Wed Aug 04, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Marco Amenta
The film is based on the true story of Rita Atria, a 17-year-old Sicilian whose father and brother were both Mafia members (and victims), who breaks the vow of silence – omerta – that enshrouds her world. In 1991, during a period when the Mafia was under increasing pressure from the Italian judicial system, Rita gives evidence to famed anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino. Drawing upon the young woman’s extensive ...
Fri Aug 06, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Nicolo Donato
After joining a neo-Nazi organization, former Danish army officer Lars(Thure Lindhardt) falls for Jimmy (David Dencik), a fellow skinhead who can't ignore the sexual sparks flying between them -- or forget the importance of keeping their relationship under wraps. ...
Fri Aug 06, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Ruba Nadda
Juliette (Clarkson), a fashion magazine editor in her 50s, travels to Cairo to meet her husband, Mark (McCamus), a UN official working in Gaza, for a three week vacation. When he is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq (Siddig), who had been his security officer for many years, to escort her throughout the beautiful and exotic city. The last thing anyone expects is that they will fall in love. ...
Fri Aug 06, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
England is in full swing as three outcast friends find themselves drinking, joking, fighting and chasing girls, while dreaming of escape from their blue-collar hometown of Cemetery Junction. Freddie (Christian Cooke) is a salesman suddenly thrown onto the fast track when he gains the attention of his boss, Mr. Kendrick (Ralph Fiennes). Torn between a prior life of partying with his friends (Tom Hughes and Jack Doolan ...
Fri Aug 06, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): J Blakeson
Two men - one in his twenties, the other nearer forty, both intensely focused on the task at hand - line the inside of a transit van with plastic. Shopping, they buy a drill, a mattress and other supplies. In a small flat they assemble a bed for the mattress and staple foam insulation and board to the walls and windows of a bedroom. Then, their meticulous preparations complete, they kidnap a young woman. They drag he ...
Fri Aug 06, 2010
Limited Release
Director(s): Rob Reiner
Scripted by Reiner and writer-producer Andy Scheinman, this is based on the novel by Wendelin Van Draanen, written for the screen by Delia Ephron, this charts the relationship of two kids who lock horns at age 7 and share their first kiss at 13. Aidan Quinn and Penelope Ann Miller will play the parents of Carroll's character; John Mahoney will portray the boy's grandfather. ...
Fri Aug 06, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Samuel Maoz
The First Lebanon War, June, 1982. A lone tank and a platoon of paratroopers are dispatched to search a hostile town that has been bombarded by the Israeli Air Force. The mission gets out of control and turns into a death trap. Night falls and the wounded troops remain trapped in the center of a town in ruins, unable to communicate with the central command and surrounded by Syrian commandos closing in on all sides. T ...
Fri Aug 06, 2010
Limited Release
Director(s): George Gallo
Scripted by Gallo and Andy Weiss, this centers on a straight-and-narrow businessman who builds the first online billing company dealing exclusively with adult entertainment and finds himself in the middle of a whirlwind filled with starlets, conmen, Russian mobsters, federal agents and international terrorists -- all while trying to hold on to his marriage and family. ...
Fri Aug 06, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): León Gieco
Not just an inspiring documentary, MUNDO ALAS is a road movie. A journey of initiation by a group of new young artists who present their works, accompanied by the voice, talent and experience of León Gieco (Argentina’s most important folk-rock singer and songwriter) on a tour through several Argentinean provinces. Exceptional artists, musicians, singers, dancers and painters, they all live with disabilities that m ...
Fri Aug 06, 2010
Director(s): Adam McKay
Formerly titled "The B Team", scripted by Chris Henchy and McKay, formerly titled B Team, Johnson and Jackson will play an elite cop tandem whose exploits are the envy of the department and the second-tier fellow cops played by Ferrell and Wahlberg. ...
Fri Aug 06, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Álex de la Iglesia
Based on an award-winning novel by the Argentinean writer Guillermo Martinez, written by Jorge Guerricaechevarria and de la Iglesia, when an elderly woman is viciously murdered in Oxford, her body is discovered by two strangers whose lives are immediately changed forever: Arthur Seldom (John Hurt), a prestigious professor of logic, and Martin (Elijah Wood), a young graduate student who has just arrived at the univers ...
