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Apr 16, 2004 - NOW@ THE OAKS (Apr. 16-22): "REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED" "ROBOT STORIES"
April 16 - 22, 2004
THE OAKS THEATER:
"THE BEST MOVIE THEATER IN PITTSBURGH"
PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER "BEST OF" READERS' POLL 2003
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Now Playing:
(APRIL 16 - 22)
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"THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED"
www.chavezthefilm.com
(NOT RATED, 1 HOUR 20 MINUTES, SPANISH WITH SUBTITLES)
FRIDAY THRU SUNDAY @ 2:00 o 5:45 o 7:30
MONDAY THRU THURSDAY @ 5:45 o 7:30*
*MONDAY NIGHT DISCUSSION!
Join us THIS MONDAY NIGHT, April 19, for an audience discussion of "THE
REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED" with this week's guest, Chatham College
professor, documentarian, and activist STEFFI DOMIKE!
ONE WEEK ONLY! In a year of great political documentaries, this may be the
most gripping and remarkable of them all. Irish filmmakers Kim Bartley and
Donnacha O'Brien intended the movie as a straightforward portrait of populist
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who was elected in a landslide in 1998. But
when Chavez' left-wing government was suddenly overthrown by a coalition of
military and business leaders on April 12, 2002, the film became the chronicle
of a coup. The filmmakers captured the tumultuous events from the inside, where
their perspectives ran counter to those on Venezuela's privately owned
television networks. And when yet another transfer of power took place, two
days later, the indefatigable filmmakers were still there on the inside, and
still shooting! Propaganda or historical evidence, decide for yourself, as "THE
REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED" offers a challenging essay which considers the
meaning of truth, biases, and the impact of the media and how that is
controlled!
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"ROBOT STORIES"
www.robotstories.net
(NOT RATED, 1 HOUR 25 MINUTES)
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY @ 3:45 o 9:15
SUNDAY AND MONDAY @ 3:45 ONLY
TUESDAY THRU THURSDAY @ 9:15 ONLY
BY REQUEST - ONE WEEK ONLY! Winner of over 30 film festival and audience
awards, "ROBOT STORIES" is science fiction from the heart, four stories starring
Tamlyn Tomita ("The Joy Luck Club") and Sab Shimono ("The Big Hit") in which
utterly human characters struggle to connect in a world of technology and
mechanics - from robot babies to android office workers. The stories include:
"My Robot Baby," in which a couple must care for a robot baby before adopting a
human child; "The Robot Fixer," in which a mother tries to connect with her
dying son by completing his toy robot collection; "Machine Love," in which an
office worker android learns that he, too, needs love; and "Clay," in which an
old sculptor must choose between natural death and digital immortality. John
Petrakis of the Chicago Tribune calls the film "one of the most moving pieces
I've seen all year."
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Schedule At-A-Glance
(APRIL 16 - 22)
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FRIDAY, APRIL 16:
2:00 - "The Revolution" / 3:45 - "Robot Stories" / 5:45 - "The Revolution" /
7:30 - "The Revolution" / 9:15 - "Robot Stories"
SATURDAY, APRIL 17:
2:00 - "The Revolution" / 3:45 - "Robot Stories" / 5:45 - "The Revolution" /
7:30 - "The Revolution" / 9:15 - "Robot Stories"
SUNDAY, APRIL 18:
2:00 - "The Revolution" / 3:45 - "Robot Stories" / 5:45 - "The Revolution" /
7:30 - "The Revolution"
MONDAY, APRIL 19:
3:45 - "Robot Stories" / 5:45 - "The Revolution" / 7:30 - "The Revolution" +
MONDAY NIGHT DISCUSSION
TUESDAY, APRIL 20:
($4 TICKETS) 5:45 - "The Revolution" / 7:30 - "The Revolution" / 9:15 - "Robot
Stories"
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21:
5:45 - "The Revolution" / 7:30 - "The Revolution" / 9:15 - "Robot Stories"
THURSDAY, APRIL 22:
5:45 - "The Revolution" / 7:30 - "The Revolution" / 9:15 - "Robot Stories"
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Coming Soon!
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"IN JULY" OPENS APRIL 23 - NEW FROM GERMANY!
A classic romance, "IN JULY" is a vibrantly photographed journey set
against the decidedly multicultural backdrop of Central and Eastern Europe, in
which unrequited love, a stolen passport and 5 different countries and languages
play the leads. Daniel is a young physics teacher in Hamburg who plays life by
the rules. His students ridicule him, bartenders ignore him, and every night he
walks home to a perfectly empty IKEA-furnished apartment. But his drab
existence is about to change, as he falls head over heels in love with a
beautiful Turkish girl and spontaneously decides to follow her to Istanbul. On
his way East, Daniel discovers a new self and learns to truly fight for his
happiness, overcoming obstacles of man, nature, fate and circumstance along the
way! Juli, his unlikely travel companion, is a whimsical, lovesick young woman
whose prediction that Daniel would soon find his one true love spawned this
series of events. But, until then, together the two conquer Europe by truck,
car, bus, boat and foot and find out on the way that the laws of physics don't
always apply!
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"GOOD BYE, LENIN!" OPENS APRIL 30 - BY REQUEST
October, 1989 was a bad time to fall into a coma if you lived in East
Germany - and this is precisely what happens to Alex's proudly socialist
mother. Alex has a big problem on his hands when she suddenly awakens eight
months later. Her heart is so weak that any shock might kill her. And what
could be more shocking than the fall of the Berlin Wall and the triumph of
capitalism in her beloved East Germany? To save his mother, Alex transforms the
family apartment into an island of the past, a kind of socialist-era museum
where mom is lovingly duped into believing that nothing has changed. Before
long, what began as a tiny white lie turns into a major scam as Alex's family
and neighbors are recruited to maintain the elaborate ruse -and keep her
believing that Lenin really did win after all!
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Also:
"Monty Python's LIFE OF BRIAN"
"SHAOLIN SOCCER"
Visit
www.theoakstheater.com for more "Coming Soon" titles and links!
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