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movies[idx].title = escape("Medicine for Melancholy");

movies[idx].start_date = "6/5/2009";

movies[idx].end_date = "6/11/2009";

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movies[idx].director = escape("Barry Jenkins");

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movies[idx].writeup = escape("<BR>Barry Jenkins's beautifully titled ''Medicine for Melancholy'' gives us two African-American lovers, Micah \

and Joanne, divided by class and urban geography.<BR><BR> She s gorgeous, well-off, and is supported by her white boyfriend in an expensive and sparely \

designed apartment in a ritzy neighborhood. An aquarium installer, he lives downtown in the Mission in a tiny joint just big enough for his bed and a \

large fish-tank.<BR><BR> Through the day and into the evening they traverse through a stunningly photographed, mostly black-and-white San Francisco all the \

while musing on   and arguing over   racial identity, gentrification and the changes in housing laws that are altering the character of a city that Micah \

says is comprised of only 7% black people.<BR><BR>  ''Medicine for Melancholy'' is an appealing film with two strong lead performances and a beautiful sense \

of balance; it never presupposes that the romantic possibilities of its two illicit lovers are more important than the social reality Jenkins quite deftly embeds them in. \

<BR><BR><I>Filmmaker Magazine</I>, Scott Macaulay ");

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movies[idx].title = escape("The Secret of the Grain");

movies[idx].start_date = "6/12/2009";

movies[idx].end_date = "6/18/2009";

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movies[idx].director = escape("Abdel Kedhiche");

movies[idx].country_year_time = escape("France ~ 2008 ~ 2 hours 31 minutes");

movies[idx].writeup = escape("<BR>''The Secret of the Grain'' is first and foremost a family story, a tale of how one man's circle tries to cope with stresses \

 that are at once personal, cultural and political.  The head of the family is 61-year-old Slimane sacked by the boatyard he's worked at for 35 years. \

<BR><BR>None too happy about this is Souad , Slimane's ex-wife, who counts on his salary. The matriarch, she presides over a midday Sunday meal that is one of the \

centerpieces of the film and a delight to her family. \

<BR><BR>Slimane doesn't partake of these meals. He lives on his own, in a declining hotel owned by his current lover, Latifa. \

<BR><BR>Because eating is so central to this culture and this family -- ''When there's couscous, the world disappears for me,'' someone says -- Slimane gets the idea \

of rehabbing a derelict fishing boat and turning it into a floating restaurant that would feature Souad's legendary fish couscous. \

<BR><BR>The strength of ''The Secret of the Grain'' is how deeply inside this particular family this story takes us; a result of  Kechiche's straightforward yet sophisticated \

gift for immersing us in a world he clearly knows well. Rather than observing this family, we feel we are part of it, and that draws us in as nothing else can. \

<BR><BR>Kenneth Turan- <I>LA Times</I>");

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movies[idx].title = escape("The Great Buck Howard");

movies[idx].start_date = "6/19/2009";

movies[idx].end_date = "6/25/2009";

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movies[idx].director = escape("Sean McGinley");

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movies[idx].writeup = escape("<BR>Is there anyone better than John Malkovich at barely containing his temper? He gravitates toward characters who do \

 not suffer fools lightly, and that would include the Great Buck Howard, who once was Johnny Carson's favorite guest. Buck was dropped from Johnny's guest \

list and now takes his magic act from small stages to smaller ones, but he still has his dignity. \

<BR><BR> He is famous for his ''signature effect,'' in which his evening's fee is given to an audience member, and he uses his psychic powers to find it. He has never \

failed, and no one has ever discovered how he does it, not even Troy, his newly hired road manager. \

''The Great Buck Howard'' is told from Troy's point of view. His father wants him to enter law school, but he wants to test show biz. \

<BR><BR>Colin Hanks is affecting as a man young enough and naive enough to be fascinated by whatever it is Buck represents.  No one else could have played \

Buck better than Malkovich. <BR><BR>The film is funny and perceptive in the way it shows the humiliations for a man with Buck's tender vanity:  Being bumped off \

the news by Jerry Springer.  Being bumped off Jay Leno for Tom Arnold. <BR><BR>Roger Ebert, <I>Chicago Sun-Times</i>");

