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BY LOIS WADSWORTH BOB HARRIS (BILL MURRAY) AND CHARLOTTE (SCARLETT JOHANSSON) AT A CLUB. For the week of Friday, October 10th! Sign-up for our weekly WebPage Update! CINEMARK - SPRINGFIELD Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 746-5202 - 10/10-10/16 www.bijou-cinemas.com Digital Sound in ALL Auditoriums PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE AT CINEMARK.COM KILL BILL: VOLUME ONE* R DUPLEX PG-13 GOOD BOY!* PG 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:25, 9:55 UNDERWORLD R INTOLERABLE CRUEL- TY* PG-13 MATCHSTICK MEN PG- 13 3:30, 9:40 12:00, 12:50, 1:20, 2:50, 3:40, 4:15, SECONDHAND LIONS PG 5:40, 7:00, 7:35, 8:30, 9:55, 10:25 1:10, 3:55, 7:15, 10:05 12:55, 3:45, 7:20, 10:00 12:05, 3:05, 7:00, 10:00 Bob Dylan Jeff Bridges John Goodman !"#$%&'"(& "()(*!)+# 9:30 Nightly SAT & SUN MAT 2:30 SOON: BUBBA HO-TEP THE Magdelene 1:00, 1:45, 3:50, 4:30, 7:15, 7:45, 9:50, 10:30 SISTERS OUT OF TIME* PG-13 4:55 & 7:10 Nightly FINAL WEEK! 1:15, 1:55, 4:00, 4:35, 7:05, 7:40, 9:45 holly hunter evan rachel wood nikki reed 1:40, 4:20, 7:30, 10:25 THE RUNDOWN PG-13 thirteen 1:25, 4:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50, 10:20 UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN PG-13 5:00, 7:00 & 9:00 Nightly SAT & SUN MAT 3:00 1:05, 4:10, 7:05, 10:10 *NO PASSES/NO SUPERSAVERS MOVIES 12 - SPRINGFIELD Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 741-1231 - 10/10-10/16 Bargain Shows: $1.50 - Early Bird: $1.00 - Wednesday all shows: $1.00 AMERICAN WEDDING R SEABISCUIT PG-13 BAD BOYS 2 R SINBAD PG BRUCE ALMIGHTY PG- 13 TERMINATOR 3 R YOSHIO SATO. FOCUS FILMS, 2003. [12:05], 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Tokyo by Night Friends [11:40], 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 10:05 FINDING NEMO G Written and directed by Sofia Coppola. Produced by Sofia Coppola. Ross Katz. Executive producers, Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos. Cinematography, Lance Acord. Edited by Sarah Flack. Original music, Kevin Shields. Music producer, Brian Reitzell. Costumes, Nancy Steiner. Sound designer, Richard Beggs. Production design, Anne Ross, K.K. Barrett. Starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson, with Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, Catherine Lambert. Focus Features, 2003. R. 102 minutes. S ofia Coppola’s second feature film (The Virgin Suicides) is a minimal- ist joy. When she was getting others interested in the work, she showed them a story she’d written, not a screenplay. Even in the finished piece, there’s really no plot. But the story is about two lonely, American strangers temporarily stranded in a high- rise Tokyo hotel (the Park Hyatt), who become friends. Bill Murray plays Bob Harris, a film star revered by the Japanese for comedic roles from earlier in his faltering career. Scarlett Johansson plays Charlotte, a philosophy graduate now married to a photographer who’s off shooting music videos. Both give performances that are true and heartbreak- ing. While the film has little dialogue, the subtle sounds of hotel life as well as the more complicated rhythms and melodies of Tokyo street life animate the non-talking scenes. Everything that’s going to happen between