AUTUMN'S REEL DEAL.Sept. 13 Almost Famous Filmmaker Cameron Crowe turns his salad days as an adolescent Rolling Stone reporter into a movie. With Billy Crudup and Jason Lee as the boys in the band, newcomer Patrick Fugit playing Crowe's wide-eyed alter ego A doctrine used by the courts to ignore the corporate status of a group of stockholders, officers, and directors of a corporation in reference to their limited liability so that they may be held personally liable for their actions when they have acted fraudulently or unjustly or when and Frances McDormand as the worrying mom. Needless to say, the soundtrack is great. (DreamWorks) Sept. 15 Bait A harmless ex-con (Jamie Foxx) is unwittingly wired to lead the feds to a cache of stolen gold. All he wants to do, though, is patch things up with his girlfriend. (Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) .) Circus Crooked people cross each other up. With Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare and John Hannah. (Columbia) Crime + Punishment in Suburbia Dostoevski's tale of romance, redemption and murder gets an update. They must be running out of Shakespeare. (United Artists) Cupid's Mistake Dating in L.A. ain't easy. Duets Apparently some changes have been made to make the Disney organization finally feel comfortable about releasing this startling star·tle v. star·tled, star·tling, star·tles v.tr. 1. To cause to make a quick involuntary movement or start. 2. To alarm, frighten, or surprise suddenly. See Synonyms at frighten. look into the controversial lives of ... karaoke singers? Anyway, the Mouse almost dropped this Bruce Paltrow-directed ensemble piece that stars his somewhat well-known daughter, Gwyneth, as well as ``Coyote Ugly's'' Maria Bello, ``Homicide's'' Andre Braugher and The News' Huey Lewis. (Hollywood Pictures) Goya in Bordeaux Director Carlos Saura brings the life of the 19th-century Spanish artist to the big screen. (Sony Pictures Classics) Human Resources Young Parisian gets job at father's factory and has to fire people, including dad. (Shooting Gallery) Into the Arms of Strangers Documentary about the Kindertransport, which relocated some 10,000 Jewish children from the Third Reich to British foster homes before the outbreak of World War II. (Warner Bros.) On the Run When an old buddy escapes from prison, it can make your life complicated. With ``The Sopranos' '' Michael Imperioli and John Ventimiglia. (Phaedra) Surfing for Life Clint Eastwood leads a crew of geezer geezer noun Medtalk American slang for an offensive and/or dull-witted old person, especially a ♂ in hospitals, geezer is a highly derogatory term for an elderly, cantankerous, often poorly-educated ♂ Pt verb astronauts ... No, wait, this is a documentary about real-life geriatric surfers. Urbania Gay ``Death Wish.'' Hey, it's about time It's About Time may refer to:
The Wind Will Carry Us The latest, stately humanist statement from Iranian auteur auteur (ōtör`), in film criticism, a director who so dominates the film-making process that it is appropriate to call the director the auteur, or author, of the motion picture. supreme Abbas Kiarostami (``Taste of Cherry''). (New Yorker Films) Sept. 16 Life Is to Whistle Three orphans navigate the joys and absurdities of Havana in this Cuban film. Sept. 20 Madadayo Akira Kurosawa's final film is an appropriately elegiac el·e·gi·ac adj. 1. Of, relating to, or involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past: an elegiac lament for youthful ideals. 2. affair about a retiring Japanese professor who looks back on his life and his many adoring students. Sept. 22 The Dancer A beautiful but mute young dancer wows the New York club scene. Her predicament inspires a scientist to invent a talk-through- movement device. Look, we just tell you about these things; we don't make 'em. (20th Century Fox) The Decalogue The late Krzysztof Kieslowski's brilliant 10-part examination of the Commandments' relevance in late 20th-century Poland finally makes it to a big American spring. Made for Polish television more than a decade ago, the series will be screened two parts per week for five weeks at the Fine Arts in Beverly Hills. (New Yorker) The Exorcist ex·or·cism n. 1. The act, practice, or ceremony of exorcising. 