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BY LOIS WADSWORTH 686-2458 For the week of August 6th! Sign-up for our weekly WebPage Update! www.bijou-cinemas.com "Jim Jarmusch's anthology of vignettes is a celebration of caffeine, nicotine and the indolent pleasure of sitting around and consuming them." - —A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES COFFEE AND CIGARETTES A NEW FILM BY JIM JARMUSCH 5:15, 7:20 & 9:25 Nightly Sat & Sun Mat 3:10 (also playing LateNite) R Eugene Premiere! The all-time most successful Hong Kong production ever! Eye-popping action, crazy special effects and wicked humor! S HAOLIN SOCCE R 9:30 Nightly Sat Mat 2:40 pm (also playing LateNite) NEXT: BEFORE SUNSET PG R Must end soon! Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 746-5202 - 8/6-8/12 Digital Sound in ALL Auditoriums PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE AT CINEMARK.COM COLLATERAL CATWOMAN PG13 LITTLE BLACK BOOK A CINDERELLA STORY PG 9:25, 10:30, 12:20, 1:30, 3:15, 4:25, 7:00, 9:45 7:15, 7:45, 10:15, 10:40 10:10, 1:05, 4:00, 7:15, 10:15 THE VILLAGE PG13 HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE 9:50, 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:35, 10:10 MANCHURIAN CANDI- DATE R HARRY POTTER 3: PRIS- ONER OF AZKABAN PG 11:40. 3:10 I, ROBOT PG13 THUNDERBIRDS PG 9:40, 12:10, 2:35, 5:05 PG 7:25, 9:50 SPIDER-MAN 2 PG13 10:00, 12:55, 1:35, 3:45, 7:05, 7:40, 10:00 BOURNE SUPREMACY PG13 Sun Mat 2:30 SOON: THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL BIJOU LATENITE Fr-Sat $4 Su $3 COFFEE AND CIGARETTES 10:20, 10:55, 1:25, 1:45, 3:55, 4:35, 7:20, 7:50, 10:10, 10:40 *NO PASSES/NO SUPERSAVERS MOVIES 12 - SPRINGFIELD JARMUSCH Fri, Sat, & Sun 11:30 pm FAHRENHEIT 911 9:45, 10:40, 12:35, 1:50, 3:35, 4:30, 7:10, 10:00, 10:35 9:35, 10:05, 12:45, 1:10, 3:50, 4:15, NAPOLEON DYNAMITE 7:00, 7:30, 10:05, 10:45 11:30, 1:55, 4:20, 6:55, 9:25 A NEW FILM BY JIM 9:30, 12:00, 2:30, 5:00 10:35, 11:15, 1:20, 2:00, 4:05, 4:45, 7:35, 10:35 7:10, 7:55, 9:55, 10:45 ANCHORMAN PG13 4:50 & 7:10 Nightly R S HAOLIN SOCCE R Fri, Sat, & Sun 11:40 pm PG Gateway Mall - Beltline @ Gateway 741-1231 - 8/6-8/12 Bargain Shows: $1.50 - Early Bird: $1.00 - Wednesday all shows: $1.00 No children under age 6 will be admitted to any R-rated feature after 6:00 PM 13 GOING ON 30 PG13 11:45, 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:00 HILDAGO PG13 11:50, 2:45, 6:50, 9:45 THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK PG13 7:40, 10:25 SCHEDULE FOR 8/6-8/12 • ( ) = FRI–SUN & WED–THUR EARLY SHOWS 3161 W. Harvard • Roseburg • 673-6604 *VILLAGE – PG-13 1:00 3:40 6:20 9:00 CATWOMAN – PG-13 1:50 4:20 6:50 9:20 GARFIELD PG 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:05 11:40, 2:20, 4:45, 7:05, 9:20 SCOOBY DOO 2 PG 11:55, 2:15, 5:00 THE NOTEBOOK PG13 11:05, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 TWO BROTHERS PG 4-DAY ADVANCE TICKET SALES - NO PASSES -NO SUPERSAVERS SHOWTIMES AVAILABLE AT CINEMARK.COM *COLLATERAL – R 12:50 3:35 6:20 9:10 *MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE – R 12:10 3:00 6:00 9:00 *THUNDERBIRDS – PG 2:10 6:40 *HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE – R 3:10 8:20 BOURNE SUPREMACY – PG-13 1:40 4:15 6:50 9:20 I, ROBOT – PG-13 12:30 3:20 6:10 8:50 A CINDERELLA STORY – PG 4:25 8:45 ANCHORMAN – PG-13 2:50 7:10 9:30 SPIDER-MAN 2 – PG-13 2:30 5:30 8:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN – PG 12:20 5:20 SHREK 2 – PG 12:40 4:55 COLLATERAL (R) - ID REQ'D DIG ★ ✔ (1210 300) 700 955 THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (R) - ID REQ'D DIG ★ ✔ (1220 STARTS FRIDAY, 8/13: “ALIEN VS. PREDATOR” AND “YU-GI-OH” www.catheaters.com 420) 715 1010 LITTLE BLACK BOOK (PG-13) DIG ✔ (1205 240) 720 950 THE VILLAGE (PG-13) DIG ✔ (1200 305) 725 1005 BOURNE SUPREMACY (PG-13) DIG (1155 230 505) 735 1015 AVALON C I N E M A DE-LOVELY (PG-13) DIG NAPOLEON DYNAMITE (PG) DIG (1215 430) 725 1010 (1225 245 500) 730 1000 ANCHORMAN (PG-13) DIG (1155 235 445) 705 945 2nd & Jackson • Corvallis COLLATERAL (R) - ID REQ'D DIG ★ ✔ (1025 120 415) 710 LITTLE BLACK BOOK (PG-13) DIG ✔ (935 1200 230 500) “You’ll laugh. You’ll feel silly for doing it. Then you’ll do it again.” 1005 730 1000 THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (R) - ID REQ'D DIG ★ ✔ (1015 110 405) 700 955 PG NAPOLEON DYNAMITE THE VILLAGE (PG-13) DIG ✔ (1035 130 425) 720 1015 BOURNE SUPREMACY (PG-13) DIG (930 1205 240 515) 750 1025 I, ROBOT (PG-13) DIG (1130 210 450) 740 1020 SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG-13) DIG (1000 1255 350) 650 945 Also playing as a separate admission FINALLY! FAHRENHEIT 9/11 % SIGN UP COLLATERAL (R) - ID REQ'D ★ ✔ (1110 1145 200 245 * LIMITED SHOWINGS * 450) 700 740 950 1030 FOR WEEKLY EMAILS! Bill Murray Call or log on for showtimes DOLBY in STEREO SURROUND SOUND THE VILLAGE (PG-13) ✔ (1100 150 440) 730 1020 $6.50 General • $5.50 Student • $4.50 SC, Matinee & Wed. 752-4161 avaloncinema.com v m 20 AUGUST 5, 2004 HAROLD & KUMAR (R) - ID REQ'D ✔ THUNDERBIRDS (PG) ✔ Times For 8/6 - 8/8 ©2004 Directed by Jonathan Demme. Written by Daniel Pyne and Dean Georgaris, based on George Axelrod’s screen- play and Richard Condon’s novel. Produced by Scott Rudin, Tina Sinatra, Jonathan Demme, Ilona Herzberg. Executive producer Scott Aversano. Cinematography, Tak Fujimoto. Production design, Kristi Zea. Editors, Carol Littleton, Craig McKay. Costumes, Albert Wolsky. Composers, Rachel Portman, Wyclef Jean. Starring Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep and Liev Schreiber. With Jon Voight, Kimberly Elise, Jeffrey Wright, Ted Levine, Burno Ganz and Simon McBurney. Paramount Pictures, 2004. R. 135 minutes. 11:35, 3:05, 6:45, 10:10 STEREO SURROUND SOUND IN ALL AUDITORIUMS ROSEBURG CINEMA 7 1750 NW Hughwood • 673-6604 In the 21st century TROY R 11:15, 1:55, 4:25, 6:55, 9:25 STARTS WEDNESDAY, 8/11: “PRINCESS DIARIES 2: ROYAL ENGAGEMENT” 11:10, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 11:00, 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 9:10 *LITTLE BLACK BOOK – PG-13 1:40 4:10 6:40 RAISING HELEN PG13 CLIFFORD’S REALLY BIG THE DAY AFTER MOVIE G TOMORROW PG13 11:20, 1:20, 3:20, 5:20, 7:20 DODGEBALL: A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY PG13 Corporate Conspiracy THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE: 9:35 AROUND THE WORLD IN MEAN GIRLS PG13 11:30, 2:05, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 80 DAYS PG HARVARD CINEMAS Ben Marco (Denzel Washington) investigates what really happened to him in the Gulf War. CINEMARK - SPRINGFIELD 720 1000 (1130 220 500) J onathan Demme has not only remade and updated the acclaimed 1962 Cold War classic, The Manchurian Candidate, he has reimagined it, a more difficult and often unexplored process. Screenwriters Daniel Pyne and Dean Gerogaris delivered a clearheaded, strong screenplay to work with, and the film attracted some of the best actors working today. Denzel Washington catches the plum role of U.S. Army Major Ben Marco, a Gulf War veteran, who talks about his war experiences to Boy Scout troops. Marco appears to be in control, but beneath the carefully constructed illusion lies both vulnerability and rage, which slip out when Marco least suspects it will. In a crucial