This Week in Foreign Film
Sam Riley stars as Ian Curtis, the lead singer of Joy Division whose troubled life led to suicide at the age of 23. Samantha Morton, Craig Parkinson, Joe Anderson, and Nicola Harrison also star. Check out the official site. The film opens in limited release in select cities on Wednesday. Larger trailer, along with some Joy Division music videos, available in the Full Diagnosis.
Control
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This Week in Documentary Film
This French documentary from director Barbet Schroeder (Murder by the Numbers, Single White Female) examines the controversial figure of Jacques Verges, a lawyer who has spent his career defending unpopular individuals including a Nazi war criminal and a Holocaust denier. Check out the official site. The film, presented in French with English subtitles, opens exclusively in New York and Los Angeles on Friday. Larger trailer available in the Full Diagnosis.
Terror’s Advocate (Advocat de la terreur, L’)
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This Week in Film
Four couples reexamine their relationships in the Colorado Mountains in Tyler Perry‘s adaptation of his stage play. Perry, Sharon Leal, Janet Jackson, Denise Boutte, Richard T. Jones, Malik Yoba, Jill Scott, Keesha Sharp, Michael Jai White, and Tasha Smith star. Check out the official site. The film opens in theaters everywhere on Friday. Larger trailer available in the Full Diagnosis.
Why Did I Get Married
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This Week in Independent Film
A British dock worker (Jim Sturgess) comes to America to search for his father and falls for a girl named Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) in this 1960’s Beattles themed film from writer/director Julie Traymor. Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, T.V. Carpio, Bono, Eddie Izzard, and Salma Hayek also star. Check out the official site. After weeks in limited release, the film opens wide on Friday. The film is polarizing critics and audiences read my review, and for a different perspective check out Eric’s review on Scene Stealers. Larger trailer available in the Full Diagnosis.
Across the Universe
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Heart-Broken
- Title: The Heartbreak Kid
- IMDb: link
Ben Stiller plays his usual self – a normal guy who gets into an unlikely situation that gets worse and worse until finally everything is resolved at the last minute. Sound familiar? If you’ve seen There’s Something About Mary, Meet the Parents, Along Came Polly, and the like, then you’ve seen Stiller’s trademark character who he trots out every couple years for another film.
This remake of the 1972 film finds a 40 year-old single man pressured into marrying a relative stranger (Malin Akerman – doing a scary, awkward, and charmless Cameron Diaz impersonation) only to find out on his honeymoon that’s she’s not the woman he thought she was. Shocker!
Things get complicated further when Eddie (Stiller) falls for a young woman (Michelle Monaghan) vacationing with her family at the resort and tells a small lie about a former wife and an ice pick that leads to all types of implausible misunderstandings. You know those films where you don’t see things coming? This isn’t one of those.
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