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Newspaper Page Textmovies BY JASON BLAIR ART CINEMAS 492 E East 13th 686-2458 bijou-cinemas.com by the director of AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH A provocative and BLOW examination cogent of the crisis of public education in the United States. schedule for 10/22-28 RED PG-13 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 RIFFTRAX LIVE: HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL NR ONLY ON THUR 10/28 8:00 SAW THE FINAL CHAPTER 3D R ONLY ON THUR 10/28 8:00, 12:01 SECRETARIAT PG 1:25, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 THE SOCIAL NETWORK PG13 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 THE TOWN R 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS PG13 1:00, 2:30, 4:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:30, 10:00 YOU AGAIN PG 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 THE SOUND OF MUSIC SING-ALONG EVENT NR ONLY ON TUES 10/26 AT 6:30 PM DAS RHEINGOLD ENCORE NR ONLY ON WED 10/27 AT 6:30 PM PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 R 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 10:15 HEREAFTER PG-13 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:05 YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER R 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 JACKASS (2010) R 1:20, 3:50, 6:20, 8:50 JACKASS (2010) 3D R SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.50 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 12:30, 2:10, 3:00, 4:40, 5:30, 7:10, 8:00, 9:40, 10:30 EASY A PG-13 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE PG 1:20, 3:50, 7:05, 9:30 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT PG13 1:00, 3:55, 7:00, 9:55 MY SOUL TO TAKE 3D R 2:00, 4:35, 7:15, 9:45 All But Human W AITING for “ S UPERMAN ” Starts Fri 10/22: 5:15 & 7:30 Nightly Sat & Sun Mat: 2:30 Sun Mat: 12:15 PG tix on sale now: ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW This film is a real-life horror story that puts most Hollywood movies to shame. CROPSEY Starts Fri 10/22: 10:00 Fri-Sat nights Sat & Sun Mat: 1:30 tix on sale now: NOSFERATU with Mood Area 52 based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day) academy award nominees Carey Mulligan Keira Knightley NEVER LET ME GO Starting Fri 10/22: 5:45 & 8:00 Nightly Sat/Sun Mat: 3:30 coming next: YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER R *Adults—$7 * Students w/ID—$6 * Seniors—$5 * Matinees—$5* The extraordinary children of Hailsham EUGENE’S ONLY DOWNTOWN THEATER NEVER LET ME GO: Directed by Mark Romanek. Written by Alex Garland, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Cinematography, Adam Kimmel. Music, Rachel Portman. Starring Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garﬁ eld, Keira Knightley, Sally Hawkins and Charlotte Rampling. Fox Searchlight, 2010. R. 103 minutes.44411 W TIX $5 21 & OVER $2 TIX Sun & Tues & pub since 2008 FOOD MENU OREGON V UCLA THURS OCT 21 TELEVISED FREE DOORS 5:30 • GAME 6 PM THURS OCT 21 – WED OCT 27 Adv. 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We carry groceries from Holland, India, Pakistan and Polynesia Sushi & Asian deli take-out Fri. - Sun.(110) 400 650 930 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(130) 420 710 950 WoodÀ eld Station SHOPPING CENTER PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(130) 430 730 1000 RED (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(100) 415 700 945 BURIED (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(110 350) 715 930 EASY A (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(120 340) 645 915 Times For 10/22 - 10/24 © 2010 29TH AVENUE 5 OAK STREET WWW.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM • BLOGS.