FILM

New Releases Underworld: Evolution (IIB): Kate Beckinsale reprises her role as Selene, the sexy vampire warrior who guns down her own race and werewolves like a female video game character. Also stars British actor Derek Jacobi as the forefather of all vampires and werewolves. Len Wiseman directs. LKW Transamerica (IIB): Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives) plays a man who learns that he has a son - a street hustler in New York - when he is about to complete a sex change. Approaching his son as a churchy lady, he takes him to California in search of his stepfather. Duncan Tucker directs this road movie with a transexual twist. LKW The Sage Hunter (Putonghua) (I): First-time Taiwanese indigenous actors star in this film about Sakinu, an indigenous hero who is determined to thwart the building of an expressway through the sacred land of his tribe. Tony Cheung directs. LKW My Girl & I (Korean) (I): Korean star Cha Tae-hyun (My Sassy Girl) and TV actress Song Hye-gyo star as high school students in this bittersweet romantic comedy based on the popular Japanese romance Crying Out Love, In the Centre of the World. Jeon Yun-su directs. LKW General ReleasesThe Art of Seduction (Korean) (IIA): Son Ye-jin stars as an all-conquering seductress who finds her perfect match in a womaniser (Song Il-gook). Oh Ki-hwan directs this urban romantic comedy. CT Brokeback Mountain (IIB): Epic western starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as cowboys hired as sheep herders during a summer in Wyoming whose friendship evolves into a 20-year love affair. Also stars Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway as their heartbroken wives. Ang Lee won the Best Director Oscar for this touching love story. AS Firewall (IIA): Harrison Ford returns in this hi-tech thriller as the security head of a bank. His family is taken hostage by armed robbers who demand he help them rob the bank. Virginia Madsen plays his wife while Paul Bettany is the well-mannered bad guy. Richard Loncraine directs. CT 49 Days (Cantonese) (IIB): Stephen Fung Tak-lun plays a merchant suspected of being involved in a murder in this supernatural horror film set in 1920s and 30s China. Gillian Chung Yan-tung plays a young lawyer who defends him to prove her ability to her father. Lam Kin-lung directs. LKW Keeping Mum (IIA): Rowan Atkinson plays a well-meaning vicar in this dark British comedy that serves up more dead bodies than jokes. Kristin Scott Thomas plays his bored wife who is about to run off with her golf coach to Mexico. But things change after the arrival of housekeeper Grace (Maggie Smith), who employs violent means to resolve family problems. Niall Johnson directs. CT Mother of Mine (Swedish and Finnish) (I): A film about one of the 70,000 children who were evacuated from Finland to Sweden during the second world war, focusing on an abandoned child who doesn't get along with his adopted mother. CT Munich (IIB): Steven Spielberg returns with this political thriller starring Eric Bana as the leader of a team of undercover Israeli agents assigned to hunt down suspects behind the terrorist attack during the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Also stars Daniel Craig and Geoffrey Rush. LKW Pride and Prejudice (I): Keira Knightley plays Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine in the adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice. She despises - but eventually falls for - the arrogant Fitzwilliam Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen). Joe Wright directs. LKW 2 Become 1 (Cantonese) (IIA): Inspired by the Chinese novel Mourning For The Breast, the movie - produced by Johnnie To Kei-fung - stars Miriam Yeung Chin-wah as a woman suffering from breast cancer. Also stars Taiwanese singer Richie Jen Hsien-chi as her doctor friend. PF Walk The Line (IIA): A biopic that chronicles the life struggles of country music legend Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix), as well as his romance with singer-songwriter June Carter. Reese Witherspoon won the best actress Oscar for her portrayal of the singer from the famed country music family. James Mangold directs. AS Art House Canadian Film Festival: Contemporary films showcasing filmmaker Atom Egoyan (including the following three films). Today-Mar 19, various venues and times, $40 Urbtix. Inquiries: www.lcsd.gov.hk/fp Calendar: Atom Egoyan and his real-life wife, Arsinee Khanjian, play a married couple holidaying in Armenia. The wife runs off with the tour guide and Egoyan is left heartbroken. In English. Sat, 5pm, HK Film Archive, 50 Lei King Rd, Sai Wan Ho; Mar 19, 8pm, HK Space Museum, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, $40 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2734 2900 Exotica: A women opens a strip club because of her mother's dying wish. Inside, table dancers, patrons and the DJ are intertwined in a web of fantasies and twisted relationships. Winner of the Best Canadian Feature Film at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1994. In English. Sat, 6.30pm, HK Film Archive, 50 Lei King Rd, Sai Wan Ho, $40 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2734 2900 The Adjuster: A non-conventional family reveals its fetishes when the insurance adjuster husband offers his services in bed and the wife watches R-rated films non-stop. In English. Winner of Best Canadian Feature Film, Toronto Film Festival in 1991. In English. Mar 19, 6pm, HK Space Museum, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, $40 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2734 2900 National Film Board Shorts: A selection of three Canadian shorts. Director Chris Landreth's Ryan (2004) is a computer- animated documentary about former filmmaker Ryan Larkin who was nominated for an Oscar, but is now a beggar, living on welfare. Oscar-award winner of Best Animated Short Film in 2004. Hardwood (2004) is a personal story of director Hubert Davis and his famous father Mel Davis, who was a former Harlem Globetrotter. Oscar-nominated for Best Documentary (Short Subject) in 2004. In In the Shadow of Gold Mountain (2004), filmmaker Karen Cho explores how Chinese immigrants were not welcome in a country they called home. In English with English subtitles. Tomorrow, 7.30pm, HK Film Archive, 50 Lei King Rd, Sai Wan Ho, Mar 19, 4pm, HK Space Museum, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, $40 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2734 2900 The Saddest Music in the World: Set during the Depression in Canada, Isabella Rossellini plays a double amputee baroness who searches for the saddest music in the world through a competition of musicians from all corners of the globe. Shot in black and white. In English with Chinese subtitles. Sun, 6.45pm, HK Space Museum, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, $40 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2734 2900 Les Aimants (Love and Magnets): After suffering a broken heart and travelling the world, a woman tries to help her sister's failing relationship by forging love notes. Starring Emmanuel Bilodeau, Isabelle Blais and David Savard. In French with English subtitles. Sun, 8.45pm, HK Space Museum, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, $40 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2734 2900 Touching the Void: Filmmaker Kevin Macdonald unravels the true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, who escaped death after a fall on a mountain in the Peruvian Andes. Through interviews and voiceovers, the story of Simpson's accident and miraculous survival is retold. In English with Chinese subtitles. Sun, 12.15pm, Broadway Cinematheque, Prosperous Gardens, 3 Public Square St, Yau Ma Tei, $40. Inquiries: www.cinema.com.hk