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Wed Mar 03, 2010
NY and/or LA - Zeitgeist Films
Director(s): Felix Moeller
The infamous JEW SÜSS (1940), directed by Veit Harlan, and produced under Joseph Goebbels’s Ministry of Propaganda, was the Nazis’ most vicious anti-Semitic film—required viewing for all SS members. A drama set in 18th century Germany, it purports to tell the true story of a Jew who dresses incognito (as a Christian), corrupts a local Duke, restructures the government to bleed the people through punitive taxes ...
Fri Mar 05, 2010
Wide Release - Walt Disney Pictures
Director(s): Tim Burton
Based on a screenplay by Linda Woolverton, this is based on Lewis Carroll’s beloved “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865) and “Through the Looking-Glass” (1871), this see Depp star as the Mad Hatter and Mia Wasikowska play 19-year-old Alice, who returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting with her childhood friends: the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the ...
Fri Mar 05, 2010
Limited Release - Overture Films
Director(s): Antoine Fuqua
Written by Michael Martin, in the course of one chaotic week, the lives of three conflicted New York City police officers are dramatically transformed by their involvement in a massive drug operation in Brooklyn’s Finest. Burned out veteran Eddie Dugan (Richard Gere) is just one week away from his pension and a fishing cabin in Connecticut. Narcotics officer Sal Procida (Ethan Hawke) has discovered there’s no lin ...
Wed Mar 10, 2010
Direct to Video - Sundance Selects
Director(s): Kevin Macdonald
This is about Klaus Barbie, the Nazi war criminal known as "the Butcher Of Lyon." Barbie was also the subject of Marcel Ophuls' Oscar winning 1988 documentary Hotel Terminus, but Macdonald's film will have a very different focus. The film will chronicle how Barbie worked with the CIA after the war and how the Nazi felon was protected by the US. The documentary will also examine claims that Barbie and the CIA were inv ...
Fri Mar 12, 2010
NY and/or LA -
Director(s): Tze Chun
Two young children living outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their mother gets embroiled in a pyramid scheme and disappears. After being evicted, hardworking single mom Elaine Cheng tries to maintain a normal life for her children, Raymond and Tina. Elaine juggles a number of jobs, including working for a questionable pyramid scheme. When Elaine doesn’t return home one night, nobody knows the kids ...
Fri Mar 12, 2010
NY and/or LA -
Director(s): Kornel Mundruczó
After a decades-long absence, a young man (Felix Lajko) returns to his mother’s home situated within the labyrinth of waterways, small islands and over-grown vegetation that buffers the delta and its denizens from the outside world. There he finds a sister he never knew he had. The reunited siblings become unusually close, so much so that they decide to build a stilted house in the middle of the river in which to l ...
Fri Mar 12, 2010
NY and/or LA - Oscilloscope Laboratories
Director(s): Bradley Rust Gray
Kazan plays Ivy, a twenty-year-old college student home in New York for spring break. She’s excited about a developing romance back at school and life is seemingly perfect. When her longtime friend Al finds himself without a place to stay during the break, Ivy and her mother take him in and Al and Ivy’s friendship strengthens while her boyfriend grows more and more distant. Increasingly distressed about her confl ...
Fri Mar 12, 2010
Wide Release - Universal Pictures
Director(s): Paul Greengrass
Scripted by Brian Helgeland and inspired by the Rajiv Chandrasekaran book "Imperial Life in the Emerald City," this is set during the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men ...
Fri Mar 12, 2010
NY and/or LA - Magnolia Pictures
Director(s): Bong Joon-ho
Scripted by Bong and Park Eun-kyo, Hye-ja is a single mom to 27-year-old Do-joon. Her son is her raison d’être. Though an adult in years, Do-joon is naïve and dependent on his mother, and a constant source of anxiety, often behaving in ways that are foolish or simply dangerous. Walking home alone one night down a nearly empty city street, he encounters a young girl who he follows for a while before she disappears ...
