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Night of the White Pants, TheNight of the White Pants, The (2006)
Dir. Amy Talkington
Feat. Tom Wilkinson, Nick Stahl, Selma Blair
Intriguing comedy–drama in which middle–aged businessman Tom Wilkinson is thrown out of his house (and marriage) with only the clothes…
No. 2No. 2 (Number 2) (2006)
Dir. Toa Fraser
Feat. Ruby Dee, Mia Blake, Emile Taungaroa
Playwright Toa Fraser adapts his acclaimed stageplay about a hard–bitten matriarch determined to bring her grandchildren together for a…
OffsideOffside (2006) Recommended
Dir. Jafar Panahi
Filmed using non–professionals, in and around the unfolding events of an actual World Cup qualifier, Jafar Panahi expertly weaves a…
Prairie Home Companion, APrairie Home Companion, A (2006)
Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Tommy Lee Jones
Reviving the musical scope of his 70s watermark NASHVILLE, Robert Altman’s last film lovingly dramatizes the backstage quandary of a live radio…
RepriseReprise (2006) Recommended
Dir. Joachim Trier
Feat. Anders Danielsen Lie, Espen Klouman-Høiner, Viktoria Winge
Touching, keenly perceptive Norwegian film fest favourite centres on two twenty–something writers whose vastly divergent personalities and…
Science of Sleep, TheScience of Sleep, The (2006) Recommended
Dir. Michel Gondry
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Emma de Caunes
A delightfully self–conscious, self–indulged fantasy for cine–wizard Michel Gondry, the director's follow–up to ETERNAL…
ShortbusShortbus (Short bus) (2006) Aro Favourite
Dir. John Cameron Mitchell
Feat. Sook-Yin Lee, Lindsay Beamish, Paul Dawson
A raucous, freewheeling comedy of intercourse from gay auteur John Cameron Mitchell, audacious in its employment of explicit sex, unknown actors and…
Sixty SixSixty Six (2006) Recommended
Dir. Paul Weiland
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Eddie Marsan, Stephen Rea
Gentle, uplifting British comedy–drama about a young boy preparing for his Bar Mitzvah in North London, which just happens to clash with the…
Sunshine Man, TheSunshine Man, The (2006)
Dir. Peter Tonks
A dark parable in short–film form from Wellington dir. Peter Tonks, concerning a seriously–odd telephone salesman whose frustrations in…
TV Set, TheTV Set, The (2006)
Dir. Jake Kasdan
Feat. David Duchovny, Sigourney Weaver, Ioan Gruffudd
Viciously accurate, insider–penned satire of TV networks and one man's efforts to develop his own show by the writer/director of ZERO…

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