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MOVIES $2 $2 matinee $1 off Sun Tues $2 stud/SEN TIX $6 B Y M O L LY T E M P L E T O N ALL AGES BEFORE 7PM THUR JAN 15 - WED JAN 21 KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON In Force Majeure, Swedish director Ruben Ostlund com- pletely inverts the heroic formula of an imperiled family discovering salvation in the overcoming of disaster, resulting in a tight, controlled portrait of bourgeois despair that is by turns hilarious and disturbingly itchy. Force Majeure plays out as one long aftermath of a sin- gle spontaneous decision, as husband and wife Birdman rests squarely on the shoulders of one put- upon fellow: Actor-writer-director Riggin Thomson (Michael Keaton) is struggling to open a Broadway adaptation of Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” He’s got all the normal prob- lems — needy actors, budgetary concerns — as well as an alter ego that speaks to him in the form of Bird- man, the superhero character with which he made his name (as Keaton himself did with Batman), years ago. Foul-mouthed and hateful, Birdman is that voice in your ear that tells you you’re a failure, a fraud, washed-up, worn-out, worthless; that this arty stuff isn’t what any- one cares about. But the false dichotomy of art versus entertainment is just a distraction, a spare idea the film tosses in and then leaves alone. The only conflict it’s really interested in is one man versus himself: the part that soars and the part that’s always looking down, aware how far there is to fall. (Bijou Metro) THE EQUALIZER 8:50 5:25 IMAX: HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES 3D [CC (PG-13) ★ 1235 345 705 1020 BLACKHAT [CC,DV] (R) 800 PM 1105 PM PADDINGTON [CC,DV] (PG) 700 PM 930 PM THE WEDDING RINGER [CC,DV] (R) 700 PM 1000 PM TAKEN 3 [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ (1135 215) 455 735 1015 THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH [CC,DV] (PG-13) (1155 225) 505 745 1025 INTO THE WOODS [CC,DV] (PG) ★ (1225 325) 620 935 SELMA [CC,DV] (PG-13) (1200 330) 630 935 THE GAMBLER [CC,DV] (R) (1230) 430 715 1030 UNBROKEN [CC,DV] (PG-13) (1215 335) 640 1000 ANNIE [CC,DV] (PG) ★ (1220 355) 710 1005 NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB [CC,DV] (PG) ★ (1140 210) 450 720 955 HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ (1205 315) 635 950 EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ 625 PM 945 PM INHERENT VICE [CC,DV] (R) (1130 300) 650 1010 WILD [CC,DV] (R) (1125 220) 505 750 1035 HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 1 [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ (1150 350) 645 940 BIG HERO 6 [CC,DV] (PG) (1210 PM 310 PM) INTERSTELLAR [CC,DV] (PG-13) (1145 AM 340 PM) 740 PM PADDINGTON [CC,DV] (PG) 700 PM 930 PM THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH [CC,DV] (PG-13) (130) 430 735 1010 TAKEN 3 [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ (100) 400 700 1000 AMERICAN SNIPER [CC,DV] (R) 700 PM 1000 PM INTO THE WOODS [CC,DV] (PG) ★ (110) 410 710 1005 UNBROKEN [CC,DV] (PG-13) (1240 345) 645 945 NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB [CC,DV] (PG) ★ (120 PM) 420 PM HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ (1230 PM 335 PM) 640 PM HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES 3D [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ 950 PM HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 1 [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ (1250 PM 340 PM) AMERICAN SNIPER (DIG) (R) 11:05, 12:35, 2:15, 3:45, 5:25, 7:00, 8:35, 10:10 ANNIE (2014) (DIG) (PG) 3:20, 10:20 BIG EYES (DIG) (PG-13) 3:55, 10:30 BIG HERO 6 (DIG) (PG) 12:20, 4:00, 6:55 BLACKHAT (DIG) (R) 12:30, 4:10, 7:35, 10:35 FOXCATCHER (DIG) (R) 12:15, 7:25 HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (3D) (PG-13) SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 11:50, 10:25 HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (DIG) (PG-13) 3:50, 7:10 HUNGER GAMES: THE MOCKINGJAY, PART 1 (DIG) (PG-13) 12:10, 7:15 THE IMITATION GAME (DIG) (PG-13) 11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:30, 10:15 INTO THE WOODS (DIG) (PG) 12:05, 3:40, 7:05, 10:00 NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB (DIG) (PG) 11:25, 2:00, 4:45, 7:50, 10:20 PADDINGTON (DIG) (PG) 11:15, 1:40, 4:05, 6:50, 9:15 SELMA (DIG) (PG-13) 12:00, 3:35, 7:05, 10:05 TAKEN 3 (DIG) (PG-13) 11:10, 12:25, 2:10, 3:25, 4:50, 6:15, 7:45, 9:05, 10:25 UNBROKEN (DIG) (PG-13) 11:55, 3:30, 7:00, 10:10 THE WEDDING RINGER (DIG) (R) 11:20, 1:55, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 