Fall Movie Preview

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You should wear a great big suit to see this month's rerelease of Jonathan Demme's 1984 concert film STOP MAKING SENSE, starring Talking Heads. You could wear a birthday suit to the 20th-anniversary rerelease of CALIGULA, the incredibly dirty period piece starring Malcolm McDowell and Sir John Gielgud. Now on to the new: Soccer-obsessed Colin Firth (sans Mia Hamm, we're afraid) bungles his romance in FEVER PITCH. Carmen Electra is one of the subjects of an Animal Planet-esque mockumentary that explores THE MATING HABITS OF THE EARTHBOUND HUMAN, while her on-again, off-again hubby, Dennis Rodman, plays a super-cool Interpol agent on the trail of a kidnapped girl in SIMON SEZ. The antics behind a radio drama set the stage for WELCOME BACK, MR. McDONALD, a Japanese comedy that pokes fun at American life (they're making fun of us?). A stoner comes of age when he's sent to a strict New England prep school in OUTSIDE PROVIDENCE, cowritten by There's Something About Mary's Farrelly brothers. As war builds in WEST BEIRUT in 1975, a group of adventurous teens shoot home movies and listen to pop music. A confused teen rebels against his parents and the banal life set out for him by turning HEAD ON into a wild night of drugs, sex, and dancing. When a car accident severs his father's legs, a young man must adjust to a new way of life in FLOATING. Joe Pantoliano (The Matrix) is THE TAXMAN who uncovers a fraud operation and must battle Coney Island's Russian Mob to get to the bottom of it. In the farcical BLACK CAT, WHITE CAT, two octogenarian Gypsies face certain ruin if they don't stand by their negligent offspring. The carnage of India's struggle for independence is seen through the eyes of a polio-stricken 8-year-old in EARTH. SPLENDOR updates the screwball-comedy formula when a music critic and a punk drummer find they're competing for a woman who loves them both. Four German female convicts form a rock group called the BANDITS and go on the run. In B. MONKEY, love temporarily saves one woman from a world of crime populated by the likes of Rupert Everett. STATES OF CONTROL explores the carnal desires of an emotionally distraught woman. A sex-crazed French femme learns about true ROMANCE when her lover announces he no longer wants a roll in the hay. Trainspotting's Kevin McKidd is a gay man in a New Age men's group who finds love in BEDROOMS & HALLWAYS. Early next month, there's SIEGFRIED & ROY: THE MAGIC BOX, an IMAX film (in 3-D!) about the famous Vegas duo.