THE BIJOU’S ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS TELECAST PARTY & CHARITY BENEFIT

Live Broadcast – The 84th Annual Academy Awards Ceremony

Join us once again for a live telecast of the Academy Awards Ceremony, shown on our 25-foot silver screen in our main auditorium.  A buffet-style dinner and dessert is included in your ticket price, featuring food from several local restaurants.  A no-host bar will also offer locally-crafted beer and wine during the event.  Brush up on your nominees, predict the winners before the event, and enter to win free movie passes and other fabulous prizes!

Proceeds from this year’s event will benefit the Shelter Animal Resource Alliance (S.A.R.A.), a nonprofit organization located in Eugene, OR, dedicated to removing animals from shelters where they might otherwise face euthanasia.

DOORS OPEN at 3:00pm on SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26th

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PARIAH

Drama – 2011 – USA – 86 minutes – Rated R

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Adepero Oduye portrays Alike (pronounced ah-lee-kay), a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents Audrey and Arthur (Kim Wayans and Charles Parnell) and younger sister Sharonda (Sahra Mellesse) in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood. Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. With the sometimes boisterous support of her best friend, out lesbian Laura (Pernell Walker), Alike is especially eager to find a girlfriend. At home, her parents’ marriage is strained and there is further tension in the household whenever Alike’s development becomes a topic of discussion. Pressed by her mother into making the acquaintance of a colleague’s daughter, Bina (Aasha Davis), Alike finds Bina to be unexpectedly refreshing to socialize with. Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and tenacity – sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, but always moving forward.

Written & Directed by Dee Rees

NOW PLAYING – ENDS THURSDAY

THE OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2012

2011 – International – Not Rated

These three feature-length programs include nearly all of this year’s nominated films, plus additional animated titles that were short-listed for this year’s awards.

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OSCAR-NOMINATED ANIMATED SHORTS PROGRAM

Animated – 2011 – International – 79 minutes - Not Rated

Sunday/Dimanche – 10 minutes – English – Patrick Doyon
Every Sunday, it’s the same old routine! The train clatters through the village and almost shakes the pictures off the wall. In the church, Dad dreams about his toolbox. And of course later Grandma will get a visit and the animals will meet their fate.
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore – 15 minutes – No Dialogue – William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. Using a variety of techniques (miniatures, computer animation, 2D animation) award winning author/illustrator William Joyce and co-director Brandon Oldenburg present a hybrid style of animation that harkens back to silent films and MGM Technicolor musicals. Morris Lessmore is old fashioned and cutting edge at the same time.
La Luna – 7 minutes – English – Enrico Casaroasa
A fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait. A big surprise awaits the little boy as he discovers his family’s most unusual line of work.
A Morning Stroll – 7 minutes – No Dialogue – Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
When a New Yorker walks past a chicken on his morning stroll, we’re left to wonder which one is the real city slicker.
Wild Life – 13 minutes – English – Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
Calgary, 1909: an Englishman moves to the Canadian frontier, but is singularly unsuited to it. His letters home are much sunnier than the reality. Intertitles compare his fate to that of a comet.

FOUR EXTRA ANIMATED FILMS FROM THE ACADEMY SHORT-LIST HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN THIS PROGRAM AS WELL, THEY ARE:

Skylight
The Hybrid Union
Nullarbor
Amazonia

OSCAR NOMINATED LIVE ACTION SHORTS PROGRAM

Live Action – 2011 – International – 107 minutes – Not Rated

Pentecost – 11 minutes – English – Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane
When Damian is forced to serve as an altar boy at an important mass in his local parish, he faces a difficult choice: conform to the status quo, or serve an extended ban from his life’s passion – football.
Raju – 24 minutes – English/German – Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
Director Max Zaehle, together with his Director of Photography Sin Huh, and wonderful actors Wotan Wilke Möhring and Julia Richter, succeed at making the moral dilemma faced by couples wishing to adopt emotionally palpable.
The Shore – 31 minutes – English/Gaelic – Terry George and Oorlagh George
After 25 years in exile, Jim Mahon (Ciaran Hinds) returns to Ireland to show his American daughter Patty (Kerry Condon) his Belfast roots. But things don’t go as planned when she learns of a secret love triangle and a long lost best friend, Paddy (Conleth Hill). Their reconciliation leads to hilarious confusion. Directed by two time Oscar nominee Terry George, The Shore won Best Director and Best Actor at the Rhode Island Film Festival, and is nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award.
Time Freak – 11 minutes – English – Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
A neurotic inventor creates a time machine, only to get caught up travelling around yesterday.
Tuba Atlantic – 25 minutes – Norwegian – Hallvar Witzø
Everybody is going to die one day. Oskar, 70, is going to die in 6 days. He is now ready to forgive his brother for a disagreement years ago. Will he reach his brother, who he believes live on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, before it’s too late?

