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THU FRI SAT SUN MON TUES WED THU BY MOLLY TEMPLETON July 7 July 6 July 5 July 4 July 3 July 2 July 1 June 30 movies MIDNIGHT IN PARIS C I N E M A S for June 30 - July 7 A R T 492 East 13 th 686-2458 bijou-cinemas.com 4:45 7:00 9:15 IF A TREE FALLS ENDS TONIGHT! 5:30 7:45 9:45 4:45 7:00 9:15 2:25 4:45 7:00 9:15 L ong, often remote, unforgettable and covering unexpectedly familiar ground, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life is hardly the director’s fi rst fi lm to have called into existence an army of skeptics who can’t sit through it. I didn’t notice the people who walked out of Malick’s 1998 The Thin Red Line, but I counted four people who left the theater before The Tree of Life was over. Maybe it was the dinosaurs. Maybe it was the voiceovers, breathy whispers about divinity and family that join with Malick’s grandiose imagery to suggest that God is way too busy playing with the fun, exploding parts of the cosmos to concern himself with the pain of an individual. (Malick, in turn, isn’t the least bit concerned with whether his stately, dreamy fi lm is of interest to your individual taste.) Maybe it was the sense that if you were to sit in that theater wrapped in your own expectations, you would be fi rmly let down by a fi lm that trades traditional structure for an impressionistic take on the damage and duty of family, the beginning and end of life (on a cosmic and human- personal scale), and the way sons do and don’t want to become their fathers. For all its structural strangeness — there’s a long, long segment of nature and celestial images (beautifully created without CGI) that had me simultaneously entranced and wondering whether the same effect could be achieved by watching the Discovery Channel while listening to Sigur Rós — The Tree of Life’s central characters tread familiar ground. Slowly, dreamily, the fi lm stitches together a story that’s specifi c to one family, the O’Briens, Bicycling Magazine– “Breezer Infinity is…” Bicycle of the year! “…the Infinity offered a nimble, quick ride that let us roll comfortably through traffic, zip down hills, and spin up climbs in style…” Commuter bike of 2011. Try out Breezer, Surly, Civia & Xtracycle bikes! ÓÇäxÊ7>iÌÌiÊ-ÌÊUÊx{£°{n{°x{£ä Mon–Fri 11–7, Sat 10–6, Now Sundays 12–5! arrivingbybike on facebook/web WWW.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM • BLOGS.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM 4:45 7:00 9:15 4:45 7:00 9:15 4:45 7:00 9:15 5:00 8:00 5:00 8:00 THE TREE OF LIFE 5:00 8:00 2:00 5:00 8:00 2:00 5:00 8:00 2:00 5:00 8:00 5:00 8:00 OREGON BACH FESTIVAL presents: Coming soon: HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN IN A BETTER WORLD POETRY INCENDIES BACH & FRIENDS follow us! Sat NOON Sun NOON *Adults—$7*Students w/ID—$6*Seniors—$5*Matinees—$5*Lates—$5*Miser Mondays—$3* 762-1700 | 180 E. 5TH AVE Asian Food Market davidminortheater.com THURS JUNE 30 – WED JULY 3 THUR Terrence Malick’s extraordinary ordinary film and also a quiet commentary on the way one generation’s restrictive notions about gender and behavior can wreak havoc on the generation that follows. The relationship between father and son sits at the center of the fi lm, but Malick spins their lives around Mrs. O’Brien (Jessica Chastain), a warm, graceful presence, unable to do much but watch as her oldest son, Jack (Hunter McCracken), begins to struggle within the role his father expects him to fi ll. The O’Briens are the forebears and siblings of countless unhappily happy cinematic families; what’s new about them is in the deconstructed shape of the fi lm they inhabit, which trips through pain and growth with an almost glazed beatifi cness, reverently scored and barely dotted with humor. When Malick isn’t staring straight into the family’s tight-laced heart or following kids as they try out their fi rst minor rebellions, he’s surfi ng through nature, returning to a beach, a rock formation, as if the answers to his characters’ questions are all there, if only they would look outside themselves and their beautiful, tidy homes (impeccably shot by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezski). The Tree of Life is so insular, so specifi c in its approach, that it’s hard to fi nd the cracks that let you into the fi lm, which can feel like a glass bubble of natural perfection and perfectly fl awed humanity. Malick’s precise vision is astonishing, but it also left me asking whether structural and narrative experimentation sometimes turn a fi lm into a curio, a thing that gives you a discussion topic but little more. You may be bored; you may be awed; you may leave the theater saying, “That movie made me want to eat mashed potatoes.” Beautiful, frustrating, ponderous and self-important, Malick’s fi lm strikingly sets the uncertainty of childhood, precisely seen in the eyes of young Jack O’Brien, and against a journey through life, the universe and everything. ew 2:25 4:45 7:00 9:15 TIX $2 Tix 21 & FOOD $5 Sun & Tues ovER MENU Life, the Universe and Everything THE TREE OF LIFE: Written and directed by Terrence Malick. Cinematography, Emmanuel Lubezki. Music, Alexandre Desplat. Editors, Hank Corwin, Jay Rabinowitz, Daniel Rezende, Billy Weber and Mark Yoshikawa. Starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain and Hunter McCracken. Fox Searchlight, 2011. PG- 13. 139 minutes. 44421 2:25 4:45 7:00 9:15 Largest Selection of Asian Groceries Seaweed, rice, noodles, frozen products, deli, snacks, drinks, sauces, spices, produce, housewares, and more. 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