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movies[idx] = new Object();

movies[idx].title = escape("Hunger");

movies[idx].start_date = "6/26/2009";

movies[idx].end_date = "7/2/2009";

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movies[idx].director = escape("Steve McQueen");

movies[idx].country_year_time = escape("UK/Ireland ~ 2008 ~ 1 hour 36 minutes");

movies[idx].writeup = escape("<BR>''Hunger'' is an artistic triumph that asks us to enter Northern Ireland's Maze prison, 1981, and watch IRA prisoner \

Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) lead a hunger strike that will leave him dead at the age of 27. \

<BR><BR>Sands' intent is to have IRA inmates recognized as political prisoners entitled to rights under the rules of war.  Director Steve McQueen, British, black and \

living in Amsterdam, is a prize-winning experimental artist in video and film scoring a potent and provocative debut in features. \

<BR><BR>''Hunger'' begins with a prison guard leaving home after washing his bruised, bleeding knuckles. The guard heads off to the H blocks, where he'll \

pick up more scars during the strip-searches and beatings.  We see prisoners naked or in blankets, refusing to wear uniforms. They use their own \

excrement to smear walls, letting piss flow under the doors of cells.  The movie is a sensory wallop, McQueen's way of showing the body itself as an arsenal, \

arguably the last weapon any of us have to fight back. \

<BR><BR>Fassbender is magnificent, finding the soul of a character stripped of all resources except those that define him as a man.  Shockingly immediate and \

philosophically reflective, ''Hunger'' is an indelibly moving tribute to what makes us human.<BR><BR><I>Rolling Stone</I>, Peter Travers");

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movies[idx].title = escape("Is Anybody There? ");

movies[idx].start_date = "7/3/2009";

movies[idx].end_date = "7/9/2009";

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movies[idx].director = escape("John Crowley");

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movies[idx].writeup = escape("<BR>It's fitting that Michael Caine is cast here as a magician.  At \

76, he's using the lessons of a long career to show how it's done in Is Anybody There? Caine's \

magician   the Amazing Clarence   is losing his gifts. Sleight of hand doesn't work so well when \

your hands (and memory) are shaky.  Widower Clarence drives his van to an English retirement \

home, where time weighs heavily, even on the youngish couple running the place. Their 10-year-old \

son, Edward (a very fine Bill Milner), is so obsessed with death, he tapes last gasps of guests.\

 Blending humor and heartbreak in a performance that makes a small movie a richly satisfying one, \

Caine truly is magic.   <BR><BR><i>Rolling Stone</i>, Peter Travers");

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movies[idx].title = escape("Rudo y Cursi");

movies[idx].start_date = "7/10/2009";

movies[idx].end_date = "7/16/2009";

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movies[idx].director = escape("Carlos Cuaron");

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movies[idx].writeup = escape("<BR>Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna re-team after their \

breakthrough performances in the evocative road saga, ''Y Tu Mama Tambien''.  They're a couple of \

rubes recruited from a banana plantation to play professional soccer.   ''Rudo y Cursi'' (tough \

and corny) is an undeniably entertaining rags-to-riches-to-rags comedy. \

<BR><BR>Rudo (Luna) and Cursi (Bernal) are brothers who play soccer for their village team.   A slick \

agent recruits the pair to play pro soccer in Mexico City.  Sibling rivalry provides a consistent \

source of humor and their antics verge on slapstick. Rudo's longtime goal is to play with a \

famous soccer team, while Cursi has nurtured a pipe dream of becoming a singer.  Rudo, a \

record-breaking goalie, blows his money in gambling schemes, while Cursi becomes a one-hit \

wonder. Bernal's hilarious Spanish rendition of Cheap Trick's ''I Want You to Want Me'' in ranchera \

style is a highlight.  <BR><BR><I>USA Today</i>, Claudia Puig");

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movies[idx].title = escape("Goodbye Solo ");

movies[idx].start_date = "7/17/2009";

movies[idx].end_date = "7/23/2009";

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movies[idx].director = escape("Ramin Bahrani");

movies[idx].country_year_time = escape("USA ~ 2008 ~ 1 hour 31 minutes");

movies[idx].writeup = escape("<BR>''Goodbye Solo'', moving and mysterious, begins with a conversation \

between a taxi driver and his passenger, who proposes an unusual business arrangement. \