OSCAR-NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM:

Documentary – 2011 – International – 130 minutes – Not Rated

The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement (Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin)
Incident in New Baghdad (James Spione)
Saving Face (Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy)
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen)

Please note: God Is the Bigger Elvis (Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson) is not included in this program due to licensing issues.

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LE HAVRE

Comedy/Drama – 2011 – France/Finland – 93 minutes – Not Rated

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In this warmhearted portrait of the French harbor city that gives the film its name, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoeshiner. With innate optimism and the unwavering support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation. A political fairy tale that exists somewhere between the reality of contemporary France and the classic cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville and Marcel Carné, Le Havre is a charming, deadpan delight.

Directed by Aki Kaurismäki

In French with English Subtitles

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ELITE SQUAD: THE ENEMY WITHIN

Crime/Drama/Thriller – 2010 – Brazil – 115 minutes – Not Rated

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Lt. Colonel Nascimento (Wagner Moura) is Captain of BOPE, Brazil’s badass elite military squad. Everything that happens on a BOPE mission is Nascimento’s full responsibility. During a rescue mission at Bangu 1, the most violent penitentiary in Rio de Janeiro, one of his squad leaders follows his training and shoots a murderous and vicious prisoner to death. Most rejoice at this except for one man, a famous Human Rights activist in Brazil (Diogo Fraga) who just so happened to be on the scene in the middle of the action.

As time passes, Nascimento is relieved of command and, due to become highly popular among the people, gets promoted to Secretary of Security department, and Fraga becomes State Representative. Soon both discover a world of corrupt politics and dirty cops, abusing the vulnerability of the poor living in extreme poverty. Even though sworn enemies, Nascimento and Fraga inadvertently work together to peel back the layers of corruption in pursuit of the truth.

You don’t have to be versed in the original film (also great by the way). Elite Squad: The Enemy Within jumps right in with enough context and back story for the audience to jump in and hit the ground running. And run you will, Elite Squad 2 ranks up there as one of the all-time great crime thrillers, perfectly balanced with strong characters, genuine human emotion, gritty violent action and a zippy full-tilt pace. Imagine GOODFELLAS with less narration and an afro-Brazilian backbeat.

Written and Directed by José Padilha

OPENS FRIDAY

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY

Drama/Mystery/Thriller – 2011 – France/UK/Germany – 127 minutes – Rated R

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Based on the classic novel of the same name, the international thriller is set at the height of the Cold War years of the mid-20th Century. George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a disgraced British spy, is rehired in secret by his government – which fears that the British Secret Intelligence Service, a.k.a. MI-6, has been compromised by a double agent working for the Soviets.

Directed by Tomas Alfredson

Nominated for 3 Academy Awards

OPENS FRIDAY

A SEPARATION

Drama – 2011 – Iran – 120 minutes – Rated PG-13

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Set in contemporary Iran, A Separation is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents’ home, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader. When Nader hires a young woman to assist with his father in his wife’s absence, he hopes that his life will return to a normal state. However, when he discovers that the new maid has been lying to him, he realizes that there is more on the line than just his marriage.

Written and Directed by Asghar Farhadi

OPENS MARCH 2

KILL LIST

Horror/Thriller – 2011 – UK – 95 minutes – Not Rated

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Simmering marital tensions and unexpected complications weigh heavily on the conscience of a seasoned contract killer in this dark thriller from Down Terrace director Ben Wheatley. An ex-soldier in desperate need of work, Jay (Neil Maskell) is hosting a dinner party with his wife, Shel (MyAnna Buring), when the conversation with guests Gal (Michael Smiley) and Fiona (Emma Fryer) turns suddenly combative. In the aftermath of the incident, Gal proposes to Jay that they both earn a hearty payday by accepting a few well-timed contract jobs. Meanwhile, as the pair go to work getting a lock on their targets, Jay finds himself increasingly distracted by domestic issues and his growing desire to be a good father. Jay’s paternal instincts drive him to violent extremes, however, when he makes a shocking discovery about one of the men on his list. Later, after finding a new tool to get the job done, the details of Jay’s latest assignment begin to take on deeply ominous undertones.

