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NEW MOVIES!
JULY 10 - JULY 16, 2007
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AFTER THE WEDDING (dir: Susanne Bier, R) – Danish director Susanne Bier follows up the award-winning BROTHERS with another tightly wound drama, this time about a man who makes an unsavory arrangement to finance the orphanage he runs in an Indian slum. |
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THE ASTRONAUT FARMER (dir: Michael Polish, PG) – Billy Bob Thornton plays a NASA astronaut forced to retire to save the family farm. Since he can’t let go of his dream of space travel, he builds a rocket in his barn. |
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BEHIND THE MASK (dir: Scott
Glosserman, R) – The lamest thing about this fake documentary that follows a serial killer around on his murder sprees is its assumption that it’s somehow original. In fact, this same premise was used fifteen years ago in MAN BITES DOG to much greater effect. |
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FOUR LAST SONGS (dir: Francesca Joseph, Not Rated) – Stanley Tucci stars in this whimsical comedy set on a gorgeous Mediterranean island. He plays an American ex-pat lazing away his days and playing piano in local bars. All that changes when his streetwise daughter, played by Jena Malone, shows up. |
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GOING UNDER (dir: Eric
Werthman, Not Rated) – An S&M film that makes SECRETARY look like MY FAIR LADY, GOING UNDER explores what happens when a dude and his dominatrix try and make their relationship work outside of the dungeon. |
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KEILLERS PARK (dir: Susanna Edwards, Not Rated) – An engaged man is thrown into fits of confusion when he finds himself attracted to a free-spirited gay guy. When the free-spirited gay guy in question turns up dead, a riveting mystery starts to unfurl. |
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*THE LAST MIMZY (dir: Bob
Shaye, PG) – Whoa. They finally made a Sixties head film for little kids. After they watch this
brain-melter they’re going to be prattling on about algorithms and wormholes and asking you to rent them ZABRISKIE POINT. |
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THE LAST TIME (dir: Michael
Caleo, R) – Michael Keaton is a cutthroat New York businessman who takes naïve Brendan Fraser under his wing. But when he meets the young man’s smoking hot fiancée, you know things aren’t going to end well. |
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MAX AND MONA (dir: Teddy
Mattera, Not Rated) – A young man from rural South Africa travels to Johannesburg to become a doctor but somehow gets talked into taking the sacred village goat, Mona, with him. |
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THE PAGE TURNER (dir: Denis
Dercourt, Not Rated) – As a child, Melanie’s dreams of being a concert pianist were dashed by a cruel jury chairwoman at a competition. As an adult, she sets in motion a dastardly revenge plot that sees her infiltrate the woman’s family. |
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PUCCINI FOR BEGINNERS (dir: Maria
Maggenti, Unrated) – Justin Kirk and Julianne Nicholson from FLANNEL PAJAMAS re-team for this screwball comedy set in the bedrooms of The Big Apple. Everyone is breaking up, having affairs and running around behind each other’s backs. With behavior like this it’s easy to see why nearly 80% of New Yorkers have been found to have at least one STD floating around in their bodies. |
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SABAH:
A LOVE STORY (dir: Ruba Nadda, Not Rated) – A Syrian-born woman living in Toronto falls hard for a nice Canadian dude, but has to hide it because of her family’s strict religious beliefs. I smell culture clash! |
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STANDING STILL (dir: Matthew Cole Weiss, R) – Dear useless comedies. Stop ripping off the type font from AMERICAN PIE. We’re onto you. |
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STOLEN LIFE (dir: Li
Shaohong, Not Rated) – Against the odds, a young Chinese woman prepares to leave home for college after a tumultuous childhood. A series of unexpected events throw her future into doubt after she falls in love with a mysterious man. |
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SUPER SWEET 16 (dir: Neema
Barnette, Not Rated) – If you haven’t seen the MTV reality show about amazingly spoiled teenagers spending their monstrous parents’ money in obscene ways on lavish birthday parties, you’re lucky. It’s further proof of why the world hates us. I was really hoping that this spin-off movie would play a little more like BATTLE ROYALE and the greedy strumpets would be sent to an island were they would then slaughter one another. I doubt that happens, though. |
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SWEET
LAND (dir: Ali Selim, PG) – In this rapturously reviewed indie, a young German mail-order bride arrives in post-WWI Minnesota to marry a Norwegian immigrant farmer, but finds people unwelcoming and suspicious. |
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THUNDERPANTS (dir: Pete Hewitt, PG) – Thanks, England. Thanks for a thousand years of cultural dominance that’s led us to this movie about a kid who has farting superpowers. |
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^WAITING FOR HAPPINESS (dir: Abderrahmane
Sissako, Not Rated) – Our first film from Mauritania plays like a Jim Jarmusch movie set in the Sahara. The lives of the denizens of a remote desert outpost neatly intersect, but don’t push a structured narrative agenda. It’s all about the vibes. |
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WILD TIGERS I HAVE KNOWN (dir: Cam Archer, Not Rated) – Who knew a movie about a preteen transvestite could be so boring? |
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