The Week in Movies, Sept. 28 - Oct. 4

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cinema092807.jpgAnother classic free movie bonanza on campus this week. For the 'thequies, it's Satyajit Ray's Nayak and Jean-Luc Godard's Passion and Prénom: Carmen. At the Union, they've got four different movies showing in 35mm at the Play Circle: the Wisconsin Film Fest horror/comedy hit Severance, Michael Moore's Sicko, a free preview of the Farrelly Bros.' remake of The Heartbreak Kid and Werner Herzog's classic Aguirre: The Wrath of God (pictured) -- all free. (As is the DVD screening of Empire Records at Union South.) Out in commercial cinemas, it stays pretty interesting: Across the Universe, the protest musical scored to all Beatles songs from Julie Taymor, one of the more outré directors we've got -- let's hope for greatness; The Devil Came on Horseback, the big Darfur documentary; Feast of Love, a mostly excoriated white-guy's-angst movie whose incidental nudity has earned the nickname Feast of Tits; The Game Plan, with the Rock -- who really could be the next Schwarzenegger -- going the Kindergarten Cop route too early; The Kingdom, a hellzapoppin' FBI-in-Iraq procedural starring Jamie Foxx and Jessica Biel, directed by Peter Berg, who's one of our more engaging new directors; In the Shadow of the Moon, a NASA hagiography, which I hope doesn't sound pejorative -- I haven't seen the movie, but expect beauty a la For All Mankind; Killer of Sheep, a Wisconsin Film Fest sellout that I recently reviewed for Flak Magazine; and Trade, a thriller grown from the New York Times' sensational(ist?) sex-slave reporting. At the drive-ins: Mr. Woodcock with Shoot 'Em Up in Jefferson and Rush Hour 3 with Hairspray in Monroe. Opening at the budgets: Becoming Jane and Transformers.

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