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BY LOIS WADSWORTH 686-2458 For the week of May 14th! Sign-up for our weekly WebPage Update! www.bijou-cinemas.com BIJOU POSTER STORE NOW OPEN! 100's OF POSTERS AVAILABLE! SEE LIST AT COUNTER! "Bon Voyage, a rich, teeming French farce set in and around Bordeaux in 1940 on the eve of the German occupation of Paris, is a triumph of narrative ingenuity." Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 746-5202 - 5/14-5/20 Digital Sound in ALL Auditoriums PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE AT CINEMARK.COM TROY R SCOOBY DOO 2 PG 11:30, 12:10, 1:20, 2:25, 3:15, 3:55, 1:35, 4:05 5:15, 6:20, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:05, THE PASSION OF 10:45 -- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES Isabelle Adjani CINEMARK - SPRINGFIELD Gerard Depardieu Bon Voyage MUST END SOON! BREAKING ALL THE RULES PG13 In French with English subtitles. 5:00 & 7:20 Nightly Sun Mat 2:40 pm PG-13 "A funny and sharp satire that musters gentle nostalgia for East German communism while mocking the not-so- distant past."© 11:35, 2:05, 4:35, 7:35, 10:05 VAN HELSING PG13 12:20, 1:25, 2:45, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:10, 8:15, 9:40, 10:20 NEW YORK MINUTE PG -- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY MUST EN 12:05, 1:40, 2:50, 4:15, 5:20, 7:55, 10:25 D SOON! CHRIST R 7:05, 10:00 HOME ON THE RANGE PG 12:15, 2:30, 4:50 LAWS OF ATTRACTION PG13 7:40, 10:10 ENVY PG13 11:55, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 In German with English subtitles. 9:35 Nightly Sat Mat 2:40 pm R Sells out regularly! Come in to buy advance tickets for any show! WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW!? "How Far Down the Rabbit Hole of Mysteriousness Do You Want to Go?" 4:50, 7:10 & 9:25 Nightly Sat & Sun Mat 2:30 BIJOU LATENITE Fr-Sat $4 Su $3 Japanese Erotic Anime-— Buttobi CPU: I Dream of Mimi ADULTS ONLY! MEAN GIRLS PG13 1:45, 4:20, 7:30, 10:15 13 GOING ON 30 PG13 12:50, 1:30, 3:25, 4:10, 7:15, 9:50 MAN ON FIRE R 11:50, 3:40, 7:00, 8:05, 10:25 KILL BILL 2 R 7:05, 10:15 *NO PASSES/NO SUPERSAVERS Fri, Sat, & Sun 11:40 pm Soon: THELONIOUS MONK MAXIMUM R&B! MOVIES 12 - SPRINGFIELD THE WHO: THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT Bargain Shows: $1.50 - Early Bird: $1.00 - Wednesday all shows: $1.00 Fri, Sat, & Sun 11:50 pm Soon: FIGHT CLUB Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 741-1231 - 5/7-5/13 BIG FISH PG13 [12:05], 3:05, 6:40, 9:40 CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN PG [11:20], 1:55, 4:30 CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE DRAMA QUEEN PG SCHEDULE FOR 5/14 - 5/20 • [ ] FRIDAY-SUNDAY ONLY HARVARD CINEMAS 3161 W. Harvard • Roseburg • 673-6604 *TROY – R (1:30) 5:10 8:45 *VAN HELSING – PG-13 (12:15) 3:10 6:05 9:00 MEAN GIRLS – PG-13 (2:00) 4:25 6:50 9:15 (NOTE: NO 6:50 OR 9:15 SHOWING OF "MEAN GIRLS" ON MONDAY, MAY 17TH.) LORD OF THE RINGS PG13 [11:15], 3:30, 7:45 MYSTIC RIVER R [11:40], 3:10, 6:50, 10:05 NEVER DIE ALONE R [11:45], 2:25, 4:50, 7:10, 9:55 [11:35], 2:20, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 SECRET WINDOW PG13 CONNIE AND CARLA PG13 TAKING LIVES R EUROTRIP R THE GIRL NEXT DOOR R 7:00, 9:30 [12:10], 2:40, 5:10, 7:35, 10:15 KILL BILL: VOLUME 1 R [11:25], 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:10 [11:50], 2:10, 4:40, 7:05, 9:35 [12:15], 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 [11:55], 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 WALKING TALL PG13 [12:00] 2:35, 5:00, 7:15, 9:50 [ ] FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY ONLY STEREO SURROUND SOUND IN ALL AUDITORIUMS STARTS 5/28: "DAY AFTER TOMORROW" 4-DAY ADVANCE TICKET SALES - NO PASSES -NO SUPERSAVERS ROSEBURG CINEMA 7 1750 NW Hughwood • 673-6604 Daniel (Pierce Brosnan) and Audrey (Julianne Moore) at an Irish festival. SHOWTIMES AVAILABLE AT CINEMARK.COM Courtroom to Bar An Irish romance LAWS OF ATTRACTION: Directed by Peter Howitt. Written by Aline Brosh McKenna, Robert Haling, based on a story by McKenna. Produced by David Bergstein, Beau St. Clair, Julie Durk, David T. Friendly, Marc Turtletaub. Cinematography, Adrian Biddle. Production design, Charles J. H. Wood. Editor, Tony Lawson. Music, Edward Shearmur. Costumes, Joan Bergin. Starring Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore, with Parker Posey, Michael Sheen, Nora Dunn and Frances Fisher. New Line Cinema, 2004. PG-13. 