early scene, a former soldier from Marco’s platoon, Corp. Al Melvin (Jeffrey Wright), appears at one of Marco’s speaking engagements. Melvin is falling apart, split between what he remembers about what hap- pened to him, Marco and the other men who were lost for three days after a firefight in the desert and the bad dreams that haunt his wak- ing hours. Melvin has written his dream frag- ments and illustrated them. They are the key into a disturbing reality visited briefly in the film’s opening credits sequence. The meeting between Marco and Melvin comes before we are invested in the charac- ters, but, like Melvin’s nightmares, their encounter refuses to leave us alone. Melvin’s shattered husk has become all too familiar in the 42 years since the original film, as young American soldiers returned broken men from wars not imagined at the time. Since 9/11, ordinary citizens have waged war against fear within ourselves. Because Melvin makes terror palpable, Marco recognizes his own defenses can no longer hold back mem- ories that come like killers in the night. A good soldier and a mindful leader of men, Marco wants to talk to Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber), formerly a sergeant under his command, whom he recommended for a Congressional Medal of Honor. Now a New York congressman, Shaw has a complicated relationship with his mother, the ruthless Sen. Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (Meryl Streep), who wants the party’s vice-presidential nomination for her son. Other characters include Thomas Jordan (Jon Voight), a liberal senator and Raymond Shaw’s former neighbor and friend; Jocelyn Jordan (Vera Farmiga), the senator’s daugh- ter and Shaw’s first love; Rosie (Kimberly Elise), a woman Marco meets on a plane; Col. Howard (Ted Levine), the psychiatrist treating Marco; Richard Delp (Bruno Ganz), a rogue scientist who helps Marco; Dr. Atticus Noyle (Simon McBurney), a brain scientist; Col. Garrett (Miguel Ferrer), who may believe Marco’s story; and Laurent Tokar (Robyn Hitchcock), Marco’s guide in Kuwait. Also, Al Franken appears briefly as a reporter, director Sidney Lumet and Anna Deavere-Smith are TV pundits, and writer Walter Mosley plays Congressman Rawlins. Easy Rawlins, I assume. Demme has returned with the filmmak- ing know-how that made him justifiably famous for The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Something Wild (1986), to mention two. Demme’s down-to-earth approach to work- ing with actors as well as his tested ability to build and sustain suspense for more than two hours make this one of the two best new films of 2004. (The other: Essential Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.) I saw the original film when it was released, and I was outraged when it was pulled from distribution following the Kennedy assassination in November 1963. Cold War paranoia was contagious, not John Frankenheimer’s film. Indelible images from the film and the surreal fantasies of the early 1960s certainly lodged in our collec- tive movie-mind, but the era was bristling with the real, not imagined, threat — we now know — of nuclear war. The new Manchurian Candidate takes on the lawless, self-serving and non-human qualities of the 21st century’s geopolitical hard-hitters: the international corporations. It’s an easy comparison between the film’s fictitious Manchurian Global and greedy giants such as Halliburton, which thrive on government contracts to keep the govern- ment’s wars going. Very highest recommendations for The Manchurian Candidate, now playing at Cinema World and Cinemark. ew KEN REGAN. PARAMOUNT PICTURES, 2004. 492 E. 13th
