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Newspaper Page TextTHU FRI SAT SUN MON TUES WED THU BY MOLLY TEMPLETON C I N E M A S for Jan 13 - 19 A R T MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE ENDS TONIGHT! 4:45 CARNAGE 5:00 7:00 9:00 686-2458 5:00 7:00 9:00 MOZART’S SISTER 5:20 4:45 4:45 MELANCHOLIA 8:00 7:45 4:45 4:45 4:45 4:45 4:45 A LARS VON TRIER FILM starring KIRSTEN DUNST AN ECOLOGY 7:45 OF MIND 7:45 HOUSE OF PLEASURES 492 East 13 th bijou-cinemas.com Jodie Foster John C. Reilly Kate Winslet 3:00 Directed by Roman Polanski 5:00 5:00 5:00 5:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 3:00 5:00 7:00 9:00 Jan 19 Jan 18 Jan 17 Jan 16 Jan 15 Jan 14 Jan 13 Jan 12 movies 2:00 2:00 7:45 7:45 7:45 COMING SOON: SHAME FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST AN EVENING WITH DON HERTZFELDT co-sponsored by the Cinema Pacific Filmmaker Dialogues & the Energy Village Think Tank (followed by Director Q&A) 7:30 *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 White People Problems THURS JAN 12 – WED JAN 18 THUR Largest Selection of Polanski’s one-note nastiness rings hollow CARNAGE: Directed by Roman Polanski. Screenplay by Polanski and Yasmina Reza, based on the play God of Carnage by Reza. Cinematography, Pawel Edelman. Editor, Hervé de Luze. Music, Alexandre Desplat. Starring Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly. Sony Pictures Classics, 2011. R. 79 minutes. 44211 Asian Groceries MONEYBALL 5:15 OUR IDIOT BROTHER 5:15 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 7:30 Seaweed, rice, noodles, frozen products, deli, snacks, drinks, sauces, spices, produce, housewares, and more. We carry groceries from Holland, India, Pakistan and Polynesia Sushi & Asian deli take-out SHOPPING CENTER THE GUARD 7:30 CONTAGION 9:20 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS 9:20 “TEXT-A-BEER” 541-913-5733 29TH AVENUE 5 OAK STREET WoodÀ eld Station WILLAMETTE STREET I f you’ve seen your ﬁ ll of obnoxious- rich-white-people movies for the month, year, decade, eon, you may want to take a pass on Carnage. The posters bill the ﬁ lm as “a new comedy of no manners,” but the laughs are fewer than that tagline might suggest. Whatever subtleties existed in Yasmina Reza’s award-winning play God of Carnage — which she adapted for the screen with director Roman Polanski — are obscured in Carnage, which feels like an anthropological dip into a section of culture you’d prefer to scrub from your hands. Two couples, the Longstreets and the Cowans, are having a civilized afternoon meeting as the ﬁ lm opens. Their children brought them together: Young Zachary Cowan smacked Ethan Longstreet with a stick. The altercation plays neatly behind the credits, emphasizing how what actually happened between the kids is far simpler, and less relevant to the ﬁ lm, than what subsequently takes place among their parents. Graciously bored Nancy Cowan (Kate Winslet) and cell- phone junkie Alan Cowan (Christoph Waltz) drop by the absurdly spacious and well- appointed Brooklyn apartment of Penelope Longstreet (Jodie Foster) and Michael Longstreet (John C. Reilly) for a discussion. It should be brief. It is not. The Cowans’ several attempts to leave the Longstreets’ home feel forced, but what occurs between those attempts veers between enjoyably nasty farce and tiresome familiarity. It isn’t long before the veneer wears off the uptight Cowans (he’s a lawyer, she’s an investment broker) and the faux-zen calm fades from the Longstreets’ faces (he sells hardware, she works part time in a bookstore). These couples are by turns churlish, calming, destructive and laughable, but the actors rely heavily on one note apiece: Reilly is blustery, Winslet elegantly grows disheveled, Foster remains overwrought in her misplaced passions and Waltz displays his usual creepy decorum. As the barbs, the ugliness and the weak gestures toward conciliation trade hands, the four characters come off like four facets of the same self-absorbed jackass. The dialogue supports the notion that the couples live differently — when Nancy vomits on Penelope’s art books, she offers to replace them, something Pen deems impossible — but there’s nothing worn or stretched about the Longstreets, from clothing to couch cushions. The details meant to deﬁ ne the characters are slippery and imprecise. So Alan’s always on the phone. So Penelope can’t see her privilege through her bleeding heart. These are types, not characters, and the speciﬁ cs are blurry even before the bottle of Scotch makes its appearance (it takes very little time for these four to get a good afternoon drunk going). Carnage can’t quite step out of its theatrical past. The blocking is stagey and overdrawn, and even as the single location works to create a sense of stiﬂ ing airlessness, the ﬁ lm collapses into itself, a puddle of loathing that, a few laughs notwithstanding, seems smugly satisﬁ ed to sit back and point at what selﬁ sh, narcissistic cretins these ostensibly well- meaning people are — over and over again. Once the tone hits a feverish pitch it stays there, wearing out its welcome like a horrid houseguest. ew Asian Food Market davidminortheater.com