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Newspaper Page TextTHU FRI SAT SUN MON TUES WED THU BY MOLLY TEMPLETON Emma Stone (right) and Allison Janey Aug 25 Aug 24 Aug 23 Aug 22 Aug 21 Aug 20 Aug 19 Aug 18 movies WORLD BUCK IN A BETTER 2:45 ACADEMY AWARD WINNER 2010 BEST FOREIGN FEATURE! ONE WEEK ONLY! 2:45 ENDS TONIGHT! C I N E M A S 6:00 for Aug 18 - Aug 25 A R T 9:40 8:00 8:00 5:45 5:45 MUST END SOON! 12:15 9:40 2:30 5:00 7:20 12:15 9:40 BEGINNERS 2:30 5:00 5:00 5:00 7:20 7:20 7:20 8:00 5:25 5:25 8:00 5:25 8:00 5:25 8:00 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS 9:40 9:40 FINAL WEEK! 5:00 7:20 5:00 7:20 5:00 7:20 Cinema Meets Dance: Cinderella Sat Sun event pricing: Adult $12 Tues NOON THE ROOM LATE NITE PUNCH PASSES ACCEPTED! 492 East 13 th 686-2458 5:25 8:00 11:00 bijou-cinemas.com 11:00 NOON Senior $9 Child $7 8:00 SOON: THE GUARD EVERYTHING MUST GO PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES INCENDIES 5:00 CINEMA PACIFIC FILMMAKER DIALOGUES THE BIG UNEASY 7:15 Q&A WITH HARRY SHEARER VIA SKYPE *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 THURS AUG 18 – WED AUG 24 THUR Now Open Civil Righteousness THE LINCOLN LAWYER 5:40 Specializing in helping you obtain your OMMP card! SOURCE CODE 7:45 The Help helps white folk help themselves THE HELP: Directed by Tate Taylor. Written by Tate Taylor, based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett. Cinematography, Stephen Goldblatt. Editor, Hughes Winborne. Music, Thomas Newman. Starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain and Allison Janney. Walt Disney Studios, 2011. PG-13. 137 minutes. 44211 I t feels like a tiny miracle that The Help’s stars are all women, yet no one’s treating the ﬁ lm like it’s wrapped in pink tulle and only meant for women to see on friend-dates with their fellow ladies. In a summer cinematic landscape of screaming victims and bland girlfriend clichés, The Help serves as a reminder that women’s roles aren’t limited to acting as accessories to men. If only the ﬁ lm were satisfying for any other reason. The Help follows a handful of ﬁ ctional women in Jackson, Miss., in the early 1960s. Recent college graduate Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan (Emma Stone, a little out of her depth), has come back to Jackson and gotten a job at the newspaper, seeking experience in order to land a job at a New York publisher. Her friends, all married and perfectly coiffed, throw bridge parties and host Junior League meetings, ruled by the sweet, toxic smile of Hilly Holbrook (Bryce Dallas Howard). When Hilly doesn’t like someone, that someone might as well not exist socially, as guileless Celia Foote (Jessica Chastain) discovers. The privileged women match the look of Tate Taylor’s ﬁ lm, which loves to linger on bright dresses, shiny hair, summery sunlight and insincere smiles. Those smiles instantly drop when the women talk to their housekeepers. Without fail, Elizabeth Leefolt (Ahna O’Reilly) speaks sharply to Aibileen (Viola Davis), while Hilly ﬁ res one woman, Minny (Octavia Spencer), and tells her replacement that she’s doing her a favor by not lending her money to send her son to college. Skeeter, whose wide eyes begin to see the injustice in this accepted arrangement, serves as the modern white audience stand- in (not least because she’s unmarried and career focused). We can all tell ourselves that we would’ve been Skeeter, kind and open-minded, and never Hilly, who believes all homes should have separate bathrooms for the white homeowners and their hired help. Nasty, vindictive and unaccountably powerful, Hilly is a one-note villainous twit, and her character takes the place of the complex racial strife that really existed. The Help occasionally peeks at the world outside its characters’ immediate experience, usually via TV or radio broadcasts, but the ﬁ lm is strangely self-contained, a safe fantasy about evoking change in a bubble as the civil rights movement builds momentum all around. The Help was divisive before it was a ﬁ lm. On one side, Kathryn Stockett’s novel got glowing reviews; on the other, it earned thoughtful, pointed criticism from those who saw Stockett as perpetuating stereotypes and using the real experience of black women as backdrop to a white woman’s journey of self-realization. Taylor’s movie appears to try to address some of the criticism by moving the black characters further into the forefront. Skeeter serves as catalyst, pushing Aibileen for stories, but much of the air goes out of the story whenever its focus slips away from Aibileen and Minny. And much of the credit for that goes to Viola Davis, who elevates the ﬁ lm from just middling to ﬂ awed but watchable. You’ll have to swallow a scene that compares a white girl’s lack of self-conﬁ dence with the casual contempt a black housekeeper endures, and spend far too much time in the company of Hilly Holbrook, and you won’t experience any history that hasn’t been reshaped to ﬁ t a simpliﬁ ed cinematic mold. But you’ll see Davis — and an excellent supporting cast in Allison Janney and a giddy Sissy Spacek — bringing gravity and grace to a ﬁ lm that otherwise smoothes still-relevant issues into a feel- good ﬂ uff-fest. ew WWW.