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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.

The New Yorker runs a profile (preview only) of Nora Ephron in advance of Julie & Julia, a film she directed, wrote, and co-produced right here in NYC. In parallel narratives, the movie depicts the lives of chef Julia Child and blogger Julie Powell, who set out a few years ago to circumnavigate every recipe in Child's first volume of Mastering the Art of French Cooking in much the same way a road-weary pilgrim might approach a sacred temple. Valuable life lessons about love and liberation ensue. The New Yorker details a bit about how Meryl Streep filled Child's large shoes (right) for the film, and also a few anecdotes about the famous chef's dining excursions to NYC. "Julia Child ate at Nobu once," Drew Nieporent tells the New Yorker. "She's sitting there, she's looking at the sushi, she goes like this," the restaurateur says, then pretends to pass out. Guess she didn't like the miso-glazed black cod, either. In other news, Slashfood recently ran an interesting post about a Greenpoint warehouse liquidation of vintage culinary props used in the film that took place a few months ago. Julie & Julia hits theaters August 7.

If you passed by St. Paul’s Chapel near the World Trade Center site yesterday you may have felt like you’d stepped back through time to the city’s raw, post-9/11 days, when the chapel’s fence was festooned with photos and tributes to the attack's victims. The new Nora Ephron movie Julie & Julia recreated the makeshift memorial, which was dismantled in November 2002. (Using a crane, the crew also pasted leaves to the trees.)