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NEW MOVIES!
MAY 8 - MAY 14, 2007
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*AL FRANKEN: GOD SPOKE (dir: Nick Doob / Chris
Hegedus, Not Rated) – This documentary from the people behind THE WAR ROOM follows the irreverent comic from the Republican National Convention to the launch of Air America while joyfully capturing his legendary spats with Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly and Barbara Bush. |
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ARANG (dir:
Sang-hoon Ahn, Not Rated) – Okay, I need all Asian horror directors to know that we cannot keep up with their output. Every week we get some movie from Korea or Hong Kong about a computer with a sad teenage ghost inside or aliens hiding in water droplets and I, frankly, can’t take it anymore. |
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BECAUSE I SAID SO (dir: Michael Lehmann, PG-13) – Diane Keaton has fun meddling in daughter Mandy Moore’s love life in this dreary
rom-com that surprisingly was not the brainchild of Nora Ephron. |
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^BLISSFULLY YOURS (dir: Apichatpong
Weerasethakul, Not Rated) – After MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON and TROPICAL MALADY, any concerns that Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul would ease off the ethereal symbolism and make something resembling a narrative, linear film are quickly put to rest with this ethereally symbolic film about young love that Time Out called “a glorious daydream.” |
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BREAKING AND ENTERING (dir: Anthony
Minghella, R) – Anthony Minghella reunites with ENGLISH PATIENT Oscar winner Juliette Binoche and marks his third collaboration with Jude Law with this psychological drama about emotionally distant Londoners brought together by a string of bank robberies. |
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CATCH AND RELEASE (dir: Susannah Grant, PG-13) – Uh-oh. Jennifer Garner’s falling in love with her dead
fiancé's best friend! |
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COMEDY OF POWER (dir: Claude
Chabrol, Not Rated) – When Isabelle Huppert and Claude Chabrol team up, you just sit back and let it happen. You’re gonna get a MADAME BOVARY or a STORY OF WOMEN or a LA CEREMONIE so just chill out. |
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THE DEAD GIRL (dir: Karen
Moncrieff, R) – Has anyone come up with a name for the genre of movies where a large cast of characters navigate a bunch of seemingly unconnected storylines that up crashing together with a resoundingly dull thud? I mean, I loved MAGNOLIA more than most people but things have gotten a little out of control. |
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DELIVER US FROM EVIL (dir: Amy Berg, Not Rated) – This Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary about one particularly abusive priest won’t put you in a good mood, but will give you a newfound understanding of how sinister and deeply resonating the Catholic Church cover up was. |
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DON'T LOOK FOR ME (dir: Tilman
Zens, Not Rated) – Being a pouty German contract killer is probably very taxing on a young lady. That’s why our pixie-haired protagonist decides she’s gonna put one
more bullet in one more brain and then…she’s out! |
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FOLLOWING SEAN (dir: Ralph
Arlyck, Not Rated) – This documentary follows up an Academy Award winning short film, SEAN, that caused a stir in the 60s because the protagonist was a 4-year-old offspring of Haight-Ashbury hippies who bragged about smoking grass and hating cops. We catch up with Sean in the current day wondering what kind of trainwreck his life has become, but he’s just really normal. And boring. |
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FORGIVING DR. MENGELE (dir: Bob Hercules / Cheri Pugh, Not Rated) – I still haven’t forgiven that guy on Ebay who never sent me my MAGNUM
P.I. trading card set. More power to Eva Kor for her ability to forgive Dr. Death for doing sick experiments on her and her sister at Auschwitz. He doesn’t deserve it though. |
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FUR: AN IMAGINARY PORTRAIT OF DIANE ARBUS (dir: Steven
Shainberg, R) – Nicole Kidman continues to take brave leaps into the acting unknown. Unfortunately, sometimes being fearless as an actor leads to cinematic abominations such as this. |
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MUSIC AND LYRICS (dir: Marc Lawrence, PG-13) – If you like your rom-coms virtually free of star chemistry or logical plotting, be sure to grab this Hugh Grant/Drew Barrymore disappointment. The flashbacks of Hugh Grant as a
WHAM!-esque 80’s pop star are genius, though. |
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THE PAINTED VEIL (dir: John Curran, PG-13) – It takes a cholera outbreak in 1920s China to get Edward Norton and Naomi Watts to re-ignite their marriage. But will studly British vice consul Liev Schreiber steal away the lovely lady? |
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THE PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES (dir: Stephen Quay / Timothy Quay, Not Rated) – Animation weirdos The Brothers Quay make their long awaited second feature film and it’s the creepfest their fans have been waiting for. On the eve of her wedding, a beautiful opera singer is abducted by a mad doctor who plans on composing a “diabolical opera.” |
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THE SECRET LIFE OF WORDS (dir: Isabel
Coixet, Not Rated) – Sarah Polley plays a nurse with a secret caring for injured oil rig worker Tim Robbins, who has some secrets himself. |
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THINGS TO DO (dir: Ted
Bezaire, Not Rated) – A young man returns to his suburban hometown to reevaluate the direction his life is heading. Sounds like GARDEN STATE right? Well, instead of staring into his navel and listening to The Shins, our protagonist is interested only in immersing himself in juvenile mayhem. |
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THE TIGER AND THE SNOW (dir: Roberto
Benigni, Not Rated) – Roberto Benigni sets his latest effort in present day Iraq and tries to recapture the LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL magic. He fails. |
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