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OPENING THIS WEEK:

Get Smart—Steve Carrell is Maxwell Smart in this adaptation of the popular 1960’s spy sitcom parody. Peter Segal (50 First Dates) directs a cast that includes Anne Hathaway, Alan Arkin, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Terence Stamp, and a lot of Second City-trained actors. See the interview this issue. Flix, Maple Ridge, Market Arcade, Regal Elmwood, Regal Hollywood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden, Transit Drive In

The Love Guru—In which Mike Meyers combines his admiration for Deepak Chopra, his ingrained Canadian love of hockey and his need for a new series character (now that both Austin Powers and Shrek are apparently played out). With Jessica Alba, Romany Malco, Ben Kingsley and Justin Timberlake. Directed by Marco Schnabel. Flix, Maple Ridge, Market Arcade, McKinley, Regal Elmwood, Regal Hollywood, Regal Transit, Regal Walden, Transit Drive In

The Rape of Europa—Joan Allen narrates this documentary about the European art masterpieces that were looted by the Nazis and the attempts of art historians to reclaim them. Directed by Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, and Nicole Newnham. Reviewed this issue. North Park

War, Inc.—John Cusack and novelist Mark Leyner wrote this political satire starring Cusack as a troubled assassin hired to kill a Middle East oil minister in order to make his country safer for the US corporation controlling it. Co-starring Hilary Duff, Joan Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Ben Kingsley and Dan Aykroyd. Directed by Joshua Seftel (“Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”). Reviewed this issue. Amherst

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Buffalo Youth Media Institute—A series of documentaries created by local high school students under the guidance of professional filmmakers and historians. Focusing on Buffalo’s Eastside, the program includes shorts about the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and it’s effects on the surrounding neighborhood, the closing of St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church, the work of Saint Luke’s Mission of Mercy, the Michigan Avenue Baptist Church, ArtSpace, the emergence of storefront churches and the Central Terminal. Sun, 3 pm. Market Arcade Film and Arts Center, 639 Main St. (855-3022).

“Chicano Sci-Fi”—Two experimental videos by Chicano-Aztec veejay that humorously imagine and illustrate radical border politics. In “El Naftazteca: Cyber-Aztec TV for 2000 AD (1995)” he performs the role of a pirate veejay who interrupts broadcast television signals from his bunker, offering viewers a radicalized entertainment. “The Great Mojado Invasion (The Second US-Mexico War)” is a mockumentary about a queue of mojados (“wetbacks”) who reconquer lost Mexican territory to establish the new “US of Aztlan,” establishing Spanglish as the national language and demonizing Anglos with the same stereotypes currently utilized against Latinos. Fri 8 pm. Hallwalls, 341 Delaware Ave. (854-1694/hallwalls.org).


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