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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 2004)
Two weeks before the election, «¡n guests nom b b o and other community leaders tor a n i g h t O f I h U S i C a n d C e l e b r a t i o n Saturday, ûct. 16 What's popped and what's flopped, in a theater near you. Songs of H o p e . Protest and Inspiration $ 1 5 a ttu a ti™ <&<££>(£>. A D irty S hame John Waters reclaims his king-of-crudity title with this zestfully tacky gross-out come dy. When a freak accident transforms a hored Baltimore housewife into a sex addict, the triggered chain of events culminates in a showdown between the city’s prudes and its swingers, with almost any conceivable sexual deviation celebrated— in detail— along the way. The film is both raunchy and affection ate, gross and gtxxJ-natured— in other words, a guaranteed gtxxJ time. — Christopher M cQuain <g> F irst D aughter Cutie pie Katie Holmes plays Samantha, a first-year college student who happens to he the presidents daughter. Sam just wants to fit in, hut her classmates treat her like a circus freak, and she gets entangled in a romance that the tabloids eat up like ice cream. The corny and witless opening scenes do not k xle well for the movie. But First Daughter gets into an enjoyable, though pre dictable, grcx>ve once our prim heroine starts trashing it up at frat parties and sleazy bars. — Stephen Blair <&<£> H ead in the C louds “The clouds” might be a better place to spend time than at this tired wartime * romance. Director John Duigan pulls out all the tricks familiar to readers of Harlequin romances and polishes them quite nicely— the movie looks great— but underneath it’s still just a contemporary version of a cliche- drenched old-time Hollywixxl “women’s pic ture.” Charlize Theron is the prx>r little rich girl who glides through endless romances (including a hot lesbian affair with Penelope Cruz) in occupied Paris. Sad to say, the actors lack chemistry. They huff and puff but ulti mately can’t breathe life into this trite tale. — Gary Morris dud, bottom of the bag <CS> <3^ <5> H ero In ancient China, a mysterious assassin arrives at an emperor’s palace. His inten tions— to aid the ruler...or to destroy him?— are revealed through subjective, $ * 3 ^ only if you’re really hungry <C^> T ■ ■ ■ I f ' 7* Hollywood Theater ---------------------------------------------------- j N.E. 4 1 st Sandy Info at wfww.motherlodemusic.com / Portland — 18 /door f mmmm, tasty! <&>£%> <5& <?> <£> 8et 7:30 P .m . ...take responsibility for their own erotic education. b'g ^ ° ’ corn Rashómori' like flashbacks. Director Yimou Zhang ( Raise the Red Lantern), evidently an obsessive cinematic perfectionist, has made a film that approaches greatness. An inimitable vibrancy emanates from every luscious, colorful frame. Hero is a must-see. „ —CM <&> ■ good effort, pass the salt <£> T he M otorcycle D iaries G ael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mamá También) plays the young Argentine Ernesto “C h e” Guevera in a film that explores the ideologi cal origins of the much-venerated revolution ary martyr. Director Walter Salles, working from autobiographies by Che and his close friend, Alberto Granado (played in the film by Rodrigo De la Serna), brings us the two friends’ coming-of-age road trip through South America, where bourgeois young Ernesto first glimpses the People’s struggle. Salles unequivocally romanticizes Che, leav ing the film long on (admittedly quite lovely) atmosphere and short on facts, but it is supremely acted and, at the very least, an undeniably gorgeous and revealing travelogue o f the continent to our south. — CM <£> < C £> < ^ ¡ <¿3> S haun of the E I N I learn about wakin9 “ P and sustaining erotic energy giving and receiving pleasure, and expressing your desires. le le b r a tin g lo d y E r o t ic Portland • Nov. 13-1 )all Al, 503-493-9421 BocHj Electric School wJ)odvelfictfic.Qfa______________ — FREEDOM HANGS BY A THREAD D ead Why are British zombie movies so dam gcxxJ? Shaun tries to keep his relationship together with his girlfriend, his slobby flatmate and his clueless mother, even as England dis solves around him into a land of walking undead. Sounds silly, but this movie is probably the funniest and most heartfelt of the year. See it before it becomes the cult classic it’s destined to he. — Andy Mangels <2XS> The Motorcycle Diaries is short on facts about Che Cuevera «fl ft** Wf H iiM ti. (5 l ü a d va n c e n c fe ts it o tr c w m Special trib u te : T h e W eddings ,1 a Slide a J i i u c Show jiiu w . S ky C aptain and the W orld of T omorrow It’s 1939, and gutsy woman reporter Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) and her some time paramour, dashing fighter-plane pilot Sky Captain (Jude Law), must save the world from a mad scientist’s apocalyptic scheme. Sky Captain has its moments— the romance is of the snappy, unsentimental, screwball- comedy variety, and first-time director Kerry Conran uses cutting-edge technology to create some memor ably luscious visuals— but it finally succumbs to dull action-movie clichés. —CM Team A m erica.com CnpjKt|V*t A W ky PiirdiMMidl f i l a r t i AH 0 i|M t O r ir 'v H BEGINS FRIDAY. OCTOBER IS IN THEATRES EVERYWHERE
