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FLICKS: The Last Reef & The Fitzgerald Family Christmas

Posted on 13 December 2012 by LeslieM

By Dave Montalbano

AdventuresOfCinemaDave.com

Skyfall will depart the Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Discovery IMAX Theater this week to make room for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D.

While mainstream movies are a major box office draw, the museum has not lost sight that science documentaries are better on the IMAX six-storey screen. Before The Hobbit has its Friday afternoon opening, the documentary The Last Reef 3D: Cities Beneath The Sea will be screening. This film is full of 3D razzle dazzle involving sharks, manta rays and dolphins with an environmental message about preserving reef ecosystems.

It opens with a historical surprise. With the atom bomb tests in the Pacific Ocean, the bikini atoll was basically untouched by human hands. Sixty-six years later, the Reef Ecosystem is thriving stronger than the rest of the reef ecosystems worldwide.

With the most advanced 3D camera technology, the production crew filmed the most biologically diverse reefs near Palau, the Bahamas, Cancun and French Polynesia. While it’s fun to poke at the 3D jellyfish and 3D Man of War, the camera technology thrives when it finds micro organisms that serve the symbiotic relationship between man, sea creatures, the reef and the green planet.

While the 27th annual Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival concluded last month, Cinema Paradiso continues with their unique movie programming. This weekend, they are showing The Fitzgerald Family Christmas, produced, written and directed by Ed Burns. After Saturday’s 5 p.m. show, Burns will host a Q & A via Skype computer for those in attendance at Cinema Paradiso.

Ticket buyers are asked to bring either two canned food items or one new unwrapped toy per person to any one of seven daily screenings of the film. All items will be donated to the Children’s Diagnostic & Treatment Center in Ft. Lauderdale, which serves over 10,000 children and youth annually with medical care, case management, social services and other types of intervention to children and adolescents with chronic illnesses and development disabilities.

As Chanukah concludes this weekend and Christmas shopping and parties begin, schedule an escape to the movies. Info: www.fliff.com

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