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Newspaper Page TextC I N E M A S for Dec 1 - Dec 8 A R T 2:00 5:00 7:45 5:00 7:45 2:00 5:00 7:45 THE HEDGEHOG 4:45 7:00 2:30 7:00 10:15 5:30 9:15 10:15 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS THE WAY 5:00 7:45 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 9:15 9:15 9:15 9:15 Woody Allen’s popular romantic comedy 4:45 4:45 BY MOLLY TEMPLETON Plagued by apocalyptic visions, a husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself. TAKE SHELTER 7:45 movies directed by Emilio Estevez 5:00 5:00 5:00 7:45 7:45 7:45 Intriguing and delightfully complicated characters are brought to life with a magical blend of gravity and levity. 2:30 7:00 7:00 Dec 8 Dec 7 Dec 6 Dec 5 Dec 4 Dec 3 Dec 2 Dec 1 THU FRI SAT SUN MON TUES WED THU starring Martin Sheen 4:45 4:45 4:45 4:45 4:45 THE SKIN I LIVE IN SOON: INTO THE ABYSS MOZART’S SISTER 492 East 13 th 9:15 PAUL GOODMAN CHANGED MY LIFE 9:30 9:30 686-2458 bijou-cinemas.com *Adults—$7*Students w/ID—$6*Seniors—$5*Matinees—$5*Lates—$5*Miser Mondays—$3* Like Clockwork TIX $2 Tix 21 & FOOD $5 Sun & Tues ovER MENU Scorsese’s Hugo a sweet tale told with grace 762-1700 | 180 E. 5TH AVE davidminortheater.com HUGO: Directed by Martin Scorsese. Screenplay by John Logan, based on the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. Cinematography, Robert Richardson. Editor, Thelma Schoonmaker. Music, Howard Shore. Starring Asa Butterﬁ eld, Chloe Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen. Paramount Pictures, 2011. PG. 127 minutes. 44442 THURS DEC 1 – WED DEC 7 THU BEGINNERS 5:30 C CRAZY STUPID LOVE 5:30 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS 7:40 SUPER 8 7:40* 30 MINUTES OR LESS 9:45* OUR IDIOT BROTHER 9:45 E *SHOW CANCELLED ANCELLED ON SUNDAY ANC SUNDAY, DECEM DECEMBER ECEM 4 FEATURING “TEXT-A-BEER” “NO LONGER SNEAKING BEER INTO THE MOVIES SINCE 2008” See cinemark.com for movies and times 50/50 R 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00,10:30 THE LION KING (2011) (3D) G SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $2.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS CONTAGION PG-13 12:00, 2:10, 4:20 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45,10:15 THE SMURFS PG COWBOYS & ALIENS PG-13 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 8:45 12:35, 3:40, 7:15, 9:55 THE THREE MUSKETEERS (3D) PG-13 SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $2.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:40,10:25 ABDUCTION PG-13 DOLPHIN TALE PG 12:40, 3:20, 6:05, 8:40 DOLPHIN TALE (3D) PG SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $2.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 2:00, 4:40, 7:20,10:00 THE HELP PG-13 WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? R 3:55, 9:45 ! Cinéarts " SARAH’S KEY PG-13 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN 12:45, 7:10 PG 12:10, 3:50, 7:00,10:10 Adv. Tix on Sale ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED Adv. Tix on Sale SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS Adv. Tix on Sale MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL HUGO IN REAL D 3D - EVENT PRICING (PG) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1250 PM) 700 PM 950 PM HUGO (PG) Fri. - Sun.410 PM ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (PG) Fri. - Sun.(330 PM) 920 PM ARTHUR CHRISTMAS IN REAL D 3D - EVENT PRICING (PG) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1230 PM) 630 PM THE MUPPETS (PG) ★ Fri. - Sun.(100 350) 650 940 HAPPY FEET 2 IN REAL D 3D - EVENT PRICING (PG) ★ Fri. - Sun.400 PM 930 PM HAPPY FEET 2 (PG) Fri. - Sun.(110 PM) 710 PM THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN - PART 1 (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(120) 420 720 1000 IMMORTALS (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(130) 430 730 1010 JACK AND JILL (PG) Fri. - Sun.(1240 340) 640 955 7:05, 9:40 DRIVE R 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 7:50,10:20 Adv. Tix on Sale ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED Adv. Tix on Sale SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS Adv. Tix on Sale MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL IMAX: HAPPY FEET 2 3D (PG) ★ Fri. - Sun.140 425 705 935 HUGO IN REAL D 3D - EVENT PRICING (PG) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1220) 420 720 1010 HUGO (PG) Fri. - Sun.(1150 350) 650 940 THE MUPPETS (PG) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1130 130 200) 405 435 640 710 930 1000 ARTHUR CHRISTMAS IN REAL D 3D - EVENT PRICING (PG) ★ Fri. - Sun.430 PM 715 PM ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (PG) Fri. - Sun.(1140 AM 205 PM) 945 PM THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 [OC] (PG-13) Fri.(1230 PM) 700 PM Sat.410 PM 950 PM Sun.(1230 PM) 950 PM THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN - PART 1 (PG-13) Fri.(150) 410 440 730 950 1020 Sat.(1230 150) 440 700 730 1020 Sun.(150) 410 440 700 730 1020 IDES OF MARCH / MONEYBALL - DOUBLE FEATURE (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(230 PM) 800 PM HAPPY FEET 2 (PG) Fri. - Sun.(1145 AM 210 PM) IMMORTALS (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.455 PM 740 PM IMMORTALS IN REAL D 3D - EVENT PRICING (R) - ID REQ'D ★ Fri. - Sun.(1135 AM 215 PM) 1025 PM JACK AND JILL (PG) Fri. - Sun.(1210 225) 500 750 1015 J. EDGAR (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(1225 355) 655 955 TOWER HEIST (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1200 235) 505 755 1030 PUSS IN BOOTS (PG) Fri. - Sun.(155 PM) 415 PM 635 PM PUSS IN BOOTS IN REAL D 3D - EVENT PRICING (PG) ★ Fri. - Sun.925 PM IN TIME (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.445 PM 745 PM 1030 PM 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:30,10:05 Adv. Tix on Sale ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED HUGO IN REAL D 3D - EVENT PRICING (PG) ★ Fri. - Sun.(115) 410 700 1000 HUGO (PG) Fri. - Sun.(200 PM) 725 PM THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN - PART 1 (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(145) 430 710 950 JACK AND JILL (PG) Fri. - Sun.(215) 440 730 940 IN TIME (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.450 PM 1010 PM Times For 12/02 - 12/04 © 2011 24 DECEMBER 1, 2011 EUGENE WEEKLY ven without all the clockwork, Hugo would have piqued my interest. Its roots are in a strange patch of ground where my skepticism about recent Martin Scorsese ﬁ lms snuggles up against my love for children’s books. Hugo, based on the book by Brian Selznick, is the story of an orphaned boy who lives in a train station that appears, in Dante Ferretti’s glorious production design, like a giant steampunk castle, full of secret passageways and clock-studded towers. This castle comes with a dragon of sorts: the station inspector (Sacha Baron Cohen), a thin tyrant with a ferocious Doberman and a love for shipping parentless children off to the orphanage. The train station in question is Paris’s Gare Montparnasse, the site of a famous train crash that appears, in a form, in the ﬁ lm — but Hugo coasts on the kind of movie magic that means nearly everyone in the ﬁ lm speaks British-accented English. Croissants and ﬂ owers abound, bringing together the adult characters, which include a ﬂ orist (Emily Mortimer); a café owner (Frances de la Tour) and her suitor (Richard Grifﬁ ths); the steely proprietor of a toy stand (Ben Kingsley); and a bookseller (Christopher Lee), who looms, stern but kind, over his mountains of leather-bound tomes. Wide-eyed, sure-footed Hugo (Asa Butterﬁ eld) keeps the clocks running. The job belonged to Hugo’s drunken uncle (Ray Winstone), who begrudgingly took the boy in after his clockmaker father’s untimely death, but Hugo is now on his own. He keeps busy winding the clocks and works to ﬁ x an automaton his father brought home, a gorgeous, eerie creation that Hugo knows would work if only he had the right key. Hugo has the charm and grace of a silent movie — for the most part, screenwriter John Logan (The Aviator) favors context over exposition-heavy dialogue — and in fact the movie is nearly wordless for long, lovely minutes at the start, following Hugo in a glorious jaunt through the station. Soon, Hugo runs afoul of Kingsley’s sullen shop owner, who catches him trying to thieve a small wind-up mouse. A chain of small, extraordinary events pairs Hugo with the man’s goddaughter, Isabelle (Chloe Grace Moretz), a passionate reader with an endearing tendency to use 50- cent words. Papa Georges, as she refers to Kingsley’s character, has buried away the past, but in their quest to solve the mystery of Hugo’s automaton, the stubborn kids dig it up. Hugo’s story is a mystery, though the suspense lies in unexpected places. Certain outcomes and scenes will be obvious from the start to anyone familiar with a certain sort of warm-hearted, old-fashioned storytelling, but other turns — like the ﬁ lm’s grounding in a great love for French cinematic history — sneak in piece by piece. Hugo is in part a story about ﬁ lm, about art and passion; it uses ﬁ lm history as the scaffolding for a story that makes dramatic, beautiful use of advances in the medium. The mostly subtle, clever 3D isn’t just a way to stick a Doberman’s nose in your face; used wittily, carefully, it gives the movie a more immersive feel, and makes a quiet argument for using all the tools you have to tell your story as best you can. Hugo also makes a glorious, idealistic case for twining passion and purpose, for making what you love into what you do, like the bookseller, or the director himself. Let go of what you love, or let someone take it from you, and you wind up sad and broken. Although sad and lonely, Hugo is far from broken, and like the rest of the characters in the train station, he’s looking for ways to connect, and for a place to be. What he ﬁ nds, who he meets and the places he visits along the way — real, imagined or made of dreams come to life — make Hugo the sweetest, most gracefully told story I’ve seen so far this year. ew ﬂ ying out of pdx? City 2 City S H U T T L E $ 59 PDX EUG to ay 1-w Service to and from PDX Serving Eugene, Albany & Salem Reserve Now! 541-758-8001 www.city2cityshuttle.com let us do the driving WWW.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM • BLOGS.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM