The Dreamers (Original Uncut NC-17 Version)

Starring:Michael Pitt (II), Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Anna Chancellor, Robin Renucci, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jean-Pierre LÃ©aud, Florian Cadiou, Pierre Hancisse, Valentin Merlet, Lola Peploe, Ingy Fillion, FranÃ§ois Truffaut, Aleksandra Kacprzak, Henri Langlois, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product Type: DVD

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A love letter to movies (and the French new wave of the 1960s in particular), Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers starts with a 1968 riot outside of a Parisian movie palace then burrows into an insular love triangle. Matthew (Michael Pitt, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), an expatriate American student, bonds with a twin brother and sister, Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel), over their mutual love of film--they not only quote lines of dialogue, they act out small bits and challenge each other to name the cinematic source. Matthew suspects the twins of incest, but that doesn't stop him from falling into his own intimacies with Isabelle. As the threesome becomes threatened, Paris succumbs to student riots. The Dreamers aspires to be kinky, but the results are more decorative than decadent; nonetheless, the movie's lively energy recalls the careless and vital exuberance of Godard and Truffaut. --Bret Fetzer

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From Academy Award®-winning director Bernardo Bertolucci (The Last Emperor, 1987), comes an erotic tale of three young film lovers brought together by their passion for movies -- and each other. When Isabelle and Theo (Eva Green, Louis Garrel) invite Matthew (Michael Pitt) to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and anything is possible. Featuring an engaging, seductive cast, The Dreamers is a ?spellbinding, provocative feast!" (Ebert & Roeper)

Customer Reviews:

THE DREAMERS.......2007-07-01

Its tempting to try selling this film as the debut performance by the newest Bond girl Eva Green.

As an alternate, see my review, as well as this Amazon review by Bret Fetzer below mine.

Many would attempt judging this film as kinky with a sprinkling of frontal nudity and a menage a' trois scene thrown in (the NC-17) version. However, this Bernardo Bertolucci film would rather like to remembered as a love letter to the movies and to the average Parisian's intense love for good films. Using a backdrop of the 1968 student riots brought about by the firing of the director at the Cinematheque Francais - a temple for students and afficionados of art films, the story weaves into it the coming-of-age story of a bother-sister par and a young exchange student from America living together duing the heady days, and their evolving relationship.
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"A love letter to movies (and the French new wave of the 1960s in particular), Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers starts with a 1968 riot outside of a Parisian movie palace then burrows into an insular love triangle. Matthew (Michael Pitt, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), an expatriate American student, bonds with a twin brother and sister, Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel), over their mutual love of film--they not only quote lines of dialogue, they act out small bits and challenge each other to name the cinematic source. Matthew suspects the twins of incest, but that doesn't stop him from falling into his own intimacies with Isabelle. As the threesome becomes threatened, Paris succumbs to student riots. The Dreamers aspires to be kinky, but the results are more decorative than decadent; nonetheless, the movie's lively energy recalls the careless and vital exuberance of Godard and Truffaut". --Bret Fetzer
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perfect quality and cheap, too.......2007-05-13

For $5, a great film at an even better price...

Adequate productions, etc........2007-05-07

This was an ok flick...........always good to see up and coming artists and these were fine......Eva Green should definitely do more of these types........very sexy.....sequel might do better.........

Great Movie!.......2007-05-07

If you haven't seen it you should, if you have then you're already here to buy it.

Some of the finest modern film making, subtle, sensual, insightful.

Not a fan of the last 4 minutes though.. other than that better than great till that point.

