Sunday, March 15, 2009

New Releases, 17 March 2009

Before we get to this week's releases it should be said that last week had one of the best New Movie Tuesdays ever, but it was also one of the worst weeks for working computers. There was no post as a result, but don't let that stop you from watching movies--SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK, HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED, MILK and LET THE RIGHT ONE IN all came out. All critically acclaimed, all played at Ragtag and all are worth a watch. But let's get on with this week's business shall we? Okay.

ELEGY
Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley star in this film which is probably about a beautiful young woman having an affair with a rugged, older, shorter, balder man
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/07/DD9A11QAG0.DTL&type=movies

YELLA
Unsettling thriller from Germany. Pretty sure it's Germany.
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/movies/16yell.html

PUNISHER: WAR ZONE
Hey--they made a movie about a comic book. Hot dog!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/05/DDOH14GTQO.DTL&type=movies

THE BEAUTIFUL TRUTH
Documentary about kids, cancer, healthy eating practices and other riveting, edge-of-your-seat topics
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/films.php?id=18596

DODES'KA-DEN
Akira Kurosawa's first color feature, a film about street people in Tokyo. Ebert's 1975 review is the first link, and the second is a thoughtful essay on the film by Jamie S. Rich
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19750101/REVIEWS/501010312/1023
http://www.criterionconfessions.com/2009/03/dodeska-den-465.html

All right people, that's all the movies this time. Have a great week, and keep on...doing whatever you're doing, I don't know what that is.

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