So, what else is new?

• The Man: Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy not withstanding, "The Man" apparently doesn't care about the funny. (Opens Friday)
  
• Green Street Hooligans: Frodo Elijah Wood has been busy since completing the Lord of the Rings trilogy. After appearing as smiley-creepy-sociopath in Sin City and before next week's release of Everything Is Illuminated, Wood gets to play things a bit tougher in this drama set within the world of British Hooligans, i.e., rabid football (soccer to us) fans. (Opens Friday at AMC Empire 25 and Regal Union Square 14)
  
• Keane: A favorite on the festival circuit and hit at last year's New York Film Festival, Lodge Kerrigan's Keane is finally seeing a limited theatrical release. The story focuses on a man wandering around Port Authority Bus Terminal looking for his lost daughter. But is she lost? Does she exist? Is he schizophrenic? (Opens Friday at Landmark Sunshine)
  
• Steal Me: A teenage boy with a proclivity for thievery and older women can't find his prostitute mother so he moves in with a family in a small-town in Montana. (Opens Friday at Village East Cinemas)
  
• An Unfinished Life: The Miramax distribution dump continues with a surprising entry that were it not for the presence of J.Lo would seem like a great bet: Robert Redford and Morgan Freeman starring for director Lasse Hallstrom. So what's wrong with it? (Opens Friday)
  
• The Exorcism of Emily Rose: Laura Linney, Campbell Scott and Tom Wilkinson star in this legal thriller focusing on a case against a priest who's attempt to exorcise a young woman led to her death. (Opens Friday)
  
• Campfire: An Israeli film set-in the West Bank of 1981 just as many Jews decided to help create and build the settlements which now continue to prove to be a major stumbling block in finding Middle East peace. (Opens Friday)
  
• Cote d'Azur: A sunny French romantic comedy about a family on vacation at the sea, and hijinks ensue. Yippee. (Opens Friday)
  
• Touch the Sound: A documentary in which percussionist Evelyn Glennie, with the help of director Thomas Riedelsheimer, will take you through an audible exploration of the world of sound, especially in relation to images with which certain sounds are often paired. (Now playing IFC Center)
  
• Music From the Inside Out: Documentarian Daniel Anker attempts to explore the nature of music through the experience of members of the Philadelphia Orchestra. (Opens Friday at Cinema Village)
  
• Make It Funky!: A documentary exploring the New Orleans jazz scene. (Opens Friday at The Quad Cinema)
  
• Kamikaze Girls: A stylized and super-popular Japanese action comedy. (Opens Friday Village East Cinemas)
  
• Walking on the Sky: A guy jumps off his roof committing suicide. All his old school chums gather together on said rooftop to say one last goodbye, and of course reconnect with each other. Hmmm ... what's with our sudden urge to watch The Big Chill?
  
• Salaam Namaste: Bollywood from Australia. Music and a love story. Surprise! (Opens Friday at The Quad Cinema)
  
• Edge Codes: Beyond the Cut: Gothamist is enough of a film geek to be very excited about this documentary which explores the history of film editing. Editors are among the most important but least recognized position on any film -- come on, how many editors do you know by name -- and learning about their craft is, simply put, learning about filmmaking and storytelling. (Opens Friday for one week at Two Boots Pioneer)

Midnight Movie Smackdown
The IFC Center and the Landmark Sunshine Movie Theater really are doing a great job making it difficult to decide where to spend your "Midnight Movie" hours each weekend. Luckily, since both theaters screen on Fridays and Saturdays, you can get to both each weekend if you wish. This week's attractions are Prince in Purple Rain at the IFC Center while the Sunshine will be showing the hysterical final film in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead trilogy, Army of Darkness.

A day-by-day trot around town
Tonight
Film Forum's "Summer Samurai" series continues with some great options including showings today of Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa's attempt to remake Macbeth as a samurai flick. On Friday and Saturday, Film Forum shows The Sword of Doom, a fascinating and dark samurai picture from director Kihachi Okamoto that is well worth seeing.

Also tonight, MoMA continues its series honoring the late great filmmaker and teacher Alexander Mackendrick. Tonight you can see why the Coen Bros./Tom Hanks film The Ladykillers was a disappointment to cinephiles familiar with the original. Then tomorrow, you can catch Mackendrick's masterpiece, Sweet Smell of Success.

Friday
As we mentioned last week, the New York Korean Film Festival is underway and continuing this week at BAM. Gothamist has heard good things about both My Mother, the Mermaid and Spider Forest showing Friday at 6:50 PM and 9:15 PM, respectively.

Also opening Friday is a limited engagement re-release of The Outsiders, Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 adaptation of SE Hinton's classic young adult novel. The film is getting a new two-disc DVD release on Sept. 20 under the title The Outsiders: The Complete Novel due to an additional 22 minutes of never before seen footage, and it's that version of the movie which will be showing at the AMC Empire 25. The Outsiders was the ultimate cast of hot young male stars of the time: Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon. And of course, then there was Ponyboy himself: poor C. Thomas Howell. You had such promise and then there was Soul Man. It's enough to bring a tear to the eye.

Saturday
It's your second-to-last opportunity to enjoy Rooftop Films this year in Williamsburg. This week's program is "Unspeakable Animation". The band Paper Legs kicks things off at 8:30 followed by 12 animated shorts at 9 PM.

If you're afraid of catching a chill, Gothamist suggests checking-out the "Cabaret Cinema" program at the The Rubin Museum of Art." A $12 minimum (two drinks, natch!) bar tab gets you free admission to the movie. This week, "Cabaret Cinema" kicks off a new series -- "Diva!" -- with the 1979 Indian film Meera, the story of a controversial figure in Indian society: Meera, the only woman to be considered one of the major pre-modern Hindi-language poets.

Curtis Harrington has long been a popular underground figure who came to the precipice of mainstream success only to have the studios not know what to do with him. Anthology Film Archives presents a tribute to the nearly 78-year-old Harrington with several of his more, shall we say "interesting" films. See one of his earliest on Saturday at 9 PM as Dennis Hopper spends his shore leave in a small town by meeting a young woman who he thinks may really be a mermaid in Night Tide.

Sunday
If you've never seen Francois Truffaut's first film and French New Wave masterpiece The 400 Blows, today at noon you should rush down to the IFC Center. It's actually screening Friday through Sunday, so this is just your last chance (at least this week), not your only one.

Monday
After you've purchased your New York Film Festival tickets, you might want to head upstairs and wait outside the Walter Reade Theater box office if you want any chance at all getting in to An Evening With Tim Burton featuring an advance screening of his new stop-motion animated feature Corpse Bride. The event is sold out, but there will be a stand-by line if you want to chance it. Don't fret though: the film opens wide on Sept. 23 and tickets for this evening are a pricey $40 anyway.

A better (and less expensive) bet might be a trip to BAM for the kick-off of a new Mondays-in-September series called "Party Girls and Outlaws: Nicholas Ray" with screenings of some of the maverick director's lesser known works, such as The True Story of Jesse James.

Tuesday
Another sold-out but worthy evening at the Walter Reade (and this one only $15) is "Film Comment Selects: An Evening with Anton Corbijn, Jonathan Glazer, Mark Romanek, and Stéphane Sednaoui", a 90 minute program featuring clips and shorts from these four innovative film and music video directors whose work is featured in four new "Directors Label" DVDs from Palm Pictures

Wednesday
MoMA kicks off an aptly-timed and titled series, "Early Autumn: Masterworks of Japanese Cinema from the National Film Center, Tokyo" on Wednesday with screenings of Early Autumn/The End of Summer from Japanese great Yasujiro Ozu at 6 PM and Nagisa Oshima's 1969 classic Shonen a/k/a Boy, one of the best movies you'll see in this entire series.