Movies
Apocalypse Now Redux
CORNU-COPPALA Im going 75 clicks above the Do Lung Bridge. Thats Cambodia, Captain. Thats classified.
Win Win
Director McCarthys (The Station Agent, The Visitor) latest film, about a financially (and ethically) struggling lawyer and high school wrestling coach (Paul Giamatti), tells its tale with the gritty texture and emotional heft of life as it’s lived, not contoured by Hollywood This movie wins you over, head and heart,
Water For Elephants
Twilight star Robert Pattinson runs away and joins the circus, where he meets beautiful acrobat Reese Witherspoon and sadistic ringmaster Christopher Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) in screenwriter Richard LaGraveneses (The Fisher King) adaptation of the bestselling novel. A beautifully crafted film. (Exclaim)
True Legend
Directed by legendary martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping (The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), this tale of a 19th-century warrior who must battle his jealous, powerful brother to save his family gets pretty nutty, but the fighting is spectacular. (Jay Stone) Co-starring Michelle Yeoh and the late David Carradine. Woo-Pings
True Legend
Directed by legendary martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping (The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), this tale of a 19th-century warrior who must battle his jealous, powerful brother to save his family gets pretty nutty, but the fighting is spectacular. (Jay Stone) Co-starring Michelle Yeoh and the late David Carradine. Woo-Pings
Troll Hunter, The
In this frosty, Scandinavian take on the Blair-Witch-style mockumentary, a group of students sets out to investigate the mysterious deaths of bears in the Norse countryside and stumbles upon, well, you read the title, right? Enormously entertaining. (Variety) English subtitles.
Thelma & Louise
20TH ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE Has it really been 20 years since Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis drove off a cliff and into cinema history? Yes. And it just could be that we need this feminism-fueled road movie now more than ever.
Rumble Fish
CORNU-COPPALA Biff Wilcox is looking for you, Rusty James. He’s gonna kill you, Rusty James.
Rio
The Social Networks Jesse Eisenberg stars as Blu, a domesticated macaw who travels to the titular city to impress a girl (Anne Hathaway), and along the way meets the voices of Jamie Foxx and will.i.am. Balmy, bouncy, neither saccharine nor too scary. (Hollywood Reporter)
Raw Opium: Pain, Pleasure, Profits
FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE See how opium plays a pivotal role in the lives of people who grow, manufacture and use it and in the increasingly tense sphere of international relations. Fair warning: your assumptions about addiction and the war on drugs will be challenged. Followed by a panel discussion