Winner of five academy awards, including best picture. Click on image to visit this movie's IMDB page.

A love letter to 1920s Hollywood that resurrects silent cinema as a powerful and complex storytelling medium, The Artist was shot entirely in black and white, without dialogue and utilizing a traditional 1.33 aspect ratio.

The tale is a familiar one, of two Hollywood stars on opposite trajectories. George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a silent screen idol who is about to lose it all. Meanwhile, aspiring actress Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo) unexpectedly finds herself the new It-Girl at the forefront of the sound phenomenon.

We predict this Oscar fave is going to sell out, so be sure to book your tickets in advance and/or arrive early.

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Karen Acton — Royal LePage Lakes of Muskoka

You can reach Karen at (705) 706-2246 or at karenacton@royallepage.ca, and you’ll find Royal LePage Muskoka online at www.royallepagemuskoka.com.

Thanks for supporting Muskoka’s movie culture!

A grieving father completes the journey started by his deceased son. Starring Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez.

The Way is a touching film about the testy yet unbreakable bond between father and son, and the supportive, almost-familial connections that can form among strangers.

Tom (Martin Sheen, Bobby, The Departed), an American ophthalmologist, learns that his son (real-life scion Emilio Estevez, who also directed and co-wrote the script) has been killed in a freak accident on a pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of Saint James, in the northwest of Spain.

Upon arriving in France to collect his son’s remains and return to the United States, Tom is hit with a profound sense of sadness and quickly changes his plans. Equipped with his deceased son’s guidebook and backpack, he embarks on the 800 km pilgrimage from the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela in an attempt to honour his son’s memory by finishing what he had started.

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Archdekin Medical Group

Located at 205 Hiram Street in Bracebridge. Google Map.

Starring Patrick Huard as a sperm donor whose past catches up with him. Click the image to go to the movie's IMDB page.

Directed by Ken Scott (Seducing Doctor Lewis), Starbuck is the French-language tale of a middle-aged man whose extended adolescence is about to come to an abrupt end.

Twenty years earlier, in order to make some cash, David (Patrick Huard, Bon Cop, Bad Cop) was a regular supplying sperm to a fertility clinic. Now, just as his girlfriend informs him that she’s pregnant, he discovers he’s the father of 533 children, 142 of whom have filed a class action lawsuit to determine the identity of their biological father, known only by the pseudonym Starbuck. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see the trailer.

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Muskoka Audiology Clinic

Many thanks to Audiologists Preeti Nichol, Graham Cole and their staff for supporting Muskoka’s movie culture.

The clinic is located at 256 James Street, near the corner of Manitoba Street and Monck Road in Bracebridge. Google Map. You can reach the clinic at (705) 646-2227 or muskoka.audiology@bellnet.ca

Starring Kristin Scott Thomas (Nowhere Boy, I’ve Loved You So Long), Sarah's Key is a harrowing and profoundly moving tale about a terrible period of French history. Click on image to go to the movie's IMDB page.

Sarah’s Key is a fictionalized account of the actual roundups in Paris that sentenced thousands of Jewish families to their deaths.

In the summer of 1942, ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski (Mélusine Mayance) knows something is wrong.

In an attempt to save her family, she locks her four-year-old brother, Michel in a bedroom cupboard – their secret hiding place. She promises to return for him, but she and her parents are dragged from their home forever.

Sixty years later, journalist Julia Jarmond (Scott Thomas) is assigned to write a story on the Vel’d’Hiv roundup. American by birth, Julia has been living in Paris for more than twenty years. What begins as research for her article becomes more personal when Julia discovers that she and Sarah have something in common, prompting her to change her outlook on her husband, her adopted nation and herself.

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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 roy.dehaan5@hotmail.com

Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor in Beginners. Click on image to go to the movie's IMDB page.

Beginners, a moving and oftentimes humorous portrait of family, love, loss, and self-discovery that deftly juggles two chronologies to tell the heartwarming story of two major points in the life of Oliver (Ewan McGregor, Ghost Writer), a talented illustrator.

One timeline follows the deterioration of Oliver’s father (Christopher Plummer, The Last Station) who is dying of cancer and who, at age 75, has decided to come out of the closet. The other follows Oliver’s journey to come to terms with his grief in the wake of his father’s death.

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Call of the Wild — Septic pumping and portables.

The place to go for all of your septic and portable toilet needs, from construction or casual to high end for formal affairs.

