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Newspaper Page Textmovies 7 /1 2 BY RICK LEVIN THU A R T C I N E M A S Air conditioned! WOODY ALLEN’S 7:10 9:30 TO ROME WITH LOVE 6:00 THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL 4:00 4:00 YOUR SISTER’S SISTER ends tonight! 7/ 15 1:30 7:00 4:15 9:30 7:00 10:25 10:25 2:15 5:00 7:45 7:45 1:30 4:15 7:00 9:30 2:15 5:00 7:45 7/ 16 7/ 17 7/ 18 7/ 19 4:15 4:15 4:15 4:15 7:00 7:00 7:00 9:30 9:30 10:00 9:30 5:00 5:00 5:00 5:00 7:45 7:45 7:45 OREGON BACH FESTIVAL presents 4:00 32 SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD OREGON BACH FESTIVAL presents SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS 531 PRODUCTIONS presents 8:00 4:00 KILLING GENIUS WITHIN: ME THE INNER LIFE OF GLENN GOULD FIXING THE FUTURE FREE DVD! no $7/ passes 492 East 13 th 8:40 7:30 9:30 pm 686-2458 bijou-cinemas.com 7/ 14 7/ 13 for 7.12 -19 FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU *Adults—$7 * Students w/ID—$6 * Seniors—$5 * Matinees—$5 * Miser Mondays—$3* Judy Davis and Woody Allen in To Rome with Love Asian Food Market That’s Amore Woody Allen’s love letter to Rome EXPIRES 7-19-12 Largest Selection of Asian Groceries TO ROME WITH LOVE: Written and directed by Woody Allen. Edited by Alisa Lepselter. Cinematography, Darius Khondji. Starring Woody Allen, Ellen Page, Alec Baldwin, Jesse Eisenberg, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Greta Gerwig. Sony Pictures Classics, 2012. R. In English and Italian. 112 minutes. 00021 Seaweed, rice, noodles, frozen products, deli, snacks, drinks, sauces, spices, produce, housewares, and more. THE ARTIST 6:00 WANDERLUST 6:00 THE HUNTER 7:50 We carry groceries from Holland, India, Pakistan and Polynesia Sushi & Asian deli take-out SHOPPING CENTER AMERICAN REUNION 7:50 21 JUMP STREET 9:45 SHERLOCK HOLMES 9:45 29TH AVENUE 5 OAK STREET WoodÀ eld Station WILLAMETTE STREET W oody Allen is a great American ﬁ lmmaker, though I’m not sure if I should place that somewhat queasy statement in quotation marks or simply note that, as an assertion, it drags the luggage of several qualiﬁ ers. Among those qualiﬁ ers I would list: limited, in that Allen has, for most of his career, set his movies in the hermetic dreamland of a New York City suspiciously devoid of ethnic diversity; imitative, in that his reputation largely depends on Americanizing the visions of such legendary directors as Bergman and Fellini; and, most difﬁ cult to explain, slight, meaning his ﬁ lms, no matter how masterfully rendered, seem to skim along an existential plane that is all surfaces, quirks, neuroses and erotic complication, without ever feeling truly cathartic or revelatory. Alas, I am now in the uncomfortable position of having called Woody Allen a great, albeit limited, imitative and slight, American ﬁ lmmaker. Uncomfortable, because there are several Woody Allen movies I like quite a bit, and a few I actually like quite a lot, though none I truly love. Annie Hall, of course, is irresistibly charming, but Manhattan is better; Zelig is fantastic; his New York Stories segment truly sucked, and Crimes & Misdemeanors sucked just a little less; Bullets Over Broadway is underrated; Hannah & Her Sisters is a minor classic; Husbands and Wives was pretty damn stunning, but Deconstructing Harry, though severely ﬂ awed, might just be my favorite; and his late-career ﬂ icks, like the compelling Match Point, have been surprisingly solid. What the best of these ﬁ lms share in common is a ﬂ itting, wry intelligence and secular inwardness that amounts, ironically, to a kind of patchwork, serialized portrait of the artist as a mirror. This director’s body of work, stretching six decades now, is not so much autobiographical as auto-erotic — the masturbatory oeuvre as aesthetic wish fulﬁ llment. Woody Allen is to movies what Philip Roth is to ﬁ ction. As much as anything, a Woody Allen movie is about Woody Allen’s love affair with movies. To Rome with Love is Woody Allen’s 44th feature ﬁ lm, but who’s counting? From the opening credits — stark white lettering on a slate of black, announcing a huge ensemble cast — we are unmistakably in the hands of Woody Allen, who also appears on screen for the ﬁ rst time since 2006’s Scoop. Seated beside his wife (Judy Davis) on an airplane bound for Italy, kvetching about his fear of turbulence, Woody is a strange sight indeed — at 76, he appears not so much to have aged as to have receded, like a photo bleached out by time. There is something slightly Mr. Magoo-ish about him now, his wit and chops not so much diminished as internalized in self-caricature. The massive cast — which also includes Alec Baldwin (always good), Roberto Benigni (typically annoying), Jesse Eisenberg (charming as usual), Greta Gerwig (cute, and released from mumblecore at last), Penélope Cruz (at her comic best, and gorgeous), and Ellen Page (simply brilliant) — is put in service of a handful of stories, connected not to each other but through the ﬁ lm’s only unlisted cast member, Rome itself, which is lovingly rendered by cinematographer Darius Khondji, who also shot Allen’s Midnight in Paris as well as David Fincher’s exquisitely-wrought breakout ﬁ lm, Seven. As a Woody Allen ﬁ lm, To Rome with Love is slighter than usual, but pleasant enough. The love triangle that forms among Eisenberg, Gerwig and Page is far and away the movie’s strongest strand, thanks in large part to the sophisticated sexuality and subtle vacuity of Page’s turn as an aspiring actor. Fabio Armiliato — who plays the father of Allen and Davis’ daughter (Alison Pill)’s boyfriend (Flavio Parenti) — is a revelation as an everyman possessed of a Pavarotti-caliber opera voice — but only in the shower. Of course, you can guess where this leads … In fact, from the ﬁ rst scene to the ﬁ nal curtain, you will ﬁ nd very little you can’t predict about To Rome with Love, though thanks to some strong writing on the part of Allen and a handful of energetic per- formances, it all seems disarmingly fresh. That might be the best barometer of wheth- er you’ll like this movie. 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