movie clips
OPENING OR RETURNING:
Academy Awards: The Bijou’s annual Oscar party
gets an upgrade to high-defi nition this year. No host
bar and hors d’oeuvres from local eateries make the
dress-up event extra fun, and proceeds benefi t the ALS
Association of Oregon and SW Washington. 5 pm Feb.
24, Bijou. $10 adv., $12 door.
Be Kind Rewind: Michel Gondry’s (Eternal Sunshine of
the Spotless Mind) playful, creative new fi lm looks like a
total joy. Mos Def and Jack Black star as friends facing
a dilemma when one of them becomes magnetized and
erases all the tapes in the store where his friend works.
Bingo! They’ll make new versions of the fi lms. PG13. 101
min. Cinemark.
Charlie Bartlett: After being booted from yet another
private school, Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin) winds up in
public school, which is a whole different world — and nearly
everyone in it needs some kind of help. So Charlie becomes
something of an underground psychiatrist — and falls for
the principal’s daughter. Whoops. R. 97 min. Cinemark. VRC
Stadium 15.
Crossroads Film Festival: Second annual international
festival shows fi lms from around the world and uses the
proceeds to support programs helping visiting students
at OSU. Feb. 24 screenings: In This World (Afghanistan)
and Chaos (France), 1 pm; Kirikou and the Sorceress
(Africa) and Shadow of Afghanistan (Afghanistan), 4
pm; Blind Shaft (China), 6:30 pm. Darkside Cinema,
Corvallis. $8 per screening.
Ethnic Fim Studies Series: Series focuses on
“Interrogating Culture” with Life Show. Huo Jianqi’s
fi lm follows a restaurant owner in Shanghai who fi nds
herself the family matriarch when her mother dies and
her father remarries. 6 pm Feb. 28, 240A McKenzie, UO.
Free.
Films of Cuba’s Special Period, 1994-2003: Film
series presents Waiting List, directed by Juan Carlos
Tabío, in which a group of strangers meet while waiting
for a bus to Santiago. 7 pm Feb. 27, 129 McKenzie, UO.
Free.
Margaret Mead Traveling Film Festival: New York’s
American Museum of Natural History organizes this
festival, which is locally presented by the UO’s Museum
of Natural and Cultural History. The last screening is
Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus,
which explores the ways both sides of this debate
communicate their ideas to the public. 5:30 pm Feb. 22,
175 Knight Law, UO. $3, students free.
Mist, The: I keep wondering what’s next. The Cloud?
The Hailstorm? Stephen King can make monsters out of
anything, right? Frank Darabont directs this adaptation
of a King short story about a creepy mist that hides
even creepier creatures. R. 124 min. Movies 12.
One Missed Call: Cell phones are scary, especially when
they, um, play voicemails for you? That are of your own
death? Who thinks this stuff up? Didn’t electronics-as-
nightmare-devices already fail with Pulse? Ah well.
Starring Shannyn Sossamon and Edward Burns. PG13.
Movies 12.
Swedish Film Series: Lasse Hallström’s My Life as
a Dog is a sweet, funny coming-of-age story about a
young boy who obsesses about the fate of Laika the
space dog. When he’s sent to stay with relatives for a
summer, the boy’s world changes immensely. 7 pm Feb.
22, 177 Lawrence, UO. Free.
Sweeney Todd: Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham
Carter (and Alan Rickman!) star in Tim Burton’s take
on the Broadway musical about a murderous barber
who’s sworn revenge for what happened to his wife and
daughter. “Depp is simply stupendous,” says Rolling
Stone. O SCAR NOMINATION : B EST A CTOR (J OHNNY D EPP ). R. 117
min. Movies 12. 44411 (12/27)
Teeth: Mitchell Lichtenstein’s (son of Ray) debut as
writer and director is a sort of horror comedy about
Dawn (Jess Weixler), a young woman who lectures
her peers about saving themselves for marriage. But
when she begins to get close to another member of her
chastity group, she (and he) fi nd that Dawn, who lives
near a nuclear reactor, has something of a mutation:
more than one set of teeth. R. 94 min. Bijou.
