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OPENING OR RETURNING : Alamo, The: The famous 13-day battle of 1836 in a San Antonio mission pitted 200 men against an overwhelming Mexican army. Stars Patrick Wilson, Jason Patric, Billy Bob Thornton, Dennis Quaid and Emilio Echevarria. Directed by John Lee Hancock. PG-13. Cinema World. Cinemark. Annie Hall (1977): Woody Allen stars in and directs an irre- pressible Diane Keaton. Film took the big Academy Awards: pic- ture, director, star (Keaton), screenplay (Allen). Too many great supporting actors to name. Gordon Willis’s cinematography. PG. At 7 pm on 4/14 in 30 Pacific Hall, UO. Free. Battle Royale: Super-violent Japanese thriller is “arguably the most extreme and controversial film” of its kind. About a deadly game played by deadly serious kids. LateNite Bijou. Big Fish: Tim Burton’s film about a son (Billy Crudup) who tries to figure out his father’s (Albert Finney) life through the wild stories he’s told. Also stars Ewan McGregor, Helena Bonham Carter, Danny DeVito, Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman and Steve Buscemi. Truly wonderful film; highest recommendations. Academy Award nom for original score. PG-13. Movies 12. Online archives. Catch That Kid: Bart Freundlich directs this underrated caper film about three smart kids on a mission without per- mission. Stars Kristen Stewart, Corbin Bleu, Max Thieriot, Jennifer Beals, Sam Robards, John Carroll Lynch and James LeGros. PG. Movies 12. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen: Stars Lindsay Lohan (Freaky Friday). Welsh director Sara Sugarman’s her first movie. PG. Movies 12. Day of Independence: Set in a Japanese Internment Camp during WWII, it’s the story of a baseball-playing, Japanese American kid whose family has returned to Japan. Fundraiser. Plays at noon, 1:15 & 2:30 pm on 4/10 at Bijou Arts Cinema. $10 adults/$5. See review this issue. DIY or DIE: How to Survive as an Independent Artist, with filmmaker Michael Dean. At 8 pm on 04/09 at DIVA. See Friday Calendar. Ella Enchanted: Anne Hathaway is a perfectly obedient girl. She does what she’s told, literally. Based on Newberry-win- ning novel. PG. Sneak at 7 pm on 4/10 at Cinemark. Five Evenings (1982): Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, film’s about old lovers and reawakened hopes and pains. At 8:45 pm on 4/13 in 115 Pacific Hall, UO. In Russian with English subtitles. Free. Girl Next Door, The: Emile Hirsch and Elisha Cuthbert (Kim Bauer of “24”) star in Luke Greenfield’s teen comedy, romance. R. Cinemark. Cinema World. Johnson Family Vacation: Cedric the Entertainer takes his family on a cross-country trek to the annual family reunion, and boy, do things go wrong. Comedy also stars Vanessa Williams, Bow Wow, Solange Knowles. PG-13. Cinemark. Monsieur Ibrahim: Set in 1960s Paris neighborhood, film’s about a boy and a greengrocer who befriends him. Sweet. Wonderful performance by Omar Sharif and newcomer Pierre Boulanger. NR. Bijou. See review this issue. Mostly Martha: Martina Gedeck, Maxime Foerste and Sergio Castellitto star in Sandra Nettlebeck’s delightful romance, comedy, drama about the kitchen life and home life of a great chef. Highly recommended. G. At 7 pm on 4/14 in 180 PLC, UO. Free. Online archives. Never Cry Wolf (1983): Lovely, resonant film based on Farley Mowat’s true story of a biologist in the Arctic who bonds with the wolves he has come to study. Directed by Carroll Ballard; cinematography, Curtis Hansen. PG. At 7 pm on 4/14 in 123 Pacific Hall, UO. Free. Spartan: Written and directed by David Mamet, thriller stars Val Kilmer as an unquestioning, secret ops investigator partnered with a new guy (Derek Luke). They’re searching for the president’s kidnapped daughter (Kristen Bell ) and must evade corrupt functionaries (Ed O’Neill, William H. Macy). R. Movies 12. Online archives. Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation (2003): Highlights of this year’s festival and goodies from the past. Adults only. Bijou. Thirteen Going On 30: Jennifer Garner goes to bed 13, wishing she were older. Wakes up 17 years later, and she is. Directed by Gary Winnick, also stars the always excellent Mark Ruffalo, Andy Serkis and Kathy Baker. PG-13. Cinemark. Welcome to Mooseport: Ray Romano, running for small- town mayor, and Gene Hackman, former US Prez, square off for Maura Tierney’s love. Also stars Marcia Gay Harden, Christine Baranski, Rip Torn. Directed by Donald Petrie. PG- 13. Movies 12. Whole Ten Yards, The: Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet and Natsha Henstridge star in this comedy sequel. Willis is a retired hitman living the life of a happy homemaker until Mafioso mayhem ensues. PG-13. Cinema World. Cinemark. Films open the Friday following EW publication date unless otherwise noted. See archived reviews at www.eugeneweekly.com CONTINUING: Agent Cody Banks 2 Destination London: Frankie Muniz returns as spy Cody Banks, this time he’s undercover in London as a student at an elite boarding school. PG. Movies 12. Along Came Polly: Ben Stiller plays Reuben, a hapless hus- band whose bride dumps him. Then he meets up with a childhood friend, Polly (Jennifer Aniston). Also stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Hank Azaria, Bryan Brown and Alec Baldwin. John Hamburg directs. PG-13. Movies 12. Butterfly Effect: The trailer is about a young man (Ashton Kutcher) who time travels back to the past to fix the broken lives of a childhood girlfriend (Amy Smart) and his friends, Lenny (Eldoen Henson) and Tommy (William Lee Scott). R. Movies 12. Cheaper by the Dozen: Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt play the parents of 12 children, including Piper Perabo, Hilary Duff and Tom Welling. Directed by Shawn Levy. PG. Movies 12. Company, The: Robert Altman’s dream of a dance movie stars the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Neve Campbell, Malcolm MacDowell. One of Altman’s most relaxed yet highly obser- vant films. He “gets” dance, and The Company shows it. Highly recommended. PG-13. Bijou. Online archives. Dawn of the Dead: Remake of George Romero’s 1978 cult classic about a shopping mall taken over by those trying to survive a zombie plague. Unlikely stars: the excellent Sarah Polley (My Life Without Me) and Ving Rhames. R. Cinemark. Dreamers, The: Bernardo Bertolucci’s film, set during the Paris uprising of 1968, stars Michael Pitt, Eva Green and Louis Garrel as three young cineastes who hole up in their apart- ment and play sex and movie games. It’s a beautiful reminder that youthful dreams may not change the ways of the world, but they may forever alter the dreamers. Very highest rec- ommendations. NC-17. Bijou. Online archives. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Highly acclaimed film directed by Michel Gondry from screenplay by Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation). Stars Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, with Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, Kirsten Dunst. Carrey discovers Winslet had memories of their relation- ship erased. Now he wants to do the same. Or does he? The best new film of ’04. Very highest recommendations. R. Cinema World. Cinemark. Online archives. Haunted Mansion: Eddie Murphy stars in Rob Minkoff’s (Stuart Little) ghost comedy, with Jennifer Tilly, Don Knotts, Terence Stamp PG. Movies 12. Hellboy: Based on Mike Mignola’s Dark Horse Comics series, this supernatural action adventure stars Ron Perlman, John Hut, Selma Blain and Doug Jones and is directed by Guillermo del Toro. Highly entertaining, sweet film. Don’t be afraid; see it. PG-13. Cinema World. Cinemark. See review this week. Hidalgo: Based on autobiography of distance rider Frank T. Hopkins, played by Viggo Mortensen, this epic action-adven- ture takes place during a 3,000 mile survival race