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January 05, Monday
ADMISSION:
$8.50 General Admission
$7.00 Students
$6.50 Seniors
$6.00 Members
$5.50 Children
Matinee
$6.50 General Admission
$5.50 Seniors
$5.00 Members
$5.50 Children
Children are 12 and under, Seniors are 60 and older
We accept cash, check, NCard, Visa, and Mastercard
Box Office Opens 30 Minutes Before Showtimes
LOCATION:
313 N. 13 STREET
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
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SPECIAL EVENTS
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ROSS CLOSED FOR WINTER BREAK
December 22, 2008 - January 8, 2009
The Ross will be closed during UNL's winter break. We will return to our regular screening schedule on January 9th, with the films SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK.
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THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HD LIVE
September 2008 - May 2009
The Met’s groundbreaking series of live, high-definition performance transmissions to movie theaters around the world expands in its third season. To meet increasing global demand, The Met: Live in HD will present 11 transmissions in 2008–09, up from eight. The HD productions will be seen in almost 800 venues and a number of new countries in South America and Europe are joining the network this season. Don’t miss the chance to experience the Met live at your local movie theater!
CLICK HERE for more information, including the full schedule and ticket information.
This event is co-sponsored by the Friends of Opera and NET Radio
NEXT PERFORMANCE:
La Rondine (New Production) – Puccini
LIVE: Saturday, January 10, 2009 (12:00 pm)
ENCORE: Sunday, January 11, 2009 (1:00 pm)
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FREE SCREENING:
BALLS OUT: GARY THE TENNIS COACH
Tuesday, January 13 - 7:00 & 9:30pm
This screening is free and open to the public. Writers Andy Stock and Rick Stempson will be available for a brief Q&A after the 7:00pm screening.
An overenthusiastic high-school maintenance man attempts to lead an unlikely group of misfits to the Nebraska state tennis championship in Dude, Where's My Car? director Danny Leiner's underdog sports comedy. American Pie star Seann William Scott stars as the ambitious janitor who believes he has what it takes to coach the winning team.
BALLS OUT: GARY THE TENNIS COACH was written by Andy Stock and Rick Stempson, who both grew up in Lincoln, and who won the BlueCat Screenplay Competition in 2005 for the film’s script.
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TIE 2009
January 14 - 15, 2009
Since 2000, the internationally-based TIE festival has been a leading champion of artists still working in the medium of film, with a particular focus on both new and historical avant-garde cinema. TIE returns to UNL with two new programs specifically selected for The Ross by TIE founder/director Christopher May. The exhibition features an eclectic range of experimental films that illuminate the continuing vitality and beauty of celluloid, while subtle and at times obvious philosophical and thematic curatorial gestures conduct the flow of the programs. Both shows include highlights from TIE's 2008 international festivals, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Paonia, Colorado.
The TIE festival will feature two programs.
PROGRAM 1 will be shown on Wednesday, January 14 - 7:00pm
PROGRAM 2 will be shown on Thursday, January 15 - 7:00pm
Click here to download the festival schedule and synopses.
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WRESTLING WITH ANGELS
Sunday, January 18 - 1:00pm
The Lied Center for Performing Arts & The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center Present:WRESTLING WITH ANGELS
SCREENING & DISCUSSION FEATURING RHONDA GARELICK
In conjunction with playwright Tony Kushner’s appearance at the Lied Center on January 22, the Lied Center and the Ross are presenting a screening of Frieda Lee Mock’s documentary WRESTLING WITH ANGELS on Sunday, January 18 at 1 p.m.
A discussion of the film and Kushner’s work will follow the screening led by Professor Rhonda Garelick. The screening and discussion are free and open to the public. More information about Kushner’s appearance at the Lied Center is available on the Lied Center’s website: http://www.liedcenter.org/.
Tony Kushner, whose epochal Angels in America won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, has emerged as one of the country's leading playwrights, and one of its fiercest moral critics. In WRESTLING WITH ANGELS, Oscar-winning director Freida Lee Mock followed Kushner for three tumultuous years, from September 11, 2001, up to the 2004 presidential election, to delve into the passions that keep him reaching for the great American play.
WRESTLING WITH ANGELS is a feature documentary film about the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright Tony Kushner. It tells the story about the evolution of an artist and of how Kushner, raised in the Deep South in Lake Charles, Louisiana, would become an outspoken activist, a compassionate spokesperson for outsiders, and one of today’s most entertaining and important playwrights. At its core the film explores the mystery of creativity, and its source, and Kushner’s compelling plays that are set against the moral and political concerns of our times. Directed by Freida Lee Mock, who also wrote and directed the Academy Award®-winning documentary Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision.
