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Not too long ago, writer-director Sophie Barthes had a dream in which she found herself one of several patients at a futuristic doctor's office. Everyone was holding a box, Barthes remembers, even fellow patient Woody Allen. Only after an office assistant told the group that these boxes contained their extracted souls did the patients begin to look inside, but Barthes says she woke up before seeing her own soul in the box. She did, however, get to see the spiritual contents of Woody Allen's box, and it's that moment that would go on to become the inspiration for her directorial debut, Cold Souls.

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Is your soul weighing you down? Paul Giamatti has found a solution! In the surreal comedy COLD SOULS, Paul Giamatti plays an actor named Paul Giamatti. Stumbling upon an article in the New Yorker about a high tech company that extracts, deep-freezes, and stores people's souls, Paul very well might have found the key to happiness for which he's been searching. But, complications arise when he is the unfortunate victim of "soul-trafficking." Giamatti's journey takes him all the way to Russia in hopes of retrieving his stolen soul from an ambitious and talentless soap opera actress. Balancing a tightrope between deadpan humor & pathos, and reality and fantasy, COLD SOULS is a true souls searching comedy. Opening today in NY & LA!

Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Cold Souls, A Perfect Getaway, Paper Heart, Beeswax, Canary, I Sell the Dead, Bliss, Rolling Thunder, The Talk of the Town, Red Dawn, Barton Fink, and The Third Man.