Kevin Thomas, LA Times writes: "Paula Fouce's beautiful, illuminating
documentary "Naked in Ashes" takes the viewer into the profoundly spiritual
world of India's yogis, who see their taking on the sins of humanity as a
source of healing and redemption for others. In an increasingly. . ."
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HEART OF GOLD is filmmaker Jonathan Demme's (Philadelphia,
Silence of the Lambs, Stop Making Sense) intimate musical
portrait of legendary singer/songwriter Neil Young, filmed on the occasion
of the world premiere of Young's Prairie Wind concert at Nashville's
hallowed Ryman auditorium in the summer of 2005.
LA Times reviewer Kevin Thomas writes: "Volker Schlöndorff's "The Ninth
Day," an engrossing film from the director of "The Tin Drum," takes the
viewer into an all-too-familiar world of the hell on Earth of Dachau — but
with a difference..."
Jean-Luc Godard ponders the unifying power of images - a profound and
challenging meditation on war as Dante's three Kingdoms: Hell, Purgatory and
Heaven.
Art House/Foreign, Drama, War
Jean-Luc Godard
Sarah Adler...Judith Lerner
Nade Dieu...Olga Brodsky
Simon Eine...French Ambassador Naville
Jean-Luc Godard...As himself
Mahmoud Darwich...As himself
Terrorism is the nightmare of these times, the sum of all our fears, the
engine that drives the world's movie melodramas and war machines alike.
But the more we see of it, the less we understand. What is the lure, for
instance, of suicide bombing?. . .
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Does the thought of Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet give you pause?
Jane Austen's smartest, toughest and most independent-minded heroine was
last portrayed by Jennifer Ehle in the excellent 1995 BBC miniseries, the
one that established Colin Firth as. . .
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Catherine comes to terms with the death of her father, a brilliant
mathematician who also suffered from mental health problems. Catherine has
inherited her father's genius, but fears she may also be destined to lose
her grip on reality. With the help of one of her father's former students,
Catherine sorts through her father's notebooks and begins to rediscover him.
Catherine's estranged sister, Claire, also comes home to help settle the
family's affairs.
Following the death of Princess Diana in an auto accident, Great Britain's
Queen Elizabeth II (Helen Mirren) and Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael
Sheen) struggle to reach a compromise in how the royal family should
publicly respond to the tragedy. In the balance is the family's need for
privacy and the public's demand for an outward show of mourning.
LA Times Review
Jamie Foxx emerges as a full-blown star in Taylor Hackford's conventional
biopic of music legend Ray Charles.
Drama, Musical/Performing Arts
Taylor Hackford
Jamie Foxx...Ray Charles
Kerry Washington...Della Bea Robinson
Regina King...Margie Hendricks
Clifton Powell...Jeff Brown
Aunjanue Ellis...Mary Ann Fisher
Harry J. Lennix...Joe Adams
Sharon Warren...Aretha Robinson
In South Central Los Angeles, groups of dancers answer the gangs and
violence with their own unique style. Groups of youth choose dancing over
hustling to come together and express themselves.
LA Times reviewer Kevin Thomas writes:
"In David LaChapelle's enthralling "Rize," Tommy Johnson explains that he
was working toward his goal of becoming a big-time drug dealer in
South-Central Los Angeles when he was derailed by jail time, where he
underwent a religious transformation and reappraised his life. Responding to
the devastation and despair of the 1992 riots and answering a friend's plea
to provide entertainment for her child's birthday party, Johnson was reborn
as Tommy the Clown."
"Warm and wise. Funny and wrenching. It's a gem" - Kevin Thomas,
LA Times
A group of friends rule their local roller skating rink. When
their hangout is closed, they're forced to move to another rink where their
talents are challenged by another group of top skaters.
What might be termed a "Lesbian chick flick", this is the story of
intergenerational expectations in the context of a New York Chinese family.
Mom falls pregnant at 48, is disowned by her traditional father and moves in
with her daughter who is embarking on her first love affair with a very sexy
dancer. While mom is suffering from her father's expectations imposed upon
her, she in turn is imposing her own on her lesbian daughter. A fun,
touching and warm movie. You'll have to wait till the very end to find
out who the father is!
"A highly-entertaining piece of genre-blending fun" - Kevin Crust, LA Times
Set 500 years in the future, crew members of the spacecraft "Serenity" fight
against "The Alliance," a government agency that has taken control of the
solar system following a war shortly after colonization. Considered
outsiders, the crew members struggle to avoid the Reavers, intergalactic
thugs who eat their enemies alive, as they try to save a telepathic teen
named River Tam from The Alliance.
Hysterically funny yet melancholy comedy about two guys adrift in the
Southern California wine region. Standout acting and precise directing make
Alexander Payne's latest film worth more than a glance.
