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NEW MOVIES!
NOVEMBER 27 - DECEMBER 4, 2007
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ALMOST BROTHERS (dir: Lucia Murat, Not Rated) - A middle class white kid and a poor black kid in Brazil forge a friendship that supersedes the racial and class divides that define their country. |
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BLOOD CAR (dir: Alex Orr, Unrated) – This goofy horror/comedy imagines a near future where gasoline is so expensive you must kill to fill your tank. |
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BRATZ (dir: Sean McNamara, PG) – Do pre-teen girls really like this junk? Are they being misrepresented by the mass media, or are they actually morons? |
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FIRST SNOW (dir: Mark Fergus, R) – Guy Pearce has two problems. Firstly, he isn’t having much luck running his scams in the small towns of the Southwest. Secondly, a psychic has just told him he’ll be dead before the first snow. |
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FUTURAMA: BENDER'S BIG SCORE (dir: Dwayne Carey-Hill, Not Rated) – Bender, the loveable robot from
FUTURAMA, gets his own movie in this treasure trove for fans of the dearly beloved series. |
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*GHOSTS OF CITE SOLEIL (dir: Asger
Leth, Unrated) – The L.A. Daily News promises that this documentary, “burns right through the eyeballs and straight into the soul.” It’s the story of two brothers on a very dangerous path in the Cite Soleil slum in Haiti, possibly the most dangerous place on Earth. |
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X (dir: Saul Metzstein, R) – Jason Biggs plays an American soldier mistakenly transferred to an Army base in Greenland rather than Hawaii. Hilarity probably ensues. |
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HELVETICA (dir: Gary
Hustwit, Not Rated) – Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about one of the most popular forms of typeface in the world. |
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HER NAME IS SABINE (dir: Sandrine
Bonnaire, Not Rated) – French actress Sandrine Bonnaire compiled this moving documentary about her autistic sister from 25 years of her own footage. It’s also this month’s Film Movement selection. |
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HOT ROD (dir: Akiva Schaffer, PG-13) – Will SNL’s Andy Samberg emerge as the next Adam Sandler or as the next Chris
Kattan. Based on this, it’s not looking too good. |
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I DON'T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE (dir:
Ming-liang Tsai, Unrated) - The director of GOODBYE, DRAGON INN and WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? settles on a relatively less enigmatic tone for this love triangle involving a drifter, a waitress and an immigrant worker in Taiwan. |
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I KNOW WHO KILLED ME (dir: Chris
Sivertson, R) – When not guzzling tranquilizers and buying beer for your children, Lindsey Lohan occasionally makes a really terrible movie. This particular hunk of junk may very well be the crowning achievement of her legacy of awfulness. |
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THE MAN OF MY LIFE (dir: Zabou
Breitman, Unrated) – A family vacation in Provence is disrupted when Dad starts spending a little too much time hanging out with Hugo, the buff graphic designer in the villa next door. |
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MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES (dir: Jennifer
Baichwal, Not Rated) – Renowned artist Edward Burtynsky, who specializes in photographs of quarries, factories, dams, and stuff like that, gets the documentary treatment with this stunning film that follows him to China as he shoots evidence of the industrial impact on that country. |
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MR. BEAN'S HOLIDAY (dir: Steve
Bendelack, G) – Rowan Atkinson is off on a predictably chaotic trip to the French Riviera, where he has to help reunite a small boy with his family… after getting him lost in the first place. |
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THE NAMESAKE (dir: Mira Nair, PG-13) – It’s about time they released this acclaimed adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel about a young man struggling to find a balance between his Indian roots and his suburban American upbringing. |
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PAPRIKA (dir: Satoshi
Kon, R) – Destined to be one of the rare anime films to cross over into mainstream consciousness, PAPRIKA is a gorgeous fantasia of dreams and nightmares that would make Miyazaki proud. |
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SKINWALKERS (dir: James Isaac, PG-13) – Ooh, battling tribes of werewolves who band together when the moon signals the coming of an ancient prophecy. I’m sold. |
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^TIME (dir: Ki-duk Kim, Not Rated)
– Korean psycho-auteur Kim Ki-Duk cranks out another winner with this tale of a young woman who gets a little carried away with plastic surgery while trying to win back a former beau. |
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VITUS (dir: Fredi M.
Murer, PG) – Some little Swiss kid is really good at the piano. Who cares? |
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WAITRESS (dir: Adrienne Shelly, PG-13) – Sadly, actress turned director Adrienne Shelly was murdered shortly before the release of this debut feature. Happily, it’s a charming film full of finely nuanced performances by Keri Russell, Cheryl Hines and Shelly herself. |
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WHO'S YOUR CADDY?
(dir: Don Michael Paul, PG-13) - It’s the street versus the elite in this CADDYSHACK homage that pits Big Boi from Outkast against some snobbish country clubbers. Oh, and that’s the best title in film history. |
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