Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle’s winning story of the impoverished Indian teen who has a chance to take the top prize on a popular television game show, won three prizes of its own on Sunday when it snagged a handful of British Independent Film Awards including best British independent film, best director for Boyle and most [...]

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Sally Hawkins and Alexis Zegerman in Happy-Go-Lucky
It was kind of an interesting if not altogether successful movie-going weekend at LiC.
First up was Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky, a hard to categorize little number starring Sally Hawkins as Poppy, an eternally and somewhat irrationally optimistic London schoolteacher. When her bicycle is stolen, she’s forced into driving lessons with [...]

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Wong Kar-Wai’s Ashes of Time Redux, opening in limited release 
There isn’t much to get too excited about in the wide releases this weekend:

Body of Lies. A Ridley Scott thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a CIA agent on the trail of a terrorist leader. He is guided from afar by CIA veteran Russell Crowe but with his life [...]

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Miramax would like to remind you that Mike Leigh’s charming Happy-Go-Lucky is coming to limited release on October 10 with expansions planned for subsequent weekends. In the mean time, you can get your very own Daily Dose of Happiness Happy-Go-Lucky widget:

Sally Hawkins plays Poppy, an unfailingly optimistic schoolteacher whose glowing worldview is challenged on all sides when [...]

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Philip Seymour Hoffman and Samantha Morton in
Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York
Moving right along with the Fall Forecast. Here’s what’s coming up in October. Once again, all dates are subject to change based on studio whim. LiC’s picks are starred.
October 3
An American Carol. I love Airplane! as much as anyone, but David Zucker’s name hasn’t been attached [...]

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