Art Is...The Permanent Revolution

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Manfred Kirchheimer

Three contemporary American artists and a master printer help explain the dynamic sequences of social reality and protest. Among the wide range of 60 artists on display are Rembrandt, Goya, Daumier, Kollwitz, Dix, Masereel, Grosz, Gropper, and Picasso. While their stirring graphics sweep by, the making of an etching, a woodcut and a lithograph unfolds before our eyes, as the contemporary artists join their illustriou ...

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Being Flynn

Limited Release

Director(s): Paul Weitz

Based on Nick Flynn’s 2004 memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir, this explores bonds both unbreakable and fragile between parent and child. Paul Dano portrays Nick Flynn, a young writer seeking to define himself. He misses his late mother, Jody (Julianne Moore), and her loving nature. But his father, Jonathan, is not even a memory, as Nick has not seen the man in 18 years. Jonathan Flynn (Robert De ...

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Black Butterflies

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Paula van der Oest

Poetry, politics, madness and desire collide in the story of the woman hailed as South Africa's Sylvia Plath. In 1960s Cape Town, as Apartheid steals the expressive rights of blacks and whites alike, young Ingrid Jonker (Carice van Houten) finds her freedom scrawling verse while frittering through a series of stormy affairs. Amid escalating quarrels with her lovers and her rigid father, a parliament censorship minist ...

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Boy

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Taika Waititi

Set in 1984 in the remote Maori community of WaihauBay, a location whose natural splendor only serves to underscore the hardscrabble life of its inhabitants. At the center of the story is eleven year-old “Boy” (played by newcomer James Rolleston), a high-spirited adolescent obsessed with American pop culture—especially Michael Jackson-- and prone to particularly vivid fantasies about his long-absent father, (p ...

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Dr. Seuss' The Lorax

Wide Release

Director(s): Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda

Scripted by Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio, this is based on the 1971 tale narrated by a greedy entrepreneur who, despite warnings from the tree-loving Lorax, strips a forest of its stock of Truffula trees to manufacture clothing. The results are catastrophic as all the animals leave and nothing's left. ...

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Last Days Here

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Don Argott, Demian Fenton

This is a chronicle of cult metal legend Bobby Liebling’s bid to resurrect his life and career after decades wasting away in his parents’ basement. Bobby Liebling made his mark in the ‘70s as the outrageous frontman of Pentagram, a “street” Black Sabbath whose heavy metal riffs once blew audiences’ minds. But various acts of self-destruction, multiple band break-ups and botched record deals eventually con ...

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Let the Bullets Fly

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Jiang Wen

In the lawless land that is rural China in the 1920s, legendary bandit “Pocky” Zhang (Jiang Wen) and his gang stage a train robbery. They are quite unhappy to discover that instead of silver, the only thing left on the train is the con man, Tang (Ge You). Desperate, Tang explains that he’s on his way to Goose Town, where he’s bought himself a governorship. If allowed to live, he will help Zhang assume the go ...

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Project X

Wide Release

Director(s): Nima Nourizadeh

Written by Matt Drake and Michael Bacall, "Project X" revolves around a group of kids documenting a house party that suddenly goes awry. ...

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The Salt of Life

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Gianni Di Gregorio

This is about a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation. In THE SALT OF LIFE he contends with an aristocratic, spendthrift mother (again played by Lunch’s great nonagenarian Valeria de Franciscis); a wife who is more patronizing friend than romantic partner; a daughter (played by Di Gregorio’s real-life daughter Teresa) with a slacker boyfriend whom Gianni ...

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Snowtown

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Justin Kurzel

Also going by the title of The Snowtown Murders, this is based on the horrifying crimes discovered in Snowtown, Australia in 1999, where police found dismembered bodies rotting in barrels, SNOWTOWN, which marks Justin Kurzel's directorial debut is a stark journey into the feral subculture of welfare dependence, addiction, domestic violence, brutality and sexual abuse. Elizabeth Harvey (Louise Harris) is raising her t ...

