Short Versions, Take 5

A Decade Under The Influence, Anything Else, Ricky Gervais – Live, The Terminal, The Clearing, Control Room, Cinema 16, Gozu.

	A DECADE UNDER THE INFLUENCE (Featuring interviews with: Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, Marshall Brickman, Ellen Burstyn, Julie Christie, Francis Ford Coppola, Roger Corman, Bruce Dern, Milos Forman, William Friedkin, Pam Grier, Dennis Hopper, Sidney Lumet, Sydney Pollack, Jerry Schatzberg, Roy Scheider, Martin Scorsese, Robert Towne, Jon Voight, and many more ) Excellent documentary about the last true Golden Age of Cinema: The '70s with interviews of those who made seminal films intercut with footage of the movies providing an interesting time-line of how the influences of previous filmmakers changed the face of film-making. A must for all film buffs.
	ANYTHING ELSE What can you say about Woody Allen that hasn't been said already? His 36th full length movie is again about Freud, love, death, sex, being Jewish, women and the rest of the universe. Woody Allen gives his usual hectic fast-talking routine, Christina Ricci is gorgeous as ever, and Jason Biggs proves that he can do more than copulating with baked goods.
	RICKY GERVAIS – LIVE The genius behind “The Office” and his views on politics, the handicapped, Schindler's List, homosexuals, slave labour, and the truth in fairy tales. Some of it is in such bad taste it'll make you gag and squirm.
	THE TERMINAL The new Spielberg. Tom Hanks plays a guy who is forced to live in an airport he has just arrived in when political turmoil engulfs his country and his visa is revoked. What happens next is a funny mix of events as he tries to cope with his new home and the people around it. Along the way he encounters the cruel airport manager (Stanley Tucci) and a beautiful stewardess (Catherine Zeta-Jones).
	THE CLEARING The directing debut by producer Pieter Jan Brugge (Heat, Bulworth) is a serene thriller with apologetic but effective performances by Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, and Willem Dafoe who is mesmerizing as the confused yet gentle kidnapper.
	CONTROL ROOM A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Roundly criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian causalities as well as footage of American POWs, the station has revealed (and continues to show the world) everything about the Iraq War that the Bush administration did not want it to see.
	CINEMA 16 A compilation of sixteen short films from European filmmakers: Lukas Moodyson, Lars Von Trier, Jean-Luc Godard, Tom Tykwer, Jan Svankmajer, Nanni Moretti, Krzysztof Kieslowski and others.
	GOZU Takashi Miike, undoubtedly the most exciting contemporary filmmaker, delivers another bizarre, funny, horrific, and totally awesome masterpiece. Anything but banal, which is very rare today, Miike destroys an established cinematic situation, and comes up with something totally new: a Yakuza horror movie, somewhere between “Eraserhead” and “Goodfellas”. You won't believe your eyes.