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MONA LISA SMILE PG13 HAUNTED MANSION* PG
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10:45, 1:20, 3:55, 6:55, 9:40
LORD OF THE RINGS:
RETURN OF THE KING
PG13
BAD SANTA* R
11:40, 2:30, 4:55, 7:55, 10:25
9:15, 10:00, 11:00, 1:00, 1:30, 2:15, CAT IN THE HAT* PG
11:20, 1:45, 4:10
3:15, 5:15, 6:15, 7:00, 8:00, 9:45,
10:30, 11:15
GOTHIKA* R
SOMETHINGS GOTTA
GIVE* PG13
1:25, 7:35
9:35, 10:10, 12:40, 1:15, 3:45, 4:20, MASTER AND COM-
MANDER* PG13
7:15, 7:45, 10:15, 10:45
12:00, [3:35], 7:05, 10:20
STUCK ON YOU* PG13
9:30, 10:05, 12:30, 3:30, 4:00, 7:00, LOVE ACTUALLY R
1:05, 7:30
10:05, 10:35
LOVE DON’T COST A
THING* PG13
10:40, 4:05, 10:15
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RUNAWAY JURY PG13
DUPLEX PG13
SCHOOL OF ROCK PG13
[11:30], 2:05, 4:40, 7:25, 10:00
Legends of the Fall
FREAKY FRIDAY PG
SECONDHAND LIONS
PG
Lionized and demonized
SPY KIDS 3D: GAME
OVER PG
SYLVIA:
[12:25], 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:40
[12:00], 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45
MATCHSTICK MEN
PG13
3:05, 10:20
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*LOVE DON’T’ COST A THING – PG-13
1:55 4:20 6:40 9:00
LAST SAMURAI – R
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PIRATES OF THE
CARIBBEAN PG13
[11:40], 3:00, 6:45, 9:55
RADIO PG
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TEXAS CHAINSAW
MASSACRE R
[12:05], 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25
TUPAC: RESURRECTION
R
[11:35], 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30
[11:25], 2:00, 4:35, 7:15, 9:50
STEREO SURROUND SOUND IN ALL AUDITORIUMS
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*MONA LISA SMILE – PG-13 12:30 3:20 6:10
9:00
*CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN (SNEAK
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*SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE – PG-13
12:20 3:10 6:00 8:50
STUCK ON YOU – PG-13 1:20 *4:00 6:40 9:30
(*NO 4:00 SHOWING SUN)
HONEY – PG-13 6:20 8:30
HAUNTED MANSION – PG 11:50 2:00 4:20
6:30 8:40
MISSING – R 3:00 9:10
BAD SANTA – R 5:25 7:30 9:35
MASTER AND COMMANDER – PG-13
12:00 5:50
ELF – PG 12:10 2:30 4:55 7:10 9:20
DISNEY’S BROTHER BEAR – G 1:10 3:30
CAT IN THE HAT – PG 1:50 4:10
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THE LAST SAMURAI* R
Directed by Christine Jeffs. Written by
John Brownlow. Produced by Alison Owen. Executive
producers David M. Thompson, Tracey Scoffield,
Robert Jones, Jane Barclay and Sharon Harel. co-
producer, Neris Thomas. Cinematography, John toon.
Production design, Maria Djurkovic. Editor, Tariq
Anwar. Composer, Gabriel Yared. Costumes, Sandy
Powell. Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, with
Blythe Danner, Michael Gambon, Amira Casar and
Jared Harris. Focus Features Release, 2003. R. 110
minutes.
P
oet Sylvia Plath did not survive her
passionate love affair and stormy
marriage to poet Ted Hughes.
Hughes was deeply marked by Plath’s sui-
cide. While both esteemed the creation of
poetry above other intellectual endeavors,
Ted was more successful early on, and his
career determined where they lived and
how well they lived. This was not unusual
in the late 1950s, early 1960s when Hughes
and Plath met and married. And although
both parents cherished the two children
they had together, daily care fell squarely
on Sylvia. This, too, was of a piece with its
time.
The paradox of the early 1960s is that it
offered sex, fame and success to those who
rebelled against orthodoxy, but it exacted a
moral and social price from those who
bought into its fantasies. It was as difficult
to make a living as a poet in that time as it
is now. But poetry was taken seriously at
universities, and young poets were drunk
on words. Plath and Hughes met and struck
their holy and unholy bargain at this heady
time. They would live together, write
together and all would be well. But their
lives did not work out that way.
Sylvia tells the story of these two head-
strong individuals on a collision course with
history, although most of its energy is spent
on Plath, played to perfection by Gwyneth
Paltrow. Daniel Craig brings Hughes to life
as an ambitious, driven poet who took the
adoration of women as his right. It was his
Achilles’ heel, the tragic flaw that brought
him down. Plath also dreamed of being a
famous poet, but her history of depression
and attempted suicide made the stronger
claim. They separated in September 1962.
She killed herself in February1963, when
she was just 30 years old.
The story of Hughes and Plath has long
been a dark fairy tale for the literati of at
least two continents. The problem with
telling the story is that everyone knows
how it ends. While John Brownlow’s excel-
lent script avoids the sensational aspects of
her death, some critics say it also bypasses
the nastier aspects of her personality.
Although we see Plath consumed by jeal-
ousy, enraged and out of control in social
situations, we do not see her put her head in
the oven. We observe her preparations for
the act.
Plath’s most famous collection of
poems, Ariel, was published posthumously.
Her novel, The Bell Jar, was not published
in this country until 1971. In 1982, Sylvia
Plath was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for
poetry.
Hughes was named Great Britain’s Poet
Laureate in 1984, and he refused to discuss
Plath and their life together for 35 years
after her death. In 1998 he published a col-
lection of poems he had written over the
years about Plath, Birthday Letters, which
won the Whitbread poetry award. Hughes
died in October 1998 at age 68.
I feel certain that Sylvia will not be
accepted by those who blame Hughes, the
philandering husband, for the too-early
death of a writer beloved by feminists for
her empowering poetry and prose.
Likewise, the film will not satisfy those
who believe that Hughes was martyred by
Plath and maligned by her fans. The truth,
if it exists, may be teased out of the poems
left behind by these two great poets, even-
tually, but it is still too soon.
Profound depression is a serious mental
illness, and writers and artists who work in
solitude are especially vulnerable. Likewise,
depression affects young mothers trapped at
home with little children to care for, partic-
ularly in winter when they cannot get out.
The potency of jealousy to unhinge us fades
over time, but tragically, Plath did not live
long enough to reach the liberation maturity
brings.
Sylvia, now completing its second week
at the Bijou, may not settle any arguments,
but it may pique an interest to know more
about Plath and Hughes. As a film, it is
beautiful, heartbreaking and flawed,
despite excellent performances. Highly rec-
ommended.
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