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Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Eric Wareheim, Tim Heidecker

Two guys get a billion dollars to make a movie, only to watch their dream run off course. ...

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The Woods

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Matthew Lessner

HE WOODS follows a group of young Americans who, disillusioned by the world's many problems, move to the wilds of the Pacific Northwest with hopes of creating their own utopian society. Despite their idealistic goals of revolution, the group comes ill prepared for their new life, bringing a wide assortment of consumer electronics, recreational vehicles and snack foods. After catastrophic events in the outside world s ...

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The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Marie Losier

Genesis P-Orridge has been one of the most innovative and influential figures in music and fine art for the last 30 years. Celebrated by critics and art historians as a progenitor of "industrial music", his innovations have transformed the character of rock and electronic music while his prodigious efforts to expand the boundaries of live performance have radically altered the way people experience sound in a concert ...

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A Thousand Words

Wide Release

Director(s): Brian Robbins

Written by Steve Koren, Murphy plays a man who discovers he only has a thousand words left to say before he dies. Janney plays Murphy's boss, a savvy, money-grubbing head of a literary agency. ...

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Attenberg

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Athina Rachel Tsangari

Marina, 23, is growing up with her architect father in a prototype factory town by the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance. Instead she stubbornly observes it through the songs of Suicide, the mammal documentaries of Sir David Attenborough, and the sex-ed lessons she receives from her only friend, Bella. A stranger comes to town and challenges her to a foosball duel, on her ow ...

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Bending the Rules

Wide Release

Director(s): Artie Mandelberg

Scripted by Dylan Schaffer, the film revolves around Kennedy's character, a district attorney intent on taking down a corrupt New Orleans police detective, played by Edge. ...

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The Decoy Bride

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Sheree Folkson

Written by Neil Jaworski, after lovelorn Katie (Kelly MacDonald) is dumped at the altar, she returns home to her windswept Scottish island, thinking she will never walk down the aisle. Little does she know that Hollywood superstar Lara (Alice Eve) has chosen the island as the secret venue for her marriage to her gorgeous boyfriend James (Dr Who’s David Tennant). But with the paparazzi hard on her tail, Lara needs t ...

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Footnote

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Joseph Cedar

FOOTNOTE is the story of a great rivalry between a father and son. Both eccentric professors have dedicated their lives to their work. The father seems a stubborn purist who fears the establishment. His son, Uriel, appears to strive on accolades, endlessly seeking recognition. But one day, the tables turn. The two men switch places when the father learns he is to be awarded the most valuable honour one can receive. H ...

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Friends With Kids

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Jennifer Westfeldt

Scripted by Jennifer Westfeldt, this is about "a pair of thirtysomething best friends who observe the toll that having kids has taken on the couples they know and resolve to bypass that stress by having a child and then date other people." ...

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Good for Nothing

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Mike Wallis

In the best tradition of the Spaghetti Western, this is a wry look at the moral ambiguity of an outlaw who reluctantly develops strong feelings for Isabella, a young English woman he has kidnapped during a saloon robbery. As ready to shoot as he is unwilling to speak, he rides off with Isabella across his saddle leaving a trail of bodies behind them, and a posse in hot pursuit. When the feisty Isabella tries to esc ...

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Jiro Dreams Of Sushi

NY and/or LA

Director(s): David Gelb

This is the story of 85 year-old Jiro Ono, considered by many to be the world’s greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat, sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearances, it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious 3 star Michelin review, and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimage, call ...

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John Carter

Wide Release

Director(s): Andrew Stanton

This is based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' science fiction classic and is based on the first book in Burroughs' 11-book series, "John Carter of Mars," which centers on John Carter (Kitsch), a Civil War officer from Virginia who is transported to Mars and finds himself a captive of the savage green men from Thark. Eventually, he rises to become the greatest warrior of all time, marries the beautiful Dejah Thoris (Collins) ...

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Playback

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Michael Nickles

The trade says the story is triggered by high school students digging into their town's infamous past and unwittingly unlocking an evil that preys upon their classmates. ...