Fri Aug 06, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Mary Ann Smothers Bruni
The alarming rise in “honor killing,” the heinous act of men killing daughters, sisters, and wives who threaten “family honor,” endangers tens of thousands of women in Iraq, Turkey, Jordan and adjoining countries. Global communication through satellite television, Internet, and cell phones has raised the expectations of young Middle Eastern women, who now are not content to marry a much older relative their ...
Fri Aug 06, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Lou Ye
This is about a young threesome overcome with erotic longings. Luo Haitao has been hired by Wang Ping’s wife to spy on the passionate relationship between her husband and another man, but slowly loses control of the situation. With his beautiful girlfriend, Li Jing, he is drawn in to the affair, overcome by the fever of drunken spring nights. All are possessed by an exhilarating madness of the senses, a dangerous m ...
Fri Aug 06, 2010
Wide Release
Director(s): Jon Chu
New York’s intense street dancing underground comes alive in eye-popping Digital 3D in the third installment of the STEP UP franchise as the raw, passion-fueled culture goes global. A tight-knit group of street dancers, including Luke (RICK MALAMBRI) and Natalie (SHARNI VINSON), team up with NYU freshman Moose (ADAM SEVANI), and find themselves pitted against the world’s best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes sho ...
Fri Aug 06, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Joel Schumacher
Based on the novel by teenage scribe Nick McDonell, its depiction of the freewheeling, decadent lifestyle of Manhattan's young and rich and tells the story of a young drug dealer (Chace Crawford) in New York's Upper East Side. His lucrative life sours when the dealer's cousin is brutally murdered on an East Harlem playground and his best friend is arrested for the crime. ...
Fri Aug 06, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Anthony Geffen
George Mallory was obsessed with becoming the first person to conquer Mount Everest. Last seen 800 feet below the summit in 1924, the clouds rolled in and he disappeared into legend. 75 years later, climber Conrad Anker’s life became intertwined with Mallory’s after finding his frozen body with all his belongings intact. The only thing missing was a photograph of his wife, Ruth, which Mallory had promised to plac ...
Fri Aug 13, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): David Michôd
Welcome to the terrifying Melbourne crime underworld, where tensions are on the brink of exploding between felons and renegade cops - the Wild West played out on the city's streets in broad daylight. The Cody brothers, a gang of armed robbers, are in the process of initiating their teenage nephew Joshua ‘J’ (James Frecheville) into their frightening world after the death of his mother and under the watchful eye o ...
Fri Aug 13, 2010
Wide Release
Director(s): Ryan Murphy
Based on the Elizabeth Gilbert memoir, Gilbert had a husband, a big apartment and a weekend home and was trying to get pregnant, until she realized that wasn't the life she wanted. After a painful divorce, she set off on a journey of self-discovery around the world. Bardem will play Felipe, the man Gilbert meets and falls in love with on the final leg of a journey. Richard Jenkins plays a Texan whom the heroine befri ...
Fri Aug 13, 2010
Wide Release
Director(s): Sylvester Stallone
Scripted by Stallone, this follows a team of mercenaries on a mission to overthrow a South American dictator. ...
Fri Aug 13, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Josh Crook
The film follows the personal journey of Luisito a.k.a. ‘La Soga’, the son of a butcher turned government killer, who risks everything for justice. In a poor neighborhood in the Dominican Republic, where the streets are run by deported drug dealers, a modest butcher struggles to raise his sensitive 10-year old son, Luisito. When Luisito witnesses the brutal murder of his father by a vicious criminal named Rafa (P ...
Fri Aug 13, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Micki Dickoff, Tony Pagano
It was June 1964, the beginning of the Freedom Summer—the height of the Civil Rights movement—when a mob of Klansmen in Neshoba County, Mississippi murdered three civil rights workers: two Jews from New York and an African-American from Mississippi. It took 41 years for the state to convict one man, Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old Baptist preacher and notorious racist, in the killings. The disappearance and murd ...
