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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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Horn's Telluride calls

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In an article running today, L.A. Times guy John Horn has listed four likely Telluride Film Festival selections that I haven't yet posted, to wit:

(a) Adrienne Shelly's Waitress , with Kerri Russell as a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south who falls into an affair with a visitor as an attempt to get out of her situation and redefine her life; (b) Susanne Bier's After the Wedding (sure to be strong and absorbing in the vein of Bier's Brothers and Open Hearts); (c) Florian Henckel-Donnersmarck's The Life of Others, said to be "a black comedy about spying in 1980s East Germany", and (d) Louise Osmond's Deep Water,a documentary about a catastrophic sailing race in 1968.

Horn's other Telluride calls are Infamous (seen it), Fur (said to be a bit too arty for its own good), Babel (great), The Last King of Scotland (featuring Forrest Whitaker performance as General Idi Amin), Roger Michell's Venus, Asger Leth and Milos Loncarevic's Ghosts of Cite Soleil , and Christopher Smith's Severance.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on August 30, 2006 at 11:19 AM

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Gabriel says ...

Since when did "river" become a verb?

Posted by Gabriel at August 30, 2006 12:01 PM

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T.H.Ung says ...

This is very anti-climatic.

Posted by T.H.Ung at August 30, 2006 12:06 PM

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T.H.Ung says ...

I love it, a movie more expensive than the Arclight.

"Over the weekend, if seats remain in the theaters after all passholders have been admitted, individual tickets, priced at $20, will be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis at the venues."

Posted by T.H.Ung at August 30, 2006 12:16 PM

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T.H.Ung says ...

Man, if you read the article, the festival sounds like so much fun to attend. Anne Thompson blogged she's going, so hope she keeps me plugged in. I'll be checking on my Motorola Q phone at the beach.

Posted by T.H.Ung at August 30, 2006 02:12 PM

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kittyn says ...

As for Fur being "too arty for its own good" it's hilarious when a financier, distributor and big movie star all commit to a very arty director's movie and then are surprised when the film turns out arty.

Posted by kittyn at August 31, 2006 07:19 AM

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IClavdivs says ...

So, what if Fur is arty. I don't hear Shainberg complaining. If he wanted to make an arty film then good for him. God knows cinema could do with more arty even pretentious films made by American directors rather than just European directors.

Posted by IClavdivs at August 31, 2006 01:50 PM