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941 Valkyrie (2008) #328 FILM Main
Directed by Bryan Singer. With Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Carice van Houten, Kenneth Branagh. A dramatization of the 20 July assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Hitler during World War II.
942 Transsiberian (2008) #345 FILM Main
Directed by Brad Anderson. With Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley, Kate Mara. A Trans-Siberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.
943 The Hurt Locker (2008) #364 FILM Main
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. With Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce. During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
944 The Oxford Murders (2008) #372 FILM Main
Directed by Álex de la Iglesia. With Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling, Jim Carter. At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try to stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.
945 Departures (2008) #379 FILM Main
Directed by Yôjirô Takita. With Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kazuko Yoshiyuki. A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.
946 In Bruges (2008) #405 FILM Main
Directed by Martin McDonagh. With Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds, Elizabeth Berrington. Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.
947 Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2008) #415 FILM Main
Directed by Nick Moran. With Con O'Neill, Kevin Spacey, Pam Ferris, JJ Feild. A music-infused drama about Joe Meek, the flamboyantly gay, tone deaf, songwriter-producer behind the '60s hits "Have I the Right," "Just Like Eddie," "Johnny, Remember Me" and "Telstar."
948 Departures (2008) #422 FILM Main
Directed by Yôjirô Takita. With Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kazuko Yoshiyuki. A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.
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949 Presto (2008) #449 FILM Main
Directed by Doug Sweetland. With Doug Sweetland. A stage magician's rabbit gets into a magical onstage brawl against his neglectful guardian with two magic hats.
950 Yes Man (2008) #465 FILM Main
Directed by Peyton Reed. With Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, John Michael Higgins. A guy challenges himself to say "yes" to everything for an entire year.
951 Frost/Nixon (2008) #465 FILM Main
Directed by Ron Howard. With Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Sam Rockwell. A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.
952 Quantum of Solace (2008) #467 FILM Main
Directed by Marc Forster. With Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench. James Bond descends into mystery as he tries to stop a mysterious organization from eliminating a country's most valuable resource. All the while, he still tries to seek revenge over the death of his love.
953 My Best Friend's Girl (2008) #467 FILM Main
Directed by Howard Deutch. With Kate Hudson, Dane Cook, Jason Biggs, Alec Baldwin. Tank faces the ultimate test of friendship when his best friend hires him to take his ex-girlfriend out on a lousy date in order to make her realize how great her former boyfriend is.
954 Surveillance (2008) #467 FILM Main
Directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch. With Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James, Caroline Aaron. Two FBI agents attempt to clarify the murders occurring in a desolate region. They approach the witnesses of the latest incident with the help of the local police. All of them hide something and all have wildly different stories to tell.
955 The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) #520 FILM Main
Directed by Scott Derrickson. With Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith. A remake of the 1951 classic sci-fi film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.
956 The Reader (2008) #520 FILM Main
Directed by Stephen Daldry. With Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain. Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
957 Waltz with Bashir (2008) #520 FILM-ANIMATION Main
Directed by Ari Folman. With Ari Folman, Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ori Sivan. An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
958 Puccini: La Bohème (2008) #599 MUSIC Main
Directed by Gary Halvorson. With Angela Gheorghiu, Ramón Vargas, Ainhoa Arteta, Ludovic Tézier. Imagine a world where taste and sensitivity have been overrun by gaudy excess and marketing hyperbole, where Puccini's quiet, intimate love-story can at last be told with A Cast of Thousands and a Real, Live Military Marching Band.
Opera. The Metropolitan Opera, New York.
959 Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia (2008) #600 MUSIC Main
Directed by Gary Halvorson. With Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Peter Mattei, John Del Carlo. Rossini's sparkling comedy is given a new shine here under the direction of Broadway director Bartlett Sher. Count Almaviva is smitten by the feisty Rosina, but she is kept under lock and key by Dr. Bartolo. Send for Figaro to help.
Opera. The Barber of Seville. The Metropolitan Opera, New York.
960 Tannhäuser (2008) #601 MUSIC Main
Directed by Patrick Buttmann. With Robert Gambill, Camilla Nylund, Waltraud Meier, Roman Trekel.
Opera. Wagner. Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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