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NEW MOVIES! SEPTEMBER 4 -
SEPTEMBER 10, 2007
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AMERICAN VISA (dir: Juan Carlos Valdivia, R) – A Bolivian college professor runs into a labyrinth of red tape while trying to visit his son studying in America. This pointed comedy was the official Bolivian entry for the Academy Awards. |
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BELIEVE IN ME (dir: Robert Collector, PG) – I understand that people like movies that are uplifting and inspirational. But why do nearly all uplifting, inspirational sports movies, like this true story about a girl’s basketball team in 1960’s Oklahoma, have to so strictly adhere to formula and cliché? |
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BOBBY Z (dir: John Herzfeld, R) – It’s about time Paul Walker started making straight to DVD action movies. What took him so long? |
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THE CITY OF VIOLENCE (dir: Ryoo Seung-Wan, Not Rated) – Director Ryoo Seung-Wan has been described as “Korea’s answer to Quentin Tarantino” and if that’s not enough to make the fanboys wet their panties, I don’t know what will. Check out his modus operandi with this “roaring rampage of revenge.” |
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CLOSING ESCROW (dir: Armen Kaprelian, PG) – Who knew a movie about real estate could be funny? Oh, nobody did. Because it’s not. |
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DELTA FARCE (dir: CB Harding, PG-13) – Up until now, I assumed Larry The Cable Guy was exactly what he appeared to be: a vaguely racist, overtly homophobic, jingoistic idiot catering to the willfully ignorant. But now that he’s made the first big Hollywood COMEDY about the Iraq war in which soldiers are portrayed as too stupid to know they’ve been sent to Mexico instead of The Middle East, I realize he’s actually… Satan. |
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FAQ
(dir: Carlos Atanes, Not Rated) – If you want to watch a movie set in a dystopian future France and have no idea what is happening, this is a good place to start. So weird David Lynch probably watches it while he’s sleeping. |
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GEORGIA RULE (dir: Garry Marshall, R) – Lindsey Lohan plays a young woman having a hard time staying out of trouble (imagine that) and is sent to live with her tough as nails grandmother for the summer, played by Jane Fonda. |
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I WITNESS (dir: Rowdy Herrington, R) – Jeff Daniels and James Spader play a human rights activist and a cop who team up to explore a series of disappearances along the Mexican border. |
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I’M REED FISH (dir: Zackary Adler, PG) – The goofy kid from KNOCKED UP plays a small town loser who shoots for romantic glory when his unattainable high school crush, played by Rory Gilmore, returns to town. |
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PRIVATE FEARS IN PUBLIC PLACES (dir: Alain Resnais, Not Rated) – Six people spend a frosty winter in Paris looking for love, but mostly having a series of missed chances. |
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STEEL TOES (dir: David Gow / Mark Adam, R) – David Strathairn plays a liberal Jewish atheist lawyer assigned to defend a young Neo-Nazi accused of killing an immigrant grocer. Will romance bloom? Only time will tell. |
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*STEPHANIE DALEY (dir: Hilary Brougher, R) – Ooh, here’s a keeper. Amber Tamblyn, who until now I couldn’t have differentiated from Rory Gilmore if you paid me $20, gives an incendiary performance as a young woman accused of killing her baby. Tilda Swinton also shines as a pregnant forensic scientist who must unravel the truth. Shockingly good. |
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VIVA CUBA (dir: Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti, Not Rated) – Two adorable Cuban moppets run away from home when they learn that one of their mothers is planning to leave the island for America. This is a decidedly upbeat affair from our friends at Film Movement. |
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WIND CHILL (dir: Gregory Jacobs, R) – Emily Blunt from THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA plays a college student trapped in her car during a blizzard after someone, or something, forces her off the road. |
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^THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY (dir: Ken Loach, Not Rated) – Ken Loach’s tale of two Irish brothers in the early 20th century fighting the British and eventually each other won the Golden Palm at Cannes last year and about a gazillion other awards. And it stars Cillian Murphy! |
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