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BY LOIS WADSWORTH Spider (Bradley Hall.) watches his Mum (Miranda Richardson) dress for a night out. CINEMARK - SPRINGFIELD Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 746-5202 - 4/18-4/24 Digital Sound in ALL Auditoriums PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE AT CINEMARK.COM HOLES* (PG) A MAN APART (R) MALIBU’S MOST WANTED* (PG-13) BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE (PG-13) 1:00, 3:55, 7:45, 10:30 12:20, 3:45, 7:20, 10:15 12:05, 1:45, 2:25, 4:10, 4:55, 7:00, 7:50, 9:25, 10:20 BULLETPROOF MONK* (PG-13) 1:15, 4:05, 7:25, 10:10 1:05, 3:40, 7:10, 10:00 THE CORE (PG-13) 12:00, 3:15, 7:15, 10:30 HEAD OF STATE (PG-13) 3:50, 10:10 ANGER MANAGEMENT* (PG-13) 12:35, 1:20, 2:10, 2:50, 3:20, 4:00, 4:50, 5:20, 6:30, 7:05, 7:45, 8:30, 9:10, 9:50, 10:25 LORD OF THE RINGS: TWO TOWERS (PG-13) 4:30, 8:25 PIGLET’S BIG MOVIE* (G) 12:15, 2:30 HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES* (R) PHONE BOOTH (R) 2:00, 4:25, 7:30, 10:00 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:55, 10:15 WHAT A GIRL WANTS (PG) 1:30, 4:20, 7:40, 10:20 12:30, 6:50 CHICAGO (PG-13) 12:40, 3:35, 7:00, 9:55 *NO PASSES OR SUPERSAVERS MOVIES 12 - SPRINGFIELD Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 741-1231 - 4/18-4/24 Bargain Shows: $1.50 - Early Bird: $1.00 - Wednesday all shows: $1.00 AGENT CODY BANKS (PG) NATIONAL SECURITY [11:50] 2:20, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 (PG-13) [12:15] 2:40, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 CATCH ME IF YOU CAN SPIRITED AWAY (PG) (PG-13) [1:20] 4:20, 7:30, 10:35 2:00, 4:55, 7:40, 10:30 DAREDEVIL (PG-13) THE 25TH HOUR (R) [11:45] 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 6:55, 10:10 DARKNESS FALLS (PG-13) THE RECRUIT (PG-13) SCHEDULE FOR 4/18-4/24 • ( ) = SAT – SUN EARLY SHOWS FLORENCE CINEMAS 1930 HWY 101 • Florence • 997-2727 [ ] = FRI – SAT LATE SHOWS VIEW FROM THE TOP – PG-13 (2:45) 4:55 7:10 [9:20] MAN APART – 6:50 [9:10] QUIET AMERICAN – (1:40) 4:00 6:20 [8:40] *ANGER MANAGEMENT – PG-13 (2:00) 4:20 6:40 [9:00] PIGLET’S BIG MOVIE – G (2:55) 4:45 HARVARD CINEMAS 3161 W. Harvard • Roseburg • 673-6604 *HOLES – PG (1:00) 3:40 6:15 8:50 MAN APART – R (2:00) 6:45 WHAT A GIRL WANTS – PG (1:40) 4:10 6:35 9:00 HUNTED – R 4:30 9:10 [12:35] 2:55, 5:25, 7:45, 10:20 [11:35] 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 GODS & GENERALS (PG-13) TWO WEEKS NOTICE (PG-13) HARRY POTTER: CHAMBER OF SECRETS (PG) *TIMES IN [ ] SHOWING ONLY FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. [11:30] 4:00, 8:30 [11:40] 2:05, 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 [11:55] 3:20 JUNGLE BOOK 2 (G) [12:25] 2:50, 5:05, 7:05, 9:30 KANGAROO JACK (PG) [12:10] 2:30, 5:00, 7:15, 9:35 STEREO SURROUND SOUND IN ALL AUDITORIUMS Who Are You? What have you done? SPIDER: Directed by David Cronenberg. Written by Patrick McGrath, based on his novel. Produced by Cronenberg, Samuel Hadida and Catherine Bailey. Executive producers, Luc Roeg, Charles Finch, Martin Katz, Jane Barclay, Sharon Harel, Hannah Leader, Zygi Kamasa, Simon Franks, Victor Hadida. Cinematographer, Peter Suschitzky. Production design, Andrew Sanders. Editor, Ronald Sanders. Music, Howard Shore. Costumes, Denise Cronenberg. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson and Gabriel Byrne, with Lynn Redgrave, John Neville and Bradley Hall. Sony Pictures Classics, 2002. R. 98 minutes. 4-DAY ADVANCE TICKET SALES - NO PASSES -NO SUPERSAVERS SHOWTIMES AVAILABLE AT CINEMARK.COM ROSEBURG CINEMA 7 1750 NW Hughwood • 673-6604 *BULLETPROOF MONK – PG-13 (1:30) 4:00 6:30 8:55 *MALIBU’S MOST WANTED – PG-13 (12:30 2:45) 4:59 7:15 9:35 *ANGER MANAGEMENT – PG-13 (12:20 2:35) 4:50 7:05 9:20 PHONE BOOTH - R (12:50 2:50) 4:40 6:50 9:00 CORE – (2:20) 5:25 8:30 BASIC – R 7:20 9:30 PIANIST – 3:20 8:45 BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE – PG-13 (1:40) 4:10 6:40 9:10 CHICAGO – PG-13 (WINNER 6 ACADEMY AWARDS INCLUDING BEST PICTURE) (12:55) 6:20 PIGLET’S BIG MOVIE – G (1:50) 3:40 5:30 HOLES (PG) DIG (12:45 4:30) 7:10 9:45 MALIBU'S MOST WANTED (PG-13) DIG (12:30 2:45 4:50) 7:00 ANGER MANAGEMENT (PG-13) DIG (12:20 2:50 5:15) 7:40 9:30 www.catheaters.com AVALON C I N E M A 2nd & Jackson • Corvallis 10:05 THE R. M. (PG) DIG (12:10 2:35 4:50) 7:15 9:40 WHAT A GIRL WANTS (PG) DIG (11:50 2:20 4:40) 7:05 9:35 PHONE BOOTH (R) - ID REQUIRED DIG (12:35 2:55 5:10) 7:20 9:50 CHICAGO (PG-13) DIG (12:00 2:30 5:00) 7:30 10:00 SPIRITED AWAY (PG) DIG (11:45 2:25 5:05) A MAN APART (R) - ID REQUIRED DIG HOLES (PG) 7:45 10:15 (1:20 4:10) 7:00 9:50 HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES (R) - ID REQUIRED (1:00 3:10 5:20) 7:40 10:10 MALIBU'S MOST WANTED (PG-13) (110 320 530) 7:50 10:15 THE CORE (PG-13) PG-13 (1:00 3::55) 6:50 9:45 BULLETPROOF MONK (PG-13) (2:25 4:55) 7:30 10:05 ANGER MANAGEMENT (PG-13) (2:00 4:40) 7:20 10:00 WHAT A GIRL WANTS (PG) (2:20 4:45) 7:10 9:35 THE HOURS Starring Golden Globe and Academy Award winner for Best Actress, Nicole Kidman ANGER MANAGEMENT (PG-13) DIG Also playing as a separate admission Fri. (5:10) 7:30 10:00 Sat. & Sun. (12:10 2:40 5:10) 7:30 10:00 THE QUIET AMERICAN BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (PG-13) DIG Fri. (4:50) 7:20 9:50 Michael Cain, Brendan Fraser. Rated R. Sat. & Sun. (12:00 2:20 4:50) 7:20 9:50 Call or log on for showtimes DOLBY STEREO SURROUND SOUND CHICAGO (PG-13) DIG $6.50 General • $5.50 Student • $4.50 SC, Matinee & Wed. 752-4161 avaloncinema.com v m Fri. (4:45) 7:10 9:40 Sat. & Sun. (12:15 2:30 4:45) 7:10 9:40 PHONE BOOTH (R) - ID REQUIRED DIG Fri. (5:00) 7:00 9:30 Sat. & Sun. (12:30 2:50 5:00) 7:00 9:30 Times For 4/18 - 4/20 24 APRIL 17, 2003 SONY PICTURES CLASSICS, 2002 THE PIANIST (R) ©2003 A train pulls into the station, a shiny black and red train. It stops, peo- ple get off and walk toward us, then out of the frame. Eventually, a stooped man in a large raincoat carrying a valise dis- embarks and the camera moves toward him. The man is a cipher, a disoriented nonentity. He mutters in a stunted, almost unrecognizable language. He walks a long time through an indus- trial area of a city, which looks empty, aban- doned. No cars on the street. No other peo- ple. Occasionally, he