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BY LOIS WADSWORTH ACTIVIST TERRY FAGAN (DARRAGH KELLY, LEFT) TAKES JOURNALIST VERONICA GUERIN (CATE BLANCHETT, RIGHT) ON A GRIM TOUR OF DUBLIN’S STREETS, WHICH HAVE NOW BECOME A WAR ZONE OF POWERFUL DRUG LORDS BATTLING FOR CONTROL. For the week of Friday, October 31st! Sign-up for our weekly WebPage Update! CINEMARK - SPRINGFIELD Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 746-5202 - 10/31-11/6 Digital Sound in ALL Auditoriums PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE AT CINEMARK.COM BROTHER BEAR* G KILL BILL: VOLUME ONE (STARTS SAT) 11:55, 12:30, 2:20, R 2:55, 4:45, 5:20, 7:10, 7:45, 9:35, 10:15 1:20, [3:35], 4:15, 7:35, [9:35], 10:25 IN THE CUT* R 12:15, 2:45, 5:00 BEYOND BORDERS*R INTOLERABLE CRUELTY PG13 12:35, 3:40, 7:15, 10:15 7:20, 10:35 SCARY MOVIE 3* PG13 12:00, 1:40, 2:10, 2:40, 4:05, 4:35, 5:05, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:25, 9:55, 10:25 !"#$%#&'#($)*+#, -.$/#0(*,(, 1:50, 4:25, (7:30), 10:05 LOVE ACTUALLY R 5:00 & 7:20 Nightly SUN MAT 2:45 7:30 SAT SNEAK ONLY 1:00, 3:50, 7:15, 9:50 RUNAWAY JURY* PG13 UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN PG13 10:10 FRI SAT ONLY 1:05, 4:10, 7:05, {10:10} — Elvis Mitchell , NEW YORK TIMES 7:20 & 9:20 Nightly SAT & SUN MAT 3:10 VERONICA GUERIN R NR “What Leone did for cowboys and crime, Once Upon a Time in the Midlands does for a more contemporary genre.” — Terry Lawson, DETROIT FREE PRESS TEXAS CHAINSAW MAS- [12:50, 6:55] SACRE* R TOUCHSTONE PICTURES, 2003. 1:30, 2:00, 4:00, 4:40, 7:10, 7:50, 9:45, 10:30 MYSTIC RIVER* R 12:05, 3:25, 7:00, 10:20 R “This terrifically smart and solid piece of filmmaking lets the former Weathermen, now in their 50’s and older, speak into the camera and reveal a bit of their personal histories as well as what the peace movement meant to them.” SCHOOL OF ROCK PG13 UNDERWORLD R 12:10, [12:45], 3:30,[ 3:55], 7:05, [7:40], 10:10, [10:40] -- Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE GOOD BOY! PG RADIO* PG 12:55, 1:45, 3:45, 4:30, 7:10, 7:45, 9:55, 10:30 www.bijou-cinemas.com "The film presents a realistic and artful treatment of a subject not often dealt with in cinema -- and rarely with honesty. Davis and Scott respond with heartfelt, edgy performances." [ ] FRIDAY ONLY ( ) NOT SAT { } SUN MON TUES ONLY !"#$%&#' 5:10 Nightly ONE WEEK ONLY! *NO PASSES/NO SUPERSAVERS SOON: THE ANIMATION SHOW WITH NEW ANIMATION BY BEAVIS AND R BUTTHEADS ’ MIKE JUDGE MOVIES 12 - SPRINGFIELD !"#$%&'()*+,#(-.$ Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 741-1231 - 10/31-11/6 Bargain Shows: $1.50 - Early Bird: $1.00 - Wednesday all shows: $1.00 Citizen Journalist Crusader for the Public Good Directed by Joel Schumacher. Written by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue, from story by Carol Doyle. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Executive producers Chad Oman, Mike Stenson, Ned Dowd. Cinematography, Brendan Galvin. Production design, Nathan Crowley. Editor, David Gamble. Costume design, Joan Bergin. Music composer, Harry Gregson-Williams. Starring Cate Blanchett, with Gerard McSorley, Ciaran Hinds, Brenda Fricker, Don Wycherley, Barry Barnes, Simon O’Driscoll. Touchstone Pictures, 2003. R. 98 minutes. [11:15], 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:20 CABIN FEVER R OPEN RANGE