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THE
DARK KNIGHT: @ THE APTOS - The
follow-up to the action hit 'Batman Begins,'
'The Dark Knight' reunites director Christopher
Nolan and star Christian Bale, who once
again embodies the man behind the mask.
'The Dark Knight' takes Batman across
the world in his quest to fight a growing
criminal threat. With the help of Lieutenant
Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District
Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart),
Batman has been making headway against
local crime
until a rising criminal mastermind known
as The Joker (Heath Ledger) unleashes
a fresh reign of chaos across Gotham
City. To stop this devious new menace--Batman's
most personal and vicious enemy yet--he
will have to use every high-tech weapon
in his arsenal and confront everything
he believes.
Maggie Gyllenhaal joins the cast in
the role of Rachel Dawes. Returning from
'Batman Begins' are Gary Oldman as Lieutenant
Jim Gordon; Oscar winner Michael Caine
('The Cider House Rules') as Alfred;
and Oscar winner Morgan Freeman ('Million
Dollar Baby') as Lucius Fox.
Warner Brothers
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Rated: PG-13
English
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MY
WINNIPEG- Have you ever wanted
to relive your childhood and do things
differently? Guy Maddin (THE SADDEST
MUSIC IN THE WORLD) casts B-movie icon
Ann Savage as his domineering mother
in attempt to answer that question in
MY WINNPEG, a hilariously wacky and profoundly
touching goodbye letter to his childhood
hometown. A documentary (or "docu-fantasia" as
Maddin proclaims) that inventively blends
local and personal history with surrealist
images and metaphorical myths, the film
covers everything from the fire at the
local park which lead to a frozen lake
of distressed horse heads to pivotal
and factually heightened scenes from
Maddin's own childhood, all laced with
a startling emotional honesty. MY WINNIPEG
is Maddin's most personal film and a
truly unique cinematic experience, winning
the best Canadian film at the Toronto
International Film Festival and the opening
night selection of the Berlin Film Festival's
Forum.
IFC Films
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Rated: R
English
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VICKY
CRISTINA BARCELONA - Two
young American women, Vicky (Rebecca
Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson)
come to Barcelona for a summer holiday.
Vicky (Rebecca Hall) is sensible and
engaged to be married; Cristina (Scarlett
Johansson) is emotionally and sexually
adventurous. In Barcelona, they're drawn
into a series of unconventional romantic
entanglements with Juan Antonio (Javier
Bardem), a charismatic painter, who is
still involved with his tempestuous ex-wife
Maria Elena (Penelope Cruz). Set against
the luscious Mediterranean sensuality
of Barcelona, 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona'
is Woody Allen's funny and open-minded
celebration of love in all its configurations.
- MGM
Running Time: 96
Rated: PG13
Catalan | English | Spanish with subtitles
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BOTTLE
SHOCK - Brought together
by a curious twist of fate on a dusty
California road, a wandering vintner
and a struggling winemaker find both
their lives, and their careers, forever
transformed at a blind Paris wine tasting
that introduced the world to the extraordinary
wines of Napa Valley. The year is 1976,
and Napa Valley has yet to gain the reputation
as one of world's best-known wine regions.
Jim Barrett (Bill Pullman) has sacrificed
everything in life to realize his dream
of creating the perfect Chateau Montelena.
Yet despite the fact that Jim's Napa
Valley vineyard has great potential,
his son Bo (Chris Pine) doesn't seem
to have much interest in the family business.
Most days, Jim and Bo can be found trading
blows in their backyard boxing ring -
their attempts to knock a bit of sense
into one another usually amounting to
naught. Meanwhile, in Paris, British
expatriate Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman)
finds necessity dictating that he educate
Parisians on the latest wi!
nes to come out of California. Steven
owns the Academie du Vin, and is eager
to travel to the United States in order
to ensure that he has conducted his research
properly. Little did Steven and Jim realize
that they were both on course for a chance
meeting that would revolutionize the
wine industry while opening up a whole
new world of possibilities for wine lovers
everywhere.
