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Movies opening this Friday:
>> "The Cookout": A young black pro basketball star holds the annual family barbeque at his new, upscale home in a stuffy, white neighborhood where his new and old lives clash due to his newfound wealth. Storm P plays the baller, co-starring Eve, Queen Latifah, Frankie Faison, Danny Glover and Farrah Fawcett. (PG-13)
>> "Paparazzi": When overzealous celebrity photographers cause a car accident that injures an action star's wife and son, the angered star plots revenge against the guilty photogs. (PG-13)
>> "Vanity Fair": Reese Witherspoon headlines this adaptation of the Thackeray novel about a cunning social-climber in 1820s London. Directed by "Monsoon Wedding" director Mira Nair, the film co-stars Jim Broadbent and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. (PG-13)
>> "Wicker Park": Josh Hartnett plays a broken-hearted guy who tries to recover from a painful breakup by returning to his old Chicago neighborhood. His whole world gets thrown for a loop, however, when he becomes obsessed with a woman he sees in a cafe, believing her to be his long-lost love, to the extent that he puts his engagement to a different woman on hold, as his search for the girl soon sends him down a dangerous path. Matthew Lillard, Rose Byrne and Diane Kruger co-star. (PG-13)
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Special film screenings scheduled this month
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On Thursday, "2," an experimental film from director Robert Pennybacker and cinematographer Ken Libby, will screen at 9 p.m. at the artspace, 1159 Nuuanu Ave.
Starring Donalyn Dela Cruz and Lopaka Kapanui, the production is about a local couple who attempt to overcome their differences by spending a day alone together with no outside distractions. She's a busy marketing executive and he's a Hawaiian rights activist, and although they attempt to spend some quality time with each other, their attempt becomes something quite different.
"2" was shot on high-definition video using improvisational storytelling, filmic structure, real-time dialogue scenes and spontaneous film scoring. Musicians will perform during the screening. There will be a $5 admission fee at the door.
Then on Sept. 10, filmmaker Nancy Kelly will attend the 3:30 p.m. Hawaii Theatre screening of her documentary "Downside UP," about America's largest museum of contemporary art, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, which opened in 1999 in an enormous abandoned factory in Kelly's impoverished hometown of North Adams.
This first-person documentary captures the experience of the townspeople struggling with the redefinition of their community -- working-class people who must find a common ground with art world visionaries without losing their sense of self.
Kelly's best-known previous work was "Thousand Pieces of Gold," starring Rosalind Chao and Chris Cooper, telling the story of a young Chinese woman who arrives in America during the later years of the gold rush as a slave.
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4. "My Place" Nelly
5. "Leaving New York" R.E.M.
6. "My Happy Ending" Avril Lavigne
7. "Goodies" Ciara feat. Petey Pablo
8. "American Idiot" Green Day
9. "Take Me Out" Franz Ferdinand
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