Taut, Terrifying Tilda
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(Sept. 2, 2010) Previews
THE AMERICAN. George Clooney stars as an American assassin in Italy in this thriller from Dutch director Anton Corbijn, whose background is in music videos (U2, Depeche Mode, etc.). Rated R for violence, sexual content and nudity. Opens Wednesday at the Broadway, Mill Creek and the Minor.
GOING THE DISTANCE. Romantic comedy about a couple, Erin (Drew Barrymore) and Garrett (Justin Long), who have a summer fling in New York City then try to maintain a long-distance relationship. The first non-documentary for director Nanette Burstein (On the Ropes). 97m. Rated R for sexual content including dialogue, language throughout, some drug use and brief nudity. Opens Friday at the Broadway, Mill Creek and the Fortuna.
MACHETE. Danny Trejo stars as the renegade federale Machete in a bloody action film from Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis, expanded from a faux trailer in Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse. 102m. Rated R for strong bloody violence throughout, language, some sexual content and nudity. Opens Friday at the Broadway and Mill Creek.
THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE. Part two in the Swedish film adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, this time with hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) accused of murder, again helped by journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist). 127m. Rated R for brutal violence including a rape, some strong sexual content, nudity and language. Opens Friday at the Minor.
Morris Graves Museum hosts another First Thursday film screening Sept. 2, this time featuring the local doc One More Line, chronicling the art and life of Jack Mays, a Ferndale artist who captures the essence of his picturesque Victorian village.
Thursday is also another Ocean Night at Arcata Theatre Lounge, sponsored by Ocean Conservancy, Humboldt Baykeeper and the Northcoast Environmental Center. This week it’s the surf flick The September Sessions, with surfer Kelly Slater and musician Jack Johnson in Sumatra; A Sheltered Sea: The Journey of The Marine Life Protection Act explaining why the MLPA is good for you; and A Seagull’s Dream, a documentary about an art/recycling project at Arcata Elementary teaching kids about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Saturday ATL gets in the back-to-school mood with National Lampoon’s Animal House, the frat comedy directed by John Landis with John Belushi as Bluto. Wear your toga. Sunday it’s Legend, a Ridley Scott fantasy with Tom Cruise battling the forces of Darkness (Tim Curry) to save a princess (Mia Sara) and the world.
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