Dillon - 4x10 - Lynching Man  My Three Sons - 4x22 - The O'Casey Scandal  The Borgias - 1x09 - Nobody

Video Update - 21 May 2011

Branded - 2x06 - Seward's Folly

Dobie Gillis - 4x05 - A Splinter Off the Old Block

Dobie Gillis - 4x06 - What Makes A Varsity Drag

Guns of Will Sonnett - 1x22 - Stopover In A Troubled Town

Gunsmoke - 16x18 - Tycoon

Hogan's Heroes - 3x13 - Evening of the Generals

Hogan's Heroes - 3x14 - Everybody Loves A Snowman

Marshal Dillon - 4x07 - Stage Hold Up

Marshal Dillon - 4x08 - Lost Rifle

Rawhide - 5x20 - Incident of the Gallows Tree

Wild Wild West - 2x02 - Night of the Golden Cobra

Video Update - 20 May 2011

Global National News - 20110519

Gunsmoke - 12x27 - Ladies From St. Louis

Hawaii Five-O - 6x08 - Why Wait Until Uncle Kevin Dies?

I Love Lucy - 3x21 - Ricky Loses His Temper

I Love Lucy - 3x22 - Home Movies

My Three Sons - 8x15 - You're Driving Me Crazy

Petticoat Junction - 6x16 - Billie Jo and the Big Big Star

Rawhide - 5x19 - Incident of Judgment Day

Robbery Under Arms(1920)

Sanctuary - 3x16 - Awakening

Wizards of Waverly Place - 4x05 - Three Maxes and A Little Lady

Video Update - 19 May 2011

Black Swarm(2009)

Global National News - 20110518

Gunsmoke - 12x26 - Mistaken Identity

Hawaii Five-O - 6x06 - Murder Is A Taxing Affair

I Love Lucy - 3x19 - Magazine Interview

I Love Lucy - 3x20 - Oil Wells

My Three Sons - 8x14 - Leaving the Nest

Petticoat Junction - 6x15 - The Christening

Rawhide - 5x18 - Incident At Crooked Hat

Video Update - 18 May 2011

Bowery to Bagdad(1955)

Devil With Hitler(1942)

Global National News - 20110517

Gunsmoke - 12x24 - Noose of Gold

Hawaii Five-O - 6x07 - Tricks Are Not Treats

I Love Lucy - 3x17 - Charm School

I Love Lucy - 3x18 - Sentimental Anniversary

My Three Sons - 8x16 - Liverpool Saga

Petticoat Junction - 6x14 - Ballad of the Everyday Housewife

Rawhide - 5x17 - Incident of the Mountain Man

Video Update - 17 May 2011

12 O'Clock High - 1x32 - The Hero

Combat - 4x02 - The First Day

Gunsmoke - 12x23 - The Lure

Hawaii Five-O - 6x05 - The Sunday Torch

I Love Lucy - 3x15 - The Million Dollar Idea

I Love Lucy - 3x16 - Ricky Minds the Baby

Malibu Shark Attack(2009)