Fri Aug 13, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Ausha Rizvi
After losing their plot of land over an unpaid government loan, Natha and Budhia, two brothers and farmers residing in the heart of rural India, seek the help of a local politician. Not concerned with their plight, the politician mockingly suggests that the brothers commit suicide to benefit from a government scheme that aids the families of indebted farmers who have killed themselves. Budhia, the shrewder of the two ...
Fri Aug 13, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Annemarie Jacir
Milh Hadha Al-Bahr (Salt of This Sea) tells the story of Soraya (Suheir Hammad), a Brooklyn-born woman of Palestinian lineage who comes to Israel to search for the land and ancestral home near Jaffa from where her grandparents were ejected 60 years ago. Once she arrives, reality strikes hard and her mission to claim what is hers and fulfill her lifelong dream to “return” to Palestine is obstructed at every turn. ...
Fri Aug 13, 2010
Wide Release
Director(s): Edgar Wright
This is based on the graphic novel "Scott Pilgrim Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life," written by Bryan Lee O'Malley. Michael Bacall and Wright wrote the screenplay which tells the story of a young slacker (Cera) who meets the woman of his dreams but finds that he can only win her heart by battling and defeating her seven evil ex-boyfriends. ...
Fri Aug 13, 2010
Limited Release
Director(s): Johnnie To
In this latest action-packed bout from the director of EXILED and MAD DETECTIVE, a French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter's family in Hong Kong, during which her husband and her two children are murdered. To help him find the killers, he hires three local hit-men working for the mafia. ...
Wed Aug 18, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Yael Hersonski
At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film, having sat undisturbed in an East German archive, was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled simply “Ghetto,” this footage quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. However, the later discovery of a long-missing reel, inclusive of multiple takes and cameraman staging scenes, complicated earlier ...
Wed Aug 18, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
A spoof of vampire-themed movies, where teenager Becca finds herself torn between two boys. As she and her friends wrestle with a number of different dramas, everything comes to a head at their prom. ...
Fri Aug 20, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Jessica Woodworth, Peter Brosens
War photographer Grace, devastated after a violent incident in Iraq, renounces her profession. Her Belgian husband, Max, is a cataract surgeon working at an eye clinic in the high Andes of Peru. Nearby, the villagers of Turubamba succumb to illnesses caused by a mercury spill from a local mine. Saturnina, a young woman in Turubamba, loses her fiancé to the contamination. Ignorant of its true source, the villagers tu ...
Fri Aug 20, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Robert Guédiguian
Written by Gilles Taurand and Serge Le Péron, this is about the very first days of the French Resistance to Nazi occupation, a time when many of the movement’s leaders and foot soldiers were often foreigners — Poles, Jews, Armenians, Spaniards, Italians — who feared French collaborators as much as the Germans. Armenian poet Missak Manouchian, portrayed in a stand-out performance by Simon Abkarian, and his Fre ...
Fri Aug 20, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Gary Lundgren
Calvin Marshall's childhood dream of playing Major League Baseball is in serious jeopardy as he can't seem to make the Bayford Bisons Junior College team. A poignant comedy about Calvin's deferred dream and the people in his life who want him to succeed. ...
Fri Aug 20, 2010
Wide Release
Director(s): Erik White
Story revolves around a young man, portrayed by Bow Wow, living in the projects who has to survive a three-day weekend after his opportunistic neighbors find out he’s holding a winning lottery ticket worth $350 million. ...
Fri Aug 20, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Christophe Honoré
Non Ma Fille, Tu N'iras Pas Danser sees Lena (Chiara Mastroianni) is an unemployed mother of two who has left her husband Nigel and valiantly soldiers through life as best as she can. But she is confused by her needs and desires while her family and friends seem certain of theirs. When she heads from Paris to her parents' bucolic home in Brittany for the holidays, she's thrown to the mercy of her supportive but oppre ...
Fri Aug 20, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Bruce Beresford
Scripted by Jan Sardi, this is based on the autobiography of Li Cunxin, a Chinese peasant-turned- ballet dancer who ultimately defected and later migrated to Australia. ...
Fri Aug 20, 2010
Limited Release
Director(s): Susanna White
Nanny McPhee and a group of kids are evacuated from the city to a farm during wartime. ...
