Film Fan Fridays for Friday July 24, 2009!

Hello Film Fans and Fanatics!

Welcome to Film Fan Fridays for Friday July 24, 2009! We have a huge slate of releases this week with 3 in regular release and 6 in limited release! Lets get started.

In limited release this week we have we start out with 2 music documentaries: Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae about the (you guessed it) roots of reggae and Soul Power about the 1974 concert in Kinshasa, Zaire 1974 during the Rumble in the Jungle. Can you feel the music? Docs continue with The Beaches of Agnes / Les plages d'Agnès written, directed and about filmmaker Agnès Varda. Jennifer Chambers Lynch hits the screens directing the controversial Surveillance, and the word is that Humpday questions rather than pokes fun at stereotypes & love and finally we have the French rom/com/thriller The Girl From Monaco.

In wide release this week we have the kids can be evil horror film Orphan, disaster looking rom com The Ugly Truth and combination live action and animated guineu pig advenute G-Force. If you are going to head out to see G-Force, make note that it is playing in 2D as well as 3D, make sure to check your local listings to get your best choice matched up.

Those looking forward to In the Loop like me will have to wait, it's been pushed from this weekend to Friday August 14, 2009. Dangnabit!

Have a great weekend!

Shannon

Friday July 24, 2009 Releases

The Beaches of Agnes / Les plages d'Agnès
Writer/Dir: Agnès Varda (A Hundred and One Nights, Cleo from 5 to 7 / Cléo de 5 à 7)
Documentary on film director Agnès Varda
France
Limited Release
Official Film Site, IMDb Page, Trailer

G-Force
Dir: Hoyt Yeatman - feature film directorial debut
Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Bill Nighy, Voices: Sam Rockwell, Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, Steve Buscemi
USA
Official Film Site & Trailer, IMDb Page

The Girl from Monaco
Dir: Anne Fontaine (Entre ses mains, Coco Avant Chanel / Coco Before Chanel)
Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Stéphane Audran, Roschdy Zem, Gilles Cohen, Alexandre Steiger
France
Limited Release
No Official Film Site Found, IMDb Page, Trailer

Humpday
Writer/Dir: Lynn Shelton (My Effortless Brilliance, We Go Way Back)
Cast: Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmore, Lynn Shelton, Trina Willard
USA
Limited Release
Official Film Site & Trailer, IMDb Page

Orphan
Dir: Jaume Collet-Serra (Goal II: Living the Dream and House of Wax <2005>).
Cast: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman
USA/Canada
Official Film Site, IMDb Page, Trailer

Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae
Dir: Stascha Bader - feature film directorial debut
Documentary on the roots of Reggae music
Switzerland/Canada
Limited Release
Official Film Site & Trailer, IMDb Page

Soul Power
Dir: Jeffrey Levy-Hinte - feature film directorial debut
Documentary on concert in Kinshasa, Zaire 1974 during the Rumble in the Jungle
USA
Limited Release
Official Film Site & Trailer, IMDb Page

Surveillance
Dir: Jennifer Chambers Lynch (Boxing Helena)
Cast: Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Ryan Simpkins, Pell James, France Stewart, Kent Harper
USA/Germany
Limited Release
Official Film Site & Trailer, IMDb Page

The Ugly Truth
Dir: Robert Luketic (21, Monster-in-Law)
Cast: Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler
USA
Official Film Site, Trailer, IMDb Page,

**please note this list of releases reflects first run film released in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as of July 24, 2009**