Fri Sep 17, 2010
Wide Release
Director(s): Ben Gluck, Anthony Bell
Based on a screenplay by Chris Denk and based on a story by Steve Moore, this gives puppy love a new meaning in this animated film featuring a slew of celebrity voices. Kate (Hayden Panettiere) is a dominant and driven female wolf, while hairy Humphrey (Justin Long) lives for the moment. But when the two young wolves are captured by park rangers and taken far away, they bond despite their differences. ...
Fri Sep 17, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Nev, a 24-year-old New York–based photographer, has no idea what he’s in for when Abby, an eight-year-old girl from rural Michigan, contacts him on MySpace, seeking permission to paint one of his photographs. When he receives her remarkable painting, Nev begins a friendship and correspondence with Abby’s family. But things really get interesting when he develops a cyber-romance with Abby’s attractive older si ...
Fri Sep 17, 2010
Wide Release
Director(s): John Erick Dowdle
This is based on an original story by M. Night Shyamalan and written by Brian Nelson and sees Chris Messina play the lead role of Bowden, a sobered-up homicide detective. ...
Fri Sep 17, 2010
Wide Release
Director(s): Will Gluck
Written by playwright Bert V. Royal, this tells the story of a good-natured high school student (Emma Stone) who uses the school rumor mill to financial and personal advantage by pretending to be the school slut. ...
Fri Sep 17, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Gaspar Noé
Oscar and his sister Linda (18), are recent arrivals in Tokyo. Oscar sells drugs for a living, and Linda works as a nightclub stripper. One night, Oscar goes to a bar to make a deal. But the cops are waiting, and in the panic that ensues he is accidentally shot. As Oscar lies dying, his perception grows distorted. Swept along a limitless tunnel of memories, he witnesses again the death of his parents in a car crash w ...
Fri Sep 17, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Kathryn Aselton
This centers on Darren (Shepard) and Annie (Aselton), a young married couple with an enviable relationship built on love trust and communication. Darren and Annie still enjoy each other’s company and laugh at each other’s jokes, but, unfortunately, they can’t remember the last time they had sex. When a dinner party conversation leads to an honest discussion about the state of their love life, and when a sexy bi ...
Fri Sep 17, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Fredrik Edfeldt
In a lonely house on the countryside a ten year old girl takes her first steps from childhood into the world of grown-ups. The girl has to spend her summer with her bohemian aunt when her parents go to Africa to work with an aid project. But the aunt isn’t reliable and when she goes off sailing with a man she has met, the girl decides to take care of herself. A tragic and humorous journey starts, a journey that wi ...
Fri Sep 17, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Philip Seymour Hoffman
Based on the off-Broadway play written by Bob Glaudini and produced by Hoffman's LAByrinth Theater Company, Jack Goes Boating is the story of four New Yorkers. Jack (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Connie (Amy Ryan) are two single people who on their own might continue to recede into the anonymous background of the city, but in each other begin to find the courage and desire to pursue their budding relationship. In cont ...
Fri Sep 17, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Tim Blake Nelson
Norton is portraying twin brothers, one an Ivy League philosophy professor, the other a small-time and brilliant marijuana grower. The professor is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown for a doomed scheme against a local drug lord (Dreyfuss) that unravels his life. Sarandon plays the brothers' eccentric mother, while Russell will play a love interest. Nelson is playing a best friend to one of the brothers. ...
Fri Sep 17, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Susan Koch
This introduces us to the Washington D.C. that tourists rarely see and to residents who are both infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. It chronicles the epic struggles they face confronting social, cultural and political boundaries. Surprisingly, the very city that is home to the U.S. federal government not only has the highest HIV/AIDS rate in the U.S. but rates that rival some African nations. ...
Fri Sep 17, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Ole Schell, Sara Ziff
Filmmaker Ole Schell follows model Sara Ziff for several years documenting her rise from a fresh face to one that adorns billboards and magazines around the world. In the process, Ole and Sara go behind the scenes and chronicle the glitzy world of high fashion modeling, from photo shoots with celebrated photographers to runway shows in New York, Milan, and Paris. This intimate account features in-depth interviews wit ...
Fri Sep 17, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Veiko Ounpuu
To appreciate Veiko Õunpuu’s artful tale of moral confusion, let’s begin where he does—with Dante’s Inferno: "Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark." Tony, a middle-aged, midlevel manager, leads a quiet life. But one day, he starts to question the value of being good. In a series of bizarre encounters in which he fires his employees, witnesses his wife’s infidelity, and m ...
Fri Sep 17, 2010
Wide Release
Director(s): Ben Affleck
Based on Chuck Hogan's novel Prince of Thieves, this is scripted by Peter Craig and Hogan with a rewrite from Affleck and tells the tale of four men -- thieves, rivals and friends -- being hunted through the streets of Boston by a tenacious FBI agent and a woman who might destroy them all. Affleck would play a career thief who becomes smitten by the manager of a bank. ...
Fri Sep 17, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Alexandre Franchi
A modern medieval saga, THE WILD HUNT tells the story of Erik Magnusson, a young man who decides to follow his estranged girlfriend into a medieval re-enactment game when he discovers that she has been seduced by one of the players. As the down-to-earth Erik treks deeper into the game in search of his love, he inadvertently disrupts the delicate balance of the make-believe fantasyland. Passions are unleashed, rules a ...
Wed Sep 22, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Woody Allen
Written by Woody Allen, a little romance, some sex, some treachery, and apart from that, a few laughs. The lives of a group of people, whose passions, ambitions and anxieties force them all into assorted troubles that run the gamut from ludicrous to dangerous. ...