R 12:05, 2:35, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 V eronica Guerin (Cate Blanchett) was a Dublin investigative reporter for Ireland’s best-selling weekly news tabloid, the Sunday Independent. She wanted to cover stories about the community that would make a difference, so she came to write about crime and drugs. Guerin cultivated sources among the city’s young adults who were strung out on heroin in increas- ing numbers. For fear of reprisal, her best contact, low-life criminal John Traynor (Ciaran Hinds), wouldn’t give Guerin the name of the mastermind laundering tons of money and bringing H into the city. But Guerin finds him, anyway — John Gilligan (Gerard McSorley), a cruel, ruthless and bloodless enemy with everything to lose if his name came up in connection with drugs. The reporter herself becomes the target, and Gilligan plays hardball. On the saner side of her life, Guerin is married and has a child. Her husband, Graham Turley (Barry Barnes), and son, Cathal (Simon O’Driscoll), want her attention when she’s home. But most nights she sits at her desk in front of her computer, studying public documents, police photos, interview notes, books, magazines and newspaper clippings, always looking for the one clue that will lead her to Dublin’s drug kingpin. Her supportive mother, Bernie Guerin (Brenda Fricker), counsels Veronica to give up the hunt. “Sometimes it’s braver to walk away,” she says. Direct threats are made on Veronica’s life and that of her family. But this plucky, determined woman believes her visibility in the press will keep her safe. Guerin’s story has been told in film before: When the Sky Falls, 2000, was directed by John MacKenzie and starred Joan Allen. U.K. reviewers were under- 11:30, 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:35 whelmed, and the film was not theatrical- ly released in this country. Critics mentionVeronica Guerin’s intrinsic mainstream appeal, its Hollywood gloss, as if the movie would have been truer to this courageous journalist if shot by a hand-held camera on a super-low budget. Director Joel Schumaker and pro- ducer Jerry Bruckheimer make commer- cial films, but they took this one to the streets and shot it with two cameras in about 90 Dublin locations. I’m not com- plaining. The specificity of setting grounds the film in a place, which makes the story less novelistic and more realistic. Blanchett plays this upbeat, energetic woman with verve, but she also shows us the frightened woman inside the strong outer figure Guerin felt she had to be. Guerin was the real thing. She actually went into hard-core drug scenes and inter- viewed people. She really went to the homes of known drug lords and asked them if they were bringing heroin into the city. She attended funerals with the police, who took pictures of gangland heroes. Incidentally, I agree with critic A.O. Scott of The New York Times, who wrote that “you expect a movie like this to sacri- fice a measure of nuance to be appropri- ately rousing and emphatic.” But I dis- agree that the film makes Guerin’s story “as phony as mediocre television.” If Guerin had been a man, I doubt any- one would have dismissed his abilities by writing about him this way. We have so few women heroes; let us honor them when they come our way. Maybe I’m still stupefied by the useless trash that clogged the