The Wild Parrots of Telegraph
Hill is the true story of a
Bohemian St. Francis and his
remarkable relationship with a
flock of wild green-and-red
parrots. Mark Bittner, a
homeless street musician in San
Francisco, falls in with the
flock as he searches for meaning
in his life, unaware that the
wild parrots will bring him
everything he needs. The film
celebrates urban wildness,
Bohemian and avian, and links
the parrots' antics to human
behavior. A surprise ending ties
the themes together and
completes Mark's search for
meaning.
Cinema Paradiso
August 8-11 6:00pm & 8pm
Wilby Wonderful
Wilby
Wonderful is a bitersweet comedy
about the difference a day
makes. Over the course of
twenty-four hours, the residents
of the tiny island town of Wilby
try to maintain business as
usual in the face of very
unusual business. Wilby
Wonderful features a steller
ensemble of some of Canada's
most talented performers: James
Allodi, Maury Chaykin, Paul
Gross, Rebecca Jenkins, Sandra
Oh, Ellen Page and Callum Keith
Rennie.
Wilby
Wonderful
Cinema Paradiso
August 12 6:00 & 8:00
August 13 4:00, 6:00 & 8:00
August 14 4:00, 6:00 & 8:00
August 15 4:00, 6:00
August 16 6:00 & 8:00
The Bruce Movie
"The Bruce Movie" is an in-depth
look at one of the most renowned
surfers on the planet: Bruce
Irons. Some have described Bruce
as, "A freak", "Unpredictably
spontaneous", "Explosive" and
"The deadliest guy on tour".
Bruce's uncanny tube riding
ability and high flying aerial
attack will leave you awestruck.
Along his path, Bruce has won
surfing's most prestigious
event: The Eddie Aikau Big Wave
Invitational. In the film you
will also witness his
frustrating first year on the
World Championship Tour; in
typical Bruce fashion, he waits
until the last second to regain
a spot on the WCT where he makes
the final at one of his favorite
waves: Pipeline. This first film
on Bruce Irons will go down in
history as a must have in every
surfer's library.
The Bruce Movie
Cinema Paradiso
August 13 6:00 & 8:00
Childstar
Overindulged child actor, cast
in last big budget action film
before puberty hits, goes AWOL
from the set. It's up to the
boy's limo driver to find him-
both to save the production from
ruin, and the boy from himself.
Hilarious hollywood spoof from
writer/dir/actor Don McKeller
swept the 2004
Vancouver Critics Awards and won
Jennifer Jason Leigh Best
Supporting Actress Award.
Childstar
Cinema Paradiso
August 17 6:00 & 8:00
"FREE FOR FLIFF MEMBERS"
"State
of S" and "What's Next" (Surf
Double Feature)
A remarkable surf documentary,
"The State Of S: Full Circle"
provides an in-depth look at a
Santa Barbara surfer now living
in Australia, George Greenough
(Byron Bay, Aust), his
incredible impact on surfing and
how it would change the sport
for every surfer who followed.
Tom Curren (Santa Barbara, CA),
Mick Fanning (Coolangata, Aust)
and George himself individually
describe their place in surfing
and surf culture with an
intimacy and personal narrative
that forms an untold story of
modern surfing. What's Next will
play as a double feature with
"State Of S:
Full Circle" Join filmmaker and
surfer/pro snowboarder Jessie
Marley (Huntington Beach,
California) as he show-cases
some of the World's best surfers
right in their element.
Hawaiians, Andy and Bruce Irons
have solid parts in What's Next
with Andy pulling off another
World Title and Bruce an
unprecedented Eddie Aikau win;
pulling into giant closeout
shore-break at Waimea Bay.
Marley takes the audience on
international escapade that
includes Hawaiian Barrels,
hot-dogging on the Gold Coast of
Australia and Classic Indonesian
boat trips and in this movie
that features voice-over by the
film-maker and extensive
interviews from the featured
surfers, Marley makes an attempt
to give the audience some small
insight into the traveling
surfer's travails in search of
waves.
