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PIERROT LE FOU (NR) 1965. A near-
perfect example of Godardian cinema,
the scriptless Pierrot le fou meanders
interminably, constantly reflecting upon
its own cinematic image, as a couple
(dean Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina)
hide out in southern France. Shows
Wednesday, 10/17 (Cin6)
RANDY AND THE MOB (PG) Writer-
director-star Ray McKinnon (The
Accountant, “Deadwood”) will be in
town this weekend to talk about the
film! See Movie Pick and Pub Notes on
p. 3. Starts Friday (Cin6)
RATATOUILLE (G) Remy the rat
(Patton Oswalt) dreams of being a top
chef. Garbage boy Linguine doesn't
want to lose another job. Together they
become the gastronomic sensation
of Paris. Directed by Brad Bird (The
Incredibles). (Georgia Square 5)
RENDITION (R) CIA analyst Douglas
Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal) questions
his assignment while attending to the
interrogation of an Egyptian terror sus
pect at a foreign detention facility. Back
in the States, the suspect's wife (Reese
Witherspoon) is doing everything pos
sible to uncover what happened to her
husband From 7so/s/director Gavin
Hood. Opens Friday (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) This film is based on the
Newberry Medal-winning second novel
in Susan Cooper’s popular The Dark
Is Rising series. On his 14th birthday,
Will Stanton (Alexander Ludwig) dis
covers he is one of the Old Ones (glee
fully played with silly, secretiveness
by Ian McShane and Frances Conroy),
ancient, time-traveling warriors of the
light). As the story unfolds and the
time travel increases, the film unravels,
getting sillier and sillier. Ends Thursday
(Beechwood, Carmike)
STARDUST (PG-13) Director Matthew
Vaughn and co-writer jane Goldman
ably streamline Tristran's (Charlie Cox)
quest for fallen sta^Yvaine (Claire
Danes), while expanding his crusade
to save his true love from the evil witch
(Michelle Pfeiffer). Too bad the film
lacks the star power to connect with
its audience. Ends Thursday (Georgia
Square 5)
THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE
(R) Recent widow Audrey Burke (Halle
Berry) copes with her grief by hav
ing her dead husband’s troubled best
friend, Jerry Sunborne (Benicio Del
Toro), move in with her and her two
children. Considering Suzanne Bier,
the director of After the Wedding, is
behind the camera, Things We Lost in
the Fire has mad potential. With David
Duchovny. Opens Friday (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
Deceptions from eradicating mankind.
Transformers is the best adaptation of a
cartoon ever. (Georgia Square 5)
WE OWN THE NIGHT (R) We Own
the Night\e\\s a very familiar gangland
tale rife with familial tensions and an
uber-serious striving for honor. The
Grusinskys—daddy Burt (a meaning-
lessly heroic Robert Duvall), older
brother Joseph (Mark Wahlberg, who
seems to have walked straight over from
The Departed set, wardrobe and all),
and baby bro Bobby Green (Joaquin
Phoenix)—are like any family made up
of two career cops and a screw-up club
owner. When the cop side of the family
runs afoul of the Russian mafia, every
thing goes to hell in a couple of lamely
staged shootouts that put Joe in the
hospital and Bobby and his Latina girl
friend (a useless Eva Mendes) in police
protection. Writer-director James Gray
(Little Odessa, The Yards) is going for
something a lot more operatically grand
than his film accomplishes. We Own the
Night is all thespian bark and little nar
rative bite. (Beechwood. Carmike)
WHY DID I GET MARRIED?
(PG-13) Tyler Perry's latest film
furthers the multi-hyphenate's brand
of over-dramatized pap I’ve come to
expect and look forward to. The marital
dirty laundry of four couples—Terry
and Diane (Perry and Sharon Leal of
Dreamgirls), Patricia and Gavin (Janet
Jackson and Malik Yoba), Angela and
Marcus (Tasha Smith of Daddy's Little
Girls and Michael Jai White, who I’ll
always remember from Spawn), Sheila
and Mike (Jill Scott and Richard T.
Jones of “Girlfriends’ and G)—is
aired during a week-long sojourn in
the Colorado mountains. This frank
look at marriage wears the worn-out
conjugal clothing of a dead child,
workaholism, infidelity, etc. with Perry's
typically flat characters. Jones’ low-
down Mike behaves like such a P.O.S.
that I couldn't determine why Terry or
Gavin would have remained his friend.
Perry still writes dialogue for the stage;
songstresses Jackson and Scott nearly
choke on theirs. Yet. like all of Perry’s
dynamically melodramatic films, Why
Did I Get Married? is still humanly
engaging. (Beechwood, Carmike)
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