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46 just OUt • june 17. 2005 FILM ..... ▼...... Portland area aav/bi itiHîTiBffS been hit hard by HIV & STDs. ] Help Protect Yourself from HIV & STDs by: Having better sex with fewer people Using a condom when you fuck or get fucked* Not fucking when you are high or drunk Getting tested for HIV & STDs every 3 months •To reduce your odds of getting Syphilis. Gonorrhea, HPV, & other STDs you could also use a condom for oral sex HIV is almost never spread orally.To prevent HPV. ask doctor for vaccine county • MUI Health Department regular FREE Syphilis, HIV, &/or HepC Testing: •1st Thurs, CC Slaughters 9 - 11:30pm, NW 3rd & Davis (Testing by Multnomah County Health Dept) • 2nd Fri, Scandals 9 - 11:30pm, SW11th& Stark (Testing by Multnomah County Health Dept) • Fri, 10pm - 1am, (Testing by Outside In) You can also get more complete testing from your doctor or the Multnomah County STD Clinic: 503-988-3700. Bar testing offered Feb - Jun 2005. For more info about bar testing info@qland.org 503-223-8822 X3| www.qland.org Bad Guy The title character is a psychotic, mute pimp who frames a respectable college girl into a life of prostitution so he can watch her trick through a two-way mirror. Korean director Kim Ki-Duk gets points for atmosphere and excel lent acting, and the story (except for a pre- • dictable subplot of the victim falling in love with the abuser) has plenty of surprises. The nonstop barrage of images of violence and vio lation—and the hammering psychological tor ment of beautiful, freaked-out Sun-hwa—will seriously disturb sensitive viewers, and may explain why it’s taken so long for this 2001 film to make it to U.S. screens. Opens June 17 at Hollywood Theatre. B+ —Gary Morris Batman Begins Remove all traces of Joel Schumacher’s ultra-gay Batman & Robin from your minds as you enter the theater. From start to finish, Batman Begins is a dark, somber, action- packed film that digs under the cape and cowl to kxik into rhe heart and mind of the world’s darkest superhero. Christian Bale brings gravitas to the role, and he’s ably supported by a wonderful cast including feisty Katie Holmes, tough tender Michael Caine and several villain ous leads. Well-scripted, beautifully shot, handsomely acted...it’s the best Bat-film ever done. A —Andy Mangels daughter picks him as the perfect suitor for her mom. This movie also delivers some surprising depth about relationships. Schmaltzy but gixxl, with brilliant sidekick Carson Kressley (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy). B- —Yvonne P. Behrens Stolen Childhoods The conventional view of childhood is a time of innocence, learning and play. Not so for rhe world’s 246 million child laborers. Their rarely seen lives are shown close-up in this wrenching documentary narrated by Meryl Streep. Children from eight countries tell sto ries of stunted lives processing toxic tobacco leaves in Mexico and kids as young as 4 weav ing Indian rugs for 14 hours a day for upscale Western markets. The culprits are casually exposed in these heartbreaking stories and images—not only generational poverty but cor rupt governments, criminal corporations like Philip Morris and usurious lenders like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Howl’s Moving Castle Giving Together. Building Community. Since 1987 we've been making grants to organizations and scholarships to students that strengthen LGBT communities in the Pacific Northwest. We're proud to have made grants to more than 50 organizations in Oregon. Here are just a few: AIDS Education Council of Eastern Oregon, Basic Rights Oregon, Bend Public Library, Bradley Angle House, Brother to Brother Portland, Cascade AIDS Project, Community of Welcoming Congregations, Hambleton Project, Oregon Safe Schools and Communities Coalition, The Dalles High School, and Valley AIDS Information Network Academy Award winner Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) transports us into another one of his magical yet dis turbing universes in this magnificent fable about teen-age girl named Sophie who is transformed into a 90-year-old woman by the wicked Witch of the Waste. The voice talent js his best yet, including screen legends Lauren Bacall and Jean Simmons along with Billy Crystal providing comic relief as a can tankerous fire demon. A- —Jim Radosta Machuca Christian Bale stars in the best Bat-film ever done. Like the Italian charmer Cinema Paradiso, this Chilean import observes life and social upheaval from a youthful perspective. In rhe days leading up to the overthrow of Salvadore Allende in 1973, a well-off 12-year-old boy named Gonzalo befriends Machuca, a spunky classmate from rhe slums of Santiago. Director Andres W<xxJ does an admirable and heart breaking job contrasting the boys’ playful, apo litical relationship with the bitter class warfare that fuels the barbaric military action against the socialists. The child actors are precocious and adorable, but never in a cloying way. Now playing ar Hollywixxl Theatre. A- —Stephen Blair The Perfect Man Find out how you can help us do more. Stop by our booth at the Pride Festival. Pr?de FOUNDATION’ www.pridefoundation.org Summer is here, and with that we will get swamped with summer flicks. But I was pleas antly surprised that this movie is really funny and entertaining. A daughter (Hilary Duff) is tired of moving every time her relationship- challenged single mother (Heather Lxzklear) falls for another second-rate guy. For anyone who loved Sex and the City, Chris Noth is the perfect man anyway, so it makes sense that the that pay little attention to the havtx: they wreak on p<x>r countries’ social safety nets. There’s hope here, too, in fair trade initiatives, activists who are rescuing as many kids as possi ble and—a rarity—governments like Brazil, which has managed to cut its labor force from 4 million to 2 million in seven years. Opens June 24 at Hollywood Theatre A —GM Tropical Malady Thailand’s New Wave director Weeradethakul (Blissfully Yours) divides this film in two parts. The first half depicts a gay-themed romance between a soldier and a country boy, and the second half is wrapped around a Thai folk legend involving a tiger/shaman with shape-shifting abilities. The jungle scenes are powerfully spellbinding both visually and aural ly, with their long spells of darkness and almost complete absence of dialogue, but the relation ship between the two stories is ambiguous and confusing. The movie is long and for sure differ ent but interesting to watch. Screens 7 p.m. June 24 to 26 at Whitsell Auditorium. B- —YPB jm