multiplexes from April until day- before-yesterday, but I found Veronica Guerin memorable for its hard-headed determination to show how the corruptive influence of hard drugs destroys lives, cities and civilization. Here’s the bad news. Cinemark is showing Veronica Guerin only through Friday night. This serious film has to make way for Disney’s Brother Bear on Saturday. That’s the world we live in. VG is heartily recommended. See it in the short time you have left. ew R BRUCE ALMIGHTY PG13 MATCHSTICK MEN PG13 2:20, 7:30 COLD CREEK MANOR R VERONICA GUERIN: 9:35 Nightly SAT MAT 2:55 FINAL WEEK! next: BUBBA HO-TEP [12:10], 3:40, 6:55, 10:10 SWAT PG-13 [11:25], 2:10, 4:55, 7:45, 10:30 FINDING NEMO G [11:30], [12:00], 2:00, 2:30, 4:30 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 9:30, 10:00 SEABISCUIT PG-13 HOUSE OF THE DEAD R SECONDHAND LIONS PG 11:55, 5:10, 10:05 [12:15], 3:35, 6:50, 9:55 11:45, 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER PG13 THE RUNDOWN PG13 [11:20], 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 [11:35], 2:05, 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 [ ] FRIDAY-SATURDAY-SUNDAY ONLY SCHEDULE FOR 10/31-11/7 • [ ] SATURDAY-SUNDAY ONLY HARVARD CINEMAS 3161 W. Harvard • Roseburg • 673-6604 *RADIO – PG (1:30) 4:15 6:45 9:10 TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE – R (2:20) 4:45 7:00 9:20 STARTS SATURDAY, 11/1: DISNEY’S BROTHER BEAR – G (12:10 2:20) 4;30 6:35 8:40 STEREO SURROUND SOUND IN ALL AUDITORIUMS 4-DAY ADVANCE TICKET SALES - NO PASSES -NO SUPERSAVERS STARTS WEDNESDAY, 11/5: MATRIX REVOLUTIONS – G ROSEBURG CINEMA 7 1750 NW Hughwood • 673-6604 Adv. Tix on Sale MATRIX REVOLUTIONS (R) - ID REQ'D ★ BROTHER BEAR (G) DIG ✔ Sat. & Sun. (1210 240 450) 700 920 UNDERWORLD (RE-ISSUE) (R) - ID REQ'D DIG Fri. (1235 430) 730 1005 RADIO (PG) DIG ★ ✔ (1145 220 450) 720 950 SCARY MOVIE 3 (PG-13) DIG ✔ (1230 255 515) 740 1010 RUNAWAY JURY (PG-13) DIG (1215 310) 700 950 MYSTIC RIVER (R) - ID REQ'D DIG (1155 300) 650 955 INTOLERABLE CRUELTY (PG-13) DIG (1150 445) 945 KILL BILL, VOLUME 1 (R) - ID REQ'D DIG (215) 710 LOST IN TRANSLATION (R) - ID REQ'D DIG (1200 230 455) 725 1000 SCHOOL OF ROCK (PG-13) DIG (1240 430) 705 940 Sat. & Sun. (1145 215 450) 720 940 Fri. 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(1125 200 435) 710 950 *LUTHER – PG-13 (1:00) 3:30 6:00 8:30 *LOST IN TRANSLATION – R (2:00) 4:40 7:00 9:20 *SCARY MOVIE 3 – PG-13 (1:10) 3:20 5:20 7:25 9:30 *BEYOND BORDERS – R 9:00 RUNAWAY JURY – PG-13 (12:55) 3:50 6:30 9:10 MYSTIC RIVER – R (2:10) 5:10 8:20 INTOLERABLE CRUELTY – PG-13 4:10 GOOD BOY – PG (2:20) 4:30 6:40 UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN – PG-13 (1:40) 6:20 SCHOOL OF ROCK – PG-13 (1:20) 3:40 6:10 8:40 UNDERWORLD – R 8:50 S T A R T S F R ID A Y , 1 1/ 7:WILL FARRELL IN "ELF" STARTS FRIDAY, 11/14:"MASTER AND COMMANDER" www.catheaters.com AVALON C I N E M A BROTHER BEAR (G) DIG ✔ UNDERWORLD (RE-ISSUE) (R) - ID REQ'D DIG 2nd & Jackson • Corvallis Now Hiring - Apply at Theatre % thirteen SIGN UP Adv. Tix on Sale MATRIX REVOLUTIONS (R) - ID REQ'D ★ IN THE CUT (R) - ID REQ'D DIG ★ ✔ Fri. (105 355) 710 945 Sat. & Sun. (1230 405) 705 955 SCARY MOVIE 3 (PG-13) DIG ✔ Fri. (120 405) 720 950 Sat. & Sun. (1210 300 515) 715 945 MYSTIC RIVER (R) - ID REQ'D DIG Fri. 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