Not many changes this week, but a few new additions to the schedule. Summer Hours, Betty Blue: The Director’s Cut, In the Loop, Shrink, and The Cove now have release dates.

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

 05/01 Goodbye Solo Lagoon
05/01 Is Anybody There? Edina ***

05/08 Anvil! The Story of Anvil Uptown ***
05/08 Lymelife Lagoon
05/08 Star Trek Lagoon
05/08 Lemon Tree Edina

05/15 The Limits of Control Uptown ***
05/15 Angels and Demons Lagoon
05/15 Management Lagoon
05/15 Tokyo Sonata Lagoon/Edina ***

 05/22 Brothers Bloom Uptown
05/22 Adoration Edina
05/22 Gigantic Lagoon
05/22 Every Little Step Edina
05/22 The Girlfriend Experience Edina

05/29 Rudo Y Cursi Uptown
05/29 The Song of Sparrows Lagoon

06/05 Revanche Lagoon
06/05 Little Ashes Lagoon
06/05 Easy Virtue Edina (tentative)

06/12 Away We Go Uptown/Lagoon
06/12 Enlighten Up! Lagoon
06/12 Departures Edina

06/19 Food Inc. Uptown/Lagoon
06/19 O’Horten Lagoon
06/19 Summer Hours Edina (NEW)

06/26 Cheri Uptown/Edina
06/26 MOON Lagoon ***
06/26 The Country Teacher Lagoon
06/26 The Stoning of Soraya M. Edina

07/10 Whatever Works Uptown
07/10 The Girl From Monaco Edina

07/17 The Hurt Locker Uptown (tentative)

07/24 500 Days of Summer Uptown
07/24 Betty Blue: The Director’s Cut Lagoon (NEW)

07/31 In the Loop Uptown (NEW)
07/31 Shrink Edina (NEW)

08/07 The Cove Uptown (NEW) ***

08/14 Not Quite Hollywood Lagoon ***
08/14 Adam Edina

08/21 Lorna’s Silence Edina

I’ve been tossing around the idea of posting the booking sheet for the Minneapolis Landmark Theaters for some time. My initial concern was that it might step on Andrew’s What’s Happening posts, but decided that his is devoted to the upcoming week’s special events while this is primarily just a list of films that will be released over the coming months. More like a first glance while Andrew provides the needed filler once the opening dates arrive. Though any thoughts on whether I should keep up with these posts would be greatly appreciated.

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

04/24 The Soloist Lagoon (tentative)
04/24 Tokyo! Lagoon ***
04/24 Sugar Edina

05/01 Goodbye Solo Lagoon
05/01 Is Anybody There? Edina ***

05/08 Anvil! The Story of Anvil Uptown ***
05/08 Lymelife Lagoon
05/08 Star Trek Lagoon (tentative)
05/08 Lemon Tree Edina

05/15 The Limits of Control Uptown ***
05/15 Angels and Demons Lagoon
05/15 Management Lagoon
05/15 Tokyo Sonata Lagoon/Edina ***

05/22 Adoration Uptown/Edina
05/22 Brothers Bloom Uptown
05/22 Gigantic Lagoon
05/22 Every Little Step Lagoon/Edina
05/22 The Girlfriend Experience Lagoon/Edina

05/29 Rudo Y Cursi Uptown
05/29 Song of Sparrows Lagoon

06/05 Revanche Lagoon
06/05 Little Ashes Lagoon
06/05 Easy Virtue Edina

06/12 Away We Go Uptown/Lagoon
06/12 Enlighten Up! Lagoon
06/12 Departures Edina

06/19 Food Inc. Uptown/Lagoon
06/19 O’Horten Lagoon

06/26 Cheri Uptown/Edina
06/26 MOON Lagoon ***
06/26 The Country Teacher Lagoon
06/26 The Stoning of Soraya M. Edina

07/10 Whatever Works Uptown
07/10 The Girl From Monaco Edina

07/17 The Hurt Locker Uptown (tentative)

07/24 500 Days of Summer Uptown

08/14 Not Quite Hollywood Lagoon ***
08/14 Adam Edina

08/21 Lorna’s Silence Edina

Finally a week in which their are multiple quality selections to choose from for theatrical releases. Granted the mainstream offerings at the multiplex are awful, but between Alien Trespass, 12 and Adventureland you have plenty of quality options to choose from. Though my recommendation is for Adventureland, which is nothing like the baudy sex comedy that it is being marketed as. Rather it is a rich coming of age story that is surprisingly dark, very dense and very rich. I might even say it is the fillet of this weeks offerings.

As for DVD releases, they are almost universally crap, excepot for one lone, rogue film. You might know it as the film I used to launch a totally unprevoked, and ultimately futile, attack of Star Tribune film critic Colin Covert. That’s right, just two weeks after it was released in theaters, Shuttle is being released on DVD. So now is your chance to rent the film, and discover for yourself just how right, or wrong Colin is.

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While mainstream theaters are being deluged with mediocre films, here in Minneapolis we have a few Independent films being released that look very interesting. First off is Frederico Fellini’s Amarcord, which is getting an exclusive re-release at the Lagoon. And while I’ve heard it is fantastic, the film I am even more interested in viewing is Everlasting Moments, the Swedish film perhaps best known for being submitted for Oscar consideration over Let the Right One In.

DVD releases are a bit drier as the mainstream films are almost universally awful, so the weight of the week falls upon the foreign film releases. Of course the big name release is Slumdog Millionaire, but make sure to keep an eye out for the French thriller Tell No One and the Spanish time travelling genre film TimeCrimes.

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I’m having a hard time coming up with a recommendation for a theatrical release this week. The mainstream release is Defiance, which sucks something awful, and the only new Oscar bait being released in the arthouse theaters is Revolutionary Road. I’m sure it has fine acting and is all wonderfully melodramatic, but I find myself only passably interested in it because it looks like Mad Men only not as good. So go see it if you must, like I care.

As for DVD releases the picking there aren’t much better. Though that has more to do with me having not seen any of them as far as I can tell. Thus this week I will shirk my responsibilities and pass off the recommendation onto Daniel Getahun over at Getafilm.com who has seen The Grocer’s Son and liked it quite a bit. So go read his short review (and the rest of his excellent site while you are at it), rent the movie and if it stinks remember that I’m just the messenger, he’s the one who sucks.

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