2. A formula used in exorcising. ex  or·cist n. - The Version You've Never Seen A reel's worth of footage that was cut from the 1974 release has been restored to the horror classic by director William Friedkin. (Warner Bros.) The Fantasticks Try and remember the time of September. United Artists is hoping you will in the unlikely film version of the long-running ofroadway musical. (United Artists) It All Starts Today A dedicated teacher deals with kindergarten crises in a poor French village. The latest from auteur Bertrand Tavernier (``Life and Nothing But,'' ``Coup de Torchon''). (Independent Artists) Under Suspicion Gene Hackman is a wealthy San Juan attorney who's interrogated by a former colleague turned police inspector (Morgan Freeman) about a series of sex murders. Cat-and-mouse acting duet based on the French film ``Garde a Vue.'' (Lions Gate) Urban Legends: Final Cut Ouch. Film students get edited in this sequel to the dumb horror franchise. Sounds more like a ``Blair Witch'' ripoff. (Columbia) Woman on Top Rising Spanish star Penelope Cruz is a Brazilian culinary sorceress who decamps to San Francisco. Dining and erotic miracles ensue. (Fox Searchlight) Sept. 23 The Most Terrible Time in My Life Satirical detective story set in the immigrant district of Yokohama, Japan. Sept. 29 Barenaked In America It's not as interesting as it sounds. It's about the Barenaked Ladies. (Shooting Gallery) Best in Show For those who remain convinced that ``Waiting for Guffman'' was sheer genius, writer-director Christopher Guest is back with most of that film's cast in another mocking mockumentary, this time about the inbred in·bred adj. 1. Produced by inbreeding. 2. Fixed in the character or disposition as if inherited; deep-seated. inbred said of offspring produced by inbreeding. participants at a fancy dog show - and their pets. (Warner Bros.) Bittersweet bittersweet, name for two unrelated plants, belonging to different families, both fall-fruiting woody vines sometimes cultivated for their decorative scarlet berries. Motel A look at the rock band Phish, directed by ``Road Trip's'' Todd Phillips. The Broken Hearts Club - A Romantic Comedy Like it says. The members of the Broken Hearts Club are gay men, by the way. (Sony Pictures Classics) Cleopatra's Second Husband Husband and wife hire another couple to house-sit. When they return, the squatters refuse to leave and things get a little, um, kinky. (Indican indican /in·di·can/ (in´di-kan) potassium indoxyl sulfate, formed by decomposition of tryptophan in the intestines and excreted in the urine. in·di·can n. ) Girlfight Sundance Film Festival winner about a surly Brooklyn teen who finds a guide to life through boxing. (Screen Gems) Remember the Titans Denzel Washington stars as the first black football coach at a Virginia high school Virginia High School, home of Blue Devil Athletics, educates students grades 7-12 in Virginia, Minnesota. It is a public high school with open enrollment located on scenic 5th Avenue. , circa 1971. Based on a true story, but produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, so it should be interesting to see how believable any of it is. (Walt Disney Pictures) Solas Award-winning Spanish film about a mother's efforts to aid her troubled adult daughter. (Samuel Goldwyn Films) Sept. 30 The Wounds Young men try to make their mark in the Serbian underworld. From the director of the acclaimed ``Pretty Village, Pretty Flame Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Serbian: Лепа села лепо горе .'' September unscheduled Beautiful Sally Field makes her feature directing debut with yet another comedy about beauty pageants. Minnie Driver, Kathleen Turner, Joey Lauren Adams and Hallie Kate Eisenberg Hallie Kate Eisenberg (born August 2, 1992) is an American actress. Eisenberg was born in East Brunswick Township, New Jersey, to Barry and Amy Eisenberg. She has an older sister Kerri and an older brother Jesse, who is also an actor. star. (Destination Films) Deep in the Woods Basically, ``The Blair Witch Project'' in French. Sacre boo! (Phaedra) Too Tired to Die A young slacker gets an ultimatum from the Grim Reaper. Mira Sorvino and ``Chungking Express' '' Takeshi Kaneshiro star. (Phaedra) Oct. 6 Bamboozled Spike Lee's latest is a satire of race relations in network television. Damon Wayans, Savion Glover and Jada Pinkett-Smith star. (New Line) Bootmen A film with this title is either really kinky or really Australian. Adam Garcia (``Coyote Ugly'') is a rebellious steeltown lad who's just gotta dance - and dance his way, meaning in big, cleated work boots. Hmmm ... sounds Australian AND kinky. Directed by ``Tap Dogs'' creator Dein Perry. (Fox Searchlight) Cyberworld IMAX IMAX Noun a film projection process that produces an image ten times larger than standard delves into 3-D animation. Expect to be wowed. (IMAX) Dancer in the Dark The man with the shaky camera, Lars von Trier Trier (trēr), Latin Augusta Treverorum, city (1994 pop. 99,183), Rhineland-Palatinate, SW Germany, a port on the