across the Arabian Desert in 1890. PG-13. Cinemark. Home on the Range: Disney animated feature features voices by Roseanne Barr, Judi Dench, Jennifer Tilly, Cuba Gooding Jr., Randy Quaid, Steve Buscemi, Carole Cook and Governor Ann Richards., while singing comes from k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, Tim McGraw and The Beau Sisters. PG. Cinemark. Jersey Girl: Written and directed by Kevin Smith, film’s about a music publicist (Ben Affleck) trying to balance work and fatherhood as a single parent. Also stars Jennifer Lopes, George Carlin, Liv Tyler, Jason Biggs. Raquel Castro is his independent daughter. PG-13. Cinemark. Ladykillers, The: Based on the 1955 British comedy star- ring Peter Sellers and Alec Guiness, Ethan and Joel Coen’s adaptation stars Tom Hanks and Marlon Wayons. When these bank robbers move into “no hip-hop” house of a Southern church-going woman, anything goes. R. Cinema World. Cinemark. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King: Peter Jackson’s stunning work stars Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Ian McKellen, Billy Boyd, Orlando Bloom, Liv Tyler, Cate Blanchett. Frodo and Sam make it to Mount Doom as Aragorn leads the warriors of Middle Earth in the final battle against Sauron. 2003 Academy Award sweeps for Best Picture; Director, Peter Jackson; adapted screenplay; art direction; sound mixing; original score; original song; cos- tume design; film editing; makeup; and visual effects. Very highest recommendations. Movies 12. Online archives. Master and Commander The Far side of the World: Peter Weir brings Patrick O’Brian’s best-selling nautical adven- tures during the Napoleonic era to the screen, with Russell Crowe as Captain Jack Aubrey and Paul Bettany as Dr. Stephen Maturin, ship surgeon and naturalist. Very highest recommendations. Academy Awards for cinematography, sound editing; nominated for picture; director; art direction; sound mixing; costume design; film editing; makeup; visual effects. PG-13. Movies 12. Online archives. Passion of Christ, The (2004): Mel Gibson film opens amid charges (denied) of anti-Semitism. A..O. Scott of The New York Times writes, “‘The Passion of the Christ’ is so relentlessly focused on the savagery of Jesus’ final hours that this film seems to arise less from love than from wrath, and to succeed more in assaulting the spirit than in uplifting it..” Others call the graphic torture unwatchable. R. Cinemark. Prince and Me, The: Stars Julia Stiles, Luke Mably. She’s a pre-med student. He’s the Crown Prince of Denmark. Also stars James Fox and Miranda Richardson. PG. Cinemark. Cinema World. Scooby Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed: Some scary action, rude humor and language. PG. Cinemark. Cinema World. Something’s Gotta Give: Directed by Nancy Meyers. Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) is a New York music mogul with a young libido, while Diane Keaton is a writer with more on her mind than sex. With Amanda Peet, Frances McDormand and Keanu Reeves. 2003 Academy Award nomination for Keaton. PG-13. Movies 12. Online archives. Starsky and Hutch: Ben Stiller is uptight Starsky, while Owen Wilson is laid back Ken “Hutch” Hutchinson in this remake of TV’s undercover crime-fighters. With Vince Vaughn, Snoop Dogg, Juliette Lewis. PG-13. Cinemark. Taking Lives: All-star cast includes Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Keifer Sutherland, Olivier Martinez and Jean- Hughes Anglade. Directed by D.J. Caruso, this thriller is about a serial killer who steals his victims’ identities. R. Cinemark. Walking Tall: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson returns home after military career to find his hometown overrun with crime, drugs and violence. He’s elected sheriff to shut down his former rival’s criminal biz. Directed by Kevin Bray. PG-13. Cinema World. Cinemark. 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