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EXCITING FILMS OF THE YEAR. BRAD PITT NAILS EVERY NUANCE. JONAH HILL SCORES A KNOCKOUT!
BRAD PITT SHOWS US ONCE AGAIN
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‘MONEYBALL’ LEFT ME READY TO CHEER.” “‘MONEYBALL’ IS HILARIOUS. JUST HOW GOOD HE IS.” BRUCE HANDY
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DOLPHIN TALE (PG) — Harry Connick Jr. stars in the true story of the people who helped a dolphin struggling to survive after being caught in a crab trap. MONEYBALL (PG-13) — Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics who employed the use of a computer-based analysis to draft players.
THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY (NR) — The 1956 film is a biopic of
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MONEYBALL’ CRUISES INTO THE HIGH GEAR OF THE SAVVIEST OLD HOLLYWOOD COMEDIES.
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YES MA’AM (R) — Gary L. Goldman’s 1982 documentary features interviews with black domestic laborers in New Orleans and the white families who employ them. Chalmette Movies
Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro star in the action film about an exspecial ops agent who comes out of retirement when his mentor is taken captive.
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band leader and pianist Eddy Duchin. Tickets $5.50. Noon Wednesday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www.theprytania.com
RICHARD CORLISS
A FILM BY BENNETT MILLER
FIGHT CLUB (R) — A discontent white-collar worker forms an underground “fight club” with an eccentric soap salesman in the 1999 film based on the Chuck Palahniuk novel. Tickets $8. Midnight FridaySaturday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www.theprytania.com GHOSTBUSTERS (PG) — The
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tournament and is forced to confront his estranged older brother, a former MMA fighter. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14
KILLER ELITE (PG-13) — Jason
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New Orleans Film Society hosts an outdoor screening of the 1984 comedy about a group of unemployed parapsychologists’ unique ghost removal services. There will be food and drink vendors on site. Free admission. 8 p.m. Friday, Coliseum Square Park, Coliseum and Euterpe Streets; www.coliseumsquare.org
LESSON BEFORE LOVE (NR) — Dui Jarrod’s New Orleans-
made film follows a group of unfulfilled singles in their journey toward love. There is a meet-and-greet with Jarrod before the screening, and a Q&A session after. Tickets $10. 7 p.m. Thursday, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 827-5858; www.zeitgeistinc.net
MOVIES IN THE PARK. The
New Orleans Recreation Development Commission hosts free outdoor screenings
review Shut Up Little Man
Fans of found object kitsch and pop cultural static may be familiar with the phrase “Shut up, little man.” It’s the signature line from the surreptitiously taped fights of chronically drunk and foul-mouthed San Francisco roommates Peter, who was gay, and Raymond, who was bitterly homophobic. The tapes were recorded in the late 1980s by Eddie Lee Sausage and Mitchel Deprey, who, fresh out of college, moved to the Bay Area and took the cheap apartment next door. They dubbed outtakes from the verbal wars onto cassette tapes they shared with friends, and those spread to other traders. Eventually, clips made it onto offbeat radio shows, comic artists started to chronicle their visions of Peter and Ray, and the new wave band Devo used some of the recordings as dubbed lyrics for a song, “Shut Up Little Man,” of course. Then there were puppet show dramatizations of the duo, a stage play and eventually competing film projects. Matthew Bates’ Shut Up Little Man: An Audio Misadventure starts at the beginning, following Mitch and Eddie from Wisconsin to San Francisco. They recount taking the apartment and why they started taping their neighbors and sharing the recordings. Bates cleverly dubs recorded rants over film of Hitler making an impassioned speech and stock footage of a 1950s married couple having a spat. Then he focuses on the various comic and dramatic projects that appropriated Peter and Ray’s dialogue, which Mitch and Eddie first disseminated explicitly labeled as free use. They tried to copyright the recordings in 1994. Bates’ film is best when playing the original tapes and recounting the projects they inspired. He then follows two threads. Eddie and Mitch try to discover the true nature of Peter and Ray’s relationship. And Bates follows the development of competing film projects, which asks some interesting questions about the nature of surreptitiously recorded conversations as intellectual property. Unfortunately, the film redacts many of the names of the studio people involved in the competition for rights, and it doesn’t really answer some of the questions. But the truly raw footage is outrageous and entertaining, and it’s an almost nostalgic look at underground culture and how things went viral just before the Internet. Tickets $7 general admission, $6 students/ seniors, $5 Zeitgeist members. — Will Coviello
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Shut Up Little Man: An Audio Misadventure 7:30 p.m. Fri.-Thu. Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 8275858; www.zeitgeistinc.net
of family movies on Fridays and Saturdays at greenspaces across the city. Visit www. nola.gov/Residents/NORD/ Movies-in-the-Park for the full schedule and other details. 7:45 p.m. Friday-Saturday
through Nov. 26. PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL (NR) — The film chronicles
the story of Liberian women whose silent protests brought about agreement amid a bloody civil war. The screen-