In Movie Theaters the Week of
September 18th, 200613 films are being released this week
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Rated: NONE
"Colin Fitz Lives!" is a charming, caustic, and sweetly demented comedy that finds its ironic inspiration in GenX obsessions with death, beer, and rock 'n roll. Every year on the anniversary of rock idol Colin Fitz' death, something bizarre happens at his gravesite. This year his wife, Justice Fitz (Julianne Phillips), calls upon the O'Day Security Firm for help. The two guards who are hired, Paul (Matt McGrath) and Grady (Andy Fowle), are clearly not from the same universe. From the moment they begin preparing for their night in the graveyard, their completely opposite and fundamentally dysfunctional personalities clash as they heatedly exchange views on life, love, and American pop culture. |
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Rated: NONE
Tomas is a very busy man and is about to grow much, much busier. He has his current girlfriend in bed in one apartment, and his female boss in bed in the next one, and is crossing from one to the other on a window ledge. Neither one has figured out what he is up to. His juggling act becomes much more complicated when, on one occasion from the ledge between the two apartments he spots his pretty new neighbor. It's only a matter of time before one or all of these women gives him his richly deserved comeuppance. |
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Rated: R
After smearing the world with all sorts of ridiculous crap, the original creators and cast of the MTV series "Jackass" and "Jackass: The Movie" go one louder in "Jackass: Number Two." Significantly raising the stakes and lowering the bar, "Jackass: Number Two" unleashes a spirited mess of absurdity as the cast and crew gets even more ugly around the globe. |
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Rated: PG-13
Superstar Jet Li headlines this action-packed film, his final martial arts epic. The film reteams him with producer Bill Kong ("Hero") and action director and choreographer Yuen Wo Pin ("Unleashed"). Li plays real-life martial arts legend Huo Yuanjia, who became the most famous fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century. Huo faced incredible personal tragedy but ultimately fought his way out of darkness and into history, forever defining himself at a tournament for the honor of his country and the true spirit of martial arts. |
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Rated: PG-13
Absolute power corrupts absolutely in writer-director Steven Zaillian's ("Schindler's List") adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's classic novel "All the King's Men" featuring an all-star cast led by Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Patricia Clarkson, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Hopkins. "All the King's Men" charts the spectacular rise and fall of a charismatic Southern politician, "Boss" Willie Stark (Penn). Law co-stars as Jack Burden, the once idealistic, now embittered ex-reporter who unwittingly fuels Stark's corrupt political ambitions. |
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Rated: PG-13
The unforgettable story of a group of heroic American men who volunteer for the French Military and become fighter pilots before the US enters WWI. |
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Rated: PG-13
The movie is set in the 1880's and tells the story of Sara (Hayek) and María (Cruz), who are enemies at first due to the difference in their social classes, but then join forces as bank robbers. |
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Rated: R
"The Science of Sleep" will switch back and forth from dreamlike sequences to reality. |
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Rated: R
A group of strangers gather in a bar where they're attacked and systematically killed by monsters. The film was a product of "Project Greenlight", the program created by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Chris Moore to showcase new talent. |
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Rated: R
In 2054, Paris is a labyrinth where all movement is monitored and recorded. Cut off from the world for its own protection, the city has nonetheless continued to expand. Now, 21st century skyscrapers overlay centuries-old architectural masterpieces. And below street level, a sophisticated network of streamlined plazas push up against the city's ancient, deteriorating tunnel systems. Casting a shadow over everything is the city's largest company, Avalon, which insinuates itself into every aspect of contemporary life to sell its primary export - eternal youth and beauty.
When 22-year-old Ilona (Romola Garai), one of Avalon's most promising scientists, is abruptly kidnapped, Avaloncalls on Barthélémy Karas (Daniel Craig), a Paris cop with a hard-fought reputation for finding anyone, no matterwhat sacrifices he has to make along the way. As the trail gets hot, Karas senses he's not the only one looking for thebeautiful enigma, and every witness he digs up seems to turn up dead.
To find Ilona and unlock the secrets of her disappearance, Karas must plunge deep into the parallel worlds of corporate espionage, organized crime and genetic research - where the truth imprisons whoever finds it first and miracles can be bought but at a great price.
"Renaissance" is a bold never-before-seen vision of a stark near future drenched in hidden secrets and technological frontiers. Directed by Christian Volckman, Renaissance takes film noir to its most stylized edge, utilizing live actionmotion capture, animated in 3D and rendered in high contrast black and white to create a graphic novel come-to-life. |
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Rated: R
A documentary about the history of punk rock in America from 1980-1986. Generally unheralded at the time, the early 1980s hardcore punk rock scene gave birth to much of the rock music and culture that followed. There would be no Nirvana, Beastie Boys or Red Hot Chili Peppers were it not for hardcore pioneers such as Black Flag, Bad Brains and Minor Threat. Hardcore was more than music, it was a social movement created by Reagan-era misfit kids. The participants constituted a tribe unto themselves, some finding a voice, others an escape in the hard-edged music. And while some sought a better world, others were just angry and wanted to raise hell. "American Hardcore" traces this lost subculture, from its early roots in 1980 to its extinction in 1986. |
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Rated: NONE
Nine years after the death of her witty and artistic fiance, Laura is ensconced as a solidly upper-middle-class suburban housewife with a perfect husband and an 8-year-old son. Everything around her appears staid, distanced, established... however all is not well in suburbia. |
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The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio is an award-winning Italian film that chronicles the realization of an ambitious dream -- to create a unique, multi-ethnic orchestra that would fuse cultures, traditions and sounds from around the world. The film will screen in four US cities (NY, SF, Santa Cruz & LA) for one-night-only "cineconcerts" [screenings + live performances by the orchestra] in promotion of the national DVD release on Oct. 23rd.
But the story of this journey started long ago, right after 9/11 in Rome, in a climate of government anti-immigrant sentiment.
The director (Agostino Ferrente) and orchestra leader (Mario Tronco) both hail from Piazza Vittorio, the heart of the historical neighborhood, the Esquilino, known for becoming the most multiethnic area in Rome with no less than sixty ethnicities. |
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