PAN'S LABYRINTH
 Award-winning
filmmaker Guillermo del Toro delivers a unique, richly imagined
epic with PAN’S LABYRINTH, a gothic fairy tale set against the
postwar repression of Franco’s Spain. Del Toro’s sixth and most
ambitious film, PAN’S LABYRINTH combines the historic and moral
themes of his acclaimed more
THE DEAD GIRL
 The Dead Girl," the new film from
acclaimed writer/director Karen Moncrieff ("Blue Car"), is a
quintet of stories about seemingly unrelated people whose
lives converge around the murder of a young woman. more
NOTES ON A SCANDAL
 When
Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett) joins St. George's as the new art
teacher, Barbara Covett (Judi Dench) senses a kindred spirit. But
Barbara is not the only one drawn to her. Sheba begins an illicit
affair and Barbara becomes the keeper of her secret. NOTES ON A
SCANDAL is a story of loneliness, loyalty, envy and love.
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VENUS
 “Venus”
tells the story of Maurice and Ian, a pair of veteran actors
(Peter O’Toole and Leslie Phillips respectively), whose
comfortable daily routine is disrupted by the arrival of Ian’s
grand-niece, Jessie (newcomer Jodie Whittaker). Maurice takes the
teenager under his wing, but is surprised to discover how
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FACTORY GIRL
 Factory
Girl” imaginatively unfolds the comet-like rise and fall of 60s
“it girl” Edie Sedgwick, the blazing superstar who came to define
both the glamour and the tragedy of our celebrity obsessed
culture. Sedgwick appeared to be the quintessential American
princess, with her blue blood, her trust fund and her Harvard
education, more
THE COURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER
 On
the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the
Imperial Palace. The EMPEROR (Chow Yun Fat) returns unexpectedly
with his second son, PRINCE JAI (Jay Chou). His pretext is to
celebrate the holiday with his family, but given the chilled
relations between the Emperor and the ailing EMPRESS (Gong Li),
this seems disingenuous. more
THE PAINTED VEIL
 Based
on the classic novel by W. Somerset Maugham, “The Painted Veil” is
a love story set in the 1920s that tells the story of a young
English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an
upper-class woman, who get married for the wrong more
DAYS OF GLORY
 Algeria’s official submission to the
Academy Awards, “Days of Glory” has emerged as one of the most
notable films of 2006. This World War II film tells the tale of a
group of African soldiers who join the French in their fight
against the Nazis. Although they passionately battle to defend the
motherland, a place they’ve never been
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THE ITALIAN
 In his feature directorial debut,
director Andrei Kravchuk addresses with intelligence and poignancy
the urgent issue of illegal adoption in Russia, which has become a
well documented international crisis. THE ITALIAN is based on the
true story of a small Russian boy abandoned in an orphanage who
goes in search of his birth mother
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ALONE WITH HER
 ALONE WITH HER is shot through the eyes
and camera lenses of a young man (Doug, played by Colin
Hanks) who begins to stalk a beautiful woman (Amy, played by
Ana Claudia Talancón). He watches her every action and
slowly manipulates her into a relationship more
SERAPHIM FALLS
 Seraphim Falls,” an Icon Production,
is a taut psychological action film, an epic chase and primal
battle set in the breathtaking landscape of the West. The civil
war has
ended but Colonel Morsman Carver (Liam Neeson) is on one
final mission: more
THE LIVES OF OTHERS
 At once a political thriller and
human drama, THE LIVES OF OTHERS begins in East Berlin in 1984,
five years before Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall and
ultimately takes us to 1991, in what is now the reunited Germany.
THE LIVES OF OTHERS traces the gradual disillusionment of Captain Gerd more
STARTER FOR 10
 Ever since I can remember, I’ve
wanted to be clever, Brian Jackson confesses in voice over at the
start of Starter For Ten. A working-class student from Essex
navigating his first year at Bristol University, Brian (James McAvoy) has a lot to prove more
AMAZING GRACE
 From acclaimed director Michael Apted (The
World is Not Enough, Coal Miner’s Daughter) comes Amazing
Grace, the inspiring story of how one man’s passion and
perseverance changed the world. Based on the true life story
of William Wilberforce,more
BLACK SNAKE MOAN
 There
was a time when Lazarus (SAMUEL L. JACKSON) played the
blues; a time he got Bojo’s Juke Joint shakin’ back in the
day. Now he lives them. Bitter and broken from a cheating
wife and a shattered marriage, Lazarus’ soul is lost in
spent dreams and betrayal’s contempt…Until Rae (CHRISTINA
RICCI).
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THE NAMESAKE
 THE NAMESAKE is the story of the
Ganguli family whose move from Calcutta to New York evokes a
lifelong balancing act to meld to a new world without forgetting
the old. Though parents Ashoke and Ashima (Irrfan Khan, Tabu) long
for the family and culture that enveloped them in India, they take
great more
THE HOST
 The talk of the 2006 Cannes
International Film Festival, THE HOST, the latest film from
critically acclaimed visionary director BONG Joon-ho, has already
garnered a substantial amount of international buzz.
Utilizing state-of-the-art special effects courtesy of a
creative partnership between Weta Workshop (King Kong, The
Lord of the Rings) and The Orphanage (Harry Potter and the Goblet
of Fire, Sin City), more
THE WIND_THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY
 Ireland 1920: workers from field and
country unite to form volunteer guerrilla armies to face the
ruthless "Black and Tan" squads that are being shipped from
Britain to block Ireland's bid for independence. more
CLOSE TO HOME
 Close to Home places the
Israel-Palestine conflict into the background and the social lives
of young Israeli female soldiers into the foreground. Close to
Home is much more a story of life and growing up than one with a
political message. It is not about governments but how the
decisions of politicians and religious leaders set the stage for
the drama that is young adulthood.
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