From foreign films to animated flicks, FirstLight has it all
Advertiser Staff
All showings at Castle Theater, Maui Arts & Cultural Center
WEDNESDAY
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• 2 p.m.: "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" (Warner Bros./Dream Works)
Gene Hackman heads a star-studded cast in "The Royal Tenenbaums," which looks into the lives of a family of neurotic geniuses.
Steven Spielberg's most recent film, which Stanley Kubrick had developed for nearly 20 years, features Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, William Hurt and Frances O'Connor living in a world in which humans have engineered robots that from outside appearances are indistinguishable from human beings. PG-13.
• 5 p.m.: "Lantana" (Lions Gate)
Anthony LaPaglia, Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush and Barbara Hershey star in a relationship drama from Australia about the story of four couples, framed by a woman's mysterious disappearance. Directed by Ray Lawrence ("Bliss"). R.
• 7:30 p.m.: "Vanilla Sky" (Paramount)
Tom Cruise stars in the mysterious film from Academy Award winner ("Almost Famous" and "Jerry Maguire") writer/director Cameron Crowe, inspired by the Spanish mystery "Abre Los Ojos" ("Open Your Eyes"). R.
THURSDAY
• 5 p.m.: "Dark Blue World" (Sony Pictures Classics)
From Jan Sverak, director of the Academy Award-winning foreign language film "Kolya," comes this romantic drama about two Czech Spitfire pilots serving together in the U.K.'s Royal Air Force during World War II and the Battle of Britain. In Czech with English subtitles. R.
• 7:30 p.m.: "The Majestic" (Warner Brothers)
Academy Award-nominated actors Jim Carrey and Martin Landau star in the newest Capra-esque film from director Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile"). Carey plays a screenwriter in 1951 who gets blacklisted, loses his memory, winds up in a small town, and is mistaken for someone else. PG-13.
FRIDAY
• 5 p.m.: "Focus" (Paramount Classics)
Academy Award-nominated actors William H. Macy and Laura Dern star with David Paymer in this film based on the short story, from acclaimed writer Arthur Miller, about the ramifications of anti-Semitism in Brooklyn, N.Y. during WWII. PG-13.
• 7:30 p.m.: "Waking Life" (Fox Searchlight)
An amazing, animated film from director Richard Linklater that has been described as a cross between "My Dinner with Andre" (in its philosophical ponderings) and (the visually spectacular renderings of) "Yellow Submarine." R.
• 9:30 p.m.: "The Deep End" (Fox Searchlight)
Tilda Swinton stars in a stylish thriller written and directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel about a mother of three who is challenged to protect her family's interests after she finds herself being blackmailed. R.
SATURDAY
• 2 p.m.: "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" (Warner Bros.) PG.
• 5 p.m.: "Iris" (Miramax)
Dame Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent and Kate Winslet star in this true story of the romance between novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and John Bayley — from meeting as teachers at Oxford, through 40 years of Murdoch's fight with Alzheimer's Disease. R.
• 7:30 p.m.: "The Royal Tenenbaums" (Touchstone)
Gene Hackman, Anjelica Houston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller and Luke Wilson star in the new dramatic comedy from co-writer and director Wes Anderson ("Rushmore") about the lives of a fictitious family of neurotic geniuses who find themselves living together again after their father is unexpectedly reunited with their mother. R.
• 9:30 p.m. "Ocean's eleven" (Warner Bros.)
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Andy Garcia, Carl Reiner and Julia Roberts star in the newest film from director Steven Soderberg ("Traffic"). PG-13.
Dec. 23
• 2 p.m. "Pearl Harbor" (Touchstone). PG-13.
• 5 p.m. "The Affair of the Necklace" (Warner Brothers)
Academy Award winner Hillary Swank stars with Christopher Walken, Jonathan Pryce, Joely Richardson and Adrien Brody in this film, set in 18th-century France, about an aristocrat, distracted by true love, while she's fixated on stealing a precious necklace to avenge her family mistreatment before the French Revolution. R.
• 7:30 p.m. "Ali" (Columbia)
Will Smith stars in this film following the career of Muhammad Ali from his first capture of the World Heavyweight Championship crown, through political run-ins during the Vietnam era, to his infamous recapturing of the title in the Rumble in the Jungle against George Foreman. R.
Dec. 26
• 2 p.m. "Ghost World" (UA/MGM)
Thora Birch (who starred in "American Beauty"), Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi, Brad Renfro and Illeana Douglas star in a film, co-written by cartoonist and story creator Daniel Clowes and directed by Terry Zwigoff ("Crumb"), that follows the idiosyncratic trials and tribulations of two recent high school graduates as they make their way in the world. R.
• 5 p.m. "Monster's Ball" (Lions Gate)
Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Heath Ledger, Peter Boyle and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs star in this story about tolerance and redemption and the price of complacency. Set in the deep South against the backdrop of a forbidden interracial love affair and the rampant racism of the world in which it takes place. R.