Bob and Charlotte takes place in a compressed time-frame, but the pace of the picture only feels hurried in its final min- utes. Longing is one of the more difficult screen passions to portray, but Murray and Johansson reveal new ways to express its complexity. An inability to sleep first connects them. The film opens with a scene of Charlotte seen from the back, in discreet see-through pink underwear and a camisole, lying on a tousled bed. Charlotte observes her hus- band, John (Giovanni Ribisi), hastily pack- ing his camera bag, off for the day’s shoot. He’s gone in a flash, and the young woman has a whole day and night to fill on her own. Bob is sleepy when he first arrives at the airport, greeted by a number of people from the company that’s brought him to Japan, Suntory. But by the time he actually gets to his hotel room and his bed, Bob is wide awake, staring starkly at the walls. He heads for the hotel bar for a nightcap. These patterns are established over a few days, with only slight variations. But the scenes of Bob shooting the Suntory whiskey advertisement stand alone. Bob sits in a sleep-deprived stupor while a Japanese director half his age hurls loud, staccato instructions at him. “More intensi- ty” is desired. Bob struggles to deliver an invitation to relax with a whiskey the way the director wants. It takes an old pro like Murray to pull off a scene like this, and he’s terrific. Meanwhile, Charlotte fills her days with sightseeing, shopping or learning the art of ikebana (flower arrangement) in the hotel, but she still sits alone in her room much of the time, wistfully missing her husband and confused about why she came on the trip at all. Between them, Bob and Charlotte show dislocation and loneliness to be demanding states of melancholy. Then they begin to catch sight of one another in the elevator, or in the bar in the middle of the night. Soon enough they are compatriots on the town, looking for some action through the long nights and days. They hail taxis and run down the street, hand-in-hand. The intima- cy between them grows. This is a movie for grown-ups who can sit through a character-driven, moody film. It is a film to be seen more than once, to be savored and thought about. Coppola shows a sure hand in achieving a subtle picture of strangers who discover the quiet pleasures of friendship. Murray brings exhaustion to a lyrical pinnacle. The film receives my very highest rec- ommendations. Now playing at Cinema World and Cinemark. ew PG-13 THE ITALIAN JOB PG13 [11:45], 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 UPTOWN GIRLS PG-13 SWAT PG-13 !"#$%&'"(&'"()(*!)+# 11:40 Nightly [11.55], 5:15,10:30 THE MEDALLION PG-13 6:55, 10:10 BIJOU LATENITE Thu-Sa $4 Su-We $3 [11:35], 2:05, 4:35 LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER PG-13 MATRIX RELOADED R LOST IN TRANSLATION: R HELD OVER! SOON: NORTHFORK 12:15, 3:35, 6:50, 9:55 [11:35] [12:00] 2:00, 2:30, 4:30 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 9:30, 10:00 [11:20] 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 R SOON: AMERICAN SPLENDOR LOST IN TRANSLATION * R 2:35, 7:50, PG-13 12:40, 6:50 HOUSE OF THE DEAD* R PIRATES OF THE 12:20, 2:55, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 CARIBBEAN PG-13 SCHOOL OF ROCK *PG- 12:10, 