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lor the Venice Film Festival’s Golden
Lion, meanders interminably, constantly
rellecting upon its own cinematic image,
as a couple (Jean Paul Belmondo, Anna
Karina) hide out in southern France.
Pierrot le fou is nominally constructed
as a gangster lilm, yet the structure
is merely an excuse lor the liimmaker
to clown around and txeak as many
cinematic rules as possible in under
two hours. The film would he extremely
parodic were it not so damn lull ol itself.
Pierrot le fou may just be Godard's
greatest work, but the film is a challenge
to be admirably accomplished, not lazily
enjoyed. Starts Friday (Cin6)
R.E.M. LIVE (NR) R.E.M.'s first-
ever live CD/DVD, recorded/filmed in
Dublin in February 2005, is scheduled
to be released on Tuesday, Oct. 16. but
Ians can get an early treat the night be
fore at Cine. See Out There! and p. 33.
Shows Monday. 10/15 (Cin6)
RATATOUILLE (G) Remythe rat
(Patton Oswalt) dreams of being a
lop chef. Garbage boy Linguine (Lou
Romano) doesn't want to lose another
job. Together they become the gastro
nomic sensation of Paris. Ratalouille
again proves Pixar is king. Directed by
Brad Bird (The Incredibles). (Georgia
Square 5)
RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION
(R) Milla Jovovich returns as the ass-
kicking, DNA-modilied Alice in the
third installment of the Resident Evil
franchise. Chaos, of course, ensues.
At least the franchise has something
going for it: no wimpy PG-13 rating!
[Margaret Moore] Ends Thursday
(Beechwood. Carmike)
SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC
ADVENTURE (NR) Carmike hosts its
first National Geographic Giant Screen
3-D film, a documentary about pre
historic sea creatures. Photo-realistic,
high-resolution computer graphics
with a run time of 40 minutes. Narrated
by Liev Schreiber. (Carmike)
THE SEEKER: THE DARK IS
RISING (PG) Based on the Newberry
Medal-winning second novel in Susan
Cooper's The Dark Is Rising series, this
should at least please its targe! audi
ence, kids. On his 14th birthday, Will
Stanton (Alexander Ludwig) discovers
he is one of the Old Ones (Ian McShane
and-Frances Conroy), ancient, time
traveling warriors of the light destined
to do battle with the forces of fhe dark,
represented by The Rider (Christopher
Eccleston). Excitingly staged and
sometimes rousingly directed (the flick
is never static). The Seeker sucks the
viewer into its joining of our modern
world with an Arthurian mythos. A
tangible menace stalks Will's early
encounters with the darkls minions in
a mall and a crypt. But as the'story un
folds and the time travel increases, the
film unravels, getting sillier and sillier.
(Beechwood, Carmike)
THE SIMPSONS MOVIE (PG-13) I
can't help but greet the feature version
of this cultural institution with a single.
“D’oh!" As “South Park’ presciently
declared. “Simpsons did it." Every
surreal plot turn and nonsensical gag
are recycled. Ends Thursday (Georgia
Square 5)
SYDNEY WHITE (PG-13) Amanda
Bynes continues her cutesy teen roles
with her turn as Sydney White (as in
Snow White, get it?), an anti-sorority
girl who likes comic books and wears
Converse sneakers. A cute comedy for
teen girls. [Maggie Summers) Ends
Thursday (Beechwood)
THIRD WARD TX (NR) The Southern
Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers
returns with Andrew Garrison’s filmed
document of the palliative gentrification
undergone by a left-for-dead inner-city
Houston neighborhood, known as the
Third Ward, as a result of the guerrilla
art exhibit “Project Row Houses.’ To
be introduced by filmmaker Garrison
Shows Wednesday, 10/17 (GMOA)
TRANSFORMERS (PG-13) The
good-guy Autobots befriend young
Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf), who
aids them in their quest to stop the evil
Decepticons. The best adaptation of a
cartoon ever. (Georgia Square 5)
VALENTIN (PG-13) 2003. In Buenos
Aires, an eight-year-old boy is being
raised by his grandmother. When she
dies, he must solve all of his family’s
problems on his own. Written and
directed by Alejandro Agresti. Shows
Wednesday. 10/10 (GMOA)
THE WAY I SPENT THE END OF
THE WORLD (NR) 2006. A seven-
year-old boy plots to assassinate
Romanian dictator Ceausescu after his
17-year-old sister is sent to reform
school for knocking over a bust of
the communist leader. Co-written and
directed by Palme d Or winner Catalin
Mitulescu, The Way I Spent the End
of the World was honored with an
NHK Award from the Sundance Film
Festival and Petre won an Un Certain
Regard for Best Actress at the Cannes
Film Festival. Shows Thursday, 10/11
(ACC Library)
WE OWN THE NIGHT (R) Nightclub
owner Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix)
must save his policeman brother (Mark
Wahlberg) and poppa (Robert Duvall)
from the Russian mafia. Opens Friday
(Beechwood, Carmike)
WHY DID I GET MARRIED? (PG-
13) Tyler Perry transports his popular
stage play about marriage and fidelity
to the big screen. Four couples ponder
the reasons behind their various unions
after an adulterous incident. Opens
Friday (Beechwood. Carmike)
THE WILD BUNCH (R) 1969. One of
Sam Peckinpah’s many masterpieces.
An aging gang's (including William
Holden, Ernest Borgnine) way of life
is doomed by booming expansion and
industrialization. Ends Thursday (Cin6)
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