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
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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. BROADWAY v (541) 686-2458
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GENIUS
DHEEPAN FRI
11:45 2:10 4:35 7:00 9:25
11:50 7:30
SAT
7:30
SUN-TUE 11:50 7:30
WED
11:50
THU
11:50 7:30
MAGGIE'S PLAN
12:25 2:45 5:05 7:25 10:10
THE LOBSTER
12:05 2:45 5:25 8:05 9:45
THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY
FRI-TUE
2:30 5:00
WED
2:30
THU
2:30 5:00
METROarts PRESENTS:
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE CO: SHAKESPEARE LIVE! 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
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