Marshal Dillon - 3x31 - Amy's Good Deed

My Three Sons - 8x13 - The Aunt Who Came to Dinner

Petticoat Junction - 6x13 - The Feminine Mistake

Rawhide - 3x13 - Incident Near the Promised Land

Rawhide - 5x16 - Incident At Spider Rock

Untouchables - 3x18 - The Stryker Brothers

Video Update - 16 May 2011

Dr. Who(2005) - 6x04 - The Doctor's Wife

Global National News - 20110514

Global National News - 20110515

Global National News - 20110516

Gunsmoke - 12x22 - The Returning

Hawaii Five-O - 6x04 - One Big Happy Family

I love Lucy - 3x13 - Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined

I love Lucy - 3x14 - Ricky's Old Girl Friend

My Three Sons - 8x11 - Heartbeat

Petticoat Junction - 6x12 - A Cake From Granny

Pirate City Rawhide - 5x15 - Incident of the Trial's End

Wizards of Waverly Place - 4x01 - Alex Tells the World

Wizards of Waverly Place - 4x02 - Alex Gives Up

Wizards of Waverly Place - 4x03 - Lucky Charmed

Wizards of Waverly Place - 4x04 - Journey to the Center of Mason

Video Update - 15 May 2011

Borgias, The - 1x08 - The Art of War

Car 54 Where Are You - 2x08 - That's Show Business

Car 54 Where Are You - 2x09 - Toody Undercover

Dobie Gillis - 3x30 - I Was A Boy Sorority Girl

I Love Lucy - 4x12 - California, Here We Come

I Love Lucy - 4x13 - First Stop

I Love Lucy - 4x14 - Tennessee Bound

I Love Lucy - 4x15 - Ethel's Home Town

Laverne and Shirley - 2x19 - Hi Neighbours, Book II

Laverne and Shirley - 3x11 - Take My Plants, Please

Marshal Dillon - 3x27 - Joke's On Us

Marshal Dillon - 3x28 - Bottleman

My Three Sons - 9x21 - Goodbye, Forever

Video Update - 14 May 2011

12 O'Clock High - 2x01 - Loneliest Place in the World

Branded - 2x02 - Now Join the Human Race

Combat - 4x11 - Soldier of Fortune

Crusoe - 1x11 - The Hunting Party

Dobie Gillis - 3x19 - The Marriage Counselor

Dobie Gillis - 3x22 - Like, Oh Brother

Guns of Will Sonnett - 1x20 - He Shall Lead the Children

Gunsmoke - 6x10 - The Scavengers

Hogan's Heroes - 3x02 - Some of Their Planes Are Missing

Hogan's Heroes - 3x03 - D-Day At Stalag 13

Marshal Dillon - 3x22 - Sunday Supplement

Marshal Dillon - 3x25 - Dirt

Marshal Dillon - 3x26 - Dooley Surrenders

Rawhide - 3x09 - Incident of the Captive

Rawhide - 5x14 - Incindent of the Buryin' Man

Untouchables - 3x16 - The Death Tree

Wild Wild West - 2x01 - Night of the Eccentrics

Video Update - 13 May 2011

12 O'Clock High - 1x30 - P.O.W. (Pt1)

Combat - 4x08 - Crossfire

Global National News - 20110511

Global National News - 20110512

Global National News - 20110513

Gunsmoke - 12x21 - Fandango

Hawaii Five-O - 6x03 - Charter of Death

I Love Lucy - 3x11 - Too Many Crooks

I Love Lucy - 3x12 - Changing the Boy's Wardrobe

Marshal Dillon - 3x19 - Kitty Caught

My Three Sons - 8x10 - Ernie, The Bluebeard

Petticoat Junction - 6x11 - First Night Out

Rawhide - 3x08 - Incident At Poco Tiempo

Rawhide - 5x13 - Incident of Decision

Sanctuary - 3x15 - Wingman

Untouchables - 3x17 - Takeover

Video Update - 12 May 2011

Carny(2009) Egypt Uprising - 20110202 CNN(1047-1151)

