In Selected Theaters This Weekend: Appaloosa, The Duchess, Battle in Seattle, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

In Limited Release:

Appaloosa
Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen are Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, two justice-for-hire cowboys who ride into a town that’s being run roughshod over by a ruthless rancher by the name of Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons). Their job gets complicated when the unassuming Mrs. French (Renee Zellweger) comes to town and catches Virgil’s eye.

The Duchess
Keira Knightley stars as Georgiana Spencer, the Duchess of Devonshire to Ralph Fiennes’ Duke. An ancestor of Princess Diana Spencer, the Duchess was similarly a renowned and adored figure that captured the imagination of the general public, and she similarly used her position of notoriety to pursue what she believed to be noble causes, in spite of a marriage that was failing.

Battle in Seattle
The 1999 protests of the World Trade Organization’s convention brought over 40,000 people to the Pacific Northwest, but it escalated into violence and rioting. Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta, Channing Tatum and Martin Henderson star in this pastiche of the protest and the varying motivations that brought that many people to bear.

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Director Wayne Wang brings us a simple, yet complex story about an elderly Chinese man (Henry O) coming to America to try to reconnect with his estranged daughter (Faye Yu) and come to terms with the strange world she now lives in.