Now Showing at The Raven Theater & Film Center
02/25/05 - 03/03/05

Film Center   415 Center Street
Her MajestyPG
Fri(2:15), 4:30, 6:45, 8:45
Sat(12:00), (2:15), 4:30, 6:45, 8:45
Sun(12:00), (2:15), 4:30, 6:45
Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs(2:15), 4:30, 6:45
Short Cut To NirvanaNot Rated
Fri(3:15), 5:15, 7:15, 9:15
Sat(1:15), (3:15), 5:15, 7:15, 9:15
Sun(1:15), (3:15), 5:15, 7:15
Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs(3:15), 5:15, 7:15,
HitchPG-13
Fri4:30, 7:00, 9:30
Sat(2:00), 4:30, 7:00, 9:30
Sun(2:00), 4:30, 7:00
Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs4:30, 7:00
SidewaysR
Fri(2:30), 5:00, 7:30, 9:45
Sat(12:10), (2:30), 5:00, 7:30, 9:45
Sun(12:10), (2:30), 5:00, 7:30
Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs(2:30), 5:00, 7:30
THE BABY BRIGADEPG-13
Thurs11:00
This week: Her Majesty
 Matinee times in (--).

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Coming Soon:
(3/4)Merchant of Venice, Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

Now Showing at The Raven & Film Center
02/25/05 - 03/03/05
Her Majesty Director: Mark J. Gordon    PG    100 Min.
Family/Drama    Panorama Entertainment
Set in 1953, HER MAJESTY is a widely appealing coming of age story about a young girl who realizes her lifelong dream when Queen Elizabeth comes to visit her small hometown.
Carefully woven into this deceptively simple tale is a rich and engaging tapestry of universal themes and ideas — tolerance and truth, love and friendship, courage in the face of adversity. The delightful result is a timeless parable about race relations and identity which seamlessly transcends age, gender and culture.
The heroine is Elizabeth Wakefield, a 13-year old New Zealand girl who lives in the quaint, and somewhat quirky town of Middleton. With her idol, Queen Elizabeth, scheduled to make a visit, and everyone in town, including her father, jockeying to curry favor with the royal entourage, Elizabeth suddenly finds herself thrust into an unlikely friendship with an old Maori woman, Hira Mata, whose house - a sore spot with the matrons of the town - is directly on the parade route past which the Queen will travel.
Elizabeth's true character is tested when she must choose between marching in the ceremonial parade of her dreams with a chance to personally meet the Queen and her loyalty to Hira, whose defiant insistence on maintaining and defending her home against all odds, teaches Elizabeth the importance of standing up for what she believes in.
Short Cut To Nirvana Director: Maurizio Benazzo    Not Rated    85 Min.
Documentary    Mela Films
Although few in the West have ever heard about it, the Kumbh Mela spiritual festival is the biggest gathering of people in the history of humanity. Held in India every 12 years where the holy Ganges and Yamuna rivers meet, this incredible event attracts over 70 million pilgrims who set up camp in a vast tent city. These include many of India’s gurus and spiritual leaders, including the Dalai Lama. More than a simple account of the Kumbh Mela, this film is a sensory experience of an ancient, grand occasion, capturing a swirl of color and motion, song and cacophony and observant of both the sacred and the surreal. It’s an exhilarating, insightful, spiritually uplifting (and sometimes hilarious) journey of discovery to the biggest popular gathering of all time. In English and Hindi with English subtitles.
Hitch Director: Andy Tennant    PG-13    115 Min.
Comedy/Romance    Columbia
In Columbia Pictures' sophisticated romantic comedy Hitch, Alex "Hitch" Hitchens (Will Smith) is a legendary -- and deliberately anonymous -- New York City "date doctor" who, for a fee, has helped countless men woo the women of their dreams.
While coaching Albert (Kevin James), a meek accountant who is smitten with a glamorous celebrity, Allegra Cole (Amber Valletta), Hitch finally meets his match in the person of gorgeous, whip-smart Sara Melas (Eva Mendes), a gossip columnist who follows Allegra's every move.
The ultimate professional bachelor, Hitch suddenly finds himself falling deliriously in love with Sara, a reporter whose biggest scoop could very well be the unmasking of Manhattan's most famous date doctor.
Sideways Director: Alexander Payne    R    124 Min.
Comedy/drama    Fox Searchlight
A wine tasting road trip to salute Jack’s (Thomas Haden Church) final days as a bachelor careens woefully sideways as he and Miles (Paul Giamatti) hit the gas en route to mid-life crises. The comically mismatched pair, who share little more than their history and a heady blend of failed potential and fading youth, soon find themselves drowning in wine and women (Sandra Oh and Virginia Madsen). Emerging from a haze of pinot noir, wistful yearnings and trepidation about the future, the two inevitably collide with reality.
THE BABY BRIGADE Director:     PG-13     Min.
Every Thursday @ 11:00am the Raven Film Center presents:

THE BABY BRIGADE.
For all the Moms and Mr. Moms who never see a movie all the way through because they’re in the theater lobby with a fussy baby, The Raven Film Center has set aside a time just for you.

Every Thursday we will show one of our regular films at 11:00am and we invite you to bring the little ones no matter how cranky they are that day.

Catch-up on all those films you’ve been missing, hang out with other parents and if you don’t like the sound of crying babies then come to one of our evening screenings because this is Mom & Dad’s chance to enjoy the show.

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