House of 'Yes' in the War Zone or The First Tango in Paris.......2007-04-26

When Bernardo Bertolucci makes a new film, I want to see it. I know it will be visually beautiful, deep and meaningful. Even when he is not completely successful - his films are difficult to forget. It applies to "The Dreamers" (2003)

In this film, Bertolucci returns to Paris of 1968. His First Tango is as shocking as Last one - it received NC-17 rating for very open scenes of nudity, masturbation, sex, and the hints to incest. But it is not just about sex - it is about film itself. It was the time when Pauline Kael said, "Bertolucci and Brando have altered the face of an art form". It was the time when a crowd in Chicago would line up under umbrellas on the sidewalk, waiting in the rain to get into the next screening of Godard's "Weekend." It was the time when movie makers became the Artists. It was the time when closing down of the famous Cinematheque Francais in Paris by the government started the student culture riots which became the part of youthful rebellion all over the Western World.

Young American, Mathew, a devoted movie buff (Michael Pitt who by the opinion of several reviewers looks like cross between Leo DiCaprio and Macaulay Culkin. I found him looking more like young Roger Ebert would've. ) becomes friends with two French students and fellow movie lovers, twins Isabella (Eva Green, in a star making debut) and Theo (Louis Garrel) and accepts their invitation to stay with them at their apartment while their intellectual parents are away for vacation.

All three are big fans of movies - they not only talk about movies, they live their favorite scenes. "The Dreamers" is Bertolucci's love letter to cinema, and his irony toward people taking it so seriously that the real world is ignored.

When Matthew moves in with the twins, the result closely resembles "Last Tango in Paris". Much of the film's second half occurs in that apartment, as insular as Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider's more than thirty years ago. Flirting becomes passion becomes dark and dangerous games to see how far someone will go. The difference is that the kids of "The Dreamers" are not as complicated and interesting as Paul or Jeanne (especially Paul, one of the greatest performances by genius Brando).

With this wistful ode to sex, cinema, and the heated atmosphere of the '60s, Bertolucci has proved that he is still on the top of his game. I will be happily waiting for his next film.

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THE DREAMERS
perfect quality and cheap, too
Adequate productions, etc.
Great Movie!
House of 'Yes' in the War Zone or The First Tango in Paris

The Dreamers (R-Rated Edition)
Starring: Michael Pitt (II) , Eva Green , Louis Garrel , Anna Chancellor , and Robin Renucci
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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Customer Reviews:

THE DREAMERS.......2007-07-01

perfect quality and cheap, too.......2007-05-13

For $5, a great film at an even better price...

Adequate productions, etc........2007-05-07

Great Movie!.......2007-05-07

House of 'Yes' in the War Zone or The First Tango in Paris.......2007-04-26

Someday's Dreamers - Magical Dreamer (Vol. 1) - With Series Box

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A pleasant way to spend some time
Cute
Don't bother.
Nothing New, but Plenty of Fun
Up there with Miyazaki !!

Someday's Dreamers - Magical Dreamer (Vol. 1) - With Series Box
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ASIN: B0000C3IBN
Release Date: 2003-11-25

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Seventeen-year-old Yume Kikuchi comes to Tokyo for training as a mage and discovers a sophisticated urban world unlike anything she's experienced in the countryside. Requests for the use of Special Powers are regulated by the government and can be granted only by mages who have completed the training program. Yume embodies the old saw "you can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl." Naive and even prudish, she constantly apologizes to everyone for everything. There's little need for apologies: in the world of Someday Dreamers everyone is nice and all the males are bishonen (beautiful boys), beginning with Yume's languid gay instructor, Masami Oyamada. Aimed at an audience of adolescent girls, Dreamers plays like a very tame cross between Harry Potter and Sailor Moon. (Rated 13 and older: tobacco and alcohol use, mild risqué humor) --Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews:

A pleasant way to spend some time.......2005-09-08

"Someday's Dreamers" is a pleasant coming-of-age story of a young "mage" who is required to spend her summer break training with a certified mage in order to become a certified mage herself. Yume struggles to come to terms with her reasons for becoming a mage and to develop self-confidence in her actions as well as to develop an appreciation for the limits (artificial and otherwise) placed on her powers.

The story has fun with the bureaucracy within which Yume and her trainer work. Yes, she starts her first official day of training watching training videos! Although rules do get broken and bent more often than not, the interesting thing is that the bureaucracy is not portrayed as simply evil-hearted or mindless; at times, it is explained why the rules exist and why they make sense. I especially loved the discussion of ethics for mages.

