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Friday, September 16th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 110

Language: Spanish

Director: Tom Tykwer

Plot: From the director of Run, Lola, Run and The International comes a sexy romantic drama with a nod to classic Hollywood’s screwball comedies. Hanna and Simon, a couple in their early forties, live together in Berlin. With their 20th anniversary looming, they both become restless despite being truly and deeply in love. Unbeknownst to one another, they become acquainted with Adam, a younger man.. Clearly not your typical 1930’s romp, this reinvention of those classic films with Tykwer’s sleek direction is a playful update: an intellectual study of a modern couple looking for redefinition in a world of absolutes.

 

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One Fall

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 147

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Director: Marcus Dean Fuller

Plot: ONE FALL is a powerful story about a man who is both blessed and cursed with an unusual power. Set in the rustic Midwestern town of One Fall, the film tells the story of a man who miraculously survived a terrible fall from a spectacular 200 foot- high precipice that is the area’s major attraction. After recovering, he abruptly abandoned friends and family and disappeared without explanation. The secret he couldn’t share with them was that, while recovering, he had suddenly developed the power to heal others. Tired of running away, he returns home after a long absence and decides to use his gift– but not altruistically. If people pay him, he will cure them. Though he appears to be doing the right thing, he is doing it for all the wrong reasons, and risks driving away anyone who ever loved or trusted him. As his moral crisis peaks, he must figure out why he survived his fall, and what he is really meant to do with his life.

 

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Inside Out

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 135

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Director: Artie Mandelberg

Plot: Would You Save the Life of the Man Who Stole Yours?
AJ (WWE Superstar Paul “Triple H” Levesque) always wanted a nice, quiet life. For the past 13 years, his best friend Jack (Michael Rapaport, True Romance) has been living it for him. Now, after paying his debt, AJ is finally coming home – but he’s about to learn getting out of prison doesn’t mean you’re free. When Jack finds himself in the crosshairs of the local crime boss, AJ must revisit the sins of his past to protect the people he loves. Parker Posey (Best in Show), Julie White (Transformers) and Bruce Dern (Big Love) co-star in this explosive story that proves sometimes the only way out is back in.

 

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Tanner Hall

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 139

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Director: Tatiana von Furstenberg

Plot: As Fernanda (Rooney Mara) enters her senior year at Tanner Hall-a sheltered boarding school in New England-she’s faced with unexpected changes in her group of friends when a childhood acquaintance, the charismatic yet manipulative trouble-maker, Victoria (Georgia King) appears. Shy and studious, Fernanda is usually the voice of reason among her friends-adventurous and sexy Kate (Brie Larsen) and tomboy Lucasta (Amy Ferguson)-but when she begins a complicated friendship with Gio (Tom Everett Scott) an older family friend, she decides it’s finally time to take some risks. Jealous of Fernanda’s exciting relationship, Victoria begins to sabotage Fernanda’s plans and plots to publicly humiliate her. Meanwhile, Lucasta struggles with her newfound feelings towards another classmate and mischievous Kate is too preoccupied with making her teachers nervous to pay much attention to her actual classes. However, as each of the girls flirt with adulthood, they realize they still need each other to help get through their first grown-up decisions-and the consequences they bring.

 

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Main Street

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 119

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Director: John Doyle

Plot: From Horton Foote, Oscar winning screenwriter of To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies, comes MAIN STREET, a moving ensemble drama starring Oscar winner Colin Firth, Orlando Bloom, Oscar nominee Patricia Clarkson, Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn, and Andrew McCarthy. The lives of the residents of a small Southern city are changed forever by the arrival of a stranger with a controversial plan to save their decaying hometown.

 

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Seven Days in Utopia

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 151

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Director: Matt Russell

Plot: SEVEN DAYS IN UTOPIA follows the story of Luke Chisolm (Lucas Black), a talented young golfer set on making the pro tour. When his first big shot turns out to be a very public disaster, Luke escapes the pressures of the game and finds himself unexpectedly stranded in Utopia, Texas, home to eccentric rancher Johnny Crawford (Robert Duvall). But Johnny’s more than meets the eye, and his profound ways of looking at life force Luke to question not only his past choices, but his direction for the future.

Based on David L. Cook’s best-selling book Golf’s Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia.

 

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A Good Old Fashioned Orgy

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 144

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Director: Pete Huyck

Plot: A GOOD OLD FASHIONED ORGY is about a close group of 30-somethings who spend every summer weekend throwing elaborate theme parties at their friend Eric’s (Jason Sudeikis) family home in the Hamptons. When Eric’s dad decides to sell off their summer playground, the friends agree there is only one way to have the biggest and brashest send off party, a good old fashioned orgy. The film marks the co-directorial debut of Pete Huyck and Alex Gregory (“King of the Hill,” “Frasier,” “The Larry Sanders Show”) and is based on a screenplay they co-wrote.

 

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The Woman in Black

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 44

Language: English (International)

Director: James Watkins

Plot: The Woman in Black follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps (Radcliffe), who is ordered to travel to a remote corner of the UK and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in an old and isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover its tragic secrets, and his unease grows when he discovers that the local village is held hostage by the ghost of a scorned woman set on vengeance.