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM • BLOGS.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM PAUL 5:40, 9:30 THROWBACK OF THE WEEK! BREAKFAST CLUB 7:45, 9:30 FEATURING “TEXT-A-BEER” “NO LONGER SNEAKING BEER INTO THE MOVIES SINCE 2008” See cinemark.com for movies and times A BETTER LIFE PG-13 11:25, 2:10, 4:40, 7:25, 9:50 BRIDESMAIDS R 12:20, 3:45, 7:30,10:15 CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS G 11:10, 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 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, 7:40,10:20 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 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, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (3D) PG-13 SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $2.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 7:00,10:00 THE TREE OF LIFE PG-13 12:00, 3:00, 7:00,10:05 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS PG-13 12:10, 3:50, 7:15,10:10 GET LEGAL NOW! Regular Office Hours Monday-Friday 10am-4pm clinics on saturdays call for appointment 570 Lawrence St., Suite 101 Eugene, OR 541-344-1688 • fax 541-344-8110 www.chroniccareinc.com FRIGHT NIGHT IN REALD 3D - EVENT PRICING (R) - ID REQ'D ★ Fri. - Sun.(215 PM) 730 PM 1000 PM FRIGHT NIGHT (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(1145 AM) 500 PM SPY KIDS 4 IN REALD 3D - EVENT PRICING (PG) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1150 AM) 425 PM 920 PM SPY KIDS 4: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD (PG) Fri. - Sun.(200 PM) 645 PM CONAN THE BARBARIAN IN REALD 3D-EVENT PRICE (R) - ID REQ'D ★ Fri. - Sun.(205 PM) 715 PM 945 PM CONAN THE BARBARIAN (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(1135 AM) 440 PM ONE DAY (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1155 230) 455 725 955 IMAX: FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D (R) - ID REQ'D ★ Fri. - Sun.1205 PM 220 PM 445 PM IMAX: HARRY POTTER 7 PART 2 3D (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sun.745 PM 1035 PM GLEE THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE - EVENT PRICING (PG) ★ Fri. - Sun.740 PM 1020 PM FINAL DESTINATION 5 IN REALD 3D - EVENT PRICING (R) - ID REQ'D ★ Fri. - Sun.(1235 PM 245 PM) 515 PM 30 MINUTES OR LESS (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(1245 250) 505 750 1030 OC & DA: THE HELP (PG-13) Fri.(1230 PM) 700 PM Sat.400 PM 1010 PM Sun.(1230 PM) 1010 PM THE HELP (PG-13) Fri.(1200 300) 400 630 935 1010 Sat.(1200 1230 300) 630 700 935 Sun.(1200 300) 400 630 700 935 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1140 210) 435 720 950 THE CHANGE-UP (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.410 PM 1015 PM COWBOYS AND ALIENS (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1225) 415 735 1025 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1240) 405 705 940 CAPTAIN AMERICA IN REALD 3D- EVENT PRICING (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1210 PM) 1005 PM CAPTAIN AMERICA (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(255 PM) 710 PM HARRY POTTER 7 PART 2 (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1130 240) 640 930 HORRIBLE BOSSES (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(1220 PM) 755 PM Summer Movie Express - Tues & Wed. 10 am SPY KIDS 4 IN REALD 3D - EVENT PRICING (PG) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1230 PM) 700 PM 930 PM FRIGHT NIGHT (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.440 PM CONAN THE BARBARIAN (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.420 PM SPY KIDS 4: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD (PG) Fri. - Sun.(345 PM) FRIGHT NIGHT IN REALD 3D - EVENT PRICING (R) - ID REQ'D ★ Fri. - Sun.(120 PM) 740 PM 1030 PM CONAN THE BARBARIAN IN REALD 3D-EVENT PRICE (R) - ID REQ'D ★ Fri. - Sun.(1250 PM) 720 PM 1010 PM 30 MINUTES OR LESS (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(100) 410 710 1000 FINAL DESTINATION 5 IN REALD 3D - EVENT PRICING (R) - ID REQ'D ★ Fri. - Sun.(110) 430 730 1020 THE HELP (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1215 330) 640 950 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1240) 400 650 940 CONAN THE BARBARIAN (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sat.400 PM Sun.(400 PM) CONAN THE BARBARIAN IN REALD 3D-EVENT PRICE (R) - ID REQ'D ★ Fri. - Sun.(120 PM) 715 PM 1000 PM GLEE THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE - EVENT PRICING (PG) ★ Fri. - Sun.(100 330) 645 930 30 MINUTES OR LESS (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(130 340) 730 940 COWBOYS AND ALIENS (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(110 350) 700 950 Times For 08/19 - 08/21 © 2011 EUGENE WEEKLY AUGUST 18, 2011 21