"State of S" and "What's Next"
(Surf Double Feature)
Cinema Paradiso
August 18 7:00
A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
Tracing the historical arc of
the professional bowling tour,
the film includes archival
footage from the sport's glory
days in the 1950s and '60s,
through its near extinction in
1997. The story takes a twist
when newly installed CEO Steve
Miller sets about modernizing
the PBA. In addition to Miller,
the chronicle focuses on four
pro bowlers: Pete Weber, bowling
bad-boy and son of legendary
bowler Dick Weber whose
conservative style doesn't jibe
with the direction Miller is
taking the new PBA. Pete's
nemesis is Walter Ray Williams
Jr., a straight-laced six-time
world horseshoe-pitching
champion and, with 36 PBA titles
to his name, the dominant player
on the tour. Also, there's Chris
Barnes, a young father of
newborn twins, who must leave
his wife and sons at home and
hit the road to compete for the
winnings that his young family
is depending upon. Finally
there's Wayne Webb, a 20-time
PBA champion who has fallen on
hard times and hopes to squeeze
one more good season out of his
career to stave off bankruptcy.
A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
Cinema Paradiso
August 20 2:00, 6:00, & 8:00
August 21 2:00, 6:00, & 8:00
SPORTS WEEK
Bad News Bears
(Free for Members)
An aging, down-on-his-luck
ex-minor leaguer coaches a team
of misfits in an
ultra-competitive California
little league.
August 20: 3:30
Personal Best
(Free for Members)
The intertwined lives and loves
of three highly-ranked athletes
striving for the national team.
August 21: 3:30
North Dallas 40
(Free for Members)
A semi-fictional account of life
as a professional Football
(American-style) player. Loosely
based on the Dallas Cowboys team
of the early 1970s
August 22: 5:30
Hoosiers
(Free for Members)
A coach with a checkered past
and a local drunk train a small
town high school basketball team
to become a top contender for
the championship
August 22: 7:30
Wimbledon
(Free for Members)
A pro tennis player has lost his
ambition and has fallen in rank
to 119. Fortunately for him, he
meets a young player on the
women's circuit who helps him
recapture his focus for
Wimbledon.
August 23: 5:30
The Replacements
(Free for Members)
During a pro football strike,
the owners hire substitute
players
August 23: 7:30
Bull Durham
(Free for Members)
A fan who has an affair with one
minor-league baseball player
each season meets an
up-and-coming pitcher and the
experienced catcher assigned to
him.
August 24: 5:30
Rocky
(Free for Members)
A small time boxer gets a once
in a lifetime chance to fight
the heavyweight champ in a bout
in which he strives to go the
distance for his self-respect.
August 24: 7:30
Admission $5 for non-members
Mention "GO RIVERWALK" and get
in for $1
Darwin's Nightmare
During the 60s a new fish was
introduced into Lake Victoria.
Voraciously predatory, the Nile
Perch multiplied rapidly, and
killed off almost the entire
stock of native fish. Now the
Nile Perch is exported all
around the world, whilst the
lakeside villagers who are
completely dependent on the
fishing industry for their
living are too impoverished to
afford to eat it. Hubert
Sauper's incisive documentary,
sparked by his earlier film,
Kisangani Diary,
develops from an almost
whimsical beginning into a
damning analysis of the global
economic and political interests
at play in one of Africa's most
beautiful and fertile regions:
the huge ex-Soviet cargo planes
which fly in to load up with
fish arrive packed with
Kalishnikovs and ammunition for
deployment in the civil wars of
central Africa. Often filming
undercover, Sauper and his
collaborator Sandor Rieder
managed to gain unprecedented
access to many of the people
involved, from the fishermen and
their families to the Asian
factory owners, the EU
commissioners and the pilots
themselves. With the deceptively
intimate feel of an ethnographic
study,
Darwin's Nightmare
is a comprehensively broad
ranging expose of the
destructive mechanisms of our
time.
Darwin's Nightmare
Cinema Paradiso
August 25-26 6:00 & 8:00
August 27-28 2:00, 4:00, 6:00,
& 8:00
"HELP"
Maroonee Moonlight Movie
The Fab
Four spoof James Bond and are
chased in exotic locales around
the world. The cause of their
troubles is an item of jewelry
in Ringo's possession. The
Beatles second film has an
obscure Asian cult that believes
in human sacrifice after Ringo
who has accidentally put on the
victim's ceremonial ring. He is
pursued by the cult, a pair of
mad scientists, and a member of
a side cult that no longer
believes in human sacrifice and
the London police who are trying
to help.
August 27 8:15
Huizenga Plaza, Downtown Ft.
Lauderdale
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