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4 films appeal to many tastes

Richmond Times-Dispatch Feb 4, 2005

A number of special movie events are being held over the next several days.

A double feature with musical overtones is being sponsored by the Hanover
Humane Society tonight at the Ashland Theater, 203 England St. in Ashland.
“Ray” will start at 6:30 p.m. and be followed by “Shall We Dance?” at 9.
Admission is $3 per movie; proceeds will help provide care for homeless
animals. The box office opens at 6 p.m.

A bleak, post-Soviet Armenian village is the setting of “Vodka Lemon,” this
week’s entry in the University of Richmond’s 16th annual International Film
Series.

The dark comedy follows an elderly villager in his daily routine to support
himself, his son and his granddaughter on his meager military pension. The
film, free and open to the public, will be shown at 3 p.m. today in the
Adams Auditorium of Boatwright Memorial Library and at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in
Jepson Hall 118.

“I’m Not Scared,” Gabriele Salvatores’ drama about a 10-year-old Italian and
the young boy he finds being kept in a pit, will be shown with English
subtitles at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday as part of the foreign film series at the
University of Mary Washington, in Fredericksburg.

The free films, open to the public, will be shown in the university’s Dodd
Auditorium in George Washington Hall.