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NEW MOVIES!
SEPTEMBER 25 - OCTOBER 1, 2007
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AMONGST WHITE CLOUDS (dir: Edward A. Burger, Not Rated) – This documentary takes an intimate look at China’s Buddhist hermits who live solitary lives high in the Zhongnan Mountains. Director Edward A. Burger spent seven years living in China struggling to get this film made. |
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AS YOU LIKE IT (dir: Kenneth
Branagh, PG) – Kenneth Branagh’s once again takes on the Bard. Ooh, and it’s one of the ones with cross-dressing! |
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*BLACK BOOK (dir: Paul
Verhoeven, R) – If you only know director Paul Verhoeven as the guy who made BASIC INSTINCT and SHOWGIRLS, you’re overlooking his early career in The Netherlands where he made classics like SOLDIER OF ORANGE, SPETTERS and THE FOURTH MAN. He returns to his roots with his first Dutch language film in over twenty years, and it’s brilliant. It’s the spirited, and seriously kinky, story of a young Jewish woman doing everything she can to help the resistance movement during WWII. |
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BUG (dir: William
Friedkin, R) – Following COME EARLY MORNING, Ashley Judd continues to exorcise her schlocky Hollywood career with this extra gritty paranoia thriller from William
Friedkin. |
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CHALK (dir: Mike
Akel, PG-13) – America’s public school system gets its very own
mockumentary. I’d previously sworn off this genre, but the ecstatic reviews for this one are giving me pause. |
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CRAZYLOVE (dir: Ellie
Kanner, R) – A stressed-out young woman takes a breather at a sanitarium where she meets a sexy schizophrenic. Once back on the streets they decide to throw caution to the wind and, for the plot’s sake, pursue their zany romance. |
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A DOG’S BREAKFAST (dir: David Hewlett, PG-13) – Internetists have proclaimed this to be the funniest Canadian film since STRANGE BREW. And when has anything on the internet been inaccurate? |
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EVENING (dir: Lajos
Koltai, PG-13) – It’s estrogen overload when Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Natasha Richardson, Meryl Streep and Glenn Close all turn in fine performances in this adaptation of Susan Minot’s book. |
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FULL OF IT (dir: Christian Charles, PG-13) – It’s a bit like SUPERBAD if they took out all the vulgar and funny stuff. |
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THE GYMNAST (dir: Ned Farr, Not Rated) – They’re gymnasts. And lesbians. |
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THE INSATIABLE (dir: Cary Solomon / Chuck
Konzelman, Unrated) – A dude traps a really hot vampire in his basement but quickly falls under her bloodthirsty spell. |
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THE ISLAND (dir: Pavel
Lounguine, Not Rated) – Film Movement this month takes us to a remote Russian monastery where a mysterious man may or may not have supernatural powers. |
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KNOCKED UP (dir: Judd
Apatow, Unrated) – Raunchy, heartfelt and utterly hilarious, KNOCKED UP transcends its genre trappings to become one of the year’s best movies. |
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LAURA SMILES (dir: Jason
Ruscio, R) – Petra Wright plays Laura, a woman whose dark past is finally catching up with her. Whether sabotaging dinner parties or compulsively sleeping with neighbors, she gives a gut-wrenching performance as a woman whose life is quickly spinning out of control. |
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NEXT (dir: Lee
Tamahori, PG-13) – Lee Tamahori directed the brilliant ONCE WERE WARRIORS and the nearly flawless adventure epic THE EDGE. So what’s he doing with this Nicholas Cage junk? |
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^RED ROAD (dir: Andrea Arnold, Unrated) – A young woman who works monitoring CCTV one day sees a man from her past that she has tried to forget. This sets in motion a spellbinding chain of events in this unanimously acclaimed thriller from the UK. |
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STRIKE (dir: Volker
Schlondorff, Not Rated) – The director of THE TIN DRUM makes his best film in years with the story of a Polish industrial strike. |
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TEKKONKINKREET (dir: Michael Arias, R) – The animation studio that brought us THE ANIMATRIX now unleashes this dark fantasia set in a future metropolis where two street urchins have to ward off alien assassins, among other things. |
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TEN CANOES (dir: Rolf De
Heer, Not Rated) – This look at Aboriginal life centuries before European settlers came to Australia features David Gulpilil and his son
Dayindi, and is perhaps the most definitive portrait of Aboriginal life ever filmed. |
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THE TV SET (dir: Jake
Kasdan, R) – More savage satire from Jake Kasdan, the director of THANK YOU FOR SMOKING. This time, David Duchovny plays a TV writer struggling to get his vision made with any resemblance to his original intention. Sigourney Weaver, as a bitter and amoral executive, will make that as difficult as possible. |
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THE VALET (dir: Francis
Veber, PG-13) – Daniel Auteuil gets caught by his wife with his mistress and then proceeds to dig himself a very deep hole in this French farce from the director of THE DINNER GAME. |
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THE VICTIM (dir: Monthon
Arayangkoon, Not Rated) – An acting student, who may or may not be psychic, gets caught up in a police investigation in this Thai horror flick. |
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