ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
www.comoxvalleyrecord.com
COMOX VALLEY RECORD • Friday, April 27, 2012
B5
Mobile phones artistic Local artist, prolific iPhone photographer and public speaker Brenda Johima is volunteering her time to pull together the first Comox Valley Mobile Phone Photo-Art Show. It’s taking place as part of Elevate the Arts in downtown Courtenay on May 5. Photos can be submitted only as prints in a size of five by seven inches up to a maximum of eight by 10 (or as 8x8 in square format). Kevin Reid is providing the space for the print exhibit, which will take place in the old Leung building. Coast Realty Group has agreed to
be a drop-off place for prints. Leave your print submissions at 625 England Ave. during regular business hours. Three categories leave options for creativity wide open — Express Yourself! (almost anything goes), Inspired by Nature or My Community Rocks! The mobile phone photo exhibit will take place at 444 Fifth St. on May 5. For details, visit Info is here : http://brendajohima.com/2012/03/ elevate-the-arts-iphone-and-mobilephone-art-show. — Brenda Johima
Hanging Baskets ...by Cassandra
Custom Baskets & Containers
SUN • SHADE • MOSS TILDA SWINTON AND John C. Reilly star in We Need to Talk About Kevin, showing Sunday at the Rialto Theatre.
Taking orders for weddings -Vancouver Island Grown
‘We need to talk about Kevin’ The final film of the CVAG/ TIFF Spring 2012 Film Series: We Need to Talk About Kevin is a masterful film, with fantastic performances across the board. The threatening underside of domestic life that no one ever talks about comes to the fore in the gripping, provocative psychological suspense of We Need To Talk About Kevin, a film that tunnels beneath the skin of a mother and son on a dangerous collision course from birth. What emerges is an original portrait of parenthood’s uncertainty, guilt and most harrowing fears, all from within the deeply subjective point of view of a mother’s most unsettling memories. As Eva Khatchadourian tries to come to grips with her past, her malevolent offspring and what he has wrought, she falls into the thin cracks between innocence and evil, nature and nurture, love and abject horror.
Based on Lionel Shriver’s best-selling novel and directed by visionary filmmaker Lynne Ramsay (Morvern Callar, Ratcatcher), the story is brought to life by an ensemble cast headed by Oscar winner Tilda Swinton (I Am Love, The Chronicles of Narnia, Michael Clayton) as Eva, in the most exposed and psychologically complex role of a career made up of bold choices. Haunted, penitent and nearly incapacitated by guilt and grief through much of the movie, Swinton’s Eva counts as one of the most potent physical performances on-screen this season. Joining Swinton are rising newcomer Ezra Miller (City Island) as the bone-chillingly unappeasable Kevin, who his mother knows like no one else and Academy Award nominee John C. Reilly (Carnage, Cedar Rapids, Chicago) as Franklin, the light-hearted man Eva marries impulsively, only to
HOUSE PORTRAITS Home Garden Beach Cottage g • Your own original g Paintings
find their son enlarging a rift between them. Winner of Best Film at the London Film Festival, the story is told via an intense, timebending style, flashing forwards and backwards, from Kevin’s birth to Kevin’s snowballing misdeeds to Eva’s acceptance of her current role stoically taking her licks as the town outcast and object of fury. Film tickets are $11 each at the CVAG Gift Shop, Videos N More and in the Rialto Theatre lobby before the film (cash only, exact change appreciated for tickets at the Rialto). We Need To Talk About Kevin screens April 29 at 5 p.m. at the Rialto Theatre at Driftwood Mall and is a fundraisers for the Comox Valley Art Gallery. For updates and more information visit www.comoxvalleyartgallery.com or call 250-338-6211. — Comox Valley Art Gallery
PARADISE PLANTS GARDEN CENTRE
w w w. p a r a d i s e p l a n t s . c a | 2 5 0 - 8 9 7 - 3 8 9 8 Open Daily 2480 Hardy Rd, Courtenay • (1 min. past Sunnydale Golf)
only 1 week left... to get your gear “summerized” by our qualified technicians or to score a great deal
don’t delay, shop today!
y 5th a M g r n Closi e Summe for th
Full Service
LANDSCAPING Specializing in
WATER FEATURES Studio/Gallery Black Creek Open 7 Days a Week 250-337-1941 www.brianscottfineart.com
Tues-Fri, 9-4, Sat by appt.
250-897-1358
retail • rental • repair 267 sixth street • courtenay • 250-334-2537 • www.skitakhut.com
2778 O’Brien Rd., Courtenay
your ski and snowboard specialists since ’76
www.IslandWaterscape.ca
. / 2 4 ( ) 3 , ! . $ 2 % 3 ) $ % . 4 3 0 % # ) ! , s - !9 * 5 . % 1 NIGHT ACCOMMODATION PLUS DINNER FOR TWO This great offer is available from May 6 - June 9 at April Point Resort & Spa & Painter’s Lodge
1-800-663-7090 s www.aprilpoint.com/residents
ONLY
139
$
BASED ON DBL. OCC. SOME RESTRICTIONS
AVAILABLE SUNDAY - THURSDAY Oceanview and additional nights available Can not be combined with any other offer