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10 Things I Hate About You 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) D: Gil Junger; with , , Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, David Krumholz, Andrew Keegan, Susan May Pratt, Gabrielle Union, Larry Miller. (PG-13, 94 min.) Girlie Night. This updated version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew provides a sharp examination of teen dating ritu- als. (*) @Alamo Ritz, Tuesday, 7pm.

rambling and sometimes misbegotten sequences. The film feels like a collection of sketches instead I AM LOVE D: ; with w , Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, of a mad, three-day, drug-and-sex-infused whirl from JACQUELINE SUSANN’S which junior A&R guy Aaron Green (Hill) has been , Pippo Delbono, Diane Fleri, Maria Paiato, deputized by his label boss Sergio Roma (Combs) to Marisa Berenson, Gabriele Ferzetti. (R, 120 min., subtitled) fetch debauched rock star Aldoux Snow (Brand) in “When I moved to Milan, I stopped being and fly him to Los Angeles for a commemora- Russian,” explains Emma Recchi, the austere, well- valley of the dolls tive performance at the famous Greek Theatre. Hill heeled wife, mother, and woman at the center of this and Brand have good chemistry as the mismatched swirling and gorgeous film. “There was too much couple. A side trip to Las Vegas and an aborted sex- of everything,” she continues, “in the shops, in the TWO BY FOSSE –– JULY 15-16 ual three-way slow the proceedings down for meager streets. I learned to be Italian.” American ideas of payoffs, and the rampant sexism and third-act moral- All That Jazz (1979) what it means to be “Italian” aside, what Emma Fosse’s autobiographical tale of a izing about the value of monogamy and sobriety may learns over the course of I Am Love is how to throw prove to be turnoffs to other viewers. Surprisingly, the workaholic director/choreographer. herself – body, soul, and sanity – upon the unex- 9:15 THU; 7* FRI women – Mad Men’s Moss as Green’s girlfriend and pected breakers of l’amour fou. It is her hope – and What’s Tappening?! Byrne as Jackie Q – deliver rich, sympathetic perfor- ours – that this prematurely dour beauty will thus * tap trio per- mances. (06/04/2010) – Marjorie Baumgarten forms in front of the theatre prior to regain an epicurean measure of the Emma that, the show. Fake it ‘til you make it! ★★★■Alamo Drafthouse South, Metropolitan presumably, once was and perhaps could still be. It helps tremendously that Emma is played, frighten- Lenny (1974) ; Valerie Perrine. ingly, fetchingly, by the breathtaking Swinton, who D: ; with , Biopic of controversial 1950’s GROWN UPS long ago cornered the market on that peculiar mix of , , , , , Lenny Bruce. ethereality and carnal gravitas that no other actor I 7 THU; 9:30 FRI Maria Bello, , Joyce Van Patten, Ebony Jo-Ann, Steve know of can touch. (07/02/2010) – Marc Savlov Buscemi, , Tim Meadows. (PG-13, 102 min.) ★★★★■Arbor BROADWAY BLISS –– JULY 17-18 A review of Sandler’s checkered past roles reveals a once-daring comic slooowly sinking out of sight in a cookie-cutter quicksand career that – I HATE LUV STORYS D: Punit Malhotra; with The Band Wagon (1953) Sonam Kapoor, Imran Khan. (NR, 135 min., subtitled) *Join us at 12:15 before the Sunday notwithstanding – has turned into a rote, stagger- screening for Cabaret & Mimosas, ingly unchallenging, and generally unfunny series Not reviewed at press time. In this Bollywood courtesy of Curtain Call! of riffs on none other than Adam Sandler™. Grown film, an assistant to India’s biggest romantic 2:15 SAT; 1:15* SUN Ups is the latest in an ongoing series of Sandlerian filmmaker is scornful of love, but then the cynic schmaltzfests that are at once achingly nostalgic meets a female production designer who lives for Broadway Melody morality tales and stuttery repetitions of everything love. (07/02/2010) – Marjorie Baumgarten of 1940 (1940) that