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NEW MOVIES!
SEPTEMBER 11 - SEPTEMBER 17, 2007
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AMERICAN CANNIBAL (dir: Perry Grebin / Michael
Nigro, Not Rated) – SERIES 7 is still the definitive satire of reality television and the culture that allows it, but AMERICAN CANNIBAL gets an honorable mention. It’s a pitch black comedy about a group of people so desperate for fame of any kind they participate in a show where they might have to eat one another. |
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*AWAY FROM HER (dir: Sarah
Polley, PG-13) – Cool Canadian actress Sarah Polley makes her directorial debut with this terrific drama starring Julie Christie as a woman coming to terms with the onset of Alzheimer’s. |
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BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE (dir: Yves
Simoneau, Not Rated) – Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach and Anna Paquin all star in this HBO movie that offers the most realistic depiction of Little Big Horn ever filmed. And since it concerns American Indians, Wes Studi’s in it. |
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CAUTIVA (dir: Gaston
Biraben, Not Rated) – A young Argentinean woman’s life is thrown into turmoil when she discovers her birth parents were activists who were “disappeared” during the military dictatorship of the 1970s. |
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DIRTY SANCHEZ (dir: Jim Hickey, Not Rated) – It’s not like the British need another nail in the coffin of their empire, but this ultra-desperate JACKASS rip-off ought to do it. |
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DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE (dir: Cory Yuen, PG-13) – ENTER THE DRAGON with hot chicks instead of Bruce Lee. Not promising. |
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EVEN MONEY (dir: Mark
Rydell, R) – The director of GREASE and THE BLUE LAGOON tries to make his CRASH with this
large-casted gambling drama. Featuring the thespian stylings of Kim
Basinger, Danny DeVito anf Forest Whitaker. |
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A FEW DAYS IN SEPTEMBER (dir: Santiago
Amigorena, Not Rated) – Juliette Binoche is packing heat as a French secret service hottie trying to help out rogue CIA operative Nick Nolte in the days leading up to 9/11. |
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GRIFFIN & PHOENIX (dir: Ed Stone, PG-13) – This utterly straightforward romance stars Amanda Peet and Dermot Mulrooney as young urbanites trying to make a love connection. Don’t the makers of this film know that sincerity is for the bourgeois? |
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THE HOUSE OF USHER (dir: Hayley
Cloake, R) – Has there ever been a decent Edgar Allen Poe adaptation for the screen? Will there ever be? Who cares? |
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INTERNATIONALLY SPEAKING (dir: Christine Rose, Not Rated) – I think the average American is about as interested in watching a documentary of foreigners criticizing our country as they are in kissing Vladimir Putin’s bald spot. |
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PLASTIC DISASTERS (dir: Kate Davis, Not Rated) – Before you sign up for that toe reduction surgery, check out this horrifying documentary about plastic surgery gone wrong. |
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^PRIVATE PROPERTY (dir: Joachim
Lafosse, Not Rated) – Isabelle Huppert rules in this hypnotic drama about a woman still reeling from a divorce and saddled with two selfish adult sons who won’t get out of her hair. |
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SNOOP DOGG’S HOOD OF HORROR (dir: Stacy Title, R) – When not smoking a hearty portion of the marijuana in the western hemisphere, Snoop Dogg really enjoys watching horror films. Now he lends his name to this collection of shorts which Variety described as “gleefully disgusting.” |
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SNOW CAKE (dir: Marc Evans, Not Rated) – This promising-looking indie follows Alan Rickman as he picks up a young hitchhiker and sets off a chain of events that somehow involve Sigourney Weaver and Carrie-Anne Moss. |
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A SUNDAY IN KIGALI (dir: Robert
Favreau, Not Rated) – If HOTEL RWANDA didn’t satiate your need for films about African genocide, check out this well-reviewed drama about a French journalist searching for his wife in the aftermath of Rwanda’s 1994 mass slaughter. |
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TEN ‘TIL NOON (dir: Scott Storm, R) – I know it says that “Freeman is riveting” on the cover but that’s ALFONSO Freeman. Don’t be a sucker. |
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THIN (dir: Lauren Greenfield, Not Rated) – If you find yourself feeling overly positive about the state of humanity, instead of wearing a “Life Is Good” tee shirt, watch this documentary set in an eating disorder rehab facility and let the impending sense of doom snap you back to reality. |
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WHITE PALMS (dir: Szabolcs
Hajdu, Not Rated) – A man working as a teacher in Canada flashes back to his childhood in pre-Glasnost Hungary where he was trained to be a professional gymnast by a brutal coach. |
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