**Present your Spinning Reels program and receive a 10% discount.**

Proprietor: Don Wilton
(705) 646-5756 or (877) 646-5756
www.callofthewildseptic.ca

Om Puri and newcomer Aqib Kahn star in West is West. Click on image to go to the movie's IMDB page.

Screened on: Monday November 14, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. — West is West is a heart-warming and hilarious follow-up to East is East that takes the boisterous Khan family from bleak Salford back to the hot dust of rural Pakistan.

After insulting his father’s country bumpkin background, teenager Sajid (Aqib Khan) is forced to accompany his dad on a month-long trip to Pakistan, to learn the customs of his family’s life.

George is trying to discipline his defiant son, but he has his own ghosts; this trip is his first since he deserted his first wife and young family thirty years ago.

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Georgian College — Muskoka Campus is a dynamic regional campus dedicated to providing quality education and training.

Georgian Muskoka offers full-time and part-time programs and apprenticeship training. Visit the Georgian Muskoka website or download a the Muskoka Campus brochure (PDF document).

Georgian College — Muskoka Campus is located at:
111 Wellington Street, Bracebridge
www.georgianc.on.ca/campuses/muskoka/
muskoka@georgianc.on.ca
705.646.2120
Georgian College — Muskoka Campus
Your College • Your Future

Catherine Deneuve and Gerrard Depardieu star in Potiche. Click the image to go to the film's IMDB page.

Monday October 24, 2011 — French-language comedy Potiche, starring Catherine Deneauve and Gerard Depardieu.

In 1977, in a small town in France, Suzanne Pujol (Deneuve) lives the life of a traditional housewife, doting on her grumpy husband, Robert (Fabrice Luchini, Paris, Moliere), who spends his days running her family’s umbrella business into the ground.

Without warning, life for the Pujol family is turned upside down when the workers of the umbrella factory go on strike, Robert suffers a heart attack, and Suzanne is left to run the company with the help of her former beau, the town mayor, Maurice Babin (Depardieu, My Afternoons With Margueritte).

At first a laughing stock, when she saves the business and fosters the best working conditions in years, opinions quickly change. In fact, no one wants her husband to take back the reins once he’s recovered. But Mr. Pujol is not going down without a fight…

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We wish to thank our sponsor, Mary Jane Philp of Royal LePage Lakes of Muskoka, professional real estate services serving south and central Muskoka.

Concentrating primarily in residential properties in and around Gravenhurst and in the recreational market on the “big lakes,” Mary Jane has been a performance award-winner every year since joining Royal LePage in 2003. Most recently attaining Presidents Gold level (top 10% in Canada) in 2009 and 2010.

You can reach Mary Jane at
705.687.3474 Ext. 50 –Office
800.953.8655 Ext. 50 — Toll-free
705.644.7667 — Cell

mjphilp@sympatico.ca
www.royallepage-muskoka.com

Tree of Life

Brad Pitt stars in Tree of Life. Click on image to go to the film's IMDB page.

September 26, 2011–A visual poem featuring A-listers Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain.

A family is devastated by the loss of one of its three sons. The fragmented, non-linear narrative shifts between the boys’ suburban 1950s Texas upbringing with their overbearing father and uplifting mother (Pitt and Chastain), a contemporary urban landscape in which the eldest son (Penn) struggles with the scars of youth, and a series of transcendent images from the prehistoric to the cosmic, giving metaphoric scope to their journey.

Thank you to this movie’s sponsor

We wish to thank our sponsor, Sherry Rondeau of Royal LePage Muskoka.

Next time you’re thinking of buying or selling your home or cottage, give Sherry a call. A member in good standing with the Muskoka and Haliburton Association of Realtors for nine years, Sherry is known for her dedication to client care.

You can reach Sherry at
705.645.5257
muskokarondeau@sympatico.ca
www.muskokarondeau.ca

Ed Harris in The Way Back

Our ninth season ended off with a bang on May 9 with The Way Back, sponsored by Gina and Brian Mitchell of The Norwood Theatre. What a great season!

Many thanks to our volunteers, our sponsors, to our friends at Film Circuit, and to you movie lovers for coming out and enjoying a movie with Spinning Reels. We couldn’t do it without you!

Independent, foreign, Canadiana; Spinning Reels brings in movies you wouldn’t otherwise see in a small town like Bracebridge. Our movies run on the second and fourth Monday of the month, most months between September and May.

If you’re interested in joining our email list to receive alerts of upcoming movies or you’d like to talk to us about sponsoring a movie, we’d love to hear from you.

Contact us at info@spinningreels.ca or call 705.645.5225.