TOWELHEAD
TOWELHEAD follows the dark, bold and
shockingly funny life of Jasira, a 13-year-old Arab-American
girl, as she navigates the confusing and frightening path of
adolescence and her own sexual awakening. more
BATTLE IN SEATTLE
In
1999, five days rocked the world as tens of thousands of
demonstrators took to the streets of
Seattle
in protest of the World Trade Organization. Among them are
Django (Andre Benjamin), Sam (Jennifer
Carpenter), Lou (Michelle
Rodriguez) and Jay (Martin Henderson). United in
their desire to be heard and to make a difference, for these
protesters, more
BLINDNESS
From Nobel Prize winning author Jose Saramago and acclaimed
director Fernando Meirelles (“The Constant Gardener,” “City of
God”) comes the compelling story of humanity in the grip of an
epidemic of mysterious blindness. It is an unflinching exploration
of human nature, both bad and good–people’s selfishness,
opportunism,and indifference, but also their capacity for empathy,
love and sheer perseverance. more
FIREPROOF
At
work, inside burning buildings, Capt. Caleb Holt lives by
the old firefighter’s adage: Never leave your partner
behind. At home, in the cooling embers of his marriage, he
lives by his own rules.
After seven years of marriage, Caleb and Catherine Holt have
drifted so far apart that Catherine wishes she had never
married. more
CHOKE
Actor-turned-director Clark Gregg shows he
is as adept behind the camera as he is in front of it with
CHOKE, a wickedly colorful dark comedy about mothers and
sons, sexual compulsion, and the sordid underbelly of
Colonial theme parks. Victor Mancini (Rockwell), a
sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his increasingly
deranged mother, Ida (Huston), in an expensive private
medical hospital by working days as a historical reenactor
at a Colonial Williamsburg theme park more
THE LUCKY ONES
When three very different U.S. soldiers
find themselves on an unplanned road trip across America,
they form a deep bond that may be the closest thing any of
them has to real family. A humorous and timely drama about
coming home, The Lucky Ones stars Rachel McAdams (The
Notebook, Wedding Crashers), Tim Robbins (Mystic River, The
Shawshank Redemption) and Michael Pena (Crash, World Trade
Center), and is directed by Neil Burger (The Illusionist)
from a screenplay by Burger and Dirk Wittenborn. more
ASHES OF TIME REDUX
The film is set in five parts, five
seasons that are part of the Chinese almanac. The story takes
place in the jianghu, the world of the martial arts. Ouyang Feng
(Leslie Cheung) has lived in the western desert for some years. He
left his home in White Camel Mountain when the woman he loved
chose to marry his elder brother rather than him. more
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
Just how hard is it to be happy? That’s
the question posed by Mike Leigh’s fresh, funny and decidedly
life-affirming new comedy, HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, about Poppy (Sally
Hawkins, winner of the Best Actress Award at the Berlin Film
Festival for the role), a free-spirited Londoner with an
irrepressible zeal for life, a young woman who always manages to
laugh at life’s absurdities. more
THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES
Starring Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning,
Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys and Sophie Okonedo, a powerhouse
ensemble of women from the world of music and film, THE SECRET
LIFE OF BEES is the touching story about the need for love,
sisterhood and redemption that explores the undeniable desire for
a sense of belonging and the often daunting journeys that we must
navigate to achieve it.. more
WHAT JUST HAPPENED
What Just Happened is a winningly sharp
comedy about two nail-biting, back-stabbing, roller-coaster weeks
in the world of a middle-aged Hollywood producer -- as he tries to
juggle an actual life with an outrageous series of crises in his
day job. more
I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG
Léa (Elsa Zylberstein) and Juliette
(Kristin Scott Thomas) are sisters. The film begins with Léa, the
younger sister by fifteen years, picking Juliette up at the
airport. We soon realize that the two sisters are almost complete
strangers to each other. Juliette has just been released from
prison after serving a long sentence. Léa was still a teenager
when Juliette, a doctor, was convicted of the murder of her
six-year-old son. more
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
A fragile, anxious boy, 12-year-old Oskar
is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates but never
strikes back. The lonely boy's wish for a friend seems to
come true when he meets Eli, also 12, who moves in next door
to him with her father. A pale, serious young girl, she only
comes out at night and doesn't seem affected by the freezing
temperatures. more
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS
Berlin, 1940s. Eight year-old Bruno
returns from playing with his school friends to find his
home bustling with preparations: his father, a Nazi officer,
has just been promoted and his mother is planning a party.
Bruno sees no cause for celebration; his father's new job is
outside Berlin and the whole family will be moving to the
countryside, forcing him to leave the home and friends he
loves. His fears of loneliness are confirmed when the family
arrives at their dreary, isolated new house.
more
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Directed by Danny Boyle and written by
Simon Beaufoy, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE stars Dev Patel, Madhur Mittal,
Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor and Irrfan Khan. The film is based on
the best selling novel Q&A by Vikas Swarup. The film is scheduled
to be released on November 28, 2008 and will have its world
premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
more
A CHRISTMAS TALE
In the beginning, Abel and Junon had two
children, Joseph and Elizabeth. Victim of a rare genetic
condition, Joseph’s only hope was a bone marrow transplant. As
they and Elizabeth were incompatible, his parents conceived a
third child in the hope of saving their son. But little Henri too
was unable to help his brother, and Joseph died, aged 7.
more
MILK
In 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the
San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first openly gay
man to be voted into public office in America . His victory was
not just a victory for gay rights; he forged coalitions across the
political spectrum. From senior citizens to union workers, Harvey
Milk changed the very nature of what it means to be a fighter for
human rights and became, before his untimely death in 1978, a hero
for all Americans.
more
THE READER
THE READER opens in post-WWII Germany when
teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a
stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and
seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a
passionate but secretive affair. more
DOUBT
John Patrick Shanley brings his Pulitzer
Prize and Tony Award® winning play to the screen as a gripping
story about the quest for truth, the forces of change, and the
devastating consequences of blind justice in an age defined by
moral conviction. more
THE WRESTLER
Back in the late ‘80s, Randy “The Ram”
Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a headlining professional wrestler.
Now, twenty years later, he ekes out a living performing for
handfuls of diehard wrestling fans in high school gyms and
community centers around New Jersey. more
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
Writer-director Rod Lurie’s new film is
the story of Rachel Armstrong (Kate Beckinsale), a young reporter
on the national desk of the Capitol Sun-Times, a major Washington,
D.C. daily. Rachel writes an explosive story that reveals the
identity of covert CIA agent Erica Van Doren (Vera Farmiga) that,
once published, causes all hell to break loose and the government
to demand the identity of Rachel’s source. more
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