Fri Mar 12, 2010
Wide Release - Summit Entertainment
Director(s): Allen Coulter
Scripted by Will Fetters with a rewrite by Jenny Lumet, Robert Pattinson plays Tyler, a rebellious young man in New York City who has a strained relationship with his father (Pierce Brosnan) ever since tragedy separated their family. Tyler didn’t think anyone could possibly understand what he was going through until the day he met Ally (Emilie de Ravin) through an unusual twist of fate. Love was the last thing on h ...
Fri Mar 12, 2010
NY and/or LA -
Director(s): Kristian Fraga
Shot by First Lieutenant Mike Scotti on his Mini-DV camera, and told through his own journal entries, Kristian Fraga’s “Severe Clear” is a first person account of the Marines who were on the front lines of Operation Iraqi Freedom. This is what they saw. In this digital age of embedded reporters and filmmakers directing their “war” pictures from the internet, "Severe Clear" strips the barriers between audien ...
Fri Mar 12, 2010
Wide Release - DreamWorks Pictures
Director(s): Jim Field Smith
Based on a spec by Sean Anders and John Morris, formerly titled 'Hard 10', this centers on an average guy named Kirk (Jay Baruchel), an average Joe, can't believe his luck. Though he's stuck in a seemingly dead-end job as an airport security agent, against all odds Molly (Alice Eve), a successful and outrageously gorgeous babe falls for him. Kirk is stunned. So are his friends, his family and even his ex-girlfriend. ...
Fri Mar 12, 2010
NY and/or LA - IFC Films
Director(s): Anders Anderson
Written by Glenn Taranto, formerly titled "The Boy in the Box", work has become an obsession for Detective Tom Adkins (JON HAMM) since the disappearance of his ten-year-old son, Tommy Jr. When an early morning phone call leads him to the mangled remains of a young boy who was brutally murdered 50 years ago, Adkins takes on the case in hopes of finding absolution. His investigation leads him to a man who lived in 19 ...
Fri Mar 12, 2010
NY and/or LA - First Run Features
Director(s): Peter Hanson
The doc features exclusive interviews with a who’s who of Hollywood storytellers, from newcomers to veterans. Among the 46 screenwriters featured in the movie are Allison Anders (Gas Food Lodging), John August (Go), Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), John Carpenter (Halloween), Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption), Antwone Fisher (Antwone Fisher), two-time Oscar winner William Goldman (The Princess Bride), David Hay ...
Wed Mar 17, 2010
NY and/or LA - Zeitgeist Films
Director(s): Gianni Di Gregorio
This follows Gianni, middle aged and broke, who lives with his 93-year old mother in her Rome apartment. The day before the August bank holiday the condo manager tells Gianni that if he takes the manager’s mother into his home for two days he’ll knock some money off the condo debts Gianni has run up over the years. When the manager turns up with his mother and aunt, Gianni is forced to accept them both. And Gia ...
Fri Mar 19, 2010
Wide Release - Columbia Pictures
Director(s): Andy Tennant
Scripted by Sarah Thorp, this centers on Milo (Butler), a bounty hunter hired to track down his ex-wife, Casidy (Aniston), who has skipped out on bail. ...
Fri Mar 19, 2010
Limited Release - Anchor Bay Entertainment
Director(s): Raymond de Felitta
Set in a fishing village in the Bronx, De Felitta's original screenplay stars Garcia as Vince Rizzo, a correctional officer is keeping a couple of secrets. He’s taking an acting class in the city with Molly Charlesworth (Emily Mortimer) and he’s taking home a prisoner from the jail where he works— a young man (Steven Strait) who will have a profound impact on Vince and his family’s lives. His daughter (Domini ...
Fri Mar 19, 2010
Wide Release - 20th Century Fox
Director(s): Thor Freudenthal
Scripted by Jeff Filgo & Jackie Filgo and Jeff Judah & Gabe Sachs, this is based on Jeff Kinney's best-selling illustrated novel "Diary of a Wimpy Kid", this chronicles the travails of wise-cracking middle school student Greg Heffley over the course of an academic year, as told through Kinney's cartoons. ...
Fri Mar 19, 2010
Limited Release - Music Box Films
Director(s): Niels Arden Oplev
Based on the trilogy of books by Stieg Larsson, forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, ruthless comput ...