Moselle (Ger. Mosel) River, near the Luxembourg border. (``Breaking the Waves'') returns with his most outrageous conceit yet in this musical about a single mom (Icelandic singer Bjork) who staves off her poverty and onset of blindness by singing a happy tune. (Fine Line) Digimon: The Movie Just when you think pop culture couldn't possibly get any worse, here come the Pokemon knockoffs. (20th Century Fox) Get Carter Remake of the classic British crime film starring ... Sylvester Stallone? Rachael Leigh Cook, Mickey Rourke and original ``Carter'' Michael Caine co-star. (Warner Bros.) Meet the Parents Ben Stiller finds true love - until he has to meet his fiance's father, played with disagreeable glee by Robert De Niro Noun 1. Robert De Niro - United States film actor who frequently plays tough characters (born 1943) De Niro . (Universal) Pola X French aristocrat meets woman from a dream and begins a new life. Catherine Deneuve heads the cast in this adaptation of the Herman Melville novel. (Winstar) Rififi New print of blacklist (1) A list of e-mail addresses of known spammers. See spam, spam filter, Blacklist of Internet Advertisers, greylisting and blackholing. Contrast with white list. (2) A list of Web sites that are considered off limits or dangerous. exile Jules Dassin's 1955 French caper film, one of the greatest crime procedurals ever made. Tigerland Military trainees undergo jungle combat simulations and political consciousness-raising in the Louisiana swamps before being shipped off to Vietnam. The ever-eclectic Joel Schumacher (``Flawless,'' ``8mm,'' ``Batman & Robin'') directs. (20th Century Fox) Two Family House Sundance Audience Award winner about a lovable loser who sinks his life's savings into a dilapidated house so he can fulfill his lifelong dream of running a bar and grill. Complications ensue when he realizes the house is still occupied by its former tenant. (Lions Gate) Oct. 7 The Carriers Are Waiting Belgian guy terrorizes his family into winning a new car from a record-setting competition. Oct. 13 Animal Factory Young drug trafficker (Edward Furlong) meets friendly gang leader (Willem Dafoe) in prison. Steve Buscemi directs. (Silver Nitrate) Billy Elliot Eleven-year-old boy discovers talent for ballet. His miner father and traditional brother do not approve. (Universal Focus) Bounce Ben Affleck is a carefree ad agency exec who gives up his seat on a plane that subsequently crashes. Introduced to guilt, he seeks out his dead substitute's widow - and since she's Gwyneth Paltrow, salving salve 1 n. 1. An analgesic or medicinal ointment. 2. Something that soothes or heals; a balm. 3. Flattery or commendation. tr.v. salved, salv·ing, salves 1. his conscience is going to be a lot more complicated than he expected. Written and directed by ``The Opposite of Sex's'' Don Roos. (Miramax) The Contender A senator (Joan Allen) nominated to fill the vacant vice presidency has mud flung in her face when a nemesis (Gary Oldman) digs through her sexual past. It's the second political thriller to be released this year from former local film critic Rod Lurie (``Deterrence''). (DreamWorks) Dr. T and the Women Robert Altman's latest is a cracked comedy about a successful Dallas gynecologist gynecologist /gy·ne·col·o·gist/ (-kol´ah-jist) a person skilled in gynecology. gy·ne·col·o·gist n. A physician specializing in gynecology. (Richard Gere) who thinks he knows all he needs to about women. God, and such representatives of the female species like Helen Hunt, Shelley Long, Laura Dern, Farrah Fawcett, Kate Hudson and Liv Tyler, have other lessons in store. (Artisan) Double Parked Single mom hands out parking tickets and copes with ailing adolescent son. (Castle Hill) Just Looking ``Seinfeld's'' Jason Alexander directs this period piece about a 1950s teen who likes to watch adults have sex. Not that there's anything wrong with that ... (Sony Pictures Classics) The Ladies Man Tim Meadows takes his ``Saturday Night Live'' character to the big screen. Based on past ``SNL'' movies, let the buyer beware. (Paramount) Lost Souls Long-delayed, millennium-tied satanic thriller starring Winona Ryder and Ben Chaplin and directed by the Oscar-winning ``Saving Private Ryan'' cinematographer Janusz Kaminski. (New Line) One Lifelong friends go their separate ways. (Shooting Gallery) < Oct. 14 The Interview Kafkaesque Australian jailhouse drama. Oct. 20 Bedazzled Remake of the funny '60s Faust comedy, with Brendan Fraser as the luckless schlub schlub also shlub n. Slang A person regarded as clumsy, stupid, or unattractive. [Yiddish, from Polish who sells his soul to the Devil (Elizabeth Hurley) for