3:35, 6:55, 10:15 13 [12:10], 2:40, 4:55, 710, 9:40 SCHEDULE FOR 10/10-10/16 • [ ] SATURDAY-SUNDAY ONLY HARVARD CINEMAS 3161 W. Harvard • Roseburg • 673-6604 [11:50], 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:35 SCHEDULE FOR 10/10 – 10/16/03 ( ) = SAT – SUN EARLY SHOWS [ ] FRIDAY-SATURDAY-SUNDAY- MONDAY ONLY RUNDOWN – PG-13 4:05 9:15 SECONDHAND LIONS – PG (1:20) 3:55 6:30 9:00 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN – PG-13 (1:10) [11:25] 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:35 6:20 STEREO SURROUND SOUND IN ALL AUDITORIUMS 4-DAY ADVANCE TICKET SALES - NO PASSES -NO SUPERSAVERS SHOWTIMES AVAILABLE AT CINEMARK.COM AUDITORIUM #3 CLOSED FOR REMODELING TO STADIUM SEATING. ROSEBURG CINEMA 7 1750 NW Hughwood • 673-6604 SCHEDULE FOR 10/10 – 10/14/03 ( ) = FRI – SUN EARLY SHOWS *INTOLERABLE CRUELTY – PG-13 (1:40) 4:00 6:30 8:50 *KILL BILL, VOLUME 1 – R (1:50) 4:20 6:50 9:20 *GOOD BOY – PG (1:30) 3:50 6:10 8:30 *HOUSE OF THE DEAD – R (1:10 3:15) 5:20 7:30 9:40 *UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN – PG-13 (1:00) 3:40 6:20 9:00 OUT OF TIME – PG-13 (1:20) 4:10 6:40 9:10 *SCHOOL OF ROCK – PG-13 (12:50) 3:30 6:00 KILL BILL (R) - ID REQ'D DIG ✔ (1235 430) 710 945 INTOLERABLE CRUELTY (PG-13) DIG ✔ (1210 235 505) 735 1005 GOOD BOY! (PG) DIG ✔ (1200 225 445) 715 935 SCHOOL OF ROCK (PG-13) DIG ✔ (1220 300) 700 940 LOST IN TRANSLATION (R) - ID REQ'D DIG (1145 215 445) 725 1000 OUT OF TIME (PG-13) DIG ✔ (1215 245 515) 745 1010 LUTHER (PG-13) DIG (420) 705 SECONDHAND LIONS (PG) DIG (1150 220 455) 725 955 MATCHSTICK MEN (PG-13) DIG (1240) 950 GOOD BOY! (PG) DIG ✔ Fri. (215 445) 715 940 Sat. & Sun. (1145 215 445) 715 940 HOUSE OF THE DEAD (R) - ID REQ'D DIG ✔ Fri. (240 510) 750 1015 Sat. & Sun. (1210 240 510) 750 1015 INTOLERABLE CRUELTY (PG-13) DIG ✔ Fri. (150 425) 700 935 Sat. & Sun. (1115 150 425) 700 935 OUT OF TIME (PG-13) DIG ✔ Fri. (230 500) 730 1000 Sat. & Sun. (1200 230 500) 730 1000 SCHOOL OF ROCK (PG-13) DIG ✔ Fri. (210 455) 740 1020 Sat. & Sun. (1130 210 455) 740 1020 THE RUNDOWN (PG-13) DIG Fri. (140 420) 710 945 Sat. & Sun. (1110 140 420) 710 945 SECONDHAND LIONS (PG) DIG Fri. (220 450) 720 950 Sat. & Sun. (1150 220 450) 720 950 8:40 DUPLEX – PG-13 (2:30) 7:20 UNDERWORLD – R 4:40 9:30 STARTS FRIDAY 10/15: SEAN PENN, KEVIN BACON IN "MYSTIC RIVER" www.catheaters.com AVALON C I N E M A 2nd & Jackson • Corvallis ! W NED O ITIO D N CON AIR Now Hiring - Apply at Theatre R Hope Davis & Dennis Leary in KILL BILL (R) - ID REQ'D DIG ✔ Fri. (100 400) 700 945 Sat. & Sun. (1200 220 445) 720 1000 LOST IN TRANSLATION (R) - ID REQ'D DIG Fri. (120 420) 720 945 Sat. & Sun. (1215 245 500) 740 1015 LUTHER (PG-13) DIG Fri. (405) 955 Sat. & Sun. (1205 455) 950 UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN (PG-13) DIG Fri. (110 410) 710 945 Sat. & Sun. (1205 235 505) 740 1010 MATCHSTICK MEN (PG-13) DIG Fri. (105) 725 Sat. & Sun. (230) 720 Times For 10/10 - 10/12 ©2003 THE SECRET LIVES OF DENTISTS “"Rarely does a film cause those visceral adrenaline rushes of rec- ognizing greatness . . ." -- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS Also playing as a separate admission Held over!!! Audrey Tautou in D IR TY PR E TT Y TH I NG S R 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 OCTOBER 9, 2003 47
