As a big fan of the show Entourage, my FOTW choice has more than a little bias to it. Cameron Crowe‘s Aloha and the Zaza Urushadze‘s Tangerines should be given due consideration – particularly the latter, which looks pretty damn good.
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Opening today:
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ENTOURAGE……FILM OF THE WEEK
USA | 104 minutes | Comedy
Director: Doug Ellin (TV’s Entourage)
Cast: Jeremy Piven, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Mark Wahlberg, Kevin Connolly, Jerry Ferrara, Haley Joel Osment, Billy Bob Thornton, Gary Busey, Richard Schiff, Rex Lee, Alice Eve + a million celebrity cameos.
Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys, E, Turtle and Johnny, are back…and back in business with super agent-turned-studio head Ari Gold. Some of their ambitions have changed, but the bond between them remains strong as they navigate the capricious and often cutthroat world of Hollywood.
Will be very interested to see how the continuation of the story works as a movie, but I’m sure I’ll love it anyway – he says blindly.
Distributor: Warner Brothers
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ALOHA
USA | minutes | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Cameron Crowe (Vanilla Sky, Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire)
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, Bill Murray, Ivana Milicevic, John Krasinski, Jay Baruchel, Alec Baldwin, Danny McBride
A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
Riding that fine line between emotion and cheese – hopefully falling on the side of the former.
Distributor: 20th Century Fox Film
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MET OPERA: IOLANTA / BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE
USA | 200 minutes | Live Performance
Director: Mariusz Trelinski
Cast: Anna Netrebko, Nadja Michael, Mikhail Petrenko
An opera double-header, with an enchanting fairy tale followed by an erotic psychological thriller – performed by the New York Metropolitan Opera.
At 3 hours 20 mins, this one’s for hardcore fans.
Distributor: Rialto Distribution
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TANGERINES
Estonia, Georgia | 87 minutes | Drama, War
Director: Zaza Urushadze (Ak tendeba, Sami Sakhli)
Cast: Misha Meskhi, Giorgi Nakashidze, Elmo Nüganen, Raivo Trass, Lembit Ulfsak
War rages in the Apkhazeti region of Georgia in 1990. An Estonian man, Ivo, has stayed behind to harvest his crop of tangerines. During a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.
Damn, this looks good. Probably should’ve been FOTW.
Distributor: Rialto Distribution
