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FEBRUARY 14 - FEBRUARY 20, 2006
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COTE D’AZUR (dir: Olivier Ducastel / Jacques Martineau, Not Rated) – A family vacation on the Mediterranean coast turns wacky in this sexy French comedy. |
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DO I LOVE YOU? (dir: Lisa Gornick, Not Rated) – Lisa Gornick directs and stars in this slice of lesbian life set in London. | |||
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EMMANUEL’S GIFT (dir: Lisa Lax / Nancy Stern, G) – Oprah really wants you to watch this documentary about a disabled African orphan who rode his bike across Ghana with only one leg. |
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INITIAL D (dir: Andy Lau / Alan Mak, Not Rated) – Hot shot INFERNAL AFFAIRS director Andy Lau takes on the street racing sport known as “drifting” in this Hong Kong box office smash. | |||
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THE JOURNEY (dir: Ligy J. Pullappally, Not Rated) – It’s hard to be a young Indian lesbian when your family has your future husband picked out already. |
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THE LAST VICTORY (dir: John Appel, Not Rated) – The Palio horse race, a tradition in Italy’s Tuscany region, dates back to the Middle Ages. This exciting film follows a small village’s attempt to win the race for the first time in over 20 years. | |||
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LIE WITH ME (dir: Clement Virgo, Not Rated) – Here’s a big wet pile of Canadian sexiness that feels only the most casual need for a plot. |
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LOST EMBRACE (dir: Daniel Burman, Not Rated) – A college dropout tries to escape the tedium of working at his mother’s lingerie store in this vibrant comedy set in Buenos Aires’ Jewish community. | |||
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MIRRORMASK (dir: Dave McKean, PG) – Based on the work of acclaimed writer Neil Gaiman and featuring the creatures of Jim Henson’s creature shop, MIRRORMASK is eye-candy with a brain. |
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^NINE LIVES (dir: Rodrigo Garcia, R) – Kathy Baker, Glenn Close, Holly Hunter and many others star in these largely improvised vignettes, each one an uninterrupted 12 minute shot, that intertwine ingeniously to tell the story of the current state of womankind. | |||
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PROOF (dir: John Madden, PG-13) – Gwyneth Paltrow re-teams with her SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE director for this massively depressing movie about math. |
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*REEL PARADISE (dir: Steve James, R) – Steve James, director of HOOP DREAMS and STEVIE, scores again with his documentary that follows indie-film maven John Pierson and his family to Fiji, where they live for a year and institute free screenings at “the world’s most remote movie theater.” | |||
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R-POINT (dir: Su-Chang Kong, R) – Set during the Vietnam War, a South Korean army base begins receiving mysterious messages from a patrol that disappeared months before. This was South Korea’s highest grossing horror film of 2004. |
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THE RUSSIAN SPECIALIST (dir: Dolph Lundgren, R) – He speaks 4 or 5 languages, he was a Fulbright scholar, he dated Grace Jones, he nearly defeated Rocky Balboa and now Dolph Lundgren is a film director. Which is awesome, by the way. He is also a black-belt in karate and led the United States Pentathlon team during the 1996 summer Olympics. Dolph Lundgren, you have earned my respect. | |||
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SAW II (dir: Darren Lynn Bousman, R) – Set the gore-o-meter to high for this quickie sequel that somehow became the most successful horror film released in 2005. Wait, what’s a gore-o-meter? |
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SEE THIS MOVIE (dir: David M. Rosenthal, R) – If you make a mincing little mockumentary (further exhausting a genre already running on fumes) and no one sees it, does it still suck? | |||
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SHE’S ONE OF US (dir: Siegrid Alnoy, Not Rated) – This French thriller has been repeatedly described as one of the boldest debut films of the past year. An office worker latches onto her co-workers and insinuates herself into their lives while co-opting bits of their personalities for herself. With the disastrous results one would expect. |
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SOUTH FROM GRANADA (dir: Fernando Colomo, Not Rated) – This romantic comedy tells the real-life adventures of British writer Gerald Brenan, who went to a small village in Spain in the 1920s to write and was quickly bewitched by his adopted country. | |||
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THE THING ABOUT MY FOLKS (dir: Raymond De Felitta, PG-13) – When Olympia Dukakis suddenly leaves Peter Falk after 47 years of marriage, Falk turns to son Paul Reiser for help. If accolades such as “touching” and “sweet-natured” interest you, enjoy. |
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THE WORLD (dir: Jia Zhangke, Not Rated) – Jia Zhangke, the director of UNKNOWN PLEASURES and PLATFORM, is one of the most loved filmmakers working today and his latest film is perhaps his most revered. Set in a bizarre Beijing theme park, THE WORLD examines the lives of the young people who have moved from China’s remote provinces to work there. | |||
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ZATHURA (dir: Jon Favreau, PG) – This spirited family adventure from ELF director Jon Favreau was unjustly ignored when it was in theaters last fall. Too bad, because it’s rare that a movie comes along that will entertain kids and not insult their intelligence. |
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ZOMBIE HONEYMOON (dir: Dave Gebroe, Not Rated) – A couple’s romantic honeymoon is cut short when the groom is attacked by a zombie on the beach. Kevin Thomas of the L.A Times assures us it will soon become a “cult horror classic.” | |||
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