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie: Cinematic version
of a Canadian TV show about a group of trailer park
residents. Here, after going to jail for a robbery attempt,
the boys plan one more crime to fi nance their eventual
lives of leisure. R. 97 min. Bijou LateNite.
U2 3D: Are concert movies the way of the future? U2
follows the smash Hannah Montana fi lm with their own
3D extravaganza, shot during seven South American
concerts on the 2007 Vertigo tour. G. 85 min. Cinemark.
VRC Stadium 15.
Vantage Point: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest
Whitaker and Sigourney Weaver are just half the
people — and perspectives — in this thriller about an
assassination attempt made on the American president
(William Hurt) as he gives a speech about the war on
terror. I think the real story might be, uh, complicated?
PG13. 90 min. Cinemark. VRC Stadium 15.
Witless Protection: Larry the Cable Guy stars as
a small-town sheriff who accidentally gets caught
between the Mob and the FBI when he “kidnaps” a
woman (Ivana Milicevic) who turns out to be in witness
protection. PG13. 97 min. Cinemark.
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: What’s next? A live-action
Care Bears movie starring Jason Lee? (He’s in this and
Underdog, for those not keeping track.) Those wacky
little creatures with the high-pitched voices will surely
cause him some trouble in this newest bit of family fare.
With, um, David Cross. Now I’m confused. PG. Movies
12.
Atonement: Finally, Joe Wright’s adaptation of Ian
McEwan’s exceptional — and exceptionally diffi cult to
summarize — novel comes to town. Atonement takes
place across years, as the actions of young Briony
(Saoirse Ronan) have lengthy, unimagined consequences
to the futures of her sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley) and
their housekeeper’s son, Robbie (James McAvoy). O SCAR
NOMINATIONS : B EST P ICTURE , B EST A DAPTED S CREENPLAY , B EST
S CORE , B EST S UPPORTING A CTRESS (S AOIRSE R ONAN ). R. 123 min.
VRC Stadium 15. 44442 (1/10)
Bee Movie: Not much looks all that sweet about this
animated comedy, in which Jerry Seinfeld voices a
recent bee college graduate who learns, to his shock,
that humans have been stealing bees’ honey for ages
and ages. With the voices of Renee Zellweger and
Matthew Broderick. PG. 90 min. Movies 12.
Bucket List, The: Jack Nicholson, I expect this kind
of thing from. But Morgan Freeman? In this schmalty-
sounding fl ick about two new friends trying to cram all
the adventures of a lifetime into a considerably shorter
amount of time? Oh, Rob Reiner. Once upon a time, you
made a good movie or two. PG13. 97 min. VRC Stadium
15.
Cloverfi eld: It’ll be no surprise to fans of J.J. Abrams’
Lost that the characters in Cloverfi eld, an Abrams-
produced fi lm about a group of friends trying to survive
a monstrous attack on Manhattan, have their own
MySpace pages — among lord knows how many other
sites adding to the movie’s mythos. Though it’s gripping
while you’re in the theater, the movie’s fl aws start to
come to mind once you step back into daylight. PG13.
90 min. Cinemark. VRC Stadium 15.
Defi nitely, Maybe: Manhattan papa Will (Ryan
Reynolds) answers his daughter’s (Abigail Breslin)
questions about how her now-divorcing parents met
and fell in love with a complicated story about growing
up — but of course it’s the tot who helps him fi gure
out how to grow even farther. PG13. Cinemark. VRC
Stadium 15.
Diving Bell and the Butterfl y, The: Julian Schnabel’s
affecting fi lm puts viewers inside the mind of Jean-
Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Almaric), the French Elle
editor whose entire body was paralyzed — except for
one eye, via which he blinks to communicate. Gracefully
told and beautifully acted, Schabel’s fi lm is one of
the best-received of the year. O SCAR NOMINATIONS : B EST
D IRECTOR , B EST A DAPTED S CREENPLAY . PG13. 112 min. Bijou.
