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BY LOIS WADSWORTH Filmmaker Jacques Perrin with Eurasian Cranes. CINEMARK - SPRINGFIELD PATRIC CHAUVET. SONY PICTURES CLASSICS, 2003 Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 746-5202 - 8/22-8/28 Digital Sound in ALL Auditoriums PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE AT CINEMARK.COM THE MEDALLION* (PG- AMERICAN WEDDING* 13) (R) Uninterrupted Dialogue With the wind. 11:20, 2:05, 4:35, 7:45, 10:15 1:25, 4:05, 7:20, 8:00, 10:00, 10:40 MARCI X* (R) PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN (PG-13) 1:35, 4:00, 7:10, 9:35 12:10, 3:05, 3:35, 7:00, 7:30, MY BOSS’S DAUGHTER* 11:40, 10:25 10:50 (PG-13) 12:05, 2:35, 4:55, 7:35, 9:50 LAURA COFT: TOMB FREDDY VS JASON *(R) RAIDER: CRADLE OF 11:35, 1:30, 2:20, 4:15, 5:00, 7:15, LIFE (PG-13) 7:55, 9:55, 10:35 1:15 4:10, 7:05, 10:05 OPEN RANGE*(R) SPY KIDS 3-D: GAME OVER (PG) 11:50, 3:10, 7:00, 10:20 11:10, 1:45, 4:20, GRIND* (PG-13) SEABISCUIT (PG-13) 7:25, 10:30 UPTOWN GIRLS* (PG-13) 11:25, 2:10, 4:40, 7:40 10:15 Directed by Jacques Perrin, with Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats. Narrator, Jacques Perrin. Written by Perrin and Stephane Durand. Produced by Perrin and Christophe Barratier. Executive producer, Jean De Trégomain. Cinematographers, Michael Benjamin, Sylvie Carcedo-Dreujou, Laurent Charbonnier, Luc Drion, Laurent Fleutot, Philippe Garguil, Dominique Gentil, Bernard Lutic, Thierry Machado, Stpéhane Martin, Fabrice Moindrot, Ernst Sasse, Michael Terrasse, Thierry Thomas. Composer, Bruno Coulais. Editor, Marie-Joséphe Yoyotte. Production design, Regis Nicolino. Idea Valentine Perrin. Sony Pictures Classics, 2003. G. 89 minutes. J acques Perrin played many roles to create this elegant, moving docu- mentary feature about the wonders of birds in flight: director, narrator, writer and producer. In a lengthy filmmaking career that includes both acting and producing, Perrin (Microcosmos and Himalaya producer) has won many awards. But to make this Academy Award nominee, he assembled five crews of more than 450 people. The crews in- cluded 17 pilots, who flew traditional and re- mote-controlled model gliders, model and standard helicopters, balloons, delta-wing gliders and a specially designed ultralight motorized aircraft that put its awed human operators in the air with the migrating birds. Fourteen cinematographers flew next to, above, below and in front of the birds. The result is magical. Perrin: “For 80 million years, birds have ruled the skies, seas and earth. Each spring, they fly vast distances. Each fall, they fly back on the same route. This film is the result of four years following their amazing odysseys, in the northern hemisphere and then the south, species by species, flying over seas and continents.” Image, movement and sound make this a memorable seven-continent excursion into the specialized world of flight. Silent cam- eras capture breathtaking pictures, while recordings of the actual sounds birds make while flying speak to the intense collabora- tion between technology, dedicated cine- matographers and savvy pilots. Amazingly, the birds accept the winged humans who ac- company them, often at the dizzying heights of 10,000 feet. We learn early that birds migrate, but this film delivers the information in crystalline, sensory detail. By the end, the reality of the birds’ incredible feats is more than fact: It is a poem, a symphony, a celebration. [Read this section later if you have not yet www.eugeneweekly.com seen the picture.] Even though no special ef- fects were used, the filmmakers fudged some shots. James Gorman interviewed Perrin for The New York Times (4/15/03) and reported that the scene of Canadian hunters shooting snow geese was real, but images of falling birds “were actually birds doing excited acro- bats as they came in to land.” Gunshots were added later. In the Eastern European indus- trial pollution sequence, the filmmakers con- structed the set where the birds walked through oil, which was actually colored milk. Gorman also reported that in the scene of crabs feeding, they were actually eating a piece of fish, not a baby chick. As a film viewer, I appreciate knowing about tricks of the trade, but knowledge doesn’t dilute my appreciation for the qual- ity of Winged Migrations. Purists may object to any staging