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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Wide Release

Director(s): Lasse Hallstrom

Written by Simon Beaufoy, this is based on the novel by Paul Torday. Ewan McGregor as Fred Jones, a fisheries expert and academic who works for the British government. When he’s approached by Harriet Chetwode-Talbot (Emily Blunt) with a plan to introduce salmon into the waterways of Yemen for the purpose of sport fishing, he laughs off the scheme, claim­ing it impossible. Harriet acts as the British representative ...

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Silent House

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Chris Kentis, Laura Lau

Based on the Uruguayan film La Casa Muda, captured with a continuous camera shot, Silent House tracks the growing panic of its enigmatic lead, Elizabeth Olsen, who’s trapped in an unnerving nightmare. ...

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Sound of Noise

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson

Police officer Amadeus Warnebring has suffered his whole life from an allergy to music in all its forms. His bizarre condition has resisted every medical investigation and remedy - even the slightest hint of a melody remains torture for Amadeus. His existence is thrown into chaos when a gang of delinquent sonic terrorists, led by beautiful revolutionary genius Sanna, decides to enact a full-scale musical assault in t ...

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Gerhard Richter Painting

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Corinna Belz

The opening frames take us directly into the promised land - the artist's studio, his bright, clean, well-guarded workspace. A bustling production hall where Germany's preeminent post-war painter directs an army of assistants operating at peak capacity to satisfy the appetites of the global art market? On the contrary, we are given a fly-on-the-wall perspective to an intimate and highly personal artistic production p ...

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21 Jump Street

Wide Release

Director(s): Chris Miller, Phil Lord

Scripted by Michael Bacall and based on a treatment from Hill and Bacall, based on the series, which ran from 1987-1990 (starring Johnny Depp) on Fox and one subsequent season in syndication, the movie centers on two undercover cops (Hill and Tatum) who are assigned the nightmarish undercover duty of returning to high school to crack crimes and bust drug dealers infiltrating the hallways. Cube is playing the police c ...

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Casa de mi padre

Director(s): Matt Piedmont

Scripted by Andrew Steele, this Mexican ‘telenovela’ soap with English subtitles sees Armando Alvarez (Will Ferrell) has lived and worked on his father’s ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the ranch encounters financial difficulties, Armando’s younger brother Raul (Diego Luna), shows up with his new fiancé, Sonia (Genesis Rodriguez). It seems that Raul’s success as an international businessman means the r ...

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Delicacy

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Stéphane Foenkinos, David Foenkinos

Audrey Tautou is Nathalie, a beautiful, happy, and successful Parisian business executive who finds herself suddenly widowed after a three-year marriage to her soul mate. To cope with her loss, she buries herself and her emotions in her work to the dismay of her friends, family and co-workers. One day, inexplicably, her zest for life and love is rekindled by a most unlikely source, her seemingly unexceptional, gauche ...

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Detachment

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Tony Kaye

Written by Carl Lund, this is a chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of a substitute teacher named Henry Barthes (Adrien Brody). Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment. A perfect profession for one seeking to hide out in the open. One day H ...

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The FP

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Brandon Trost, Jason Trost

In a dystopian future, a relentless turf war rages. Two rival gangs feud for control of rural wasteland Frazier Park ('The FP') in the deadly arena of competitive dance-fight video game "Beat-Beat Revelation." After hometown hero BTRO is slain on the dance platform by thug leader L Dubba E, his protégé younger brother JTRO (Jason Trost) goes into isolation, vowing never to duel again. One year later, The FP is in r ...

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Free Men

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Ismaël Ferroukhi

Arrested by the French police, Younes is accused of complicity and threatened with being shot. But the police detective offers him a deal: his freedom in exchange for keeping surveillance over the Paris Mosque, which is suspected of helping Resistance fighters and Jews. In the Mosque, Younes meets Algerian-born singer Salim Halali. Touched by his voice and personality, he becomes friends with him, discovering soon af ...