Freestyle Releasing
Running Time: 110
Rated: PG13
English
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WHAT
WE DO IS SECRET- The true-life
story of Darby Crash, who became a Los
Angeles punk icon before taking his own
life in 1980, provides the background
for this gritty musical biopic. Not long
after getting kicked out of an experimental
high school in Los Angeles, charismatic
misfit and major David Bowie fan Jan
Paul Beahm (Shane West) announces that
he wants to form a rock band. With his
best friend George Ruthenberg (Rick Gonzalez),
Beahm creates a group called the Germs,
mainly because their first choice, "Sophistif--k
and the Revlon Span Queens" costs
too much to put on a T-shirt. Beahm appoints
himself lead singer, Ruthenberg becomes
guitarist even though he has no command
of the instrument, and Beahm creates
new stage names for them -- George becomes
Pat Smear, and Jan is now Bobby Pyn.
After a few less-than-impressive attempts
to putting Beahm's "five year plan" into
action, the Germs begin to click with
the addition of sweet but musically inexperienced
Lorna Doom (B!
ijou Phillips) on bass and Arizona transplant
Don Bolles (Noah Segan) on drums. Bobby
Pyn gives himself another new name, Darby
Crash, and the Germs become the talk
of the Los Angeles punk scene with their
reckless but literate songs and Darby's
aggressive performance style. The Germs
become big fish in the small pond of
L.A. punk, but when hard drugs enter
into the picture, Darby begins alienating
those closest to him, and after the Germs
collapse, he's at a loss for how to bring
his grand scheme to the next level. The
real Pat Smear served as a music producer
for What We Do Is Secret, recreating
the sound of the Germs and other seminal
L.A. punk groups for the soundtrack,
while the surviving members of the Germs
played a series of reunion dates following
the production of the movie, with Shane
West standing in as lead singer.
Vitagraph
Running Time: 92
Rated: R
English
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IN
SEARCH OF A MIDNIGHT KISS - Wilson
(Scoot McNairy) is twenty-nine-years
old and has just had the worst year of
his life. He is new to Los Angeles, has
no date, no concrete plans and every
intention of locking the doors and forgetting
the last year ever happened. That is
until his best friend, Jacob (Brian McGuire),
browbeats him into posting a personal
ad on Craig's List. When Vivian (Sara
Simmonds), a strong-willed woman hell
bent on being with the right guy at the
stroke of midnight responds, a chaotic,
hilarious, and touching journey through
the black and white streets of L.A. begins.
In the waning hours of the year, emotional
vulnerability and bitterly honest humor
are waiting around every corner.
IFC Films
Running Time: 90
Rated: R
English
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THE
LAST MISTRESS - THE LAST MISTRESS
marks the monumental pairing of cinema's
premiere provocateur, director Catherine
Breillat (ROMANCE, FAT GIRL) with the
most fearless and explosive actor of
our generation, Asia Argento (MARIE ANTOINETTE,
BOARDING GATE). A penniless rogue, Ryno
de Marigny (newcomer Fu-ad Ait Aattou),
shocks 19th century France with his engagement
to the virginal gem of the aristocracy,
Hermangarde (Roxane Mesquida of FAT GIRL).
As lurid speculations of Ryno's ten year
affair with the carnal Vellini (Argento)
manifest, a supremely erotic and wickedly
humorous depiction of human lust is revealed
- overriding the brittle facade of nobility
and reverence. Bolstered by Breillat's
mastery of the medium and Argento's commanding
performance, THE LAST MISTRESS is a highly
entertaining yet incredibly provocative
film that has resulted in unanimous praise
from audiences and critics across the
world.
IFC Films
Running Time: 104
Rated:
French with subtitles
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SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND-Despite
the 1997 death of longtime friend and
Closely Watched Trains collaborator Bohumil
Hrabal, 1960s-era Czech New Wave filmmaker
Jiri Menzel enters into a post-mortem
collaboration with the famed author in
this pitch black comedy detailing the
shrewd rise of an ambitious waiter. All
diminutive manservant Jan Dite (Ivan
Barnev) ever wanted was to be filthy
rich and to preside over his very own
hotel. As a young man coming of age in
the 1930s, Jan was preoccupied by beautiful
women and awe-stricken by the fact that
anyone, be they rich or poor, would bend
to their knees to pick up a coin. With
World War II fast approaching and the
Germans steadily taking occupation of
Czech territory, the opportunistic servant
begins his rapid ascent up the hospitality
ladder by working for a number of high-profile
figures. Though Jan was never a man to
settle down with just one woman, his
growing attraction to Aryan beauty Liza
(Julia Jentsch) soon found the !
aspiring hotelier proposing marriage.
