Water, water everywhere?

From the Canadian documentary Watermark

Find out on Monday, January 13th at 7PM, what we’re doing to an essential element in our lives in Watermark

Multiple award-winning filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal and renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky have produced a beautiful documentary. While avoiding reams of statistics, it shows unerringly, and with great beauty and sensitivity the way in which humans are inextricably altering our planet’s most precious resource- water.

Water makes up such a large part of who and what we are, it is no wonder we are drawn to it, and these two artists capture our fascination, utilization, manipulation and destruction of water irrespective of culture or nationality. From the beaches for surfing, to the Ganges sacred bathing; from massive seafood farms to huge dams, the stunning visual landscape draws us in and encourages us in our efforts to consider both our needs and our effect.

92 minutes

Many THANKS to this movie’s sponsor

Dr. Stuart Robson, Dentist

Committed to Dental Excellence

149 Manitoba Street, Bracebridge

(705) 645-4151

 In The Hunt, Director Thomas Vinterberg has created a masterful Danish film in which the lead, Mads Mikkelsen (A Royal Affair, Casino Royale,  Hannibal) won Best Actor Award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.  He portrays a nursery school teacher living in a small Danish village who is wrongfully accused of sexually assaulting a child.  The tension builds as the intricate plot reveals conflicting evidence in the case.  We witness the unraveling of a life affected by the community’s harsh reaction to the story. An additional interesting aspect is the struggle Lucas (MIkkelsen) has in order to maintain his romantic relationship with his co-worker, Nadia throughout his ordeal. The Hunt will have you glued to the edge of your seat awaiting the outcome of these dramatic events. The film was selected as the Danish entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 86^th Academy Awards.

111 minutes

Many THANKS to this movie’s sponsor

Hutchinson Environmental Sciences

specializes in aquatic and environmental science, technical facilitation and peer review services. They provide consulting services to government, industry, and non-governmental organizations across Canada.

Bracebridge Office

3-1 Taylor Road
Bracebridge ON, P1L 1S6
(705) 645-0021
bracebridge@environmentalsciences.ca

Can we have a second chance? 

Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm in Love is All You Need. Click on picture for IMDB info

Pierce Brosnan stars opposite Trine Dyrholm in the romance Love is All You Need. Romance, comedy and pathos combine in this heart-warming film directed by Oscar Award- winner, Susanne Bier.   Philip (Brosnan) is an unhappy widower living in Denmark who meets up with Ida (Dyrholm) en route to the wedding of their respective children’s wedding in Italy.  Ida is recovering from a battle with breast cancer and being left by her husband for a younger woman.  As we follow the burgeoning romance of these two wounded souls, we are swept along by the spectacular scenic Italian setting.  The wonderfully portrayed characters of these two leads will engage your sense of romance as you find yourself relating to their pursuits of a new life chapter. 110 minutes

Many THANKS to this movie’s sponsor

62-2 Manitoba Street, Bracebridge

Diesel House Café presents a diverse selection of locally roasted coffees brewed to perfection, alongside a good variety of specialty tea and coffee beverages. Add a sweet treat baked from scratch in their own oven, a breakfast bagel or gourmet soup, salad and sandwich for a light meal. All of this served by friendly staff in a comfortable environment surrounded by paintings by Muskoka Artists.

Chasing Ice documents glacial destruction due to global warming. For more on the movie, click anywhere on the photo.

In this powerful documentary, Director Jeff Orlowski’s masterful cinematography commands our attention to a crisis which is advancing at an exponential pace. Using snow-buried cameras, National Geographic photographer James Balog has captured stunning time-lapse images in the glacier-fields of Iceland and Greenland. Three years of photographic images have gone into the making of this film. We marvel at the unparalled beauty in the ice-scapes and at the same time are horrified by the record-breaking speed of the destruction. Balog describes these glaciers as being as individual in appearance as human faces. One piece of crumbling ice is said to be the size of lower Manhattan. While using a gently persuasive approach, Chasing Ice nevertheless undisputedly defies the skeptics of global warming and will leave you determined for change.

