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TheatreOne
Announces the next Four Fringe Flicks for the New Year
Generously sponsored by VI Condos, Katz Lounge and Red Door
Yoga, TheatreOne is excited to announce the next four films of their
popular Fringe Flick Series, at the Galaxy Theatre on selected Sundays at
1pm, 4pm and 7 pm with one screening on Mondays at 7pm.
 On
January 7 and 8, our first film in the New Year, will be Driving
Lessons, directed by Jeremy Brock.
Seventeen-year-old Ben is trying
to escape the domineering influence of his heavily religious mother (Laura
Linney). His world changes when he meets Evie (Julie
Walters), a retired, unsuccessful actress. When Ben finally cracks
under the pressure put upon him by his mother, he leaves and goes to work
for Evie, travelling to Edinburgh where she teaches him to drive and he
comes out of his shell, meeting girls and learning to dance.
Our next film
on January 21 and 22, will by Catch a Fire, directed by Philip
Noyce. Catch a
Fire
is a political thriller based on the true story of Patrick Chamusso, an
ordinary man forced to resort to terror in extraordinary circumstances.
A story of one man's struggle amongst a nation's, set in a divided South
Africa in the nineteen eighties, climaxing in the present day. Starring
Derek Luke (Antwone Fisher, Friday Night Lights), and Tim Robbins (The
Shawshank Redemption, War of the Worlds).
The third film, with
showings on February 4th and 5th, will be the second
film in Deepa Mehta’s triology, Earth. This is an intelligent and
deeply moving personal account of the partition of India.
In August 1947 the departing British colonial rulers announced the
division of the subcontinent into a Muslim-controlled Pakistan and a
Hindu-Sikh dominated India. Deepa Mehta's film, which bases itself on
Bapsi Sidhwa's novel Cracking India, portrays this disaster through
the eyes of a child—Lenny, an 8-year-old crippled girl—from Lahore, the
Punjabi city that saw some of the bloodiest pogroms. The experiences,
hopes and fears of this young girl provide an intense portrait of the
period.
Lastly, showing on February 18th and 19th is
Manufacured Landscapes. The powerful
and compelling Manufactured
Landscapes is ostensibly a portrait of Edward Burtynsky, the celebrated
Canadian photographer who specializes in large-scale studies of industrial
vistas. But as anyone who's seen Baichwal's previous work would expect,
the film is far more than a straightforward portrait of an artist. Indeed,
Manufactured Landscapes
is as much about the aesthetic, social and spiritual dimensions of
industrialization and globalization as it is about Burtynsky and his
work.
Thank you to everyone who
comes to the films. You are assisting us in ensuring that professional,
live theatre produced in Nanaimo by local & regional artists continues to
thrive. Enjoy the films! Tickets for all the films are $10 and are
available through our Box Office.
Please call TheatreOne at 250.754.7587 to purchase your tickets, or go
online at
www.theatreone.org/fringeFlicks.php
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