love. ``Analyze This' '' Harold Ramis directs. (20th Century Fox) Burlesk King They don't make male stripper melodramas like they do in the Philippines anywhere else. This is another one. Dolphins Giant IMAX-size encounter with everybody's favorite sea mammals. (MacGillivray Freeman) Just One Time Engaged firefighter wants a menage-a-trois before the wedding. Fiance agrees, provided he'll participate in a threesome with her and a gay neighbor. Complications ensue. (Cowboy Booking) Left Luggage Nanny learns to accept Hassidic Jewish family's ways. (Castle Hill) The Legend of Drunken Master Jackie Chan does the drunken fighting thing. Sober. (Dimension) MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. : Most Valuable Primate Chimpanzee plays hockey. From the ``Air Bud'' people. What's next, a cat that can turn the double play? (Keystone) Pay It Forward A real wowza of a cast - Kevin Spacey spac·ey adj. Slang Variant of spacy. Adj. 1. spacey - stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug spaced-out, spacy unconventional - not conventional or conformist; "unconventional life styles" , Helen Hunt and Haley Joel Osment - star in a feelgood piece about a school civics civics, branch of learning that treats of the relationship between citizens and their society and state, originally called civil government. With the large immigration into the United States in the latter half of the 19th cent. project that turns into a national good deed-doing movement. Mimi Leder (``Deep Impact'') directs. (Warner Bros.) Requiem for a Dream This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. Acclaimed indie stylist Darren Aronofsky (``Pi'') adapts Hubert Selby Jr.'s novel of drug-fueled delusion and isolation in the Coney Island district of New York. Rated NC-17, and proud of it. Stars Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly and Marlon Wayans. (Artisan) Ring of Fire Rodeo bullriding drama with Kiefer Sutherland, Daryl Hannah and Molly Ringwald. (Destination) The Tavern Unhappy men buy a Manhattan bar. At least they can now drink for free. (Castle Hill) Wonder Boys Nobody went the first time, so Paramount puts Curtis Hanson's tale of a college professor's lost weekend back into theaters, hoping audiences rethink their indifference. And there's that Oscar consideration thing, too. (Paramount) The Yards Gritty crime drama set against the backdrop of New York's subway train yards. With Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron and James Caan. (Miramax) Oct. 27 Blow Dry Another hairdressing hairdressing, arranging of the hair for decorative, ceremonial, or symbolic reasons. Primitive men plastered their hair with clay and tied trophies and badges into it to represent their feats and qualities. competition comedy. This one's set somewhere in Britain. Stars Alan Rickman, Natasha Richardson, Rachel Griffiths, Rachael Leigh Cook and Josh Hartnett. (Miramax) Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 Kids going to check out the location of the original Blair Witch phenomenon get in trouble. This time, rather than fake documentarians pretending to be real ones, Joe Berlinger, a real documentary filmmaker (``Brother's Keeper,'' the ``Paradise Lost'' films), directs. (Artisan) Dark Days Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary about the homeless who live in tunnels beneath New York. (Palm Pictures) The Little Vampire Jonathan Lipnicki (``Jerry Maguire,'' ``Stuart Little'') makes friends with another kid who has an unusual diet. Based on a popular children's book series. (New Line) Loving Jezebel Jezebel (jĕz`əbĕl), in the First Book of Kings, Phoenician princess who was the wife of King Ahab and the mother of Ahaziah, Jehoram, and Athaliah. Hopeless romantic keeps falling in love with the ``other'' woman. (Shooting Gallery) Lucky Numbers Local weatherman (John Travolta) schemes with lotto ball girl (Lisa Kudrow) to rig the state lottery. Nora Ephron directs. After ``Battlefield Earth'' and ``Hanging Up,'' the principals have nowhere to go but up. (Paramount) A Room for Romeo Brass Two best friends, both 12, cope with poverty and parental neglect in a British housing project. (October) Stardom Denys Arcand (``Love and Human Remains'') takes a dark look at our obsession with fame in this story of a model's sudden notoriety. (Lions Gate) Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas The macabre 1993 puppet play, which was actually directed by Henry Selick, back again to frighten the kiddies. (Touchstone) A Time For Drunken Horses A Time for Drunken Horses (Persian: زمانی برای مستی اسبها, Zamani barayé masti asbha, Kurdish:Demek jibo hespên serxweş