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by Kendra RickerbyScorpio

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The 45th New York Film Festival September 28 – October 14

Joel and Ethan Coen’s "No Country for Old Men" will be the centerpiece of this year's festival. Based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Cormac McCarthy and adapted by the Coens, the film is a thriller starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, and Kelly MacDonald. 

 

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Stardust

Director Matthew Vaughn brings off color humor and originality to the fairy tale/love story “Stardust.” Having worked on the English gangster movies “Layer Cake,” “Snatch,” and one of my personal favorites, “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” Vaughn is able to mix a sinister brew with some peppery English wit to make this a very entertaining film.

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Ratatouille − Rest Assured, This Film Will Satisfy

Even if you don’t have kids, go see “Ratatouille,” the latest animated film from Pixar. Totally entertaining and visually transporting, this movie is a winning combination of fantastic writing and flawless animation. If you do have kids, take them, and all of you will be transfixed.

 

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Enemies of Happiness

Malalai Joya is the 29-year-old subject of the Women Make Movies new release, ENEMIES OF HAPPINESS, by Eva Mulvad and Anja Al-Erhayem. Winner of the Sundance World Cinema Documentary Jury Prize, the film follows this outspoken women's rights activist during the final weeks of her campaign for a seat in the newly-formed parliament in Afghanistan.  

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The Problem with Disturbia

In it's attempt to create a version of Alfred Hitchcock's brilliant film, "Rear Window," for adolescents, "Disturbia" loses it's momentum by not building suspense the way that a well-crafted movie of this genre should.

 

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Step into the Paintings of Vincent Van Gogh in Dreams

Produced in 1990 with assistance from George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, Akira Kurasawa’s eight sequences in "Dreams" are a landmark film achievement. One of my all time favorite film moments, the “Crows” segment, indulges an art enthusiast’s fantasy of stepping inside a Vincent Van Gogh painting and experiencing Van Gogh’s spiritual vision of nature, first hand.

Aries 07

The 14th New York African Film Festival

The 14th New York African Film Festival is being held at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City April 4 - 12. This year the festival celebrates the 50th anniversary of the independence of Ghana. Located in sub-Saharan West Africa, Ghana was the first country in that region to gain independence from colonial rule.

 

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Pan’s Labyrinth

In this phenomenal Spanish film, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army general escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. Beautiful in its imagery and horrifying in its brutality, Oscar nominated “Pan’s Labyrinth” merges the mythic underworld of fairy tales with the reality of Spain’s descent into fascism after the Spanish Civil War. 

 

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The Pursuit of Happyness

What happens when the struggle to make ends meet requires more resources than you had planned for? “The Pursuit of Happyness” is the true story of Chris Gardner, a husband and a father who finds himself reaching for his dreams while his home and his family crumbles beneath him.

 

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Babel

Based on the biblical story of the Tower of Babel where God punishes human ambition by causing everyone to speak different languages so they cannot complete their task, the movie “Babel” gives us the context necessary to actually see the cultural and psychological misunderstandings that keep our world in a state of chaos. 

 

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