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Jeff, Who Lives at Home

Wide Release

Director(s): Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass

Written by the Duplass brothers, the pic chronicles a day in the life of two brothers, one a loser Jeff (Jason Segel) who lives at home and the other (Ed Helms) more together but overbearing. When Jeff leaves his house on a seemingly banal errand for his disgruntled mother, he discovers that the universe might be sending him signals about the nature of his destiny. ...

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The Kid With a Bike

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

Sick of waiting for a father who has placed him in a children’s home after promising to come back for him, 11-year-old Cyril runs away and returns to the apartment where they lived together. He knocks at the door - no answer. Pursued by youth workers from the home, Cyril seeks refuge in a medical office located on the ground floor. Unable to escape his pursuers, he rushes into the arms of a young woman (Cecile de F ...

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Natural Selection

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Robbie Pickering

Written by Robbie Pickering, this is about Linda White (Harris), a barren Christian housewife, leads a sheltered existence in suburban Texas. Her world is turned upside-down when she discovers that her dying husband, Abe, has a 23-year old illegitimate son named Raymond living in Florida. Somewhere on the edge of guilt and loneliness, Linda grants Abe's final wish and sets off on a quixotic journey to find Raymond an ...

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Seeking Justice

Wide Release

Director(s): Roger Donaldson

Written by Robert Tanen, formerly titled "The Hungry Rabbit Jumps," this centers on Will Gerard (Cage), a happily married family man whose quiet life is turned upside-down when his wife, Laura (January Jones), is brutally attacked one night while leaving work. At the hospital, waiting for news about his wife’s condition, Will is approached by Simon, (Guy Pearce) who proposes an intriguing offer: Simon will arrange ...

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4:44 Last Day On Earth

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Abel Ferrara

In a large apartment high above the city lives our couple. They’re in love. She’s a painter; he’s a successful actor. Just a normal afternoon – except that this isn’t a normal afternoon, for them or anyone else. Because tomorrow, at 4:44 am, give or take a few seconds, the world will come to an end far more rapidly than even the worst doomsayer could have imagined. The final meltdown will come, not without ...

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Brake

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Gabe Torres

Secret Service Agent Jeremy Reins (Stephen Dorff) is about to have a very bad day. He wakes up trapped in the dark, cramped trunk of a moving car with no recollection of how or why he’s there. The only light comes from the blood-red digital numbers ticking away above his head that signify one thing… he’s running out of time. As the captors reveal themselves and their motives while torturing their hostage mental ...

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The Deep Blue Sea

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Terence Davies

Based on Terence Rattigan's 1952 play, Rachel Weisz plays the wife of a high court judge who, shockingly in her 1950s milieu, leaves her husband (Simon Russell Beale) to move in with a dashing young ex-RAF pilot (Hiddleston), with whom she has fallen passionately in love. ...

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The Hunger Games

Wide Release

Director(s): Gary Ross

Based on Suzanne Collins' best-selling young adult novel - this tells the tale of a dystopic future and the annual "Hunger Games" in which heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and childhood acquaintance Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) are forced to compete against one another and 22 other young people in a life-threatening survival setting after Katniss bravely volunteers herself to enter the arena in the pla ...

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Musical Chairs

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Susan Seidelman

Set against the exciting backdrop of competitive ballroom dancing, this is about Armando (Bonilla) a Bronx-bred Latino who aspires to be a dancer but whose only way in is as handyman at a Manhattan dance studio, and Mia (Pipes), an Upper East Side princess who is the studio's star performer. Though worlds apart, their shared passion for dance promises to bring them together until a tragic accident changes Mia's life ...

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October Baby

Limited Release

Director(s): Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin

The coming-of-age story of a naive college freshman who discovers that her entire life is a lie and sets out on a road trip with a host of misfits to discover herself and the answers she craves. ...

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The Raid: Redemption

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Gareth Evans

AKA "The Raid," Rama, a member of a special forces team, arrives at a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord. The building has become a sanctuary to killers, gangs, rapists and thieves seeking accommodation in the one place they know they cannot be touched by the police. When a spotter blows their cover, Rama and his team must fight their way through every floor and every ro ...