Of course a blueblood Teuton like Liza
could never wed a man unable to provide
proof of his German heritage, but that
doesn't stop Jan from doing his best
to please her in the bedroom. Later,
when Liza is killed retrieving a box
of valuable stamps acquired during her
stint at the Russian front, Jan uses
the valuable collectors items to purchase
the very hotel in which he used to work.
Unfortunately for Jan good luck is always
followed by bad news, and it's not long
before his life's ambition comes crumbling
down all around him. - Jason Buchanan,
All Movie Guide
Sony Pictures Classics
Running Time: 120
Rated: R
Czech with subtitles
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BATTLE
IN SEATTLE - Actor-turned-filmmaker
Stuart Townsend makes his screenwriting
and directorial debut with this ensemble
film set during the 1999 World Trade
Organization meeting in Seattle and presenting
the riots that swept through the streets
during the five-day conference from a
variety of different perspectives. Charlize
Theron, André Benjamin, and Martin Henderson,
Ray Liotta, and Woody Harrelson star.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Vitagraph
Running Time: 100
Rated: R
English
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BRIDESHEAD
REVISITED - A provocative
and suspenseful drama, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
tells an evocative story of forbidden
love and the loss of innocence set in
the pre-WWII era. In the film, Charles
Ryder (Matthew Goode, Match Point,
The Lookout) becomes entranced with
the noble Marchmain family, first through
the charming and provocative Sebastian
Flyte (Ben Whishaw, Perfume: The Story
of a Murderer), and then his sophisticated
sister, Julia (Hayley Atwell, Cassandras
Dream and the upcoming The Duchess).
The rise and fall of Charles infatuations
reflect the decline of a decadent era
in England between the wars. Academy
Award-winner Emma Thompson co-stars as
Lady Marchmain.
The film, based on Evelyn Waughs acclaimed
novel is adapted for the screen by multiple
BAFTA Award-winner Andrew Davies (Bridget
Jones Diary, Bleak House) and Jeremy
Brock (The Last King of Scotland) and
directed by Julian Jarrold (Becoming
Jane).
Miramax
Running Time: 100
Rated: PG-13
English
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CSNY
D J VU - Directed by Bernard
Shakey, a long time alias for Neil Young,
CSNY Déjà vu documents how the beloved
quartet maintains a deeply avid fanbase
thanks to their political topicality
and their emotional honesty. The film
utilizes clips from throughout their
decades long career together. ~ Perry
Seibert, All Movie Guide
Roadside Attractions
Running Time: 96
Rated: R
English
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TELL
NO ONE - directed by Guillaume
Canet starring François Cluzet, Kristin
Scott Thomas, Marie-Josée Croze, André
Dussollier, Nathalie Baye, Jean Rochefort,
Marina Hands
Based on Harlan Cobens international
best selling thriller about pediatrician
Alexandre Beck who still grieves the
murder of his beloved wife Margot Beck
eight years earlier. When two bodies
are found near the scene of the crime,
the police reopen the case and Alex becomes
a suspect again. The mystery deepens
when Alex receives an anonymous e-mail
with a link to a video clip that seems
to suggest Margot is somehow still alive
and a message to "Tell No One."
Music Box
Running Time: 125
Rated: NR
French w/ subtitles
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A
MAN NAMED PEARL - Filmmakers Scott
Galloway and Brent Pierson collaborate
on this documentary about a factory worker
and self-taught topiary artist from South
Carolina who transformed his once-average
yard into a wondrous garden that now
draws tourists from across the country.
When Pearl Fryar first attempted to move
into his South Carolina home, the people
of the neighborhood feared that he wouldn't
maintain his yard. But Pearl wasn't willing
to let an obstacle born from racial stereotypes
determine the outcome of his life, and
vowed to win the "Yard of the Month" award
from the Iris Garden Club. Years later,
tourists from all fifty states flock
to the yard of a man who had no prior
gardening experience before creating
his masterpiece. More than just a yard,
Pearl's awe-inspiring landscape creates
a feeling in the visitor that they didn't
have before they set foot on the grounds.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Shadow
Running Time: 78
Rated: G
English
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AMERICAN
TEEN - In this biting cinéma vérité,
director Nanette Burstein follows a group
of four Indiana high-school seniors as
they navigate the social mazes of adolescence,
prepare for graduation, and generally
deal with the often surprising and strange
situations that arise simply from being
17. Incorporating intimate footage, interviews,
and animation, Burstein reveals all the
gritty details about life as a teenager
in Midwestern America, from drugs, alcohol,
and peer pressure to cliques, first love,
and heartbreak. ~ Cammila Albertson,
All Movie Guide
Paramount Vantage
Running Time: 95
Rated: PG13
English
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BAGHEAD - While
the Duplass Brothers were shooting their
last feature film The Puffy Chair, a crew
member raised the question whats the
scariest thing you can think of? Someone
immediately said a guy with a bag on his
head staring into your window. Some agreed,
but some thought it was downright ridiculous
and, if anything, funny (but definitely
not scary). Thus, BAGHEAD was born, an
attempt to take the absurdly low-concept
idea of a guy with a bag on his head
and make a funny, truthful, endearing film
that, maybe, just maybe, was a little bit
scary, too.
Sony Pictures Classics
Running Time: 84
Rated: R
English
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FROZEN
RIVER
- Filmed in sub-zero weather in
upstate New York, March of 2007, Frozen
River is Courtney Hunts directorial
debut.
Courtneys feature-length script is
set in a real-life smuggling zone on
a Native American reservation between
New York State and Quebec where the lure
of fast money presents a daily challenge
to single moms who would otherwise be
making minimum wage. Strapped for money
and having been deserted by her husband,
working class Ray (Melissa Leo), reluctantly
teams up with Lila (Misty Upham), a widowed
Mohawk Indian, to smuggle illegal immigrants
across the frozen St. Lawrence River
from Canada to the U.S. in the trunk
of a Dodge Spirit. Both women swear each
trip will be their last, but one final
run across the river leads to a showdown
with the law on all sides.
Frozen River stars Melissa Leo (21 Grams,
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,
Homicide: Life on the Street), Misty
Upham (Edge of America, Skins), Charlie
McDermott (The Ten), Michael OKeefe
(The Great Santini - Oscar nominee, Michael
Clayton, The Pledge), and Mark Boone,
Jr. (Trees Lounge, Batman Returns).
Sony Pictures Classics
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English
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UP
THE YANGTZE: Director Yung
Chang uses the construction of China's
massive Three Gorges Dam as a springboard
to better understanding the social hierarchies
and changing times in his homeland in
this documentary focusing on the luxury
cruise ship that carries predominately
Western tourists down the Yangtze River.
Constructed as a symbol of modern progress
in China, the Three Gorges Dam has forced
millions of common people out of their
ancestral homes, and will soon swallow
up numerous nearby towns and villages.
Despite the fact that the government
has funded alterative housing for the
dislocated families, however, many citizens
make their way to higher ground feeling
as if they have been duped by the powers
that be. In order to truly understand
how this affects the people, Chang focuses
on telling the stories of middle-class
scion Chen Bo Yu (renamed "Jerry" by
the cruise line) and Yu Shui (who answers
to the call of "Cindy" while
on duty). As the ship sets sail, this
hard-!
working pair do their best to familiarize
themselves with Western social cues,
striving to perform to the best of their
abilities, and ponder the prospects of
a brighter future.
Zeitgeist
Running Time: 93
Rated: NR
English/Mandarin with subtitles
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BUSTIN'
DOWN THE DOOR: Bustin'
Down the Door: During the winter of 1975
in Hawaii, surfing was shaken to its core.
A group of young surfers from Australia
and South Africa sacrificed everything
and put it all on the line to create
a sport, a culture, and an industry that
is today worth billions of dollars and
has captured the imagination of the world.