 

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Bol

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 102

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Director: Shoaib Mansoor

Plot: Bol is Shoaib Mansoor’s second dramatic breakthrough of revealing life with its complexities. After Khuda Kay Liye, that went on to win several international awards, Bol is another gripping story authored by him. A story that shows the realities of life very closely. The web of relationships within a family that barely makes ends meet. On top of the poverty the father subscribes to a set of values many would relate to-Values that we inherit and tightly hold on to, values that embody contradictions, values that have not been questioned.

Bol is a roller coaster of emotions, yet carries subtleties that make your heartbeat stop. Based in the heart of Lahore, the story takes place in a house full of daughters, with vibrancy of life, yet restrictions on blooming. It questions the worth of a human being, may it be a woman or a person born with defect. It questions the authority of reproducing human beings into this world without taking responsibility of acknowledging their worth.

Bol takes you through a journey into the life of this family experiencing their troubles, sufferings, resolves and high points. As family members take decisions to solve their problems they steep into deeper troubles. The complexity of their circumstances becomes a struggle of life and death.

Humaina Malick, after gaining popularity on the small screen in the recent years has been picked for the big screen for the first time. She plays a daughter who gets affected the most by the family tensions. She respects the norms she has been given by her parents yet is compelled by her intuitive logic and sense for justice to rebel.

Atif Aslam plays an enlightened neighbor, and with his two loves, one for music and the other for the next door beauty, Mahira Khan, adds romance and melody to the film.

Iman Ali will be seen in a very different role than her usual appearances. Courtesan who is ambivalent between the standards of success her family considers so important and the desires of her own heart.

‘Bol’ is Bold. …so bold that some will find it hard to confess that they have seen it!

 

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Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 86

Language: French

Director: Joann Sfar

Plot: Taking the best from LA VIE EN ROSE and AMELIE, renowned comic book artist Joann Sfar’s GAINSBOURG: A HEROIC LIFE is a completely original take on one of France’s greatest mavericks, the illustrious and infamous Jewish singer-songwriter, Serge Gainsbourg (Eric Elmosnino). Born Lucien Ginsburg to Russian-Jewish parents, Sfar follows him from his precocious childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, to his beginnings as small time jazz musician and finally pop superstar. Along the way he romances many of the era’s most beautiful women, including Juliette Greco (Anna Mouglalis), Brigitte Bardot (Laetitia Casta) and Jane Birkin (Lucy Gordon). Employing a witty surrealistic style and a soundtrack that includes many of the musician’s greatest hits, GAINSBOURG: A HEROIC LIFE is a quintessential time capsule to ‘60’s Paris.

 

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Brighton Rock

Friday, August 26th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 142

Language: English (International)

Director: Rowan Joffe

Plot: Adapted from Graham Greene’s iconic 1939 novel, BRIGHTON ROCK charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager hell bent on clawing his way up through the ranks of organized crime. At the heart of the story is the anti-hero Pinkie’s relationship with Rose – an apparently innocent young waitress who stumbles on evidence linking Pinkie and his gang to a revenge killing that Pinkie commits. After the murder, Pinkie seduces Rose, first in an effort to find out how much she knows and latterly to ensure she will not talk to the police. A love story between a murderer and a witness can Pinkie trust Rose or should he kill her before she talks to the police? Can Rose trust Pinkie or is she next in line?

 

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The Family Tree

Friday, August 26th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 147

Language: English

Director: Vivi Friedman

Plot: Life in suburban Serenity, Ohio is never quite as serene as it appears. The dysfunctional Burnett family Bunnie (Hope Davis), Jack (Dermot Mulroney) and their twin 17 year olds Eric (Max Thieriot) and Kelly (Britt Robertson) seems like a lost cause. When a freak accident leaves Bunnie with a case of amnesia, the Burnetts get an unexpected second chance at happiness. Meanwhile, next door neighbor Simon (Chi McBride) is relieved that his tryst gone wrong with Bunnie remains undetected, at least for the moment. Before long, a slew of past relationships, kids with guns, a suicidal teacher, a very zealous religious club, misinterpreted advances, corporate down-sizing, and one fateful squirrel combine to create enough mayhem to test the resolve, sanity and future of any family!

 

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Redemption Road

Friday, August 26th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 145

Language: English

Director: Mario Van Peebles

Plot: In Mario Van Peeble’s new film “Redemption Road”, two seemingly different men (Academy Award Nominee Michael Clarke Duncan, Morgan Simpson) embark on a music-steeped journey through the American South, learning along the way that life isn’t about where you end up – it’s how you get there that matters. Somewhere along the 900 miles between Austin, TX and Huntsville, AL the two men become unlikely friends. However, every road has an end. In Huntsville, sad truths come to light, with heartbreak and violence lingering in their wake, ultimately leaving both men changed forever. The music of “Redemption Road” is permeated with authenticity, from Country music – perfectly befitting the film’s Nashville locations – to the full scope of the Blues with a pinch of good old-fashioned Gospel to reflect the film’s deeper themes of faith.

