Kimball Film Series Fall 2004 Schedule

The following films will be shown at Kimball Theatre during the fall 2004 semester. All films are free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. For additional information, please call the Kimball Theatre Box Office at 508-793-2455.

"Kill Bill Vol. 2" - Rated R. Wed., Sept. 1: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Uma Thurman and David Carradine. Director Quentin Tarantino offers up the sequel to his epic tale of vengeance.

"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" - Rated PG. Fri., Sept. 3 and Sat., Sept. 4: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Daniel Radcliffe and Gary Oldman. It's Harry's third year at Hogwarts School, and he learns that a convicted murderer has escaped Azkaban prison, and could be coming after him next. "The Passion of the Christ" - Rated R. Wed., Sept. 8: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Jim Caviezel. Director Mel Gibson's traditionalist view of the Passion focuses on the last 12 hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life and his death.

"Shrek 2" - Rated PG. Fri., Sept. 10 and Sat., Sept. 11: Showing at 7 p.m. Voices by Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz. Shrek and Fiona return from their honeymoon to find a letter inviting the newlyweds over for dinner with the inlaws - who have no idea that their daughter is now an ogre.

"Fahrenheit 9/11" - Rated R. Wed., Sept. 15: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Michael Moore's take on what happened to the United States after September 11; and how the Bush Administration used the tragic event to push its agenda

"Mean Girls" - Rated PG-13. Fri., Sept. 17 and Sat., Sept. 18: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Lindsay Lohan. What happens when a home-schooled 15-year-old enters public high school for the first time and encounters psychological warfare and unwritten social rules of contemporary adolescence?

"Supersize Me" - Rated PG-13. Wed., Sept. 22: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock makes himself a test subject of this documentary about the commercial food industry, rigorously eating a diet of McDonald's fast food, three times a day for a month straight.

"Troy" - Rated R. Fri., Sept. 24 and Sat., Sept. 25: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Brad Pitt and Diane Kruger. An adaptation of Homer's great epic "The Iliad," the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.

"The Mission" - Rated PG. Wed., Sept. 29: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Robert DeNiro and Jeremy Irons. Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.

"Saved!" - Rated PG-13. Fri., Oct. 1 (no Sat. showing): Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Macaulay Culkin and Jena Malone. A comedy set at a Baptist high school, where a girl finds herself ostracized and demonized, as all of her former friends turn on her.

"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" - Rated R. Wed., Oct. 6: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. A couple undergoes a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour. Fri., Oct. 8 and Sat., Oct. 9: No Showing.

"Coffee and Cigarettes" - Rated R. Wed., Oct. 13: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Cate Blanchett and Steve Buscemi and two dozen other actors and friends of director Jim Jarmusch. In a series of short vignettes, we see just how absorbing the obsessions, joys and addictions of life can be.

"The Stepford Wives" - Rated PG-13. Fri., Oct. 15 and Sat., Oct. 16: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Nicole Kidman and Bette Midler. What does it take to make the perfect wife? The husbands of Stepford, Conn., who've created a high-tech terrifying little town, seem to have the answer.

"Osama" - Rated PG-13. Wed., Oct. 20: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Marina Golbahari. A 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother lose their jobs when the Taliban closes the hospital where they work, and the girl disguises herself as a man so she can help earn money for food.

"The Day After Tomorrow" - Rated PG-13. Fri., Oct. 22 and Sat., Oct. 23: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal. A climatologist's global warning predictions come true. While trying to save the world, he also must find his son who was in New York when the city was hit by the new Ice Age.

"I'm Not Scared" - Rated R. Wed., Oct. 27: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Guiseppe Christiano. A 10-year-old finds another boy his age kidnapped and chained in a pit, and is unsure what to do - especially when his parents learn of his discovery and warn him to forget whatever he saw. Fri., Oct. 29 and Sat., Oct. 30: No Showing.

"Napoleon Dynamite" - Rated PG-13. Wed., Nov. 3: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Jon Heder. Preston, Idaho's most curious resident, Napoleon Dynamite, and his best friend, Pedro, work to snatch the Student Body President title from a mean teen named Summer Wheatley.

"Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story" - PG-13. Fri., Nov. 5 and Sat., Nov. 6: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Ben Stiller. A group of misfits enter a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament in order to save their cherished local gym from the onslaught of a corporate health fitness chain. "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle" - Rated R. Wed., Nov. 10: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring John Cho and Kal Penn. An investment banker and his stoner roommate/medical school candidate wander through New Jersey looking for the title hamburgers. "Spiderman 2" - Rated PG-13. Fri., Nov. 12 and Sat., Nov. 13: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst. Peter Parker's still struggling with his personal life, and swears he's quitting - never to put on his Spider-Man suit again. But his sense of duty forces him to become a hero again when a brilliant scientist becomes evil Dr. Octopus. "Before Sunset" - Rated R. Wed., Nov. 17: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. In this sequel to "Before Sunrise," it's nine years later. Jesse and Celine meet in a bookstore and walk through Paris before his plane leaves, talking about their experiences, views and whether they still love each other.

"Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" - Rated PG-13. Fri., Nov. 19 and Sat., Nov. 20: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Will Ferrell and Christina Applegate. Ron Burgundy is the top-rated anchorman in San Diego in the '70s, but then feminism marches into the newsroom in the form of ambitious newswoman Veronica Corningstone.

"The Door in the Floor" - Rated R. Wed., Dec. 1: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger. A chronicle of one pivotal summer in the lives of a famous children's book author and his beautiful wife, whose once-great marriage has been strained by tragedy. "The Bourne Supremacy" - Rated PG-13. Fri., Dec. 3 and Sat., Dec. 4: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Matt Damon and Franka Potente. When Jason Bourne is framed for a botched CIA operation he is forced to take up his former life as a trained assassin to survive.

Wed., Dec. 8: No Showing.

"The Manchurian Candidate" - Rated R. Fri., Dec. 10 and Sat., Dec. 11: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep. Is it possible that an entire army unit was kidnapped and brainwashed during the first Gulf War to believe that the current vice presidential candidate is a war hero - as part of a plot to seize the White House?