Global National News - 20110511

Gunsmoke - 12x25 - The Favour

Hawaii Five-O - 6x02 - Draw Me A Killer

Honeymooners - 1x28 - The Worry Wart

I Love Lucy - 3x09 - The French Revue

I Love Lucy - 3x10 - Redecorating the Mertz Apartment

My Three Sons - 8x09 - Designing Women

Petticoat Junction - 6x10 - Bye, Bye, Doctor

Rawhide - 5x12 - Incident At Quivira

Video Update - 11 May 2011

12 O'Clock High - 1x28 - Cry of Fallen Birds

Chuck - 4x23 - Chuck Versus the Last Details

Combat - 4x05 - The Farmer

Global National News - 20110510

Gunsmoke - 12x20 - Old Friend

Hawaii Five-O - 6x01 - Hookman

I Love Lucy - 3x07 - Baby Pictures

I Love Lucy - 3x08 - Lucy Tells the Truth

Marshal Dillon - 3x13 - Cows and Cribs

My Three Sons - 8x08 - The Chameleon

Petticoat Junction - 6x09 - Strange Case of Joseph P. Carson

Rawhide - 3x06 - Incident on the Road to Yesterday

Rawhide - 5x11 - Incident of the Querencias

Supernatural - 6x20 - Man Who Would Be King

Untouchables - 3x13 - The Gang War

Video Update - 10 May 2011

12 O'Clock High - 1x27 - The Mission
Combat - 4x14 - Break Out
Gunsmoke - 12x19 - Mail Drop
Hawaii Five-O - 5x24 - Jury of One
I Love Lucy - 3x03 - Lucy and Ethel Buy the Same Dress
I Love Lucy - 3x04 - Equal Rights
Inner Space - 20110510(SGU Finale)
Marshal Dillon - 3x10 - Never Pester Chester
My Three Sons - 8x12 - The Computer Picnic
Petticoat Junction - 6x08 - Sneaky Ways of a Woman
Rawhide - 3x05 - Incident of the Slavemaster(chunk missing station problem)
Rawhide - 5x10 - Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom
Stargate Universe - 2x20 - Gauntlet
Untouchables - 3x14 - The Silent Partner  

Video Update - 9 May 2011

Global National News - 20110506
Global National News - 20110507
Global National News - 20110508
Global National News - 20110509
Gunsmoke - 12x18 - Muley
Hawaii Five-O - 5x23 - The Diamond That Nobody Stole
I Love Lucy - 2x31 - Never Do Biz With Friends
I Love Lucy - 3x02 - The Girls Go Into Business
My Three Sons - 8x07 - My Wife, The Waitress
Petticoat Junction - 6x07 - The Lady Doctor
Phil Silvers Show - 1x08 - Mardi Gras
Rawhide - 5x09 - Incident At Sugar Creek
Victory Day Parade(Moscow) - 20110509  

Video Update - 8 May 2011

Borgias, The - 1x07 - Death, On A Pale Horse
Car 54, Where Are You - 2x06 - Occupancy, August First
Car 54, Where Are You - 2x07 - Remember St. Petersburg
Divine Lady, The(1929)
Dobie Gillis - 3x05 - The Gigolo
I Love Lucy - 2x10 - Lucy Is Enceinte
I Love Lucy - 2x14 - Ricky Has Labour Pains
I Love Lucy - 2x16 - Lucy Goes To The Hospital
I Love Lucy - 2x22 - No Children Allowed
Laverne and Shirley - 2x12 - Anniversary Show
Laverne and Shirley - 2x21 - Haunted House
Marshal Dillon - 3x06 - Jesse
Marshal Dillon - 3x07 - Mavis McCloud
My Three Sons - 9x20 - The Other Woman
Out of This World - 2x03 - Career Crunch
Out of This World - 3x24 - Goodbye, Mr. Chris
Paleoworld - S1 - Carnosaurs
Paleoworld - S1 - Sea Monsters
Paleoworld - S2 - Are Rhinos Dinosaurs
Paleoworld - S2 - Mammoths
Paleoworld - S2 - Mystery of Dinosaur Cove
Paleoworld - S4 - Dinosaur Doomsday
Unhappily Ever After - 1x01 - Pilot  

Video Update - 7 May 2011

12 O'Clock High - 1x26 - Mutiny At 10,000 Feet
Branded - 2x01 - Judge Not
Combat - 4x15 - Finest Hour
Dobie Gillis - 2x34 - Goodbye Pomfritt, Hello Mr. Chips
Dobie Gillis - 3x01 - Ruptured Duck
Global National News - 20110503
Global National News - 20110504
Global National News - 20110505
Guns of Will Sonnett - 1x21 - Look For The Hound Dog
Gunsmoke - 16x08 - Luke
Hogan's Heroes - 2x20 - Hogan and the Lady Doctor
Hogan's Heroes - 2x21 - The Swing Shift
Marshal Dillon - 3x01 - Crackup
Marshal Dillon - 3x04 - Kitty's Outlaw
Marshal Dillon - 3x05 - Potato Road
May Day Parade (Moscow) 1975 - 19750501
Paleoworld - S1 - Rise of the Predators
Paleoworld - S2 - Monsters on the Move
Rawhide - 3x01 - Incident at Rojo Canyon
Wild Wild West - 1x28 - Night of the Sudden Plague  

