featured films
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BROTHERS
Director: Jim Sheridan
Thirty-something Captain Sam Cahill and his younger brother Tommy Cahill, are polar opposites. A Marine about to embark on his fourth tour of duty, Sam is a steadfast family man married to his high school sweetheart, the aptly named Grace, with whom he has two young daughters. Tommy, his charismatic younger brother, is a drifter just out of jail who's always gotten by on wit and charm. He slides easily into his role as family provocateur on his first night out of prison, at Sam's farewell dinner with their parents, Elsie and Hank Cahill, a retired Marine. Shipped out to Afghanistan, Sam is presumed dead when his Black Hawk helicopter is shot down in the mountains. At home in suburbia, the Cahill family suddenly faces a shocking void, and Tommy tries to fill in for his brother by assuming newfound responsibility for himself, Grace, and the children.
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THAT EVENING SUN
Director: Scott Teems
Abner Meecham, an aging Tennessee farmer discarded to a nursing facility by his lawyer son, flees the old folks' home and catches a ride back to his country farm to live out his days in peace. Upon his return, he discovers that his son has leased the farm to Abner's old enemy and his white trash family. Not one to suffer fools or go down easy, Abner moves into the old tenant shack on the property and declares that he won't leave until the farm is returned to his possession. But Lonzo Choat, the new tenant, has no intention to move out or give in to the old man's demands. This sets up a ruthless grudge match between Abner and Choat, each man right in his own eyes, each too stubborn to give an inch. Angered by his son's betrayal, and haunted by recurring dreams of his long-dead wife, Abner sets about his own path toward reclaiming his life. Lines are drawn, threats are made, and the simmering tension under the Southern sun erupts, inevitably, into savagery.
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GREENBERG
Director: Noah Baumbach
At a crossroads in his life, Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) ends up house-sitting at his brother's home in Los Angeles. There, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with his brother's assistant Florence (Greta Gerwig), an aspiring singer. Florence and Greenberg's encounters lead to an uncertain and wonderfully vulnerable courtship. |
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THE LAST STATION
Director: Michael Hoffman
Set in the last tumultuous years of famed Russian author Leo Tolstoy's life, centers on the battle for his soul waged by his wife Sofya Andreyevna and his leading disciple Vladimir Cherkov. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealth, his thirteen children and a life of hedonism, Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight from his home. Too ill to continue beyond the tiny rail station at Astapovo, he believes that he is dying alone, while over one hundred newspapermen camp outside awaiting hourly reports on his condition. |
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ME AND ORSON WELLES
Director: Richard Linklater
Based on the novel by Robert Kaplow, Me and Orson Welles is a coming-of-age story set in the heady world of New York Theater. Zac Efron plays a teenage student who lucks his way into a minor role in the 1937 Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Caesar," directed by 22-year-old genius Orson Welles. He soon learns that all is fair in love and theater. |
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THE YOUNG VICTORIA
Director: Jean-Marc Vallee
The film focuses on the first, often turbulent, years of the monarch's rule. She became queen at 18, and was married to Prince Albert. Devastated by her husband's death in 1861, she wore black for the rest of her life and remained largely secluded. Emily Blunt stars as Queen Victoria and Rupert Friend portrays her husband, Prince Albert. |
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AGORA
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
This historical drama is set in Roman Egypt, and centers on a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hopes of pursuing freedom while also falling in love with his master, the famous female philosophy professor and atheist Hypatia of Alexandria. |
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BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS
Director: Werner Herzog
A rogue detective is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugs -- while playing fast and loose with the law. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina he becomes a high-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective reigning over the beautiful ruins of New Orleans with authority and abandon. Complicating his tumultuous life is the prostitute he loves. Together they descend into their own world marked by desire, compulsion, and conscience. |
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BROKEN EMBRACES
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
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CHLOE
Director: Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan's remake of the French thriller Nathalie. The project centers on a married woman (Julianne Moore) who hires a prostitute (Amanda Seyfried) to find out whether her husband (Liam Neeson) is cheating on her. The prostitute, however, cons her about the nature of her husband's fidelity, a move that puts the family in jeopardy.
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CITY ISLAND
Director: Raymond De Felitta
Based upon De Felitta's original screenplay, City Island is the story of a Bronx prison deputy Vince Rizzo who recognizes a prisoner as his grown child whom he sired with another woman twenty years earlier. He decides to be the young man's guardian in Rizzo's family's home, but his efforts to conceal the nature of his relationship to the young man promptly begin to unravel the complex web of deceits which have worn the family fabric threadbare through the years.
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THE CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH
Director: Lu Chuan
In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a period of several weeks wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed. The film tells the story of several figures, both historical and fictional, including a Chinese soldier, a schoolteacher, a Japanese soldier, a foreign missionary, and John Rabe, a Nazi businessman who would ultimately save thousands of Chinese civilians.
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CRAZY HEART
Director: Scott Cooper
Jeff Bridges stars in this drama based on Thomas Cobb's first novel about an alcoholic country singer named Bad Blake. The Bad's career is going downhill as he watches his protégé's star ascend, but his encounters with a journalist might just keep him from hitting rock bottom. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man's crazy heart.
