Discland
edited by Jonathan Doyle
Mafioso (The Criterion Collection, 3.18.2008) Nino Badalamenti is a supervisor in a car manufacturing plant who hasn't taken a vacation in over two years. On his way out the door to visit his beloved childhood hometown of Sicily -- with his blonde wife and daughters -- Nino is handed a package by his boss and asked to deliver it to a powerful and influential Sicilian gangster named Don Vincenzo. Once in Sicily, Nino has a hoot seeing friends and family, but his wife has trouble fitting in and is unfairly dismissed as a snob by Nino's family. Even more worrisome, Nino finds himself entangled in an intricate web of secret mafioso dealings and is eventually sent on an unexpectedly... elaborate errand. (continued)

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Steven Spielberg's Munich (Universal, 12.23)

Steven Spielberg's Munich (Universal, 12.23) will run about 2 hours and 40 minutes with credits, according to Universal and DreamWorks sources. (Terrence Malick's The New World, which opens on 12.25, runs about the same.) Spielberg's spokesperson says he'll be vacationing starting around 12.20 or so and isn't planning on doing any dog-and-pony-show appearances in Los Angeles to promote Munich, but the word for some time has been that "we're letting the film speak for itself"). Spielberg does have a history, however, of enjoying Time or Newsweek cover stories to promote his important films (which he got from Time for Saving Private Ryan). The word is that one of these two rags (Time, most likely) will have a Munich cover on the stands next Monday...unless some big news event pushes it off.

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on November 30, 2005 at 10:22 AM

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