PROFESSOR RHONDA GARELICK is a cultural critic specializing in drama, dance, fashion, and performance. She is the author of Rising Star (Princeton University Press, 1998), and Electric Salome: Loie Fuller’s Performance of Modernism (Princeton University Press, 2007). Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, New York Newsday, the Chicago Tribune, the International Herald Tribune, and Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald, as well as in scholarly journals and museum catalogues. Garelick has received awards from institutions including the NEH, the Getty Research Institute, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She has taught at Yale, the University of Colorado at Boulder, Columbia University, and Connecticut College. Garelick holds a Ph.D. and B.A. from Yale University and is Professor in the Department of English and at the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is at work on a new book entitled Antigone in Vogue: Coco Chanel and the Politics of Fashion.
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WARREN MILLER'S CHILDREN OF WINTER
Saturday, January 24 - 7pm
Warren Miller’s Children of Winter, the largest action sports film on the planet, is coming to kick off your winter sports season for the 59th year! Presented in striking high-definition and narrated by skiing icon Jonny Moseley, Warren Miller’s Children of Winter showcases incredible cinematography that will get you craving deep powder, fresh lines, and outrageous adventure!
This year’s film takes you on a daring escape to electrifying global destinations, including Japan, Austria, Iceland, and more! Don’t forget to breathe as snowboarding’s Olympic Gold Medalist Seth Westcott charges down the Alaskan backcountry, as surf legend Gerry Lopez shreds the Oregon steeps, and as Chris Anthony takes on Leadville Colorado’s legendary Skijoring competition.
Check out WarrenMiller.com for tour dates, ticketing info, videos and more.
Admission: $10
More ticket information coming soon!
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THE BATTLE FOR WHITECLAY
WITH MARK VASINA AND FRANK LAMERE
January 30 - February 5, 2008
Director Mark Vasina and Frank LaMere will conduct a Q&A after the 7:00 screening of BATTLE FOR WHITECLAY on Friday, January 30th. They will also be participating in a Friends of the Ross sponsored Movie Talk (with other guests TBA) on the afternoon (time TBA) of Sunday, February 1.
Frank LaMere is a member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and a noted social and political activist from South Sioux City, Nebraska. He is generally regarded as the architect of the movement to stop the illegal flow of alcohol from Nebraska onto the dry Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
He serves as director of the Four Directions Community Center in Sioux City, Iowa and advises the Casey Alliance there on child welfare matters that impact Native families. He currently chairs the Community Initiative for Native Children and Families (CINCF) in Woodbury County, Iowa and leads the annual Memorial March to Honor Lost Children. He was a principal in the passage of the Iowa Indian Child Welfare Act in 2003.
A member of the Democratic National Committee where he sits on the Executive Committee, he chaired the Native Caucus in the last three national conventions as a superdelegate. He is the highest ranking Native American in any party organization.
Frank was named Peacemaker of the Year by Nebraskans for Peace in 2001 and was honored by the Nebraska Legislature in 2006 for his work on behalf of Native people. He is the former chair of the Nebraska Indian Commission and the Nebraska Indian Community College. He is the father of four and the grandfather of nine. He is married to the former Cynthia Rouse of the Yankton Sioux Tribe.
Mark Vasina is a videographer living in Lincoln. Born and raised in Nebraska, Mark was active in the early years of Lincoln’s Open Harvest Food Cooperative. He studied accounting and economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of British Columbia before moving to New York City in 1987, where he worked as a bank regulator for the FDIC and a risk manager on Wall Street (including four years at Bear Stearns). In 1999 he left his position as head of a risk management department of a major brokerage firm to study film at the New York Film Academy.
Since his return to Nebraska, Mark has been active with Nebraskans for Peace, serving on the board since 2002 and as president for three years. He currently serves as treasurer. His interest in Whiteclay was sparked by NFP members who had worked for years with Frank LaMere and other Natives to address concerns about Nebraska’s licensing of alcohol sales in Whiteclay. He has devoted over five years to filming and reporting on this story.
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MATINEE PRICED EVENINGS
Tuesdays & Wednesdays
Beginning Tuesday, July 15 all screenings on Tuesdays and Wednesdays will be matinee priced regardless of showtime.
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HYDE LECTURE SERIES
2008-2009
Click HERE to download information about the Hyde Lecture Series at the Ross, including a complete schedule.
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