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CREATION
Director: Jon Amiel
Director Jon Amiel describes his film adaptation of the book "Annie's Box" by Randal Keynes, great, great-grandson of Charles Darwin, as part ghost story, part psychological thriller, part heart-wrenching love story. It promises a Charles Darwin as you've never seen him before. |
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THE DEBT
Director: Assaf Bernstein
Assaf Bernstein’s The Debt is a unique psychological cat-and-mouse espionage thriller. In 1964, three young Mossad agents are on a mission to capture ‘The Surgeon of Birkenau,” a monstrous Nazi war criminal now working under a false identity as a gynecologist in a small clinic in Berlin. But when things don’t go as planned, a lie is perpetrated and now, more than 30 years later, they must protect themselves when The Surgeon suddenly resurfaces in the Ukraine, determined to confess his crimes against humanity. But how do you terminate a man already thought dead, and how do you find redemption for misdeeds of the past?
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DEFAMATION
Director: Yoav Shamir
Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative—and at times irreverent—quest to answer the question, "What is anti-Semitism today?" Does it remain a dangerous and immediate threat? Or is it a scare tactic used by right-wing Zionists to discredit their critics? Speaking with an array of people from across the political spectrum (including the head of the Anti-Defamation League and its fiercest critic, author Norman Finkelstein) and traveling to places like Auschwitz (alongside Israeli school kids) and Brooklyn (to explore reports of violence against Jews), Shamir discovers the realities of anti-Semitism today. His findings are shocking, enlightening and—surprisingly—often wryly funny.
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EVERYBODY’S FINE
Director: Kirk Jones
Robert De Niro plays a widower who realizes that his deceased wife was his only connection to his children. He decides on a whim to take a road trip to reconnect with each of his grown kids, discovering that their lives are far from perfect. |
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GIRL ON THE TRAIN
Director: Andre Techine
Noted French director André Téchiné, uses a real-life, horrific incident as the foundation for a story about family and identity. Jeanne spends her days job-hunting, roller-blading with her boyfriend, and chatting with her mother. Suddenly, Jeanne becomes the focus of media attention when she declares herself the victim of an anti-Semitic attack. Not Jewish herself, she manages to sully the name of her mother’s friend.
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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Cases really don't come any colder than the decades-old, inexplicable disappearance of teen heiress Harriet Vanger from her family's remote island retreat north of Stockholm. Forty years on, her rich industrialist uncle Henrik Vanger contacts Mikael Blomqvist, an investigative journalist, to find out what really happened to his niece. Mikael uncovers a morass of festering familial corruption and dark little secrets. |
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I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS
Director: Glenn Ficarra & John Requa
A family man is sent to prison and falls in love with his cellmate, Phillip Morris. When Morris is released from prison, his new love embarks on a series of escape attempts to reunite with Morris. |
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LAST NIGHT
Director: Massy Tadjedin
The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.
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LETTERS TO JULIET
Director: Gary Winick
When a young American (Amanda Seyfried) travels to the city of Verona, home of the star-crossed lover Juliet Capulet of Romeo and Juliet fame, she joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love. After answering one letter dated 1951, she inspires its author (Vanessa Redgrave) to travel to Italy in search of her long-lost love and sets off a chain of events that will bring a love into both their lives unlike anything they ever imagined.
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THE LOSS OF A TEARDROP DIAMOND
Director: Jodie Markell
Fisher Willow is a headstrong young heiress who chafes under the constraints of proper Southern society, and rebels by asking the impoverished but handsome son of her father's caretaker, Jimmy Dobyne, to escort her to the major social events of the season. The relationship is purely a business arrangement at the outset, with Fisher paying for Jimmy's time and attention, but when she discovers that she really loves him, she finds it impossible to re-write the rules and earn the affection she tried to buy.
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THE LOVELY BONES
Director: Peter Jackson
On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey. From heaven, Susie keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case. |
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THE MESSENGER
Director: Oren Moverman
Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma) plays a young Army officer who is forced to work with a partner he can't stand in the least desirable job in the military. His life becomes even more complicated when he falls in love with a soldier's widow.
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MID-AUGUST LUNCH
Director: Gianni Di Gregorio
Despite the fact he is a middle-aged man, Gianni lives in an old house in the center of Rome with his mother, a woman of faded nobility who tyrannizes him and leaves him only enough free time to go to the tavern. On the eve of the Feast of the Assumption holiday, the apartment block manager--aware of Gianni's enforced "captivity"--suggests he look after his own mother for a couple of days, in return for the waiver of all the unpaid utility bills. When he turns up at his house also accompanied by his old aunt, Gianni feels rather ill. He therefore pays a visit to his doctor friend for a check-up, but even the latter leaves his old mother in Gianni's care for the Feast of the Assumption. |
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THE MISSING PERSON
Director: Noah Buschel
John Rosow, is a private detective hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers man’s identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Persuaded by a large reward, Rosow is charged with bringing him back to his wife in New York City against his will.
