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legendary French lilmmaker Jean-
Luc Godard seeks to indict modern
times with this drama set in post-war
Sarajevo Touching on the Middle East
and WWII, Notre Musiqueposits that
'reporters always visit the hells, and
tourists the paradises' Part of the UGA
French Film Festival. Shows Monday,
2/13 (Tate)
OT: OUR TOWN (NR) 2002 Winner
of the Aspen Filmfest Audience
Award lor Best Documentary Feature.
OT charts the challenging course
Catherine Borek and Karen Greene, two
teachers at Dominguez High School in
Compton, and their 24 students face in
putting on the school's first play in over
20 years, a production of Thornton
Wilder's Our Town Director Scott
Hamilton Kennedy's ooc also received
awards from the Heartland, the Los
Angeles IFP/West. the Palm Springs
International, and the Santa Monica
Film Festivals Shows Thursday. 2/9
(ACC Libiary)
THE PINK PANTHER (PG) Steve
Martin straps on a lun-nee' French
accent as the newest version of
Inspector Clouseau Ciouseauand
his partner (Jean Reno) are hot on
BeyorvcE's trail as they search for the
Pink Panther diamond, stolen alter
the murder of a famous soccer coach
(Jason Statham) The 'Him' (aren't
Martin's mispronunciations hilarious 7 )
is directed by Shawn Levy (Cheeper by
the Dozen) Peter Sellers is spinning in
his grave Opens Friday (Beechwood.
Carmike. Highway 17 Theatres)
RENT (PG-13) Jonathan Larsons
award-winning Rent was considered
edgy in 1996. but this modern take on
Puccini's La Bohdme is about as threat
ening as Rodgers and Hammerstein's
Nazis Yet it delivers a shock to the
heart through sheer musical force
Ends Thursday (Georgia Square 5)
RUMOR HAS IT... (PG-13) Proving
why making a pseudo-sequel to a clas
sic should never happen. Rumor plays
with the premise that The Graduate is
true. Starring Jennifer Aniston, Shirley
MacLaine and Kevin Costner. Starts
Friday (Georgia Square 5)
SOMETHING NEW (PG-13) The
newest chick flick is directed by Sanaa
Hamri and written by Kriss Turner (the
outstanding 'Everybody Hates Chris').
Is the film's depiction of love crossing
society's outmoded color boundaries
maliciously counter-productive in its
reproducing the Hollywood image of
the Europeanized African-American
female as 'attractive?* Nope This
sweet love story is too singularly
focused upon sorting out its romantic
entanglements to consider diving into
the deep end of the mixed-race dating
pool A textbook romance published
near exclusively for a female audience,
Something New places young, black,
uptight professional Kenya (Sanaa
Lathan) and young, white, 'works with
his hands* landscaper Brian (Simon
Bakei) together before pulling them
apart just to put them together again.
The complications ol black-white
romance—touched on through Kenya's
family (including Alfre Woodard and
Donald Faison of 'Scrubs'), friends
and IBM. or Ideal Black Man who
comes in the form ol Blair Underwood
- are grayed by Hamri s amateur
ish ardor for unnecessary camera
movement and Turner's script, on par
with a Lifetime-BET co-production
(Beechwood. Carmike)
UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION (R)
This sequel to the surprise werewolves,
vampires, and The Matrix ('Oh my!*)
hit of 2003 might better be subtitled
‘Devolution.* but then I would be im
plying that the story was ever evolved
The centuries-long war between
Vampires and Lycans continues raging
with skintightly-attired Death Dealer,
Selene (Kate Beckinsale). and her
lycan lover. Michael (Scott Speed man.
'Felicity') coming fang-to-claw with
the founders of their monster races.
bat-bitten Markus and wolf-mauled
William. A smattering of gore aside,
neither of the Underworld films pos
sesses a wh>t ol horror. (Carmike);
Ends Thursday (Beechwood)
WHEN A STRANGER CALLS
(PG-13) See Flick Skinny As a big
bad fan of horror, untazed by anything
Hollywood has released since the first
20 minutes ol Scream, imagine my
surprise at the Empire State Building
heights of terror generated by this
PG-13 remake by the director ol
Tomb Raider. Jill Johnson (Camilla
Belle) thinks babysitting in an isolated
lakeside house of glass, offering an
expansive mountain view, will be a
quiet night of ritzy fridge raiding Then
she answers the phone, thus begin
ning a night of dread that will paralyze
the bravest 16-year-old From the
audience's constant shrieking and my
increased heart rate, this StrangeTs call
communicates its terrifying message
Director Simon West and writer Jake
Wade Wall nearly stretch the central
gambit from Fred Walton's 1979
chiller to the breaking point, but due
to several flights ol logical fancy and
our heroine's moronic decision-making
skills, the tension bends without ever
breaking West even smartly plugs
in several visual references to the
original, in case any of its tans—be
sides me—happen by the theater An
atmospheric chiller, more about mood
than story. Stranger is happily remi
niscent of a good, but not great. John
Carpenter flick (Beechwood. Carmike,
Highway 17 Theatres)
YDURS, MINE & OURS (PG) In
another remake of a family classic.
Dennis Quaid plays Admiral Frank
Beardsley, a man with eight kids, who
marries Rene Russo as Helen North,
free spirit mother tc 10 kids of her own
This beats Cheaper By the Dozen any
day (Georgia Square 5)
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