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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
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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 ”
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Sat & Sun Mat: 2:30 Sun Mat: 12:15
PG
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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
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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
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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
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