Video Update - 6 May 2011

Egypt Uprising 20110201 CNN(0813-0901)
Egypt Uprising 20110201 CNN(1220-1418)
Egypt Uprising 20110202 CNN(0804-0857)
Gunsmoke - 12x17 - Mad Dog
Hawaii Five-O - 5x22 - Engaged To Be Buried
I Love Lucy - 2x30 - Ricky and Fred Are TV Fans
I Love Lucy - 3x01 - Ricky's Life Story
My Sister Sam - 1x10 - Jingle Bell Rock Bottom
My Sister Sam - 2x02 - And They Said It Would Never Last
My Sister Sam - 2x05 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Schultz
My Sister Sam - 2x06 - Drive, She Said
My Sister Sam - 2x13 - Patty, I Have A Feeling We're Not in Oregon Anymore
My Three Sons - 8x06 - The Homecoming
Paleoworld - S1 - Tale of a Sail
Paleoworld - S2 - Troodon Dinosaur Genius
Paleoworld - S4 - Dawn of the Dinos
Petticoat Junction - 6x06 - Wings
Rawhide - 5x07 - Incident of the Dogfaces
Sanctuary - 3x14 - Metamorphosis  

Video Update - 5 May 2011

12 O'Clock High - 1x24 - End of the Line
Chevy Chase National Humour Test Special (1979)
Combat - 4x29 - A Sudden Terror
Gunsmoke - 12x16 - Saturday Night
Hawaii Five-O - 5x21 - Percentage
I Love Lucy - 2x28 - Lucy Wants New Furniture
I Love Lucy - 2x29 - The Camping Trip
Marshal Dillon - 2x34 - Who Lives By The Sword
My Sister Sam - 1x03 - Shooting Star
My Three Sons - 8x05 - Wedding Bells
Rawhide - 2x31 - Incident of the Last Chance
Rawhide - 5x06 - Incident of the Lost Woman
Untouchables - 3x09 - City Without A Name  

Video Update - 28 April 2011

12 O'Clock High - 1x18 - The Lorelei

Gunsmoke - 12x11 - The Newcomers

I Love Lucy - 2x09 - Ricky Loosing His Voice

I Love Lucy - 2x10 - Sales Resistance

Marshal Dillon - 2x12 - Spring Term

My Three Sons - 7x32 - Weekend in Paradise

Petticoat Junction - 5x30 - Kate's Homecoming

Rawhide - 2x23 - Incident of the Stargazer

Untouchables - 3x01 - Troubleshooter

William & Kate: A Modern Royal Romance

Video Update - 27 April 2011

12 O'Clock High - 1x17 - The Albatross

Combat - Beneath the Ashes

Gunsmoke - Stage Stop

Hawaii Five-O - Thanks for the Honeymoon

Honeymooners - Baby Sitter

I Love Lucy - 2x07 - The Courtroom

I Love Lucy - 2x08 - Redecorating

Japanese Earthquake - 20110312CNN(0729-0857)

Marshal Dillon - 2x09 - The Mistake

My Three Sons - 7x31 - So Long, Charley, Hello

Petticoat Junction - 5x28 - My Pal Sam

Petticoat Junction - 5x29 - Ring-A-Ding-Ding

Prince William's Africa

Rawhide - 4x29 - Devil and the Deep Blue

Real King's Speech

Untouchables - 3x06 - Loophole

Video Update - 26 April 2011

Ancient Aliens - Alien Contacts

Ancient Aliens - Alien Devastations

Ancient Aliens - Alien Tech

Ancient Aliens - Aliens and the 3rd Reich

Ancient Aliens - Underground Aliens

Ancient Aliens - Unexplained Structures

Being Human - 2x02 - Adam's Family

Bob Newhart Show - Guaranteed Not to Shrink

Combat - Billy the Kid

Dick Van Dyke Show - 4x06 - Romances, Roses & Rye Bread

Gunsmoke - 12x09 - The Well

Hawaii Five-O - The Child Stealers

Honeymooners - Oh My Achin' Back

I Love Lucy - 2x05 - The Saxiphone

I Love Lucy - 2x06 - Vacation From Marriage

Japanese Earthquake - 20110312CNN(0330-0727)

March of the Dinosaurs

Mary Tyler Moore Show - 5x18 - Phillis Whips Inflation

Rawhide - 2x21 - Incident At Sulphur Creek

Rawhide - 4x23 - The Immigrants

The curtain is falling on vaudeville palace

PANTAGES THEATRE

Demolition permit issued to raze movie house

The old Pantages Theatre on East Hastings is likely to be 

demolished in a few days. The back of the building is 

already being ripped apart.

