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Show UVU Cinema premieres Alex Caldiero documentary Two Utah Valley Univer-sit- y student filmmakers have captured one of their school's unique personalities on film. "The Sonosopher: Alex Caldiero in Life ... in Sound" will be shown at UVLTs Ragan Theater on Friday at 7 p.m. f Tickets to the screenings are $5 and are available at Campus Connection in UVUs Sorenson Student Center. "The Sonosopher" was directed by Travis Low and Tor-be- n Bernhard. Caldiero, who was born in Sicily and raised in New York City, teaches in the Humanities and Philosophy department of UVLTs College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and is a poet and artist in residence at UVU. In the process of compiling more than 100 hours of footage, the filmmaker traveled with Caldiero to New York Cfty and Sicily. A second screening of the ' film will be on Oct. 2 at the Salt ! , A '"':'--- 7 - Variance Films Jimmy Hiroshi Watanabe, left and Bob Justin KwongJ in "White on Rice." Who's your paddy? Coming-of-middle-a- comedy blazes its own trail ge Cody Clark themes are pretty universal, and he rarely dwells on quirks of ethnicity. Like a lot of the a rare movie that can movie's frequently low-kea joke several humor, the gentle irony of out the Japanese main character them, actually a man's being taken seeming less rooted in his culAmeriture than a the hospital with a can kid sinks in gradually. large kitchen knife lodged in his abdomen. You might say Hajime, who goes by that writer and director Dave Jimmy with almost everyone he knows, is divorced, esBoyle has ventured off the beaten path with "White on sentially jobless and has the sort of cheerfully hapless Rice," except that the impression given by his filmmaking temperament that ensures a style is that he was probably steady diet of at least one shenever really a beaten path per- nanigan per day. His sister, son in the first place. Aiko, tolerates his flaws and The focal point of the film's celebrates his few accomplishments, such as having played engagingly small potatoes the role of "14th villager" in Hajime, story is a Japanese slacker who lives the amusingly low-rekung fu movie "Ambush at Blood with his transplanted sister's America Trail Gate." family in small-towand shares a bunk bed with his Aiko's husband, Tak, is hopeful that Jimmy will find solemnly precocious d his own place soon, but also nephew. The nephew, distracted by attempting to Bob, mows lawns and surtrims hedges to pay for his piplan a ano lessons, as well as making prise for his wife. Jimmy is in the occasional cash advance to the mood for love as well, but, ' his feckless roommate. being Jimmy, he's continually in a about Did you catch that? Boyle's wildly fantasizing DAILY HERALD y It's n pint-size- appropriate relationship with a woman half his age. Casting is a particular strength of the movie. Jimmy's behavior is often obnoxious, but Hiroshi Watanabe somehow makes it seem endearing. He also consistently nails the delivery of his character's shamelessly unfiltered observations: "I don't like him. I don't like his hairstyle. It looks like a dog's butt." Justin Kwong is winningly deadpan as the Bob, while the tricky relationship between morose Tak and blithe Aiko is deftly captured by Mio Takada and surname-eschewin-g actress Nae. Some of the humor falls flat, like an incident in which Jimmy borrows Tak's car and winds up in a fix that feels both predictable and underwritten. And the occasional scene begins promisingly but rambles on a bit too long: A frantic ride to the emergency room stops being funny 5 seconds before it stops being in the movie. On the other hand, Boyle 10-1- Lake City Public library. Tickets to that screening are available ($5) from Ken Sanders Rare Book in Salt Lake City. Cody Clark Box Office Compiled by exhibitor Relations Co. and Nielsen EDI Inc. for last 1. "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Sony, $30,304,648, 3,119 locations, $9,716 average, Review $30,304,648, one week. Informant!" Wamer Bros., $10,464,314, 2,505 locations, $4,177 average, $10,464,314, one week. 2. "The White on Rice' (ED Director: Dave Boyle Cast: Hiroshi Watanabe, Justin Kwong, Lynn Chen, James Kyson Lee Running time: hr., 23 min. 1 3 for some violent Rating: humor images and Location: Opens Friday at theaters in Utah PG-1- ' 3. "Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself," Lionsgate, $9,877,436, 2,255 locations, $4,380 average, $37,749,545, two weeks. 4. "Love Happens," Universal, $8,057,010, 1,898 locations, $4,245 average, $8,057,01 0, one week. "Jennifer's Body," Fox, $6,868,397, 2,702 locations, $2,542 average, $6,868,397, one week. 5. 6. "9," Focus, $5,563,134, 2,060 loca-tion- s, $2,701 average, $22,918,077, does demonstrate a knack for making the same joke pay off repeatedly, in different ways. The kitchen knife isn't even still in the picture (or in the abdomen) when Aiko's sincere, deeply relieved response to a bloviating ER doc perfectly caps off the entire incident. Perhaps not surprisingly, the movie does end in a beaten path sort of way . With just enough of a twist to remind you that rice is bland ... until you season it. two weeks. 7. "Inglourious Basterds," Weinstein Co., $3,818,142, 2,519 locations, $1,516 average, $1 1 0,1 1 6,807, five weeks. 8. "All About Steve," Fox, $3,373,212, 2,159 locations, $1,562 average, $26,651,633, three weeks. 9. "Sorority Row," Summit Entertainment $2,499,758, 2,591 locations, $965 average, $8,880,742, two . weeks. 10. "The Final Destination," Wamer $2,388,473, 1,805 locations, $1,323 average, $62,405,206, four weeks. 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