The Pitch (Jan. 23 – 29)

January 19, 2015
jason@civictheatre.ca
Events, Pitch

Wild times at The Civic

citizenfour Epic hikes, magic and covert meetings with Edward Snowden keep things on the wild-side this week at the Civic.

Just off his recent Oscar wins for Leading and Supporting Actor in Dallas Buyer’s Club, Jean-Marc Vallee is back with Best Leading and Supporting Actress nominations for his most recent, Wild (Rated 14A) opening Jan. 23. Trying to escape her downward spiral set-off by the loss of her beloved mother (Laura Dern), Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) sets out into the wild alone on an epic 1,100 mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail with no outdoors experience.

Next up in the realm of the wild; Exhibition on Screen: Vermeer and Music, playing Mon. Jan. 26. Vermeer, one of the most painstakingly controlled painters of all time, a wild man? Catarina Bolnes, Vermeer’s wife described her husband’s premature death as follows: “…as a result and owing to the great burden of his children, having no means of his own, he had lapsed into such decay and decadence, which he had so taken to heart that, as if he had fallen into a frenzy, in a day or day and a half had gone from being healthy to being dead.” The exhibition explores Vermeer’s relationship with music; one of the most popular themes of Dutch painting, it reveals an enormous amount about the sitter and the society they lived in.

Magic is a force that unseats trust in our practical senses. Although The Lions Club Variety Show entertainers won’t whip us into a wild frenzy like the witches of Old Salem, Trevor and Lorena Watters and Roberto the Magnificent will be sure to provide some raucous fun for this great family friendly fundraiser on Wed. Jan. 28.

And talking about be left out in the wild, Edward Snowden, in hiding for leaking evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA), covertly meets with filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald in Citizenfour (Rated PG). This nominated Best Documentary Feature, places you in the room with Poitras, Greenwald, and Snowden as they attempt to manage the media storm raging outside; playing on Thurs. Jan. 29.

Get off of your couch and join us in the Civic jungle.

Jason.

Coming Soon: Imitation Game, American Sniper, Force Majeure

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