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Aloha,

Just a quick heads up to remind you that we are screening the incredible musical and spiritual documentary NEIL YOUNG at the MACC tonight (Friday, April 28th at 5pm and 7:30pm).

Also, the Maui Film Festival is screening (make that Big Screening) the Academy Award winning Foreign Language Film TSOTSI on May 17th as part of our CandleLight Cafe & Cinema series. We hope you will save the date and support the Maui Film Festival's on-going efforts to bring you the Best Films available at the Best Venue on Maui...the MACC's Castle Theater.

A description of TSOTSI and a link to its trailer can be found by clicking here.

Thanks for your support.

Barry

CandleLight Café & Cinema™ Schedule (April & May 2006)

FRIDAY, APRIL 28th, 5 and 7:30 p.m.
NEIL YOUNG: HEART OF GOLD
"The concert film has never looked or sounded classier....superbly crafted!" raved Variety about Academy Award winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme's "musical and spiritual autobiography", according to the LA Times, of legendary singer/songwriter Neil Young, filmed on the occasion of the world premiere of Young's "Prairie Wind" concert at Nashville's hallowed Ryman Auditorium. Movie and musical bliss. "Mesmerizing...confirms Neil Young's stature as a national treasure" glowed USA Today. Rated PG. 103 min.

Great music on this night in the Coutyard Cafe by Dylan Duncan

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Wednesday, MAY 3rd, 5 and 7:30 p.m.
THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA
Tommy Lee Jones stars, alongside Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo and Melissa Leo, in and makes his Cannes Film Festival award winning (Best Actor and Best Screenplay) directorial debut in this full bodied Western that according to LA Weekly "luxuriates in the magnificent, vanishing vistas of Texas and Mexico" and travels "the terrain of Eastwood and Peckinpah, saddled with the concerns of 21st-century life" and the challenges faced by undocument immigrants. Rated R. 121 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles.

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Wednesday, MAY 10th , 5 and 7:30 p.m.
MARILYN HOTCHKISS' BALLROOM DANCING AND CHARM SCHOOL
A talented cast including Academy Award winners Marisa Tomei and Mary Steenburgen, Robert Carlisle ("The Full Monty"), Sean Astin ("Lord of the RIngs"), Adam Arkin, Danny DeVIto and John Godman, star in this beautiful romantic dramady that celebrates the reawakening of the spirit in a tale of two lonely people who find love at a ballroom dance school. "Compelling...a wonderfully inspiring story" raved the Washington Post. Rated PG-13. 103 mn.

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Wednesday, MAY 17th , 5 and 7:30 p.m.
TSOTSI
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Roger Ebert found this "simple and profoundly powerful" wide-screen drama, set amidst the bustling townships of Johannesburg and infused with the pumping high-energy Kwaito music of the top South African artist Zola, is an extraordinary portrait of the choies we make in life and the personal triumph that comes from choosing love over rage. Rated R. 94 min. In Zulu, Xhosa, Africaans with English subtitles.

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Wednesday, MAY 24th , 5 and 7:30 p.m.
THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE
An Oscar-worthy lead performance by Gretchen Mol, who stars alongside Academy Award nominee David Strathairn and Lili Taylor, in this provocative exploration of sexuality, religion and pop culture, that takes us into the 1950s and the fascinating world of famous pin-up girl and devout Christian Bettie Page. "A joyful, heartfelt movie...one that speaks with openness and vitality" (Salon.com). Entertainment Weekly raved "captures, with seductive finesse, how Bettie Page happened, yet what it leaves us with is the tantalizing enigma of a girl who couldn't truly be "bad" because she made sex divinely delicious." Rated R. 100 min.

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Wednesday, MAY 31st , 5 and 7:30 p.m.
TIBET: A BUDDHIST TRILOGY
Originally presented during the Dalai Lama's first visit to the US in 1979, this is an epic impressionistic documentary, that is as much of an experience of surrendering to the images and rhythms of lives lived in simultaneous harmony with the physical and the spiritual, that captures both the spirituality and jumanity of monastic life. "Stylistically bold and hypnotically captivating... greatly helped by the chants that dominate much of the soundtrack." (LA Weekly). Unrated. 134 min.

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