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BY LOIS WADSWORTH For the week of January 2nd! Sign-up for our weekly WebPage Update! www.bijou-cinemas.com 5:10, 7:20 & 9:30 nightly Sat & Sun Mat 2:50 coming: THE COOLER PG-13 returning: THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON in 3D!! PHIL BRAY. MIRAMAX, 2003. FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED FILM AMORES PERROS They say we all lose 21 grams at the exact moment of our death... 5:00, 7:30 & 10:00 nightly Sat & Sun Mat 2:30 R SCHEDULE FOR 1/8-1/15 • [ ] SATURDAY-SUNDAY ONLY HARVARD CINEMAS 3161 W. Harvard • Roseburg • 673-6604 *CHASING LIBERTY – PG-13 (1:40) 4:15 INMAN (JUDE LAW) AND ADA (NICOLE KIDMAN) MEET IN COLD MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA, BEFORE THE WAR. Surviving War At home and on the road home. 6:45 9:10 COLD MOUNTAIN: Directed and written by ROSEBURG CINEMA 7 1750 NW Hughwood • 673-6604 *BIG FISH – PG-13 (12:55) 3:40 6:25 9:10 *CALENDAR GIRLS – PG-13 (1:40) 4:20 6:50 9:20 COLD MOUNTAIN – R (1:50) 5:10 8:30 LAST SAMURAI – R (1:30) 5:20 8:40 MONA LISA SMILE – PG-13 (12:40) 3:25 6:15 9:00 CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN - PG (1:10) 3:35 5:55 8:15 SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE – PG-13 (12:30) 3:15 6:05 8:50 PAYCHECK – PG-13 (2:00) 4:30 7:00 9:30 STARTS 1/16: "ALONG CAME POLLY", "TORQUE" www.catheaters.com AVALON C I N E M A 2nd & Jackson • Corvallis "Award-winning caliber performances from the entire cast and stellar writing/direction from Sheridan. What a wonderful film!" "No one has ever told an immigrant story quite like this." IN AMERICA % the station agent PG-13 Also playing as a separate admission SIGN UP "This year's You Can Count On Me ." FOR WEEKLY EMAILS! R Call or log on for showtimes Bill Murray DOLBY in STEREO SURROUND SOUND $6.50 General • $5.50 Student • $4.50 SC, Matinee & Wed. 752-4161 avaloncinema.com v m 18 JANUARY 8, 2004 Anthony Minghella, based on the novel by Charles Frazier. Produced by Sydney Pollack, William Horberg, Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa. Executive producer Iain Smith. Cinematography, John Seale. Film Editor, Walter Murch. Production design, Dante Ferretti. Costumes, Ann Roth. Composer, Gabriel Yared. Music producer, T-Bone Burnett. Starring Jude Law (Inman), Nicole Kidman (Ada) and Renée Zellweger (Ruby). With Eileen Atkins (Maddy), Brendan Gleeson (Stobrod), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Veasey), Natalie Portman (Sara), Donald Sutherland (Reverend Monroe), Giovanni Ribisi (Junior), Ray Winstone (Teague), Kathy Baker (Sallie Swanger), James Gammon (Esco Swanger), Jack White (Pangle), Charlie Hunnam (Bosie). Miramax Films, 2003. R. 154 minutes. A nthony Minghella’s screen adap- tation of Charles Frazier’s lyrical novel Cold Mountain is an elegy for the Civil War — the bloodiest war this country has ever fought. One man survives the war and walks a thousand miles to find the woman he left behind, and a plucky woman lives through hard times with the help of unlikely female comrades. Their stories are told in parallel. In a good year, at least one film affects me so deeply that I can’t shake off the spell it casts, and this year it is Cold Mountain, which shows the deep suffering of the people of Appalachia during the Civil War, as well as realistic battle scenes and the random killings war masks. War not only dissolves the fragile infra- structure of society but also the sense of common welfare that cements communi- ties together. The war happened long ago, but the film is made now, in our newly uncertain world. Life changes drastically in war — no currency, nothing to barter or sell; food production halted; armed vigi- lantes roaming the country; no transporta- tion. Social bonds of tolerance, sharing and helping others fray when people strug- gle to survive each day, yet pulling togeth- er is the only way to make it through. During the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia, in what is known as the Battle of the Crater, a horrific scene begins as Union soldiers dig a tunnel under Confederate defenses and explode it on July 30, 1864. The blast creates a crater 135 feet in diameter and kills many Confederates. In the chaos that follows, Union soldiers charge into the crater, instead of around it, where 4,000 of them are picked off by surviving enemy troops. Inman (Jude Law) is seriously wound- ed in the battle. He wakes in a military hospital to realize he will be sent back to the front. Before his wounds are healed he receives a letter from Ada (Nicole Kidman), whose picture he carries. Ada asks Inman to come to her, to help her. Inman deserts, knowing he’ll pay with his nearly starves to death before Ruby (Renée Zellweger) arrives. A tough-talk- ing, self-reliant mountain woman without a home, Ruby teaches Ada to build a fence, the first practical thing that cul- tured, city-bred Ada has ever made. Ada, her friend Sallie (Kathy Baker) and Ruby form a community of civility. Itinerant musicians, fiddler Stobrod (Brendan Gleeson) and Pangle (Jack White), bring music to their lives, but the women are ter- rorized by Home Guard head honcho, Teague (Ray Winstone), and his kill-for- fun sidekick, Bosie (Charlie Hunnam). The simple beauty of Frazier’s timeless story, the superior performances by each RUBY (RENÉE ZELLWEGER) IS A SELF-RELIANT MOUNTAIN WOMAN. PHIL BRAY. MIRAMAX, 2003. PETER PAN – PG (12:45) 3:25 6:05 8:45 LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING – PG-13 (12:00) 4:05 8:10 STARTS 1/16: "TEACHER’S PET" life if he runs into Union soldiers or the marauding armed men who claim to “pro- tect” the civilian population. Inman’s journey across Appalachia, like that of Odysseus before him, brings him clos- er to the natural world, which is neutral regarding his survival, as well as a few amaz- ing people. Among them: a man of the flesh passing as a man of the cloth, Veasey (Philip Seymour Hoffman); a wild, carnal man who pimps his wife and her sisters, Junior (Giovanni Ribisi); a hermit healer, Maddy (Eileen Atkins); and a homesteader widow with a sick baby, Sara (Natalie Portman). Meanwhile, Ada writes to Inman and actor, landscapes made more magical through John Seales’ cinematography, and Anthony Minghella’s overarching vision bring Cold Mountain into the best picture of 2003 range. Ignore critics who tell you not to go. They’re just pissed at Harvey Weinstein and Miramax Pictures’ annual Oscar push and too cowardly to admit it. They serve the public poorly. If you love the movie, as I do, read or re-read the book for its lucid, unforgettable language. Now playing at Cinemark and Cinema World, Cold Mountain gets my very highest recom- mendation. ew
