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BY LOIS WADSWORTH CINEMARK - SPRINGFIELD Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 746-5202 - 3/28-4/3 Digital Sound in ALL Auditoriums PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE AT CINEMARK.COM THE PIANIST* (R) BRINGING DOWN THE 12:10, 3:25, 6:50, 10:10 HOUSE (PG-13) BASIC* (R) [10:45], 11:40, 1:25, 2:15, 4:25, 4:55, 7:30, 8:00, 10:05, 10:35 [10:20], 1:05, 3:40, 7:10, 10:00 CHICAGO (PG-13) 12:40, 3:35, 7:00, 9:55 HEAD OF STATE* (PG-13) HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN [10:50], 1:35, 4:10, 7:15, 9:45 10 DAYS (PG-13) THE CORE* (PG-13) [10:05], 1:00, 3:55, 7;25, 10:20 12:00, 3;15, 7:15, 10:30 LORD OF THE RINGS PIGLETS BIG MOVIE* (G) TWO TOWERS (PG-13) [10:00], 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00 12:30, 4:30, 8:30 DREAMCATCHER* (R) BOAT TRIP* (R) 9:15 A VIEW FROM THE TOP (PG-13) TEARS OF THE SUN (R) 12:45, 3:45, 7:10, 10:10 THE HUNTED (R) [11:25], 2:00, 4:40, 7:50, 10:25 [11:05], 1:40, 4:15, 7:20, 9:55 AGENT CODY BANKS (PG) [10:25], 1:10, 4:05, 7:20, 10:00 SNEAK PEEK: WHAT A GIRL WANTS (PG) AT 7:30PM ON SATURDAY. *NO PASSES OR SUPERSAVERS [ ] SHOWING FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY ONLY MOVIES 12 - SPRINGFIELD Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 741-1231 - 3/28-4/3 Bargain Shows: $1.50 - Early Bird: $1.00 - Wednesday all shows: $1.00 CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (PG-13) [1:20], 4:20, 7:30, 10:35 DAREDEVIL (PG-13) [11:45], 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 FINAL DESTINATION 2 (R) [12:20], 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:35 SCHEDULE FOR 3/28-4/3 • BARGAIN SHOWS BEFORE 5PM *NO PASSES/GROUP TICKETS • ( ) = SAT – SUN EARLY SHOWS HARRY POTTER: CHAMBER OF SECRETS (PG) FLORENCE CINEMAS 1930 HWY 101 • Florence • 997-2727 [11:55], 3:20, 6:50, 10:15 [ ] = FRI – SAT LATE SHOWS ( ) = FRI - MON EARLY SHOWS *CORE – PG-13 (12:45) 3:30 6:15 [9:00] *BASIC – R (2:30) 4:45 7:00 [9:20] *DREAMCATCHER – R (2:20) 5:25 [8:30] ABOUT SCHMIDT – R (1:00) 3:40 6:25 [9:10] JUST MARRIED (PG-13) HARVARD CINEMAS 3161 W. Harvard • Roseburg • 673-6604 [12:25], 2:45, 5:15, 7:35, 10:00 MAID IN MANHATTAN (PG-13) [11:30], 2:00, 4:45, 7:15, 9:55 ROSEBURG CINEMA 7 1750 NW Hughwood • 673-6604 www.catheaters.com AVALON C I N E M A 2nd & Jackson • Corvallis Kissinger’s crimes. THE 25TH HOUR (R) THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER: [12:15], 3:25, 6:55, 10:10 THE HOT CHICK (PG-13) [11:35], 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE (R) [1:40], 7:40 WILD THORNBERRYS (PG) [12:05], 2:25, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30 TWO WEEKS NOTICE (PG-13) [11:40], 2:05, 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 *TIMES IN [ ] SHOWING ONLY FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY. STEREO SURROUND SOUND IN ALL AUDITORIUMS R THE QUIET AMERICAN STARRING MICHAEL CAINE & BRENDAN FRASER “A film of delicate interpersonal dances. Caine makes us watch as his character awakens to the notion that to be human is eventually to have to choose. It’s a sight to behold.” -- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Call or log on for showtimes DOLBY STEREO SURROUND SOUND $6.50 General • $5.50 Student • $4.50 SC, Matinee & Wed. 752-4161 avaloncinema.com v m DIG = Digital Sound Bargain Shows in ( ) ★ = Passes/ Discount Ticket Restrictions Apply Monday-Discount Shows All Day excluding ✔ Films Charge Tickets by Phone 800-555-TELL (and say "Movies") CINEMA WORLD 8-EUGENE Valley River Center ALBANY CINEMAS 7 541-928-7469 BASIC (R) - ID REQUIRED DIG ✔ Fri. - Sun. (11:45 2:00 4:35) 7:10 9:45 HEAD OF STATE (PG–13) ★ DIG ✔ Fri. - Sun. (12:10 2:40 5:10) 7:40 10:10 VIEW FROM THE TOP (PG–13) DIG ✔ Fri. - Sun. (1:20 3:30 5:40) 7:50 10:00 DREAMCATCHER (R) - ID REQUIRED DIG ✔ Fri. & Sun. (12:40 3:45) 6:50 9:55 Sat. (12:40 3:45) 9:55 PIGLET'S BIG MOVIE (G) DIG ✔ Fri. - Sun. (1:10 3:20 5:30) 7:30 AGENT CODY BANKS (PG) DIG Fri. - Sun. (12:00 2:20 4:40) 7:00 9:20 THE HUNTED(R)- ID REQUIRED DIG Fri. - Sun. (12:35 2:50 5:05) 7:20 9:35 TEARS OF THE SUN (R)- ID REQUIRED DIG Fri. - Sun. 9:25 NOW HIRING - APPLY AT THEATRE WHAT A GIRL WANTS (PG) DIG Sat. 7:30 9TH ST. CINEMAS 4-CORVALLIS Behind Skippers 9th St 541-928-7469 THE CORE (PG–13) DIG ✔ Fri. - Sun. (12:30 4:00) 7:00 9:55 CHICAGO (PG–13) DIG Fri. - Sun. (12:10 2:30 4:50) 7:10 9:30 ADAPTATION (R)- ID REQUIRED DIG Fri. - Sun. (12:20 2:40 5:00) 7:20 9:40 BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE (PG–13) DIG Fri. - Sun. (12:00 2:20 4:40) 7:30 9:45 Times For 3/28 thru 3/30 © 2003 18 MARCH 27, 2003 541-342-6536 HEAD OF STATE (PG–13) ★ DIG ✔ Fri. - Sun. (12:30 2:55 5:10) 7:40 10:05 BASIC (R) - ID REQUIRED DIG ✔ Fri. - Sun. (12:15 2:35 4:55) 7:15 9:40 THE CORE (PG–13) DIG ✔ Fri. - Sun. (12:10 3:10) 7:00 10:00 VIEW FROM THE TOP (PG–13) DIG ✔ Fri. - Sun. (12:25 2:50 5:05) 7:25 9:35 DREAMCATCHER (R) - ID REQUIRED DIG ✔ Fri. - Sun. (11:50 3:00) 6:45 9:45 PIGLET'S BIG MOVIE(G) DIG ✔ Fri. - Sun. (12:45 2:45 4:45) 7:05 CHICAGO (PG–13) DIG Fri. - Sun. (12:00 2:30 5:00) 7:30 10:10 BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE (PG–13) DIG Fri. - Sun. (12:05 2:25 4:50) 7:20 9:50 TEARS OF THE SUN (R)- ID REQUIRED DIG Fri. - Sun. 9:55 Next To Fred Meyer Corrosive Power [12:30], 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 SHOWTIMES AVAILABLE AT CINEMARK.COM *CORE – PG-13 (12:30) 3:30 6:25 9:20 *BASIC – R (12:40 2:55) 5:10 7:20 9:30 *PIANIST – R (2:20) 5:30 8:40 *A VIEW FROM THE TOP – PG-13 (2:10) 4:20 630 8:30 *DREAMCATCHER – R (12:10) 3:10 6:10 9:10 HUNTED R (12:20 2:40) 4:59 7:15 9:35 BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE – PG-13 (1:40) 4:10 6:40 9:00 CHICAGO – PG-13 (WINNER OF 6 ACADEMY AWARDS INCLUDING BEST PICTURE) (1:10) 3:50 6:20 RICHARD NIXON AND HENRY KISSINGER, SEPTEMBER 16, 1972. PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (R) 4-DAY ADVANCE TICKET SALES - NO PASSES -NO SUPERSAVERS *HEAD OF STATE – PG-13 (2:10) 4:30 6:50 9:10 *PIGLET’S BIG MOVIE – G (1:10 3:05) 4:55 7:00 AGENT CODY BANKS – PG (1:30) 4:00 6:20 *BOAT TRIP – R 8:40 OLD SCHOOL – R 9:00 FIRST RUN FEATURES, 2002. 11:15, 12:05, 2:40, 3:30, 6:30, 7:05, OLD SCHOOL (R) 9:50,10:25, (NO SHOWING AT 6:30 [11:20],1:50, 4:20, 7:35, 10:05 ON SATURDAY) www.regalcinemas.com Documentary. Produced by Alex Gibney and Eugene Jarecki. Directed by Eugene Jarecki. Written by Alex Gibney, based on Christopher Hitchen’s The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Executive pro- ducer, Roy Ackeman. Narrated by Brian Cox. Editor, Simon Barker. Music, Peter Nashel. First Run Features, 2002. Not rated. 80 minutes. M any EW readers may come from a generation born after Henry Kissinger’s salad days. Now 79, Kissinger was arguably the most important man in the country on foreign affairs during the 1960s and ‘70s. Fresh from Nelson Rockefeller’s failed campaign against Richard Nixon for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination, Kissinger became Nixon’s special advisor. He served as assistant for national security affairs (1969-1974) and additionally secretary of state for Nixon. Kissinger also served under President Gerald Ford (1974- 1977), who succeeded the disgraced Nixon and almost immediately pardoned him. This unmitigating exposé of Kissinger’s covert, duplicitous activities as a high govern- ment official who preferred secrecy to public accountability is uncannily timely. No one rouses the rabble with hyperbole and self- serving histrionics