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Newspaper Page Textmovies 5 /1 7 BY RICK LEVIN 5/ 18 for May 17 - 24 THU 5/ 19 5/ 20 5/ 21 5/ 22 5/ 23 5/ 24 FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU 4:20 INNI: THE SIGUR RÓS 8:15 8:15 8:15 8:15 8:15 8:15 8:15 CONCERT DOCUMENTARY 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 A R T C I N E M A S 9:25 9:25 9:25 9:25 THE RAID: REDEMPTION 9:25 9:25 2:00 2:00 5:45 4:00 7:45 JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI 6:15 4:00 6:15 6:15 6:15 6:15 6:15 1:00 1:00 3:05 3:05 4:50 5:15 5:15 5:15 5:15 5:15 5:15 7:00 THE KID WITH A BIKE 7:20 7:20 7:20 7:20 7:20 7:20 9:25 6:15 Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Grand Jury Prize 5:15 7:20 NEXT: GOON HOW TO GROW A BAND NORWEGIAN WOOD HYSTERIA MUSIC FROM THE BIG HOUSE JESUS HENRY CHRIST YOUR SISTER’S SISTER WHERE DO WE GO NOW 492 East 13 th WE HAVE A POPE SALT OF LIFE DARLING COMPANION 686-2458 bijou-cinemas.com *Adults—$7 * Students w/ID—$6 * Seniors—$5 * Matinees—$5 * Miser Mondays—$3* TIX $2 Tix 21 & FOOD $5 Sun & Tues ovER MENU 762-1700 | 180 E. 5TH AVE War All the Time davidminortheater.com The Raid is a high-rise of whoop-ass Almost, Maine THURS MAY 17 – WED MAY 23 THUR OSCAR WINNER THE RAID: REDEMPTION: Written, directed and edited by Gareth Evans. Cinematography, Matt Flannery. Music by Aria Prayogi, Joseph Trapanese and Fajar Yuskemal. Starring Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Donny Alamsyah, Yayan Ruhian, Tegar Satrya and Eka ‘Piranha’ Rahmadia. Celluloid Nightmares, Sony Pictures Classics, 2012. R. 101 minutes. 00001 N othing could be simpler, more pat and shrink-wrapped, than the plot of The Raid: Redemption, a new Indonesian beatdown ﬂ ick by writer/ director Gareth Evans. Like a plain wire hanger holding up a Dior cocktail dress, Evans’ screenplay pitches just enough narrative ballast to support this breakneck epic of cops and bad guys indulging in an orgy of wham-bam gunplay and jittery ﬁ sticuffs (and karate chops, eye gouges, head butts, pile drivers, evisceration, vivisection and defenestration). Which is not to say that the story driving The Raid — driving it like a greased bowling ball rolling down Mount Merapi — is insufﬁ cient; it does its job, swift and economical, and then gets the hell out of the way: Wake up, kiss pregnant wife, hop in Hummer, enter Jakarta slum’s version of Cabrini-Green, get systematically bamboozled, bushwhacked, ambushed, assholed, gutted, garroted, jacked up, gunned down and fucked-in-half, all before our hero — the lone good cop (Iko Uwais as Rama) — is forced to rescue his criminal brother (Tegar Satrya as Bowo) and ﬁ ght every mad-dog, including, well, Mad Dog (the terrifying Yayan Ruhian) as well as sociopathic crime lord Jaka (the even more terrifying Joe Taslim) just to escape with nothing but his precious life. The Raid, which suffered at the hands of an inept marketing campaign upon its release earlier this year, has been lauded by many critics as the best action movie in decades. This, however, is something of a misnomer. The Raid is not an action movie; it is a smashmouth masterpiece of urban guerilla warfare — an utterly unrepentant ballistic siege on the senses, gritty and violent and exhilarating, splitting its time between the Spielbergian chaos of gunplay and the unreconstructed ballet of brutal hand-to-hand combat, both of which are as expertly executed and stunningly rendered as anything you’ve ever seen. F. Scott Fitzgerald famously claimed that there are no second acts in American life, but can we make an exception for a foreign S.W.A.T. movie written by a Welsh director with an intimate knowledge of the Indonesian martial art of Pencak Silat? Pencak Silat: Just saying it aloud leaves bruises. The wild ﬁ ght sequences in The Raid were choreographed by Evans and Yayan Ruhian, the same team behind Evans’ 2009 ﬁ lm Monster, and they are a miracle to behold, a ﬂ uid complication of homicidal engagement. Two noteworthy aspects of The Raid serve to raise it well above the recent tide of martial arts movies: The cast is excellent, especially Uwais, who possesses both preternatural physical skills and a dramatic aura of deﬁ ant vulnerability that is totally compelling; and the cinematography, by Matt Flannery, is groundbreaking, a kind of thrilling but not-nauseating handheld zoom-along that captures from every angle the breathless fury of martial expertise without jumping the tracks. Because of these qualities, The Raid, like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, should — all things being equal — cross over into the mainstream. It’s that good. ew THE VOW 5:20 CHRONICLE 5:20 THE DESCENDANTS 7:15 As the northern lights hover in the star- ﬁlled sky above, the residents of a remote, mythical small town ﬁnd themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected, poignant and often funny ways in this compelling play. By John Cariani | Directed by Michael P. Watkins May 25-27*, May 31-June 3*, 7-9 THE BIG LEBOWSKI 7:15 THE GREY 9:20 HAYWIRE 9:20 Curtain 8:00 pm Thurs.–Sat. *2:00 pm Sun. Tickets: $15 ($10 for Thursday) “NO LONGER SNEAKIN SNEAKING KIN NG BEER INTO THE M MOVIES SINCE 2008” MOV “TEXT-A-BEER” 541-913-5733 ORDER DRINKS & FOOD RIGHT FROM YOUR SEAT Adv. Tix on Sale MEN IN BLACK 3 Adv. Tix on Sale SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN IMAX: MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS 3D - EVENT PRICING (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.1245 PM 700 PM IMAX: DARK SHADOWS - EVENT PRICING (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.410 PM 1015 PM BATTLESHIP (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.