This Weekend’s Movies

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Dear John: More romantic pap from Nicholas Sparks, with Channing Tatum as soldier and Amanda Seyfried as girlfriend back home. Directed by Lasse Hallström, “slumming for a paycheck,” says the New York Times.
From Paris with Love: John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys-Myers (feyest action hero ever?) in a superviolent CIA buddy flick. Directed by Pierre Morel, who did Taken.
• Still showing: Edge of Darkness, When in Rome, Legion, Tooth Fairy, The Book of Eli, Sherlock Holmes, Avatar in 3-D, Crazy Heart, The Blind Side, and Up in the Air (which I finally saw the other day and it was good, but among other impossibilities, there is no way on earth that those two characters are going to crash some lameass tech-convention party).

ANGELIKA
Terribly Happy: Danish David Lynch.
• Still showing: Saint John of Las Vegas, The Last Station, Crazy Heart, and A Single Man.

LANDMARK SUNSHINE
• Still showing: North Face, Creation, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (wasn’t a town in New Jersey named after him?), Broken Embraces, and The Road.

FILM FORUM
Ajami: A revenge killing in Israel, by Israeli and Palestinian co-directors.
Ran: Akira Kurosawa’s classic take on King Lear.
The White Ribbon: Pre-WWI German depravities from director Michael Haneke.

IFC CENTER
Falling Awake: Struggles of a young Latino musician (who busks in City Hall Park!).
Red Riding: Special Roadshow Edition: A modern-noir trilogy made for British TV by three different directors, in back-to-back-to-back screenings.
• Still showing: Antichrist; Fish Tank; Garbage Dreams; House; In Search of Memory; My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done; Off and Running; Police, Adjective; Still Bill; The Girl on the Train.
• Misc. screenings, including midnight-ish ones: The Shining, Total Recall, Shoot the Piano Player.

92YTRIBECA
Make-Out with Violence: “A boy trying to fulfill his unrequited love for a girl who has risen from the dead” (Fri., 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.).
• The Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival: Includes three shorts by illustrator Laurie Rosenwald, including one made with help from David Sedaris (Sat., 8 p.m.).

TRIBECA CINEMAS
Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club: Anansi (10:30 a.m. on Sat.) and Indian in the Cupboard (1:30 p.m. on Sat.).

 
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