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$,5&21',7,21(' BY JASON BLAIR !24 #).%-!3 ,HZ[[O 6WDUWV )ULGD\ O[[W!IPQV\JPULTHZJVT '($7+$7$)81(5$/ )UDQN2] GLUHFWHGE\ 1:15, 4:05, 7:15, 10:05 THE BOURNE ULTIMA- TUM PG13 THE INVASION PG13 1:10, 1:50, 4:00, 4:40, 6:25, 7:00, 7:45, 9:15, 9:50, 10:30 'LUW\5RWWHQ 6FRXQGUHOV ,Q 2XW 1LJKWO\ %RZILQJHU 6DW 6XQ0DW 5 UNDERDOG PG 12:25, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35 i5IFNPWJFTXPPOT BOEZPVXJMMUPPw THE SIMPSONS MOVIE PG13 1LJKWO\6DW0DW BECOMING JANE PG 12:15, 2:50, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 SUPERBAD R 1:05, 2:05, 3:55, 4:55, 7:10, 7:45, 10:00, 10:35 THE LAST LEGION PG13 1:35, 4:15, 7:30, 10:10 HAIRSPRAY PG RUSH HOUR 3 PG13 1:25, 4:20, 7:40, 10:30 BENJTTJPODBSEPOMZ 4&/*03BENJTTJPODBSEPOMZ I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK AND LARRY PG13 ´0DULRQ&RWLOODUGGHOLYHUVDWRXUGHIRUFHDV OHJHQGDU\VLQJHU(GLWK3LDIµ 3* 3:30, 7:10, 10:05 STARDUST PG13 HARRY POTTER & THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX PG13 /$9,((1526( SKINWALKERS PG13 9:55 PM DADDY DAY CAMP PG 12:35 /RX/XPHQLFN1HZ<RUN3RVW 1LJKWO\6XQ0DW 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 TRANSFORMERS PG13 12:10, 3:10 %,-28/$7(1,7( RQO\ )5, IULVDW VXQ Not quite Austen, but not bad Jarrold. Written by Sarah Williams and Kevin Hood. Cinematography, Eigil Bryld. Music, Adrian Johnston. Starring Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith, Joe Anderson and Lucy Cohu. Miramax Films, 2007. PG-13. 112 minutes. 44 2 11 A tangle of biography, imagination and borrowed scenes from Jane Austen’s novels, Becoming Jane sets out early and firmly to establish our hero- ine as different. She wears rich jewel tones that contrast brightly with everyone else’s garb; she walks meaningfully apart on the way to church. She wakes everyone up in the morning with her impassioned piano playing and is good at cricket. And, of course, she wants to marry for love (sometimes it seems as if every young lady in a pretty English pe- riod piece has the same notion). Naturally, There is nothing wrong with imagining Jane Austen as one of her own heroines, and per- haps there is something right about it… this doesn’t sit well with the Austen parents — played by Julie Walters, doing fiery mater- nal as she does so well, and James Cromwell, a solid and warm father who both sympa- thizes with his daughter and understand’s his wife’s concern. The rich neighbor lady’s fa- vorite nephew wants to marry Jane (Anne Hathaway). How could there be any question as to whether she’d accept? The question arrives in the form of Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy). Saucy, self-indul- gent, dashing, literate Lefroy is friends with Jane’s brother Henry (Joe Anderson), and he nettles Jane from the get-go by being insuffi- ciently impressed with her writing. He gets lost in the woods; she half-heartedly tries to leave him there, irritated and bitter. The way the pair’s bickering gently merges into flirta- tion is one of Becoming Jane’s strengths, and it is buoyed on the chemistry between wil- lowy, wide-eyed Hathaway and McAvoy, who has an intensity of presence in even his smaller roles. The film’s sense of possibility and growth is strongest when the space be- tween Jane and Tom is the focal point — when they’re sharing a dance or sneakily brushing fingertips on a stairwell. The air be- tween them virtually bubbles and fizzes. But social customs, rules, money and family all play their expected parts in the path Jane and Tom’s relationship takes as they stumble to- ward happiness and then away again. Becoming Jane is a story that fits awk- wardly on the big screen, alternating lovely scenery with too-heavily symbolic shots like those of rain hitting windows (bad news is coming) or storm clouds (the news is worse than you thought). There is nothing wrong with imagining Jane Austen as one of her own heroines, and perhaps there is some- thing right about it — the story is drawn from a handful of references to Lefroy in Jane’s correspondence; apparently she once danced with him three times, when two dances was the proper limit. But the film can’t quite cre- ate a believable connection between ro- mance and writing, between Jane’s two pas- sions. It perkily suggests that Mr. Lefroy is, perhaps, Mr. Darcy; that with Pride and Prejudice Jane gave herself a happier ending. It’s a sweet notion, but it feels too simple. Becoming Jane’s romance is convincing, but its relationship to the very real and accom- plished Jane Austen is tenuous. It borrows Austen’s themes and her history, but never manages to convincingly tie her inspiration to the pretty young face of Tom Lefroy. Perhaps this is simply because the growth and change of a writer’s mind is a tricky thing to depict on screen. Watching someone write is dull, but reading those words can be transporting. Becoming Jane falls right in the middle: simply diverting, for a time. ew OCEAN’S 13 PG13 KNOCKED UP R 11:25, 12:10, 2:25, 3:05, 6:55, 7:50, 9:55, 10:35 11:40, 3:00, 7:05, 10:15 NANCY DREW PG 11:50, 2:20, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 SURF’S UP PG MEET THE ROBIN- SONS G 11:15, 1:50, 4:20 11:20, 12:00, 2:00, 2:30, 4:35, 5:15, 6:45, 7:25, 9:20, 9:50 FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER PG EVAN ALMIGHTY PG 11:30, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 11:45, 1:55, 4:25, 6:50, 7:35, 9:35, 10:05 SHREK THE THIRD PG SPIDERMAN 3 PG13 11:35, 12:15, 2:05, 2:50, 4:30, 5:10, 7:00, 7:40, 9:30, 10:00 6$7 68 11 ,*+ 76 1V+ MZ\ 4I\M6 WVK -? 16, Q\M : 10 4 0/ ,5 +9 0? 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