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NEW MOVIES!
JUNE 5 - JUNE 11, 2007
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AS FAR AS MY FEET WILL CARRY ME (dir: Hardy Martins, Not Rated) – After WWII ended, German soldier Clemens Forell escaped from a Siberian labor camp and traveled thousands of frozen miles to freedom. This true life adventure won awards at film festivals from Milan to Palm Springs and was filmed on location in the wastelands of Russia. |
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THE DERBY STALLION (dir: Craig Clyde, PG) – Any tweenage girl worth her salt will be very excited about this horse movie starring Zac Efron from HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL. Horses + Zac Efron = the best movie ever made. |
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THE EMPIRE IN AFRICA (dir: Philippe Diaz, Not Rated) – If you took the ten decent minutes of BLOOD DIAMOND (you know, the stuff not about white people) and made a feature length documentary on the same subject, you’d get this eye-opening exposé on exploited Sierra
Leoneans. |
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FIRED! (Chris Bradley / Kyle La
Brache, Not Rated) – Kind of well known actress Annabelle Gurwitch turns her experience of being fired by Woody Allen into this comedic documentary in which she discusses the experience of being terminated with David Cross, Fred Willard, Tim Allen, Sarah Silverman and many others. |
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THE 4 MUSKETEERS (Pierre
Aknine, R) – Alexandre Dumas’ classic story of swashbuckling gets another film adaptation, this time from France. Emmanuelle Beart and Tcheky Karyo star. |
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GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB (dir: Rory Kennedy, Not Rated) – Iraq’s most famous prison gets its own documentary. When the director was on The View discussing this movie it caused Rosie and Elizabeth to get in a huuuge fight. |
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THE GLAMOROUS LIFE OF SACHIKO HANAI (dir: Meike Mitsuru, Not Rated) – Crazy Japanese movie #1. In which a genius call girl outwits North Korean spies and gets very excited by the works of Noam Chomsky. |
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HENRY ROLLINS: UNCUT FROM NYC (dir: Henry Rollins, Not Rated) – Angry Hank offers his singular worldview to a worshipful audience in this live performance that sees him eviscerate the current state of politics and pop culture as only he can. |
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HIGHLANDER: THE SEARCH FOR VENGEANCE (dir: Yoshiaki
Kawajiri, Not Rated) – HIGHLANDER is now an anime. Any worry that the HIGHLANDER franchise would shake its nerdy stigma is safely laid to rest. |
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IN THE DARK (dir: Letia Miller, Not Rated) – In this no-budget
indie, a young Hollywood messenger endures racism and humiliation to get ahead. As his treatment worsens, he hatches a dangerous plan to find success once and for all. |
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^LINDA LINDA LINDA (dir: Nobuhiro Yamashita, Not Rated) – Crazy Japanese movie #2. In which a teenage all-girl rock group must find a new lead singer only three days before their high school’s battle of the bands. |
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*MAXED OUT (dir: James
Scurlock, Not Rated) – The scariest movie of the year may be this documentary that looks at America’s obsession with being in debt and how the credit card companies aim to keep it that way. Malcolm X once said that credit was the white mans’ new form of slavery and I guess he was right. |
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MEATBALL MACHINE (dir: Yudai Yamaguchi, Not Rated) – Crazy Japanese movie #3. In which alien parasites invade the earth and make biomechanical weapons out of our flesh. |
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THE MESSENGERS (dir: Danny & Oxide Pang, PG-13) – The directors of the world-wide horror sensation THE EYE have finally made their US debut with this Midwestern SIXTH SENSE variation starring that formerly boyish girl who played formerly boyish girl Jodie Foster’s daughter in PANIC ROOM. |
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NORBIT (dir: Brian Robbins, PG-13) – Eddie Murphy is a fat suit. Always funny. |
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ONE THIRD (dir: Yong-Man Kim, Not Rated) – The dude who started New York’s famed video stores Kim’s Underground directs a movie! It’s part gritty, streetwise action and part poetic meditation on urban alienation as a young Buddhist monk wanders The Big Apple looking for meaning and spying on his sultry teenaged neighbor. |
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THE PRISONER, OR: HOW I PLANNED TO KILL TONY BLAIR (dir: Petra Epperlein / Michael Tucker, PG-13) – Freelance Iraqi cameraman Yunis Khatayer Abbas endures a
Kafka-esque ordeal after being falsely accused of plotting to assassinate Tony Blair. He ends up in Abu
Ghraib, but with the help of the makers of this film, he’s able to clear his name. |
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THE WAR TAPES (dir: Deborah Scranton, Not Rated) – Want an Iraq documentary without the pretext of it being filtered through the lens of some bed-wetting pinko journalist? Well, this one is compiled from more than 800 hours of footage shot by the soldiers themselves. |
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YO SOY BORICUA (dir: Rosie Perez, Not Rated) – Actress Rosie Perez makes her directorial debut with this documentary that explores the complex history between Puerto Rico and the United States. Jimmy Smits narrates. |
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