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Viva Pedro!

September 08, 2006 @ 10:09 am by Beth Accomando
Filed under: Foreign Language, Gay / Lesbian / Transgender
If there's one thing that ties all of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar's films together it's love. Not simple, easy love but desperate, passionate, stop-at-nothing love. With his new film Volver coming out this November, Sony Pictures Classics has decided to strike new prints of eight Almodovar films and package them together for a showcase called Viva Pedro! (beginning September 1 at Landmark's Ken Cinema). If you love cinema, don't miss this event.

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Not Screened for Critics: The Wicker Man and Crank

September 08, 2006 @ 10:09 am by Beth Accomando
Filed under: Action
There have always been films that the studios have chosen not to screen for critics; the reason usually being that studios feared they had a dud on their hands and wanted to avoid bad reviews on opening g weekend. But in the past few weeks we've had more than the usual amount on no-can-see pictures. Snakes on a Plane started the late summer trend and now both The Wicker Man and Crank (both opened on September 1 throughout San Diego) chose to open without letting critics take a peek at them.

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The Fourth Annual Imperial Beach Film Festival

September 08, 2006 @ 10:09 am by Beth Accomando
Filed under: Festivals, Local Events
We are about to head into a flurry of film festival activity. The next two months will see the Imperial Beach Film Festival, The San Diego Film Festival, The San Diego Women Film Festival and The San Diego Asian Film Festival, not to mention a film series starting at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Anyway, to kick off this festival season is the Fourth Annual Imperial Beach Film Festival (running September 8 and 9 with the Dempsey Holder Hall as their main screening site).

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House of Sand

September 08, 2006 @ 10:09 am by Beth Accomando
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Don't confuse House of Sand (opening September 1 at Landmark's La Jolla Village Theaters) with House of Sand and Fog, the film of Andre Dubus III's bestseller. Although both films do deal with people desperately dealing with issues of home and a place in the world, House of Sand is a stunning new Brazilian film.

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The Covenant

September 08, 2006 @ 10:09 am by Beth Accomando
Filed under: Action, Horror

The Covenant
Steven Strait wondering how he got stuck in The Covenant.

While Crank and The Wicker Man chose not to screen for critics, Renny Harlin's The Covenant (opening September 8 throughout San Diego) made it in just under the wire for critics to review. But in this case maybe the studio should have thought twice about letting the press get an early enough look to write reviews. In fact, maybe they should have thought twice about even releasing it.

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Half Nelson

September 08, 2006 @ 10:09 am by Beth Accomando
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The dogs days of late summer releases may be upon us but not everything coming out at the moment is bad. Take the independent film Half Nelson (opening September 8 at Landmark's Hillcrest Cinemas), it offers a nicely observed drama about a teacher and his student.

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