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The Duchess |
Frozen
River |
Patti Smith: Dream of Life |
My Winnipeg
The Duchess (2008)
Friday, 10/10 through Thursday, 10/16
Director: Saul Dibb
Starring: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes
Rating: PG-13 * 1 hour 50 minutes * Drama
Long before the concept existed, the Duchess of Devonshire,
Georgiana Spencer, was the original “It Girl.” Like
her direct ancestor Princess Diana, she was ravishing, glamorous
and adored by an entire country. Determined to be a player
in the wider affairs of the world, she proved that she could
out-gamble, out-drink and outwit most of the aristocratic
men who surrounded her. She helped usher in sweeping changes
to England as a leader of the forward-thinking Whig Party.
But even as her power and popularity grew, she was haunted
by the fact that the only man in England she seemingly could
not seduce was her very own husband, the Duke. And when she
tried to find her own way to be true to her heart and loyal
to her duty, the resulting controversies and convoluted liaisons
would leave all of London talking.
"The Duchess is an uncommonly well-crafted historical
feminist tearjerker—both anti-patriarchal and a monument
to motherhood.”-NEW YORK MAGAZINE
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from L.A. Times
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Frozen River (2008)
Sunday, 10/26 through Thursday,
10/30
Director: Courtney Hunt
Starring: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham
Rating: R * 1 hour 37 minutes * Drama
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Frozen River
is the story of Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom
who is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling
when she meets a Mohawk girl who lives on a reservation that
straddles the US-Canadian border. Broke after her husband
takes off with the down payment for their new doublewide,
Ray reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two
begin making runs across the frozen St. Lawrence River carrying
illegal Chinese and Pakistani immigrants in the trunk of Ray's
Dodge Spirit.
"It's tough and cold and gives an inside look at poverty
in America. Yet the film is also incredibly compelling and
intense and I can't think of another film that's this small
and powerful."-FILM THREAT
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from L.A. Times
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Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2008)
Director: Steven Sebring
Rating: Not Rated * 1 hour 49 minutes * Documentary
When people ask her "How does it feel to be a rock
icon?" Patti Smith says she "always thinks of Mount
Rushmore." Steven Sebring's directorial debut takes a
lyrical, stream-of-consciousness approach that is exactly
right in his affecting portrait of the "rock-and-roll
Joan of Arc." Everyone knows that Patti Smith's music,
poetry, and politics are fearless, funny, raw, and original.
But this film also captures her physical presence--her gamine
beauty and charming, self-effacing style--that will take you
by surprise and leave you deeply moved.
"A lovely, drifty first feature that feels less like a documentary
and more like an act of rapturous devotion. "-NEW
YORK TIMES
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from New York Times
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My Winnipeg (2008)
Director: Guy Maddin
Starring: Darcy Fehr, Ann Savage
Rating: Not Rated * 1 hour 20 minutes * Autobiography/History
Have you ever wanted to relive your childhood and do things
differently? Guy Maddin casts B-movie icon Ann Savage as his
domineering mother in attempt to answer that question in My
Winnipeg, a "docu-fantasia" as Maddin proclaims,
that inventively blends local and personal history with surrealist
images and metaphorical myths. Equal parts mystical rumination
and personal history, city chronicle and deranged post-Freudian
proletarian fantasy. Mixing animation, archive and re-enactments,
Guy Maddin has created an extraordinary visual homage true
to his style.
"This haunting phantasmagoria of a film -- comic, singular,
surreal -- is not only something no one but the Canadian director
could have made, it's also a film no one else would have even
wanted to make. Which is the heart of its appeal."-LA
TIMES
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Review
from Roger Ebert
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