[Avon-theatre-news] AVON THEATER NEWS---JANUARY 13th, 2012

[Skip Huston]

WEEK OF FRIDAY, JAN. 13th thru THURSDAY, JAN. 19th ONLY!! 
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NOTE: PLEASE PAY CAREFUL ATTENTION TO THE ABOVE EFFECTIVE DATES FOR 
THIS NEWSLETTER!!  

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 THE IRON LADY (PG13) Meryl Streep is Oscar-bound for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher!

CONTINUING:
 WAR HORSE (PG13) Hands-down, the BEST movie of 2011!! HURRY!! ENDS SOON!!


 MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (R) Michelle Williams as the iconic blonde bombshell is sure to get an Oscar nod for this!! ENDS SOON!!


COMING SOON:
 EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE (PG13) Tom Hanks & Sandra Bullock in a moving & heartfelt saga.


 TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY (R) The NEW version of the famous spy novel! This is excellent!

 THE ARTIST (PG13) Yes, they CAN make them like they used to! Here is one of most talked-about films of the year!

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THE IRON LADY (PG13)
The Iron Lady is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world. 
THIS IS ANOTHER "AVON EXCLUSIVE", FOLKS!!
THE IRON LADY (PG13)
(Showtimes in brackets denote $5.75 "Bargain Matinees")
FRI: (4:00) - 7:00
SAT: (1:00) - (4:00) - 7:00  
SUN: (1:00) - (4:00)
MON (MLK DAY): (3:00) - 6:30
TUES, WED & THURS: 6:30
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MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (R)
In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of 'The Prince and the Showgirl'. The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott). Nearly 40 years on, his diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as My Week with Marilyn - this is the story of that week. When Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for Colin to introduce Marilyn to some of the pleasures of British life; an idyllic week in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.
‘The Descendants’ is the best movie I’ve seen this year. I hope hordes of people go to see it…and that it inspires other filmmakers.
Watching a film as mature, moving, original and unpredictable as ‘The Descendants’ renews my faith in American movies, and reaffirms Alexander Payne’s status as one of our most gifted storytellers. He has also bestowed the gift of an exceptional role on George Clooney, who gives the best performance of his career. Clooney can be a charmer, but here he embodies a character devoid of that trait. He’s a successful lawyer in Hawaii who, as he freely admits, has become so consumed by work that he has neglected his wife and two daughters. Fate intervenes when his wife is injured in a water-skiing accident that puts her in a coma. Overnight, he is forced to become a full-time father to his alienated teenage daughter (Shailene Woodley) and her younger sister, who needs to be sheltered from the dire news about her mom. In the midst of this, Clooney also has to make a momentous decision about a huge parcel of virgin land on the island of Kauai that is owned by his large, diverse family. The challenge in describing the film is that it doesn’t neatly fit into any pigeonhole. It’s a serious movie that happens to have a sense of humor, because Payne and his collaborators see the absurdity in everyday existence. They know that life can turn tragic in the blink of an eye and an encounter between two characters can play out as high drama or be undercut by humor. That’s one of the qualities that distinguishes all of Payne’s movies and makes this one so special. (The screenplay was first developed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash from a little-known novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings.)Hawaii is more than just a backdrop for the story; it is part and parcel of the characters’ lives, which becomes clearer as the story progresses. That’s not to say that there aren’t breathtaking beauty shots peppered throughout the film; they help us understand what this island paradise means to the people who live there full-time and call it home.Although he’s inevitably described as “director Alexander Payne,” it is his writing, usually in collaboration with Jim Taylor, which helps define the filmmaker’s sensibilities. While he’s not above making fun of his characters (think of the hapless schoolteacher played by Matthew Broderick in ‘Election’, or the often-clueless Jack Nicholson in ‘About Schmidt’) he never trivializes them. There is an unexpectedly funny moment in ‘The Descendants’ in which Clooney, fired up with rage, impulsively runs to a friend’s house…but because he’s wearing flip-flops, the dramatic impetus for the scene is somewhat defused by audience laughter at the sheer incongruity of the moment. That’s Payne in a nutshell. Clooney’s character isn’t a bad person; he’s imperfect, like most of us, and in the face of some extraordinary challenges, he tries to summon his better self. That’s what I love about ‘The Descendants’: it makes us reflect about how we conduct our lives, and how we might strive to be better.‘The Descendants’ is the best movie I’ve seen this year. I hope hordes of people go to see it…and that it inspires other filmmakers. Watching a film as mature, moving, original and unpredictable as ‘The Descendants’ renews my faith in American movies, and reaffirms Alexander Payne’s status as one of our most gifted storytellers. He has also bestowed the gift of an exceptional role on George Clooney, who gives the best performance of his career. Clooney can be a charmer, but here he embodies a character devoid of that trait. He’s a successful lawyer in Hawaii who, as he freely admits, has become so consumed by work that he has neglected his wife and two daughters. Fate intervenes when his wife is injured in a water-skiing accident that puts her in a coma. Overnight, he is forced to become a full-time father to his alienated teenage daughter (Shailene Woodley) and her younger sister, who needs to be sheltered from the dire news about her mom. In the midst of this, Clooney also has to make a momentous decision about a huge parcel of virgin land on the island of Kauai that is owned by his large, diverse family. The challenge in describing the film is that it doesn’t neatly fit into any pigeonhole. It’s a serious movie that happens to have a sense of humor, because Payne and his collaborators see the absurdity in everyday existence. They know that life can turn tragic in the blink of an eye and an encounter between two characters can play out as high drama or be undercut by humor. That’s one of the qualities that distinguishes all of Payne’s movies and makes this one so special. (The screenplay was first developed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash from a little-known novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings.)Hawaii is more than just a backdrop for the story; it is part and parcel of the characters’ lives, which becomes clearer as the story progresses. That’s not to say that there aren’t breathtaking beauty shots peppered throughout the film; they help us understand what this island paradise means to the people who live there full-time and call it home.MY WEEK WITH MARILYN  (R)
(Showtimes in brackets denote $5.75 "Bargain Matinees")
FRI: (5:00) - 8:15  
SAT: (2:00) - (5:00) - 8:15
SUN: (2:00) - (5:00)
MON (MLK DAY): (4:15) - 7:15
TUES, WED & THURS: 7:15
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WAR HORSE (PG13)
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, War Horse begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets-British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter-before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land. The First World War is experienced through the journey of this horse-an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure. 
WAR HORSE (PG13)
(Showtimes in brackets denote $5.75 "Bargain Matinees")
FRI: (4:45) - 8:00  
SAT: (1:30) - (4:45) - 8:00 
SUN: (1:30) - (4:45) 
MON (MLK DAY): (3:45) - 7:00
TUES, WED & THURS: 7:00
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RANTS, RAVES & RAMBLINGS FROM THE HEAD HONCHO