Many THANKS to this movie’s sponsor

Roy DeHaan Carpentry

Specializing in trim, mantels and stairs, you can trust Roy DeHaan Carpentry to do the job right.

Contact the experts at Roy DeHaan Carpentry today.

705.644.2031 or gaskin.dehaan@hotmail.com.

The Romance continues with Before Midnight

Before Midnight stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. For more on this movie, click anywhere on the photo

In Before Midnight, one of modern moviedom’s longest running screen romances (previously, 1995’s Before Sunrise and 2004’s Before Sunset ) sees director Richard Linklater once again unite Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) in an up-close and personal view of their lives and relationship.

We join them on their vacation in Greece where their partnership, judging from their conversation, is one of contented middle age. Here they reminisce about their past both apart and together and recognize the effects time and responsibilities have had on each other and their relationship.

Hawke and Delpy turn in natural, intelligent and very real performances, in a well-paced, complex building on their time together. Their characters examine how life has changed for them, and by extension all of us as we have moved from our twenties on to middle age.

108 minutes

This movie’s sponsor is:

Nipissing University Arts & Culture Film Series

Adaptation is all around us. It’s part of our world, it’s how we live, and who we are. And very often, it’s what we watch. From its inception as a technology and an art form in the 1890s, film is steeped in the adaptive process, telling and re-telling beloved, popular or fascinating narratives. Our series this year looks at how different films have adapted a whole range of narratives: a non-fiction book, a horror novel, children’s book, a raconteur’s anecdotes, a scandalous novel, a gothic novel, and a famously inadaptable novel. Join us this year in our ongoing discussion about film and adaptation and thriving. For our list of movies, go to http://www.nipissingu.ca/departments/muskoka/filmseries/Pages/default.aspx

Held at Lecture Theatre of Nipissing’s Muskoka campus
(125 Wellington St., Bracebridge) @ 7:00pm on the last Wednesday of the month
(September 2013 – March 2014)

All are welcome. We look forward to seeing you on campus!

Unfinished Song

Vanessa Redgrave and Terence Stamp starring in Unfinished Song. For more info about this movie, click anywhere on the picture.

Featuring exceptional performances by Terence Stamp (Billy Budd, The Adventures of Pricilla, Queen of the Desert) and Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave (Julia, Howard’s End), Unfinished Song is a delightful movie that will lift your spirits.

Stamp plays Arthur, a curmudgeonly grump who sees little reason for changing anything about his life, especially at his age. Meanwhile, unwilling to let anything get her down, Marion (Redgrave) particularly loves her time with the local choir. A serious turn in her health causes Arthur to re-evaluate his previous notions of life, love and relationships- including the choir.

Redgrave and Stamp ensure that this love story, which could easily spiral into syrupy-sweet banality, rises above the mundane and predicable to inspire all to realize that both love and music touch the soul.

93 minutes

Our thanks to this movie’s sponsor

Where you’ll find everything to suit your healthy lifestyle, including the freshest organic produce. Don’t forget to visit the Deli Lama, serving vegetarian breakfast, lunch, dinner and deserts. The Deli Lama caters too!

Located in the Bracebridge Shopping Centre near the Metro. 705.645.5471
Open on movie nights until 6:30 pm for dinner.

20 Feet from Stardom. To see IMDB entry of this movie, click anywhere on the picture.

Monday, September 23 at 7PM will be the day the music LIVED!

Elvis had The Jordanaires, Gladys had Her Pips, and even Springsteen has the E Street band, but did you ever wonder about all those back-up singers, and how they felt ‘filling in the gaps’?

20 Feet from Stardom highlights some of the best background singers you’ve never heard of demonstrating their talent, intuition, and struggles to find careers as solo artists.

Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville shines a rare spotlight on some of the singers behind legends like the Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson and producer, Phil Spector. This triumphant and heartbreaking tribute to the unsung voices that changed the sound of popular music, shows their conflicts, sacrifices and rewards as they stood next to the spotlight.

91 minutes

This Movie’s Sponsor hits ALL the right notes!