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MOTHER
Director: Bong Joon-ho
This unique thriller is about a mother's primal love for her son. It stars Kim Hye-ja as a mother who throws herself body and soul into proving the innocence of her son who she believes to be wrongly accused of murder. |
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NINE
Director: Rob Marshall
World famous film director Guido Contini reaches a creative and personal crisis of epic proportion while balancing the numerous women in his life including his wife, his mistress, his film star muse, his confidant and costume designer, an American fashion journalist, the whore from his youth and his mother.
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NORTH FACE
Director: Philipp Stolzl
The year is1936, and as Nazi propaganda urges the nation's youth to mount a challenge on the unclimbed north face of the Eiger, two young Germans begin a daring ascent in this adventure film based on a true story.
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THE PARANOIDS
Director: Gabriel Medina
Luciano Gauna is a clown. Well, actually he is an entertainer at children's parties, and does so to make some money. And he is worried. He fears he might catch something. And for a long time he's been writing a script. He's on the verge of explosion, or on the verge of going nowhere fast. And his friend Manuel arrives from Spain. Manuel is a global "winner", and Luciano is full of impossibilities. And Sofia, Manuel's girlfriend appears.
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A PROPHET
Director: Jacques Audiard
The film focuses on the rise through the criminal ranks of a young orphan of North African origin, who has only known a prison life and who will become, with the help of the Corsican mafia and an influential Imam, the ultimate crime kingpin of all of France's immigrant suburbs.
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THE RUNAWAYS
Director: Floria Sigismondi
The Runaways is based on lead-singer Cherie Currie's book 'Neon Angel' - a reflection of her experiences as a rock star. The movie chronicles The Runaways from 1975 - 1977; formed by teenage girls living near Hollywood, CA., and heavily manipulated by their manager Kim Fowley. The band ultimately succeeds on their own merits as musicians, becoming the first all-girl rock-band to ever break into the world of arena-filling hard rock acts.
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A SINGLE MAN
Director: Tom Ford
Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, A Single Man is the story of George Falconer, a 52 year old British college professor who is struggling to find meaning to his life after the death of his long time partner, Jim. George dwells on the past and cannot see his future as we follow him through a single day, where a series of events and encounters, ultimately leads him to decide if there is a meaning to life after Jim. |
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THE SQUARE
Director: Nash Edgerton
Escaping the monotony of a loveless marriage, Raymond becomes entangled in an affair with the beautiful and troubled Carla. Ray's moral limits are tested when Carla presents him with the proceeds of her controlling husband's latest crime. This is their chance: Take the money and run. If only it were that simple. |
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A TOWN CALLED PANIC
Directors: Stephane Aubier & Vincent Pata
Audience Award Winner at Fantastic Fest 2009 and the first stop-motion animated feature selected to Cannes, A Town Called Panic follows the wacky, hilarious and often surreal adventures of three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and Horse who share a rambling house in a rural town which never fails to attract the weirdest events. |
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UP IN THE AIR
Director: Jason Reitman
Oscar® winner George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a corporate hatchet man who loves his life on the road but is forced to fight for his job when his company downsizes its travel budget. He is required to spend more time at home just as he is on the cusp of a goal he's worked toward for years: reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he's met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.
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WAITING FOR ARMAGEDDON
Directors: Kate Davis, Franco Sacchi and David Heilbroner
America's 50-million strong Evangelical community is convinced that the world's future is foretold in Biblical prophecy - from the Rapture to the Battle of Armageddon. This documentary explores their world - in their homes, at conferences, and on a wide-ranging tour of Israel. By interweaving Christian, Zionist, Jewish and critical perspectives along with telling archival materials, the filmmakers probe the politically powerful - and potentially explosive - alliance between Evangelical Christians and Israel...an alliance that may set the stage for what one prominent Evangelical leader calls "World War III." |
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THE WHTE RIBBON
Director: Michael Haneke
Set in a Northern German village before World War I during the decline of the Austro-Hungarian empire, depicts the emergence of national socialism.
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THE WILDEST DREAM
Director: Anthony Geffen
The story of George Mallory, an explorer obsessed with becoming the first climber to reach the top of Mount Everest, as told through letters to his wife, previously unseen photos, and film from 1924 as well as from the 1999 expedition that discovered Mallory's body on Everest. |
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THE YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF
Director: Udayan Prasad
Brett Hanson is an ex-convict, just released from prison after serving six years for manslaughter and now adrift in a world of new freedoms and responsibilities. Finding initial difficulties in reconciling himself to a troubled past, Brett crosses paths with lonely and troubled teenager Martine and her new 'ride' Gordy. The trio head out in the same car and direction--Martine to cut loose and get away from her family, Gordy to get closer to Martine, and Brett who must decide whether he wants to return to his troubled past and an uncertainty with May, the woman that he left behind. Once on the road, the trio find their relationships forging and changing in myriad ways, but it is Brett's story and his need to reconcile his past to his future that drives the two young people to reassess their own passages as well.
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