and say the film is a nature feature, not a documentary. Similar contro- versy has swirled around Edward Curtis’s magnificent photographs of Native Americans for years, because he staged many of the portraits. But in both cases, nothing that did not occur naturally was filmed. If Perrin or Curtis staged an artificial scene, one that never takes place, it would be different. Curtis documented the end of a way of life and Perrin the everyday violence of nature and man, which decimates flocks of migrating birds. As Perrin makes clear, migration is about survival. A renewed appreciation for the avian creatures who share with us this beautiful planet requires their names: puffin, guille- mot, northern gannet, barnacle geese, red- crowned crane, whooper swan, sandhill crane, sage grouse, Western grebe, pelican, wader, Canada geese, snow geese, European white stork, greylag geese, bald eagle, alba- tross, penguin, starling, aigrette, darter, ja- caba, European turtle-dove, Eurasian crane, flamingo, secretary bird, hornbill, great bus- tard, black-necked swan, robin, snowy owl, great Skua, arctic tern, great northern diver, eider duck, great white pelican, pigeon, bar- headed geese, Andean condor, jacana, egret, wood pigeon, macaw, black-headed ibis, sparrow. Now playing at the Bijou. Very highest recommendations. ew FINDING NEMO (G) 11:15, 2:30, 5:10 S.W.A.T. (PG-13) 12:35, 3:30, 7:10, 7:50,10:10, 10:50 FREAKY FRIDAY (PG) 11:45, 1:05, 2:25, 3:55, 5:05, 7:05, 9:45 * NO PASSES OR SUPERSAVERS MOVIES 12 - SPRINGFIELD Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 741-1231 - 8/22-8/28 Bargain Shows: $1.50 - Early Bird: $1.00 - Wednesday all shows: $1.00 28 DAYS LATER (R) A MIGHTY WIND (PG-13) ANGER MANAGEMENT (PG-13) HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE (PG-13) BRUCE ALMIGHTY (PG- 13) LEAGUE OF EXRAORDI- NARY GENTLEMEN (PG- 13) 11:45, 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 12:15, 2:45, 5:00, 7:20, 9:55 12:05, 2:35, 5:10, 7:35, 10:15 11:40, 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 WINGED MIGRATION : 12:00, 3:25, 7:20, 10:45 11:25, 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 CHICAGO (PG-13) 11:30, 2:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 DADDY DAY CARE (PG) 11:50, 2:00, 4:40, 7:00 9:15 RUGRATS GO WILD (PG) 11:55, 2:30, 4:55, 7:15, 9:40 HOLES (PG) 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS (PG- 13) 11:20, 4:45, 10:10 2:00, 7:25 SCHEDULE FOR 8/22-8/28 • ( ) = FRI – MON EARLY SHOWS HARVARD CINEMAS JOHNNY ENGLISH (PG) 12:20, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:00 3161 W. Harvard • Roseburg • 673-6604 LEGALLY BLOND 2 (PG- 13) *MEDALLION – R 2:30 4:45 7:00 9:15 *FREDDY VS. JASON – R 2:00 4:20 THE HULK (PG-13) 6:40 9:00 11:35, 2:10, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 FREAKY FRIDAY - PG 1:50 4:05 6:20 12:25, 3:30, 6:45, 9:50 8:30 STEREO SURROUND SOUND IN ALL AUDITORIUMS 4-DAY ADVANCE TICKET SALES - NO PASSES -NO SUPERSAVERS SHOWTIMES AVAILABLE AT CINEMARK.COM ROSEBURG CINEMA 7 1750 NW Hughwood • 673-6604 *MY BOSS’S DAUGHTER PG-13 12:20 2:30 4:40 6:40 8:50 *OPEN RANGE – R 2:20 5:25 8:30 *UPTOWN GIRLS – PG—13 2:00 4:20 6:30 8:40 *GRIND – PG-13 7:00 S.W.A.T. – PG-13 1:45 4:30 9:20 AMERICAN WEDDING – R 7:30 9:40 LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: THE CRADLE OF LIFE – PG-13 1:10 4:10 6:50 9:30 SEABISCUIT – PG-13 12:00 3:00 6:00 THE MEDALLION (PG-13) DIG ★ ✔ (1225 240 500) 730 945 MY BOSS'S DAUGHTER (PG-13) DIG ✔ (1235 250 505) 740 950 FREDDY VS. 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(PG-13) DIG (140 420) 700 940 FREAKY FRIDAY (PG) DIG PG-13 (1200 220 445) 710 925 AMERICAN WEDDING (R) - ID REQ'D DIG THE MEDALLION (PG-13) DIG ★ (525) 740 955 (1200 220 415) 730 950 OPEN RANGE (R) - ID REQ'D DIG (1230 350) 720 1005 SEABISCUIT (PG-13) DIG (1245 400) 705 1000 WHALE RIDER “The genius of the movie is the way it sidesteps all of the obvious cliches of the underlying story and makes itself fresh, observant, tough and genuinely moving.” –Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES Call or log on for showtimes DOLBY STEREO SURROUND SOUND $6.50 General • $5.50 Student • $4.50 SC, Matinee & Wed. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN (PG-13) DIG (1220 345) 700 955 Times For 8/22 - 8/24 ©2003 752-4161 avaloncinema.com v m EUGENE WEEKLY AUGUST 21, 2003 25
