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Weekend Movie Forecast: <em>Goodbye Solo</em> Vs. <em>Monsters Vs. Aliens</em>

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John Del Signore

Published Mar 27, 2009

Modified Mar 27, 2009

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Ramin Bahrani, who directed Man Push Cart and the mesmerizing Chop Shop, is back with his third feature, Goodbye Solo, which concerns a Senegalese immigrant cab driver who insinuates himself into the life of one of his fares in Winston-Salem, where Bahrani grew up. It's getting glowing reviews. Roger Ebert calls Bahrani "the new great American director. He never steps wrong. In Goodbye Solo, he begins with a situation that might unfold in a dozen different ways and makes of it something original and profound. It is about the desire to help and the desire to not be helped."

 

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Click on the stills above for more details and reviews of this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Monsters Vs. Aliens, The Education of Charlie Banks, American Swing, Guest of Cindy Sherman, The Haunting in Connecticut, Shall We Kiss?, Spinning into Butter, New Directors/New Films, The Witches of Eastwick, and Videodrome.

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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.

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