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BY LOIS WADSWORTH 686-2458 For the week of April 2nd! Sign-up for our weekly WebPage Update! www.bijou-cinemas.com "A swooning love letter to Paris, to cinema and to love." —EVENING STANDARD THE CINEMARK - SPRINGFIELD Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 746-5202 - 4/2-4/8 Digital Sound in ALL Auditoriums PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE AT CINEMARK.COM THE PRINCE AND ME PG THE PASSION OF 1:10, 3:55, 7:20, 10:10 CHRIST R A New Film by Bernardo Bertolucci 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00 WALKING TALL PG 13 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:55, 10:25 DREAMERS AGENT CODY BANKS 2 1:40, 4:20 HOME ON THE RANGE PG 4:45, 7:05 & 9:20 Nightly Sun Mat 2:25 pm NC-17 STARSKY& HUTCH PG13 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 Michael Caine Tilda Swinton THE STATEMENT Directed by Norman Jewison (THE HURRICANE, MOONSTRUCK) ONE WEEK ONLY! 5:00 Nightly Sun Mat 2:45 pm Neve Campbell Malcolm McDowell THE COMPANY 7:15 & 9:30 Nightly Sat Mat 2:45 pm A Robert Altman Film PG-13 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 HELLBOY PG13 12:45, 1:50, 3:45, 4:40, 7:10, 7:40, 10:05, 10:35 DAWN OF THE DEAD R SCOOBY DOO 2 PG TAKING LIVES R 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:45, 10:20 1:45, 4:25, 7:35, 10:20 1:35, 2:05, 4:05, 4:35, 7:05, 7:35, 9:35, 10:05 SEVERINE BRIGEOT. FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES. 492 E. 13th SECRET WINDOW PG13 JERSEY GIRL PG13 4:30, 10:30 ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND 1:20, 4:15, 7:20, 10:00 THE LADYKILLERS R 12:50, 3:40, 7:25, 10:10 1:25, 4:10, 7:15, 9:55 HIDALGO PG13 NEVER DIE ALONE R 12:00, 3:10, 6:55, 10:15 7:40, 10:15 BIJOU LATENITE Fr-Sat $5 Su $4 STANLEY KUBRICK'S CLASSIC: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Fri, Sat, & Sun 11:40 pm SAT MAT 1:50 pm Nirvana: Live in Concert 1994 Fri, Sat, & Sun 11:45 pm Soon: THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT *NO PASSES/NO SUPERSAVERS MOVIES 12 - SPRINGFIELD Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 741-1231 - 4/2-4/8 Bargain Shows: $1.50 - Early Bird: $1.00 - Wednesday all shows: $1.00 ALONG CAME POLLY PG13 MASTER AND [12:00], 2:30, 5:10, 7:25, 9:45 COMMANDER PG13 [11:50], 3:00, 6:45, 10:00 BUTTERFLY EFFECT R [11:40], 2:20, 4:55, 7:35,10:20 7:20, 9:55 3161 W. Harvard • Roseburg • 673-6604 *DISNEY’S HOME ON THE RANGE – PG (12:00 2:00) 4:00 6:00 8:00 HIDALGO – PG-13 (12:40) 3:30 6:20 9:10 PASSION OF THE CHRIST – R (12:30) 3:20 6:10 9:00 PETER PAN PG Young love. SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE PG13 [11:20], 1:55, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 HARVARD CINEMAS [11:30], 2:40, 6:40, 9:45 [11:15], 1:50, 4:30 CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN PG SCHEDULE FOR 4/2-4/8 • [ ] FRIDAY-SUNDAY ONLY No Regrets MIRACLE PG CALENDAR GIRLS PG13 THE [12:10], 3:10, 7:15, 10:10 HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG R THE HAUNTED MANSION PG [12:25], 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 [11:35], 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:25 LAST SAMURAI R [11:45], 3:05, 6:30, 9:55 WIN A DATE WITH TAD HAMILTON PG13 LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING PG13 [11:25], 2:10, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 [ ] FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ONLY [11:15], 3:30, 4:45 STARTS 4/9: “THE ALAMO” ROSEBURG CINEMA 7 1750 NW Hughwood • 673-6604 STEREO SURROUND SOUND IN ALL AUDITORIUMS 4-DAY ADVANCE TICKET SALES - NO PASSES -NO SUPERSAVERS SHOWTIMES AVAILABLE AT CINEMARK.COM *HELLBOY – PG-13 (1:00) 3:50 6:35 9:20 *PRINCE AND ME – PG (1:10) 3:40 6:10 8:40 *WALKING TALL - PG-13 (12:50 2:50) 4:50 6:55 9:00 *LADYKILLERS – R (1:45) 4:15 6:45 9:10 *SCOOBY DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED – PG (1:05) 3:30 6:00 8:15 DAWN OF THE DEAD – R (12:30) 4:59 9:30 TAKING LIVES – R 4:00 8:50 ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND – R (3:00) 7:30 SECRET WINDOW – PG-13 (12:40) 5:20 9:40 STARSKY AND HUTCH – PG-13 (1:40) 6:25 50 FIRST DATES – PG-13 (2:45) 7:15 JERSEY GIRL (PG-13) DIG ✔ (1220 240 500) 725 945 THE PRINCE AND ME (PG) DIG ✔ (1145 215 445) 720 950 STARTS 4/9: “THE GIRL NEXT DOOR”, “THE WALKING TALL (PG-13) DIG ✔ (1205 225 440) 705 935 WHOLE TEN YARDS HELLBOY (PG-13) DIG ✔ www.catheaters.com Fri. (1230 315) 700 1000 1245 Sat. & Sun. (1230 315) 700 1000 (1215 250 515) 740 LADYKILLERS (R) - ID REQ'D DIG ✔ 1010 AVALON C I N E M A (1225 235 455) 710 930 SCOOBY-DOO 2 (PG) DIG ✔ ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (R) - ID REQ'D (1150 230 505) 735 1005 DIG PASSION OF THE CHRIST (R) - ID REQ'D DIG (1200 300) 645 2nd & Jackson • Corvallis 940 HOME ON THE RANGE (PG) DIG ✔ (1145 215 450) 710 920 THE PRINCE AND ME (PG) DIG ✔ (1100 135 415) 700 945 JERSEY GIRL (PG-13) DIG ✔ (1155 225 505) 740 1020 SCOOBY-DOO 2 (PG) DIG ✔ (1200 230 500) 730 1000 (515) 750 1025 DAWN OF THE DEAD (R) - ID REQ'D DIG (1240 345) 650 955 HIDALGO (PG-13) DIG (1210 240) STARSKY & HUTCH (PG-13) DIG N e ve C a m pb e ll , M a l co lm M cD o we l l PG-13 T H E C OM PA N Y PASSION OF THE CHRIST (R) - ID REQ'D DIG (140 430) 720 1010 Also Playing - Separate Admission HELD OVER % TOUCHINGTHE VOID HELLBOY (PG-13) DIG ✔ Sat. & Sun. (100 400) 700 1000 SIGN UP NOT RATED FOR WEEKLY EMAILS! 