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Newspaper Page TextTHU FRI SAT SUN MON TUES WED THU BY RICK LEVIN SAINT MISBEHAVIN’ QUEEN TO PLAY 5:45 C I N E M A S 4:45 4:45 KEVIN KLINE R ONE WEEK ONLY! 5:00 5:00 5:00 5:00 5:30 8:30 5:30 8:30 5:30 8:30 call for showtimes 7:25 7:25 7:25 THOMAS HACKETT presents BIG BOY 9:30 9:30 ENDS TONIGHT! for July 21 - July 28 A R T 4:45 July 28 July 27 July 26 July 25 July 24 July 23 July 22 July 21 movies THE TREE OF LIFE 2:00 5:30 8:30 5:00 8:00 5:00 8:00 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS 7:45 10:00 7:00 9:10 2:30 7:00 9:10 THE ROOM Late Nite punch passes accepted! Fri 11:00 Sat 11:00 HELD OVER! 2:00 5:00 8:00 2:30 7:00 9:10 TBD HELD OVER! AGAIN! 7:25 9:40 9:30 Coming soon: CONAN O’BRIEN CAN’T STOP BEGINNERS BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST 492 East 13 th follow us! HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN 686-2458 *Adults—$7*Students w/ID—$6*Seniors—$5*Matinees—$5*Lates—$5*Miser Mondays—$3* bijou-cinemas.com The Very Little Theatre presents Check and Mate An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man—with a lot of loose ends. A wildly imaginative comedy about the value of human connection in a technologically obsessed world. Chess is the game of life in Queen to Play QUEEN TO PLAY: Directed by Caroline Bottaro. Screenplay by Caroline Bottaro and Bertina Henrichs, based on the novel by Bertina Henrichs. Cinematography, Jean-Claude Larriue. Music, Nicola Piovani. Editor, Tina Baz. Starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Kevin Kline, Valerie Lagrange, Francis Renaud, Alexandra Gentil, Alice Pol, Dominic Gould, Jennifer Beals. Studio Canal, 2009. R. 97 minutes. 44421 C hess is the perfect game — easy to learn but impossible to master, pretty much devoid of that thing called luck, calling for cold calculation and cunning strategy and, despite this, inﬁ nite in its possible outcomes. So the metaphors pile up like pawns on the make: Chess is like war, chess is like life, chess is like thought itself, a series of synaptic snaps and pops propelling the cosmos of cause and effect. And yet, with its medieval armament of phallic aggression, it’s hard to imagine a less sensual game than chess. As Helene, the stymied chambermaid in director Caroline Bottaro’s lovely ﬁ lm Jouese, says to her daughter: “It’s not a women’s game.” As wistful, yearning and compact as a short by Chekov, Bottaro’s ﬁ lm — marketed in the U.S. as Queen to Play — is something of a Cinderella story, a pat fable of empowerment and love. Played by the wonderful Sandrine Bonnaire, whose severe but stunning beauty blossoms with every hint of a smile, Helene is trapped in a dull, monotonous life on the otherwise gorgeous Corsican coast of France. She and her husband Ange (Francis Renaud) work themselves ragged, barely making ends meet; they have neither the time nor the energy for romance, much less a decent conversation, and when they do talk it is usually of exhaustion and economic woes. Their teenage daughter Lisa (Alexandra Gentil) is disgusted by her parents’ poverty, and regularly tells them so. Helene’s economic status echoes her existential dilemma: Having stiﬂ ed all hope of a better life, she lives on the outside looking in, a spy in the house of love and her life a long, unvarying march to death. She is Madame Bovary in a smock and hair net. Until one morning when, cleaning a room in the hotel where she works, she sees a couple (Dominic Gould and Jennifer Beals) out on the sun porch, engaged in a very intimate game of chess. Helene is captivated and surprisingly moved, especially by the easy sensuality and casual charm of the woman as she plays the game. Helene buys her husband a chessboard for his birthday, but he’s only frustrated by the game. So she stays up every night, often until dawn, smoking cigaretts and pitting herself against the board’s computerized opponent. She starts seeing elements of the game everywhere: chess pieces in saltshakers and hunks of candy, a chessboard in the checkered ﬂ oor she mops every day. Helene is fascinated and newly aroused by the idea that, in chess, “the most powerful piece is the queen.” Having gone about as far as she can go with a computer, Helene approaches one of her clients, Dr. Kroger (Kevin Kline) — a mysterious, misanthropic American expat grieving the death of his wife — with a gambit: She will clean his rooms for free if he teaches her to play chess. What follows is no less romantically sublime for being completely predictable. The relationship that develops between Bonnaire and Kline is fraught with a supercharged sexuality that is channeled into the spirit of the game itself. Both actors are a joy to behold, and the complex chemistry they work on screen elevates this small, simple ﬁ lm, which could have gone the way of Mr. Holland’s Opus meets Pretty Woman, to something more than the sum of its set pieces. In fact, what makes Queen to Play so appealing, especially in this season of 3D sequels and CGI shell games, is exactly its stature and simplicity. Like the best of art, it captures in its slice-of-life details a bevy of universal themes — themes of class, spiritual renewal, love, mortality and loss. Thanks in large part to Bottaro’s nicely paced direction, which allows her actors room to breathe, the ﬁ lm achieves a kind of breezy grace, even while offering a fairly well-worn story of inspiration. But themes and symbols and inspiration be damned. As Dr. Kroger cautions Helene, no matter how serious it gets, chess is only a game, so have fun. Which brings that wry, warming smile to her face — a smile that says check, and mate. ew By Sarah Ruhl | Directed by Patrick July 29-31*, Aug. 4-7*, 11-13 Curtain at 8 pm Thurs.-Sat. | 2 pm for *Sunday Matinees Tickets: $15 ($10 for Thursday) Call the VLT Box Ofﬁce: 541-344-7751 Open 2:00-5:30 Wed.–Sat. 2350 Hilyard St. More info at TheVLT.com Visit us on Facebook at facebook.com/TheVLT BAD TEACHER (DIGITAL) R 10:25,12:40,3:00,5:10,7:25,9:40 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (3D) PG-13 SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 10:30,1:30,4:30,7:30,10:30 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (DIGITAL) PG-13 11:30,12:30,2:30,3:30,5:30,6:30, 8:30,9:30 CARS 2 (3D) G SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 10:25,4:10,9:50 CARS 2 (DIGITAL) G 1:20,7:05 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (DIGITAL) R 11:55,2:30,5:05,7:40,10:15 LARRY CROWNE (DIGITAL) PG-13 12:35,2:55,5:20,7:45,10:10 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2 (3D) PG-13 SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 10:00,11:30,1:00,2:30,4:00,5:30, 7:00,8:30,10:00 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2 (DIGITAL) PG-13 10:45,12:15,1:45,3:15,4:45,6:15, 7:45,9:15,10:45 HORRIBLE BOSSES (DIGITAL) R 12:15,2:55,5:25,7:55,10:25 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (3D) PG-13 SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 1:00,7:20 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (DIGITAL) PG-13 4:15,10:30 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (DIGITAL) PG-13 10:30,1:50,5:10,8:30 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (3D) PG-13 SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 12:30,3:50,7:10,10:30 WINNIE THE POOH (DIGITAL) G 11:00,1:05,3:00,5:00,7:00 THE ZOOKEEPER (DIGITAL) PG 12:00,2:35,5:00,7:30,9:00,10:00 FAST FIVE PG-13 12:05, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 INSIDIOUS PG-13 11:35, 2:10, 4:45, 7:40,10:20 JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER PG 11:15, 1:40, 4:15, 7:25, 9:40 JUMPING THE BROOM PG-13 11:20, 1:55, 4:30, 7:30,10:00 PRIEST PG-13 11:40, 2:00, 4:10, 7:35,10:15 RANGO PG 11:00, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:25 RIO G 12:25, 3:15, 5:40, 8:15 RIO (3D) G SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $2.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 11:30, 2:20, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 THOR PG-13 12:15, 3:05, 5:45, 8:25 THOR (3D) PG-13 SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $2.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 11:05, 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS PG-13 11:55, 3:00, 7:10,10:05 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS PG-13 11:45, 3:55, 7:15,10:10 Adv. Tix on Sale COWBOYS AND ALIENS IMAX: HARRY POTTER & DEATHLY HALLOWS 2 3D (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sun.1030 135 430 735 1030 ✔ CAPTAIN AMERICA IN REALD 3D- EVENT PRICING (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1115 200) 445 730 1015 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1045 130 230) 415 515 700 800 945 1045 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(1105 1135 145 215) 420 500 715 745 955 1020 ✔ HARRY POTTER & DEATHLY 2 IN REALD 3D- EVENT PRICE (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sun.(100) 400 705 1000 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS 2 (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1100 205) 500 805 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS 2 (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1130 1200 235 300) 530 630 830 930 OC & DA: WINNIE THE POOH (G) Fri.(1125 AM) Sat.(220 PM) Sun.(1125 AM) WINNIE THE POOH (G) Fri.(220 PM) 440 PM Sat.(1125 AM) 440 PM Sun.(220 PM) 440 PM THE ZOOKEEPER (PG) Fri. - Sun.(1120 AM) THE ZOOKEEPER (PG) Fri. - Sun.(1050 120) 405 645 940 HORRIBLE BOSSES (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(1040 155) 435 750 1010 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF IN REALD 3D- EVENT PRICING (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sun.(245 PM) 705 PM 1025 PM TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1110 AM) CARS 2 (G) Fri. - Sun.(1035 115) 410 710 BAD TEACHER (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.950 PM SUPER 8 (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.640 PM 935 PM Adv. Tix on Sale COWBOYS AND ALIENS WINNIE THE POOH (G) Sat. - Sun.(1245 PM 340 PM) 655 PM CAPTAIN AMERICA IN REALD 3D- EVENT PRICING (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1255) 400 705 1000 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS 2 (PG-13) ★ Sat. - Sun.950 PM HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS 2 (PG-13) ★ Sat. - Sun.(115) 440 745 1040 HARRY POTTER & DEATHLY 2 IN REALD 3D- EVENT PRICE (PG-13) ★ Sat. - Sun.(105) 410 725 1020 HORRIBLE BOSSES (R) - ID REQ'D Sat. - Sun.(125) 420 735 1035 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG-13) Sat. - Sun.(1235 PM) TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF IN REALD 3D- EVENT PRICING (PG-13) ★ Sat. - Sun.(350 PM) 715 PM 1030 PM CARS 2 (G) Sat. - Sun.(135) 450 755 1050 Summer Movie Express - Tues & Wed. 10 am Adv. Tix on Sale COWBOYS AND ALIENS FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (R) - ID REQ'D Fri.(145) 430 730 1010 Sat.(145 430) 730 1010 Sun.(145) 430 730 1010 HORRIBLE BOSSES (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(130) 415 715 955 CARS 2 (G) Fri. - Sun.(115 345) 645 950 THE TREE OF LIFE (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(100) 400 700 1020 Times For 07/22 - 07/24 © 2011 WWW.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM • BLOGS.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM EUGENE WEEKLY JULY 21, 2008 23