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NEW MOVIES!
OCTOBER 2 - OCTOBER 8, 2007
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AVENGE BUT ONE OF MY TWO EYES (dir: Avi
Mograbi, Not Rated) – Veteran documentarian Avi Mograbi directs this intense look at Israeli military abuses of Palestinians. |
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CIVIC DUTY (dir: Jeff
Renfroe, R) – Peter Krause from SIX FEET UNDER plays a suburbanite who, in the wake of 9/11, totally freaks out and takes his neighbors hostage. |
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^DAY NIGHT DAY NIGHT (dir: Julia
Loktev, Not Rated) – Follow a 19-year-old girl as she transforms into a wannabe suicide bomber in this thriller that freaked viewers out around the world. |
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DREAMS OF DUST (dir: Laurent
Salgues, Not Rated) – A Nigerian man travels to Burkina Faso in search of a better life but finds a new set of problems in Film Movement’s latest. |
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11:59 (dir: Jamin
Winans, Not Rated) – A jaded news cameraman stumbles upon the story of the year which subsequently leads to the unearthing of a vast and dangerous government conspiracy. |
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1408 (dir: Mikael
Hafstrom, PG-13) – Who knew Stephen King was such an environmentalist? Because this haunted hotel adaptation proves he’s really in to recycling… his old ideas. |
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FROSTBITTEN (dir: Anders
Banke, Not Rated) – Now here’s an unexpected treat. This Swedish horror comedy may have a lame cover, but its tale of a town in Lapland plagued by 24-hour darkness, as well as a bunch of vampires, is smart, slick and funny. |
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GREEN CHAIR (dir: Cheol-soo Park, Unrated) – A beautiful 32 –year-old Korean woman scandalizes her community by taking a 19-year-old lover in Park Chul-soo’s latest character study. |
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HABANA BLUES (dir: Benito
Zambrano, Unrated) – Two young Cuban musicians dream of performing abroad but they’ll have to avoid betraying one another for the love of a girl in order to do so. |
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*JINDABYNE (dir: Ray Lawrence, R) – A group of fisherman in rural Australia discover a body but wait until the end of their trip to report it. This morally complex import is based on the same Raymond Carver short story that was featured in SHORT CUTS. |
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MACBETH (dir: Geoffrey Wright, Not Rated) – Now with Australians! And machine guns! |
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ONE TO ANOTHER (dir: Pascal Arnold, Not Rated) – After her brother is murdered, a young woman grows frustrated with the slow police investigation and takes matters into her own hands in this enigmatic thriller from France. |
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PITTSBURGH (dir: Chris Bradley / Kyle
LaBrache, Not Rated) – Jeff Goldblum, a Pittsburgh native, plays himself in this amusing mockumentary that sees him traveling home to appear in a revival of The Music Man. |
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REEKER (dir: Dave Payne, Not Rated) – Some college students get stranded at a highway rest stop and patiently wait to be murdered. |
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STUPID TEENAGERS MUST DIE! (dir: Jeff C. Smith, Not Rated) – If the horror genre hadn’t already been spoofed to death this still probably wouldn’t be very funny. Second best movie title of the week though. |
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TIMES HAVE BEEN BETTER (dir: Regis Musset, Not Rated) – A supposedly progressive and liberal bourgeouis couple find their beliefs put to the test when their son brings home his boyfriend in this French comedy of manners. |
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pick of the week! ^ =
Bart's pick of the week! |
