Wed May 09, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Grant Gee
Patience (After Sebald) is a multi-layered film essay on landscape, art, history, life and loss by the acclaimed documentary film-maker Grant Gee. An investigation into the work and influence of German writer W.G. Sebald (1944 – 2001), “Patience (After Sebald)” is a multi-layered film essay on landscape, art, history, life and loss by the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Grant Gee (director of the Grammy nominat ...
Fri May 11, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Brian Crano
This revolves around the friendship of two charming grifters, Ben and Alan, played by Jason Ritter and Jake Sandvig. Ben and Alan have built a successful though larcenous business, posing as car valets, only to steal the vehicles instead of parking them. Because of their less-than-ideal childhoods and a “job” that allows them to remain likeable boyish rogues well into their 20’s, their penchant for crime is alm ...
Fri May 11, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Cristian Jiménez
This is about two literature students in Valdivia, Julio and Emilia, and how they evolve. ...
Fri May 11, 2012
Wide Release
Director(s): Tim Burton
Scripted by Seth Grahame-Smith and based on the television 'Dark Shadows' series that totaled over 1,225 episodes, the film centers on Barnabas Collins (Depp) and family who sail from Liverpool, England to America to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades later, Barnabas who by now has become a rich, powerful playboy and master of Collinwood Manor, breaks the heart of Angelique Broucha ...
Fri May 11, 2012
Wide Release
Director(s): Larry Charles
The comedy, from the Bruno and Borat pair of Larry Charles and Sacha Baron Cohen, is inspired by Saddam Hussein's novel "Zabibah and the King" and will feature Cohen as both a goat-herder and an oppressive dictator who finds himself lost when visiting America. Faris will play the owner of a natural foods store in New York City. ...
Fri May 11, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Patricia Riggen
Inspired by classic coming-of-age stories, young Ansiedad considers a life-changing decision while her mother is busy working and engaged in an affair. ...
Fri May 11, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Bob Goldthwait
Loveless, jobless and possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and decides to off the stupidest, cruellest and most repellent members of society with an unusual accomplice: 16-year-old Roxy, who shares his sense of rage and disenfranchisement. From stand-up comedian and director Bobcat Goldthwait comes a scathing and hilarious atta ...
Fri May 11, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Derick Martini
An adaptation of Andrea Portes' novel, HICK unfolds the journey, at once raw and mythical, of 13 year-old Luli McMullen (Chloë Grace Moretz), who sets out from her hard-luck, troublesome home in a fading Nebraska farm town for the glittering paradise of Las Vegas. Spurred by cinematic dreams and the hope for a “sugar daddy” who might finally save her, Luli finds herself on a perilous westward trek through a larg ...
Fri May 11, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Hirokazu Kore-eda
This is the story of two young brothers (real-life siblings Koki and Ohshiro Maeda) separated by the divorce of their parents, played by Joe Odagiri and Nene Otsuka. 12-year old Koichi lives with his mother and retired grandparents in Kagoshima, in the southern region of Kyushu. His younger brother Ryunosuke lives with their father in Hakata, northern Kyushu. The brothers have been separated by their parents’ divor ...
Fri May 11, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Yam Laranas
This tells the story of a twelve-year-old cold case that is reopened when three teenagers vanish while traversing an infamous and abandoned road. As investigators try to find leads to the whereabouts of the missing teens, they also unearth the road’s gruesome past that spans two decades – a history of abduction, crimes and murders. ...
Fri May 11, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Frederic Jardin
When Vincent, a double-dealing cop, steals a big bag of cocaine from some drug dealers they counter by kidnapping and threatening to kill his son if the bag isn’t returned – fast. The swap is to go down at their headquarters in a big nightclub on the outskirts of Paris, but Vincent gets caught in a spiral of deception and betrayal and must fight his way through packed dance floors and dark corridors of the labyri ...
Fri May 11, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): David Mackenzie
Luke Treadaway stars as strutting indie star Adam, one half of globally successful duo The Make. Arriving at the T in the Park music festival for his latest gig Adam finds himself accidentally handcuffed to Morello, played by Natalia Tena, lead singer for all girl punk band The Dirty Pink’s . With no key in sight the feuding pair have to get through the weekend as best they can delivering not one but two performanc ...
Fri May 11, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Nadine Labaki
On the edge of a cratered road, a cortège-like procession of women solemnly makes its way towards the village cemetery. Takla, Amale, Yvonne, Afaf and Saydeh stoically brave the oppressive midday heat, clutching photographic effigies of their beloved menfolk, lost to a futile, protracted and distant war. Some of the women are veiled, others bear wooden crosses, but all are clad in black and united by a sense of sha ...