With a radical new approach and a brash
colonial attitude, these surfers crashed
headlong into a culture that was not
ready for revolution. Surfing was never
to be the same again.
Running Time: 95
Rated:
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MISTER
LONELY: Only Harmony Korine (writer
of KIDS, auteur of GUMMO, JULIEN DONKEY-BOY)
could weave Michael Jackson, Marilyn
Monroe, her daughter Shirley Temple and
flying nuns into a hypnotically funny
and truly poignant tale of the instability
behind fanaticism and the redemption
we can hope to find in one another. The
film follows a lonely Michael Jackson
impersonator (Diego Luna) who is invited
by a beautiful Marilyn Monroe (Samantha
Morton) to a commune full of other impersonators
including the Queen of England, Madonna,
Sammy Davis Junior and James Dean, in
the Scottish Highlands. In a parallel
story line, the incomparable Werner Herzog
plays a Latin American priest who learns
his missionary of nuns can literally
fly.
IFC Films
Running Time: 112
Rated:
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BRICK
LANE: Director Sarah Gavron and
screenwriter Abi Morgan team to adapt
author Monica Ali's award-winning novel
about a young girl from Bangladesh who
finds the spark in her soul slowly fading
after traveling to London for an arranged
marriage. As a child, her mother always
told Nazneen that she was a survivor.
Now, as a young adult, Nazneen is leaving
behind her mother and sister to start
a new life in London with the her modest
London prison as her sister Hasina embarks
on a series of exciting adventures back
in Bangladesh. But just when Nazneen
determines to keep her head down and
accept the harsh blows that life continues
to deliver, a sudden knock on the door
finds her fate taking a completely unanticipated
turn.
Sony Pictures Classics
Running Time: 101
Rated: PG13
English
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THE
WACKNESS: A psychiatrist (Ben
Kingsley) is put into a moral quandary
when a young drug dealer that's been
supplying him with pot in exchange for
clinical treatment ends up dating his
daughter in this comedy from All the
Boys Love Mandy Lane's writer/director
Jonathan Levine. Josh Peck, Famke Janssen,
Mary-Kate Olsen and Method Man co-star
in the Occupant Films production.
Sony Pictures Classics
Running Time: 110
Rated: R
English
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MISTER
FOE :
Starring Jamie Bell ('King Kong," "Flags
of Our Fathers," and "Jumper")
in his first starring role in a British
film since his breakout debut in "Billy
Elliot," "Mister Foe" a
story of people seeing life differently.Hallam
Foe (Bell) is a troubled young man whose
knack for voyeurism paradoxically reveals
his darkest fears, and his most peculiar
desires. A 17-year-old misfit, Hallam
spends lonely days spying on others at
his father's (Ciar�Hinds)
estate in the Scottish Highlands. Haunted
by his mother's sudden death, he begins
to suspect that his beautiful step mother
(Claire Forlani) may have had a played
a hand in it. Confusing matters even
more for Hallam, he finds himself attracted
and repelled by her in equal measure.
When the tension that has been brewing
between the two erupts, Hallam runs away.
Out of money and out of friends, he crashes
down into reality in Edinburgh. Adept
at fading into the background and peering
in on the lives of others to escape his
own every day life, he continues what
he learned at home to the city. He soon
becomes obsessed with Kate (Sophia Myles),
who bears an uncanny resemblance to his
mother. When his world collides with
Kate's and the reality of life back home,
he is faced with betraying the memory
of the mother he longs for or using his
one last chance to grow up.
Directed and co-written by David Mackenzie
("Young Adam"), "Mister
Foe" stars Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles
("Tristan + Isolde," "Thunderbirds"),
Claire Forlani ("Meet Joe Black," "CSI:
NY") and Ciar�Hinds ("There
Will Be Blood," upcoming "Stop
Loss"). "Mister Foe" is
produced by Gillian Berrie, co-written
by Ed Whitmore, based on the novel "Hallam
Foe" by Peter Jinks, and executive
produced by Matthew Justice. The film
was an Official Selection at the Berlin
Film Festival and the Edinburgh Film
Festival.
