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The Bothersome Man
Norway, 2006, 95 min.
Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment, and soon finds a girlfriend. But before long, he notices that something is wrong. A strong shot of new Nordic humor, this surreal parable won Best Film at the Hamptons International Film F... more
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End of the Line
Canada, 2006, 95 min.
Maurice Devereaux’s offers a new twist on a classic horror tale as a group of subway riders find themselves trapped in the underground by knife-wielding religious fanatics.... more
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Free Jimmy
Norway, 2006, 80 min.
Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Kyle MacLachlan and Jim Broadbent lend their voices to his outrageous Norwegian animated adventure in which a drug-addicted elephant escapes from the circus, only to be chased down by circus employees, sober animal activists, big-game hunters and the mafia.... 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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Inland Empire
USA, 2006, 179 min.
David Lynch’s mesmerizing, hallucinatory visit to the uncharted territories of the self displays all of the master’s strengths—it may well be his most extraordinary film—a culmination of all of the themes touched on in his other masterpieces, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drivemore
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Mojave Phone Booth
USA, 2006, 88 min.
A legendary lone phone booth stuck in the middle of the Mojave Desert accepts only incoming calls. It becomes the compass for four individuals who are looking for answers in their confusing lives. Steve Guttenberg heads up this splendid ensemble cast of characters.... 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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Taxidermia
Hungary, 2006, 90 min.
Three generations of men are each beset by an extreme obsessions—Vendel, by sex, Kalman, by gluttony and Lajos, by taxidermy. Young Hungarian hotshot György Pálfi’s eye-popping, savagely funny debut is a thinly disguised excoriation of the failure of his country’s successive governmental philosophie... more
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