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MOVIES JUNE 24 – JUNE 30 June 24-30 B Y M O L LY T E M P L E T O N 13th Ave 541-357-0375 bijou-cinemas.com FILM. FOOD. FRIENDS. Serving the Eugene Community for Over 35 Years! DARK HORSE (PG) Residents in a poor Welsh mining village pool their resources to compete in the “sport of kings” with a racehorse they would breed and raise 2:00 pm*, 4:00 pm, 6:00 pm, 8:00 pm *2 pm show on Wednesday will be played with open captions LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (PG) Jane Austen’s epistolary novel LADY SUSAN has been transformed into a brisk and cutting comedy of manners 2:05 pm & 6:15 pm VIVA (R) A young hairdresser in Cuba clashes with his estranged father when his dream of performing in drag comes true 4:05 pm & 8:15 pm TICKET PRICES: MATINEE before 6pm $5 ADULT $8 | STUDENT $7 | SENIOR 62+ $5 CHILD age 12 & under $5 43 W. 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WITH JUDI DENCH, IAN M C KELLEN, HELEN MIRREN AND MORE SAT 11:00 am THE ROYAL OPERA: LA TRAVIATA WED 6:00 pm ($19 ADULTS/$17 STUDENTS/$16 SENIORS/$15 M REWARDS) REGULAR ADMISSION (EXCLUDES SPECIAL EVENTS) $9 ADULTS v $8 STUDENTS v $6 SENIORS/CHILDREN v $6 MATINEE COMING SOON ALMOST HOLY THE NEON DEMON WEINER DOG TICKLED THE FITS ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS EAT THAT QUESTION HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE TIX $6 KATE BECKINSALE IN LOVE & FRIENDSHIP *NEW* ALL AGES LADIES & GENTLEMEN BEHAVING BADLY Director Whit Stillman proves himself perfectly suited to Jane Austen’s biting wit in the excellent Love & Friendship I t’s always wonderful to be reminded that Kate Beckinsale is an excellent actress. In 2003, Beckinsale became the face of the Underworld franchise, and people seemed to stop taking her the least bit seriously. She’s too often cast in dopey rom- coms (Serendipity) or knock-off action flicks (Van Helsing), and so we forget that she was great as Hero in Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing and as Charlotte in Whit Stillman’s The Last Days of Disco. Maybe we can’t blame Underworld for trapping her in a small cinematic box, but regardless, bless Stillman for once again letting her out of it. Our great purveyor of talky films about wonderfully flawed people, Stillman has in some ways changed very little since 1990’s Metropolitan. He’s only made five features, and took more than a decade between Disco and Damsels in Distress. If Stillman has eluded your notice until now, that’s understandable. But Love & Friendship, his latest, should be his calling card for a new level of renown. Love & Friendship is based on Jane Austen’s Lady Susan. In Stillman’s hands, the novella becomes a precise little petit four of a film with surprising bite. Beckinsale soars through it all as Lady Susan Vernon, a widow with no fixed address and a daughter she needs to provide for. She also, naturally, needs to provide for herself, but her reputation as a terrible flirt and manipulator precedes her. Lady Susan certainly is those things, and that’s the fun of it. Watching Beckinsale deftly maneuver people into position, working sometimes through her good friend Alicia (Chloë Sevigny) and sometimes through unsuspecting new acquaintances, is like watching the political machinations on Game of Thrones, just on a much smaller scale (with no bloodshed). She and Sevigny co-starred in Last Days of Disco and their level of comfort on screen is apparent; Sevigny is so mild, so natural, that she makes more space for Beckinsale’s precisely tempered Susan. Other highlights of the cast include Stephen Fry as Alicia’s older husband; Jenn Murray, having a hell of a time as the perpetually overwrought Lady Manwaring; and Xavier Samuel as a perfectly noble, perfectly kind target for Susan’s affections, such as they are. The great joke of Love & Friendship — and it is quite funny, in that wry, British way — is that very little of either is present on screen. Under all the wordplay and posturing and plotting is a simple fact: Susan doesn’t have any other options but to finagle herself a new husband. It’s her only means of security. You can hate her, but what else is she supposed to do? Stillman tucks this ugly fact into the corners of Susan’s bright smile; it’s hidden in the folds of beautiful dresses, underfoot in the endlessly sunny scenes. You don’t even have to look at it, if you don’t want to. But it’s there, like the tensions that run under the conversations in all Stillman’s films, the uncomfortable awareness that more is on the table than initially appears. He’s perfectly suited to Austen — in fact, he’s perfectly suited to witty, sly period pieces, full stop. Let’s hope it’s not a decade until he makes another. (Bijou Art Cinemas) $3 $2 $1 off stud/SEN Sun Tues FRI JUNE 24TH - THUR JUNE 30TH HAIL, CEASAR! 5:10 VAXXED 5:25 HAIL, CEASAR! 7:05 A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING 7:10 DEADPOOL 8:55 VAXXED 9:00 *NO SHOW FRIDAY, MAY 27TH $2 TUESDAYS ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (DIG) (PG) 10:40, 1:30, 4:40, 7:25 ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE, THE (DIG) (PG) 10:15, 4:15, 9:50 CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (DIG) (PG-13) 10:10 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE (DIG) (PG-13) 10:30, 1:15, 4:10, 7:40, 10:25 CONJURING 2, THE (DIG) (R) 12:15, 3:25, 7:10, 10:40 FINDING DORY (3D) (PG) SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 10:05, 1:40, 3:35, 5:15, 7:15, 10:00, 10:35 FINDING DORY (DIG) (PG) 11:00, 11:55, 12:50, 2:30, 4:30, 6:20, 7:55, 9:05 FREE STATE OF JONES, THE (DIG) (R) 12:10, 3:30, 7:00, 10:15 INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (3D) (PG-13) SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 10:20, 2:20, 4:20, 10:15, 10:55 INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (DIG) (PG-13) 11:05, 1:20, 5:10, 7:20, 8:05 JUNGLE BOOK, THE (2016) (DIG) (PG) 10:25, 1:10, 4:05, 7:45, 10:30 ME BEFORE YOU (DIG) (PG-13) 1:00, 6:55 NEON DEMON, THE (DIG) (R) 10:45, 1:35, 4:25, 7:30, 10:20 NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (DIG) (PG-13) 11:50, 3:20, 7:30, 10:30 SHALLOWS, THE (DIG) (PG-13) 10:00, 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:50, 10:45 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS (DIG) (PG-13) 10:35, 1:25, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35 WARCRAFT (3D) (PG-13) SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.00 UPCHARGE ALL TICKETS 10:10, 4:00, 10:05 WARCRAFT (DIG) (PG-13) 1:05, 7:00 X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (DIG) (PG-13) 12:05, 3:40, 7:05, 10:25 eugeneweekly.com • June 23, 2016 21