Directed by Ben Wheatley

COMING IN MARCH FOR LATE-NITE SHOWINGS

SUNSET BLVD.

Film Noir/Drama – 1950 – USA – 110 minutes – Not Rated

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Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom. The story begins at the end as the body of Joe Gillis (William Holden) is fished out of a Hollywood swimming pool. From The Great Beyond, Joe details the circumstances of his untimely demise (originally, the film contained a lengthy prologue wherein the late Mr. Gillis told his tale to his fellow corpses in the city morgue, but this elicited such laughter during the preview that Wilder changed it). Hotly pursued by repo men, impoverished, indebted “boy wonder” screenwriter Gillis ducks into the garage of an apparently abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. Wandering into the spooky place, Joe encounters its owner, imperious silent star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson). Upon learning Joe’s profession, Norma inveigles him into helping her with a comeback script that she’s been working on for years. Joe realizes that the script is hopeless, but the money is good and he has nowhere else to go. Soon the cynical and opportunistic Joe becomes Norma’s kept man. While they continue collaborating, Norma’s loyal and protective chauffeur Max Von Mayerling (played by legendary filmmaker Erich von Stroheim) contemptuously watches from a distance. More melodramatic than funny, the screenplay by Wilder and Charles Brackett began life as a comedy about a has-been silent movie actress and the ambitious screenwriter who leeches off her. (Wilder originally offered the film to Mae West, Mary Pickford and Pola Negri. Montgomery Clift was the first choice for the part of opportunistic screenwriter Joe Gillis, but he refused, citing as “disgusting” the notion of a 25-year-old man being kept by a 50-year-old woman.)  Arguably the greatest movie about Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard is a tremendously entertaining combination of noir, black comedy, and character study.

Directed by Billy Wilder

SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT MARCH 08 – MARCH 15

THIS ONE-WEEK ENGAGEMENT IS CO-SPONSORED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON CINEMA STUDIES DEPARTMENT

FREE ADMISSION TO ANY SHOWING WITH VALID UO STUDENT ID CARD!

EVERYDAY SUNSHINE: THE STORY OF FISHBONE

Music Documentary – 2010 – USA -107 minutes – Not Rated

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JEFF WHO LIVES AT HOME

Comedy – 2011 – USA – Rated R

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When he leaves his house on a banal errand for his mother, Jeff discovers that the universe might be sending him messages about his destiny.

Written & Directed by Jay & Mark Duplass

SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT SPONSORED BY THE U OF O CULTURAL FORUM

ONE NIGHT ONLY – FREE ADMISSION – TUESDAY, MARCH 13 AT 9:00PM

PINA

Documentary/Dance – 2011 – Germany/France/UK – 100 minutes – Rated PG

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Pina is a feature-length dance film with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009. Pina is a film for Pina Bausch by Wim Wenders. He takes the audience on a sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery, straight onto the stage with the legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch ensemble, he follows the dancers out of the theatre into the city and the surrounding areas of Wuppertal – the place, which for 35 years was the home and centre for Pina Bausch’s creativity.

Written & Directed by Wim Wenders

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IN DARKNESS

Drama – 2012 – Poland/Germany – 145 minutes – Rated R

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From acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland, In Darkness is based on a true story. Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland, one day encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise seeps deeper into Socha’s conscience. The film is also an extraordinary story of survival as these men, women and children all try to outwit certain death during 14 months of ever increasing and intense danger.

