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THE LATE PAUL WALKER STARS IN “BRICK MANSIONS.” / PHILIPPE BOSSE
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‘Brick Mansions’ Ten years ago the French film “District B13” introduced parkour to action films. Now it has been remade with the late Paul Walker as the good cop in an “Escape From New York”-style criminal compound.
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2 Walk the beautiful Cherry Esplanade this weekend at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. COURTESY OF BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN
Life is just a bowl of cherry blossoms Spring. Celebrate another season in bloom at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s festival. Flip over a 100-yen coin in Japan, and cherry blossoms bloom on the back. This demonstrates their importance to Japanese culture. The meaning follows Buddhist philosophy: Life is beautiful but short, just like the annual spring bloom of the cherry trees. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden celebrates this annual tradition of flowerviewing, known as hanami in Japan, with Sakura Matsuri, its annual cherry blossom festival. Now in its 33rd year, the two-day event remains the largest of its kind in a public garden in the U.S. As always, the main attraction is the 200 trees lining the Cherry Esplanade. But music, dance and fashion also feature,
taking over the main stage. Taiko drumming, Nihon Buyo classical dance and J-pop music by Hitomi Himekawa and the Rainbow Bubble Girls share the spotlight with a traditional kimono fashion show and “Kill Bill”-style Japanese sword fighting. The annual cosplay show is another highlight, with extravagant costumes based on anime movies and TV shows, manga and video games. (See more on page 2.) The director of communications at the garden, Elizabeth Reina-Longoria, hopes this year’s festival breaks the 2011 record of 70,000 visitors. But she emphasizes that more contemplative experiences can be had in the days and weeks following the festival. “The philosophy behind hanami views the cherry blossom season as symbolic of the larger cycle of life,” she adds, “so visitors should consider returning after the festival to watch as the cherry petals fall to the ground.”
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“The philosophy behind hanami views the cherry blossom season as symbolic of the larger cycle of life.” Elizabeth Reina-Longoria, director of communications at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
If you go
Sakura Matsuri April 26-27 Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 990 Washington Ave. Free to BBG members and children under 12; $25 adults; $20 students and seniors 718-623-7200, www.bbg.org MIKE DUNPHY @metronewyork letters@metro.us
‘The Other Woman’ Nick Cassavetes does another film that his father, director John Cassavetes, likely never would’ve touched: a comedy in which three women (Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann and Kate Upton) gang up on the man they’re all unwittingly sleeping with.
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‘The Quiet Ones’ Don’t write this one off as just another ghost movie. Produced by the illustrious Hammer Film studio, the project boasts Oren Moverman, one of the writers on “The Messenger.” Jared Harris plays a professor investigating poltergeists, with surely happy results.
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‘Locke’ Hope you like Tom Hardy, because he’s the only person in this drama. He plays a construction foreman negotiating his way out of kerfluffles via endless phone calls made from his car. MATT PRIGGE
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