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BIG BUDGET FILMS

All the King’s Men (not yet rated) Remake of 1949’s Academy Award-winning Best Picture, adapted from Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning best seller based on the life of legendary, Louisiana Governor Huey Long. Southern drama chronicles the rise of an idealistic populist who finds himself compromised by the pressures of a corrupt political system. Star-studded cast includes Oscar-winners Sean Penn and Anthony Hopkins, nominees Kate Winslet, Patricia Clarkson and Jude Law, plus James Gandolfini and Mark Ruffalo.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS

The Matador (R for profanity and graphic sexuality) Odd couple comedy about a burned-out hitman (Pierce Brosnan) who befriends the traveling salesman (with Greg Kinnear) he meets in a bar in Mexico City by teaching the down-on-his-luck loser how to kill at a bullfight. With Hope Davis as the businessman’s wife back in Denver.

My Name Is Sabina Spielrein (Unrated) Deutsche docudrama chronicles the life and times of Sabina Spielrein (1885-1942), a Russian Jew who at the age of 18 became Carl Jung’s first mental patient, then the married shrink’s lover. Once cured, she went on to study psychoanalyst with both her Jung and Sigmund Freud before embarking on a celebrated career which was cut short when she and her two daughters were carted off to a concentration camp and exterminated by the Nazis. (In German with subtitles)