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6/2 8 THU THEY CALL IT MYANMAR A R T 5:30 7:30 THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL 9:45 YOUR SISTER’S SISTER 9:30 HYSTERIA MUSIC FROM THE BIG HOUSE C I N E M A S for June 28 - July 5 ends tonight! 6/29 6 /3 0 7 /1 7 /3 7 /4 7 /5 1:00 1:00 1:00 6:10 6:10 6:10 12:30 12:30 2:40 2:40 2:40 4:50 4:50 4:50 7:00 7:00 7:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 11:15 11:15 movies BY MOLLY TEMPLETON 4:00 4:00 4:00 4:00 6:45 6:45 6:45 6:45 5:25 5:25 5:25 5:25 7:35 7:35 7:35 7:35 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 Final week! 4:30 7:15 9:15 9:15 9:15 9:40 9:40 9:40 9:40 Final Showings! WE HAVE A POPE SOON: TO ROME WITH LOVE WHERE DO WE GO NOW 3:45 3:45 3:45 Final Showings! CABIN IN THE WOODS 492 East 13 th 11:00 11:00 686-2458 bijou-cinemas.com 7 /2 FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU *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 davidminortheater.com THURS JUNE 21 – JULY 3 CLOSED JULY 4TH SURXGO\SUHVHQWV WANDERLUST 5:40 SHERLOCK HOLMES 7:30 Once Upon a Time, Etc. SAFE HOUSE 9:40 )($785,1* 0DUN/HZLV BRAVE : Directed by Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman and Steve Purcell. Screenplay by Andrews, Chapman, Purcell and Irene Mecchi; story by Brenda Chapman. Editor, Nicholas C. Smith. Music, Patrick Doyle. Starring Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson and Julie Walters. Walt Disney Studios, 2012. PG. 100 minutes. 00021 VSHFLDOJXHVWHPFHH /LYH0XVLF 1DPH7KDW(JJ&RQWHVW )RRG%RRWKV /RWVRI3UL]HV &URZLQJ&RQWHVW (JJ 6SRRQ5DFH &KLFNHQ+DLNX &KLFNHQ%HDXW\3DJHDQW /DXUHQ.HVVOHU 'DZQ%DE\ 0D\RU.LWW\3LHUF\ ZLWKWKDQNVWRWKHVHVSRQVRUV THE ARTIST 5:40 PROJECT X 7:30 21 JUMP STREET 9:40 FEATURING FEATURIN NG “TEXT N “TEXT-A-BEER” A BEER” “NO LONGER SNEAKING BEER INTO THE MOVIES SINCE 2008” family > farm > fresh Our family’s best! The freshest milk and ice cream Our grandparents started Lochmead Dairy 70 years ago. Today, four generations of our T family run our farm, operate our creamery, and sell our milk and ice cream at neighborhood Dari Mart stores. We have something for everyone, and we’re right in your neighborhood. Come see us soon! FIND US ONLINE: www.darimart.com O h, that hair. Rapunzel may have the length, but she has little else on the locks of Merida (Kelly Maconald), the Scottish princess in Pixar’s Brave. Merida’s hair is sunset orange, vermillion, peach, candy-apple red, a riot of curls that never settles, bouncing around her shoulders in a glorious tangle. It streams behind Merida as she gallops through the forest on horseback, nailing targets with perfectly aimed arrows; it fl ounces and bounces, uncontrollable, when she shows up all of Scotland’s eligible fi rst-born sons in an archery contest. When her mother, Queen Eleanor (Emma Thompson), dresses her up like a lady, a single unruly curl repeatedly escapes from her bursting cap (sometimes with a bit of aid from Merida). The hair gets all the love (I’m hardly the fi rst person to rave about it) because the hair is the one thing about Brave that fully lives up to the fi lm’s potential — beautiful, wild, created with the best of Pixar’s magic. The fi lm’s will o’ the wisps, little blue airborne jellyfi sh that sigh and coo, come close, and Merida’s triplet brothers get all the studio’s expected cleverness; the little hellions will go to great lengths for a plate of baked goodies. But this is a story about a young woman, and Pixar has never quite fi gured out how to tell those. Women are goofy supporting characters (Finding Nemo), heartachingly absent presences (Up) and effi cient robots il pomodoro pizzeria NY style pizza & italian dishes LUNCH SPECIALS EVERY DAY 11AM-4PM 70 YEARS ~ 4 GENERATIONS ~ 44 STORES Proudly serving our family’s Lochmead products www.facebook.com/darimart 18” CHEESE PIZZA & CAE S A R S A L A D EUGENE WEEKLY SIDE CAESAR SALAD W/ANY SLICE & A DRINK SPECIALS NOT VALID WITH ANY OTHER OFFER OR DELIVERY SUN-THURS 11AM-10PM FRI-SAT 11AM-11PM (541)345-1134 20 JUNE 28, 2012 (Wall-E), but not the stars of their own stories. Abundant expectations hang on Merida’s shoulders, and while she’s a character to love, the fi lm only earns a sort of warm affection — especially if you’re the sort who loves nods to fairytales, with their transformations, horrid deadlines, and emphasis on the importance of knowing what you really wish for. Part of the problem is that, despite the nice way Brave tweaks the notion of happily ever after, it remains awfully traditional; the confl ict, for Merida, is between her mother’s expectations and her own yearning for independence, even though no one so much as mentions that boys and men do whatever they like, without repercussions. Merida’s complaints about her responsibilities border on the poor- little-rich-girl variety — she is a princess, after all — so the fi lm tries to make her troubles universal by locating them in the clash between mother and daughter. This works, to a point, and the compromises the women reach are well-earned and true. They’re also a touchy lesson. Pixar’s fi lms are family-centric, and this one’s no different, but the moralistic bent is pulled a little too far to the fore. The lovely and true notion that stories teach us how to live is made awkwardly, needlessly explicit. This isn’t quite as painful, howev- er, as the drippy songs that soundtrack Me- rida’s jaunts into the forest. Trite and mod- ern, they’re a jarring reminder that we’re still in Disneyland, where the greatest free- doms a girl can hope for are to (eventually) marry for love, get to keep her beloved horse, and occasionally be allowed to set her weapons on the table. ew $6.99 ZLWKVSHFLDOJXHVWMXGJHV Pixar’s Brave new world is still Disneyland $19.99 6DWXUGD\-XQH WK ²30 :DVKLQJWRQ6W ²² WWW.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM
