This German drama from director Chris Kraus explores the intense relationship between a female prisoner and an older woman. A piano teacher, who is the older of the two, connects with the younger woman through classical music and eventually much more. (1 hr. 52 min.)
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A detective attempts to recreate a woman in the image of his lost love. (2 hrs. 8 min.)
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Jack Brooks’s nagging girlfriend thought that night classes might improve her plumber boyfriend’s career options. But that was before his professor (horror legend Robert Englund) turned into a horrific monster and freed a legion of his beastly brethren; now it looks like Jack’s job will be taking out the monsters one at a time. Newcomer Trevor Matthews stars as the tool-slinging hero of this horror comedy.
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The early 2000s have seen a string of big-budget remakes of classic horror films. In addition to THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and THE HILLS HAVE EYES, John Carpenter’s benchmark slasher flick HALLOWEEN has been given a new-millennial overhaul. At the helm of the project sits rocker Rob Zombie, whose previous films, HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES and THE DEVIL’S REJECTS, brought a fan’s touch and an auteur’s vision to the director’s chair. While Zombie’s HALLOWEEN is faithful to Carpenter’s vision, there are some obvious changes, the most pronounced of these being the substantial focus on Michael Myers’s childhood. The film posits Michael (played by a creepily vacant Daeg Faerch) as a troubled child made all the worse by a horrible home life–wonderfully illustrated via William Forsythe’s performance as Deborah Myers’s boyfriend–and constant abuse at school. Zombie paints Michael’s pain with palpable grit and sleaze, but he isn’t out to put our culture on the couch–he simply wants to show Michael killing his family. With the exception of Michael’s therapy sessions while incarcerated, the film, post-massacre, stays loyal to the original.
Zombie’s film is clearly the work of a filmmaker who knows and loves the genre. The director’s signature is stamped all over HALLOWEEN (most notably in the use of grainy home movie footage and a smokin’ classic rock soundtrack), although remnants of Carpenter’s brilliant original still remain. When it comes to remakes, it’s hard to ask for much more. (1 hr. 49 min.)
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Doctor Wu and his young son are ambushed on vacation and introduced to a new enemy - the Global Mafia.
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