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Section B • Page 5
The University Daily Kansas
Thursday, March 29, 2001
MOVIE LISTINGS
Liberty Hall
Liberty Hall
642 Massachusetts St.
749-1912
Hard Day's Night: G, 9:40 p.m.
Hard Day's Night: G, 9:40 p.m.
You Can Count on Me: R,
7:15 p.m.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; PG-13, 4:30 p.m.
Plaza 6 Theaters
2339 Iowa St.
841-8600
Cast Away: PG-13, 4:40 and 8 p.m.
Chocolat: PG-13, 4:30, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Get Over It: PG-13, 4:45, 7:40 and 8:40
7.10 and 9.40 p.m.
Sweet November: PG-13
4.30 and 7 and 9 p.m
Traffic: R. 4;35 and 8 p.m
Sweet November: PG-13, 4:30,7 and 9:30 p.m.
The Wedding Planner: PG-13,
4:40, 7:10 and 9:40 p.m.
South Wind 12 Theaters
3433 Iowa St.
832-0880
Traffic: R, 4:35 and 8 p.m.
The Wedding Planner: PG-13.
15 Minutes: R, 4:25, 7:15 and 9:55 p.m.
The Brothers: R, 4:55, 7:30 and 10 p.m.
Down to Earth: PG-13, 4:10, 7:35 and 9:45 p.m.
7:35 and 9:45 p.m.
**Enemy at the Gates:** R, 4:05,
7:15 and 10:05 a.m.
Exit Wounds: R, 4:50, 7:45 and 10:10 p.m.
Finding Forrester: PG-13.
Hannibal: R, 4:05, 7 and 9:50 n.m
Heartbreakers: PG-13, 4, 7 and 9:45 p.m.
The Mexican: R, 4:10, 7:05 and 9:55 p.m.
O Brother, Where Art Thou?: PG-13, 4:40, 7:20 and 9:50 p.m.
Say It Isn't So: R, 5, 7:40 and 10 p.m.
See Spot Run: PG, 4:45, 7:25 and 9:40 p.m.
Title too bland; Someone Like You pure fun
By Anthony Breznican
Does the title of a movie matter? Can it change the quality of the picture?
Anthony Breznican The Associated Press
Would Cast Away have the same resonance if it were Castaway? Would Dude, Where's My Car? be silly if it were simply Where's My Car?
Let's experiment with the new Ashley Judd film Someone Like You, which previously was titled Animal Hushbandry.
Such joulularity seems slightly discordant in Someone Like You. The audience waits for vanilla romance and gets ribald jokes about copulating cows.
Judd plays an offbeat TV talk-show talent booker who falls for the perfect man (Oscar nominee Greg Kinnear).
Ah, but Kinnear's veneer of handsome compassion is a fraud. After the couple commits to sharing an apartment, he inexplicably jilts Judd, leaving her not only heartbroken, but homeless.
Judd obsesses about the failed romance and, desperate for an apartment, agrees to rent an extra room
Jackman, whose turn as the snarling superhero Wolverine in *X-men* adds a twist to this role, plays your standard womanizer; charming, good-looking and promiscuous.
from the office to meet (Hugh Jackman)
intro
Unable to avoid noticing her new roommate's dating habits, Judd develops a theory about human relationships that is based partly on a news article she reads about...animal husbandry.
The report documents the plight of dairy farmers trying to mate cows. Bulls eagerly couple with a female, but only once. After that, they move on to, say, greener pastures to spread their seed.
The rest of the movie follows Judd as she tries to apply this "old cow" theory to the relationships around her.
There's a subtle poignance to this quest because she needs to believe it's innate in all men to reject their mates eventually.
Someone Like You, is an enjoyable, funny love story, but it deserves a better introduction to moviegoers than the bland, cowardly title allows.
Ashley Judd (right) and Oscar nominee Greg Kinear star in Someone Like You, a new romantic comedy about a woman's failed attempts at romance. Contributed photo
Spanish film Amores Perros shows human nature at its worst
By Christy Lemire
The Associated Press
descriptions.
Amores Perros did not win the foreign language film Oscar on Sunday night. It was never going to. And neither was any other movie competing with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Amores Perros actually has more in common with another four-Oscar winner, Traffic, with its interwoven plots, seedy Mexican settings and grainy, hand-held camera work.
It also feels a lot like 1999's Go by showing the same period of time through the eyes of three sets of characters, with one incident connecting them all. Details that perhaps don't make sense the first time around become clearer with each of the three
So the debut film from Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu isn't exactly new, but it's always clever and devastating in its depiction of human nature.
The title translates into English as Love's a Bitch, but don't be fooled—the film is no romantic comedy. Everyone is incredibly flawed and selfish. Even the character who's seemingly the film's moral conscience, a homeless man, reaches into a mangled car after a bloody crash not to help one of the victims but to steal cash from his pocket.
That cash comes from the most violent and difficult segment to watch—and it's the first one—titled "Octavio and Susana."
Octavio (Gael Garcia Bernal), who lives in the Mexico City slums, enters his brother's dog in fights to make some quick money so
he can run away with his brother's teenage wife, Susana (Vanessa Bauche), who's pregnant with the couple's second child. He ends up in the crash after being chased by a dog fight opponent he has crossed.
Of the three stories, the one that's the most emotionally engaging is "Daniel and Valeria."
Daniel (Alvaro Guerrero) is a magazine editor who has left his wife and two young daughters for supermodel Valeria (Goya Toledo), whose gorgeous face and endless legs grace giant perfume ads throughout Mexico City.
The day Daniel moves in with Valeria, she is broadsided in the crash. A broken leg banishes her to a wheelchair, and she is trapped alone in the condo for days. She loses her modeling contract and her mind, and the passionate affair falls apart.
The final story, "El Chivo and Maru," involves the homeless man (veteran actor Emilio Echevarria) who witnesses the car accident. El Chivo is hired by a yuppie businessman to assassinate his partner. In the process, he realizes all he wants is to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned decades earlier.
In all three story lines of this modern-day fable, written with bite and insight by Guillermo Arriaga, bad people do bad things, and bad things happen to them.
It's Echeverria's moving, subtle performance, though, that gives the film its meaning. He has such presence, and conveys tremendous feeling with the slightest facial gesture.
Too much head is no good.
Amores Perros, a Lions Gate Films release, is in Spanish with English subtitles, rated R for language, violence and gore.
The Bar Song
I never really wanted to be at that bar in the first place!
I wanted...I wanted to be at Rick's.
Leaping from bar to bar!
As I roam down the streets of Lawrence!
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