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Fri Sep 10, 2010
NY and/or LA -
Director(s): Bob Richman
This tells the remarkable journey of American writer and journalist Ruth Gruber, who will turn 99 years old on September 30th. Gruber, a youthful Jewish woman in the late 1920s, was the youngest person to receive a PhD at the age of 20, a feminist before feminism. While at school in Berlin she witnessed the rise of Nazism and began documenting her observations. Eschewing tradition and rejecting the gender standard ...
Fri Sep 10, 2010
NY and/or LA - Freestyle Releasing
Director(s): Rachel Perkins
mmer of 1969 and young WILLIE (Rocky Mckenzie) is filled with an idyllic life in his hometown port of Broome, in the North of Western Australia. He spends his day fishing, hanging out with his friends, and when he can, his girlfriend ROSIE (Jessica Mauboy). However his mother THERESA (Nincali Lawford-Wolf) has great hopes for him and she makes him return to the religious mission in Perth for further schooling. Afte ...
Fri Sep 10, 2010
NY and/or LA - Lorber Films
Director(s): Peter Raymont, Michèle Hozer
An enigmatic musical poet, Glenn Gould continues to captivate audiences twenty-six years after his early passing. His inimitable music and writings reveal an insightful worldview that we are still trying to unravel. Though there have been many documentaries about Gould, most are distracted by his eccentricities, focusing on the pills, gloves, and scarves while missing the man and message behind the music. Glenn G ...
Fri Sep 10, 2010
NY and/or LA - IFC Films
Director(s): Pascal Chaumeil
Written by Laurent Zeitoun, Jeremy Doner and Yohan Gromb, set against the backdrop of Monte Carlo, Alex (Romain Duris) is a professional Don Juan who makes a living breaking up couples with his sister Mélanie (Julie Ferrier of MICMACS). Because business is slow, they go against their principles to break up only unhappy couples and agree to work for M. Van Der Bercq. Alex has only one week to stop the wealthy man’s ...
Fri Sep 10, 2010
NY and/or LA - Strand Releasing
Director(s): François Ozon
Mousse (Isabelle Carré) and Louis (Melvil Poupaud) are young, beautiful, rich and in love, but drugs have invaded their lives. After Louis’ fatal overdose, Mousse soon learns she is pregnant (actress Isabelle Carré was pregnant while shooting.) Feeling lost, Mousse escapes to a beautiful beach house far from Paris and is soon joined in her refuge by Louis’ gay brother, Paul (Louis-Ronan Choisy.) The two strang ...
Fri Sep 10, 2010
NY and/or LA -
Director(s): Goran Paskaljevic
Two young married couples take off and travel abroad to the promised lands of better opportunities, but hope collapses when their expectations disappear into thin air and their dreams turn into nightmares. ...
Fri Sep 10, 2010
NY and/or LA - Magnolia Pictures
Director(s): Casey Affleck
Formerly titled I'm Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix, this is a documentary on Joaquin Phoenix's transition from the acting world to a career as an aspiring rapper. With remarkable access, I’M STILL HERE follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip hop musician. Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, an ...
Fri Sep 10, 2010
Limited Release - Samuel Goldwyn Films
Director(s): Mel Damski
LEGENDARY explores a teenage boy’s drive to reunite his family ten years after the death of their beloved father, a state collegiate wrestling legend. Cal Chetley (Devon Graye), a bright, undersized fifteen year-old is an outsider in the blue collar town of Sallisaw, Oklahoma known for its high school wrestling program. His older brother Mike (John Cena), a one-time high school champion with whom Cal is estranged, ...
Fri Sep 10, 2010
NY and/or LA - Monterey Media
Director(s): Nik Fackler
Written by Fackler, this is about Robert Malone (Martin Landau) is an elderly perennial bachelor who leads a tidy, uneventful and some might even say empty life. This Christmas, for whatever reason, Robert is feeling the lack of family more keenly than usual. Then one day, like a single man's dream, Robert comes home from his job at a grocery store to find a beautiful woman in his house. Her name is Mary (Ellen Burst ...
Fri Sep 10, 2010
NY and/or LA -
Director(s): Vicki Abeles
Featuring the stories of young people who have been pushed to the brink, educators who are burned out and worried that students aren’t developing the skills they need, and parents who are trying to do what’s best for their kids, Race to Nowhere points to the silent epidemic in our schools: cheating has become commonplace; students are disengaged; stress-related illness and depression are rampant; and many young p ...
Fri Sep 10, 2010
Wide Release - Screen Gems (Sony)
Director(s): Paul W.S. Anderson
Jovovich returns as the zombie-fighting heroine Alice. Ali Larter reprises her role as Claire Redfield from “Resident Evil: Extinction”. Spencer Locke, who played K-Mart in “Extinction,” is also set to return. Wentworth Miller plays Chris Redfield – Claire’s brother and a popular character from the game series. Shawn Roberts will take over the role of Alice’s nemesis Wesker. ...
Fri Sep 10, 2010
NY and/or LA - Paramount Famous Productions
Director(s): Galt Niederhoffer
Based on Galt Niederhoffer's own novel, over the course of one raucous night at a seaside wedding seven close friends, all members of a tight, eclectic college clique, reconvene to watch two of their own tie the knot. Laura (Katie Holmes) is maid of honor to Lila (Anna Paquin), her golden girl best friend. The two have long rivaled over the groom, Tom (Josh Duhamel). Friendships and alliances are tested and the love ...
Fri Sep 10, 2010
NY and/or LA -
Director(s): Jorge W. Atalla
This is a documentary chronicling the heroic efforts of the Anti Kidnapping Division of the São Paulo police department (Divisão Anti-Sequestro aka DAS) from 2005 until 2009 – a time when kidnapping was booming business in Latin America’s largest city. SEQUESTRO travels deep into the seedy world of organized abductions for the purposes of extortion, exploring the lives of those victimized while tagging along w ...
Fri Sep 10, 2010
Limited Release - Columbia Pictures
Director(s): Huck Botko, Andrew Gurland
This movie is down and dirty filmmaking at its finest in just about every way one can imagine. It’s four guys, one camera, and their hilarious experience chronicling the exhilarating and terrifying rite of passage: losing your virginity. As these guys help their buddy get laid, they'll have to survive friends with benefits, internet hookups, even porn stars during an adventure that proves why you will always rememb ...
Fri Sep 10, 2010
NY and/or LA - Lorber Films
Director(s): John Scheinfeld
This celebrates the life and music of Harry Nilsson. The Beatles said that Nilsson was their favorite American musician. In his career, Nilsson won 2 Grammys and sold 17 gold records, and yet he is relatively unknown today. Who Is Harry Nilsson?, a wildly entertaining, star-studded documentary, sets out to prove that he was one of the most talented singer-songwriters in pop music history. Through a hall-of-fame roll ...
Wed Sep 15, 2010
NY and/or LA - First Run Features
Director(s): D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus
Sixteen contenders seek the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France (“MOF”), France’s highest honor in the sublime art of patisserie, employing vast amounts of sugar, butter and eggs – not to mention adrenaline – to create gorgeous, fantastical, delicious creations. Some of the world’s most accomplished chefs gather in Lyon for three intense days of mixing, piping and sculpting everything from delicate chocolates an ...
Wed Sep 15, 2010
NY and/or LA - Fox Searchlight Pictures
Director(s): Mark Romanek
Scripted by Alex Garland and adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel; this is a poignant love story that begins with Ruth (Keira Knightley), Kathy (Carey Mulligan) and Tommy (Andrew Garfield), who spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselv ...