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The Boss of it All
Denmark, 2006, 100 min.
Danish provocateur Lars von Trier returns with an unexpectedly breezy comedy about a company director who blames his office policies on an imaginary superior, but later must hire an actor to impersonate “the boss of it all.” Von Trier deviously pulls the strings for the unwitting marionettes... more
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Bosta
Lebanon, 2006, 112 min.
This rousing Lebanese musical tells the story of college troupe that tours the country in an old bosta (bus), performing a techno version of the national line dance that shocks conservatives, but paves the way for the future. The infectious soundtrack features compositions performed by British group... more
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Congorama
Canada, 2006, 105 min.
Michel, a Belgian inventor, learns he was adopted and heads off to Quebec to find his biological family. There he gets involved in an accident that has implications for the future of the automobile in this tangled comedy of hidden bloodlines and lost birthrights.... more
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The Curiosity of Chance
USA, 2006, 98 min.
When new high school sophomore Chance Marquis is bullied for being openly gay, he turns to a drag queen and a high school jock to help him fight adversity in Russell P. Marleau’s John Hughes-styled ’80s comedy. Winner of the Jury Award for Best New Director at Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.... more
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Go West
Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2006, 97 min.
Gay lovers Kenan, a Muslim cellist, and Milan, a Serbian student, fight to survive the brutal inter-ethnic wars of early ’90s Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dreaming of peace, happiness and acceptance, they travel west with one of them disguised in drag, in a film that provocatively addresses subjects once... more
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The Host
South Korea, 2006, 119 min.
Described by the New York Film Festival as “the decade’s best monster movie,” this slick and effective thriller about a creature rampaging Seoul and the dysfunctional family in pursuit of it has become a worldwide hit. Beneath the film’s scare-fest is a sharp and ironic critique of misdirected emerg... more
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Ice Cream, I Scream
Turkey, 2006, 100 min.
Made with over 2,000 residents of Mugla as the cast, this comic drama follows a single tradesman’s naive struggle for survival in the global economy. Ali decides to promote his homemade ice cream on a newly purchased scooter, but when the bike is stolen, he accuses his competitors of sabotage.... more
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Men at Work
Iran, 2006, 75 min.
Four men encounter a giant phallic rock, and decide to topple it. Based on a story by Abbas Kiarostami, this sophisticated comic allegory charts the foursome's increasingly elaborate efforts involving shovels, chain saws and even a donkey, and takes a gentle poke at gender relations.... more
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Monkey Warfare
Canada, 2006, 75 min.
The counter-culture is alive and well—and living in Canada—according to writer-director Reginald Harkema. His trenchant, funny (and Godardian) third feature is about two former revolutionaries living under the radar in Toronto, whose lives are disrupted by the entrance of a sexy young radical.... more
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Munnabhai Meets Mahatma Gandhi
India, 2006, 144 min.
Munnabhai, a lovable thug, falls for Jahnvi, a radio host. To impress her he pretends to be an expert on Gandhi, but the most unbelievable happens: Gandhi is giving him advice in this hugely successful comedy that makes you feel as if anything is possible.... more
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Oh, La La!
France, 2006, 92 min.
Take a cast of memorably mismatched characters—an old actress forgotten in a retirement home, a pool-boy at the Ritz, Bettina Fleischer, the star of a popular TV series, and Raphaël, a disturbingly handsome young man and you get a bittersweet and whacky comedy that received a radiant reception at th... more
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OSS 117: Nest of Spies
France, 2006, 99 min.
A box-office sensation in France and set in 1955 Egypt, French comic favorite Jean Dujardin stars as secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, a.k.a. OSS 117—James Bond crossed with Maxwell Smart, Austin Powers and a bit of the The Naked Gun thrown in for good measure. The Audience Award Winn... more
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Outsourced
USA, 2006, 98 min.
A pitch-perfect comedy on a hot-button issue, John Jeffcoat’s feature debut signals a bright new talent in the ranks of American independent filmmakers. Todd (Josh Hamilton) heads up the sales department in a Seattle-based company that sells cheap novelty products. After his entire department is out... more
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Severance
United Kingdom, 2006, 90 min.
In this hilarious horror film, a British sales team who have traveled to the wilds of Hungary for an off-site team building excursion, find that their executive skills provide little defense against the blood-thirsty locals out to massacre them.... more
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So Long, My Heart!
Switzerland, 2006, 90 min.
Set in modern-day Germany, So Long My Heart is a film about people who wait—for love, for happiness, or just for a time when things don’t feel quite so bad. It’s an unvarnished look at lonely people, looking for love, but not at just any cost.... more
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The Tiger and the Snow
Italy, 2006, 115 min.
Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful) plays an effusive poet who travels to Iraq right after the American invasion to rescue his beloved, who has been wounded in the war. His slapstick, absurd antics—obliviously walking through checkpoints and mine fields—highlight the war’s absurdity.... more
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Trantasia
USA, 2006, 92 min.
Trantasia is a voyeuristic look behind the scenes of the world’s first “Most Beautiful Transexual Pagent” in Las Vegas. Six contestants reveal what it is like to live as beautiful women. Trantasia presents the ultimate triumph of “sisterhood” in a moving humorous celebration of the human spirit.... more
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TV Set
USA, 2006, 88 min.
A comic look at the perils of the television business, TV Set follows neophyte screenwriter (David Duchovny) as he steers a TV pilot through casting and production, navigating his way through a morass of stars, managers, a hard-bitten network executive (Sigourney Weaver), and all of the industry’s g... more
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Twice Upon a Time
France, 2006, 92 min.
Alice, an immensely famous London stage actress, and Louis, a cult French film director, are two extraordinary personalities. They were the most strikingly glamorous couple of the ’70s, but haven’t seen each other since their abrupt, incomprehensible separation 30 years ago. This spicy reunion of a ... more
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Waiter
Netherlands, 2006, 97 min.
Like the recent comedy Stranger than Fiction, Waiter, features a sad-sack waiter with a miserable life who attempts to change his fate by seeking out the screenwriter who invented him and getting him to rewrite his story. Winner of the Golden Calf award at the Netherlands Film Festival.... more
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