The Pitch (June 10 – 16)

Freaks and animals abound at The Civic this week…

Rudyard Kipling’s animals have never looked so impressive as in Jon Favreau’s adaptation of The Jungle Book (PG). Impressive new standard for CGI and Impressive voice talent that includes, Idris Elba, Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson and Ben Kingsley. The 94% certified fresh Jungle Book is a must see on the big-screen.

It’s a rare thing when a film’s subject matter can operate so perfectly on the level of the medium and the story simultaneously. Here Come The Videofreex, our next Documentary Wednesday film, does just this, with a fascinating look into the history of video as a medium and the access it gets into an intimate look into the historical counter culture at the close of the 1960’s. HERE COME THE VIDEOFREEX starts in 1969. America is undergoing cultural and political revolutions, but you’d never know it by watching TV. Young CBS executive Don West creates a secret project to tell the stories of the counterculture ignored by TV news. He hires a group of young people who have embraced a brand new medium – video. They name themselves the Videofreex and on CBS’s dime, they travel the country in an RV taping footage the networks could never get, including interviews with legendary activist Abbie Hoffman and Black Panther Fred Hampton just months before his murder. The pilot they produce proves to be decades ahead of its time. But when CBS executives see it, they fire the group and say they can keep the “worthless” equipment. The Videofreex decide to stick together, smuggling their videotapes out of CBS offices late one night in a guitar case.

Thursday night’s, The Lobster (14A), is an unassuming animal, but the one selected by David should he not find romantic partner during his stay at The Hotel. In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

In a nearer, Nelson utopian future, The Civic will be bringing Money Monster, Nice Guys, Neighbours 2, Green Room, Love and Friendship and Royal Ballet’s – Frankenstein, over the week of June 17 – 23.

[one_half] The-Jungle-Book The Jungle Book
Fri. June 10 @ 7:00, Sat. June 11 @ 7:00, Sun. June 12 @ 4:00 & 6:45, Tues. June 14 @ 7pm