Fri Aug 20, 2010
Wide Release
Director(s): Alexandre Aja
Written by Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger with a rewrite by Aja, in the original 1978 film, a particularly nasty prehistoric strain of the flesh-eating fish is unleashed in Arizona's Lake Havasu just as college kids come to party there. A new type of terror is about to be cut loose on beautiful Lake Victoria. Every year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 for Spring Break; a riot o ...
Fri Aug 20, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Fatih Akin
Young German-Greek restaurant owner Zinos is down on his luck. His girlfriend Nadine has moved to Shanghai, his Soul Kitchen customers are boycotting the new gourmet chef, and he‘s having back trouble! Things start looking up when the hip crowd embraces his revamped culinary concept, but that doesn‘t mend Zinos’ broken heart. He decides to fly to China for Nadine, leaving the restaurant in the hands of his unre ...
Fri Aug 20, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Will Speck, Josh Gordon
Scripted by Allan Loeb, this is based on Jeffrey Eugenides' short story "Baster," which was first published in The New Yorker. This centers on a neurotic and insecure man (Bateman) who finds out his best friend (Aniston) wants to have a child through artificial insemination. He surreptitiously replaces her donor's semen with his own and is then forced to live with the secret that he is the child's real father. ...
Fri Aug 20, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Amir Bar-Lev
Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002 and became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately far more heroic, than the caricature created by the media. And when the government tried to turn his death into war propaganda, they took on the wrong family. From her home in the Santa Cruz moun ...
Fri Aug 27, 2010
Limited Release
Director(s): Neil Marshall
Written by Marshall, this is set during the Roman invasion of Britain in A.D. 117, and tells the story of Quintus Dias, sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, who marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon. ...
Fri Aug 27, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Daniele Thompson
This centers around a summer dinner party where ten acquaintances, each attempting to mask their own personal troubles, come together for an evening of food, wine and friendship. It's not long before the couples begin revealing their dissatisfaction with their partners and it becomes obvious that they are planning or having affairs. ...
Fri Aug 27, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Michel Franco
Daniel and Ana, brother and sister, best friends. Both are at pivotal, defining moments in their contented lives. Ana is about to be married, Daniel is a gregarious teenager discovering his personal and sexual identity. Yet their harmony is instantly shattered when they are kidnapped and something shocking happens which forces them to confront their desires and fears. Suddenly their old lives are a distant memory. No ...
Fri Aug 27, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Dana Brown
Welcome to the North Shore of Oahu – the 7 Mile Miracle – surfing’s Xanadu. A freak of nature that is long considered the ultimate test for surfers. It’s the Triple Crown – the final 3 contests of the year - held in the cyclone of the North Shore between Halloween and Christmas Eve. The Triple Crown is a catalyst for a big wave soap opera that unfolds around, beside and away from the actual contests.
Fri Aug 27, 2010
Limited Release
Director(s): Daniel Stamm
When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine "exorcism" on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, certain his teenage daughter Nell is possessed by a demon who must be exorcized before their terrifying ordeal ends in unimaginable tragedy.
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Fri Aug 27, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Jean-François Richet
Based on the script by Abdel Raouf Dafri , the first part introduces us to Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), a loyal son and dedicated soldier back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Handsome and charming, he is soon seduced by the neon glamour of Sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido (Gerard Depardieu) Mesrine soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder, choos ...
Fri Aug 27, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Claudia Llosa
Fausta (Magaly Solier) suffers from “the milk of sorrow”, an illness transmitted through mother’s milk by women who have been violated or mistreated during the war of terror in Peru. The war has ended, but Fausta's life is a reminder of it because "the illness of fear" stole her soul. Now, her mother’s sudden death forces her to confront her fears and the secret that is hidden inside of her: she has inserted ...
Fri Aug 27, 2010
Limited Release
Director(s): John Luessenhop
Formerly titled 'Bone Deep', written by John Luessenhop, Avery Duff, Gabriel Casseus and Peter Allen, this revolves around a notorious group of criminals (Idris Elba, Paul Walker, T.I., Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen and Michael Ealy) who continue to baffle police by pulling off perfectly executed bank robberies. They are in and out like clockwork, leaving no evidence behind and laying low in between heists. But wh ...