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Newspaper Page Textmovies Things in the Basement The Truth is Not Nice Once upon a time, there was a blonde girl in an alley, and she looked like easy prey for a hungry vampire. But that girl’s name was Buffy, and the vampire was totally wrong. Once upon a time, and another time, and another time before that, there was a group of kids, and when they thought they were going to have a nice weekend in a cabin in the woods, they were totally wrong. You know where this is going, if you’ve ever seen a scary movie or even a preview for one. But the story heads down a different ominous dirt road in Cabin in the Woods, which has co-writer, co-producer and Buffy mastermind Joss Whedon’s ﬁ ngerprints all over it. This means wisecracks ﬂ y faster than ﬁ sts or weapons, and chances are good a poorly CGIed giant reptile will turn up sooner or later. It also means that things are always likely to be much more than they seem, often in a way that melds deep-seated fears with an even deeper understanding of pop culture. Whedon’s co-writer and the ﬁ lm’s director, Drew Goddard, also has some experience with mysterious tales; after writing for Buffy and Angel, he did time on Lost, which likewise did some strange things with a seemingly straightforward location. Scream is also in the ﬁ lm’s family tree, though Cabin’s view is bigger and broader than that self-aware series. Why are horror stories often so familiar, even as they’re built to frighten? What’s the point in telling these stories, with these characters (here including Chris Hemsworth as the jock and Dollhouse’s excellent Fran Kranz as the funny one), over and over again? Where do your nightmares come from, and where do they go when the night’s over? Cabin in the Woods taps into something primal, creepy, funny — and gory. Whedon and Goddard don’t slack on the bloody hijinks as they meld horror movie tropes with a smart, perfectly absurd take on the things that make horror stories happen. Is that vague enough? Don’t let the spoilers get you, kids. They lurk everywhere. — Molly Templeton Academic satire breathes a fairly rariﬁ ed air, typically isolated to dodgy second novels or the untenured ravings of drunk grad students. It seems diminishing, then, to classify director Joseph Cedar’s brilliant new movie, Footnote, as merely a jab at the pretensions of ivory tower intellectuals. Though this nearly perfect ﬁ lm does pick, hilariously, at the itchy nit of alienated highbrows — revealing how the fortress of academia also doubles as emotional hideout — it becomes in the end something more profound than the inﬁ nitesimal parody implied by its title. Like all great comedies, from Don Quixote to Annie Hall, Footnote is tragic at heart. Funny, yes, but heart-wrenchingly so. Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo Bar-Aba) is a proud, grouchy philologist whose 20 painstaking years of Talmudic research were suddenly trumped by a colleague’s lucky discovery. Eliezer’s son, Uriel (Lior Ashkenazi), is an academic all- star, a pompous, self-regarding but ultimately likable professor whose pop ethnographies are scorned as mere Judaic folklore by his scientiﬁ cally rigorous father. When bitter old Eliezer is mistakenly notiﬁ ed that he’s to be awarded the coveted Israel Prize actually meant for Uriel, the fragile bonds of father and son — knotted up by pride, disappointment, envy, anger, resentment and idolization — begin to fray, and the line separating love and betrayal is erased by desperate measures. It’s a juicy premise, and writer/director Cedar lets things run their disastrous course without losing an ounce of empathy for each character drawn into this one family’s drama. Compared to the act of dying, comedy indeed might be hard to pull off, but Cedar and his talented ensemble cast make it look easy. Footnote has an almost anachronistic feel about it, like some old-school effort from a Golden Age director like Wilder or Sturges; the ﬁ lmmaking is solid but playful — ﬂ ashbacks are framed like bits of microﬁ che — and the story, up to its ambivalent conclusion, maintains an intricate symmetry and equilibrium. As with the excellent later ﬁ lms of Woody Allen (Deconstructing Harry, Match Point), Cedar’s comedy has the force of a well-conceived, immaculately executed short story: snappy, sharp and so much greater than the sum of its parts. — Rick Levin Footnote is playing at the Bijou; bijou-cinemas.com 4/1 9 for April 19-April 26 THU 4:45 7:05 9:25 A R T C I N E M A S 4:15 bijou-cinemas.com 4 /2 1 4 /2 2 4 /2 3 4 /2 4 4 /2 5 4 /2 6 FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU 2:00 2:00 4:45 4:45 4:45 5:10 5:10 5:10 5:10 7:05 7:05 7:05 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 FOOTNOTE TOMBOY 6:00 6:00 HELD OVER! CRAZY HORSE 9:40 9:40 HELD OVER! LATENITE PASSES ACCEPTED! CINEMA PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL FOR TICKET & SHOWTIME INFO PLEASE VISIT: cinemapacific.uoregon.edu OR CALL 541-346-4363 492 East 13 th 686-2458 4/20 SPECIAL EVENT PRICING/NO BIJOU PASSES 8:00 STORIES PLAY OF TRUST: AGAIN CALLING SPECIAL FOR CLIMATE SCREENING RECOVERY $5 $5 6:30 6:30 w/special ONE guests NIGHT ONLY! Q&A EASTERN OREGON FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS SHORT COUNTRY FILMS STORY $5 8:00 8:00 *Adults—$7 * Students w/ID—$6 * Seniors—$5 * Matinees—$5 * Miser Mondays—$3* Adv. Tix on Sale MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS CHIMPANZEE (G) Fri. - Sat.(1230 245) 500 715 930 THINK LIKE A MAN (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(1245) 410 700 1000 THE LUCKY ONE (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(1145 215) 445 730 1015 BULLY (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(1200 230) 515 745 1020 THE THREE STOOGES (PG) Fri. - Sat.(1135 1205 200) 420 645 910 CABIN IN THE WOODS (R) - ID REQ'D Fri.(235) 455 735 955 Sat.(1210) 455 735 955 CABIN IN THE WOODS [OC] (R) - ID REQ'D LOCKOUT (PG-13) Fri.(1210 PM) Sat.(235 PM) Fri. - Sat.(1155 225) 505 740 1005 TIX $2 Tix 21 & FOOD $5 Sun & Tues ovER MENU NEW SPRING AMERICAN REUNION (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sat.(1225) 410 655 945 762-1700 | 180 E. 5TH AVE M E N U TITANIC IN REAL D 3D - EVENT PRICING (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.(300 PM) 725 PM davidminortheater.com GET YOUR BEAGLE ON, 7 NIGHTS A WEEK! 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