Lots of new additions with this update, and several films get their dates shifted around as well. Its hard to decide which is the biggest addition. The documentary It Might Get Loud is certainly nice, their is the LeBron James documentary More Than A Game, Audrey Tatou’s new film Coco Before Chanel finally graces the booking sheet, and even the religion documentary Oh My God? looks to be an interesting addition.

But then we roll out the big guns. Mike Judge’s new comedy Extract, Lars von Trier’s new film Antichrist, John Woo’s Red Cliff and the whale, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story. Should be an interesting couple of months.

*** – Denotes recommended viewing
All dates subject to change

08/21 Inglorious Bastards Lagoon ***
08/21 Lorna’s Silence Edina
08/21 Soul Power Lagoon (NEW DATE)

08/28 Cold Souls Uptown ***

08/28 Taking Woodstock Lagoon ***
08/28 Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg Edina
08/28 Into Temptation Lagoon (NEW)

08/29 The Adventures of Robin Hood Edina (One Night Only) ***
08/30 The Bride of Frankenstein Edina (One Night Only) ***
08/30 It Happened One Night Edina (One Night Only) ***

09/04 Thirst Lagoon ***
09/04 The World’s Greatest Dad Lagoon (NEW DATE) ***
09/04 Extract Lagoon (NEW)
09/04 Afghan Star Lagoon
09/04 My One and Only Edina

09/09 9 Lagoon ***

09/11 The Baader Meinhof Complex Uptown
09/11 Captain Abu Raed Lagoon/Edina
09/11 Play the Game Edina

09/18 Bright Star Uptown
09/18 It Might Get Loud Lagoon (NEW)
09/18 The Beaches of Agnes Edina

09/25 Somers Town Lagoon ***
09/25 Paris Edina
09/25 The Other Man Edina
09/25 Burning Plain Edina/Lagoon

10/02 A Serious Man Uptown ***
10/02 Capitalism: A Love Story Lagoon (NEW)
10/02 No Impact Man Lagoon

10/09 Earth Days Lagoon
10/09 The Boys Are Back Edina (NEW DATE)
10/09 Amreeka Edina (NEW DATE)

10/16 Still Walking Lagoon
10/16 New York, I Love You Lagoon
10/16 Coco Before Chanel Edina (NEW)
10/16 More Than A Game Lagoon (NEW)

10/23 An Education Uptown
10/23 The Horse Boy Lagoon
10/23 Damned United Lagoon (NEW DATE)

10/30 Antichrist Uptown (NEW)
10/30 Canyon Lagoon (NEW)
10/30 Skin Edina (NEW)

11/13 Crude Lagoon
11/13 Young Victoria Edina (NEW)
11/13 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire Lagoon (NEW)

11/27 RED CLIFF Uptown (NEW)
11/27 Oh My God? Lagoon (NEW)

12/11 William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe Lagoon (NEW DATE)

12/25 Broken Embraces Uptown

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It has been a long road to get this review finished. Several months ago I finally got up the nerve to bug local film critic Colin Covert of the Star Tribune about checking out my site. Over the years I have attended numerous screenings that he has also been at and naturally we’ve discussed many of these films afterwards. After enough time we’ve developed enough of a rapport to occasionally rag on each others preferences but I’ve never pimped out anything of my own, as that would require gumption, so I was a bit apprehensive when I approached him that fateful Saturday morning.

It turns out that I had nothing to worry about as Colin was immediately interested in my little undertaking. We talked about the goals of my site and some of the movies I had enjoyed so far for a good solid 15 minutes when he quickly offered up his own recommendation for me to watch, The Saragossa Manuscript. He quickly described the film and remarked that not only was it Jerry Garcia’s favorite film, but that it had an ending that would “Peel your brain back!” Now I didn’t quite know what that meant, but it sure sounded awesome. All that was left was for me to simply track down this rare gem.

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Anna tends to head home to Brainerd, MN about once a month to visit her family. While I enjoy visiting her family, my job doesn’t afford the me the luxury of weekends off so I rarely can adjust my schedule to make these trips. And while I miss spending time with her on these weekends, I am afforded one small luxury. I get to watch movies for this site that she has absolutely no interest in.

Now, over the years we have both forced the other to watch movies that we knew the other didn’t want to watch. But in fairness to both of us, typically these are films that we were passionate about and simply wanted to share something we loved with the other person. Unfortunately, both of us have wildly different tastes. She is fiercely pretentious and very selective in what she will spend her time on. I am more of a buffet styled viewer, slopping anything and everything on the Netfix queue in the hopes I find a gem within the mountain of crap. She became a fan of Bill Murray after watching Lost in Translation, and refuses to watch any of his films previous to it. I am a fan of all Bill Murray films except Lost in Translation, because it sucks. She is a fan of Lars von Trier films like Dogville and Dancer in the Dark. I may have called her stupid for liking those movies. And so on and so forth.

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