The series is episodic for the most part. However, the last three episodes create a darker story arc as Yume suffers a crisis of confidence as she faces her final test. On a final note, this series is an homage to the city of Tokyo. Yume comes to the city in confusion and trepidation, but as time passes, she falls in love with the city and its people. Tokyo deserves cast credit: "Tokyo as Itself."

Cute.......2005-07-24

A very very nice anime. No action or violence or anything like that. But just plain cute. The only other anime series that came to mind when I was watching this was "Kokoro Library". And although the storyline and characters are entirely different, it has the same feel of cuteness, as well the difficulties and dilemnas endured by the characters are also on the same level of........ importance?
I recomend all anime fans to watch this series.
Also the boxset looks awesome on the anime shelf ;)

Don't bother........2005-05-23

Though having a few good bits in it for the girls, this series was terrible. Don't bother buying it. It doesn't go anywhere.

Nothing New, but Plenty of Fun.......2004-05-08

"Someday's Dreamers" is the story of Kikuchi Yume, a young girl who comes from her country home to the big city of Tokyo for mage training. Like most anime heroines, Yume has an amazing power sleeping inside her, and an uncanny ability to act with the right intentions at the wrong time.

Before you start drawing connections between "Someday's Dreamers" and "Harry Potter"...don't. Although the wizard-in-training bit is present and accounted for, that's about where the similarities end, and Dreamers doesn't feel or play like some kind of quick cash-in Potter rip-off.

The show itself is fairly light for now. The four episodes on this disc each stand well on their own; each episode involves Yume being faced with a problem and having to solve it, usually through the use of her magic (or Special Power, as it is called in the show.)

Technically, the show is impressive. The animation is clean and bright, and the music is perfectly suited to the chiefly gentle nature of the show. (I would recommend checking into the soundtrack CD, available domestically from Geneon-Pioneer.) Both the English and Japanese voice casts turn in solid performances in their various roles.

On that note, there's some difference between how the subtitles and the dub are presented. Pioneer makes some interesting choices with the subtitles, including leaving names Asian style (e.g. Kikuchi Yume instead of Yume Kikuchi) and leaving honorifics (e.g. -san, -chan, sensei) intact. The subtitle translation also handles "Dreamers"'s use of polite language--and there is a lot of it--in a somewhat literal fashion, creating a translation that can sound a little awkward at times, and may be the slightest bit confusing for viewers unfamiliar with some Japanese expressions of politeness. But it hardly hinders the translation enough to make it unwatchable, and some fans may indeed prefer this style of translating.

The dub feels almost like a nod to convention in the face of the subtitles on this disc; names are flipped (Western-style) and honorifics have been dropped per normal. But as I mentioned, the cast still delivers a perfectly good performance, and whether to watch subbed or dubbed is a matter of preference here.

The actual story construction in Someday's Dreamers will either delight or confound you. The stories here are straightforward, and the relentlessly upbeat nature of the show generally makes it clear that everything will turn out alright. There is, in short, nothing particularly groundbreaking in this show. But the series has such sweetness in the form of its friendly characters (perhaps especially the uber-innocent Yume) that it may well survive on charm alone. (Oh, and maybe it's just me, but I think that pretty series box you can buy with volume one is worth the entire price of admission.)

People out for a thick and dramatic plot should definitely look elsewhere. But people who just want something cute and uplifting to watch have found their ticket.

Up there with Miyazaki !!.......2004-01-28

This anime is so good in so many ways I don't know where to start.^_^ The first thing you notice is that the animation is outstanding and very realistic. The character development is excellent and you get emotionally involved with the characters and the plot much more than even in the average good live-action dramatic film.
Yume, the protagonist of the series, is a young mage-in-training. Despite her obviously overwhelming powers, she struggles with insecurity and shyness. We see, however, how Yume's powers come from her intense feelings of love and her concern for others.
Obviously the series is inspired in Studio Ghibli shojo like Kiki's Delivery Service, Whisper of the Heart and Umi ga Kikoeru. And it really does measure up to Studio Ghibli standards. I guess that's the ultimate compliment you could give any anime. ^-^

Someday's Dreamers - Power of Love (Vol. 2)

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Don't Bother.
If You Liked the First One...

