VOLVER Friday November 3, 2006
 VOLVER
is a meeting of “Mildred Pierce” and “Arsenic and Old Lace”,
combined with the surrealistic naturalism of my fourth film, “¿Qué
he hecho yo para merecer esto!!” (“What have I done to Deserve
This?”), that is, Madrid and its lively working-class
neighbourhoods, where the immigrants from the various Spanish
provinces share dreams, lives and fortune with a multitude of
ethnic groups and other races,
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FLUSHED
AWAY Friday November 3, 2006
 From
DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features, the teams behind the
Oscar®-winning hits “Shrek” and “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of
the Were-Rabbit,” comes the computer-animated comedy “Flushed
Away.” Blending Aardman’s trademark style and characterizations
with DreamWorks’ state-of-the-art computer animation, the film
marks a unique new look for the artform. more
UNKNOWN Friday November 3, 2006
 UNKNOWN unfolds in the style of
MEMENTO, a story told in reverse with an unforeseeable ending.
Five men wake up trapped in a chemical warehouse with no memory of
who they are or how they got there. They are forced to try to
figure out who is good and who is evil before it's too late. more
BORAT Friday November 3, 2006
 Jagshemash! Sacha Baron Cohen, the
star and creator of HBO’s "Da Ali G Show,” brings his Kazakh
journalist character Borat Sagdiyev to the big screen for the
first time. Leaving his native Kazakhstan, Borat travels to
America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical
consequences.
more
SANTA
CLAUSE 3 Friday November 3, 2006
 THE SANTA
CLAUSE 3
Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) is back as Santa Claus in the
hilarious new adventure, juggling family and the mischievous
Jack Frost (Martin Short). Holiday magic mixes with comical
chaos at the North Pole in THE SANTA CLAUSE 3.
more
STRANGER THAN FICTION Friday November 10, 2006
 One
morning, a seemingly average and generally solitary IRS agent
named Harold Crick begins to hear a female voice narrating his
every action, thought and feeling in alarmingly precise detail.
Harold’s carefully controlled life is turned upside down by this
narration only he can hear, and when the voice declares that
Harold Crick is facing imminent death, he realizes he must find
out who is writing his story and persuade her to change the
ending. more
A GOOD YEAR Friday November 10, 2006
 Oscar®-winner Russell Crowe reunites
with “Gladiator” director Ridley Scott in A GOOD YEAR, a Fox 2000
Pictures presentation of a Scott Free production. London-based
investment expert Max Skinner (Crowe) moves to Provence to sell a
small vineyard he has inherited from his late uncle. Max
reluctantly settles into what ultimately becomes an intoxicating
new chapter in his life, as he comes to realize that life is meant
to be savored.
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THE RETURN Friday November 10, 2006
 A new supernatural thriller starring
Sarah Michelle Gellar ("The Grudge," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer")
as Joanna Mills, a tough young Midwesterner determined to learn
the truth behind the increasingly terrifying supernatural visions
that have been haunting her. Joanna has made a successful career
for herself, as sales representative for a trucking company.
more
HARSH TIMES Friday November 10, 2006
 From the creator of "Training Day"
comes "Harsh Times," a gritty look at friendship, loyalty and
ambition set on the extremely rough streets of south central Los
Angeles. more
CAUTIVA Friday November 10, 2006
 Cautiva (in Spanish, with English
subtitles) is written, produced and directed by Gastón Biraben in
a dazzling debut. The film tells the story of Cristina, a typical
Argentine teenager. Her life is suddenly uprooted when she is
plucked out of class at the summons of a judge and the couple she
knows as her parents are revealed to not be so. more
CASINO
ROYALE Friday November 17, 2006
 Daniel
Craig stars as “007” James Bond, the smoothest, sexiest, most
lethal agent on Her Majesty’s Secret Service in Casino Royale.
Based on the first Bond book written by Ian Fleming, the story,
which has never been told on film until now, recounts the making
of the world’s greatest secret agent.
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FAST FOOD NATION Friday November 17, 2006
 When
it was published in 2001, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the
All-American Meal quickly became a New York Times bestseller, with
its incendiary, non-fiction exploration of the fast food industry.
The big screen version FAST FOOD NATION is a dramatic feature
penned by Fast Food Nation. more
HAPPY FEET Friday November 17, 2006
 I n the great nation of Emperor
Penguins, deep in Antarctica, you’re nobody unless you can
sing—which is unfortunate for Mumble (ELIJAH WOOD), who is the
worst singer in the world. He is born dancing to his own tune…tap
dancing.
more
BOBBY Friday November 17, 2006
 "Bobby," written and directed by
Emilio Estevez, revisits the night Robert F. Kennedy was gunned
down at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968. With an incredible ensemble
cast portraying fictionalized characters from a cross-section of
America.
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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION Friday November 17, 2006
 Christopher Guest turns the camera
on Hollywood for his next film, "For Your Consideration." The film
focuses on the making of an independent movie and its cast who
become victims of the dreaded awards buzz. more
LET'S GO TO PRISON Friday November 17, 2006
 Felon John Lyshitski (Shepard) has
figured out the best way to get revenge on the now-dead judge who
sent him to jail: watch the official's obnoxious son, Nelson
Biederman IV (Arnett), survive the clink. more
THE AURA Friday November 17, 2006
 THE AURA tells in first person, the
extraordinary trip of a character with no name, a taxidermist, an
introverted, obscure man who has a strange obsession: again and
again over recent years, he has planned and imagined the most
perfectly executed robberies. more
CANDY Friday November 17, 2006
 The film, which is the feature
helming debut of noted Australian stage director Neil Armfield, is
based on the prize-winning novel by Luke Davies and was adapted
for the screen by Davies and Armfield. In the film, recent
Oscar-nominee Ledger stars as Dan, a charming. more
WHO THE #$&% IS JACKSON POLLOCK? Friday November 15, 2006
 When Teri Horton, a 73-year-old
former long-haul truck driver with an eighth grade education,
bought a painting in a thrift shop for five dollars, she didn’t
know that it would pit her against the highest and mightiest
people in the art world and perhaps change forever the way art is
authenticated. more
DEJA VU November 22, 2006
 Everyone
has experienced the unsettling mystery of déjà vu--that flash of
memory when you meet someone new you feel you've known all your
life or recognize a place even though you've never been there
before. more
DECK THE HALLS November 22, 2006
 DECK
THE HALLS is a family comedy about one-upsmanship, jealousy, clashing
neighbors, home decoration…and the true spirit of the holidays. For
Cloverdale, Massachusetts optometrist Steve Finch (MATTHEW BRODERICK).
more
THE
FOUNTAIN November 22, 2006
 “The
Fountain” is an odyssey about one man’s eternal struggle to save
the woman he loves. His epic journey begins in 16th-century Spain,
where conquistador Tomas (HUGH JACKMAN) commences his search for
the Fountain of Youth, the legendary entity believed to grant
immortality. more
THE HISTORY BOYS November 21, 2006
 THE
HISTORY BOYS tells the story of an unruly class of bright, funny
history students in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or
Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master (Richard
Griffiths), a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test
scores (Stephen Campbell Moore),
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TENACIOUS D November 22, 2006
 There were two earth-shattering events
that took place in Los Angeles in 1994: the Northridge
earthquake and the birth of Tenacious D, the band headed by
Jack Black and Kyle Gass.more
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