Richland-at-the-Avon FILM CLASSES RESUME JAN. 26th!!
Jan. 26th thru March 15th. Cost $80.
Enrolment forms are in our lobbies (or you can pay at the first class; just come a little early).
THURSDAYS @ 6:30 PM.
THIS COURSE IS...
"HOLLYWOOD ON HOLLYWOOD---PART 2"
In the history of the movies, there has been no greater topic than when Hollywood turns the microscope around on itself and shows you the inner workings and lives of some famous icons and behind-the-scenes dynamics of the silver screen.
Part One of this course was done over 6 years ago, and it is high time it was revisited!!

In the opening part #1 of this course, we showed such films as "Sunset Blvd" and "The Bad and the Beautiful", but we barely scratched the surface with that first series of 8 films...
Now, after instructor Skip Huston has painstakingly researched and reflected, Part 2 has 8 films that will cover all aspects and all eras of the movie world. Some of them are bona fide classics, and some of them are quite rare and hardly seen.

As has been done for the past 11 years of these film classes at The Avon for Richland, we NEVER divulge beforehand the movies you will be seeing, but, rest assured you are in good hands with the choices!

Join a whole lot of nice people with a love of movies in common, as we screen and discuss 8 films of "Hollywood on Hollywood"!! PART TWO!!!

We hope to see you there!!
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Come See Me This Weekend!!
I'll be looking for you and you and...YOU!!
-Skip Huston  
(Recent photo)


These are film reels.
Film is rapidly becoming obsolete.
(In fact, some would say it already IS!)
The Avon is still a FILM-based theater...
But, not for long!
We WILL be converting to digital soon!
Its "adapt or die" and we want to be around
to see the Avon's 100th birthday in 2016
(and keep going long after that!)
SO...bring on the digital!!

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