Dylan Kidd's first film, Roger Dodger (2002), was praised by many critics as an unsparing study of an unapologetic cad, but it struck me as unconvincingly glib.
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The object of some controversy as the first Thai movie directed by a Westerner, Paul Spurrier's horror tale about a young bar girl who channels dark spirits is altogether more generic, gorier, and sleazier than the Pang brothers' Bangkok-based chillers, but it hooks neatly into the Asian fascination with nubile young women as portals to the vengeful, primal forces of nature.
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Japanese teen drama, described as a “Romeo and Juliet romance,” involving warring ethnic factions in 1968 Kyoto; Kazuyuki Izutsu directed (2004).
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The title character of this Mexican political fantasy (2001) is a pop balladeer turned president (Jorge Zarate) who's supposedly assassinated during a reelection campaign.
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Like Fatal Attraction, this is a sort of horror thriller about encroachment on yuppie property and yuppie revenge for same; screenwriter Daniel Pyne and director John Schlesinger remove the misogyny, and occasionally muster some irony about the theme, but to little avail.
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Muscleman Vin Diesel goes all Kindergarten Cop on your ass in this Disney comedy, playing a navy SEAL assigned to protect a suburban mother and her five kids from Serbian secret agents.
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The third installment of an ongoing retrospective of the California undergrounder's work; included on the program are Lost in the Thinking (2005), Trek, Grizzly Redux Trailer, E.T. Outtakes, and Apple.
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Daniel Hernandez traces a rambling path through the life of brilliant flamenco guitarist Francisco Sanchez (known as Paco de Lucia), beginning with his wealthy background in Algeciras, Spain, and ending with one of his tours of the United States.
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