Someday's Dreamers - Power of Love (Vol. 2)
Starring: Somedays Dreamers
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Kamichu, Vol. 4: Holiday Confessions
Whisper of the Heart
Kamichu - Discovery (Vol. 3)

ASIN: B0000TG4AQ
Release Date: 2004-01-13

Customer Reviews:

Don't Bother........2005-05-23

Though having a few good bits in it for the girls, this series was terrible. Don't bother buying it. It doesn't go anywhere.

If You Liked the First One..........2004-05-08

...then you'll like the second one. It's pretty much that simple.

The second volume of "Someday's Dreamers" doesn't really mess with the show's formula, and that should be just fine with fans of the series. The cuteness is still out in force, as are the relatively episodic plot lines. However, in the last episode or two here we meet a young man named Inoue, who sees himself as unable to do anything right, including magic. It is he who plants the first seeds of true self-doubt in Yume's heart, and that line of the story will power the last several episodes of the series.

Although I feel like I ought to post something longer, the review here can be summed up as: If you enjoyed the first disc, you'll find more of the same here. If you didn't, well...you'll find more of the same here.

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Not surprisingly, two of America's most unusual mansions are in California. Visit the Winchester House and Scotty's Castle in this mysterious AMERICA'S CASTLES.

One of the strangest homes ever built, the Winchester House is the product of Sara Pardee Winchester's superstition. The heiress to the fortune of the famed gun maker believed that she had to build a home for the spirits of all those killed with the Winchester rifle. For 38 years, she kept an army of carpenters busy 24 hours a day. Go inside the bizarre home and marvel at the jumble of stairs to nowhere, secret passages, dead ends and turrets of the 160-room mansion.

In the middle of Death Valley, the eccentric Walter Scott built a 20-room Spanish style castle. Explore the stately halls, Moorish bell tower and grand music room - with an 1,100 pipe organ - and learn the story of the strange alliance that created Scotty's Castle.

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Running Time 50 Mins.

Format: DVD MOVIE

Customer Reviews:

NOT MUCH TO SEE BUT GOOD.......2007-06-12

I bought this because of the Winchester House. There's not much in the way of books on the subject and I'll never get to California so this DVD is as close as I'll get to the actual house. I wish it had more footage of the interior though. Lots of talk about the Winchester rifle and Sarah but I hoped to see more of the house. I've always love the America's Castle series on A&E but this one didn't show as much as others have.

Scotty's Castle is interesting and again, it talks a lot about the people in it but they show more interior footage than they did for Winchester House. A bit disappointing but with so little information out there on this subject, I'll keep it. I bought it at a great price so I can live with the short 50 minutes this DVD shows me.

Someday's Dreamers - Precious Feelings (Vol. 3)

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Don't bother.
Anime coming-of-age drama with a paranormal slant
An Excellent Ending

Someday's Dreamers - Precious Feelings (Vol. 3)
Starring: Someday's Dreamers
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Someday's Dreamers - Power of Love (Vol. 2)
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Kamichu - Discovery (Vol. 3)
Kamichu, Vol. 4: Holiday Confessions
Kamichu! - The Power of Love (Vol. 2)

ASIN: B000168A1O
Release Date: 2004-03-09

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Don't bother........2005-05-23

Though having a few good bits in it for the girls, this series was terrible. Don't bother buying it. It doesn't go anywhere.

