Dancer, Texas: Pop. 81
Just as director Tim McCanlies was to begin location shooting on
this tale of four buddies who make a pact to leave their small
town, a group of Republic of Texas separatists barricaded
themselves nearby. "We're in the middle of nowhere," he recalls,
"and there's 10,000 reporters. Fortunately they resolved it, and
we were able to shoot." (May 1)
Artemisia
French director Agnes Merlet's film stars Valentina Cervi as
Artemisia Gentileschi, the celebrated 17th-century female
painter who got out of her studio often enough to make "both her
life and her work exciting," as Merlet puts it. Critics agree:
Artemisia earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign
Language Film. (May 8)
Still Breathing
Brendan Fraser doffs his George of the Jungle loincloth and puts
on a Texas accent as a street performer in search of a soul
mate. That's not the only skill he acquired. "I did a puppet
show on the steps of the Alamo," says Fraser. The comedy also
stars Inventing the Abbotts' Joanna Going as a con artist who
fancies him — as her next target. (May 1)
PLUS
After striking up a relationship with Annabella Sciorra,
struggling writer Eric Stoltz becomes obsessed with her ex
(Chris Eigeman), a famous author, in Mr. Jealousy,
writer-director Noah Baumbach's follow-up to Kicking and Screaming. Six people awaken to find themselves imprisoned in a
deadly maze and are quickly at each other's throats in Vincenzo
Natali's psychological thriller Cube. Jada Pinkett and Tommy
Davidson star as a reckless couple on the loose in Manhattan in
Woo. Nights of Cabiria, Federico Fellini's 1957 classic about a
hooker with a heart of gold (which inspired the 1966 musical
Sweet Charity), returns to the big screen. Stephen Fry, Jude
Law, and Vanessa Redgrave head up the cast of Brian Gilbert's
Oscar Wilde biopic, neatly titled Wilde. And finally, there's
the comedy-thriller I Went Down, fresh from the screening rooms
of Sundance, which follows a just-out-of-jail Irish hood who
owes one last dark favor to a gangster boss.
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