• 7:30 p.m. "The Shipping News" (Miramax)
Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett and Scott Glenn star in director Lasse Hallstrom's ("Cider House Rules" and "Chocolat") newest film, based on Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, about a newspaperman's journey to find love and happiness upon returning to his ancestral home. R.
Dec. 27
• 5 p.m. "Charlotte Gray" (Warner Bros.)
Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup and Michael Gambon star in the newest film from director Gillian Armstrong ("Oscar & Lucinda") and writer Jeremy Brock ("Mrs. Brown") about a Scottish woman who joins the French Resistance during World War II to find her pilot lover who was shot down in France. PG-13.
• 7:30 p.m. "The Man Who Wasn't There" (USA Films)
The newest film from Academy Award-winning director Joel Coen ("Fargo") and his brother Ethan, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini, Jon Polito and Tony Shalhoub, wowed critics at Cannes with its elliptical tale of a meditative small-town barber who gets in way over his head in a "Double Indemnity"-like blackmail scheme. R.
• 9:30 p.m. "Black Hawk Down" (Columbia)
Josh Hartnett and Ewan McGregor star in this heroic account based on actual events, from director Ridley Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, about a group of elite U.S. soldiers sent into Mogadishu, Somalia, in October 1993 as part of a U.N. peacekeeping operation to kidnap Somali warlords. R.
Dec. 28
• 5 p.m. "Last Orders" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Director Fred Schepisi's finely crafted new film, set in London, stars Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, David Hemmings, Tom Courtenay, Ray Winstone and Helen Mirren in a delicate and textured story that deals with all the big subjects — love, friendship, death and life. Not yet rated.
• 7:30 p.m. "A Beautiful Mind" (Universal/Dream Works)
Academy Award winner Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Adam Goldberg and Christopher Plummer star in director Ron Howard's ("Apollo 13") new film about the wondrous survival of a challenging marriage, as well as a man's journey through genius, madness and ultimately triumph. Based on the true story of formerly schizophrenic mathematician John Nash Forbes Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. PG-13.
• 9:30 p.m. "Sexy Beast" (Fox Searchlight)
Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane and Amanda Redman chew up the screen in a film noir directed by Jonathan Glazer. The Academy Award-winning Kingsley plays a gangster who relentlessly pulls a retired former partner in crime, who's now living large in a villa on the Costa del Sol in Spain, back into the game. R.
Dec. 29
• 11 a.m. "Shrek" (Dream Works)
Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and John Lithgow star in the remarkable computer-animated film about a cynical, no-nonsense ogre whose swamp has been overrun by annoying fairy tale creatures. He sets out to save his home and along the way meets and falls in love with a beautiful princess with a deep, dark secret. PG.
• 2 p.m. "No Man's Land" (UA/MGM)
Winner of the Best Screenplay at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, this black comedy from Bosnia, set during the 1993 Bosnian Conflict, is the story of two soldiers ... a Bosnian and a Serb ... who find themselves trapped in "No Man's Land", a trench between both sides, next to an injured Bosnian lying on a mine that could kill them all. Soon, a U.N. sergeant, trying to help, attracts the attention of the international press, and the mess gets truly convoluted. In Bosnian with English subtitles. R.
• 5 p.m. "Gosford Park" (USA Films)
American Cinema's leading maverick, director Robert Altman ("The Player" and "Nashville") makes a murder-mystery set in England in 1932, with a cast including Michael Gambon, Jeremy Northam, Helen Mirren, Emily Watson and Ryan Phillipe, Maggie Smith and Kristin Scott Thomas. R.
• 7:30 p.m. "Amelie" (Miramax)
Straight from its triumphant record-breaking run in Europe comes this magical story about a woman's quest to bring joy to those around her. Shot in more than 40 locations around Paris by visually groundbreaking director Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("City of Lost Children"). In French with English subtitles. R.
• 9:30 p.m. "Waking Life" (Fox Searchlight) R.
Dec. 30
• 11 a.m. "Monsters, Inc." (Disney.Pixar)
Computer-animated tale from writer Andrew Stanton ("Toy Story") about two factory-worker monsters who have to hide an adorable 3-year-old girl. G.
• 2 p.m. "Moulin Rouge" (20th Century Fox)
Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo and Jim Broadbent light up the screen in this visually dazzling musical directed by Baz Luhrmann. PG-13.
• 5 p.m. "Italian for Beginners" (Miramax)
This film won the Silver Bear at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival, and was the first film to be directed by a woman, Lone Scherfig, using the cinematic rules of the naturalistic Dogme 95 movement. It tells the humorous tale of several students of an Italian language class finding romance in their studies of the language of love. In Danish and Italian with English subtitles. R.
• 7:30 p.m. "I Am Sam" (New Line)
Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer and Laura Dern star in this story of a disabled man with the mental capacity of a 7-year-old who faces a hearing to regain custody of his young daughter, taken away from him by the local social services. Directed by Jessie Nelson ("Corrina, Corrina"). PG-13.