  It's curtains for the Pantages The­atre, Vancouver's oldest vaudeville/ movie house.BY JOHN MACKIE

  The century old landmark at 144-150 East Hastings near Main will proba­bly be torn down in the next couple of days, after the city issued a demolition permit for the site.

  "They've been chewing away next door, so [demolition is] imminent," said Don Luxton of Heritage Vancou­ver. "They've already started ripping out the backs of the buildings."

  Several groups have attempted to revive the Pantages, which was the oldest theatre remaining from a leg­endary chain of vaudeville palaces that Alexander Pantages built across North America.

  It has been vacant since 1994, and has been rotting inside from rain seep­ing in through a damaged roof, a text-book case of what heritage activists call

"demolition through neglect."

  "I think it's a tragic and irreversible loss," said Luxton. "We're losing what was clearly recognized as a historic theatre. We can't get it back now, it's gone."

  Demolition permits have also been issued for the four adjacent properties at 130, 132, 134 and 138 East Hastings, which means there will soon be another big empty lot in the troubled Downtown Eastside.

  Will Johnston of the city's licences and inspections department said no plans have been approved to rede­velop the site.

  The Pantages was built in 1907-08 in the middle of Vancouver's original downtown.

  It was converted to a movie house in the late 1920s, and in the early '30S sur­vived a fire in the projectionist's booth and a bomb that was thrown into the theatre during a labour meeting. It had several names over its lifetime, includ­ing the Royal, State, Queen, Avon and City Nights. It last operated as the Sung Sing, a Chinese-language theatre.

--The Vancouver Sun 8 April 2011

Hollywood Theatre faces the final curtain

LANDMARKS

After celebrating its 75th anniversary last year, the venerable theatre may not last until its 76th

BY JOHN MACKIE VANCOUVER SUN

  The Hollywood Theatre cel­ebrated its 75th birthday last October. But the legendary Kitsilano cinema may not be around for its 76th.

  Owner David Fairleigh has confirmed the Hollywood will "probably" be closing. But he didn't say when, or what the family plans to do with the prop­erty at 3123 West Broadway.

  "I can't make any comments at this time," said Fairleigh, 67, whose family has owned and operated the 651-seat theatre since 1935. "I'm right in the middle of something, I can't comment right now."

  Alan Franey of the Vancou­ver International Film Festival has been going to the Hollywood since he was a teenager. He thinks Vancouverites will be "shocked" to learn that one of the city's cultural icons may soon be gone.

David Fairleigh and son Vince inside Kitsilano's Hollywood Theatre.

  "It would be a great loss to the neighbourhood, and our sense of what public spaces are for, our historical memory of what they used to be for," said Franey.   "It's a great facade, it's a great place to see films. I think it's near and dear to a lot of our hearts."

  The theatre has an assessed value of $2.426 million, and is rumoured to be on the market for $2.9 million. At that price, said Leonard Schein of Festi­val Cinemas, "they're asking too much to run it as a movie theatre."

  Schein's company leases two neighbourhood theatres, the Park and the Ridge. They may not be around too much longer, either.

  "The whole shopping centre [the Ridge is in] has been put up for sale by our landlord," Schein said. "If someone buys it he or she may decide to tear down the whole shopping cen­tre and build condos and other retail there, but you never know until there's a new buyer. They may decide to hold the location for years, or they may decide to redevelop it."

  Don Luxton of Heritage Van­couver said the city may have to step in if it wants to save the city's dwindling number of neighbourhood theatres. Several old theatres have been knocked down in recent years, including the Varsity, the Impe­rial (last known as the Venus) and the Van East. The city's oldest theatre, the Pantages, has also been condemned and may be torn down.

It would be a great loss to the neighbourhood, and our sense of what public spaces are for, our historical memory of what they used to be for.

ALAN FRANEY

VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

  "We have a bigger, broader issue: that there's four theatres that are going to be problem­atic and we could lose, the Hol­lywood, the Ridge, the Park and the Dunbar," said Luxton.

  "Somebody at the city should take a look and see which one of those would make good com­munity spaces. We're restor­ing the York [theatre] on the east side. What about the west side? I think the Ridge, Park and Hollywood are all signifi­cant spaces, and ready to roll — you can use them as com­munity theatres, community space, performance space."

