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Newspaper Page Textfor April 28 - May 5 C I N E M A S 686-2458 5:30 SUPER BY MOLLY TEMPLETON 5:30 Robert Pattinson (left) and Rosie in Water for Elephants 5:30 Late Nite punch passes accepted! R 8:30 8:30 8:30 8:30 PHIL OCHS: THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE 6:15 6:15 6:15 6:15 10:30 9:00 bijou-cinemas.com 5:30 SUPER INTO ETERNITY 492 East 13 th movies QUEEN OF THE SUN 5:00 7:00 A R T May 5 May 4 May 3 May 2 May 1 April 30 April 29 April 28 THU FRI SAT SUN MON TUES WED THU QUEEN OF THE SUN e 5:15 ton n ig d h s t! 7:15 for full schedule: 9:20 http://disorientfilm.wordpress.com/ coming soon for LATENITE: LA FEMME NIKITA (1990) THE PROFESSIONAL (1990) THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1992) follow us! BIUTIFUL R 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 Coming soon: THE HIDDEN (1987) R WINTER IN WAR TIME MEEK’S CUT OFF 10:30 THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD Late Nite punch passes accepted! *Adults—$7*Students w/ID—$6*Seniors—$5*Matinees—$5*Lates—$5*Miser Mondays—$3* TIX $2 Tix 21 & FOOD $5 Sun & Tues ovER MENU 762-1700 | 180 E. 5TH AVE Asian Food Market davidminortheater.com THU URS APR 28 – WED MAY 4 Largest Selection of Asian Groceries THE FIGHTER 9:10 OSCAR WINNERS H FIDELITY HIGH I LOVE YOU 7:10 9:10 P PHILLIP MORRIS CUSTOMER VOTED 5:15 THROWBACK Seaweed, rice, noodles, frozen products, deli, snacks, drinks, sauces, spices, produce, housewares, and more. We carry groceries from Holland, India, Pakistan and Polynesia Sushi & Asian deli take-out 29TH AVENUE BLACK SWAN 5:15 7:10 OSCAR WINNER GREEN HORNET COMING SOON THE DILEMMA COMING SOON FEATURING “TEXT-A-BEER” “NO LONGER SNEAKING BEER INTO THE MOVIES SINCE 2008” 5 OAK STREET SHOPPING CENTER WILLAMETTE STREET WoodÀ eld Station 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 Call Theatre for Showtimes AFRICAN CATS G 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 ARTHUR PG-13 12:00, 2:30, 5:10, 7:45,10:20 DYLAN DOG: DEAD OF THE NIGHT PG-13 11:45AM 2:20, 4:55, 7:30,10:05 FAST FIVE PG-13 12:20, 1:20, 3:20, 4:20, 6:20, 7:20, 9:20,10:20 HANNA PG-13 11:30AM 2:15, 5:00, 7:35,10:15 HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL (3D) PG SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:35 HOP PG 11:30AM 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 LIMITLESS PG-13 2:15, 7:35 THE LINCOLN LAWYER R 7:45,10:30P ROM PG 11:40AM 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 RANGO PG 11:25AM 2:00, 4:45 RIO G 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20 RIO (3D) G SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 11:35AM 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 SCREAM 4 R 11:35AM 4:50,10:15 SOUL SURFER (DIGITAL) PG 11:55AM 2:35, 5:15, 7:55,10:35 SOURCE CODE PG-13 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00,10:30 TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY PG-13 11:20AM 1:55, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (DIGITAL) PG-13 11:20AM 2:10, 5:00, 7:50,10:40 METROPOLITAN OPERA SERIES LIVE VERDI’S IL TROVATORE SAT 4/30 10:00AM HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. 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Screenplay by Richard LaGravenese, based on the novel by Sara Gruen. Cinematography, Rodrigo Prieto. Editor, Alan Edward Bell. Music, James Newton Howard. Starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider and Hal Holbrook. 20th Century Fox, 2011. PG-13. 122 minutes. F orget the relative comforts of the movie theater. Water for Elephants is a movie for watching while sprawled on the sofa, slightly hungover (if you’re inclined that way) on a rainy Sunday afternoon. It’s one of those movies: It looks nice, and it’s smart enough to keep your attention, but it falls short of outstanding, or even “very good.” It just is. A large part of the blame for this lies squarely with the casting. There’s nothing to complain about in Christoph Waltz’s turn as the mercurial, self-centered August, who runs the Benzini Brothers Circus, though I wonder if Waltz looks forward to the day he’s cast as the nice doctor or some other non-quietly-menacing fellow. But you’ll spot no sparks between Reese Witherspoon and Robert “RPattz” Pattinson, playing, respectively, August’s wife and the circus train’s latest stowaway, Jacob Jankowski, who’s taken to the rails after a tragedy. Jacob’s story makes little sense if you apply the tiniest bit of logic to it; for that matter, a few key plot points in the ﬁ lm suffer from what I imagine is a certain condensation from Sara Gruen’s novel. Coincidence that works in print often comes off as contrivance on the screen. Even if the convenience of Jacob hopping a circus train right after leaving veterinary school — thereby guaranteeing he can make himself useful by tending to the animals — can be forgiven, a later coincidence involving a balky elephant is still a bit much to swallow. RPattz holds down the middle of the ﬁ lm like a drummer who only knows one beat but knows it very, very well: steady, gentle and reliable. He’s plenty good at staring smolderingly at Witherspoon’s Marlena — a talent he likely perfected while starring as Edward Cullen in the Twilight ﬂ icks — but neither Pattinson nor Richard LaGravenese’s script can come up with a reason for these two pretty young people to fall in love (other than that they’re pretty and young, and August is a ﬁ rst-class jerk). Water for Elephants fares better with the ugly truth behind the circus’ magical façade. Without ever forcing a character to come out and say so, the story emphasizes how much pain and ugliness goes on behind the scenes in order to concoct an afternoon’s entertainment — and suggests that none of this cruelty is necessary. The performance scenes glow, full of smiling faces, elegant trapeze artists and graceful steeds. But one of the horses is hurting, and the ringmaster doesn’t care. Jacob Jankowski cares. Jacob Jankowski cares, and does the right thing, and wants to save the pretty girl (who might be a more interesting character if she were to even nod toward maybe saving herself) and give the lions a better dinner. Water for Elephants dreams of being an old-fashioned spectacle, a love story with an unusual setting and a lot of excuses to linger on costumes and trains. Beautifully shot (by Babel cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto), over-gushingly scored (by The Dark Knight composer James Newton Howard) and guided by director Francis Lawrence (Constantine) with a calm but uninspired hand, the ﬁ lm coasts along steadily, hitting its marks but never doing more than it needs to. 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