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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.