Sunrise www.sunriseasianfood.com ORDER DRINKS & FOOD RIGHT FROM YOUR SEAT M-Th 9am-7pm•F 9am-8pm•Sa 9am-7pm•Su 10am-6pm “NO LONGER SNEAKING BEER INTO THE MOVIES SINCE 2008” 70 W. 29th Ave. Eugene • 541-343-3295 ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (3D) PG SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 2:00,4:40,7:20,10:00 ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (DIGITAL) PG 2:30 ALVIN AND THE CHIUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (DIGITAL) G 12:40,2:55,5:10,7:25,9:40 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (2012) (3D) G SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 2:20,4:40,7:00,9:20 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (2012) (DIGITAL) G 12:00 CARNAGE (DIGITAL) R 1:20,3:25,5:30,7:40,9:45 CONTRABAND (DIGITAL) R 12:05,2:40,5:15,7:50,10:25 THE DARKEST HOUR (DIGITAL) PG-13 7:30,9:45 THE DEVIL INSIDE (DIGITAL) R 1:30,3:40,5:50,8:00,10:10 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (2011) (DIGITAL) R 12:00,3:30,7:00,10:30 JOYFUL NOISE (DIGITAL) PG-13 1:35,4:25,7:15,10:05 HUGO (DIGITAL) PG 1:30,4:20 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE GHOST PROTOCOL (DIGITAL) PG-13 12:55,4:05,5:05,7:15,8:20,10:15 THE MUPPETS (DIGITAL) PG 2:15,4:50 NEW YEAR’S EVE (DIGITAL) PG-13 7:25,10:15 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (DIGITAL) PG-13 1:30,2:30,4:30,5:30,7:30,8:30,10:30 TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN (DIGITAL) PG-13 1:40,4:25,7:10,9:55 WAR HORSE (DIGITAL) PG-13 12:30,3:45,7:00,10:15 WE BOUGHT A ZOO (DIGITAL) PG 1:15,4:10,7:05,10:00 Carnage opens Friday, Jan. 13, at the Bijou; info at bijou- cinemas.com DOLPHIN TALE PG 12:30, 4:00, 7:40,10:20 FOOTLOOSE (2011) PG-13 12:35, 4:25, 7:45,10:30 HAPPY FEET TWO PG 1:25, 3:45, 6:05, 8:35 HAPPY FEET TWO (3D) PG SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $2.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:40 IMMORTALS R 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55,10:25 IMMORTALS (3D) R SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $2.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 7:20, 9:55 IN TIME PG-13 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:35,10:10 JACK AND JILL PG 12:10, 2:25, 4:40, 7:00, 9:30 MONEYBALL PG-13 12:05, 3:20, 7:05,10:00 PUSS IN BOOTS PG 1:55, 4:05, 6:15, 8:25 PUSS IN BOOTS (3D) PG SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $2.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 12:40, 3:00, 5:10 REAL STEEL PG-13 12:20, 3:40, 7:10,10:15 TOWER HEIST PG-13 11:55, 2:20, 4:45, 7:25, 9:50 IMAX: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 4 - EVENT PRICING (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.1210 405 725 1025 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST IN REAL D 3D - EVENT PRICING (G) ★ Fri. - Sat.(1130 200) 430 700 930 CONTRABAND (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sat.(1145 220) 510 745 1030 JOYFUL NOISE (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(1230) 400 650 945 IRON LADY (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(1200 230) 500 730 1000 TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sat.(1220) 425 715 1015 THE DEVIL INSIDE (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sat.(1205 225) 415 755 1010 WAR HORSE (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(1135 245) 635 950 WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) Fri. - Sat.(150) 440 740 1035 ADVENTURES OF TINTIN IN REALD 3D-EVENT PRICING (PG) ★ Fri. - Sat.(1140 215) 725 955 ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (PG) Fri. - Sat.450 PM GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sat.(1225) 435 630 955 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(1140 240) 640 940 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(1205 300) 720 1020 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) Fri. - Sat.(1155 210) 420 645 920 HUGO IN REAL D 3D - EVENT PRICING (PG) ★ Fri. - Sat.(1150) 405 710 1005 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST IN REAL D 3D - EVENT PRICING (G) ★ Fri. - Sat.(100 345) 700 930 JOYFUL NOISE (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(110) 410 715 1000 WAR HORSE (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(1250 PM) 420 PM 800 PM GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sat.(1250 PM) 420 PM 800 PM MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(100 355) 655 945 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(120) 400 700 950 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) Fri. - Sat.(130 340) 640 940 CONTRABAND (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sat.(130) 410 700 950 THE DEVIL INSIDE (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sat.(145) 420 745 1000 WAR HORSE (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(100 PM) 430 PM 800 PM HUGO IN REAL D 3D - EVENT PRICING (PG) ★ Fri. - Sat.400 PM 650 PM HUGO (PG) Fri. - Sat.(115 PM) 940 PM Times For 01/13 - 01/14 © 2012 WWW.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM • BLOGS.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM EUGENE WEEKLY JANUARY 12, 2012 21