<BR><BR>Solo (Souleymane Sy Savane), the driver, is a Senegalese \

man living in Winston-Salem, N.C., working and charming his way toward a share of the American dream. \

His demeanor is effortlessly warm and disarmingly friendly.   The man in the back seat is William \

(Red West), white Southerner 30 years older than Solo, who wants to arrange a trip to a place called \

Blowing Rock. It s a long drive into the mountains, and William is offering a lot of money. \

<BR><BR> What are you going to do, jump off?  Solo asks jokingly. William s silent response unnerves him. \

Solo is driven not only to try to save William, but also to know him.  I can t think of anything \

else to call the quality of exquisite attention, wry humor and wide-awake intelligence that informs \

every frame of this almost perfect film. <BR><BR><I>NY Times</i>, A. O. Scott");

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movies[idx].title = escape("The Merry Gentleman");

movies[idx].start_date = "7/24/2009";

movies[idx].end_date = "7/30/2009";

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movies[idx].director = escape("Michael Keaton");

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movies[idx].writeup = escape("<BR>The first shot in ''The Merry Gentleman,'' an austere, nearly \

pitch-perfect character study of two mismatched yet ideally matched souls, is of actor Michael Keaton, \

sitting on a park bench.  He is Frank Logan, who when not wielding a gun is sitting at a sewing table in \

a men s custom clothing shop.  He flickers to life when he meets Kate Frazier (Kelly Macdonald), a \

runaway battered wife. He s hunkered down on a rooftop and peering through a gun scope when he suddenly \

sees a brightly illuminated woman standing in a window and holding her hands, palms up, in what appears \

to be a gesture of supplication.  They strike up a friendship. While joy seems too remote, too far out \

of reach, they seem to bring each other comfort.  Mr. Keaton succeeds in being true to something the \

movies tend to forget: that other people s relationships are often mysterious.   \

<BR><BR><I>NY Times</I>, Manohla Dargis");

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movies[idx].title = escape("Shoot the Piano Player ");

movies[idx].start_date = "7/31/2009";

movies[idx].end_date = "8/6/2009";

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movies[idx].director = escape("Francois Truffaut");

movies[idx].country_year_time = escape("France ~ 1960 ~ 1 hour 32 minutes");

movies[idx].writeup = escape("<BR>François Truffaut's marvelously atmospheric 1960 Parisian noir ''Shoot \

the Piano Player'', is as fine a display of the young director's burgeoning talent. Legendary French \

singer Charles Aznavour gives his best screen performance as the embittered dive-bar pianist Charlie, \

who has retreated into gutter-level obscurity and cares only about the little brother he's raising. \

<BR><BR>Between the two  thugs chasing his no-account older brother,  the tomboy waitress who knows his secret \

and the prostitute next door  who occasionally throws him a freebie,  life is going to challenge \

hard-bitten Charlie to get over his long-dead wife and give a crap about this crazy world again. \

Shot in a fluid, freewheeling style that pays tribute to the American art forms Truffaut loved best -- \

B-movies and jazz -- ''Shoot the Piano Player'' is nonetheless a distinctively postwar Parisian \

creation, coldblooded and sentimental and wounded and whimsical, all at the same time.  \

<I><BR><BR>Salon.com</i>, Andrew O Hehir ");

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movies[idx].title = escape("Tyson");

movies[idx].start_date = "8/7/2009";

movies[idx].end_date = "8/13/2009";

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movies[idx].director = escape("James Toback");

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movies[idx].writeup = escape("<BR>''Tyson'' uses home movies and film clips of fights and TV interviews \

to throw jabs. Tyson doesn't duck them, except for the rape, which he angrily denies. By the end of \

the film, Iron Mike emerges damaged, but whole in a way we've never seen him before. \