90 minutes. *NEW YORK MINUTE – PG (12:10 2:20) 4:30 6:35 8:40 BUBBA HO-TEP – R 8:50 ENVY – PG-13 (12:20 2:40) 4:59 7:15 9:30 GODSEND – PG-13 (12:40 2:50) 5:10 7:25 9:40 LAWS OF ATTRACTION – PG-13 (12:15 2:30) 4:40 7:00 9:10 MAN ON FIRE – R (12:30) 3:20 6:10 9:00 DISNEY’S HOME ON THE RANGE – PG (1:10 3:00) 4:50 ELLA ENCHANTED – PG (1:40) 4:10 6:25 HELLBOY – PG-13 6:45 9:20 13 GOING ON 30 – PG-13 (1:20) 3:45 6:15 8:30 STARTS 5/19: "SHREK 2" STARTS 5/28: "RAISING HELEN" www.catheaters.com AVALON C I N E M A 2nd & Jackson • Corvallis “ The Same River Twice is far from an arthritic exercise in hippie nostalgia. There is a seasoned richness and vivid specificity to these lives, for all their hurts and losses.” THE SAME RIVER TWICE NOT RATED Also playing as a separate admission % WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW?! SIGN UP FOR WEEKLY EMAILS! Bill Murray Call or log on for showtimes DOLBY in STEREO SURROUND SOUND $6.50 General • $5.50 Student • $4.50 SC, Matinee & Wed. 752-4161 avaloncinema.com v m 22 MAY 13, 2004 L ike a raft of other romantic come- dies recently released (and reviewed by me), Laws of Attraction is a one-idea movie. The singu- lar premise is: Wealthy New York divorce lawyers meet, fight in court, fall in love. Complications arise. But the complexities that unfold have less to do with character development than would be genuinely interesting and more to do with plot, which is already paper- thin. In short, this is a hybrid genre, a spring movie, a light-weight confection that goes down easily and stars good-look- ic tricks to realize she actually likes Daniel. And Daniel (Pierce Brosnan) is too busy winning to notice that’s not what he should do to persuade Audrey to be his sweetheart. The plot demands stand-in characters, who get the choice lines and a chance to scream, curse and flail around with atti- tude. That would be potty-mouth, clothes designer Serena (Parker Posey) and glam rock star and unrepentant womanizer Thorne Jamison (Michael Sheen), who are choreographing a spectacular, high-profile divorce, complete with courtroom antics, scads of money, swarms of fans and the frenzied media. Daniel and his client, Serena, want to take Thorne to the clean- ers, despite Audrey’s determination to paint her client as a long-suffering mate of an unfaithful wife. The arbitrator who attempts to bring both battling couples back to reality is caustic Judge Abramovitz (Nora Dunn). She doesn’t mince words. Brosnan and Moore . . . do their best with a substandard screenplay and lackluster direction, but I doubt either will place Laws of Attraction at the top of their top-notch filmography. ing actors who know what they’re doing, even with an insipid screenplay that gives them really dumb things to say and damp- ens any tension — romantic or not — they try to build. If you’re looking for a simple, hour- and-a-half fantasy at the movies, here it is. If you’re looking for an updated Adam’s Rib, you’re out of luck. This is no Hepburn-Tracy rematch. No sparkling witticisms are tossed back and forth between these infantile, sparring attor- neys. Audrey (Julianne Moore) is too busy fretting over her reputation for winning and playing by the rules and other neurot- What’s disappointing is that Brosnan and Moore are more than capable of mak- ing screwball comedy work, but first they have to have worthy material. They do their best with a substandard screenplay and lackluster direction, but I doubt either will place Laws of Attraction at the top of their top-notch filmography. The film is not an outright embarrassment, just a dis- appointment. Now playing at Cinema World and Cinemark, Laws of Attraction has charm- ing moments that entertain, but like cotton candy, it’s sweet going down but has no nutritional value. ew BERNARD WALSH. NEW LINE CINEMA, 2004. 492 E. 13th
