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DECEMBER 2, 2005 jUStjOUt.AS film Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress surprising twist at the end. The film benefits gready Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang appropriately macabre touch, arriving by ambulance from the splendor of its setting and from its three lead Robert Downey Jr. plays a small-time burglar who at a show of her work shortly before her death. Kahlo’s A great adaptation of the international best seller players, not to mention the insight this story offers stumbles into an audition and gets chosen to screen commanding personality was as evident in her Balzac, this 2003 Golden Globe nominee tells the sim Westerners into the Chinese cultural revolution. The test for a detective movie in Hollywood. At a party, he work—which is richly sampled here—as in her life, ple story of a classic boy-meets-girl scenario with a story movingly captures Maoism’s attempts to meets a homo private eye (Vai Kilmer) who gives him and both are exceptionally well-served by this film. imprison one’s mind and heart (with detective lessons for his character. He also meets a Screens 4:30 p.m. Dec. 4 at Whitsell Auditorium. the threat of the same for one’s wannabe actress (Michelle Monaghan) who has sur body), the shock of the sudden cul prising ties to his past and a shared love for pulpy tural shift for “bourgeois” Chinese 1950s detective novels. Soon, the trio is plunged into and the delight that movies can offer a real murder mystery that threatens all of their lives. Thirty years after its original release, Michelangelo a downtrodden spirit. Definitely Written and directed by Shane Black, writer of Lethal Antonioni’s The Passenger returns to the big screen worth catching for the visual scenery, Weapon and other ’90s action films full of smirking with a restored print. Don’t miss this revival, because and must-see viewing for those who heroes and unbelievable action, Kiss is a winking the film is not available on DVD. Jack Nicholson stars appreciate quaint romances. Opens deconstruction of exactly the type of film that made as a depressed reporter whtf switches identities with a Dec. 2 at Hollywood Theatre. A him rich. It merits multiple viewings. —Yvonne P. Behrens A —Andy Mangels A —Gary Morris The Passenger dead man and grapples with his unexpectedly compli cated new life with a little help from Maria Schneider of Last Tango in Paris fame. The performances are Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo provides the fullest visual portrait to date of the bisexual artist and her tempestuous marriage to Diego Rivera. The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo subtle and convincing, and some of the visuals are Frida Kahlo’s life had more dramatic twists and beautiful enough to stop your heart. But like This first PG-13 installment of the turns than ajohn Grisham novel. From her beginnings L’Awentura and other Antonioni efforts, the pacing is series makes good on the revised as a brilliant, fearless little g(rl who liked to dress as a positively snail-like at times. Opens Dec. 2 at rating—this film is not for small boy, to the horrific accident that made her a quasi Hollywood Theatre. children, filled as it is with blood, invalid all her life, to her tempestuous marriage to violence, peril and squirm-inducing Diego Rivera and a remarkable painting career, this sexual and social tension. For those 90-minute documentary, narrated by Rita Moreno, older than 12, though, Goblet is an provides the fullest visual portrait to date of Kahlo. There are so many moments of transcendent musi alternately funny and tension-filled Director Amy Stechler Burns interviews friends, asso cal magic in the new screen adaptation of the smash journey into a fantasy world populat ciates, admirers and even a few ex-lovers (unfortu Broadway hit that one hesitates to point out the film’s ed with people we know and crea nately no women, though) and includes extensive flaws. Luckily, when Rent is good, it is so marvelous it tures we secretly fear. A must for fans archival footage of Kahlo at work and play. In these makes up for the times it misses the mark. and an eye-popping, entertaining amazing scenes, we see the bisexual artist working on ride for those who tag along. A- —Jemiah Jefferson B + —Stephen Blair Rent Based on the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning musical a scaffold with Rivera, running around Paris and London, hobnobbing with Leon Trotsky and, in an Sr get your holidays off to a good start, ’ Yo, single women! We got yer hookup right here. /^,©5 announcing the first / www.justoutpersonals.com mixer! ’ Wednesday, dec. 7 • 6-9pm zaytoon (2236 ne alberta, portland) just out Continued on Page 47