Magnolia
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GONZO:
THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON From Oscar-wining director Alex Gibney
and producer Graydon Carter comes a probing
look into the uncanny life of national
treasure and gonzo journalism inventor
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. A fast moving,
wildly entertaining documentary with an
iconic soundtrack, the film addresses the
major touchstones in Thompsons lifehis
intense and ill fated relationship with
the Hells Angels, his near-successful
bid for the office of sheriff in Aspen
in 1970, the notorious story behind the
landmark Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,
his deep involvement in Senator George
McGoverns 1972 presidential campaign,
and much more. Narrated by Johnny Depp.
Magnolia
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MAN
ON WIRE: On August 7th 1974,
a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit
stepped out on a wire illegally rigged
between New York's twin towers, then
the worlds tallest buildings. After
nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he
was arrested, taken for psychological
evaluation, and brought to jail before
he was finally released.
Following six and a half years of dreaming
of the towers, Petit spent eight months
in New York City planning the execution
of the coup. Aided by a team of friends
and accomplices, Petit was faced with
numerous extraordinary challenges: he
had to find a way to bypass the WTCs
security; smuggle the heavy steel cable
and rigging equipment into the towers;
pass the wire between the two rooftops;
anchor the wire and tension it to withstand
the winds and the swaying of the buildings.
The rigging was done by night in complete
secrecy. At 7:15 AM, Philippe took his
first step on the high wire 1,350 feet
above the sidewalks of Manhattan
James Marshs documentary brings Petits
extraordinary adventure to life through
the testimony of Philippe himself, and
some of the co-conspirators who helped
him create the unique and magnificent
spectacle that became known as the artistic
crime of the century.
Magnolia
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TUYA'S
MARRIAGE:A reserved Mongolian
bride diagnosed with a debilitating back
injury enters into an unusual agreement
with her disabled husband in Lunar Eclipse
director Wang Quanan's Golden Berlin
Bear-winning entry into the 2006 Berlin
International Film Festival. Peasant
Tuya (Yu Nan) is a happily-married mother
of two whose husband Bater is permanently
disabled. One day, after hard-working
Tuya collapses in the fields while straining
to perform her rigorous duties, the local
doctor diagnoses her with a lumbar dislocation.
Subsequently unable to care for her invalid
husband, Tuya and Bater agree to divorce
so that the ailing woman can wed a husband
capable of caring for both of them. Though
several suitors throw their hat into
the ring upon hearing that Tuya is available,
each is immediately put off upon learning
that Bater is part of the deal as well.
The only man who seems willing to consider
caring for both is divorced oil tycoon
Baolier, who, as a smitten young schoolboy,
was once good friends with the kindly
Tuya. When a sudden tragedy strikes,
threatening Bater's life, however, Baolier's
true intentions open the door for Tuya's
cuckolded neighbor Sen'ge to step in
and save the day. At first simply thankful
for the benevolent intervention of the
shy but likable Sen'ge, Tuya slowly begins
to realize just how deep the lovelorn
Sen'ge's feelings for her truly run.
Music Box
Running Time: 86
Rated:
Mandarin with Subtitles
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THE
FOOT FIST WAY
: A new hero of martial arts rises
from a North Carolina strip mall in this
independent comedy. Fred Simmons is one
of the world's most gifted practitioners
of the Korean fighting style known as
Tae Kwan Do -- or at least that's what
he likes to tell people. Despite his
supposed skills, Fred teaches students
out of a shabby dojo, where for the most
part, he browbeats kids into learning
the aggressive points of the martial
arts without having much understanding
of the philosophy or reasoning behind
it. Not that most folks care -- in the
small town where he teaches, Fred is
considered to be the real deal, and his
talent as a fighter earns him plenty
of respect. But Fred's reputation (and
ego) takes a serious blow when he learns
his wife, Suzie (Mary Jane Bostwick),
has been fooling around with another
man, and Fred challenges him to a fight
that doesn't go well. Falling into an
emotional tailspin, Fred goes on a pilgrimage
to meet his hero and role model, mart!
ial arts celebrity Chuck "The Truck" Wallace
(Ben Best). The Foot Fist Way was the
first feature film from writer and director
Jody Hill.
Paramount Vantage
Running Time: 89
Rated: PG
English
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