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| Slick's Flick Picks |
Bet you can't say it quickly three times!
| I've seen several films by this director (Zhang Yimou) films and liked them all. (The best known is probably Raise the Red Lantern.). In English and Japanese with subtitles. NR. |
| Worth Renting, Foreign Language/Bilingual |
| This film is based on the book of the same title, by Khaled Hosseini, about two Afghani boys who love to fly kites, but it's really about friendship, loyalty and the impediments imposed by class differences. One of the best movies that I've seen in a long time. In Afghani with subtitles and English. Its soundtrack is equally compelling. Rated PG-13. |
| This Cannes festival winner is about an Egyptian Police Band that gets lost in a desolate Israeli desert and their interactions with everyday folks in the Jewish town where they end up. Besides being very funny and endearing, it's a very compelling statement about the humanity common among all of us. In English and Arabic with subtitles. Rated PG-13. |
| A Cannes festival winner, this one takes place in 1986 in the Romania of the Ceausescu era. It shows life under a Stalinist regime and the universal burdens carried by women. In Romanian with subtitles. NR. |
| Who would have thought that a black-and-white cartoon about a girl's coming of age under the Iranian Revolution would be feel so real and be so visually beautiful? After you see it, you can understand how it earned a Jury award at Cannes. In French with subtitles. Rated PG-13. |
| Based on a true story and book, this film depicts the biggest counter- feiting operation in history. Hoping to ruin the GB and US economies, the Nazi "Operation Bernhard" forced two dozen Jews -- most of whom were printers prior to being sent to a concentration camp -- to print bogus bills. In German, Russian, French and Hebrew with subtitles and English. R. |
| Putting aside that it's the bloodiest movie that I've ever seen with the possible exception of Pulp Fiction, this film made me want to learn more about Genghis Khan, whose earliest years it depicts. I admittedly don't know how historically accurate it is, but the landscapes alone make it well worth seeing. In Mongolian with English subtitles. Rated R. |
| Part of the local Asian Film Festival, this Canadian made film depicts the lives of a peasant family being up-rooted by the Three Gorges Dam, mainly from the perspective of the oldest daughter, who's sent to work on a tourist boat. In English and Chinese with English subtitles. NR. |
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| Based on Vikas Swarup's book, Q&A, this film about the harrowing lives of three Mumbai orphans has been called a modern David Copperfield. It's about commitment, abuse of power and resiliency. Stay for the credits. In English, and Hindi with subtitles. R. |
| More violent than I'd expected, but a worthwhile redemption flick about the tensions between an angry Korean War veteran and his Hmong immigrant neighbors. In English and Hmong. R. |
| A typically spare and at times melancholy film about a woman in an uninspiring marriage to an alcoholic that finds a camera and, with it, opens up a new world for herself and, eventually, her growing family. In Swedish and Finish. NR. |
| About a young Dominican baseball pitcher's coming of age struggles to adjust to the US and, more so, to life without his family still back home. In Spanish with subtitles and English. Rated R. |
| About a Palestinian widow that barely supports herself on the small lemon orchard, once planted by her grandfather. The Israeli minister of defense moves into a house on one property line and tries to evict her, lest bad guys shoot from a lemon tree. The Palestinian finds an attorney to take her case all the way to the Israeli supreme court, as the defense minister's wife sympathies increasingly shift toward her neighbor. In Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles. NR. |
| Three grown children of a widow work through how to dispose of the home and its contents for which they have emotional investments, but not enough to keep. French with subtitles. NR. |
| About a laid-off cellist that takes a job preparing the deceased for burial, and discovers much more about himself and life than he foresaw. PG13. |
| About two little girls sent to live with relatives when their mom leaves to find her estranged husband. Besides being a good story, it was interesting to see Korean cities and countryside. Unrated. In Korean, with English subtitles. Village 8, part of the annual Asian Film Festival. |
| A documentary about Western wildlife advocates' use of high-tech recording equipment to publicize the slaughter of dolphins by fishers that lure them into a cove on the Japanese coast. Includes interviews with the man that trained Flipper in the 60s. In English, and Japanese with subtitles. Rated PG-13, but would disturb animal lovers of any age. |
| This fascinating film is based on a true story about four-year search for the toddler boy presumed to be the reincarnation of Tibetan Buddhist Lama Konchong. In English, Tibetan, Hindi and Nepali. Unrated. |