Anime coming-of-age drama with a paranormal slant.......2004-12-10

"Someday's Dreamers, Vol. 3: Precious Feelings" offers the final four episodes of this achingly beautiful, heartfelt dramatic series and brings the story to a powerful, uplifting close. The 12-episode Japanese animated TV series posits a near-future where a government "Bureau of Mage Labor" recruits and trains "mages" to use their Special Powers (usually of a psychic nature) for the civic good. The focus here is on a group of young people in training in Tokyo, with special emphasis on one girl, a young teenager from rural Japan named Yume. The story arc contained in these episodes follows Yume's crisis of confidence after an elderly client regrets her request for a "mage action" and suffers a disaster thereafter. Yume plays back the events and incidents leading up to this point, seeks advice from her teacher, friends and fellow trainees, and goes off on her own for an all-night journey of self-discovery, before coming to a plateau of understanding.

This series, particularly in its final stage, has several messages for adolescent and teenaged viewers about using your skills wisely, accepting the inevitability of loss and defeat, and not always second-guessing yourself. Fans with the patience to stay with it past the slow parts and overlook some of the New Age-type magical touches (e.g. Yume's all-purpose dolphin spirit entity) will be amply rewarded by the great care taken in the dialogue and characterizations to pass on basic truths about love, destiny, purpose, inner power, sacrifice and growth.

Despite the supernatural flourishes, the animation is executed in a straightforward, realistic style, both in character design and background detail. The action is rooted firmly in the streets and neighborhoods of contemporary Tokyo. (One valuable extra on the DVD offers a slide show of color photos of Tokyo taken to provide models for much of the background art in the series.) The home base for most of the characters is a "salsa club," owned and operated by Yume's teacher, Masami Oyamada, who employs most of the other main characters. The multicultural flavor introduced by this club and its Latin music sounds is enhanced by the multinational range of characters, which include the attractive Latina bartender, Milinda, and the dour English mage, Angela, with her large cross pendant, long skirts, and short blond hair.

An Excellent Ending.......2004-05-08

In its last four episodes, the story of "Someday's Dreamers" suddenly but subtly augments itself with a little extra dose of substance, and it gives the show the impact and emotional punch it has mostly lacked to this point.

Inoue-san may be a bit more confident now than he was when we met him in disc two, but it hasn't helped Yume any. She's begun to question intently both the meaning of Special Power and why she ever decided to become a mage. Meanwhile, Master Chief Ginpun himself gives her a perplexing assignment for her mage certification test.

Here, "Someday's Dreamers" succeeds where many other shows fail--when it begins on its more philosophical bent with these episodes, it avoids both making Yume overly angsty, and using meaningless, pseudo-philosophical jargon to appear intelligent. Instead, Yume's questions seem like the sort of thing a young mage might actually ask herself in that situation. (Okay, so there's some suspension of disbelief involved. Work with me, here.)

At the same time, we learn more and more about Oyamada-sensei's heretofore mysterious past. Once again, Dreamers demonstrates its balance; despite some fairly lengthy flashbacks to help explain about Oyamada, it never feels like we're being barraged with exposition. And finally, the end of the show feels both appropriate and satisfying.

If you've followed "Someday's Dreamers" this far, there's no reason not to get this last volume. And those who dropped out at the beginning because the cuteness level was too high might even want to try coming back in with these episodes. Truly a fine conclusion, one that pushes "Someday's Dreamers" from being a "pretty good" show to a "really good" show--and if Dreamers is your cup of tea, maybe we're even talking greatness.

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Customer Reviews:

A pleasant way to spend some time.......2005-09-08

Cute.......2005-07-24

Don't bother........2005-05-23

Though having a few good bits in it for the girls, this series was terrible. Don't bother buying it. It doesn't go anywhere.

Nothing New, but Plenty of Fun.......2004-05-08

People out for a thick and dramatic plot should definitely look elsewhere. But people who just want something cute and uplifting to watch have found their ticket.

