Monday, June 1, 2009

Movies Opening This Week

Strangers opens June 3rd, 2009 (on demand)

Based on their Award-winning short film, filmmakers Erez Tadmor and Guy Nattiv deliver a feature length film tracing the star-crossed romance between two sports fan rivals, Eyal and Ran.


Away We Go opens June 5th, 2009 (limited)

The journey of an expectant couple as they travel the U.S. in search of the perfect place to put down roots and raise their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.


Seraphine opens June 5th, 2009 (limited)

Seraphine de Senlis was a simple and profoundly devout housekeeper whose brilliantly colorful canvases adorn some of the most famous galleries in the world. German art critic and collector Wilhelm Uhde -- the first Picasso buyer and champion of naive primitive painter Le Douanier Rousseau -- discovers her paintings while she is working for him as a maid in the beautiful countryside of Senlis near Paris. A moving and unexpected relationship develops between the avant-garde art dealer and the visionary outsider artist.


After Last Season opens June 5th, 2009 (limited)

Medical students try to adjust to both the changing of the seasons and personal difficulties in this low-budget film.


Downloading Nancy opens June 5th, 2009 (limited)

When Albert Stockwell comes home from work one day, he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy, saying she has gone to see friends. After waiting several days, Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy has met her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis. Nancy and Louis, both wounded souls, take comfort in one another through e-mail, pictures, and promises of perverse sexual encounters. Nancy has finally found the one and only thing that can liberate her from the pain in her life. While she pursues the freedom that she feels will only come with ultimate liberation, Albert is left to put the pieces together and try to salvage what is left.


Lorna's Silence opens June 5th, 2009 (limited)

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (THE CHILD) direct this drama about an Albanian woman torn between connections to three men and her own dreams. Lorna (Arta Dobroshi) is an immigrant living in Belgium. Though she has a boyfriend, her involvement with the Mafia leads her to marry Claudy (Jérémy Renier) so she can get citizenship. But her life is further complicated when she is told to marry a Russian criminal, putting Claudy's life in danger.


24 City opens

With 24 CITY, Jia Zhang Ke combines his gifts for documentary and fiction to produce a deeply affecting reflection on the past. In order to try to come to terms with the rapid progress enveloping China, Zhang Ke settled in the city of Chengdu to document a changing of the guard in the form of a state-owned factory that was being destroyed so that a gargantuan living complex could be constructed (this is where the film gets its title). Zhang Ke's sensitivity to the workers who were about to lose their jobs is what spawned 24 CITY, and he pays honor to them by letting them tell their own stories with the utmost grace. Some of these individuals are actors (most notably Joan Chen, who cleverly references herself), and some are non-actors. But the stories themselves are all culled from actual interviews Zhang Ke conducted with the people who spent the majority of their lives working in that factory. Zhang Ke films these interviews patiently, incorporating hauntingly beautiful imagery of the factory being dismantled to further punctuate the feelings of loss. 24 CITY could be a companion piece to Yung Chang's remarkable UP THE YANGTZE, another film that aims to preserve the memory of noble Chinese citizens before modern progress has swept them under the rug.

Land of the Lost opens June 5th, 2009 (wide)

A disgraced paleontologist, his assistant and a macho tour guide find themselves in a strange world inhabited by dinosaurs, monkey people and reptilian Sleestaks.


My Life in Ruins opens June 5th, 2009 (wide)

MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING's Nia Vardalos stars in this comedy as a tour guide in Greece who is forced to quit her job by a smarmy coworker. Richard Dreyfuss, Rachel Dratch, and Harland Williams play members of her tour group.


Hangover opens June 5th, 2009 (wide)

OLD SCHOOL director Todd Phillips presides over more male mischief with this comedy. A trio of groomsmen from L.A. (played by Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis) parties hard when they travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor party for their friend Doug. But it turns out that they partied a little too hard when they wake up the next morning with a missing groom, a tiger in the hotel room bathroom, a baby in the closet, and no memory of the night before.


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