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Suffering son and father: Lee Kang-sheng (left) and Miao Tien.

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Free flow

Disease and depression float through contemporary Taiwan.

Monkey Business

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Monkey Business

New book and DVDs tell the larger-than-life stories behind King Kong.

Liao Qin (right) in Cry Woman.

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Cry Woman, Direct Order, The Lover, Minimal Stories, and Oasis

CRY WOMAN 7 p.m. Wed., May 28 at Pacific Place 1:45 p.m. Sat., May 31 at Pacific Place…

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Bossa Nova

Doing the Brazilian mating dance.

Weaver wonders why she left the city.

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A Map of the World

Wife needs help,and so does this movie.

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The Set-Up

Warner Home Video, $19.97

Sketches of Frank Gehry

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Sketches of Frank Gehry

Love the architect, but how'd we get stuck with the EMP?

Al collars Robin.

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Northern exposure

Six days without sleep take their toll on a man's conscience.

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Egghead salad

A close and critical look at one of America's great intellectual milieus.

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Clunk

If this is Paradise, I'll take the Inferno.

Newman's Hudson Hornet (left) teaches Wilson some old cornering tricks.

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Planet Gas

Pixar takes us back to the days of cheap leaded fuel, tail fins, and winding highways. Which is…

Saved: The Metro during its midwinter crisis.

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Happy ending

Theater chain regains financial footing.

Searching for her child, working for the man. Dolores Heredia and Demián Bichir.

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She got spirit

Faith leads a small-town mother into iniquity.

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Bridget Jones’ Diary

BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY Miramax Home Entertainment, $29.99 WHILE A REVIEW of anything B.J.-related cries out for extensive use…

Takeshi "Beat" Kitano—writer, director, editor, and star—is Zatoichi incarnate.

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The Rogue Blade

Adding humor—and even dance—gives a fresh edge to an old martial-arts hero.

The searcher: Wei Minzhi.

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Not one Less

Zhang Yimou tackles contemporary China.

Žižek in mid-discourse.

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Žižek!

Runs Fri., Jan. 13–Thurs., Jan. 19, at Northwest Film Forum

Yes, Yoda is back to kick a little more ass.

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Back to the Future

The last Star Wars installment succeeds—mainly by returning us to the first.

Damn! Is everyone in Italy this good-looking?

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That’s Amore

Italian monogamy comedy translates nicely into the universal language.

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William Eggleston in the Real World

Runs Thurs., Nov. 10–Wed., Nov. 16, at Northwest Film Forum.