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Beginners a moving elegy for love and loss 2:30 5:00 7:20 9:40 5:00 7:20 9:40 8:45 8:00 8:00 5:00 7:20 5:00 7:20 5:00 7:20 5:00 7:20 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 HELD OVER! FINAL WEEK! POETRY BUCK 4:45 6:45 6:00 SAT SUN 1:00 4:00 6:00 1:00 4:00 6:00 TRIGUN: BADLANDS RUMBLE LATE NITE PUNCH PASSES ACCEPTED! 10:05 10:05 10:05 6:00 6:00 HELD OVER! FINAL WEEK! 6:00 6:00 SOON: THE BIG UNEASY THE GUARD EVERYTHING MUST GO PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES THE ROOM INCENDIES *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 davidminortheater.com Oliver’s memories, Hal is constantly on the way out the door or already gone; now he’s entirely present. The things that kept him in the closet, and in his marriage, turn up in Oliver’s lists of how things were: the places men could secretly have sex, the things they might lose if they were discovered. Quiet, muted Oliver watches all this, then watches more closely when his father is diagnosed with cancer. Hal is unstoppable; Oliver, unmoored. Two months after his father’s death, when Oliver has mostly been keeping company with Hal’s ridiculously charming dog, he meets a lovely, quirky-but-not-too-quirky actress, Anna. Anna veers toward manic pixie dream girl territory, but Mélanie Laurent grounds her in a poignant, directionless ache that Oliver neatly describes — for her, for himself, for part of a generation — in voiceover: “Our good fortune allowed us to feel a sadness our parents never had time for.” Beginners has an elegiac quality, but veers away from fetishizing sadness and loneliness. These things, like memories, grow or shrink with the improbable, unpredictable pacing of life. The fi lm’s loose, jumpy structure refl ects Oliver’s disconnection, the way his memories are thrown into disarray by his father’s coming out and coming into himself. Beginners is no more about having a gay parent than it is about losing a parent. It’s also about the way truth and change and secrets — and history — shape the way we see ourselves and transform the meanings of things. Memory can be tricky and complicated, offering too many versions of an event, or of a lifetime. By slipping pieces of history into the story of one man and his father, Mills transfers his deeply personal work to a broader canvas. Intimate, thoughtful, funny and gentle, Beginners transcends the simply autobiographical; like the images Oliver draws, it’s a compact history of love and sadness. ew 2:30 5:00 7:20 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS bijou-cinemas.com Falling Through Time BEGINNERS 5:45 8:00 492 East 13 th 686-2458 Aug 18 Aug 17 Aug 16 Aug 15 for Aug 11 - Aug 18 C I N E M A S N Aug 14 BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE ENDS TONIGHT! A R T o quick, glib summary does Mike Mills’ Beginners justice. A slippery, shifty, gentle fi lm about perception, memory, family and love, it calls for a fl ip-book of images, or a series of Polaroids tinged with that retro-fade that can now be called up with the touch of a tiny button in numerous iPhone apps. But Beginners takes place before the App Store, before Obama, before blogging was a thing more than a handful of people took seriously. The fi lm hovers around 2003, darts back a few years earlier, then jumps back and forth to these times and the ’50s, locating the audience via a series of photos and descriptions: This is what the president looked like. This is what happy looked like. This is what pretty looked like. What things look like is of great interest to Oliver (an excellent Ewan McGregor), whose life is a series of things that are not necessarily what they appear. In the present, he’s a closed-off, grieving illustrator whose work veers into personal territory when all he’s supposed to be drawing are portraits of band members. Oliver is a version of Mills; the writer-director is also a graphic designer and artist who’s done plenty of work for bands. And like Oliver’s father, Hal (Christopher Plummer), Mills’ father came out late in life, after his wife died. Part of the beauty of Beginners is the way Mills locates the effects of Hal’s announcement in the ordinary details of life. Free to explore the man he never had the chance to be, Hal joins clubs, writes political letters, gets a much younger boyfriend — the fragile-seeming Andy (Goran Visnjc) — and goes out on the town, calling his son in the middle of the night to ask about a club’s music. He smiles, he laughs, he kisses Andy, he hosts parties. In Aug 13 THU FRI SAT SUN MON TUES WED THU BY MOLLY TEMPLETON BEGINNERS: Written and directed by Mike Mills. Cinematography, Kasper Tuxen. Editor, Olivier Bugge Coutté. Music, Roger Neill, Dave Palmer and Brian Reitzell. Starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Mélanie Laurent. Focus Features, 2011. R. 105 minutes. 44441 Aug 12 Aug 11 movies THURS AUG 11 – WED AUG 17 LIMITLESS SOURCE CODE PAUL THE LINCOLN LAWYER BLAZING SADDLES 5:45 5:45 7:45 9:40 7:45, 9:40 HECKLER’S NIGHT WED. 8/17 | 7:45 & 9:45 $2 ADMISSION BLAZING SADDLES Lively Organic Farm Nectarines, Peaches, Blueberries Heirloom Melons, Plums! Fabulous Tomatoes, Sweet Corn, Cucumbers, Eggplant, Carrots, Beets, Greens, Farm Eggs, Basil, Fresh Bread and the Salmon People’s Sockeye Salmon From Alaska! Open Saturdays 10am-5pm 600 River Looop #2 • 541-461-2737 (3 miles North of Beltline off River Road) Open Tuesdays 11am-5pm 28th & Friendly Street Along with the Salmon People and Hey Bayles Farm SPONSORED BY LAGANITAS FREE TASTING FEATURING “TEXT-A-BEER” “NO LONGER SNEAKING BEER INTO THE MOVIES SINCE 2008” IMAX: FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D (R) - ID REQ'D ★ Fri. - Sun.745 PM 1000 PM GLEE THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE - EVENT PRICING (PG) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1200 220) 450 710 930 IMAX: HARRY POTTER 7 PART 2 3D (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sun.1100 AM 150 PM 445 PM FINAL DESTINATION 5 IN REALD 3D - EVENT PRICING (R) - ID REQ'D ★ Fri. - Sun.