<BR><BR> Toback is talking to one man, and taking his word for it. Since Tyson serves as one of the film's \

producers, you may smell a setup. Just wait till you see the movie. \

<BR><BR>The champ's eyes well up talking about Gus D'Amato, the trainer who treated him like a member of the \

family. D'Amato, who died before his protègè won his first title, taught Tyson to smell fear in his \

opponent and go in for the kill. D'Amato's death sent Tyson into a world of excess. But it was his \

three-year prison stretch that brought him close to madness. \

<br><br>Tyson and Toback are both goading each other in this movie. Let them call it a documentary. I'd \

call it a world-class exhibition of punch-drunk love.  <BR><BR><I>Rolling Stone</i>, Peter Travers");

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movies[idx].title = escape("Easy Virtue");

movies[idx].start_date = "8/14/2009";

movies[idx].end_date = "8/20/2009";

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movies[idx].director = escape("Stephan Elliot");

movies[idx].country_year_time = escape("UK ~ 2008 ~ 1 hour 33 minutes");

movies[idx].writeup = escape("<BR>Larita (Jessica Biel), having just finished first in a Monaco auto \

race, impulsively marries upper-class pretty-boy John Whittaker (Ben Barnes) and accompanies him to \

his family's country pile. Arriving in a splendid vintage BMW roadster, the couple receives a frosty \

welcome from John's snooty mother (Kristin Scott Thomas), who instantly pegs the fashionable Larita \

as a ''floozy'' and launches a systematic campaign to drive her out. \

<BR><BR>Mr. Whittaker (Firth), a scruffy layabout, takes a much more generous view of his new daughter-in-\

law, but his wife and their two ugly-princess daughters  outnumber him. Larita does her best to \

ingratiate herself, but the gloves soon come off, with the only question being whether Larita and \

John's love is strong enough to withstand the onslaught. \

<BR><BR>A fine cast makes sure Noel Coward's champagne remains bubbly in ''Easy Virtue,'' an effervescent \

entertainment.  <BR><BR><I>Variety</i>, Todd McCarthy");

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movies[idx].title = escape("Seraphine");

movies[idx].start_date = "8/21/2009";

movies[idx].end_date = "8/27/2009";

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movies[idx].director = escape("Martin Provost ");

movies[idx].country_year_time = escape("France/Belguim ~ 2008 ~ 2 hours 5 minutes");

movies[idx].writeup = escape("<BR>The modern primitivist painter Séraphine de Senlis was discovered when \

the German art collector, dealer, and gay expatriate Wilhelm Uhde visited her rural French village prior \

to World War I. This transcendent biopic charts the artist s rise and fall from her lowly station as \

Uhde s psychologically unstable, devoutly Catholic maid to her acclaim and fortunes during the Depression \

and World War II. <BR><BR>Writer-director Martin Provost and cowriter Marc Abdelnour explore the mutable \

boundaries between spirituality, naïveté, genius, and madness, showing how the two outsiders and polar \

opposites cultivated a mutual understanding.  Sparse and frankly realized, Provost's fictionalized \

portrait of this forgotten painter is a celebration of art and nature, and an acknowledgment of the \

costs involved in reaching the top.  <BR><BR><I>Seattle Int l Film Festival</i> ");

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movies[idx].title = escape("Treeless Mountain");

movies[idx].start_date = "8/28/2009";

movies[idx].end_date = "9/3/2009";

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movies[idx].when2 = "";

movies[idx].director = escape("So Yong Kim");

movies[idx].country_year_time = escape("USA/South Korea ~ 2008 ~ 1 hour 29 minutes");

movies[idx].writeup = escape("<BR>In ''Treeless Mountain,'' two girls, ages 6 and 4, are dumped off at \

their Big Aunt's house in a small Korean town by their mother, who is off to look for the boyfriend who \

abandoned her.  Mom tells her children that every day Big Aunt will put a coin in their piggy bank, and \

when it is full, she'll be back. The bank is full, worth about five bucks it seems, but mom is nowhere \

around. Big Aunt is an alcoholic and paying less and less attention, so the girls strike out on their \

own, piggybank in hand, looking for their mother. <BR><BR>So Yong Kim, a Korean American filmmaker, \

has made a minimalist masterpiece, a quiet movie of sharply observed details and two girls who will \

break your heart.  Kim is one of the best independent American filmmakers around. <BR><BR><I>San \

Francisco Chronicle</i>, G. Allen Johnson");

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