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Newspaper Page Textmovies 5 /3 1 BY RICK LEVIN for May 31 - June 7 THU 6/ 1 6/ 2 6/ 3 2:40 2:40 5:00 5:00 5:00 7:15 7:15 7:15 latenite passes accepted! 1:45 HOW TO GROW A BAND 8:15 8:15 8:15 5:20 1:40 7:30 6:05 6:05 6:05 9:00 ONE WEEK ONLY! DARLING COMPANION A R T C I N E M A S 492 East 6/ 4 FINAL WEEK! THE KID WITH A BIKE latenite passes accepted! 9:30 THE RAID: REDEMPTION THE GLASSHOUSE: A FILM & LIVE MUSIC EVENT es No pass experimental short film w/live score 13 th followed by Q & A 686-2458 8:15 8:15 9:30 8:25 6:05 6:05 6:05 6:05 4:00 4:00 4:00 4:00 4:00 4:00 4:00 Meatto. Editor, Purcell Carson. Cinematography, Meatto and Ben Wolf. Sound, Dave Sinko and Meatto. Music by Punch Brothers. Starring Chris Eldridge, Greg Garrison, Paul Kowert, Noam Pikelny, Chris Thile and Gabe Witcher. International Film Circuit, Shaftway Productions, 2012. NR. 88 minutes. 00021 traveling soon? medical advice for global travelers t he t ravel c linic John D. Wilson, M.D. 1200 Hilyard St., Suite S-560 541/343-6028 www.TravelClinicOregon.com Questions? Email us at travelclinicoregon.343-6028@gmail.com Questions? Email us at travelclinic3436028 @ gmail.com WWW.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM Asian Groceries Seaweed, rice, noodles, frozen products, deli, snacks, drinks, sauces, spices, produce, housewares, and more. CADDYSHACK TH THIS MEANS WAR 5:15 5:15 CHRONICLE 7:05 OSCAR WINNER We carry groceries from Holland, India, Pakistan and Polynesia Sushi & Asian deli take-out WoodÀ eld Station SHOPPING CENTER 29TH AVENUE THE DESCENDANTS 7:05 HAYWIRE 9:10 THE GREY 9:10 5 OAK STREET How to Grow a Band opens Friday, June 1, at the Bijou; bijou-cinemas.com Largest Selection of WILLAMETTE STREET C hris Thile, the obsessive genius behind prog-bluegrass pioneers Punch Brothers, ﬁ rst picked up the mandolin at age 5, and is now hailed by many as the ﬁ nest player in the world. In Mark Meatto’s new documentary, How to Grow a Band, there is scarcely any footage of Thile without his instrument; he’s always off in the corner, perfecting some lickety-split chromatic run. At one point in the ﬁ lm, Punch Brother banjoist Noam Pikelny recalls a family legend about his colleague’s daunting dedication. “Thile used to practice Paganini when he was sitting on the toilet,” Pikelny says, adding with a bemused smile: “Don’t waste time while you’re in the bathroom. You could be practicing.” How to Grow a Band offers an intimate, behind-the-curtains glimpse of the band formulating, hashing out, rehearsing and recording — in short, negotiating — its challenging debut, Punch, a genre- busting album centered on “The Blind Leaving the Blind,” a four-movement, 45-minute classical bluegrass suite written in the wake of Thile’s 2003 divorce. The occasion is historic. With that formally complex, technically difﬁ cult piece for string quintet, Punch Brothers don’t simply deconstruct the standard verse-chorus- verse structure of most popular music; like mad scientists, they seek to run bluegrass through the crucible of classical music’s ambitious reach, thereby birthing some new, recombinant species of folk music. The goal for Punch, according to ﬁ ddler Gabe Witcher, was nothing short of “making music that hadn’t been made 6:00 7:30 Asian Food Market How to Grow a Band charts the rise of Punch Brothers before” — to push the artistic envelope through vision, innovation, guts and genius. “And I really feel like this is that,” Witcher adds, with less arrogance than awe. The process, however, was not without tension. Pop music is, at its core, a deeply conservative art form, reluctant to move beyond the familiar arc of the three- minute radio single, and truly innovative musicians — Wilco, Radiohead, Prince, Fugazi — run a great risk whenever they start tinkering with the formula. How to Grow a Band is about that risk: its costs and consequences, its ramiﬁ cations for the band and the audience. “I think that people felt this was my ﬂ ight of fancy that everyone had to protect me from,” Thile says at one point, a comment that captures the anxiety surrounding the pursuit of artis- tic vision. With unlimited access and using only a single digital camera, Meatto plays unobtrusive witness to the most intense of creative processes, and it’s fascinating to see the way the band struggles to ﬁ nd equi- librium. Is everyone all-in on this crazy trip, with equal say and equal inﬂ uence? And what if, after taking what amounts to a life’s pledge, it explodes? For fans of Punch Brothers, the docu- mentary proves a boon, full of extended live footage, lengthy interviews with the band and commentary from luminaries such as Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Myer and former Zep bassist turned hot producer John Paul Jones. How to Grow a Band, however, is not just a love letter to a great bluegrass band. It’s also an engaging, thought-pro- voking look at the timeless rigors of artistic genesis — the battle to bridge the distance between idea and object, while keeping a semblance of purity intact — as well as a testament to the incomprehensible persis- tence of desire. 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