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The Bijou will screen

1951 `A Christmas Carol'

Would you like to be visited by the Ghost of Christmas Movies Past? If so, grab your Tiny Tims Tiny Tim

crippled son of Bob Cratchit. [Br. Lit.: A Christmas Carol]

See : Lameness
 and Tinas and drop by the Bijou Art Cinemas this weekend.

At 12:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, the theater will screen the 1951 version of Charles Dickens' `A Christmas Carol,' starring Alistair Sim (1) (Society for Information Management, Chicago, IL, www.simnet.org) Founded in 1968 as the Society for MIS, it is a membership organization made up of corporate and division heads of IT organizations. . And the price is something even Scrooge would love: free.

Also on the program are two holiday-themed cartoons and sing-alongs of `Silent Night' and `O Come All ye Faithful.'

The Bijou is located at 492 E. 13th Ave.

New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 critics crown

`The Return of the King'

Normally a champion of arty, independent fare, the New York Film Critics Circle on Monday chose ``The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' as the top film of 2003.

The critics chose Sofia Coppola as best director for the dreamlike ``Lost in Translation,'' about an aging actor and a young wife who become friends while jet-lagged at a Tokyo hotel. The film's star, Bill Murray
For other people named William Murray, see William Murray.


William James "Bill" Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-winning American comedian and actor.
, was named best actor.

Hope Davis was the group's choice for best actress for her work in two films: ``American Splendor'' and ``The Secret Lives of Dentists Dentists can refer to one of the following:
  • Practitioners of dentistry
  • The Dentists, a British band active in the 1980s and 1990s
.''

``The Secret Lives of Dentists'' also was honored for its script by Craig Lucas.

In the supporting acting categories, Shohreh Ashdaghloo won for playing an Iranian immigrant in ``House of Sand and Fog,'' and Eugene Levy won for his role as a washed-up folk singer in ``A Mighty Wind.''

Foreign-language film honors went to the graphically violent ``City of God,'' about drug gang wars in Rio de Janeiro's slums.

``Capturing the Friedmans,'' a documentary about allegations of child molestation Child molestation is a crime involving a range of indecent or sexual activities between an adult and a child, usually under the age of 14. In psychiatric terms, these acts are sometimes known as pedophilia.  in a Long Island family, won for best nonfiction non·fic·tion  
n.
1. Prose works other than fiction: I've read her novels but not her nonfiction.

2. The category of literature consisting of works of this kind.
 film.

The twisted French film ``The Triplets of Belleville'' was the group's choice for best animated feature.

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Title Annotation:Entertainment; SCREEN SIDESHOW
Publication:The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Date:Dec 19, 2003
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