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BY LOIS WADSWORTH CINEMARK - SPRINGFIELD Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 746-5202 - 9/11-9/17 Digital Sound in ALL Auditoriums PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE AT CINEMARK.COM ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXIC0* (R) 12:25, 1:20, 3:05, 4:05, 7:15, 7:50, 9:55, 10:30 MATCHSTICK MEN 8*(PG-13) 12:55, 1:25, 3:45, 4:15, 7:10, 7:40,10:00, 10:30 CABIN FEVER* (R) 12:05, 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:05 NO GOOD DEED* (R) 1:30, 4:10, 7:20, 9:50 THE ORDER* (R) 1:50, 4:25, 7:30, 10:05 LAURIE SPARHAM. MIRAMAX, 2003. DICKIE ROBERTS: FORMER CHILD STAR* (PG-13) 1:55, 4:35, 7:45, 10:25 492 E 13th 686-2458 For the week of Friday, September 12th! Sign-up for our weekly WebPage Update! www.bijou-cinemas.com Audrey Tautou Chjwetel Ejiofor “Unflinchingly, Things gives us both the dirt and the prettiness, the goodness and the horror...” FREAKY FRIDAY (PG) 12:45, 3:25, [7:05], 9:45 AMERICAN WEDDING* (R) 4:00, 10:20 UPTOWN GIRLS PG-13 4:40, 10:15 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN (PG-13) 12:10, [3:35], 7:00, 7:30, 10:10, 10:35 SPY KIDS 3-D: GAME OVER (PG) 1:45, 4:20 — Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune Directed by Stephen Frears DIRTY PRETTY THINGS SEABISCUIT (PG-13) 5:10, 7:15 & 9:20 Nightly SAT & SUN MAT 3:00 Francois Ozon 12:00, 3:10, 6:50, 10:00 FINDING NEMO (G) 7:05, 9:40 OKWE (CHIWETEL EJIOFOR) AND SENAY (AUDREY TAUTOU) GRAB A MOMENT TO TALK AT THE HOTEL. ITALIAN JOB (RE-RELEASE) (PG-13) 1:00, [7:25] MY BOSS’S DAUGHTER (PG- 13) 2:10, 7:40 OPEN RANGE* (R) Invisible Workers Directed by Stephen Frears. Written by Steven Knight. Produced by Robert Jones, Tracey Seward. Executive producers, Paul Smith, David M. Thompson, Tracey Scoffield, Allon Reich, Teresa Moneo and Julie Goldstein. Cinematographer Chris Menges. Editor, Mick Audsley. Production design, Hugo Luczyc-Wyhowski. Music, Nathan Larson. Costumes, Odile Dicks-Mireaux. Starring Audrey Tautou, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Sergi Lopez, with Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Wong, Zlatko Buric. BBC Films. Miramax Films, 2003. R. 97 minutes. Y ou’ve probably never heard of the actors in Stephen Frears’ impres- sive dramatic thriller, Dirty Pretty Things, except for Audrey Tautou (Amelie). A movie about immigrants from wherever working menial jobs in London may not sound like your kind of movie. But in the Third World, good people work hard just to survive. And if they’re lucky enough to immigrate or escape to a developed coun- try, they work even harder to move into secure jobs that pay a living wage. Most stay trapped as the lowest workers in the city’s underbelly, where they are invisible. There they may become so desperate even the unthinkable looks like a way out. Forgive the preaching. Frears doesn’t do any of that in this smart, sharp film. Instead he creates characters you care for, places them in degrading jobs with sleazy bosses and cranks up the tension at every turn. Be warned: You may be disturbed by some visuals and by the unpleasant content of this movie. Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is an illegal from Nigeria, where he was once a doctor. He now works two jobs. He drives a cab and is the night desk clerk at the Baltic Hotel, which has seen better days. Okwe’s corrupt bosses think nothing of requiring the hired help to break the law. Once they 12:35, 3:30, 7:10, 10:10, FIGHTING TEMPTATIONS (PG- 13) 7:00 SAT ONLY SECONDHAND LIONS (PG) 5:00 SUN ONLY [ ] REPLACED BY SNEAK PREVIEW less immigration officials and of her boss, Señor Juan (Sergi Lopez), who’s called “Sneaky” by all the hotel’s immigrant workers. One ordinary work day, Okwe’s boss at the taxi stand asks him to play doctor because he thinks he has a venereal disease. When everyone there turns up with VD, Okwe gets antibiotics from his chess part- ner and fellow immigrant, Guo Yi (Benedict Wong), who works in a hospital crematorium. At his night job, Okwe is told by a friendly prostitute leaving the hotel, Juliette (Sophie Okonedo), to check the room she was in. He finds an overflowing toilet. He fixes the toilet but is disturbed to find it jammed by a heart, a fresh human heart. Curiosity leads Okwe to investigate, but he ends up in places he doesn’t want to be. While this is not an upbeat tale, neither is it unremittingly grim. Strangers in a strange land may band together in unex- pected ways to achieve similar goals. As in Frears’ High Fidelity, his characters find humor, love and beauty in ordinary life, even selflessness. And Frears has worked with immigrant themes before, in 1987’s Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, with a script by Hanif Kurishei, who also wrote for Frears’ 1985 My Beautiful Laundrette, starring then-unknown Daniel Day Lewis. Screenwriter Steven Knight is a novel- ist, a comedy writer, a speechwriter and co- creator of television’s “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” Fired up to write a novel, Knight had a Turkish friend who intro- duced him to London’s sweatshops, which led to the idea of immigrants as invisible, expendable workers. Before the end, Knight allows hope to enter the story, and it’s a better film for it. Dirty Pretty Things opens at the Bijou on Friday, Sept. 12. Highly recommended for Chris Menges’ cinematography; Frears’ even-handed, elegant direction; and Okwe’s cool dignity under stress. I look forward to seeing more of Ejiofor and am pleased to see Tautou take on more dramat- ic roles. ew CharlotteRampling LudivineSagnier SWIMMING POOL 9:00 Nightly SUN MAT 2:45 R SOON: THE CREATURE OF THE BLACK LAGOON IN 3-D! MUST END SOON! Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 741-1231 - 9/11-9/17 Strangers in a strange land may band together in unexpected ways to achieve similar goals. discover Okwe has training as a doctor, the hotel manager and the cabbie dispatcher boss pressure him for unsavory favors. Just to stay awake, Okwe chews so much green-leafed quat that he halluci- nates. When and if he sleeps, it’s on the couch in the flat of another immigrant, Senay (Audrey Tautou), a Turkish woman who cleans rooms at the hotel. They work different shifts and must meet surreptitious- ly, always in a public place, to exchange the key to the flat. Senay is afraid of the ruth- S.W.A.T. (PG-13) 7:30 SAT ONLY MOVIES 12 - SPRINGFIELD Immigrants in London. 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