20 ~ North Shore News - Friday, May 5, 2000

sisters of the macabre

SHOW. TIMES

@ Park & Tilford Cineplex
200 — 333 Brooksbank,
North Vancouver (985-3911)
Where the Heart Is (PG) —
12:50, 3:30, 7, 9:35 p.m.
U-572 (PG) — 1:15, 3:45,
7:15, 9:50 p.m.

Flintones: Viva Rock Vegas
(G) — 12:20, 2:20, 4:20,
6:50, 9 p.m.

28 Days (PG) — 1:10, 3:40,
7:25, 9:40 p.m.

The Road to Eldorado (G)
— 12:30, 2:25, 4:25 p.m.
Erin Brockovich (14A) —
6:45, 9:30 p.m.

Gladiator (18A) —- 12, 3:15,
6:30, 9:45 p.m.

@ Esplanade 6 Cinemas
200 W. Esplanade, North
Vancouver (983-2762)

I Dreamed Of Africa — Fri,
Mon-Thu 7:10, 9:50 p.m.
Sat/Sun 1:40, 4:15, 7:10,
9:50 p.m.

Keeping the Faith —Fri,
Mon-Thu 7, 9:40 p.m.
Sat/Sun 1:30, 4, 7, 9:40

M1.
High Fidelity — Fri, Mon-
Thu 7:05, 9:35 p.m. Sat/Sun
1:45, 4:20, 7:05, 9:35 p.m.
Frequency — Fri, Mon-
7:20, 10 P m. Sat/Sun 1:
4:25, 7:20, 10 p.m.
American Psycho — Fn,
Mon-Thu 7:30, 9:45 p.m.
sar/’sun 2, 4:35, 7:30, 9:45

The Rules of Engagement
— Fri, Mon-Thu 7:15, 9:55
p.m. Sat/Sun 1:35, 4: io,
7:15, 9:55 p.m.

a Caprice Park Royal
Sout

West Vancouver (926-6699)
American | Beauty (14A) —
7,9:20 p

Magnolia ( (14A) — 7:30

p.m
The Cider House Rules
(PG) — 7:05, 9:25 p.m.

B Fifth Avenue Cinemas
2110 Burrard at Sth,
Vancouver (734-8700)
Virgin Suicides (I4A) —
7:15, 9:35 p.m. Sat/Sun
2:10, 4:35 p.m. Tue 4:35

p.m.
East is East (14A) — 7:25,
9:45 p.m. Sat/Sun 2:20, 4:45
p.m. Tue 4:45 p.m.
Up At The Villa (PG) — 7,
9:30 p.m. Sat/Sun 1:36, 4
p.m. Tue 4 p.m.
Frequency (PG) — 7:05,
9:50 p.m. Sat/Sun 1:40, 4:20
p-m. Tue 4:20 p.m. (no 7:05
p.m. show Mon, May 8, Thu,
May 11)
Me, Myself, I (14) — 7:10,
9:25 p.m. Sat/Sun 1:50, 4: 16
p.m. Tue 4:10 p.m.

Park Theatre

3440 Cambie at 18th,
Vancouver (876-2747)

East Is East (14) — 7:15,
9:25 p.m. Sat/Sun 2, 4 p.m.

B Hollywood Theatre
3123 West Broadway,
Vancouver (515-5864)
My Dog Skip (G) — 7:30

The Green Mile (14A) —
9:15 p.m.

Pacific Cinematheque
1131 Howe St., Vancouver
(688-FILM)

@ The Virgin Suicides

kek kx (out of 5) Directed
by Sofia Coppola. Starring
Kathleen Turner, James
Woods and Kirsten Dunst.

FOLLOWING her dis-
astrous acting debut in
The Godfather ITT, Sofia
Coppola redeems herself
tenfold with her sophis-
ticated directorial out-
ing, The Virgin Suicides.

The film pays homage to
the Lisbon sisters, five ethereal
beauties who capture the
imagination of the neighbour-
hood’s teenage boys, a fascina-
tion that lives on decades after
the girls’ untimely deaths.

A less delicate treatment of
Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel could
have resulted in little more
than raging hormones and
heavy-handed teen angst.
Coppola manages to blend
flashbacks, fantasy and reality so
seamlessly that it doesn’t really
matter which is which.

The girls are played by Kirsten
Dunst, Hanna Hall, Chelse Swain, AJ.
Cook and Leslie Hayman. Kathleen
Turner and James Woods are the parents
who, if they don’t drive their daughters to
suicide, definitely pay their cab fare.

Dunst as Lux is the most ov estly rebel-
lious of the sisters. The most poignant
moments of the film revolve around her
slow and piteous downfall: from when the
school heartthrob (another scene-stealer,

Josh Harmett) claims her virginity only to
leave her abandoned on the Botball field,
to Lux’s pathetic rooftop rendezvous with
burger boys, in an attempt to feel any
kind of love.

There are definite holes in the plot,
and the action, low-key as it is, sags in
places. Yet the fabric of the narrative
remains intact.

Movies and TV shows set in the ’70s

ND AWESO! FOR HMA KIND
OF EXPEDITION!”

Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES *“

SHOWTIMES
Galapagos

Daily: 9pm « Add'l shows: Sat & Sun tiam, 1:15, 3:30pm

Michael Jordan to the Max
Daily: 7, 10pm * Add'l shows: Sat & Sun 2:15, 4:45pm

Alaska

Daily: 6, 8pm * Add’'l shows: Sat & Sun 12pm

Showtimes subject lo change without notice.

CHELSE Swain, Kirsten Dunst, Lesile Hayman and A.J. Cook star as the Lisbon
sisters in Sofia Coppola’s screen adaptation of The Virgin Suicides.

have reached pandemic proportions, but
The Virgin Suicides outshines its contem-
poraries when it comes to ar almost fanat-
ical attention to detaif. It has a lazy, sun-
shiney, Breck shampoo commercial feel to
it, getting virtually everything about the
decade sight.

Kudos to Coppola for giving up the
acting gig and not being too intimidated to
follow in some very big paternal footsteps.

Back to the
seventies

M The Virgin Suicides
Music From the Original
Motion Picture Soundtrack
(Emperor Norton Records)
ket
THE soundtrack to

one of the most hotly-
anticipated films of the
year comes in a bub-
blegum pink case that
perfectly matches the
mocod of its contents.

The Virgin Suicides, Sofia
Coppula’s directorial debut,
tells the story of doomed
suburban sisters in idyllic
‘70s America.

The music will ring bells
with those who remember
the sparkly-dusty excitement
of neighbourhsod roller
rinks, with Heart classics
“Magic Man” and “Crazy on
You,” and Gilbert
O'Sullivan’s “Alone Again
(Naturally)” taking listeners
back to the days of Tab cola,
tank tops, and summers by
the pool in floral chaise
lounges.

Acclaimed French band
Air, who also composed a
separate, incidental, sound-
track to the movie, appear
here, with “Ce Matin La”
(taken from their album
Moon Safari) and main
theme “Playground Love.”

—Katharine Hamer

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