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Newspaper Page Textmovies 5 /2 4 BY MOLLY TEMPLETON A R T C I N E M A S INNI: THE SIGUR RÓS CONCERT DOC ends tonight! 4:20 8:15 5:15 7:20 5/ 25 for May 24 - 31 THU Follows six young dancers as they prepare for a chance to enter the world of professional ballet FIRST POSITION LIMITED ENGAGEMENT - 6 DAYS ONLY! NORWEGIAN WOOD THE KID WITH A BIKE latenite passes accepted! 9:25 THE RAID: REDEMPTION 686-2458 bijou-cinemas.com 5/ 27 5/ 28 1:00 1:00 3:10 3:10 5:20 5:20 5:20 5:20 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 9:00 9:00 9:00 1:30 1:30 6:15 6:15 6:15 6:15 5/ 29 5/ 30 5/ 31 5:20 5:20 5:20 7:30 7:30 7:30 9:00 9:00 9:00 6:15 6:15 4:15 4:15 4:15 4:15 4:15 4:15 5:00 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 NEXT: HOW TO GROW A BAND THE ROOM MUSIC FROM THE BIG HOUSE $5 ends tonight! YOUR SISTER’S SISTER 492 East 13 th 6:15 WE HAVE A POPE SALT OF LIFE 11:00 JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI 5/ 26 FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU THE GLASSHOUSE: A FILM & LIVE GOON HYSTERIA MUSIC EVENT JESUS HENRY CHRIST No passes experimental short film WHERE DO WE GO NOW w/live score followed by Q & A DARLING COMPANION 7:30 *Adults—$7 * Students w/ID—$6 * Seniors—$5 * Matinees—$5 * Miser Mondays—$3* Almost, Maine Let’s Dance OSCAR WINNER First Position celebrates the art of ballet FIRST POSITION : Directed by Bess Kargman. Cinematography, Nick Higgins. Music, Chris Hajian. Editors, Kate Amend and Bess Kargman. With Aran Bell, Michaela Deprince, Miko Fogarty, Rebecca Houseknecht, Joan Sebastian Zamora and Gaya Bommer Yemini. IFC Films, 2012. Not rated. 90 minutes. 00011 F irst Position is an unfussy, enjoyable documentary that doesn’t pretend to be anything other than what it is: an inspirational sports movie about young dancers hoping to enter the highly competitive world of professional ballet. Director Bess Kargman, a journalist and former dancer, has the format down pat: First, ﬁ nd a diverse, charming group of dancers and follow them, skipping neatly from story to story, as they prepare for the super- important, life-changing Youth America Grand Prix, a competition for attention, acclaim, scholarships and positions with international dance companies. Then edit the resulting intimate footage — dancers at home, dancers at practice, dancers ﬂ oating across the stage — into a compact 90-minute ﬁ lm, its nail-biting ﬁ nale the Grand Prix’s ﬁ nal round. Kargman starts with 11-year-old Aran Bell, a serious-eyed, incredibly talented boy. Aran is a stunner, but he seems almost ordinary once you see his friend Gaya, who hails from Israel, dance in the competition’s semi-ﬁ nal round. She transforms from a grinning pre-teen into an ageless artist, precise and expressive. Each dancer is astonishing, and then you see the next one, and the next, and they’re all that good — or better. The ﬁ lm focuses on kids in the U.S., though two of its subjects were born elsewhere. Michaela Deprince, orphaned in Sierra Leone at a young age and adopted by an American couple, is well aware that she’s battling ballet’s overt preferences and stereotypes about black dancers. At times, the movie isn’t quite sure how to handle Michaela’s story, especially when she discusses her childhood, but her determination gives First Position much of its emotional impact. (At least one ﬁ st was pumped in the theater when Michaela nailed a vital performance.) Part of the pleasure of a movie like First Position is the way it puts you in the judges’ chairs during the carefully edited performance scenes. It would be difﬁ cult not to watch the dancers with a critical eye, trying to guess what the judges are looking for, who will win, who will break down after a rough performance. Kagman’s subjects are perfectly chosen, from 17-year-old Rebecca Houseknect, who has the traditional ballerina look but seems unwilling to put aside the expectations of “normal” life and embrace her talent, to 12-year-old Miko Fogarty, who dances with passion and delight while her younger brother stumbles and grins. (Miko’s wry coach is an excellent supporting character.) The odd one out among these kids with spacious suburban homes and parents who drive them to practice is Joan Sebastian Zamora, a 16-year-old from Colombia who lives in a tiny apartment in Queens and dances like a star. If there is any doubt about the futures of some of First Position’s subjects, there’s none about Zamora’s. Kagman’s ﬁ lm acknowledges but doesn’t linger on certain facts of ballet: The hours are long; dancers’ feet and bodies get battered, and injuries can be career-destroying; very few dancers, no matter how passionate and talented, become professionals; the cost of coaches and classes and tutus and costumes adds up. But her ﬁ lm isn’t a hard look at the life of a future ballerina, or a consideration of how privilege often plays a key part in the accessibility of certain dreams. It’s a sweet, straightforward, uplifting ﬁ lm, a celebration of the art of dance and the hard work that goes into creating that art. ew First Position opens Friday, May 25, at the Bijou; bijou- cinemas.com THE DESCENDANTS THIS MEANS WAR 7:20 5:15 CHRONICLE 9:25 As the northern lights hover in the star- ﬁlled sky above, the residents of a remote, mythical small town ﬁnd themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected, poignant and often funny ways in this compelling play. 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