Iraqi boy gets sick, needs operation; family desperately tries to save him. (Shooting Gallery) Venus Beauty Institute Multiple French award winner examines the lives and loves of four women who hang out at the title Paris spa. Nathalie Baye and Bulle Ogier are among them. (Lot 47) October unscheduled The Bridge French acting legend Gerard Depardieu co-directed and co- stars in this 1960s-set love story. Carole Bouquet and Charles Berling also appear. (Phaedra) Followers Fraternity pledges undergo hazing and racial hatred. Just keep your eyes on the prize Eyes on the Prize is a 14-hour documentary series about the American Civil Rights Movement that aired in two parts. Part one, six hours long, originally aired on PBS in early 1987 as Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (1954-1965). , boys - toga parties! (Castle Hill) The Sculptress Psychological thriller involving, well, sculpture. (Phaedra) The Story of O American update of the not exactly classic French softcore sizzlefest. (Phaedra) Nov. 3 All About Eve 50th anniversary reissue of Joseph Mankiewicz's epigrammatic ep·i·gram·mat·ic also ep·i·gram·mat·i·cal adj. 1. Of or having the nature of an epigram. 2. Containing or given to the use of epigrams. classic. Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Celeste is a woman's first name. Celeste may also refer to: in Music
v. back·bit , back·bit·ten , back·bit·ing, back·bites v.tr. To speak spitefully or slanderously about (another). v.intr. . (Fox Searchlight) The Amati Girls Four sisters cope with life, love and their dying mother. (Providence) Charlie's Angels Looks like they decided to go the ``let's have fun'' route with the worst TV show movie remake idea since ``McHale's Navy.'' Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu are the jigglesome private eyes, Bill Murray is their go-between Bosley. Lotsa goofy, Hong Kong- style martial arts should add to the general sense of pop-culture dementia. (Columbia) The Legend of Bagger Vance Mystical caddie (Will Smith) helps World War I hero (Matt Damon) understand the vagaries of sand traps and unrequited love. Robert Redford directs. (DreamWorks) Once in the Life Laurence Fishburne wrote, directed and starred in this story of a man's struggle to turn his back on his criminal past. (Lions Gate) Red Planet A 2050 terraforming expedition to Mars encounters some very serious trouble. Val Kilmer, Terrence Stamp and ``The Matrix's'' Carrie-Anne Moss star in the sci-fi spectacular. (Warner Bros.) What's Cooking It's multicultural Thanksgiving time as African-American, Latino, Vietnamese and Jewish families get together to cook up a big feast. Stars Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick and Alfre Woodard. (Trimark) Nov. 10 Little Nicky Adam Sandler is Satan's slacker son. Not, the producers insist, a documentary. With Harvey Keitel, Patricia Arquette and Rodney Dangerfield. (New Line) Malena ``Summer of '42'' goes Italian. Young widow romance, set in wartime Sicily, was directed by ``Cinema Paradiso'' sentimentalist sen·ti·men·tal·ism n. 1. A predilection for the sentimental. 2. An idea or expression marked by excessive sentiment. sen Giuseppe Tornatore. (Miramax) Men of Honor True story of the first African-American navy diver. Cuba Gooding Jr. and Robert De Niro star. (20th Century Fox) Non-Stop Japanese bank robber forgets mask, goes next door to shoplift shop·lift v. shop·lift·ed, shop·lift·ing, shop·lifts v.intr. To steal merchandise from a store that is open for business. v.tr. one. Clerk gives chase, runs into Japanese mobsters Mobsters is a 1991 crime drama detailing the creation of the National Crime Syndicate/The Commission. Set in New York City during the Prohibition era, it's a somewhat fictionalized account of rise of Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, and Benjamin "Bugsy" . Mobsters give chase. Did these guys see ``Run Lola Run''? (Shooting Gallery) Nov. 17 Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas Ron Howard brings Whoville to the big screen with Jim Carrey stepping into the Grinch's pointy point·y adj. point·i·er, point·i·est Having an end tapering to a point. shoes. (Universal) Rugrats in Paris - The Movie Chuckie, Angelica, Tommy and the rest of the gang go to the City of Lights. And you wonder why the French hate Americans. (Paramount) The 6th Day Arnold Schwarzenegger gets cloned. He'll be back, and back, and back ... (Columbia) You Can Count on Me Brother and sister try to resolve differences in this Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner. (Paramount Classics) Nov. 22 102 Dalmatians They're back, they've brought one more and, like the Rugrats, they're romping through Paris. Glenn Close reprises REPRISES. The deductions and payments out of lands, annuities, and the like, are called reprises, because they are taken back; when we speak of the clear yearly value of an estate, we say it is worth so much a year ultra reprises, besides all reprises. 