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This year's 'Crash'- focusing on a wealthy Manhattan couple and their housekeeper-nanny. Thursday, November 19, 2009 Reviewed by Shelli Sonstein - Clear Channel Michelle Williams is a New York e.r. trauma doctor who wishes she had more time to spend with her precocious young daughter who has strongly bonded with her Philippine nanny-housekeeper, ...

The movie centers on the making of a movie-of two movies, actually, a feature and a behind-the-scenes documentary.

In this film publicity image released by IFC Films, Michelle Williams, left, and Gael Garcia Bernal are shown in a scene from, "Mammoth." NEW YORK - Gael Garcia Bernal calls his latest film "provocative." The Mexican actor says he knew what he was getting into when he chose to work on "Mammoth" with Swedish filmmaker Lukas Moodysson, whose previous ...

Normally it is very hard for a limited release to score breakout success. On a typical weekend, none of the films opening in exclusive engagements go on to a real measure of mainstream success.

Don't hate them because they're beautiful. Don't hate them because they're thin and young and glowing with health.

With its intertwining stories of family and the connections that bind and tear us apart, Swedish director Lukas Moodysson's first English language feature evokes the work of any number of filmmakers, in particular Robert Altman .

English, Tagalog, and Thai are spoken in Swedish writer-director Lukas Moodysson 's Mammoth , but he communicates only in the idiom of Crash and Babel : the Esperanto of feel-bad humanism.

Two soldiers knock on a door. When it opens, they deliver the devastating news no one with a loved one in the military ever wants to hear.

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THE EUROPEANS are invading, but don't worry -- they're here only to entertain us.

Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they're seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect.

The 20th Annual Cine-World Film Festival starts tomorrow, Nov. 6, bringing a sense of anticipation and hunger after one of the most blah movie summers in recent memory.

For his first English language sortie Swedish director Lukas Moodysson tackles the theme of globalization - and falls distinctly flat.

Sometimes it's still hard to believe that Michelle Williams was once Jen Lindley on Dawson's Creek .

Mammoth In theaters: November 20, 2009 The internationally-acclaimed director of TOGETHER and LILJA 4-EVER, Lukas Moodysson, presents a globe-spanning, modern family drama in MAMMOTH.

Skopje Eighty films from across the globe will be presented as part of this yeara s program.