 

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Higher Ground

Friday, August 26th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 123

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Director: Vera Farmiga

Plot: Vera Farmiga’s directorial debut, Higher Ground, is a coming-of-age drama in which Farmiga delivers a subtle, nuanced performance completely from the gut, with equally strong and compelling supporting characters. Set against the backdrop of the Sixties, when feminism reached its zenith, the film expertly depicts the landscape of a tight-knit spiritual community. Inspired by the resonant memoir from Carolyn Briggs (who also wrote the screenplay), the film is an exquisite study of one woman’s internal struggle with the primary love relationships in her life.

 

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One Day

Friday, August 19th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Lone Scherfig

Plot: Twenty years…two people. Directed by Lone Scherfig (director of “An Education,” Academy Award-nominated for Best Picture), the motion picture “One Day” is adapted for the screen by David Nicholls from his beloved bestselling novel One Day. After one day together – July 15th, 1988, their college graduation – Emma Morley (Academy Award nominee Anne Hathaway) and Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess of “Across the Universe”) begin a friendship that will last a lifetime. She is a working-class girl of principle and ambition who dreams of making the world a better place. He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground. For the next two decades, key moments of their relationship are experienced over several July 15ths in their lives. Together and apart, we see Dex and Em through their friendship and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. Somewhere along their journey, these two people realize that what they are searching and hoping for has been there for them all along. As the true meaning of that one day back in 1988 is revealed, they come to terms with the nature of love and life itself.

 

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Circumstance

Friday, August 19th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 136

Language: Persian

Director: Maryam Keshavarz

Plot: Set in contemporary Iran in the unseen world of Iranian youth culture, filled with underground parties, sex, drugs and defiance, CIRCUMSTANCE is the story of two vivacious young girls — wealthy Atafeh and orphaned Shireen — discovering their burgeoning sexuality and, like 16 year-old girls anywhere, struggling with their desires and the boundaries placed upon them by the world they were born into.

 

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AmiGO

Friday, August 19th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 128

Language: English

Director: John Sayles

Plot: AMIGO, the 17th feature film from Academy Award-nominated writer-director John Sayles, stars legendary Filipino actor Joel Torre as Rafael, a village mayor caught in the murderous crossfire of the Philippine-American War.

When U.S. troops occupy his village, Rafael comes under pressure from a tough-as-nails officer (Chris Cooper) to help the Americans in their hunt for Filipino guerilla fighters. But Rafael’s brother (Ronnie Lazaro) is the head of the local guerillas, and considers anyone who cooperates with the Americans to be a traitor. Rafael quickly finds himself forced to make the impossible, potentially deadly decisions faced by ordinary civilians in an occupied country.

A powerful drama of friendship, betrayal, romance and heartbreaking violence, AMIGO is a page torn from the untold history of the Philippines, and a mirror of today’s unresolvable conflicts.

 

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MOZART’S SISTER

Friday, August 19th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 119

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Director: René Feret

Plot: Originally the featured performer, Nannerl has given way to Wolfgang as the main attraction, as their strict but loving father Leopold (Marc Barbe) tours his talented offspring in front of the royal courts of pre-French revolution Europe. Approaching marriageable age and now forbidden to play the violin or compose, Nannerl chafes at the limitations imposed on her gender. But a friendship with the son and daughter of Louis XV offers her ways to challenge the established sexual and social order. MOZART’S SISTER was shot on location in Versailles.

Writer-director-producer René Féret’s body of work has been the recipient of many awards. His first film, “Histoire de Paul,” won the prestigious French Critics Prize, the Prix Jean Vigo, and was followed by “La Communion Solennelle” which competed at the Cannes Film Festival in 1977. A true indie, MOZART’S SISTER was edited by Fabienne Féret, Mr. Féret’s wife, and their daughters Marie and Lisa, cast as Nannerl and the young Louise de France, Louis XV’s youngest daughter, respectively.

 

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Cafe

Friday, August 19th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 90

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Director: Marc Erlbaum

Plot: For the up-and-comers on Philadelphia’s west side, West Philly Grounds is the place to be. There, Claire (Jennifer Love Hewitt) serves wisdom along with coffee and scones. The clientele comes to her with advice in love, life and careers. But even the neighborhood’s favorite gathering place has a dark side. Jamie Kennedy, Alexa Vega, Madeline Carroll and Daniel Eric Gold co-star in writer-director Marc Erlbaum’s slice-of-life drama.

 

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The Help

Friday, August 12th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 149

Language: English

Director: Tate Taylor

Plot: Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, ‘The Help’ stars Emma Stone (star of the breakout hit, “Zombieland”) as Skeeter, a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends’ lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Academy Award® nominee Viola Davis (“Eat Pray Love”) stars as Aibileen, Skeeter’s best friend’s housekeeper, who is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter’s life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories, and as it turns out, they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly, and unwillingly, caught up in the changing times.

Based on one of the most talked about books in years and a #1 New York Times best-selling novel, “The Help” is a provocative and inspiring look at what happens when a southern town’s unspoken code of rules and behavior is shattered by three courageous women who strike up an unlikely friendship.

 

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