  Luxton said one way to save the theatres would be to bring back the heritage density trans­fer system that the city killed in 2007. Another would be to buy the theatres with the million the city collected 'from developers to build a Coal Harbour Arts Complex, which never built. "Wouldn't it be sensible to buy a couple of small neigh­bourhood theatres?" said Luxton.

  "There's an urgent issue here. The city should examine through its cultural services office what would he the most appropriate use of the Coal Harbour Arts Complex money. Could it be used in different parts of the city to purchase rind run these smaller community centres, rather than concen­trate everything downtown?"

  Franey thinks the potential loss of the Hollywood might stir the "public recognition the space requires to be saved." He also said the film festival would be interested in running the theatre, if it could swing the financing.

  "We have an interest the Hollywood, for sure," said Franey. "We haven't used it for a few years, but this is a very changing world, and I don't know if we can count on any of the theatres we use being avail-able to us, one year to the next. It might not only he something we'd like to consider, it's sonic-thing we may need to consider."

New Movie Releases – 28 January 2011

The Mechanic (2011)

Stars: Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland, Tony Goldwyn

Director: Simon West

Genre: Action/Crime/Thriller

CBS Films, Millennium Films, Chartoff-Winkler Productions

Time: 93 min

Rating: Restricted

Follows an elite hit man as he teaches his trade to an apprentice who has a connection to one of his previous victims.

The Rite (2011)

Stars: Colin O'Donoghue, Anthony Hopkins, Ciarán Hinds, Alice Braga

Director: Mikael Håfström

Genre: Drama/Horror/Thriller

New Line Cinema, Contrafilm, Mid Atlantic Films

Time: 114 min

Rating: PG-13

An American seminary student travels to Italy to take an exorcism course.

Biutiful (2010)

Stars: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Guillermo Estrella

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu

Genre: Drama

Menageatroz, Mod Producciones, Focus Features

Time: 148 min

Rating: Restricted

This is the story of Uxbal, a man living in this world, but able to see his death, which guides his every move.

From Prada to Nada (2011)

Stars: Camilla Belle, Alexa Vega, Kuno Becker, Tina French

Director: Angel Gracia

Genre: Comedy/Drama/Romance

OddLot Entertainment, Gilbert Films, Lionsgate

Time: 107 min

Rating: PG-13

A Latina spin on Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," where two spoiled sisters who have been left penniless after their father's sudden death are forced to move in with their estranged aunt in East Los Angeles.

Kaboom (2010)

Stars: Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Chris Zylka, Roxane Mesquida

Director: Gregg Araki

Genre: Comedy/Mystery/Sci-Fi

Desperate Pictures, Wild Bunch, Super Crispy Entertainment

Time: 86 min

Rating: Unrated

A sci-fi story centered on the sexual awakening of a group of college students.

New Movie Releases – 21 January 2011

The Company Men (2010)

Stars: Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzanne Rico

Director: John Wells

Genre: Drama

Weinstein Company, The, Battle Mountain Films, Spring Creek Productions

Time: 104 min

Rating: Restricted

The story centers on a year in the life of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company - and how that affects them, their families, and their communities.

No Strings Attached (2011)

Stars: Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Kline, Cary Elwes

Director: Ivan Reitman

Genre: Comedy/Romance

Paramount Pictures, Cold Spring Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment

Time: 108 min

Rating: Restricted

A guy and girl try to keep their relationship strictly physical, but it's not long before they learn that they want something more.

The Way Back (2010)

Stars: Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Dragos Bucur

Director: Peter Weir

Genre: Adventure/Drama/History

Exclusive Films, National Geographic Films, Imagenation Abu Dhabi FZ

Time: 133 min

Rating: PG-13

Siberian gulag escapees walk 4000 miles overland to freedom in India. 

Vancouver Sun - 18 January 2011

A Little Tramp in modern times

Charlie Chaplin's films remain relevant and continue to delight audiences today

BY JOHN MACKIE

VANCOUVER SUN

            Charlie Chaplin's heyday was in the 1920s and '30S, and many of his biggest movies were made during the silent era. But he remains one of the greatest movie stars of all time, an instantly recognizable figure whose movies still play regularly on TV.

            Nothing compares with seeing them on the big screen, though, and Pacific Cinematheque is staging a major retrospective of his work beginning Thursday, through Feb. 11, in new 35-mm prints from Europe.

            "They're beautiful, pristine, brand-new prints," says Jim Sinclair of Pacific Cinematheque.

            "It's like seeing the films for the first time. Seeing them the way they were meant to be seen, on the big screen, in excellent copies."

            The 17-film retrospective brings together almost every feature Chaplin directed, from classics like The Gold Rush, Modern Times and The Great Dictator to lesser-known works like A Woman of Paris, Payday and Limelight.

            The big question is how many people will come out to see them, particularly the silent movies.

            "Anyone who tries to show black and white films to young people will know the reaction: `Oh, what's this, black and white?' " says Sinclair.

            "It's going to be curious, we'll see [how big the audience is]. These are great films, and he's a great physical comedian. But they're also heart-wrenching and poignant, smart, moving, funny films. So we hope they will find an audience."

            They have been doing just that since last summer, when the retrospective made its North American debut in Los Angeles.

            "It's amazing, how Chaplin translates," says Sarah Finklea of Janus Films, the North American distributor. "I've had a lot of programmers say they were watching it with small kids and the kids were just losing it, watching Chaplin. They'd forgotten how much it does appeal to young children."

            Janus specializes in classic movies; it's an associated company to the Criterion Collection, which does deluxe DVD reissues. Finklea says that Chaplin's films are "absolute perennials."

            "I don't think these films ever died," says Finklea, who is a distant relative of the late dancer-actress Cyd Charisse (whose birth name was Tula Ellice Finklea).

            "But I know [that with] some of the slightly earlier stuff, there hadn't been prints around since maybe the '8os. I don't even know when the last time a wide retrospective was done. But there's always demand within certain theatres, and we like keeping the library alive."

            Besides being a great actor and director, Charlie Chaplin was a savvy business-man. He co-founded United Artists pictures, owned the copyrights to his work, and kept prints.

            Chaplin died in 1977 and his legacy is ' handled by the Chaplin estate in Paris, which has been working with the Cineteca of the Comune di Bologna in Italy on restorations of his catalogue. The new 35-mm prints came from this arrangement.

            Chaplin was a comedic genius who produced some of the most famous moments in movie history, such as the part of Modern Times in which Chaplin's Little Tramp is caught in the giant gears on an industrial assembly line, and the scene in which the starving Chaplin eats his shoe in The Gold Rush.

            But when she's asked for her favourite Chaplin film, Finklea picks a relatively obscure one.

            "Mine is one of the shorts, The Idle Class," she says. "I love that one.

            Of the features I'd have to say The Circus, I think it's hilarious.

            "The Idle Class is one of the Tramp shorts. It's a film [in which] he also plays an aristocratic drunk, so he has two parts in the same film. It's a mistaken identity film, he plays a rich alcoholic husband at this sort of country club estate. The Little Tramp arrives at the country club to take the air, and play golf with some clubs he ' picked up somewhere. At some point the drunk's wife gets the two of them mixed up at a costume party.

At a glance

When: Thursday, through Friday, Feb. 11

Where: Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe

Tickets: $10.50 single bill; $12.50 double bill

Information: http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/chaplin

SCREENING SCHEDULE

The Gold Rush, Payday: Thursday-Sunday

The Circus, The Idle Class: Thursday-Saturday

The Kid, A Day's Pleasure: Saturday, Sunday

A Woman of Paris, Sunnyside: Sunday-Thursday

A Dog's Life, Shoulder Arms, The Pilgrim: Thursday, Jan. 27-Saturday, Jan. 29:

City Lights: Friday Jan. 28-Sunday Jan. 30, Tuesday Feb. 1

Modern Times: Friday Jan. 28-Sunday Jan. 30

The Great Dictator: Monday, Jan. 30, Tuesday Jan. 31, Sunday, Feb. 6:

A King in New York: Monday, Jan. 31, Tuesday, Feb. 1, Saturday, Feb. 5

Limelight: Monday, Feb. 7, Thursday, Feb. 10, Friday, Feb. 11

Monsieur Verdoux: Monday, Feb. 7, Thursday, Feb. 10, Friday, Feb. 11

            "The Circus is really great. Again it's a Little Tramp story. The Little Tramp finds a job working as a comedy act in the circus. He doesn't know he's funny: he is mistaken as a pickpocket and gets chased through an actual performance. The crowd is not laughing at the actual clowns, but as soon as he appears running from the police, the crowd loses it. So he gets hired on, falls in love with a tightrope artist, and hilarity ensues."