Directed by Agnieszka Holland

OPENS MARCH 23

CRAZY HORSE

Documentary – 2011 – USA/France – 134 minutes – Not Rated

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Everyone who marveled at Frederick Wiseman’s masterful LA DANSE: THE PARIS OPERA BALLET (as well as those who missed it on screen) will want to feast their eyes on CRAZY HORSE, his inside look at Paris’s world-famous nude dance revue. The legendary erotic cabaret prides itself on the beauty of its women and the humor, fantasy and old-fashioned glitz that its productions lavish upon their seemingly flawless bodies. The show’s choreographer Philippe Decouflé argues passionately for more time to perfect his newest show, Désir, as Wiseman and his longtime cinematographer, John Davey, record every bump and grind, slither and slink — every sexual innuendo on stage, and now, on screen. A.O. Scott in The New York Times calls the film “a study of artistic process that is itself a work of art, and, as such, a reminder of what a documentary can be.” Wiseman has made the definitive sex-without-guilt movie.

Directed by Frederick Wiseman

COMING SOON FOR LATE-NITE SHOWINGS

FOOTNOTE

Drama – 2011 – Israel – 103 minutes – Rated PG

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Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are both eccentric professors, who have dedicated their lives to their work in Talmudic Studies. The father, Eliezer, is a stubborn purist who fears the establishment and has never been recognized for his work. While his son, Uriel, is an up-and-coming star in the field, who appears to feed on accolades, endlessly seeking recognition. Then one day, the tables turn. When Eliezer learns that he is to be awarded the Israel Prize, the most valuable honor for scholarship in the country, his vanity and desperate need for validation are exposed. His son Uriel, meanwhile, is thrilled to see his father’s achievements finally recognized but, in a darkly funny twist, is forced to choose between the advancement of his own career and his father’s. Will he sabotage his father’s glory?

Written & Directed by Joseph Cedar

COMING SOON

THE RAID

Action – 2011 – Indonesia/USA – Not Rated

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Deep in the heart of Jakarta’s slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world’s most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the rundown apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence, an elite swat team is tasked with raiding the safe house in order to take down the notorious drug lord that runs it. But when a chance encounter with a spotter blows their cover and news of their assault reaches the drug lord, the building’s lights are cut and all the exits blocked. Stranded on the 6th floor with no way out, the unit must fight their way through the city’s worst to survive their mission. Director Gareth Evans (Merantau, Monsters) and rising martial arts star Iko Uwais reunite in this adrenaline-fueled action film.

Written, Directed & Edited by Gareth Evans

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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

Drama – 2011 – UK – 112 minutes – Rated R

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Eva puts her ambitions and career aside to give birth to Kevin. The relationship between mother and son is difficult from the very first years. When Kevin is 15, he does something irrational and unforgivable in the eyes of the entire community. Eva grapples with her own feelings of grief and responsibility. Did she ever love her son? And how much of what Kevin did was her fault?

Written and Directed by Lynne Ramsay

COMING IN MAY

DAMSELS IN DISTRESS

Comedy – 2011 – USA – 99 minutes – Not Rated

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Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress is a comedy about a trio of beautiful girls as they set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university – the dynamic leader Violet Wister (Greta Gerwig), principled Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and sexy Heather (Carrie MacLemore). They welcome transfer student Lily (Analeigh Tipton) into their group which seeks to help severely depressed students with a program of good hygiene and musical dance numbers. The girls become romantically entangled with a series of men-including smooth Charlie (Adam Brody), dreamboat Xavier (Hugo Becker) and the mad frat pack of Frank (Ryan Metcalf) and Thor (Billy Magnussen)-who threaten the girls’ friendship and sanity

Written & Directed by Whit Stillman

COMING SOON

DARLING COMPANION

Drama – 2012 – USA – Rated PG

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Kevin Kline teams reunites with his Big Chill director Lawrence Kasdan on this comedy drama about a couple (Kline and Diane Keaton) whose crumbling marriage is put to the test after their dog is lost during a vacation.

Directed by Lawrence Kasdan

COMING SOON

HYSTERIA

Period Comedy/Romance – 2011 – UK/France/Germany/Luxembourg – 100 minutes – Rated R

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HYSTERIA, a mischievously inspired romantic comedy set in the late 19th century, is based on the surprising truth of how Mortimer Granville came up with the world’s first electromechanical vibrator in the name of medical science. The film stars Academy Award nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy, alongside Jonathan Pryce, Rupert Everett and Felicity Jones.

Directed by Tanya Wexler

COMING SOON