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 24 APRIL 1, 2004 Fri. (100 400) 700 1000 1245 WALKING TALL (PG-13) DIG ✔ (1220 230 500) 730 1005 LADYKILLERS (R) - ID REQ'D DIG ✔ (1200 220 450) 720 955 ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (R) - ID REQ'D (1210 240 510) 740 1010 DIG Times For 4/2 - 4/4 ©2004 DREAMERS : Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Written by Gilbert Adair, based on his novel, The Holy Innocents. Produced by Jeremy Thomas. Production design, Jean Rabasse. Cinematography, Fabio Cianchetti. Editor, Jacopo Quandri. Costumes, Louise Stjernsward. Starring Michael Pitt, Eva Green and Louis Garrel. With Robin Renicco, Anna Chacellor, Florian Cadiou. Twentieth Century Fox, 2004. NC-17. 115 minutes. F or everyone who enjoys Bernardo Bertolucci and his particular preoc- cupation with sensuality, transgres- sive sexuality and the idealism of youthful rebellion, here, at last, is The Dreamers. The film is political, and certainly it’s about the love of cinema, yet it is cued to the dreams of the Paris revolution of 1968 that brought the French government to its knees. Three young people obsessed with the idea that cinema could change the world — American student Matthew (Michael Pitt) and French brother Theo (Louis Garrel) and sister Isabelle (Eva Green) — meet outside the barricaded doors of the Cinemateque Francoise. Isabelle has chained herself to a door, and Matthew is instantly smitten. But he soon discovers Theo will decide whether he becomes their friend or not. And between the siblings — twins? once conjoined twins? — runs an erotic charge that attracts him. These are “The Holy Innocents” from Gilbert Adair’s novel he has adapted to the screen. They are passionate and slightly twisted. Desire is the subtext of the film, and we are meant to identify with American naif, Matthew. But I’m not sure Bertolucci, an old Marxist and French cinephile himself, does- n’t also prefer Matthew’s sensibilities. Decide for yourself. The Parisian siblings are worldly beyond their years. They have grown up in an aging apartment in the city, with a well-off poet father, a former political firebrand and out- spoken intellectual. Their attractive mother reluctantly agrees to cook for them, although she and their father are leaving for the coun- try the morning after the twins bring Matthew around to meet the family. Theo and Isabelle smoke incessantly and are openly rude and argumentative with their parents, who appear to have simply given up and let the children raise themselves. These parents are a dash of cold water in the face of the overheated, overscheduled, perfection- driven parenting of our time. They have their own lives, and so do their children. But Matthew impresses the father, which must be a rare event, and he is invited to stay at the house while they’re gone. The three young people embark on a set of games that include cinematic riddles, sexual forfeit and experimentation. Incest and homosexual yearnings are present only in glances and body language. Riots and police retaliation rake the streets of the city, and political furor ensues in the halls of government. But inside the house, only emotional risks are taken. The political and the personal are juxtaposed to good effect here, but there is no doubt that what’s going on in the bathroom and bedrooms is where the camera’s interest lies. Later, when the riots intrude into the pri- vate spaces of the house, Bertolucci shows that he is more than adept at staging and shooting the violence and drama of street fighting. The music throughout the film is Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and other musi- cians of the era, but over the end credits, Edith Piaf sings the anthem that always gives me goosebumps, Je ne regrette rien. Bertolucci’s recent films, such as Besieged, demonstrate he still elicits unguarded performances that ring true. Lovemaking scenes are sublime, and the sim- ple ease the three characters express with their naked bodies sets the emotional tone for the picture. The Dreamers is a beautiful reminder that youthful dreams may not change the ways of the world, but they may forever alter the dreamers. Sven Birkerts writes about reviewing books in Bookforum (Spring ’04), but his cogent observations apply to an attitude I’ve observed in film reviewers for some time: a hipper-than-thou, intellectual posture steeped in irony that drips with the gratuitously mean- spirited. “Snarky” perfectly describes the jaded approach of critics who neither believe film is capable of art nor see pictures as an informed expression of the human experi- ence. Ignore these poseurs, and trust yourself. Open your senses and your heart to films such as The Dreamers, because otherwise we’ll be left with only blockbusters and trash. Opens at the Bijou Friday, April 2, with very highest recommendations. ew
