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NEW
MOVIES! JULY 6 - JULY 12, 2010
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BASS ACKWARDS (dir: Linas Phillips, Not Rated) – After a disastrous affair with a married woman, a young man sets off on an equally disastrous cross-country road trip in this “quirky
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BLUEBEARD (dir: Catherine
Breillat, Not Rated) – French provocateur Catherine Breillat is remarkably restrained, by her standards, with her retelling of this classic fairy-tale. But since she’s still Catherine Breillat this is loaded with violent and sexual undercurrents. |
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BROOKLYN'S FINEST (dir: Antoine Fuqua, R) – The director of TRAINING DAY returns with another gritty cop drama, this time with
Don Cheadle, Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke and, alert the IRS, Wesley Snipes. |
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FUEL (dir: Joshua
Tickell, Not Rated) – I think they’re using more fossil fuels to make the thousands of eco-docs about the need to end our dependence on fossil fuels than any of those Hummer drivers ever did. We get it, already. Do you really think this is the film some neo-con is going to curl up with a cup of tea and have a moment of clarity to? |
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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (dir: Niels Arden
Oplev, R) – Before they cast Brad Pitt as Blomkvist and Julia Roberts as Salander in the American remake, check out the original Swedish first chapter of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy. It’s always exciting when America gets behind a book that doesn’t involve teen wizards, teen vampires or Da Vinci, and this adaptation doesn’t disappoint. |
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IT CAME FROM KUCHAR (dir: Jennifer M.
Kroot, Not Rated) – George and Mike Kuchar, brothers from the Bronx, started making zero budget 8mm films in the 1950s and never looked back. This documentary about their work and influence on filmmakers like John Waters, Todd Haynes and Atom Egoyan will acquaint you with such treasures as HOLD ME WHILE I’M NAKED and SINS OF THE
FLESHAPOIDS. |
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LAST MISTRESS (dir: Catherine
Breillat, Not Rated) – Two Catherine Breillat movies in one week. I guess that must be exciting for somebody. The good news is she’s taken a brief respite from her works of sexual apocalypse for the relatively safe environs of the period piece. But add Asia Argento and you’ve got big trouble. |
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ONCE MORE WITH FEELING (dir: Jeff
Lipsky, Not Rated) – Who’s still letting Chazz Palminteri make movies?
Geesh. |
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RAGING SUN, RAGING SKY (dir: Julian Hernandez, Not Rated) – This epic ode
to the gay underworld of Mexico City clocks in at 3 hours and 12 minutes. Apparently, nobody speaks for the first hour and the title credits don’t even pop up until the 2 hour mark. Oh, and it’s completely avant-garde with no traditional storyline. Good luck! |
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RUSH: BEYOND THE LIGHTED STAGE (dir: Sam Dunn / Scot
McFadyen, Not Rated) – God, I hate Rush. Soooo much. I don’t care if I LOVE YOU, MAN tried to make them cool. Just go back into your parents’ basement and keep the volume down, loser. |
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A SINGLE MAN (dir: Tom Ford, R) – Tom Ford, the fashion designer, decided he wants to be a movie director and, predictably, his adaptation of Christpher Isherwood’s novel fetishizes clothes, architecture and human flesh. Luckily, it’s held together by a brilliant Colin Firth performance and an underused Julianne Moore as his drunk friend. |
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*STONES IN EXILE (dir: Stephen
Kijak, Not Rated) – If there was a cooler place to be on Earth in the summer of 1971 than in Southern France where The Rolling Stones were recording Exile On Main St. in a rented mansion, I’d like to know about it. Sure, the humidity could make the heroin a little gluey, but otherwise, it was
Xanadu. |
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^TERRIBLY HAPPY (dir: Henrik Ruben
Genz, Not Rated) – In this Danish noir, a disgraced cop gets reassigned to a tiny hamlet that’s somewhere between BLUE VELVET and NORTHERN EXPOSURE. He quickly gets caught up in all the local dramas and even gets involved in a murder cover-up, but the movie never decides whether it wants to be gritty or tongue-in-cheek. |
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WHEN YOU'RE STRANGE: A FILM ABOUT THE DOORS (dir: Tom
DiCillo, R) – Although hindered by a goofy framework of reenactments, Tom DiCillo’s documentary about Jim Morrison and his less hedonistic friends is a triumph. It ably captures all the chaos and promise of the 1960s without simply garnishing The Lizard King’s legacy. |
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