looks hard at a scrap of paper and sputters to himself. Bright red lintels mark the doorways on a cream-col- ored wall. The man stops, checks the num- ber above a door and raps loudly with the knocker. The woman who answers the door says, “We’ve been expecting you.” He re- coils as if struck but follows her inside. This is the place where Dennis “Spider” Cleg (Ralph Fiennes) will live, and she is the landlady, Mrs. Wilkenson (Lynn Redgrave). Benign neglect is the most gen- erous way to describe how she relates to those boarders recently released from men- tal institutions, but from their points of view Mrs. Wilkenson is a powerful figure with nearly unlimited control over them. Terrance (John Neville), an older man who lives there, sees her as a Nurse Ratched de- termined to make their lives unbearable. But Terrance is kind to Spider. Spider scuttles around his room, hiding a small notebook various places — under a rug, in a drawer. His suitcase contains bits of string and little else. He is frightened by shadows, and the pipes in the nearly bare room scare him. He is uneasy with himself, and we are uneasy with him. Sometimes he writes in his book, feverishly. But his mark- ings are unintelligible as far as we can tell, although emotionally they contain all his secrets. Spider knows London’s East End very well. The neighborhood where he grew up is nearby, and he finds it again. He wanders the alleyways, drinks in the pubs, has coffee in a bleak cafe. And he finds the house where he lived with his mother (Miranda Richardson) and father, Bill Cleg (Gabriel Byrne). As Spider seeks the truth of what happened to him when he was a child, we see it unfolding through his eyes. Like him, we cannot tell apart reality, memory and fantasy. The moments when Spider stands unseen in a room with his mother, father or both, perspective shifts. Sounds and sights take on an inflamed, hallucinatory edge, and we are as lost to truth as he. The brilliant Canadian director of the macabre, David Cronenberg, here forgoes special effects and relies on ordinary reality skewed through the mind of a schizophrenic to affect viewers. This masterful, disturbing film journeys into the labyrinthine corridors of Spider’s warped memories with ad- mirable restraint. Caught in a classic Freudian dilemma, Spider sets about to prove to himself that when he was 10 years old his father killed his mother and installed a prostitute in her place in their home. And rather than use a voice-over narrator, Cronenberg tells Spider’s story cinemati- cally. And what that means is that Miranda Richardson, who plays the disturbed boy’s mother, also plays several other characters as well, although not all the time. OK, so you have to see the movie for that sentence to make sense, but trust me, it’s true. While Fiennes’s performance is com- pelling because it is so deeply internalized, Richardson’s accomplishment is to fashion totally separate personalities for each of the women she portrays. Both are phenomenal. Spider opens Friday, April 18 at the Bijou. Cronenberg, Fiennes and Richardson — brilliant! Highest recom- mendations. ew
