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NEW MOVIES!
JULY 17 - JULY 23, 2007
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AVENUE MONTAIGNE (dir: Daniele Thompson, PG-13) – That terrifying chick from HIGH TENSION shows her softer side when she takes a job at a hip Paris bistro and quickly gets immersed in the lives of the quirky clientele. |
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BLESSED BY FIRE (dir: Tristan Bauer, Not Rated) – Modern parallels abound in this story of a man who returns to The Falkland Islands, where he fought as an 18-year-old, in an attempt to confront the demons that have haunted him for over twenty years. |
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BRISTOL BOYS (dir: Brandon David, Not Rated) – It’s the BLOW of pot movies! |
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CHERRY CRUSH (dir: Nicholas
Dibella, R) – After being kicked out of his exclusive private school for taking dirty photos of female classmates, a horny teenager soon discovers that girls from the wrong side of the tracks are even more eager to be objectified and treated badly than rich girls. |
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EMERALD COWBOY (dir: Andrew Molina, R) – This
docu-drama follows a Japanese businessman who, with a little bit of foresight and a lot of nerve, moved to Colombia and fought his way to the top of the emerald trade. |
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THE EXTERMINATING ANGELS (dir: Jean-Claude
Brisseau, Not Rated) – After being arrested for sexually harassing and abusing women auditioning for his last film SECRET THINGS, French
perv/director Jean-Claude Brisseau decided to make this movie about a misunderstood film director accused of sexually harassing and abusing actresses auditioning for his movie. Someone’s feewing weewy sawy for himself. |
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FACTORY GIRL (dir: George
Hickenlooper, Unrated) – Sienna Miller proves she’s an actress with this
bio-pic of doomed Andy Warhol pal Edie Sedgwick. The bad news is that the rest of the movie is not nearly as good as her performance. |
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HANA & ALICE (dir: Shunji Iwai, Not Rated) – The director of ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU returns with another insightful look into the lives of Japanese adolescents. In this, teenage best friends both fall for the same cute boy and use every scheme they can think of to trick him into being their boyfriend, but inevitably their friendship begins to suffer. |
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THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2 (dir: Martin
Weisz, Unrated) – Gorehounds will be pleased to learn that this sequel contains 17% more blood and guts than the previous installment. |
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LOVE (dir: Vladan
Nikolic, Not Rated) – Have they ever made a movie about a criminal who doesn’t have to pull one last ill-fated job before he can retire? In this, a Yugoslavian hitman must pull off one last job before going straight but, alas, things go horribly awry. Duh. |
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PERFECT CREATURE (dir: Glenn
Standring, R) – Some ancient deadly vampire is pretty set in his plan to suck the blood of B-list British stars like Dougray Scott and Saffron Burrows. |
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^POLICE BEAT (dir: Robinson
Devor, Not Rated) – One of the highlights of Sundance 2005 was this intense dark comedy about an African immigrant working as a bicycle cop in Seattle who is confronted daily with unusual and disturbing crimes. |
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PREMONITION (dir: Mennan
Yapo, PG-13) – Sandra Bullock’s latest was savaged by critics for being even more incomprehensible than THE LAKE HOUSE, and that movie was about a magic mailbox that controlled time! |
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RACE YOU TO THE BOTTOM (dir: Russell Brown, R) – It’s SIDEWAYS with a twist when a gay guy and his straight female best friend fall into a torrid affair while taking a road trip through Napa Valley. |
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URCHIN (dir: John
Harlacher, Not Rated) – No one seems to know anything about this indie flick set entirely in the New York subway system. Except that it was filmed illegally in the deepest bowels of The Big Apple. |
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YO YO GIRL COP (dir: Kenta
Fukasaku, Not Rated) – She’s sexy, trained in many deadly arts, and she’s got a steel yo-yo that she loves hitting bad guys in the head with! |
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*YOU’RE GONNA MISS ME (dir: Kevin McAlester, Not Rated) – Fans of THE DEVIL & DANIEL JOHNSTON should check out this documentary about similarly unappreciated and tormented musician Roky Erickson. |
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