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Zafal fandars Only $24.95 (rag $29 95) j REPAIRS A CYCLES | 1340 Willamette 687-0286 OHw good **"h coupon ■ - ..." -->.l .1, Phoio by P**Uiy Lamoni has flown films tor 12 years in e building that was designed by the first dean of the University's architecture school and built by students. BIJOU Continued Irom Page 1C From the moment the Bijou comes into sight, it's obvious that it isn't a typical theater It's housed in the Willrox Building neur cam pus at 492 E 13th Ave. Bijou owner Michuol La mont says University students and faculty make up at>oul half of the audience for the movies he shows. The connection with the University is one that goes way iwck to the building's construction in 1925, which was a school project of sorts. Walter Willrox. the first dean of the Universi ty's School of Architecture, designed laid the [duns for the building at the request of the First Congregational Church, which needed u place to call its own. Students In the architecture department put the building together and their pencil murks and stencils cun still lx: seen on the beams in the thea ter lobby. The high-ccillnged main theater is in what used to be chapel. When membership swelled beyond the build ing's capacity in the mid-1950's, the church found itself u new home and yet another group with a focus on the afterlife settled into the Will cox Building The McCaffuy-And reason mortuary set up shop in 1956, but it too moved on to a different build ing. in the late 1970 s. as business grew Lament says someone wanted to turn it into a wedding chapel at that jioint, "but I guess it wus a little too much for people who hud hud someone ready to l>e burled there." In 1979, the building was bought by Charles Hoffman, who converted the east side of it into office space that still exists and built a small au ditorium which would become the Bijou's second screen area. But tho lower part of It remained empty for a couple of years. Lamont. meanwhile, was a computer science major at the University who spent some of his time catching foreign films, independent films and classics at Cinema 7 and Waco theaters. But tho people who ownod Waco lost the lease in r 1980. Williams Bakory promptly bought that chunk of land, just cast of campus. And Cinema 7, which often featured classics, lost the battle with the video monster, as Lamont calls it. and closed down in 1987. An interest in films had prompted Lamont to develop a collection of his own and he showed those films as a way to raise money for a sclonco group he was involved in and to help out a small business owner who was having rent trouble She suggested that Lamont look into showing films for a living at an empty building down street. The Bijou Theatre opened its doors on Oct. 15. 1980 Upscale theaters show films — for better or worse — with big budgets and big stars and big audience drawing {tower. Those are the places that get offered such films first. Theaters like the Bijou gut what’s left over. "Anything they don’t want or what’s left that’s not commercial enough for them is where I come in," Lamont says. That means some really awful things get passed up and sent Lamont’s way. But he also gets u lot of jewels with recent thrillers like One False Move and Zcntropu and documentaries such as Incident at O^lala and The Famine Within. No big stars or big budgets there, just outstanding film making. You roully can't miss with movies at the Bijou. Small films, foreign films, independent films, out-of-lho-ordinary films — they're all there. And Lamont says Lugeno has turned out to bo a gntat place to show such movies. "The University's hore so the I.Q. per capita is at least slightly higher than the typical town,’’ he says. "There's a lot of interest in good films here.” Lamont gavo his thoeter a name that moans jew el or light In French, even though the Bijou isn’t really all that much to look at. It shows its age in ways that aren't all complimentary and it’s hardly one those flashy movie houses with tuxedoed ushers. Take a look at the movies that play there and see why the name fits. ‘Eugene Onegin’ opens Portland Opera Four stars of the Kazan Opera in the Tatarstan republic join American basso Jerome Hines this weekend in Portland Opera's 1992 -92 season opener Eugene Onegin. The Tchaikovsky masterpiece, based on Pushkin's poem, will play Sept. 26 and 30 and Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. at Portland’s Civic Audito rium. The opera probos the anguish of unrequited love, betrayed friendship and rated misalliances in 19th century Czarist Russia. Poworfully stirring melodies, opulont sets and costumes and themes ss real today as they wero then come together to create this compel ling story of protocol and Its price. The opera Is conducted by Imre Pallo, di rected by Christopher Mattaliano and features the Portland Opera Orchestra and Chorus. Tickots. at $19.50. $29.50, $36. $46 and $51. can be charged by phone at 241-1R02 (9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays) or 1-600-745-0888 (days, ovonings. woekends). Tickots can also be purchased at the ticket office at 1516 S.W. Alder in Portland, or from GI Joe TicketMaster Outlets.