44441 (1/24)
Enchanted: Beautiful princesses! Handsome princes!
And … midtown Manhattan? Amy Adams (Junebug),
James Marsters (X-Men) and Patrick Dempsey (Grey’s
Anatomy) star in this charming fairy tale in the real
world, which follows Princess Giselle (Adams) after a
wicked witch banishes her from her magical kingdom.
O SCAR NOMINATIONS : B EST S ONG ( THREE NOMINATED ). PG. 107 min.
Movies 12. 44421 (1/3)
Eye, The: Jessica Alba plays an accomplished violinist,
blind since birth, who discovers after cornea transplant
surgery that she can see death … before it happens! With
Alessandro Nivola and Parker Posey. PG13. Cinemark.
Fool’s Gold: Fools’ choices? Kate Hudson and Matthew
McConaughey play a divorced couple who reteam to
bicker endlessly — and search for a sunken treasure.
Totally sure they stay divorced in the end, too. PG13.
Cinemark. VRC Stadium 15.
Golden Compass, The: An only slightly above average
fi lm based on Philip Pullman’s utterly brilliant novel.
In a world much like our own, everyone has an animal
companion who’s part of themselves, and one little girl
(Dakota Blue Richards) is the key to saving not just her
own world, but countless others as well. With Daniel
Craig, Nicole Kidman and Sam Elliott. PG13. 113 min.
Movies 12. 44411 (12/13)
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both
Worlds: Just what it sounds like: a concert fi lm on tour
with the tween sensation. Cinemark. VRC Stadium 15.
Into the Wild: Star Emile Hirsch bears a reasonable
resemblance to Christopher McCandless, a bright,
priveleged young man who took off into Alaska
in the early 1990s, but Sean Penn’s adaptation
of Jon Krakauer’s novel doesn’t create an entirely
satisfying portrait of the man whose story has been
captivating readers for a decade. O SCAR NOMINATION : B EST
S UPPORTING A CTOR (H AL H OLBROOK ). R. 140 min. Movies 12.
44411 (10/18)
Juno: Director Jason Reitman’s turned out another
buzzworthy movie, this time with a screenplay
by newcomer Diablo Cody. Ellen Page (who was
outstanding in Hard Candy) plays a pregnant teenager
dealing with herself, her future, her parents, the best
friend who fathered the kid and the couple who wants
to adopt it. “Hilarious and sweet-tempered, perceptive
and surprisingly grounded,” said the Los Angeles Times.
O SCAR NOMINATIONS : B EST A CTRESS (E LLEN P AGE ), B EST D IRECTOR ,
B EST O RIGINAL S CREENPLAY , B EST P ICTURE . PG13. 96 min.
Cinemark. VRC Stadium 15. 44441 (1/10)
Jumper: Adapted from a novel by Steven Gould, this
fi lm follows “jumpers” who can leap through space and
time. Among these lucky few are Hayden Christensen
and Jamie Bell; Samuel L. Jackson provides the tension
as a fella who doesn’t approve of these crazy hijinks.
Directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity). PG13.
88 min. Cinemark. VRC Stadium 15.
Michael Clayton: George Clooney plays the title
character, a “fi xer” at a law fi rm. When one of his
colleagues seems to snap, sabotaging a major case,
Clayton is forced to take a good look at what he’s doing.
“A terrifi cally engrossing, tethered-to-the-real-world
drama,” said Entertainment Weekly. O SCAR NOMINATIONS :
B EST A CTOR (G EORGE C LOONEY ), B EST S UPPORTING A CTOR (T OM
W ILKINSON ), B EST S UPPORTING A CTRESS (T ILDA S WINTON ), B EST
D IRECTOR , B EST S CORE , B EST O RIGINAL S CREENPLAY , B EST P ICTURE .
R. 119 min. Movies 12. 44441 (10/25)
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National Treasure: Book of Secrets: Nicolas Cage
returns for more adventure and hijinks — something to
do with the president’s secret book (hey, this sounds
like Crooked Little Vein!) and clearing his family’s
name; did great-great grandpa have something to do
with Lincoln’s assassination? With Helen Mirren. PG.