Fri Mar 19, 2010
NY and/or LA - Focus Features
Director(s): Noah Baumbach
Meet Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller): a dysfunctional 40-year-old at a crossroads in his life. Roger wants to “do nothing” for a while, so he agrees to housesit for his younger and more successful brother, giving him a free place to stay in L.A. While in town, he tries to reconnect with his old friends and band mates but times have changed, and old friends aren’t necessarily still best friends. Greenberg starts ...
Fri Mar 19, 2010
Limited Release - Warner Bros. Pictures
Director(s): Toni Myers
Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, experience the gripping story - full of hope, crushing disappointment, dazzling ingenuity, bravery, and triumph – in Hubble 3D, the seventh awe-inspiring film from the award-winning IMAX® Space Team. Through the power of IMAX® 3D, Hubble 3D will enable movie-goers to journey through distant galaxies to explore the grandeur and mysteries of our celestial surroundings, and accompany ...
Fri Mar 19, 2010
Limited Release - Fox Searchlight Pictures
Director(s): Rick Famuyiwa
"Our marriage, their wedding." It's lesson number one for any newly engaged couple, and Lucia (America Ferrera) and Marcus (Lance Gross) are no exception. They learn the hard way that the path to saying "I do" can be rife with familial strife. When they return from college and too suddenly announce their marriage plans, they soon discover that their fathers - two highly competitive over-the-top egos - can wreak a maj ...
Fri Mar 19, 2010
Wide Release - Universal Pictures
Director(s): Miguel Sapochnik
Formerly titled Repossession Mambo, this is based on the novel by Eric Garcia who co-wrote the screenplay with Garrett Lerner. Humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you don’t pay your bill, The Union sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its prope ...
Fri Mar 19, 2010
Limited Release - Apparition
Director(s): Floria Sigismondi
Formerly titled "Neon Angels", this is about the '70s teenage band the Runaways (Joan Jett, Cherie Currie and the late Sandy West) and tells about how they were brought together by Kim Fowley, who created a band that would set the stage for girl groups like the Go-Go's and the Bangles. The film follows two friends, Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart) and Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning), as they rise from rebellious Southern C ...
Fri Mar 19, 2010
NY and/or LA -
Director(s): Tomm Moore
Magic, fantasy, and Celtic mythology come together in a riot of color and detail that dazzle the eyes, in this sweeping story about the power of imagination and faith to carry humanity through dark times. Young Brendan lives in the Abbey of Kells, a remote medieval outpost under siege from raiding barbarians. One day a celebrated master illuminator arrives from foreign lands carrying an ancient but unfinished book, b ...
Fri Mar 19, 2010
NY and/or LA - IFC Films
Director(s): Marco Bellocchio
Before became a powerful dictator, Mussolini had a a past. He had a wife and a son, Benito Albino, who was born, acknowledged and then denied. The secret bears a name: Ida Dalser (Mezzogiorno). It is a dark page in history, one ignored in the official biography of the Duce. When Ida meets Mussolini in Milan, he is the editor of Avanti and an ardent Socialist who intends to guide the masses towards an anti-clerical, a ...
Wed Mar 24, 2010
Direct to Video -
Director(s): Peter Callahan
PAUL THOMPSON is a successful thirty-something financial writer and a happy expectant father. He and his very pregnant wife, AMY, are strolling through their quaint Brooklyn neighborhood when suddenly she is struck and killed in a horrible accident. It is five years later. Sitting at his desk and staring at a calendar, Paul has just decided to mark the fifth anniversary of his wife’s death, by swimming the leng ...
Fri Mar 26, 2010
NY and/or LA - Strand Releasing
Director(s): Catherine Breillat
Fairy tales often have main characters who are sort of serial killers of children: in other words, ogres. But Bluebeard is its symbolic figure. In the 1950s, it was also the favorite tale of good little girls. One of whom is Catherine, who loves to frighten her older sister Marie-Anne, by reading this fairy tale to her until she starts to cry. But Catherine also puts herself in the fairy tale by becoming Princess Mar ...