The Muskoka Music Men is a men’s chorus singing four-part a cappella close harmony in the barbershop style; in fact they are the Huntsville chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society. Under the direction of music teacher Frank Berg, they cover a wide range of musical genres, all arranged for barbershop, including popular songs, Broadway show tunes, old standards, doo-wop songs, carols and spirituals. With members from throughout Muskoka, they rehearse for two hours most Tuesday evenings starting at 7:30 PM in the 2^nd floor Gathering Room at Muskoka Traditions, 16 Legacy Lane in Huntsville. Members learn by listening to vocal part-predominant CD recordings. Sheet music is provided to facilitate learning, but you don’t have to be able to read music. Rehearsals are open to the public; please feel free to sit in on one of their meetings, meet a great bunch of guys and maybe even give it a try! For more information, call Peter Barber at (705) 646-2565 or via e-mail at muskokamusicmen@gmail.com.

‘The Sapphires’ headlines our new season!

‘The Saphhires’ screening Sept 9, 7pm at the Norwood Theatre. Click on the image to find out more about the movie at IMDB

We kick off our new season with a real ‘gem’. Inspired by a true story, The Sapphires follows four aboriginal Australian girls from an outback talent show to entertaining U.S. troops in Vietnam, as they search for the chance to realize their dreams.

Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids) plays Dave, their dissolute manager who recognizes their talent- and his opportunity.

This combination Dreamgirls, Good Morning, Vietnam! and The Commitments, is a feel-good story with a sound track that will have you dancing in the aisles!
103 minutes

A BIG Thank You to this movie’s sponsor

Firstbrook, Cassie & Anderson

Serving Muskoka’s

Commercial, Residential, Vehicle, and Marine Insurance

needs for over twenty years.

72 Joseph Street, Port Carling

705.765.6844

www.fcainsurance.com

‘The Sapphires’ headline our new season!

‘The Saphhires’ screening Sept 9, 7pm at the Norwood Theatre. Click on the image to find out more about the movie at IMDB

Join us Monday September 9 as we kick off our new season with a real ‘gem’. Inspired by a true story, The Sapphires follows four aboriginal Australian girls from an outback talent show to entertaining U.S. troops in Vietnam, as they search for the chance to realize their dreams.

Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids) plays Dave, their dissolute manager who recognizes their talent- and his opportunity.

This combination Dreamgirls, Good Morning, Vietnam!  and The Commitments, is a feel-good story with a sound track that will have you dancing in the aisles!

Be sure to join us for a reception before the movie from 5:30pm-6:45pm as we celebrate our new- and best yet- season!

Location TBA

A BIG Thank You to this movie’s sponsor

Firstbrook, Cassie & Anderson

Serving Muskoka’s

Commercial, Residential, Vehicle, and Marine Insurance

needs for twenty years.

72 Joseph Street, Port Carling

705.765.6844

www.fcainsurance.com

Here’s just some of our great new line-up:

Date	Movie	Sponsor
September 9, 2013	The Sapphires	Firstbrook Cassie & Anderson Insurance Brokers
September 23, 2013	20 Feet from Stardom	Muskoka Music Men
October 7, 2013	Unfinished Song	Muskoka Natural Food Market
October 21, 2013	Before Midnight	Nipissing Arts and Culture Film Series
November 4, 2013	Chasing Ice	Roy DeHaan Carpentry
November 18, 2013	Love is All You Need	Diesel House Café
December 9	The Hunt	Hutchinson Environmental Sciences
January 13, 2014	Watermark	Dr. Stuart Robson, Dentist
January 27, 2014	Enough Said	Martin's Framing
February 10, 2014	Inside Llewyn Davis	SABR
February 24, 2014	Philomena	Karen Acton Royal LePage
March 10, 2014	Le weekend	Bookkeeping"+", Income Tax Service
March 24, 2014	The Lunchbox	Kawartha Credit Union
April 14, 2014	Like Father, Like Son	Brackenrig Nursery Muskoka
April 28, 2014	The Invisible Woman	Catherine Nasmith Architect
May 12, 2014	Nebraska May 12, 2014	Brackenrig Nursery Muskoka
May 26, 2014	The Railway Man- May 26, 2014	Actors' Colony Theatre

See you at the movies!