This Week at the Roxy – October 16
October, best month ever, continues to be great at the Roxy. This month continues with Apocalypse Now!, The Last Best Film Fest and Kiki’s Delivery Service.
Festimation presented by the UM School of Media Arts
Every Thursday in October, 7pm
October 16: Shorts/Experimental II
The “Festimation: Animation + New Media Arts Festival” is an annual screening event showcasing up-and-coming independent, narrative, documentary and experimental animated films.
Festimation is dedicated to the emerging forms of animated film and animators with creative and independent perspectives. We focus on the artistic aesthetics and innovative aspects of independent filmmaking. Our festival intersects the new inspirational techniques and expansions for cinema, which embraces the traditional and new transformed cinematic styles. We recruit and collect the works that are ambitious and unique, ranging from traditional narrative films to cutting edge avant-garde films.
Out at The Roxy: Blue Is the Warmest Color
October 16, 7pm
Blue is the Warmest Color made cinema history as the first film ever awarded the Palme d’Or to both its director and its actresses. In a star-making role, Adèle Exarchopoulos is Adèle, a passionate young woman who has a yearning she doesn’t quite understand until a chance encounter with the blue-haired Emma ignites a flame and brings her to life. Léa Seydoux (Midnight in Paris) gives a fearless performance as Emma, the older woman who excites Adèle’s desire and becomes the love of her life. Abdellatif Kechiche’s (The Secret of the Grain) intimate epic of tenderness and passion charts their relationship over the course of several years, from the ecstasy of a first kiss to the agony of heartbreak. Pulsing with gestures, embraces, furtive exchanges, and arias of joy and devastation, Blue is the Warmest Color is a profoundly moving hymn to both love and life.
20,000 Days on Earth
October 17-18: 7pm and 9pm each night
Drama and reality combine in a fictitious 24 hours in the life of musician and international cultural icon Nick Cave. The film is an intimate portrait of the artistic process, celebrating the transformative power of the creative spirit.
20,000 Days On Earth takes us deep into the heart of how myth, memory, love and loss, shape our lives, every single day. A line in Cave’s songwriting notebook calculating how many days he’d been alive inspired the film’s title. The film delves into Nick’s artistic processes, unpicking the stuff that makes him tick. Fusing drama and documentary to weave a cinematic day-in-the-life with unique verité observations of his full creative cycle.
Last Days in Vietnam
October 17-19, 7:15 & 9:15pm each night
(chosen to coincide with Missoula’s The Big Read, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien)
Apocalypse Now!
October 19, 7pm
(chosen to coincide with Missoula’s The Big Read, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien)
During the U.S.-Viet Nam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.
Met Live: Le Nozze Di Figaro
October 18, 11am and October 21, 6:30pm
Met Music Director James Levine conducts a spirited new production of Mozart’s masterpiece, directed by Richard Eyre, who sets the action of this classic domestic comedy in a 19th-century manor house in Seville, but during the gilded age of the late 1920s. Dashing bass-baritone Ildar Abdrazakov leads the cast in the title role of the clever servant, opposite Marlis Petersen as his bride, Susanna, Peter Mattei as the philandering Count they work for, Marina Poplavskaya as the long-suffering Countess, and Isabel Leonard as the libidinous pageboy Cherubino.
Last Best Film Fest
October 18, 4pm and 7pm, October 19. 12pm and 1:30pm
Experience the Region’s Premier Multi-Day Outdoor Adventure Film Festival
Draught Works Brewery & The Trail 103.3 are proud to present a Hi-Line Films event: the LAST BEST FILM FESTIVAL taking place in downtown Missoula, Montana – October 17-19th, 2014.
The three day festival highlights full feature films to short films with programming related to action and adventure sports from the great outdoors. Come experience the region’s premier and only multi-day film festival to feature outdoor action and adventure sports.
Film screenings will be shown at the The Wilma Theatre, The Roxy, & the Caras Park pavilion with a juried award ceremony including over $10,000 in cash and prizes for filmmakers as well as raffles and giveaway promotions for audience awards. Live musical performances will accompany film selections in Caras Park.
Kiki’s Delivery Service
October 22, 7pm and October 26, 4pm
Screening as part of a Hayao Miyazaki retrospective, every Wednesday through October and November
Kiki is an enterprising young girl who must follow tradition to become a full-fledged witch. Venturing out with only her black cat, Jiji, Kiki flies off for the adventure of a lifetime. Landing in a far-off city, she sets up a high-flying delivery service and begins a wonderful experience of independence and responsibility as she finds her place in the world.
Featuring the voice work of Kirsten Dunst, Debbie Reynolds, Pamela Segall and Phil Hartman
Shelter Me
October, 22 – 7:00 pm
Presented by Humane Society of Western Montana
Every year, 3-4 million dogs and cats are euthanized in America’s shelters. Shelter Me focuses on the success stories to bring more people into the shelters to give these in credible animals a second chance. The first episode shows how shelter pets are helping our returning war veterans cope with PTSD. We go inside a women’s prison, where inmates train shelter dogs to become service animals for people with disabilities. We also see the journey of two stray dogs, from the day they are picked upon the streets and brought to the shelter until the day they become a beloved family pet. Shelter Me is about redemption, hope, helping others and making a difference.
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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