While excellent movies exsist in theaters right now a lot of them are in limited release. Since it’s hard to keep up with what has come out and if it was a wide release or not here are a few suggestions that you may be lucky enough to find depending on where you live.

 ’Michael Clayton’ starring George Clooney opens in 15 theaters today. Word on the street so far is Clooney gives another stellar performance and it’s early but slow word of at least a nomination is buzzing around.

Ang Lee’s new film ‘Lust, Caution’ which was labeled with an NC-17 rating increases by 16 theaters to make its total 17. While the reviews are mixed I’d be interested to see this as Lee has a solid history of excellent filmaking.

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‘The Darjeeling Limited’ ups its total to 19 theaters. I’m really looking forward to this one. Wes Anderson is one of my favorite directors and while his films aren’t for everyone they are for me and I’m eagerly awaiting his latest. Make sure to check out iTunes and get yourself a free copy of ‘Hotel Chevalier’ which is billed as ‘Part 1 of The Darjeeling Limited’. It stars Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman and sets the tone for the full feature. iTunes is the only way to find it (well, probably youtube at this point) but it’s free, so watch it.

Lastly ‘Into the Wild’ which was directed by Sean Penn. It’s not something I’m excited to see but it is based on a real story made famous by the book written by Jon Krakauer who is one of my favorite authors.

The award caliber films are slowly starting to spring upon us. So, I hope this breaks it down a little bit for now.


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