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from the issue of December 15, 2005
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New year opens with two new films
The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center will begin 2006 with two new films as "Breakfast on Pluto" and "Ballet Russes" open Jan. 6.
Director Neil Jordan creates a fairy tale in "Breakfast on Pluto," following Patrick Braden (played by Cillian Murphy), a sweet, feminine boy, who grows up to be a transvestite in the 1960s and 1970s.
Braden's rose-colored vision on life continues even when he is wrongly arrested and interrogated after a bombing in a London disco.
In the documentary, "Ballets Russes," filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine unearth archival footage to fashion an ode to the revolutionary 20th Century dance troupe. The Ballet Russes began as a group of Russian refugees who never danced in Russia. The refugees became two rival dance troupes who fought infamous "ballet battles" that consumed London society prior to World War II.
"Ballet Russes" maps the company's beginnings in turn-of-the-century Paris, its halcyon days of the 1930s and '40s, when the Ballets Russes toured America, to its demise in the 1950s and 1960s.
More information and show times are available at www.TheRoss.org or by calling the Ross film information line, 472-5353.
The Ross will be closed from Dec. 23 to Jan. 5.
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