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<title>Casablanca</title>
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<dc:date>2006-02-23 00:06:24.874519+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>On The Waterfront Cafe</title>
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        A hardened trainer/manager works with a determined woman in her attempt to establish herself as a boxer.  

-Film location for Hilary Swank's restaurant job-<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32974">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2006-04-21 17:20:34.842596+00:00</dc:date>
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        Can the most famous film star in the world fall for just an ordinary guy?<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/48703">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-26 23:37:28.827626+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Invercargill; The World's Fastest Indian</title>
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        Home of Burt Munro who is now immortalised by Anthony Hopkins in The World's Fastest Indian. Some of the movie was filmed there.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/58192">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2006-04-09 16:57:19.488104+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:date>2006-06-16 21:17:21.586953+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:date>2006-06-16 08:46:57.54971+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Outside Providence</title>
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<dc:date>2006-02-22 23:48:43.758615+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Elizabethtown</title>
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<dc:date>2006-02-22 23:52:50.48292+00:00</dc:date>
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        "1997. New York city is now a maximum security prison. Breaking out is impossible. Breaking in is insane."<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/36283">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-23 00:09:17.215928+00:00</dc:date>
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Walt: I make billboard signs for advertising. 
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<dc:date>2006-04-11 10:11:52.280485+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:date>2006-02-23 09:23:28.700276+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:date>2006-02-23 15:31:27.568152+00:00</dc:date>
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        Everyone wants to be found.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/36523">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2006-02-23 16:25:32.188001+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Sweet Home Alabama</title>
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        Sometimes What You're Looking For Is Right Where You Left It.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/36694">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2006-02-24 10:16:37.770651+00:00</dc:date>
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        In search of wine. In search of women. In search of themselves.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/36723">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-24 10:46:59.939168+00:00</dc:date>
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        A homespun murder story.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/36764">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2006-03-23 11:20:01.283403+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me</title>
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        Meet Laura Palmer... In a town where nothing is as it seems... And everyone has something to hide.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/37304">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-28 18:45:25.351835+00:00</dc:date>
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        What if someone you never met, someone you never saw, someone you never knew was the only someone for you? 
<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/37305">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-28 18:50:56.392055+00:00</dc:date>
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        Musical about two youngsters from rival NYC gangs who fall in love/<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/37308">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-28 18:57:43.846884+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:date>2006-02-28 19:10:59.864175+00:00</dc:date>
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        "Angels in America" is based on Tony Kushner award-winning play.  It is about AIDS, conservative politics, history, relationships, religion, identity (ethnicity, race, homosexuality), love, forgiveness, survival and transcendence.  The plot focuses on two trouble couples, one gay, one straight.  Their fates quickly become intertwined as the "upheaval" of the story developed.  The script is written with beautiful dialogues and the language is stimulating.  The production and acting are superb with Al Pacino and Meryl Streep being extremely powerful and moving.  It won the Emmy for Best Mini-series 2004; 4 in the actors categories and 12 in total.

It's overwrought with sadness, pain, and profound loneliness. But it's a profound human dimension or existential experience. You'll end up saying: "More Life. Let the great work begin."<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/37811">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-04 14:02:27.666996+00:00</dc:date>
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        1989's Field of Dreams was a Best Picture Academy Award nominee, and the baseball field in the cornfield still stands today, and has become quite a tourist destination.  Games are occasionally played at the field, re-enacting professional baseball at the turn of the 20th Century.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/43666">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-23 11:42:13.699614+00:00</dc:date>
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        Jefftowne is good. I think the guuy who made the film might be a prick. I get that vibe from him. The filming is pretty crap. Sound not so good. But Jeff Towne is so interesting that none of it matters. Even the fact that that the director is a bit of a prick adds something interesting to the film.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/60452">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-11 16:00:41.377531+00:00</dc:date>
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        This is a fascinating, complex, chilling film. 

It's a documentary about a man accused of child molestation in 1987, made by the man's son. 

Makes a great double feature with "Happiness," if you can stomach it.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/60465">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-05-16 09:54:14.924615+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:date>2006-02-23 15:19:15.411856+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Under the Tuscan Sun</title>
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        Life offers you a thousand chances ... all you have to do is take one.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/36693">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2006-02-24 10:11:52.233869+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Before Sunset</title>
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        What if you had a second chance with the one that got away?<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/36762">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2006-02-24 11:00:39.235262+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Chicago</title>
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        With the right song and dance, you can get away with murder.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/36763">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2006-02-24 11:06:39.918084+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:date>2006-02-24 11:19:21.124542+00:00</dc:date>
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        Marc Singer made this incredible documentary about homeless people living in a Manhattan subway tunnel. One of the most remarkable things about this film is how beautiful it is. I think that Singer is also a still photographer. The film is shot in black and white and very carefully lit. It's some of the most beautiful photography I've seen in a movie.

The characters are compelling, the story is inspiring and full of drama. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/83400">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-05-16 10:12:11.398738+00:00</dc:date>
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        Everything's Been Understated in Foer Adaptation
Everything Is Illuminated
by Michael Atkinson
September 13th, 2005 11:55 AM
	





Village Voice Online Store

Everything Is Illuminated
Written and directed by Liev Schreiber
Warner Independent, opens September 16
Utterly unfilmable novels don't scare some people�a would-be Cronenberg after a fashion, actor-turned- Yiddishe-auteur Liev Schreiber has fashioned a serviceable, small-boned adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's inherently defiant, voice-mottled debut book, lean and silly and modest. Not only is Foer's language necessarily dropped from the loop�apart from the inevitable narration, giving us a molecular taste of the Ukrainian protagonist's chaotic consumer English�but so is the mysterious no-man's-land between page and reader, where absurdist ideas are not visualized but can be seen nonetheless. Schreiber jettisons the novel's juicy mock-folk shtetl legends and focuses on the "very rigid search" of young American neurotic Foer (Elijah Wood) for the Slavic woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Wood's Foer is an anemic straight-man caricature (hardly the precocious nebbish Foer suggested himself to be), and so texture is provided by Eugene Hutz (of Gogol Bordello) as Alex, Foer's Odessa hipster guide, and grizzled Russian vet Boris Leskin, as Alex's irascible, anti-Semitic, guilt-riddled grandfather.

What tale there is left to tell is reduced to driving (through the Czech Republic) and mildly comic culture clash conversation�until the three-man convoy reaches the extinct village where Foer's ancestral treasure lies half buried, waiting for rediscovery. Schreiber relies on relentless soundtrack oompah-pah to make the jokes seem like jokes�until the sniffly climax. (Schreiber, like many actor-directors, is indulgent of"heavy" moments of staring and gesture that actually have no weight at all.) Still, Foer's ironic ideas have a lovely roundness to them, and somehow the film achieves Holocaust-fiction balance without much ado or melodrama. It may be substantially less ambitious than its source material, but that may be what saves it from implosion. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/92659">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-06-15 22:01:38.300651+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Trainspotting</title>
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<dc:date>2006-06-16 09:16:44.097081+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Before Sunrise</title>
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        When love can come as a complete surprise.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/36740">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-24 10:54:36.833964+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Mulholland Drive</title>
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        A Love Story In The City Of Dreams.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/37303">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-28 18:33:34.046058+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Amelie</title>
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        She'll change your life.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/37813">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-04 14:08:47.020742+00:00</dc:date>
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