Cinemark.
No Country for Old Men: The latest from the Coen
brothers is a near-masterpiece, an adaptation of Cormac
McCarthy’s acclaimed novel, and it’s earning plenty of
acclaim itself. The story involves a small-town sherriff,
a deadly drug deal and a psychopathic killer (Javier
Bardem). The reviewers say “intense,” “searing,” “an evil
delight.” O SCAR NOMINATIONS : B EST S UPPORTING A CTOR (J AVIER
B ARDEM ), B EST D IRECTOR , B EST A DAPTED S CREENPLAY , B EST P ICTURE .
R. 122 min. VRC Stadium 15. 44442 (11/29)
Over Her Dead Body: Eva Longoria (or is that Longoria
Parker?) stars as a bitchy ghost who doesn’t approve of
her former fi ancé’s (Paul Rudd) new love — who can see
her. PG13. 95 min. Movies 12.
Persepolis: Marjane Satrapi’s fantastic graphic novel
memoir makes its way to the screen directed by Satrapi
and Vincent Paronnaud — and seems to leap straight
from the page. Moving, smart, funny and compelling,
the story follows young Marjane as she grows up in
troubled, tumultuous Iran, then goes to Vienna as a
teen to escape the fundamentalist rule. O SCAR NOMINATION :
B EST A NIMATED F EATURE . PG13. 95 min. Bijou. 44441
(1/31)
Rambo: Jon Rambo (oh, you know who plays him) sees
his solitary life in Thailand come to a crashing close
when two American human rights missionaries (Julie
Benz and Paul Schulze) track him down and ask for his
help getting into Burma. When they don’t return, Rambo
knows what must be done. And it involves cheesy one-
liners! R. 93 min. Cinemark.
Spiderwick Chronicles, The: Adaptation of Holly Black
and Tony DiTerlizzi’s books about a young boy (Freddie
Highmore, playing twins) who fi nds that there’s much
more than meets the eye to an old family estate. Black
has a knack for a different kind of fairy tale; let’s hope
the movie can translate that to the screen. With Mary-
Louise Parker. PG. Cinemark. VRC Stadium 15.
Steep: A documentary about the history — and
exhilaration — of extreme skiing that explores the
sport’s origins and the changes it went through as it
was discovered by Americans and amped up by the use
of helicopters to get to even wilder slopes. PG. 92 min.
Bijou. 44421 (2/14)
Step Up 2: The Streets: Apparently, 2006’s Step
Up was a phenomenon, despite the fact that the
RottenTomatoes.com critical consensus is “Not enough
dancing.” This time around, street dancer Andie (Briana
Evigan) struggles to fi t in at an elite arts school, where
she — naturally — meets the school’s hottest dancer.
PG13. Cinemark. VRC Stadium 15.
There Will Be Blood: Oscar-nominated Daniel Day-
Lewis stars in Paul Thomas Anderson’s (Magnolia) dark
fi lm about an evil oilman who heads to a California town,
where a preacher (Paul Dano) accepts his presence on
the condition that the oilman will help fund a church.
“A force beyond categories,” said Roger Ebert. O SCAR
NOMINATIONS : B EST A CTOR (D ANIEL D AY -L EWIS ), B EST D IRECTOR ,
B EST A DAPTED S CREENPLAY , B EST P ICTURE . R. 158 min. VRC
Stadium 15. 44442 (1/31)
Water Horse: Legend of the Deep: It’s nice to see Ben
Chaplin (The Truth About Cats and Dogs) again, even
if it’s in this too-cute-but-still-charming children’s fi lm
about a boy who fi nds a mysterious eggs that turns into
a mythical creature. Directed by Jay Russell (My Dog
Skip). PG. 111 min. Movies 12.
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins: Martin Lawrence
plays R.J. Stevens, a famous self-help guru who fi nds he
can’t escape the guy he used to be when, at the request
of his parents, he returns to his Georgia hometown for
their 50th wedding anniversary. PG13. Movies .12
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