GOD OF CARNAGE – April 26th to 30th – 8 pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  SHOWTIME IS 8 PM EACH NIGHT

 

 

 

 

 

Pocket Theatre and Cinema CNC present....  

GOD OF CARNAGE 

a play by Yasmina Reza.

For cinema fans, this is like a movie, but in SUPER-ENHANCED 3-D! So real! so alive! You’d almost think you are there!

Our production takes place April 26th to April 30th. Tickets are available at Books and Company for all five screenings  shows. Seating is limited, the run is short, so get on down to B and C and secure your place in Prince George dramatic history, all for the low, low price of $15 regular, $12 student, senior, unemployed.

Our skilled cast – Frank Caffrey, Katherine Trepanier, Mark Wheeler, and Allison Haley – brings this story to life for you in room 1-306 at the College of New Caledonia.


Play Description:
Winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Play [USA] and the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Comedy [UK], God of Carnage presents two couples, the Novaks and the Raleighs, trying to resolve a playground incident in which the Raleighs’ son, Benjamin, knocked out two of the Novaks’ son, Henry’s, teeth with a stick.

The forced veneer of civilization presented by Veronica and Michael Novak and Annette and Alan Raleigh peels off rather quickly, as any attempt to proceed civilly somehow gets sidetracked, proving that we don’t ever get too far from the playground and the rules of engagement therein. The delight of watching Yasmina Reza’s play finds itself described in that most lovely of German words: Schadenfreude!


        “God of Carnage,” definitely delivers the cathartic release
        of watching other people’s marriages go boom.
        A study in the tension between civilized surface and
        savage instinct, this play is itself a satisfyingly
        primitive entertainment with an intellectual veneer.”
            – BEN BRANTLEY, The New York Times

Film Day! April 20th – DEFENDOR and THE WORLD BEFORE HER

Cinema CNC, in conjunction with CNC Communications Services presents FILM DAY IN CANADA, April 20th. This event is free and open to everyone; come on in and celebrate Canadian Film with us. Both screenings will be in room 1-306 at the College of New Caledonia.

We are pleased to present two films that represent the range of Canadian Cinema: DEFENDOR is a comedy, and THE WORLD BEFORE HER is a documentary. There will be popcorn, prizes, and fun for all. Check out the description and trailer below and tell your friends.









































April 20th, 2016, at NOON: DEFENDOR

2009 - 95 mins - Comedy
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Kat Dennings, Sandra Oh, Elias Koteas
Director: Peter Stebbings
Writer: Peter Stebbings
Producers: Nicholas Tabarrok


 A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to fighting when he changes into a vigilante super-hero of his own making, Defendor. With no power other than courage Defendor takes to the streets to protect the city's innocents!


The trailer:

April 20th, 2016, at 2 pm: THE WORLD BEFORE HER

2012 - 90 mins - Documentary
Director: Nisha Pahuja
Writer: Nisha Pahuja
Producers: Ed Barreveld, Nisha Pahuja, Cornelia Principe

Ruhi Singh is a small town girl with big city dreams. She sets off to Bombay to win the title of Miss India--a launching pad to fame and a surefire way to stand out in a country of 1.2 billion people. Just hours from the Miss India beauty boot camp is another training ground for girls--that of the Durga Vahini, a Hindu nationalist group exclusively for women. Here we meet Prachi Trivedi, a young, fearsome drill sergeant training Indian girls to fight against Western culture, Islam and Christianity by any means necessary including violence. Gliding back and forth between the action of the two camps, the dreams and conflicts of India and young Indian women are laid bare-- the two opposing worlds aren't as far away from each other as they seem.

The trailer:

I Brought a Friend

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

POPULAR "I BROUGHT A FRIEND" CAMPAIGN BACK 
FOR CINEMA CNC'S 20TH ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL! 

If you have attended Cinema CNC in the past and have bring a friend who is coming for the first time, you are BOTH eligible for our “I Brought A Friend” campaign.

The bringer will be entered in a draw for a lovely Cinema CNC prize package, and the bringee will get a voucher for free pop and popcorn... a win, win, win situation, don’t you think?

Just go to the IBAF booth where our crack group of volunteers will validate your claim!

While it’s a one-time offer to be a first-timer at Cinema CNC, the next film you come to you can be the Bringer, rather than the Bringee!

Film Festival TV Advert!