(1135 AM 200 PM) 415 PM 30 MINUTES OR LESS (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(1240 300) 530 800 1020 THE HELP (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1145 1215 250 350) 630 700 940 1010 OC & DA: RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13) ★ Fri.(1140 AM) 720 PM Sat.(210 PM) 950 PM Sun.(1140 AM) 950 PM RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1210 240) 510 750 1025 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13) ★ Fri.(210 PM) 435 PM 950 PM Sat.(1140 AM) 435 PM 720 PM Sun.(210 PM) 435 PM 720 PM THE CHANGE-UP (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(1230) 420 725 1005 COWBOYS AND ALIENS (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1120 215) 455 730 1015 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1110 145) 425 705 945 CAPTAIN AMERICA IN REALD 3D- EVENT PRICING (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1105 AM) 740 PM CAPTAIN AMERICA (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(155 PM) 440 PM 1030 PM HARRY POTTER 7 PART 2 (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1130 230) 640 935 HORRIBLE BOSSES (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(1155 235) 520 755 1035 TRANSFORMERS 3 IN REALD 3D- EVENT PRICING (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sun.635 PM 955 PM Open Captioned Shows-Tue & Wed-Call for Films and Summer Movie Express - Tues & Wed. 10 am 30 MINUTES OR LESS (DIGITAL) R 12:45,3:00,5:15,7:30,9:45 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 12:30,3:30,6:30,9:30 THE CHANGE-UP (DIGITAL) R 11:15,2:00,4:45,7:30,10:15 COWBOYS & ALIENS (DIGITAL) PG-13 10:20,11:20,1:20,2:20,4:20,5:20,7:20 ,8:20,10:20 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE (DIGITAL) PG-13 10:35,1:25,4:15,7:05,9:55 FINAL DESTINATION 5 (DIGITAL) R 11:30,2:00,4:30,7:00,9:30 FINAL DESTINATION 5 (3D) R SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 12:45,3:15,5:45,8:15,10:45 GLEE THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE (3D) PG SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 12:15,2:30,4:45,7:00,9:15 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2 (3D) PG-13 SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 7:00,10:00 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2 (DIGITAL) PG-13 10:45,1:45,4:45,7:45,10:45 THE HELP (DIGITAL) PG-13 11:00,2:20,5:35,8:50 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIGITAL) PG-13 10:10,11:05,12:00,12:55,1:50,2:45,3:40 ,4:35,5:30,6:25,7:20,8:15,9:10,10:20 THE SMURFS (DIGITAL) PG 10:15,12:45,3:15,5:45,8:15 THE SMURFS (3D) PG SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 11:15,1:50,4:25 BRIDESMAIDS R 12:20, 3:45, 7:30,10:15 GREEN LANTERN PG-13 12:25, 3:05, 5:45, 8:30 GREEN LANTERN (3D) PG-13 SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $2.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 11:05, 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 THE HANGOVER 2 R 11:20, 1:55, 4:30, 7:40,10:05 KUNG FU PANDA 2 PG 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30 KUNG FU PANDA 2 (3D) PG SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $2.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 11:15, 1:50, 4:10 LARRY CROWNE PG-13 11:25, 2:10, 4:40, 7:25, 9:50 MONTE CARLO PG 11:10, 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS PG 11:30, 2:05, 4:35, 7:35, 9:55 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES PG-13 11:00,12:00, 2:00, 3:00, 5:00, 6:00, 8:00, 9:00 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (3D) PG-13 SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $2.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 7:00,10:00 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS PG-13 12:10, 3:50 7:15 10:10 Beginners opens Friday, Aug. 12, at the Bijou; www.bijou- cinemas.com 30 MINUTES OR LESS (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(140) 430 710 940 FINAL DESTINATION 5 IN REALD 3D - EVENT PRICING (R) - ID REQ'D ★ Fri. - Sun.(130) 440 730 1030 THE HELP (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1230 340) 650 1000 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sun.(110) 400 700 950 THE CHANGE-UP (R) - ID REQ'DFri. - Sun.(120) 420 740 1020 COWBOYS AND ALIENS (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(100) 410 720 1010 THE SMURFS (PG) Fri. - Sun.(350 PM) 930 PM THE SMURFS IN REALD 3D - EVENT PRICING (PG) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1250 PM) 640 PM Summer Movie Express - Tues & Wed. 10 am GLEE THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE - EVENT PRICING (PG) ★ Fri. - Sun.(130) 410 715 940 30 MINUTES OR LESS (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(115) 420 730 950 COWBOYS AND ALIENS (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(100) 400 700 1000 HORRIBLE BOSSES (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(145) 430 745 1020 Times For 08/12 - 08/14 © 2011 WWW.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM • BLOGS.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM EUGENE WEEKLY AUGUST 11, 2011 23
