Movies

NOTICE: The July 4 showing of this film has been cancelled.  We apologize for any inconvenience.

Saturday, July 5 at 7:30pm
Sunday, July 6 at 2:30pm
Monday and Tuesday, July 7 and July 8 at 7:30pm

Starring: Will Poulter, Bill Milner, Jules Sitruck, Charlie Thrift, Jessica
Director: Garth Jennings

Writer-director Garth Jennings and producer Nick Goldsmith, who as Hammer & Tongs have made music videos for such groups as Fatboy Slim, Supergrass, Blur, and REM, follow up their 2005 film, THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, with the charming indie SON OF RAMBOW, a love letter to the...  Writer-director Garth Jennings and producer Nick Goldsmith, who as Hammer & Tongs have made music videos for such groups as Fatboy Slim, Supergrass, Blur, and REM, follow up their 2005 film, THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, with the charming indie SON OF RAMBOW, a love letter to the movies.

A success at such festivals as Toronto and Sundance, SON OF RAMBOW stars Bill Milner as Will Proudfoot, a shy, reserved young boy who is different from the other kids because his family is part of the Brethren, a religion that shuns the outside world, not allowing him to have friends at school or to watch television. While in the hallway in school one day because he can't watch an educational film in class, Will gets into a fight with Lee Carter (Will Poulter), a tough kid who gets into trouble all the time. Lee forces Will to help him make a homemade version of the Sylvester Stallone film FIRST BLOOD, but after watching the original, Will is captivated by the movie and writes his own sequel, casting himself as the son of Rambo (he misspells the name of the character). Will and Lee use their imagination and lots of grit to get the project off the ground, bonding as only blood brothers can. But soon the entire school wants to participate in the movie, including ultra-cool French exchange student Didier Revol (Jules Sitruk), jeopardizing the integrity of the production as well as Will and Lee's growing friendship. Milner and Poulter, both making their feature-film debuts, are engaging as the lead characters.

Jennings sets SON OF RAMBOW in the 1980s, before cell phones, digital cameras, and YouTube changed the way people communicate. Amid a soundtrack that includes music from such seminal period bands as the Cure and Depeche Mode, the two young boys learn about family and friendship, jealousy and ego as their carefully controlled worlds threaten to implode.

Houston Chronicle - "Son of Rambow is an inventive and amusing coming-of-age movie that deftly entwines elements of farce and fantasy, rebelliousness and sentiment, while paying seriously funny tribute to the transcendent power of art."

Variety - "Bright and witty physical and optical visual touches spill off the screen, though the use of effects is scaled to the tale."

Taylor Camp ^(NR)

Friday, July 11 at 5:00pm and 7:30pm
Saturday, July 12 at 4:30pm and 7:00pm

Director: Bob Stone
Writer/Producer/Photographer: John Wehrheim
Music Editor: Tom Vendetti

Tickets are $10

"Taylor Camp" is a feature documentary (as well as a book to be published by Serindia) that takes the viewer on a journey through the ultimate hippie fantasy-a crazy quilt community of tree houses on the beach at the end of the road on the north shore of Kauai.  It is about the rejection of American values only to repaint them with long hair, marijuana and a vegetarian "clothing-optional" lifestyle in the era of flower power, anti-war riots and the Age of Aquarius.

Taylor Camp was born in the spring of 1969 when artist / oceanographer Howard Taylor (brother of actress Elizabeth) bailed out of jail a rag-tag band of young mainlanders arrested for vagrancy and invited them to live on his land; thus setting off immigrating waves of hippies, surfers, seekers and psychologically scarred Vietnam vets to Kauai's North Shore.

30 years later, we relive the growth of the camp through storytelling and interviews with the campers and their local neighbors.  The interviews are woven into period music, re-enactments, original footage and striking black and white images of the camp from 1971 to 1977, plus a bare-knuckle examination of Taylor Camp's impact on the local community.

Condemned by the State in 1977, government workers torched the camp before the last resident moved out, leaving behind ashes and magical memories of “the best days of our lives."

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The Visitor ^(PG13)

Friday and Saturday, July 18 and July 19 at 7:30pm
Sunday, July 20 at 2:30pm
Monday and Tuesday, July 21 and July 22 at 7:30pm

Starring: Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira
Director: Tom McCarthy

In a world of six billion people, it only takes one to change your life. In actor and filmmaker Tom McCarthy’s follow-up to his award winning directorial debut The Station Agent, Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) stars as a disillusioned Connecticut economics professor whose life is...  In a world of six billion people, it only takes one to change your life. In actor and filmmaker Tom McCarthy’s follow-up to his award winning directorial debut The Station Agent, Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) stars as a disillusioned Connecticut economics professor whose life is transformed by a chance encounter in New York City.