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM THE OTHER GUYS (PG-13) 12:30PM 3:55PM 7:10PM 9:40PM SALT (PG-13) 12:40PM 3:00PM 5:20PM 7:55PM 10:25PM THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE (PG) 12:05PM 2:35PM 5:15PM 7:50PM 10:20PM STEP UP 3 (PG-13) 12:10PM 2:40PM 5:10PM 7:45PM 10:30PM TOY STORY 3 (G) 2:10PM 4:50PM 7:35PM 10:15PM TOY STORY 3 (3D) (G) 12:50PM 3:30PM 6:10PM 8:50PM WILLAMETTE STREET hat makes us human? Is it reading Shakespeare? Or is it the enactment of our personal drama, the ways we hurt ourselves and others? The question of our humanity is at the heart of Never Let Me Go, the new ﬁ lm adapted from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day). At once science ﬁ ction and a dystopian view of the past, Never Let Me Go is about three boarding school friends whose fates have been decided in advance. Not in the way of overbearing British parents, say, from last year’s An Education — which, like Never Let Me Go, stars the resplendent Carey Mulligan — but in that way that these friends and their classmates seem to have been created from thin air. Conﬁ ned to an academy called Hailsham — a name gentle and violent, like an oncoming storm — the children are constantly told they’re “special,” but they have no parents, last names or real belongings. When a Hailsham visitor reacts to the children with genuine fear, however, any Dickensian images of poor, orphaned students are quickly staunched, putting us more in the tradition of Gattaca than Great Expectations. Never Let Me Go, published in 2005, was a return to form for Ishiguro, in part because he revisits the emotional restraint so central to Remains of the Day. Like the butler Stevens, the duty-bound servant in Remains, the narrator Kathy (Mulligan) in Never Let Me Go is a fanatically devoted “carer,” but circumstances have caused her to reﬂ ect upon the costs of her devotion. A victim both of science and her unexamined life, she’s been trained to subvert her better instincts until, late in the game, she decides to take a look back. The challenge to the ﬁ lmmakers of Never Let Me Go is to capture this repression while creating the urgency of the young, of life struggling against an unseen fate. And what’s happened is that director Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo) has so closely adapted the restraint of the novel that the struggle, when it comes, feels too little and too late. In the ﬁ rst act, Kathy and her friends Ruth and Tommy are at Hailsham as their much younger selves, and while the child actors are perfectly cast, their roles feel preordained from the start. There are attempts to create the levity of youth running amok, the little cruelties as well as the kindnesses, but in general their lives are rote rather than riotous, these extraordinary orphans who someday will be required to “donate.” It’s a word that comes up periodically, as do others like “guardians” and “originals,” but nobody seems willing to educate the children until the arrival of Miss Lucy (an underused Sally Hawkins). After grappling with their misfortune for what seems like an instant, Miss Lucy reveals their fate as if explaining the truth about Santa Claus. Nobody reacts; nor do we. They have always been “told but not told,” as Ishiguro puts it in the novel, a fact that works on the page but on screen feels like an opportunity missed. In the second act, a teenage Kathy, Tommy (Andrew Garﬁ eld) and Ruth (Keira Knightley) are relocated to a sullen compound called The Cottages, where they await the start of their donations. A refugee among refugees, Kathy endures her fate alone, forming a weak third corner in a love triangle with Ruth and Tommy, the boy she’s always loved. Even as they make a ﬁ nal attempt to avoid their destiny, we never see the trio in their fullness, because according to Never Let Me Go, they never possessed it to begin with. Like The Road, another adaptation that was cumulative rather than consistent in its power, this is a story perhaps best told as a novel, where difﬁ cult truths can be carefully built and subtly assembled, particularly in regard to the interior lives of those complicit in the suppression of truth. In a ﬁ nal, touching scene, Tommy and Kathy are called “You poor creatures,” a gesture of pity meant in both senses of the term. They may be creatures, but were they ew not human from the start? THE AMERICAN (R) 4:00PM 10:05PM DESPICABLE ME (PG) 12:15PM 2:45PM 5:00PM 7:15PM 9:30PM DEVIL (PG-13) 12:55PM 3:20PM 5:30PM 7:40PM 9:55PM DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS (PG-13) 12:35PM 3:50PM 7:25PM 10:00PM EAT, PRAY, LOVE (PG-13) 12:45PM 7:05PM EXPENDABLES, THE (R) 12:00PM 2:30PM 4:55PM 7:20PM 9:45PM INCEPTION (PG-13) 12:20PM 3:40PM 7:00PM 10:10PM Sunrise www.sunriseasianfood.com M-Th 9am-7pm•F 9am-8pm•Sa 9am-7pm•Su 10am-6pm 70 W. 29th Ave. Eugene • 541-343-3295 EUGENE WEEKLY OCTOBER 21, 2010 27