2. Cruella De Vil and Gerard Depardieu joins la chien chase. (Walt Disney Pictures) Unbreakable Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's follow-up to his box-office phenom ``The Sixth Sense'' also stars Bruce Willis, this time as the sole survivor of a horrendous train wreck. Samuel L. Jackson “Samuel Jackson” redirects here. For the senator from Indiana, see Samuel D. Jackson. Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning actor. is the mysterious stranger who then enters his life. (Touchstone) November unscheduled Cherry Falls Serial killer stalks virgin teens in small town. The kids pair off to lose their innocence and avoid being next. (Rogue) Duty Dating Dating-challenged magazine editor tries going with three men at once. (Showcase) In the Mood for Love Latest from director Wong Kar-wai (``Chungking Express'') tells the story of a 1960s Hong Kong newspaper editor who befriends a beautiful neighbor. Romance ensues after they learn their respective mates are having an affair. (October) Quills Adapted from the award-winning play and directed by the iconoclastic i·con·o·clast n. 1. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions. 2. One who destroys sacred religious images. Philip Kaufman (``The Right Stuff,'' ``Henry and June''), ``Quills'' stars Geoffrey Rush as the Marquis de Sade Noun 1. Marquis de Sade - French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814) Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, de Sade, Sade and Joaquin Phoenix, Kate Winslet and Michael Caine as the asylum staff who keep the prince of perversity per·ver·si·ty n. pl. per·ver·si·ties 1. The quality or state of being perverse. 2. An instance of being perverse. Noun 1. imprisoned im·pris·on tr.v. im·pris·oned, im·pris·on·ing, im·pris·ons To put in or as if in prison; confine. [Middle English emprisonen, from Old French emprisoner : en- - or is it really the other way around? (Fox Searchlight) Two Ninas Title characters fall for the unluckiest guy in the world. (Castle Hill) Dec. 1 A Hard Day's Night The long-promised reissue of The Beatles' first feature film. We'll believe it when we see it. (Miramax) Dec. 8 Dungeons and Dragons Fantasy-adventure inspired by the geek A technically oriented person. It has typically implied a "nerdy" or "weird" personality, someone with limited social skills who likes to tinker with scientific or high-tech projects. The origin of the term dates back to the late 1800s. board game. (New Line) Proof of Life Russell Crowe is a hostage negotiator who falls in love with the wife (Meg Ryan) of a kidnap victim he's trying to get released. Stop making snide, funnny-how-life-follows-art comments right now! (Warner Bros.) Songcatcher Janet McTeer (``Tumbleweeds'') plays an early 20th-century musicologist mu·si·col·o·gy n. The historical and scientific study of music. mu  si·co·log who falls in love with some Appalachian twanger. (Trimark) Vertical Limit Mountain climber Chris O'Donnell has to rescue his sister's trapped expedition on the craggy Himalayan peak K-2. Martin Campbell (``Mask of Zorro zorro: see fox. Zorro masked swordsman, defender of weak and oppressed. [Am. Lit.: comic strip (1919); Am. Cinema: Halliwell, 794; TV: Terrace, II, 461–462] See : Disguise ,'' ``GoldenEye'') directs. (Columbia) Dec. 15 Chocolat Another one of those food-and-desire lip-smackers, this time with Juliette Binoche doing the confecting in an uptight '50s French town. Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina, Robert Carlyle and Lena Olin also dig in. The director is Lasse a. & adv. 1. Less. Hallstrom, who helmed the similarly edible ``Cider House Rules'' last time out. (Miramax) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Traditional Chinese: 臥虎藏龍; Simplified Chinese: 卧虎藏龙; Pinyin: A martial arts movie with a ``Sense and Sensibility Sense and Sensibility is a novel by the English novelist Jane Austen, that was first published in 1811. It was the first of Austen's novels to be published, under the pseudonym "A Lady". ,'' this Ang Lee film follows a battle-weary master (Chow Yun-Fat) who gets back into the game when a young woman (the amazing Zhang Ziyi) steals a renowned sword that once belonged to him. With choreography by the ``Matrix's'' Yuen Wo Ping. (Sony Pictures Classics) Diary of a Chambermaid Surrealist