Sixty-two-year-old Walter Vale (Jenkins) is sleepwalking through his life. Having lost his passion for teaching and writing, he fills the void by unsuccessfully trying to learn to play classical piano. When his college sends him to Manhattan to attend a conference, Walter is surprised to find a young couple has taken up residence in his apartment. Victims of a real estate scam, Tarek (Haaz Sleiman), a Syrian man, and Zainab (Danai Gurira), his Senegalese girlfriend, have nowhere else to go. In the first of a series of tests of the heart, Walter reluctantly allows the couple to stay with him.

Touched by his kindness, Tarek, a talented musician, insists on teaching the aging academic to play the African drum. The instrument’s exuberant rhythms revitalize Walter’s faltering spirit and open his eyes to a vibrant world of local jazz clubs and Central Park drum circles. As the friendship between the two men deepens, the differences in culture, age and temperament fall away.

After being stopped by police in the subway, Tarek is arrested as an undocumented citizen and held for deportation. As his situation turns desperate, Walter finds himself compelled to help his new friend with a passion he thought he had long ago lost. When Tarek’s beautiful mother Mouna (Hiam Abbass) arrives unexpectedly in search of her son, the professor’s personal commitment develops into an unlikely romance.

And it’s through these new found connections with these virtual strangers that Walter is awakened to a new world and a new life. --© Overture Films

Wall Street Journal - "The Visitor tells of renewal through love. Its song is tinged with sadness, but stirring all the same."

Chicago Tribune - "Richard Jenkins and "The Visitor" make lovely music together. It's a case of a veteran character actor slipping on a leading role like the most comfortable pair of pants in the world."

Friday and Saturday, July 25 and July 26 at 7:30pm Sunday, July 27 at 2:30pm

Narrated by Woody Harrelson; featuring Willie Nelson Directed by Stephen B. Strout

Revolution Green is a revealing documentary about the renewable energy called biodiesel and it’s importance to the world economy.

Based on a true story, Revolution Green follows the lives of Bob and Kelly King, whose pioneering vision created America’s first sustainable biodiesel refinery in Maui back in 1996.  Bob and Kelly’s company, named Pacific Biodiesel, became the first private company in America to divert and refine thousands of tons of municipal grease trap waste and waste vegetable oil into clean-burning, premium ASTM certified, B100 biodiesel.  Years later, country music legend Willie Nelson became very interested in the King’s vision of sustainable biodiesel, eventually forming a strong partnership.  Over a short period of time, Willie and good friend Bill Mack would single-handedly use satellite radio to talk to truckers and farmers about biodiesel, elevating the renewable fuel into mainstream recognition.

Revolution Green is an American story about the responsibility that comes with freedom of choice.  It follows one man’s vision to manufacture biodiesel and one man’s determination to spread the word; one man’s quest to use it in his big rig, and one man’s desire to farm his soybeans into biodiesel.  Their unique perspectives on living a sustainable way of life offer audiences a chance to become empowered to make a difference in simple everyday choices.

Woody Harrelson:  “We are a part of something great here.  We are a part of the Green Revolution that has taken over this planet at long last, so jump on board.”

Willie Nelson:  “Biodiesel is a light at the end of the tunnel for farmers.”

HAWAI'I FILM HO'IKE  
A film event featuring films made in Hawai'i
by residents of Hawai'i.
 
September 6,2008
3:00pm
Short: "The Best of Kea'au Youth Business Center and Hilo High School" Filmmakers Various
Feature: "The First Battle". Filmmaker Tom Coffman
 
6:30pm
Short:  "The Punaluu Experience" Filmmaker Danny Miller
Feature: "One Winter Story" Filmmaker Sally Lundburg
 
September 7,2008
3:00pm
Short: "Pule Wailele" Filmmaker John  Zak
Feature: "The Hawaiians: Reflecting Spirit" Filmmaker Edgy Lee
 
6:30pm
Short: "The Best of Kamehameha High School" Filmmaker Various
Feature"LAHAINA:Waves of Change" filmmaker Eddie Kamae
 
Tickets are $5.00 per show.
Call 934-7010.