Fri Mar 26, 2010
NY and/or LA - Roadside Attractions
Director(s): Stephen Milburn Anderson
Described as a “character-driven action thriller that explores the all-encompassing power of money and the extreme lengths desperate people will go to get it and keep it.” With a stroke of good luck, a struggling couple find a suitcase full of money, but it turns lethal for Sam Phelan (Chris Hemsworth) and his wife Leslie (Victoria Profeta). The money fulfills their fantasies, but also brings strange and sinister ...
Fri Mar 26, 2010
NY and/or LA - Sony Pictures Classics
Director(s): Atom Egoyan
Based on Anne Fontaine’s 2003 film Nathalie, When David (LIAM NEESON) misses his flight home from New York and, as a result, the surprise party his wife Catherine (JULIANNE MOORE) has planned for him, Catherine is forced to swallow her disappointment and any suspicions and return to the waiting guests. Reading a text message sent to David’s phone the following morning from one of his female students, Catherine’ ...
Fri Mar 26, 2010
NY and/or LA - First Run Features
Director(s): Anne Bass
On a trip to Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia in January 2000, filmmaker Anne Bass came across a sixteen year old boy who moved her immensely with his amazing and seemingly natural charms and grace as a dancer. Having been a longtime devotee to the world of dance herself back in the United States, Anne felt compelled to give this young boy the opportunity to leave his home and follow a dream that she felt he hadn’ ...
Fri Mar 26, 2010
NY and/or LA - Magnolia Pictures
Director(s): Conor McPherson
Michael Farr (Hinds) is a widower living in a misty Irish seaside town who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, he has been plagued by terrifying apparitions. When he volunteers at a local literary festival, he finds himself drawn to Lena Morelle (Hjejle), an empathetic author of supernatural fiction (Hjelje). While Lena tries to ...
Fri Mar 26, 2010
Wide Release - MGM
Director(s): Steve Pink
Scripted by Josh Heald, the comedy follows a group of best friends who’ve become bored with their adult lives: Adam (John Cusack) has been dumped by his girlfriend; Lou (Rob Corddry) is a party guy who can’t find the party; Nick’s (Craig Robinson) wife controls his every move; and video game-obsessed Jacob (Clark Duke) won’t leave his basement. After a crazy night of drinking in a ski resort hot tub, the me ...
Fri Mar 26, 2010
Wide Release - Dreamworks Animation
Director(s): Peter Hastings
Based on the children's book by Cressida Cowell in which the son of a Viking chief must capture a dragon in order to be initiated into his tribe. ...
Fri Mar 26, 2010
NY and/or LA - Truly Indie
Director(s): Matthew Bonifacio
Written by Carmine Famiglietti and Matthew Bonifacio, at 27-years-old, Neil Perota lives at home with his parents in Brooklyn, works for his father driving a school bus and weighs over 300 pounds. Just two days before his sister’s wedding, he suffers a heart attack, creating family chaos and forcing Neil to re-evaluate his life. The next day, he heads upstate and buys a dilapidated trailer in the middle of nowhere ...
Wed Mar 31, 2010
Wide Release - Touchstone Pictures
Director(s): Julie Anne Robinson
Scripted by Nicholas Sparks & Jeff Van Wie and based on best-selling novelist Nicholas Sparks’ latest novel, THE LAST SONG is set in a small Southern beach town where an estranged father (GREG KINNEAR) gets a chance to spend the summer with his reluctant teenaged daughter (MILEY CYRUS), who’d rather be home in New York. He tries to reconnect with her through the only thing they have in common—music—in a story ...
Wed Mar 31, 2010
NY and/or LA - Film Forum
Director(s): Tenzing Sonam, Ritu Sarin
The Dalai Lama, living in exile in Northern India, is interviewed extensively during this turbulent period and given the opportunity to explicate his “Middle Way Approach,” a compromise position essentially giving up the goal of Tibet’s independence in exchange for cultural and social autonomy. To date he has been unsuccessful in getting the Chinese to accept this proposal. A younger generation of Tibetans who ...