WILD (DIG) (R) 11:00, 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH (DIG) (PG-13) 9:45 Asian Food Market Now Featuring Middle Eastern Food & Vegetarian Items Including Vegetarian Seafood, Meat Substitutes & Snacks Asian Groceries Seaweed, rice, noodles, frozen products, deli, snacks, drinks, sauces, spices, produce, housewares, and more. Sushi & Asian deli take-out Woodfi eld Station SHOPPING CENTER TAKEN 3 [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ 410 PM 700 PM 945 PM THE WEDDING RINGER [CC,DV] (R) 700 PM 935 PM INTO THE WOODS [CC,DV] (PG) ★ (355 PM) 655 PM 950 PM NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB [CC,DV] (PG) ★ (350 PM) 435 PM 800 PM INHERENT VICE [CC,DV] (R) Times For 01/15 © 2015 29TH AVENUE 5 OAK STREET FORCE MAJEURE Birdman CHEF 8:50 5:25 WILLAMETTE STREET Graceful yet unsatisfying, director Jean-Marc Vallée’s adaptation of Wild works hard to fit in all the things — an imploding marriage, rage, grief, the attempts to find a way out of oneself, the knowledge that you’ve lost your way or the satisfaction that comes from letting go — that Strayed laid out so beautifully, so carefully, in her bestselling memoir about hiking solo more than 1,000 miles on the Pacific Crest Trail. The hike was pro- cess, penance, challenge and more, a physical journey that forced an interior one. The facts are heavy, gritty and undeniable, but the film never stays with them very long. Wild is still a good movie — and, as a film entirely about a young woman and her decisions, something of a rare bird. This isn’t a competitor to the book so much as a companion piece, a way to revisit the story with a new and glorious visual element. (Regal Valley River & Cinemark 17) (Johannes Kuhnke and Lisa Loven Kongsli) negotiate the meaning of a single, spontaneous act of apparent cowardice. The majestic peaks of the French Alps pro- vide a background to an icy game of romantic brinks- manship, wherein one couple struggles to find equilib- rium based on the revelation of surprising new informa- tion about each other. (Bijou Metro) LOVE IS STRANGE TUESDAY’S & MATINEES $2 SUNDAY’S, A Wild MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT 7:05 THE SKELETON TWINS *NO SHOW - JAN 18 Selma isn’t only a beautiful film — it’s a necessary one MOVIE CAPSULES KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON 7:05 DREAM CATCHERS va DuVernay’s Selma starts off so calmly that, despite what history promises, it’s a shock when the first moment of violence arrives. Four little girls walk down the stairs of a church. You know what this means. But what happens next occurs in a flash, a moment never explained. What’s to explain? They’re there, and then they’re gone. It’s like the bottom drops out of the world. At that point, a man in my theater began to cry and I’m not sure he stopped. Selma isn’t about those four girls, who are almost never mentioned again, but they hover over the rest of the story, which follows Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) at the start of 1965, in the months leading up to the passage of the Voting Rights Act. DuVernay’s movie has a gloriously broad scope; she and screenwriter Paul Webb somehow stick close to King while keeping one eye on the horizon. Through details and references, the filmmakers create a sense of something bigger than King, bigger than Selma and bigger than one brief span of time. Here’s Lyndon B. Johnson (Tom Wilkinson), trying to push off King’s concerns in favor of his own timeline; here’s George Wallace (Tim Roth), making useless arguments about the way things have always been; here’s a doomed pastor, a fiery student, a woman who tries again and again to register to vote, even though every time, she’s shot down. Selma is a very good movie, if one that occasionally bogs down in political explanations, and definitely one that couldn’t find enough for its female characters to do. Oyelowo, quietly charismatic, leads an excellent cast. DuVernay and her cinematographer, Bradford Young, manage always to center scenes around him while never relying too heavily on King at a pulpit or lectern; they show us a man with his people and his family, beside, not above. It’s not a film about a leader so much as a film about the work of leading — and a film that asks, with every frame, how far we have and haven’t come, all these years later. This would be a compelling film at any time, but right now, it’s more than that. It’s vital. ■ 3:40 TUSK 3:40* Sunrise www.sunriseasianfood.com M-Th 9am-7pm•F 9am-8pm•Sa 9am-7pm•Su 10am-6pm 70 W. 29th Ave. Eugene • 541-343-3295 eugeneweekly.com • January 15, 2015 21