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The Trouble With Bliss

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Michael Knowles

Formerly titled "East Fifth Bliss," scripted by Knowles and Douglas Light from Light's novel of the same title, this tells the story of 35-year-old Morris Bliss (Michael C. Hall), who is clamped firmly in the jaws of New York City inertia. He wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; and he still shares an apartment with his widowed father (Peter Fonda), who treats Morris with a mix of d ...

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The Island President

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Jon Shenk

The Island President tells the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced–the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After leading a twenty-year pro-democracy movement against the brutal regime of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, surviving repeated imprisonments and torture, Nasheed becomes president at 41, only to encounter a ...

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Bully

Limited Release

Director(s): Lee Hirsch

This year, over 18 million American kids will be bullied, making it the most common form of violence experienced by young people in the U.S. This follows “a year in the life” of America’s bullying crisis, offering an intimate look at how bullying has touched five kids and their families. With an intimate glimpse into homes, classrooms, cafeterias and principals’ offices, the film offers insight into the ofte ...

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Dark Tide

Limited Release

Director(s): John Stockwell

Scripted by Amy Sorlie, the story is about Kate (Berry), a shark expert whose business has been failing since a shark attack killed a fellow diver under her command. Once dubbed "the shark whisperer," Kate is haunted by the memory of the attack and unable to get back into the water. With bills piling up and the bank about to foreclose on Kate's boat, Kate's ex-boyfriend Jeff (Martinez) presents her with a lucrative o ...

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Four Lovers

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Antony Cordier

Also known as "Happy Few," two couples decide to explore the boundaries of their relationships by swapping partners. What starts as a fun, free-spirited ménage-a-4 experimentation full of sleepovers, shared vacations, and dinner parties soon turns into a hotbed of desire, anger, and confusion. As their arrangement leads them down an increasingly surprising and provocative path, the lovers begin to question their per ...

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Goon

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Michael Dowse

Scripted by Jay Barauchel and Evan Goldberg and inspired by Doug Smith and Adam Frattasio‘s book “Goon: The True Story of an Unlikely Journey Into Minor League Hockey”, this is the story of Doug Glatt (Scott), a dumb but loveable bar bouncer plucked from obscurity to be the enforcer for a minor league hockey team. ...

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Intruders

Wide Release

Director(s): Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

Written by Jaime Marques and Nico Casariego, this is the story of two young children, separated by a thousand miles across half a continent, caught up in the same nightmare that is fast becoming horrifyingly real. In Madrid, Juan (Izan Corchero) is a ferociously bright 8 year-old who loves to tell stories. His mother, Luisa (Pilar Lopez de Ayala), worries that her son’s fertile imagination is fuelling the vivid and ...

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Mirror Mirror

Wide Release

Director(s): Tarsem Singh

Written by Melisa Wallack, an evil Queen (Roberts) steals control of a kingdom, and an exiled princess (Collins) enlists the help of seven resourceful rebels to win back her birthright in a spirited adventure comedy filled with jealousy, romance, and betrayal that will capture the imagination of audiences the world over. ...

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Turn Me On, Dammit!

NY and/or LA

Director(s): Jannicke Systad Jacobsen

This tells a story that is rarely if ever explored in films: the unbridled sexual appetite of a teenage girl. Certainly this subject has never been approached in such a candid and wryly comic way. 15-year-old Alma (Helene Bergsholm) is consumed by her out-of-control hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the boyfriend she yearns for, to down-and-dirty daydreams about practically eve ...

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Wrath of the Titans

Wide Release

Director(s): Jonathan Liebesman

A decade after his heroic defeat of the monstrous Kraken, Perseus-the demigod son of Zeus-is attempting to live a quieter life as a village fisherman and the sole parent to his 10-year old son, Helius. Meanwhile, a struggle for supremacy rages between the gods and the Titans. Dangerously weakened by humanity's lack of devotion, the gods are losing control of the imprisoned Titans and their ferocious leader, Kronos, f ...

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