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14 -- "Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who!" is a CGI-animated adaptation of the classic Seuss tale, featuring the voices of Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill.
14 -- "Fighting for Life" follows military physicians, nurses and medics on the front lines of the Iraq war, and chronicles their training as "the best medical school no one's ever heard of" at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
14 -- "Sleepwalking" is a drama by Bill Maher (no, not that Bill Maher) about an 11-year-old girl as she comes to grips with her mother's abandonment. With AnnaSophia Robb and Charlize Theron.
14 -- "Never Back Down" is a "teen action drama" in which a troubled new kid in town (Sean Faris) learns to deal with bullies, cliques and his own family troubles through that force for healing and transcendence known as Mixed Martial Arts.
14 -- "Funny Games" finds Austrian director-provocateur Michael Haneke remaking his own 1997 thriller -- about two psychopaths who terrorize a family in their vacation home -- in an American version, this one starring Naomi Watts, Michael Pitt and Tim Roth.
14 -- "The Witnesses," from French filmmaker Andre Techine, concerns a group of young people living it up in 1984 Paris, where they find themselves contending with the outbreak of a mysterious new disease known as AIDS. With Emmanuelle Beart and Julie Depardieu (papa is Gerard).
14 -- "Ingmar Bergman Remembered" continues at AFI with Part II, which will focus on the late director's work in the 1960s and early 1970s, including "Persona" and the TV project "Scenes From a Marriage." Through May 5.
14 -- "The Counterfeiters," nominated for this year's Best Foreign Film Oscar, is the true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, who after being arrested by the Nazis, agrees to help them set up a counterfeit operation to help finance the war effort.
15 -- "Alexandra," Alexander Sokurov's 2007 drama about a Russian soldier in Chechnya who is visited by his grandmother, makes its Washington premiere at the National Gallery.
16 -- "Silvestre Rivueltas: Music for Film" features two films with scores by the Mexican composer, "Redes (The Wave)," by Paul Strand and Fred Zinneman, and "V¿monos con Pancho Villa," by Fernando de Fuentes. Both will be shown at the National Gallery.
21 -- "Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust," about the history of the Holocaust on film -- from denial to documentary to drama -- opens at the Avalon.
21 -- "Military Intelligence and You!" is Dale Kutzera's military satire that takes the form of a mock World War II training film, weaving the fictional story of a military analyst on the hunt for a Nazi fighter base with actual footage from vintage films.