            Both are in the retrospective, along with his lesser-known talkies like Limelight (a sad, beautiful film about an aging vaudeville star in which Chaplin makes his only onscreen appearance with another silent movie icon, Buster Keaton), and Monsieur Verdoux, where he plays a ladykiller, literally.

            "They're very truck in their perspective," says Cinematheque's Sinclair. "Monsieur Verdoux kind of freaked people out, with Chaplin playing a serial killer.'

            His most acclaimed talkie is The Great Dictator, a satire of Adolf Hitler that' Chaplin made almost two years before the United States went to war with Germany; shooting started in September 1939, the same month Germany invaded Poland.

            The Great Dictator maybe the funniest serious movie ever made (or vice-versa). Chaplin's cinematic fuehrer is dubbed the Phooey, Hitler becomes Adenoid Hynkel, Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels is renamed Garbitsch, and Luftwaffe head Hermann Goering becomes Field Marshal Herring.

Chaplin mocks Hitler's plans for world domination by having Hynkel play with a balloon done up like the world; at one point, he's lying on his desk and sends it skyward with a bump from his bum. But when Hynkel tries to squeeze the world too tight, it explodes.

"It is amazing," Sinclair says. "[But] Chaplin did say later if he had known about the enormity of Hitler's crimes he wouldn't have ridiculed him in the same way, or made a funny movie about him."

jmackie@vancouversun.com

New Movie Releases – 14 January 2011

The Green Hornet (2011)

Stars: Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Christoph Waltz, Cameron Diaz

Director: Michel Gondry

Genre: Action/Comedy/Crime/Sci-Fi/Thriller

Columbia Pictures, Original Film

Time: 119 min

Rating: PG-13

Following the death of his father, Britt Reid, heir to his father's large company, teams up with his late dad's assistant Kato to become a masked crime fighting team.

The Dilemma (2011)

Stars: Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Winona Ryder, Jennifer Connelly

Director: Ron Howard

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, Spyglass Entertainment

Time: 111 min

Rating: PG-13

A man discovers that his best friend's wife is having an affair.

Barney's Version (2010)

Stars: Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Jake Hoffman, Macha Grenon

Director: Richard J. Lewis

Genre: Comedy | Drama

Serendipity Point Films, Fandango, Lyla Films

Time: 134 min

Rating: Restricted

The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.

Ong Bak 3 (2010)

Stars: Tony Jaa, Dan Chupong, Sarunyu Wongkrachang, Primorata

Directors: Tony Jaa/Panna Rittikrai

Genre: Action

Iyara Films

Time: 99 min

Rating: Restricted

Ong Bak 3 picks up where Ong Bak 2 had left off. Tien is captured and almost beaten to death before he is saved and brought back to the Kana Khone villagers. There he is taught meditation and how to deal with his Karma, but very soon his arch rival returns challenging Tien for a final duel.

A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010)

Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Bjørn Floberg, Jorunn Kjellsby, Gard B. Eidsvold

Director: Hans Petter Moland

Country: Norway

Language: Norwegian/Swedish

Genre: Comedy/Crime/Drama

Paradox Produksjon

Time: 113 min

Rating:

Ulrik is reluctantly let out of prison after serving 12 years for murder. He has to cope with his gang, his ex, a few women - and a snitch. His son has a fiancé. Her family doesn't approve of murder. They have a nursery, they have principles. Ulrik is a somewhat gentle man. But how gentle can you be? ...and he's losing his hair.

New Movie Releases – 7 January 2011

Season of the Witch (2011)

 

Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Claire Foy, Stephen Campbell Moore

Director: Dominic Sena

Genre: Action/Adventure/Fantasy

Atlas Entertainment, Relativity Media

Time: 95 min

Rating: PG-13

14th-century knights transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce her powers could be the source of the Black Plague.

Country Strong (2010)

Stars: Garrett Hedlund, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leighton Meester, Tim McGraw

Director: Shana Feste

Genre: Drama/Music

Screen Gems, Maguire Entertainment, TVM

Time: 117 min

Rating: PG-13

A rising country-music songwriter works with a fallen star to work their way fame, causing romantic complications along the way.