here. Instead, filmmakers Alex Gibney and Eugene Jarecki simply pour on the facts in a profoundly damning manner, thoroughly and deftly building the case against Kissinger. The story begins with Kissinger secretly advising the U.S. at the 1968 Paris peace talks. There was no face-saving way out of the Vietnam War for the U.S., but Democratic President Lyndon Johnson (1963-1968) was hopeful a solution was in sight. Kissinger traded secret information with the Vietnamese and administration negotiators, but he threw his fate in with Nixon, who wanted him to guarantee that the talks fail. In the following four years, while Kissinger publicly spoke of “peace with honor” and Nixon pontificated about bringing the boys home, they cynically began the secret bombing of neighboring Cambodia. And in 1972, Kissinger convinced Nixon to order the “Christmas bombing” of Hanoi, North Vietnam. Some 20,000 more American sol- diers and innumerable Southeast Asians died before a cease-fire was signed in January 1973. The document the U.S. signed was basi- cally the same document Nixon and Kissinger had sandbagged earlier. The documentary also makes a detailed case against Kissinger’s activities in regard to Indonesia’s brutal suppression of East Timor. Kissinger made a trip to Indonesia with President Gerald Ford and agreed to covertly provide the Indonesian military with uni- forms, weapons, ammo and helicopters. Used against an unarmed civilian populations, that’s genocide. With Kissinger contemporaries such as Alexander Haig (old deep throat himself), Anna Chennault took backdoor messages to the Vietnamese for Kissinger and Nixon that the Republicans would make a better peace deal than the Democrats, which led to the breakdown of the peace talks. Television re- porter Barbara Howar recalls Kissinger brag- ging that “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac,” while escorting actresses and socialites around town as a party animal celebrity himself. And former Kissinger aide Daniel Davidson was wiretapped by his boss in the early 1970s and hasn’t received an apology yet. Kissinger’s detractors include Hitchens, who is forthright about his belief. “I think he is a war criminal,.” Hitchens says. By ordering the assassination of General Rene Schneider in Chile, who vowed to support the democrati- cally elected socialist government of Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973, Kissinger helped Augusto Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship take over the country. One of the most revealing quotes Kissinger made at the time is this arro- gant disclaimer: “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist, due to the irresponsibility of its people.” It’s es- pecially hard to see, I think, if you spend your career protecting big business, right-wing politicians and the military, right or wrong. Columnist Seymour Hersh notes, “The dark side of Henry Kissinger is very, very dark.” And the author of a Kissinger biogra- phy, Walter Isaacson, discusses Kissinger’s formative experiences as an intelligent Jewish boy in Hitler’s Germany of the 1930s. I think Isaacson sheds light on Dr. K.’s lopsided, not very secret adult obsession with power. If, like me, you have not ever loved Henry, nevertheless, you will find this presentation of his serial crimes shines a bright light into the darkness. Here’s a great opportunity to under- stand why some of us are still really touchy about Nixon, Kissinger and the war. The facts in this compelling, thought provoking film are based on declassified government documents. The opinions are largely based on a long asso- ciation with these facts. The Trials of Henry Kissinger opens at the Bijou Friday, March 28. You don’t want to miss this one; very highest recommendations. ew
