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MAY 9 - MAY 15, 2006
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AALTRA (dir: Benoit Delepine / Gustave Kervern, Not Rated) – This irreverent Belgian road movie is this month’s Film Movement selection. When two rural farmers who hate each other come to blows, they are both left paralyzed by a tractor. Rather than feel sorry for themselves, they team up to roll across Europe and seek revenge against the manufacturer. |
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^BATTLE IN HEAVEN (dir: Carlos Reygadis, Unrated) – If you like your Mexican art films vaguely plotted and sexually explicit, you’ll probably love the new film by Carlos Reygadis. Utterly unconcerned with bourgeois filmmaking techniques like pacing and dramatic tension, BATTLE IN HEAVEN will either enlighten you or make you punch your TV. | |||
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BETTY BLOWTORCH AND HER AMAZING TRUE LIFE ADVENTURES (dir: Anthony Scarpa, Not Rated) – If you like docs that rock, look no further than this chronicle of a female punk quartet who never really made it but looked really cool anyway. |
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BIG MOMMA’S HOUSE 2 (dir: John Whitesell, PG-13) – Hey, what’s that sound? Oh, it’s just the sad, slow decline of a very unfunny man. | |||
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CAMERA OBSCURA (dir: Hamlet Sarkissian, Not Rated) – An LAPD crime scene photographer finds his job taking a mental toll on him. As he descends into madness he starts to believe his photos can bring people back to life. |
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FATELESS (dir: Lajos Koltai, R) – Maybe you don’t think you need to see another movie about the Holocaust, but FATELESS will prove you wrong. Based on the loosely autobiographical Nobel prize winning novel by Imre Kertesz, the story of a young Hungarian boy’s experience in a concentration camp has been showered with awards around the globe and ended 2005 as one of the best reviewed films of the year. | |||
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GRANDMA’S BOY (dir: Nicholaus Goossen, Unrated) – We have producer Adam Sandler to thank for this “uproarious” comedy that involves karate-chopping chimpanzees and overmedicated Grandmothers. Critics called it a “fish-out-of-bongwater comedy.” |
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KING OF THIEVES (dir: Ivan Fila, Not Rated) – Barbu is a ten-year-old poor Ukrainian boy who joins a traveling circus to earn money for his family but is actually being recruited to work the streets of Berlin as a pickpocket. More disturbingly, his older sister is being forced to peddle her flesh in a brothel. | |||
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THE MUDGE BOY (dir: Michael Burke, R) – Emile Hirsch stars as a teenaged misfit trying to cope with his mother’s death and an emotionally distant father. Perhaps he would have an easier time of it if his coping techniques didn’t include talking in her voice and wearing her clothes. |
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*MUNICH (dir: Steven Spielberg, R) – a.k.a. OOH, IN WHAT CLEVER MANNER WILL THEY KILL THE NEXT TERRORIST? | |||
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NANNY McPHEE (dir: Kirk Jones, PG) – Colin Firth hires Emma Thompson to care for his unruly brood and soon realizes she is no ordinary nanny. Emma Thompson also wrote the screenplay. |
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THE NEW WORLD (dir: Terrence Malick, PG-13) – In-no-way-prolific director Terrence Malick spits out just his fourth film in 33 years. Considering that BADLANDS, DAYS OF HEAVEN and THE THIN RED LINE are all masterpieces, the wait is justified. And you get to watch Colin Farrell make out with Pocahontas. | |||
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ON THE OUTS (dir: Lori Silverbush / Michael Skolnik, R) – Owen Gleiberman said this movie about three delinquent girls “wounds as much as it heals” and I have no idea what he means by that. I guess he thinks it’s good or something. |
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PROUD (dir: Mary Pat Kelly, PG) – Ossie Davis and Stephen Rea star in this fact based military thriller that tells the story of the USS Mason, an all-African-American warship during WWII. | |||
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RUMOR HAS IT… (dir: Rob Reiner, PG-13) – Jennifer Aniston stars in this rom-com that has her digging up family secrets when she brings her fiancée home to visit. Apparently, her family was the basis for characters in THE GRADUATE and if she doesn’t watch herself she’ll be the third woman in her family to sleep with the Benjamin Braddock character, as interpreted by Kevin Costner. |
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TAMARA (dir: Jeremy Haft, R) – A mousy teenaged outcast is constantly being harassed by her classmates until eventually a prank played on her goes awry and she is accidentally killed. She then decides to come back from the dead as a sexy temptress and kill everyone who was mean to her. | |||
| * = Greg's pick of the week ^ = Bart's pick of the week | ||||||