http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/section.cfm?uid=60 Copyright 2009 Fairfield County Weekly TheOtherRoom.com CFML RSS Generator Tue, 17 Nov 2009 2:52:00 PM CST en-us Tue, 17 Nov 2009 2:52:00 PM CST http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15520 *** 1/2 Precious Directed by Lee Daniels. Written by Geoffrey Fletcher. With Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique and Paula Patton. (R) Weighing in with the year's most cumbersome title — the complete title is Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire — this long-awaited adaptation... By Ann Lewinson http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15520 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 5:52:00 PM CST http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15493 The Private Lives of Pippa Lee Connecticut Film Festival. Sat., Nov. 21. Palace Theater, 165 Main St., Danbury. Cocktails at 6:30 p.m.; film screening at 7:30 p.m., followed by an after-party at Two Steps Downtown Grille. $10. www.ctfilmfest.com The Connecticut Film Festival couldn't have... By Christopher Arnott http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15493 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:59:03 PM CST http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15407 ** Pirate Radio Written and directed by Richard Curtis. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Sturridge, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost and Kenneth Branagh. (R) During the British Invasion, just about the only place the English could hear rock music on the radio was, ironically, on pirate stations that broadcast... By Ann Lewinson http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15407 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 2:52:00 PM CST http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15356 An Education **** Directed by Lone Scherfig. Written by Nick Hornby, adapted from a memoir by Lynn Barber. With Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard and Alfred Molina. (PG-13) The most grievous epithet in the British lexicon is "boring," and Jenny, a 16-year-old middle-class schoolgirl who... By Ann Lewinson http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15356 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 1:34:17 PM CST http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15314 The History of Independent Cinema Bearmanor Media For those who think that independent film was invented by Steven Soderbergh in 1989, or John Sayles in 1980, or John Cassavetes in 1959, Phil Hall's The History of Independent Cinema offers a welcome crash course in the filmmakers and entrepreneurs... By Ann Lewinson http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15314 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 3:52:03 PM CST http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15224 ** Amelia Directed by Mira Nair. Written by Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan. With Hilary Swank, Richard Gere and Ewan McGregor. (PG) In her quest for a third Oscar, Hilary Swank dons slacks again as Amelia Earhart, with the assistance of Gateway Computers co-founder Ted Waitt, who acquired the... By Ann Lewinson http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15224 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:11:40 AM CDT http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15131 Article 32 Thu., Oct. 22. Royale 6 Cinemas, 542 Westport Ave., Norwalk. 7 p.m. $25; attendees will receive a DVD copy of the film. www.article32film.com. In the early morning hours of April 26, 2006, Hashim Ibrahim Awad was shot dead in the Iraqi village of Hamdania by seven U.S. Marines and... By Wendy Logan http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15131 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:11:40 AM CDT http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15138 **** A Serious Man Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. With Michael Stuhlbarg, Aaron Wolff, Sari Lennick, Richard Kind and Fred Melamed. (R) Why do bad things happen to good people? Or to put it another way, what if Llewelyn Moss hadn't taken the satchel full of money at the beginning... By Ann Lewinson http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15138 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 9:55:50 AM CDT http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=14917   *** Where the Wild Things Are Directed by Spike Jonze. Written by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers, based on the book by Maurice Sendak. With Max Records, Catherine Keener and the voices of James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose and Catherine O'Hara. (PG) If one were to imagine a perfect live-action... By Ann Lewinson http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=14917 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 9:55:50 AM CDT http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=14925 Michael Gordon Petersen, better known as "Charles Bronson," is the most violent — and, after engineering a prison riot, the most costly — prisoner in the history of the British penal system. Convicted of armed robbery in 1974, Bronson has remained incarcerated due to a series... By Drew Taylor http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=14925