Check it out:

BOREALIS – MARCH 20: 9:30

March 20th: 9:30         Borealis
Director: Sean Garrity
Cast: Joey King, Clé Bennett, Emily Hampshire
Canada    2015    95 minutes

Jonah plays poker at a seedy back-room game overseen by Tubby Finkleman, who
reluctantly grants Jonah one-hundred grand in credit, which Jonah promptly loses. The volatile Tubby takes Marvin – Jonah’s family dog – as collateral, and warns Jonah that if he doesn’t pay up by first thing in the morning, he and his daughter, Aurora, are going to get hurt. When Jonah appeals to his girlfriend for a loan, she dumps him, tired of his lies and his negligent parenting.

Oblivious to her family’s danger, Aurora undergoes an eye exam, and her doctor
delivers the prognosis to Jonah in private: she’s going completely blind. But Jonah’s
unable to tell Aurora the truth. Instead, he urges her to come on a road trip to Churchill, Manitoba. There, Jonah once witnessed the most beautiful sight he’s ever seen – the Northern Lights. His motivation is two-fold: flee from danger, and assuage his guilt by showing her the amazing Aurora Borealis - before she loses her vision completely.

Along the way, with Tubby hot on their trail, Jonah and Aurora finally confront their tragic pasts and their individual vices in unanticipated and often comical ways. And when Jonah finally reveals the truth to Aurora about her failing vision, she shares a profound encounter with a mysterious small town hipster, before reuniting with Jonah for the final leg of the journey and the film’s exciting climax.

The Trailer:

MY INTERNSHIP IN CANADA – March 20: 7 pm

March 20th: 7 pm        My Internship in Canada
Director: Philippe Falardeau
CANADA, 2015
French, English, Creole, with English subtitles     108 minutes
Cast: Patrick Huard, Suzanne Clément, Irdens Exantus, Clémence Dufresne-Deslières, Sonia Cordeau, Paul Doucet, Jules Philip, Robin Aubert, Micheline Lanctôt

In this satirical look at the vagaries of Canadian politics from Academy Award nominee Philippe Falardeau, a Member of Parliament finds himself thrust suddenly into the spotlight, and it’s up to his young Haitian intern to help the hapless backbencher navigate the complexities and pitfalls of Parliament Hill.

A Conservative minority government trying to pass a bill that will enable them to go to war suffers a setback when one of the Tory MPs falls ill, leaving the key vote for the government’s warmongering initiative in the hands of independent MP Steve Guibord, a former hockey player whose pro career fizzled. Feverishly courted by the Tories and subjected to a moral tug of war at home — his ambitious wife wants him to vote Yes, his peacenik daughter, No — Guibord is unable to decide. As the vote nears and Guibord is beset on all sides, salvation arrives in the form of his new intern Souverain, a young Haitian student who knows considerably more about the ins and outs of our parliamentary system than does his boss.

Not only a witty and incisive portrait of wheeling and dealing in Ottawa, My Internship in Canada also exposes Canadians’ tendency to focus on the regional and specific at the expense of the wider picture. As Falardeau’s gently skewering satire demonstrates, sometimes it takes a person from another country to explain to us the workings — and the value — of the unique system that makes our democracy (sometimes) function.

“The performances are lived-in and the tone is refreshingly light. A genuine crowd-pleaser, no matter what colour that sign on your lawn might be.”
—Barry Hertz, The Globe and Mail

The Trailer:

LES ETRES CHERS [our loved ones] – March 20: 2 pm

March 20th: 2 pm        LES ETRES CHERS [Our Loved Ones]
Director: Anne Émond
CANADA, 2015
French, with English subtitles     102 Minutes
Cast: Maxim Gaudette, Karelle Tremblay, Valérie Cadieux, Mickaël Gouin

A film of ambitious scope and penetrating insight, this second feature from award-win- ning writer-director Anne Émond, follows a Québécois family over a thirty-year period as it traces the fallout from the suicide of the clan’s patriarch.

Protected by his well-intentioned siblings from the truth about his father’s death, the sensitive David has grown into a loving husband and father of two, living a seemingly fulfilling life in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. But as the years go by, during which time his relationship with his wilder brother begins to strain and his kids grow into young adulthood, David begins to struggle with an insuppressible melancholia that gradually threatens to engulf him. Meanwhile, his daughter, Laurence, begins to recognize herself in her father, and sees that she’ll need to reckon with her emotional inheritance if she is to break this destructive cycle and take on the future.

Clearly one of Canada’s great new talents, Émond exhibits a wisdom and empathy for all her characters rarely found in young filmmakers. Though Our Loved Ones is epic in scope (spanning three generations, and taking us from Quebec to Barcelona), it remains unerringly attuned to the inner lives of the family, portraying their heartbreaks and joys with sincerity and grace.

“Simultaneously an expansive, richly detailed family chronicle and an intimate two-hander about a troubled father’s relationship with his spirited teenage daughter, this marks a decisive step up for Anne Émond.” —Boyd van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter


The Trailer: