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42 p—M. a a t T January 7 . 2 ÛQQ FILMS The t. Totters House Ministries It’s the millenium . . . Does God have a plan for you? HIBERNATION Huddle 'round the flickering screen JOIN US SUNDAY AT 10:45 A.M. Website: www.pottershouseministries.org Continued from Page 41 3830 SE 62 nd AVE. • PORTLAND • 503 775-5024 When an ordinary Realtor sim ply won't do... ?\ea www.climbatree.com 933 SE 31st Ave. Portland, OR 97214 office: 5 0 3 -2 3 8 -7 6 1 7 a. REALTOR® to really savor. (Even Roger Ebert wanted to see more of Tomlin’s bracingly frank archeolo gist and wondered in his review: “Why do movie lesbians have to recite so much dialogue that keys off their sexuality.7”) Indeed. Any viewer who doesn’t recognize Tomlin for a dyke isn’t paying attention. Cher gets to dash about passionately, collect avant-garde art, wear fabulous frocks and, well, be Cher. But since that’s what the part seems to call for, she is well cast. Although the story is quite episodic, and only one of the women is really changed in any discernible way by the decade of adventure, that also seems to be the point: their steadfast determination to ride out the war in the glori ous Tuscany they’ve all adopted, despite every effort to remove them to safety. Though not particularly heroic, the women are prepared to give up their lives to save some priceless fres coes. At best, it’s a novelty to see a group of female characters, all over 50, who bond together for mutual good and display grand, gutsy temperaments all along the way. Not your ordinary WWII flick. —OG and criminal, and subsequently as a prisoner in the peculiar World War 11-era French penal system. Poison tells three stories in interspersed, overlapping episodes. Only one of them, which follows a male prisoner’s tortuous, violent love for another, is a literal interpretation of Genet. Though the most beautifully filmed, it’s actual ly the weakest link in this chain. The other two are original stories, replete with apt quotes from Genet’s novels. In one, a faux documentary, the playmates, teachers and mother of a 7-year-old boy recount the events leading up to the day he shot his father. The other, a clever AIDS parable, blatantly draws on black-and-white noir films and cheesy ’50s disaster flicks to tell the story of a scientist who inadvertently becomes a tabloid-hounded “leper sex killer.” Poison’s careful, austere symbolism and dis turbingly graphic material may put off some viewers, but for fans of the avante-garde, Poison is a fulfilling achievement. —CM M ON IC A HU G G E T T / ARTISTIC D I R E C T O R ml B o u n d The dynamic Paul Goodwin returns from London to direct the Portland Baroque Orchestra and Chorus in rare and wonderful ceremonial works by George Frideric Handel. A ‘‘L et G o d arise ” Concerto Grosso Op. 3, N o. 2 Save 50%! “I w ill m agnify T h e e ” Concerto Grosso Op. 6, N o. 6 “A s pants the hart fo r cooling stream s” Friday, Jan. 21, 8 p.m. Trinity Cathedral Saturday, Jan. 22, 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 23, 3 p.m. SATURDAY EVENING TICKET SPECIAL Buy one Saturday evening ticket at the regular price and get a second ticket o f equal value at half price! Kaul Auditorium, Reed College of its Tiofe Free lecture one hour prior to each concert: “The Handelian Chorus: Ceremonial Voices," by Professor Gilbert Seeley, Lewis & Clark College. TICKETS: (503) 222-6000 www.pbo.org ll I’d ever heard about Bound was that it had a lot of hot sex. However, the one and only hot sex scene takes place within the first 15 minutes, and then we’re left not with an erotic relationship film, but with a thriller. I thought this might be a bad thing, but Bound is actually quite smart and tricky. Jennifer Tilly plays Violet, a sex worker who lives with Caesar, a member of the Chicago mob. Gina Gershon plays Corky, a plumber- carpenter ex-con who happens to live in the apartment next door. Violet and Corky get together and do it, then develop an elaborate plot to screw Caesar out of nearly two million dollars. The rest of the movie is a suspenseful ride. Though Tilly’s acting does get a little tire some, her unconventional relationship with Corky grows more believable as the movie rushes on. Refreshingly, Bound is an intelligent thriller that never lets us know where it’s head ed. —KD Season Sponsor PORTLAND BAROQUE ORCHESTRA P oison T he 1991 film Poison, the first feature by innovative directo 'TUJ' Haynes, is informed and inspirt, ’ by the works of gay literary legend Jean Genet, ^enet wrote auto biographical, poetic novels about his abject yet romanticized life experiences, first as an orphan m C hristopher M c Q uain is a Portland-based writer and tireless observer o f pop culture.
