Coming up This Week at the Roxy
Fall is almost officially here, the weather is changing and if its’ going to be dark by 8pm anyway you may as well be in a nice theater enjoying a beer and a great film. That said, here’s what’s coming up this week at the Roxy Theater in Missoula:
Hootenanny!
Kids are rocking the Roxy all weekend! The inaugural kids fest runs Sept 19-21 at the Roxy and includes movies, music, puppetry, creative workshops… and oh, did I mention ninja training. Weekend passes cost $25/kid or $50/family of up to four. Individual events cost $7/adults, $6/students & seniors and $5/kids. See the full schedule of Hootenanny festivities including these awesome events:
E.T: The Extra Terrestrial
Friday, September 19, 6pm (Opening night film)
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home-world. Both a classic movie for kids and a remarkable portrait of childhood, E.T. is a sci-fi adventure that captures that strange moment in youth when the world is a place of mysterious possibilities (some wonderful, some awful), and the universe seems somehow separate from the one inhabited by grown-ups.
Hootenanny Groove: Ninja Training
Saturday, September 20
1:30 – 3 PM: Superuseful Ninja Moves
Mark Berner leads Superuseful NInja Moves. Want to free your inner ninja? Discover your shadow warrior self and practice the vital tactics of power: breath, omni-awareness, swift movement, eye defying feats, invisible tools, supernatural strength gambits and attack/defense strategies.
3:30 – 5 PM: The Art of Kung-Flow
Ancient Ninja’s are renowned for their vast arsenals of exotic tools for espionage missions to elude or silence an enemy. Practice with a few of their tools to perfect your own stealth and supernatural force. Double Staffs and Swords are twirled, tossed, wrapped around specific parts of the body and stalled in various patterns.
Hootenanny Happening: Bat Honey Puppet Show presents “Space Bacon”
Saturday, September 20 at 2pm
Missoula’s incredible and unique puppet troupe performs their new rock opera – Space Bacon!
Hootenanny Happening: The Whizpops!
Saturday, September 20 at 4:30pm
Celebrate The Roxy’s very first Hootenanny with a performance from your favorite Missoula band, The Whizpops!
Alan Alda and the Actor Within You: A Youngarts Masterclass
Saturday, September 20 at 6pm
Shot in New York City, the special features six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner Alan Alda as he mentors six aspiring young actors – all YoungArts Alumni – through an intensive workshop, and helps them find their voice through improvisation.
Hootenanny Happening: G-Wiz: The Magic Of Chemistry
Sunday, September 21 at 1:30pm
UM Professor Garon “G. Wiz” Smith brings flash and wonder to the Hootenanny with a super cool explosive demonstration of The Magic Of Chemistry.
A Letter to Momo
Sunday Sept. 21, 6pm
From the creators of Ghost in the Shell comes a wonderfully expressive and beautifully hand drawn animated tale that combines bursts of whimsy and kinetic humor with deep felt emotion and drama. The last time Momo saw her father they had a fight – and now all she has left to remember him by is an incomplete letter, a blank piece of paper penned with the words “Dear Momo” but nothing more. Moving with her mother to the remote Japanese island of Shio, Momo soon discovers three yokai living in herattic, a trio of mischievous spirit creatures that only she can see and who create mayhem in the tiny seaside community as she tries desperately to keep them hidden. But these funny monsters have a serious side and may hold the key to helping Momo discover what her father had been trying to tell her. A Letter to Momo was seven years in the making, and the handmade animation is superb, from the painstakingly rendered serenity of the island’s Shinto shrines to the climactic finale – a frantic chase featuring thousands of squirming, morphing ghosts and spirits that is the best cinematic flight of supernatural fancy in many years.
Brazil
Screening Thursday Sept 18, 8pm as part of Terry Gilliam series, showcasing three science fiction works by the director in anticipation of his new film,The Zero Theorem.
National Theater Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
Tuesday, Sept 23, 7:00 PM
The fastest-selling production in the Young Vic’s history, Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire will be broadcast live from their London home by National Theatre Live. With Gillian Anderson (The X-Files, The Fall) as Blanche DuBois, Ben Foster (Lone Survivor, Kill Your Darlings) as Stanley and Vanessa Kirby (BBC’s Great Expectations, Three Sisters at the Young Vic) as Stella.
As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski. Visionary director Benedict Andrews returns to the Young Vic following his Critics’ Circle Award-winning Three Sisters. Ticket info at mtlive.org
National Theatre Live: Medea
Tuesday, Sept 23, 7:30 PM
Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she begs for one day’s grace.
It’s time enough. She exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything she holds dear.
Helen McCrory (The Last of the Haussmans) takes the title role in Euripides’ powerful tragedy, in a new version by Ben Power, directed by Carrie Cracknell, with music written by Will Gregory and Alison Goldfrapp. Ticket info at mtlive.org
The Cherokee Word for Water
Screening Wednesday, Sept 24, 7pm as part of monthly Indigenous Cinema series.
The Cherokee Word For Water is a feature-length motion picture inspired by the true story of the struggle for, opposition to, and ultimate success of a rural Cherokee community to bring running water to their families by using the traditional concept of “gadugi” working together to solve a problem.
Based on the true story of the Bell Waterline Project, the movie is about a community coming together to improve its life condition. Led by Wilma Mankiller, who went on to become the first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation, and fullblood Cherokee organizer Charlie Soap, they join forces and build nearly twenty miles of waterline using a community of volunteers. In the process, they inspire the community to trust each other, and reawaken universal indigenous values of reciprocity and interconnectedness. The successful completion of the waterline sparked a movement of similar self-help projects across the Cherokee nation and in Indian country that continues to this day.
12 Monkeys
Continuing the Terry Gilliam series on Thursday Sept 25, 8pm
In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.
The Roxy Theater, Missoula’s non-profit community cinema, hosts regular weekly screenings of award-winning new and classic films, live music, and community events. The Roxy also hosts exclusive cultural programming, including The Met Opera: Live in HD and National Theater Live. In addition to a monthly calendar of exciting programs, The Roxy is also the host venue for many annual events, including our own International Wildlife Film Festival, the oldest and longest running wildlife media event in the world. Visit us online at theroxytheater.org
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