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MOVIES April 22-28 BY RICK LEVIN METROarts: FIRST-CLASS TICKETS TO WORLD-CLASS PERFORMANCES THE BARBER OF SEVILLE 492 E. 13th Ave 541-357-0375 DON CHEADLE IN MILES AHEAD FILM. FOOD. bijou-cinemas.com FRIENDS. Serving the Eugene Community for Over 35 Years! ADULTS $19 / STUDENTS $18 / SENIORS $16 / NO PASSES APRIL 22 TO APRIL 28 BORN TO BE BLUE (R) Fri - Sun: Mon: Tue & Wed: Thu: 2:00, 4:15, 6:30, 8:45 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 2:00, 4:15, 6:30, 8:45 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 THE FIRST MONDAY IN MAY (PG-13) Fri - Sun: 1:30, 6:15 Tue & Wed: 1:30, 6:15 Mon: 12:30, 5:00 Thu: 1:30, 8:30 MARGUERITE (R) In French with English Subtitles Fri - Sun: 3:30, 8:15 Tue & Wed: 3:30, 8:15 Mon: 2:30 PM Thu: 3:45 PM POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (R) Free advance sneak preview! Mon: 7:00 PM UNDER THE SUN (V PAPRSCÍCH SLUNCE) (NR) Sneak Preview presented by UO Cultural Forum. Free for students. $3 General admission. 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BROADWAY v (541) 686-2458 BUY TICKETS ONLINE AT WWW.BROADWAYMETRO.COM MILES AHEAD 12:20 2:40 5:00 7:20 9:40 EYE IN THE SKY 12:30 2:50 5:10 7:30 9:50 CITY OF GOLD 12:00 4:25 6:40 THE WITCH 2:15 9:00 MIDNIGHT SPECIAL FRI-TUE 3:15 8:30 WED 3:15 9:45 THU 3:15 8:30 EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (EL ABRAZO DE LA SERPIENTE) FRI 12:30 5:45 SAT 5:45 SUN-TUE 12:30 5:45 WED 12:30 THU 12:30 5:45 METROarts PRESENTS THE ROYAL OPERA: BORIS GODUNOV SATURDAY AT 11:30 AM (SPECIAL EVENT PRICES) TEATRO REGIO DI TORINI: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE WEDNESDAY AT 6 PM (SPECIAL EVENT PRICES) ADULTS $8 v STUDENTS $7 v SENIORS/CHILDREN $5 ALL SHOWS BEFORE 5 PM $5 TIX $6 Don Cheadle portrays the fallen jazz legend in his excellent new film Miles Ahead A lthough critically lauded as a talented and versatile actor, Don Cheadle has been flitting on the periphery of mainstream movies for the past two decades. Most casual moviegoers don’t recognize his name, though they may recognize Cheadle’s face from Iron Man 2, Showtime’s House of Lies or Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic, one of several films (including the 1998 political satire Bulworth) for which he deserved but never received an Oscar nod (he was nominated for his role in Hotel Rwanda). This is too bad. Cheadle, as an actor, has a rare gift: He is intense and gritty yet intimately approachable, and his performances carry equal parts explosive threat and casual humor, drawing viewers into the edgy territories his characters typically inhabit. Cheadle turns these qualities to fantastic use in his new film, Miles Ahead, an offbeat biopic about legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. Co-written and directed by Cheadle, who also stars as the man himself, Miles Ahead plays fast and loose with the staid formula of the biopic. Taking his cues from the wild improvisations that characterized Davis’ mid-career work, Cheadle gangsterizes the story, which opens in the mid-’70s with Rolling Stone reporter Dave Brill (the adorably scruffy Ewan McGregor) interviewing the coke-addled legend, who has been “retired” for the past five years. Jumping back and forth from this debauched retirement to Davis’ breakthrough in the mid-1940s, the film paints a jittery, semi-fictionalized portrait of a great artist in free fall, as Davis and Brill get in a series of tragicomic scrapes: They fight, score coke and then spend most of the movie hunting down — through lowbrow car chases and sloppy gun fights — the stolen session tapes that Columbia Records is clamoring for and which will prove Davis’ big comeback. Davis was a genius, but he was also one badass motherfucker — nasty, brutish and obscene — and Cheadle inhabits the role completely, turning his voice into a baritone hiss of impossible cool while his eyes shoot daggers of desire and contempt into every corner. He’s surely to get an Oscar nomination for the performance, though not for the usual reasons of facile imitation and heroic grand gestures. Cheadle gives Davis a humanity and fallibility that, ironically, comprise the finest tribute to his immortal status. More importantly, Miles Ahead sidesteps the typical pitfalls of biopics, which routinely treat the life of their subjects as a greatest-hits collection, moving rapidly from highs and lows over the course of a whole life while failing to put meat and bones on the people they end up merely exploiting. The film has no ax to grind other than providing a glimpse into psyche of a tortured artist: The film depicts racism, but it is not about racism; it is suffused with drugs, but it is not about addiction. At one point during an interview, Davis snaps at Brill, telling him not to call what he does “jazz.” Brill asks him what he’d prefer. “Call it social music,” Davis says with inimitable hipness. The movie should be considered similarly: It’s less a biographical portrait than a meditation on music and life, and as such it moves with the jagged bleats, searing squeals and surprising transitions of Davis’ music itself. By focusing on a very brief span of time, and doing so with a creative use of montage and surrealism, Cheadle ends up giving us a deeper, richer understanding of what drove Davis to make such timeless music: his loves, his hates, his demons, his desires. Perhaps the finest compliment I can pay is that, after watching this film, you’ll be digging out your copy of Kind of Blue. 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