(1235 130) 405 435 710 740 1010 1040 THE DICTATOR (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sat.(1155 1225 210 240) 420 450 720 750 930 1000 WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOUR EXPECTING (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(1125 220) 500 755 1030 DARK SHADOWS (PG-13) ★ Fri.(1240 250 345) 705 920 950 Sat.(1210 1240 345) 635 705 950 DARK SHADOWS [OC] (PG-13) ★ Fri.(1210 PM) 635 PM Sat.(250 PM) 920 PM MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS (DIGITAL) (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(1145 1215 115) 400 430 630 730 800 1045 MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS IN REAL D 3D - EVENT PRICING (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.(1115 230 300) 600 915 945 THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sat.(1200 355) 650 1020 CHIMPANZEE (G) THE LUCKY ONE (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(1100 AM) Fri. - Sat.(1140 215) 445 725 955 THE HUNGER GAMES (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(1135 255) 645 1005 The Raid opens Friday, May 18, at the Bijou. THEVLT.COM For tickets, call 541-344-7751 Box ofﬁce open 2-5:30 Wed.–Sat. 2350 Hilyard Street, Eugene On Facebook at TheVLT BATTLESHIP (DIGITAL) PG-13 12:05, 1:35, 3:05, 4:35, 6:05, 7:35, 9:05, 10:35 THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (DIGITAL) R 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 DARK SHADOWS (DIGITAL) PG-13 12:10, 1:35, 3:00, 4:25, 5:50, 7:15, 8:40, 10:05 THE DICTATOR (DIGITAL) R 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55 THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT (DIGITAL) R 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 THE HUNGER GAMES (DIGITAL) PG-13 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20 THE LUCKY ONE (DIGITAL) PG-13 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (DIGITAL) PG-13 11:10, 2:30, 3:20, 5:50, 9:10,10:00 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (3D) PG-13 SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 12:00, 1:10, 1:40, 4:20, 5:00, 6:40, 7:30, 8:20, 10:40 PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (3D) PG SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 2:30, 7:10 PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (DIGITAL) PG 12:10, 4:50, 9:30 RAVEN, THE (DIGITAL) R 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 THINK LIKE A MAN (DIGITAL) PG-13 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING (DIGITAL) PG-13 11:05, 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 AMERICAN REUNION R 12:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 CHRONICLE PG-13 12:35, 2:50, 4:55, 7:40, 9:45 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX PG 11:55, 2:00, 4:15, 6:25, 8:35 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (3D) PG SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $2.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 12:55, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:55 JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND PG 12:25, 2:45, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 LOCKOUT PG-13 12:05, 2:20, 4:45, 7:25, 9:50 SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN PG-13 12:15, 3:00, 7:00, 9:35 THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY G 12:10, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:30 THE THREE STOOGES PG 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:20,10:00 THIS MEANS WAR PG-13 12:20, 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:05 WRATH OF TITANS PG-13 1:00, 3:25, 6:05, 8:30 WRATH OF TITANS (3D) PG-13 SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $2.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 11:50, 2:10, 4:35, 7:05, 10:10 Adv. Tix on Sale SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN BATTLESHIP (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.(110) 420 730 1030 WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOUR EXPECTING (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(130) 430 710 940 THE DICTATOR (R) - ID REQ'D DARK SHADOWS (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.(140) 440 740 1005 Fri. - Sat.(120) 400 640 920 MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS (DIGITAL) (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(1230 340) 650 1000 MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS IN REAL D 3D - EVENT PRICING (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.(100) 410 720 1020 THE HUNGER GAMES (PG-13) Inni Your Face Inni, a concert ﬁ lm featuring the ethereal Icelandic band Sigur Rós, opens Friday, May 18, at Bijou Cinemas, and right now you can enter to win a poster autographed by the band. Sign up at the theater or on-line at bijou-cinemas.com WWW.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM Fri. - Sat.(1245 350) 700 950 THE DICTATOR (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sat.(100 300) 515 700 730 915 945 DARK SHADOWS (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.(130) 410 710 1000 THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sat.(110 355) 650 935 THE LUCKY ONE (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(120 PM 355 PM) Times For 05/18 - 05/19 © 2012 EUGENE WEEKLY MAY 17, 2012 23