A note about the following dates: Due to Hollywood’s notorious last-minute date-shifting, the following release dates may change. In fact, we’d be willing to bet they will, as marquee movies cause nervous shifting for independent films either just opening or opening nationwide after a limited release (see October 13, a good candidate for this scenario). Some films will get bumped entirely — the Winona Ryder horror film Lost Souls has shown up on these kinds of calendars twice before. The point is: The calendar below is a big fat guess — we’d guess about, oh, 85% correct — but a guess nonetheless, based on press kits and publicists and local theatre managers and bigger magazines and our new best friend, the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com). Just a friendly reminder.
September 8: Equinox Knox, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Nurse Betty, The Tao of Steve, The Watcher, Way of the Gun
September 15: Almost Famous, Bait, Crime & Punishment in Suburbia (limited), Duets
September 22: Beautiful, Blow Dry (limited), Under Suspicion, Urbania, Urban Legends: Final Cut, Woman on Top (limited)
September 29: The Broken Hearts Club (limited), Remember the Titans
October 6: Bamboozled (limited), Dancer in the Dark (limited), Digimon, Get Carter, Meet the Parents, Mercy Streets, Requiem for a Dream, Tigerland, Two-Family House (limited)
October 13: Best in Show (limited), Billy Elliot (limited), Bounce, The Contender, Dr. T and the Women, Girlfight, Just Looking (limited), The Ladies Man, Lost Souls
October 20: Bedazzled, Goya in Bordeaux, Pay It Forward, The Yards (limited)
October 27: Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, The Little Vampire, Lucky Numbers, Stardom (limited)
October 31: The Attic Expeditions
November 3: Charlie’s Angels, The Golden Bowl (limited), The Legend of Bagger Vance, Red Planet
November 10: Little Nicky, Malëna (limited), Men of Honor
November 17: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, Original Sin, The 6th Day, What’s Cookin’?
November 22: 102 Dalmatians, Atlantis Falling Quills (limited), Unbreakable
This article appears in September 1 • 2000.