has come before. The manic, hair-trigger man- Superb dancing by Fred Astaire & Tinseltown South Eleanor Powell; great songs by Cole child is almost entirely replaced by some sort of Porter—what more could you want? child-man who looks longingly to the past in an effort IRON MAN 2 D: Jon Favreau; with Jon Favreau, Robert 4:35 SAT; 3:35 SUN to forestall the future. Thus we get the harried dad Plus Warner Brothers cartoons! of Click, the other harried dad of Bedtime Stories, Downey Jr., , , , and Grown Ups’ successful (but harried) Hollywood , Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Clark Gregg, Paul CULT CLASSIC –– JULY 17-18 agent (and dad) Lenny Feder, who reunites with his Bettany, Leslie Bibb, Garry Shandling. (PG-13, 124 min.) four best friends from the old junior high school Despite its high tech sheen and overstuffed cast Valley of the Dolls (1967) basketball team only to realize that his current of characters, played by some of the best actors in Unintentionally (?) hilarious adapta- life, wife, and kids are drowning in the shallows. tion of Jacqueline Susann’s bestseller. the land, this mega-mecha melee manages to give We’ll provide “the dolls” for the first (06/25/2010) – Marc Savlov short shrift to both the airborne action set-pieces ★ 100 to attend each screening. Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country that define Iron Man’s zoomy panache and incom- 7 SAT; 8:30 SUN Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, ing supervillain Whiplash, aka Ivan Vanko (Rourke). Highland, Gateway, Gold Class, Lakeline, Tinseltown Vanko’s interactions with Iron Man (Downey Jr.) and (1995) Jessie Spano’s gone bad! SUN only: North, Tinseltown South, Westgate Iron Man knockoff/upgrade War Machine (piloted by Before you enjoy the trainwreck Cheadle’s Col. Rhodes) seem poorly thought out, that is Showgirls, join us for some and the climactic battle scene busies itself with light-hearted strip-tease aerobics. explosions and comes to a perfunctory conclusion. 9:30 SAT; 6 SUN It’s admittedly tough to follow up the slam-bang snark of Favreau’s initial Iron Man. Thankfully, GABLE & FLYNN: KINGS OF ADVENTURE –– JULY 20-21 Downey is every bit as good this time around as he was previously. In a comic-book universe crammed Mutiny on to bursting with almost 50 years of Stan Lee’s the Bounty (1935) four-color melodramatics, Iron Man 2, while no Clark Gable, Charles Laughton. slouch in the summer matinee department, finally Directed by Frank Lloyd. feels like a setup for the upcoming Avengers movie. Best Picture Oscar. (05/07/2010) – Marc Savlov 7 TUE; 9:25 WED ★★★■Movies 8, Metropolitan Captain Blood (1935) Errol Flynn & . JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF Flynn plays an Irish physician w forced to become a pirate— WORK D: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg. (R, 84 min.) dashingly good fun! Comedy Gone Wrong Stern and Sundberg (award-winning filmmakers 9:40 TUE; 7 WED Comedy Gone Wrong The Show With No of such politically conscious docs as The Trials Name. Comedian Andy Ritchie and The Show With of Darryl Hunt and The Devil Came on Horseback) KARLOFF — KING OF HORROR –– JULY 23 No Name’s Charlie Sotelo have combined their could hardly avoid the subject of Rivers’ famously PLEASE NOTE THE JULY 22 SCREENING HAVE BEEN CANCELED DUE TO SCHEDULING CONFLICTS individual collections of deranged amateur audi- doctored face. In fact, an early montage deftly tion tapes and disastrous onstage appearances charts both the evolution of that face, from a by well-known figures to create this unique show. not-unattractive angularity to her modern-day, Paramount Theatre | 713 Congress | 472-5470 Special guests and surprises are promised. tautly puffed and leonine look, and her remark- ¾K`Zb\kj`e]fXk austintheatre.org/fi lm @Alamo Ritz, Monday, 7:45pm. able career. The mounting of an autobiographical

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