Last Friday, CHUD.com reported that at a benefit screening of Dazed And Confused, writer-director Richard Linklater said he was working on "a sort of spiritual sequel" to the film, using none of the same characters, but a similar approach to frosh stumbling through a first weekend at college in 1980. If you're a fan of Dazed... Well, Vadim Rizov is and he's got more on Linklater's 80's-set follow up, on GreenCine Daily. More >>

Tell No One Rent  

Writes GC's Craig Phillips: "There's been a fairly long and interesting history of French adaptations of American mysteries, from Chabrol's Ruth Rendell-inspired La Cérémonie and The Bridesmaid to Tavernier's Jim Thompson (Coup de Torchon), but Guillaume Canet's Tell No One, adapted with Philippe Lefebvre from Harlan Coben's best-selling novel, succeeds as confidently as the best of them...The film will grab your heart. " Adds the NY Times: "Beautifully written and acted...a labyrinth in which to get deliriously lost." See also: Our interview with Coben and Canet.

TimeCrimes Rent  

"A tremendously entertaining bit of Kafka that whirlpools down into The Twilight Zone," wrote Austin Chronicle's Marc Savlov of this twisty, Spanish time travel film. "While it isn't that hard to stay a step or two ahead of Timecrimes," adds AV Club's Noel Murray, "the movie is still a nifty little genre piece, an old-fashioned science-fiction mind-game with a healthy dollop of 'Oh, the irony.' "

Also out today (loads!): Slumdog Millionaire (merely the Oscar-winner for Best Picture and a few people saw it world-wide); Danton (Criterion) [see more below]; Generale Della Rovere (Criterion); Shigurui Death Frenzy: The Complete Series (cool anime); Ricky Gervais: Out of England - The Stand-Up Special; Seven Pounds; Shakespeare's An Age of Kings; After Dark Horrorfest Collection: 8 Films to Die For (incl. Butterfly Effect 3: Revelation); The Cremator; D. Gray-Man: Season 1, Pt. 1; The IT Crowd, Version 1.0: Complete First Series [see review below]; Same Old Song; Marley & Me; No Regret; Seduction Cinema Erotic Horror Triple Feature; 3 Faces of Shinji Aoyama; Cat in the Brain (Sp Ed); Killer at Large: Why Obesity is America's Greatest; Crazy Animal; Xombie: Dead on Arrival; Exposed (exploitation flick with Cristina Lundberg!); Cthulhu; Andy Warhol's Factory People; Martial Club; Terror Circus; The Go-Getter; Experiments In Terror 3; Mona Lisa Revealed: Secrets of the Painting + Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase; Nat'l Geographic Journey to the Edge of the Universe; The Escapees [Jean Rollin cult curio]; Sexploiters; Star of David: Hunting for Beautiful Girls.

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The Last Metro Rent  Read 

Francois Truffaut's romantic anti-war melodrama, a gently personal-political ode to theatre and life under the German occupation of France, is perhaps the most slickly populist work of his career. Luminously bathed in a nostalgic warmth—all rosy reds and smoky chocolates—by cinematographer extraordinaire Nestor Almendros, it's a luxurious production set in despairing times. As WWII rages on in 1942, Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent), the Jewish director and owner of the Théâtre Montmarte, hides out in the cellar while his Gentile wife and beloved actress Marion (Catherine Deneuve) juggles rehearsals and administering to their struggling business...Read review >>

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The IT Crowd Rent  Read 

The humor in The IT Crowd comes almost completely from the characters of the three underlings. Writer/director Graham Linehan knows his stuff -- his people and their workplace -- and he makes enormous fun of them and it. And in his three leads, he has sterling material: Chris O'Dowd plays a cocky, full-of-himself-and-still-batting-zero "techie" named Roy; Richard Ayoade is Moss, who sits with knees together, bites his lower lip; knows a lot about everything IT-related and almost zero about anything else -- including how to put out a fire, which occurs in episode two; and Katherine Parkinson plays Jen, a young woman for whom consistent lying is the only way to get through the day... read review >>

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Danton (Criterion) Rent 

We wanted to point you to a superb essay on Criterion's site, timed with today's release of this DVD, from Leonard Quart: "Danton (1983), on first glance, might seem to be one of these straightforward period films, and, strangely, not about Poland at all. But in fact, Wajda’s tale of the battle between two of the French Revolution’s titanic figures, Danton and Robespierre, is an intense political allegory on the futility of violent revolution, with clear parallels to twentieth-century Poland." In fact, Meticulous and fiery, Danton has been hailed as one of the greatest films ever made about "the Terror."

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As recently discussed in A.O. Scott's piece on the American indie scene's current wave of "neo-neo realism," Goodbye Solo, the latest cultural-outsider drama from rising Iranian-American auteur Ramin Bahrani (Chop Shop, Man Push Cart), is far more riveting in its funny-sad humanism than it might sound on the page. Aaron Hills chatted with Bahrani for a new podcast. More >>

GIGANTIC is a funny, surreal love story about the anxiety that comes when two people with crazy families collide unexpectedly and fall for each other. Starring Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel and John Goodman, Edward Asner and Jane Alexander. GreenCine and First Independent Pictures are thrilled to give away 2 pairs of tickets to the opening week screenings at the Village East Cinemas in New York. Tickets are redeemable Monday,4/6-Thursday, 4/9. To enter, and for more details go here.