Comedy, Drama
Alexander Payne
Paul Giamatti...Miles
Thomas Haden Church...Jack
Virginia Madsen...Maya
Sandra Oh...Stephanie
Filmmaker Sydney Pollack pays tribute to the famous architect, whose Disney
Concert Hall in Los Angeles and Guggenheim Museum in Spain are among his
best-known
The very qualities we value most in life — decency, morality, heroism — are
the hardest to convincingly put on screen. The more idealistic the actions,
the less capable most films are of persuading us that flesh-and-blood human
beings actually carried them out. Most films, however, do not have the great
advantage of "Sophie Scholl — The Final Days." More
from
Kenneth Turan, LA Times Film Critic
Jealousy divides an eccentric Brooklyn family. The two teen sons' loyalties
are split between their parents, as the mother dates the younger son's
tennis coach, and the father courts the older son's object of affection.
"The Squid and the Whale" has the power to break your heart and heal it
again. Acutely observed, faultlessly acted, graced with piercing emotion
and unsparing honesty, it will make you laugh because you can't bear to
cry. Winner of two top Sundance prizes. . .
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Art House/Foreign, Comedy, Drama
Noah Baumbach
Laura Linney, Jeff Daniels, Jesse Eisenberg
Sweet Land
Inge, a German mail-order bride in 1920s
Minnesota, meets with suspicion and scorn when she arrives to marry a member
of a Norwegian farming community. Forbidden to marry the man, Inge goes to
live with his friends, the Frandsens while she learns how to speak English
and about American customs. Love slowly grows between Inge and her fiance as
they get to know each other.
This documentary explores the unique union of Sam and Steven, a gay couple
that decides to bring a woman into the relationship. The two men spend the
next seven years dating and looking for a woman they both could fall in love
with and that could live in a trio relationship. They fall in love with a
woman named Samantha, a struggling actress they meet in New York City.
Kevin Thomas, LA Times writes: "With "Three of Hearts: A Postmodern
Family," documentarian Susan Kaplan has achieved the enviable effect of
eavesdropping on her subjects — three individuals living without
conventional boundaries — for a meaningful exploration of the. . ."
Three romantic tales acted by the same actors take place in different eras.
In A Time for Love, set in 1966, a soldier meets an alluring
pool-hall hostess. A Time for Freedom, set in 1911, focuses on a
courtesan's relationship with a man during the Japanese occupation of
Taiwan. In A Time for Youth, set in 2005, a singer forsakes her
female lover for a photographer.
Filmmaker Paul Greengrass (Bloody Sunday, The Bourne Supremacy)
tells the true story of United Flight 93 on 9/11. The movie depicts in
detail and real-time the events that culminated with the passengers working
together to stop the terrorists' plan.
Drama
Paul Greengrass
David Alan Basche, Richard Bekins, Susan Blommaert
Filmmaker Mike Leigh tells the story of Vera Drake. Defying the mores of
1950s England, she performs several abortions. Eventually, her fight for a
woman's right leads to a family tragedy.
Drama
Mike Leigh
Imelda Staunton...Vera Drake
Phil Davis...Stan
Alex Kelly...Ethel
Daniel Mays...Sid
Eddie Marsan...Reg
A woman searches for the gristly truth behind the apparent death of her
fiance. British director Ken Loach straddles the issue of embracing
freedom while rigid doctrines smother it. The consequences of a
beautiful young woman and handsome young man falling in love when the man
happens to have ultraconservative Muslim Pakistani immigrant parents.
Alleged to have died in combat during the WWI, she discovers he and four
other men were deliberately sent to their deaths on the battlefield as
punishment for self-inflicted gunshot wounds in an attempt to escape the
battlefields.
A contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells's seminal classic, the sci-fi
adventure thriller reveals the extraordinary battle for the future of
humankind through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it.
Kenneth Turan writes: "With "War of the Worlds" (Spielberg) has made
what is arguably one of the best 1950s science fiction films ever, and that
is not a backhanded compliment."
John and Jeremy are each looking for the right woman - a different woman
every night, that is - so they take advantage of the romantic atmosphere of
weddings and sneak in to find their one-time trysts. When John actually
falls for an engaged woman at one of their uninvited soirees, his
relationship with Jeremy begins to suffer.
Featuring John McCain, Gore Vidal, William Kristol, Chalmers Johnson,
Richard Perle and others, Why We Fight launches a bipartisan inquiry into
the workings of the military industrial complex and the rise of the American
Empire. Inspired by Dwight Eisenhower's legendary farewell speech (in which
he coined the phrase "military industrial complex"), filmmaker Eugene
Jarecki (The Trials of Henry Kissinger) surveys the scorched landscape of a
half-century's military adventures, asking how – and telling why – a nation
of, by, and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a system whose
survival depends on a state of constant war. The film moves beyond the
headlines of various American military operations to the deeper questions of
why – why does America fight? What are the forces – political, economic,
ideological – that drive us to fight against an ever-changing enemy?
Filmmaker Patrick Creadon pays tribute to crossword puzzles and those who
love them, and features a profile of The New York Times ``puzzle master''
Will Shortz. Among celebrities who swear by the Times puzzle are President
Bill Clinton, folk-rock duo Indigo Girls, comic Jon Stewart, baseball player
Mike Mussina and filmmaker Ken Burns.
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