social critic Luis Bunuel's 1964 French version of the venerable sex farce turns it into a critique of prewar fascism. Jeanne Moreau looked great at the time. (Rialto Rialto, city (1990 pop. 72,388), San Bernardino co., S Calif., a residential suburb of San Bernardino; inc. 1911. The city has greatly expanded as a result of the economic and demographic growth of the southern California area. Pictures) The Emperor's New Groove Disney's latest animated epic is a knockabout comedy set in a mythical, Inca-like mountain kingdom. David Spade provides the voice of the spoiled emperor-turned-llama (yes, llama llama (lä`mə), South American domesticated ruminant mammal, Lama glama, of the camel family. Genetic studies indicate that it is descended from the guanaco. ). John Goodman speaks for his reluctant peasant helper. Songs by Sting. (Walt Disney Pictures) The Family Man Materialistic Wall Street trader (Nicolas Cage) wakes up one day to the wife he never married and the two kids he never had. And guess what? He likes it; he really, really likes it. Brett Ratner (``Rush Hour'') directs. (Universal) The Gift Sam Raimi (``For Love of the Game'') directs this Southern gothic thriller about a widowed mother (Cate Blanchett) who can psychically see her neighbors' secrets. And boy are there a lot of them! With Keanu Reeves, Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear and Hilary Swank in her first post-Oscar role. (Paramount Classics) What Women Want A fluke accident gives a shallow man (Mel Gibson) the ability to read women's minds. Let's just say he learns a lesson or two. Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei and Lauren Holly are among his test studies. (Paramount) Dec. 20 13 Days The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, major cold war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. After the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the USSR increased its support of Fidel Castro's Cuban regime, and in the summer of 1962, Nikita Khrushchev secretly decided to from a White House insider's perspective. Kevin Costner plays the JFK aide who was apparently instrumental in preventing nuclear armageddon. Costner reteams with ``No Way Out'' director Roger Donaldson. (New Line) Dec. 22 Cast Away It was Tom Hanks' idea to film this ``Survivor''ish story - in which the superstar appears to slowly waste away on an uninhabited desert isle - in two sections over 16 months. He didn't know at the time that some chubby naked guy would become as big a celebrity as he is in the interim. The film includes Helen Hunt and reteams Hanks with his ``Forrest Gump'' director, Robert Zemeckis. (20th Century Fox) Miss Congeniality Aggressive FBI agent Sandra Bullock goes undercover in a bathing suit to thwart a terrorist threat against a big beauty pageant. Benjamin Bratt, Michael Caine, William Shatner and Candice Bergen co-star in the comedy. (Warner Bros.) O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Coen brothers' latest is a musical remake of Depression-era chain gang movies, with a title borrowed from a Preston Sturges joke and based on Homer's ``The Odyssey.'' Geez geez interj. Used to express mild surprise, delight, dissatisfaction, or annoyance. [Shortening and alteration of Jesus1.] , don't these guys ever do anything different? Featuring George Clooney and Coen standbys John Turturro, John Goodman and Holly Hunter. (Touchstone) Traffic Director Steven Soderbergh (``Erin Brockovich'') looks at the international world of drug trafficking through a series of inter-related stories. Newlyweds Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones head the cast. (USA) Wes Craven's Dracula 2000 Like it says. Except, much like that Tim Burton Nightmare thing, ``Scream''-meister Craven isn't directing. We presume Dracula, or Buffy, or some vampire-type thing is still involved. (Dimension Films) Dec. 25 An Everlasting Piece Two barbers - a Catholic and a Protestant - try to corner the toupee market in Northern Ireland. Barry Levinson directs the hair-raising tale. (DreamWorks) Moulin Rouge OK, it's a musical set in the famous Belle Epoque nightclub, yet everyone's singing recognizable 20th-century songs in 19th- century Paris. Actually, we're in the director of ``Romeo + Juliet  The introduction of this article is too short.To comply with Wikipedia's lead section guidelines, it should be expanded. ,'' Baz Lurhmann, county again. Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor can-can. (20th Centur Fox) Vatel (Gerard Depardieu), who distractingly falls in love with the Sun King's favorite mistress (Uma Thurman). Roland Joffe, whose movies (``The Killing Fields,'' ``The Mission'') aren't exactly known for their party spirit, directed. The more fun, ``Shakespeare in Love's'' Tom Stoppard, however, did do a script polish. (Miramax) Dec. 29 Shadow of the Vampire Creepy, funny, audacious tale that looks at the making of F.W. Murnau's vampire classic, ``Nosferatu,'' and wonders: What if Max Schreck, the unknown Murnau hired to play the blood-sucking count, really was a vampire? Talk about Method acting! With John Malkovich as Murnau and a brilliant Willem Dafoe as Schreck. (Lions Gate) December unscheduled All the Pretty Horses All the Pretty Horses is a novel by U.S. author Cormac McCarthy published in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the apocalyptic bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention, spending some time on bestseller charts, earning the U.S. Bily Bob Thornton's long-on-the-trail adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's best-selling Western novel is reportedly so lengthy that neither of the studios that produced know quite how to handle it. For the umpteenth time, Matt Damon and Henry Thomas are the young Texans who encounter life lessons and trouble on a trip to Mexico. Penelope Cruz also stars. (Miramax) The Claim Gold Rush prospector trades wife and child for significant claim. Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich and Nastassja Kinski try to mine some pathos from this loose adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel ``The Mayor of Casterbridge.'' (United Artists) Enemy at the Gates At the Gates are a Swedish melodic death metal band. They are one of the forebears of the Gothenburg sound of heavy metal along with other bands of the Gothenburg metal scene like Dark Tranquillity and In Flames. World War II Russian sharpshooter (Jude Law) becomes folk hero during Battle of Stalingrad The Battle of Stalingrad was a battle between Germany and its allies and the Soviet Union for the Soviet city of Stalingrad (today known as Volgograd) that took place between August 21 1942 and February 2 1943, as part of World War II. , thanks to propaganda efforts of political friend (Joseph Fiennes). Complications ensue when they both fall for the same woman (Rachel Weisz) and the Nazis dispatch their own elite rifleman (Ed Harris) to Stalingrad. (Paramount) Finding Forrester Sean Connery is a reclusive re·clu·sive adj. 1. Seeking or preferring seclusion or isolation. 2. Providing seclusion: a reclusive hut. novelist who inexplicably takes on a young athlete as a writing protege. Uplifting, life-of-the-mind lessons no doubt are learned in this drama directed by ``Good Will Hunting's'' Gus Van Sant SANT South African Native Trust . (Columbia) State and Main David Mamet writes and directs this caustic tale of a New England town The New England town is the basic unit of local government in each of the six New England states. An institution that does not have a direct counterpart in most other U.S. states, New England towns are conceptually similar to civil townships in that they were originally set up so that welcomes a Hollywood movie crew only to find that things don't turn out quite as expected. With Alec Baldwin, Philip Seymour Hoffman For other persons named Philip Hoffman, see Philip Hoffman (disambiguation). Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. Biography Early life Hoffman was born in Fairport, New York to Gordon S. and Sarah Jessica Parker. (Fine Line) < Autumn unscheduled Beneath the Surface Swedish crime film(!) With girls(!!) (Phaedra) Downward Angel Assassin goes after worse killers. (Phaedra) Welcome to Hollywood Co-directors and -stars Tony Markes and Adam Rifkin got Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey and Angie Everhart to make appearances in this mockumentary about struggling actors. (Phaedra) CAPTION(S): 28 photos Photo: (1) `Remember the Titans' (2) `Dancer in the Dark' (3) `Digimon: The Movie' (4) `Get Carter' (5) `Meet the Parents' (6) `Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2' (7) `Lucky Numbers' (8) `The Legend of the Bagger Vance' (9) `Men of Honor' (10) `The 6th Day' (11) `Rugrats in Paris - The Movie' (12) `Proof of Life' (13) `Vertical Limit' (14) `The Family Man' (15) `The Emperor's New Groove' (16) `Quills' (17) `13 Days' (18) `Charlie's Angels' (19) `Wes Craven's Dracula' (20) `O Brother, Where Art Thou? (21) `Enemy at the Gates' (22) `Miss Congeniality' (23 -- color) `Moulin moulin (m  lăN`): see pothole. Rouge' (24 -- color) `Shadow of the Vampire' (25 -- color) `102 Dalmatians' (26) `Vatel' (27) `Bamboozled' (28) `The Contender' |
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