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August 2009
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Misconceptions Release Date: 8/06/2009
In the comedy movie Misconceptions, from the same studio that
brought you the 2009 Best Foreign Language Oscar winner,
Departures, tells the story of a religiously conservative, married
southern woman receives a message from God instructing her to
act as a surrogate mother for a married gay couple; a Jewish doctor
and a black dance choreographer. All hell breaks loose when the
black man shows up unexpectedly at her deep-south home to
micro-manage her pregnancy, and refuses to leave. Staring in this
comedy are Orlando Jones,Sarah Carter, Sam Ball and David
Sutcliffe Directed By: Ron Satlof, Rating: R
District 9 Release Date: 8/14/2009
Academy Award winner Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings trilogy)
produced District 9 through his WingNut Films production
banner. Neill Blomkamp makes his feature film directing debut
with District 9, which he also co-wrote. The movie District 9
was shot in South Africa and depicts a fictional world where
extraterrestrials have become refugees in South Africa. Curiously
District 9 has a release date of August 14, 2009. August was, until
last summer, notoriously and typically the month that movie
studios reserved for movies they expect to bomb at the summer
movie box office. All eyes, will be on District 9 and how well it
does or does not do at the movie box office. Directed By: Neill
Blomkamp, Rating: R
It Might Get Loud Release Date: 8/14/2009
Who hasn’t wanted to be a rock star, join a band or play electric
guitar? Music resonates, moves and inspires us. It Might Get Loud
isn’t like any other rock’n roll documentary. Filmed through the
eyes of three different generations, audiences get up close and
personal, discovering how a furniture upholsterer from Detroit, a
studio musician and painter from London and a seventeen–year–
old Dublin schoolboy, each used the electric guitar to develop their
unique sound and rise to the pantheon of superstar. Rare discussions
are provoked as we travel with Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack
White to influential locations of their pasts. Directed By: David
Guggenheim, Rating: PG
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The Perfect Getaway Release Date: 8/14/2009
Cliff and Cydney are an adventurous young couple celebrating
their honeymoon by backpacking to one of the most beautiful,
and remote, beaches in Hawaii. Hiking the wild, secluded trails,
they believe they’ve found paradise. But when the pair comes
across a group of frightened hikers discussing the horrifying
murder of another newlywed couple on the islands, they begin
to question whether they should turn back. Unsure whether to
stay or flee, Cliff and Cydney join up with two other couples, and
things begin to go terrifyingly wrong. Paradise becomes hell on
earth as a brutal battle for survival begins. Directed by: David
Twohy, Rating: R
Taking Woodstock Release Date: 8/14/2009
Elliot Tiber played an unexpected but pivotal role in making
the 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the famed
happening it was. Tiber was the part-time manager of the Catskills
motel and had become the local town’s issuer of event permits,
granting himself one annually for a small music festival. When
he heard that the planned Woodstock concert had had its own
permit denied by a neighboring town, he called to offer his own.
Soon half a million people were on their way to Tiber’s neighbor’s
farm in White Lake, NY, and Tiber found himself swept up in
a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and
American culture, forever. Directed by: Ang Lee, Rating: R
The Time Traveler’s Wife Release Date: 8/14/2009
Based on the best-selling book, The Time Traveler’s Wife is about
a love that transcends time. Clare has been in love with Henry
her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even
though she never knows when they will be separated: Henry is
a time traveler, cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes
him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and
forth through his lifespan with no control. Clare desperately
tries to build a life with her one true love. Directed by: Robert
Schwentke, Rating: PG-13
Inglorious Basterds Release Date: 8/21/2009
During World War II a group of Jewish-American soldiers
known as “The Basterds” are chosen specifically to spread fear
throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing
Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a Jewish teenage girl
(whose family was exterminated by the Nazis) who works at
a movie theater in Paris - owned by a kind old lady who has
taken her in which, is targeted by the soldiers. The girl finds
herself in a unique situation when an infatuated German war
hero persuades his superiors to screen their latest propaganda
film at her theatre. Will she seek revenge? Directed by: Quentin
Tarantino, Rating: R
The September Issue Release Date: 8/28/2009
The September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine weighed nearly
five pounds, and was the single largest issue of a magazine ever
published. With unprecedented access, the movie The September
Issue, tells the story of legendary Vogue editor in chief Anna
Wintour (the real life person whom Meryl Streep’s Oscar
nominted character in The Devil Wears Prada was based), and her
larger-than-life team of editors creating the issue and ruling the
world of fashion. Directed By: RJ Cutler, Rating: NA
August - Museums in Movies
1. What museum is the main backdrop for 2006’s Night at the Museum?
2. What movie involves a fight scene at the Guggenheim Museum in NY?
3. What New York museum has been featured in Ghostbusters II, Dressed to
Kill, When Harry Met Sally, I Am Legend and Rocky?
4. What museum has been the focal point of the three following movies: How to Steal a Million, Band of Outsiders and
The Da Vinci Code?
5. Vertigo features which San Francisco museum?
6. In Woody Allen’s movie, Manhattan, which portion of the American Museum of Natural History is
a feature player?
7. Istanbul’s Topkapi Museum is the set of which daddy of all museum heist movies?
8. Los Angeles’ Temporary Contemporary Museum is featured in what 90’s Comedy?
1. The American Museum of Natural History 2. The International 3. The Metropolitan 4. the Louvre 5. Palace of Fine Arts
6. the planetarium 7. Topkapi 8. LA Story
In 2000, 3 masked thieves robbed Stockholm’s Swedish National Museum…