Up there with Miyazaki !!.......2004-01-28

Beautiful Dreamers [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ]

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Beautiful Dreamers [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ]
Director: John Kent Harrison
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Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), SYNOPSIS: Rip Torn does a magnificent job as American poet Walt Whitman in the fanciful period piece Beautiful Dreamers. The scene is a hellish 19th century Canadian institution for the mentally retarded. Compassionate doctor Maurice Bucke (Colm Feore) defies his superiors by treating his patients as human beings rather than animals. He even begins conducting classes for his charges, teaching them basic cognitive and manual dexterity skills. When Whitman champions Bucke's cause, the doctor is ostracized by those who fear the poet's reputation as a "wild-eyed" radicial. Based on a true story, Beautiful Dreamers is more interesting for its intentions than its execution. SPECIAL FEATURES: Scene Access,

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Dreamers is the real deal...
Not what it seems!!!!
A smart film that's worth owning
Dreamers is a great indy film.

Dreamers
Starring: Jeremy Jordan , Mark Ballou , Courtney Gains , Portia Dawson , and Brian Krause
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Growing up in small-town America, two friends dream about escaping their confining families to search for their dreams and freedom in the big city. Arriving in Los Angeles, the two discover the harsh realities of the city as they enter the shadowy world of the film business. Ultimately, the two friends must choose between love and friendship and soon discover that life has its own destiny for everyone.

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Dreamers is the real deal..........2003-03-12

As someone who lives and works in Los Angeles/Hollywood, DREAMERS does show the "real" Hollywood. The film offers no apologies for showing the way it really is and does not cheat the audience with a sugar-coated fantasy world.

Entertaining and on-point from the first frame, Ann Lu has pulled off the real deal...

Not what it seems!!!!.......2003-02-21

I guess there are 1000's of movies like this in the video stores that noone wants to rent. The title is unattractive and conveys the film maker's state of mind-----dreamer. The concept and storytelling are not original, a little bit of this and that, here and there: such a stereotype film-making technique from some amateurs who are trying to overwhelm the viewers with such mediocre production. Low budget is not an issue here though, but the movie does look low budget, simply because the story itself is insufficient to augment a low budget production. The writer (from China) obviously does not understand the thinking of typical Americans and how Americans perceive Hollywood. Anyway...I find this flick completely overrated.

A smart film that's worth owning.......2002-10-24

Movies about Hollywood dreams generally fall into one of two categories: ... "Dreamers" is a rare picture in that it really captures the mindset of the indie filmmaker, with humor, compassion, and spot-on insight. I've watched it many times, and I find something new I like in it each time I see it. The director and cinematographer team are wonderful, and I can't wait to see what they come up with next. In the end, you'll find out that we're all "Dreamers!"

Dreamers is a great indy film........2002-10-18

An elderly Asian man tours Hollywood's landmarks, ruminating on the dreamy power of movies. Suddenly, we jump to the American heartland, where two boys growing up in a strict religious community plan to run away to Hollywood. This playful, oddly forked opening introduces a remarkable new talent in writer-director Ann Lu. She not only sagely dramatizes the power of movies - that it means escape, adulthood, even a substitute for religion, to these boys - she keeps us mindful that the world is, at all times, a larger place than any individual's story might suggest. When the two boys reunite in Hollywood as young men, one is streetwise and resourceful, the other naive and trusting, but both are interestingly deluded, as Lu conceives it. Neither has a monopoly on either courage or truth. This debut feature is tremendously impressive in its honesty, its refusal to cheat us with formulaic plot twists or ready-made insights. Lu, a native of China, is sharply attuned to our local dialects of greed, hope and spiritual desperation. She has a marvelous ear for what people are not saying, matched with an ability to make illuminating sense of where their hearts are leading them.

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Doug Jehl, New York Times correspondent from Washington, discusses Baghdad terrorist Abu Musab Zarqawi and a recently discovered document containing a plea to terrorists, asking them to join the fight against coalition forces in Iraq. Then, actress Drew Barrymore talks about her new film with Adam Sandler, 50 First Dates. Finally, filmmaker and director Bernardo Bertolucci talks about his new film, The Dreamers.

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