Fri Feb 10, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Liza Johnson
Written by Liza Johnson, back from a tour of duty, Kelli (Cardellini) can't wait to rejoin her old life in the rust belt town she's always lived in. She's ready to experience the feelings of everyday life-- the carpet under her bare feet, a cold beer in front of the television, the smell of her baby's head. Slowly, though, she realizes that her everyday life doesn't resemble the one she left. A gap opens up with her ...
Fri Feb 10, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Béla Tarr
Co-written by Tarr and Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the film is freely inspired by an episode that marked the end of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s career. On January 3,1889, on the piazza Alberto in Turin, a weeping Nietzsche flung his arms around an exhausted and ill-treated carriage horse, then lost consciousness. After this event, the philosopher never wrote again and descended into madness and silence. From this s ...
Fri Feb 10, 2012
Wide Release
Director(s): Brad Peyton
The new journey begins when Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson) receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist — a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret. The secret is rumored to involve Sean's missing grandfather, Alexander Anderson (Michael Caine). Unable to stop him from going, Sean's new stepfather (Dwayne Johns ...
Fri Feb 10, 2012
Wide Release
Director(s): Michael Sucsy
Scripted by Michael Sucsy, Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, the film tells the real-life story of a newlywed New Mexico couple, played by McAdams and Tatum, who end up in a car crash. The wife is put in a coma, where she is cared for by her devoted husband. When she comes to, without any memory of her husband or their marriage, the husband woos her and attempts to wins her heart again. ...
Fri Feb 10, 2012
Wide Release
Director(s): Daniel Espinoza
Scripted by David Guggenheim, the film centers on a house sitter of a CIA-run safe house (Reynolds) who must help a criminal (Washington), who's being hidden there, avoid being killed as they flee to another secure facility when the first house is destroyed by villains who want the witness dead. ...
Fri Feb 10, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Alison Bagnall
Rose, a woman descending into an emotional tailspin after her husband admits to an affair. Hell-bent on revenge, she drives to a boarded-up Delaware beach town to hunt down the other woman. Instead, she discovers a stranded British teenage boy (Olly Alexander) marooned on the beach. This lost boy becomes her constant companion and caretaker. The mismatched pair stumbles through a series of small adventures that build ...
Fri Feb 10, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Agnieszka Holland
Written by David F. Shamoon, set in 1943, the Polish town of Lvov is occupied by the Nazis. Poverty grows. One day the selfish thief and burglar Leopold Socha encounters a group of Jewish refugees – and hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers. At first only interested in lucrative business the whole thing reaches more and more Socha’s conscience. The Polish small-time crook makes up his mind ...
Fri Feb 10, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Dan Lindsay, TJ Martin
Set in the inner-city of Memphis, Undefeated chronicles the Manassas Tigers’ 2009 football season, on and off-the-field, as they strive to win the first playoff game in the high school’s 110-year history. A perennial whipping boy, in recent decades Manassas had gone so far as to sell their home games to the highest bidder, but that all changed in the spring of 2004 when Bill Courtney, a former high school foot ...
Fri Feb 10, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Fernando Trueba
Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey – in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero – brings heartache and torment. From Havana to New York, Paris, Hollywood and Las Vegas, two passionate individuals battle impossible odds to unite in music and love. ...
Tue Feb 14, 2012
Wide Release
Director(s): McG
This is the story of two best friends (Pine and Hardy), inseparable since childhood, who fall in love with the same woman (Witherspoon). The two men's bond disintegrates and their ensuing battle escalates to mammoth proportions, with New York City demolished in their wake. ...
Wed Feb 15, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Markus Schleinzer
The eponymous subject is a timid insurance agent, a 35-year-old milquetoast loner with a terrifying secret: Michael (Michael Fuith), a seemingly meek insurance agent, has a secret: he's holding 10-year-old Wolfgang (David Rauchenberger) captive in a locked room in his basement. Chronicling a five month period, this is a tense portrait of how seemingly mundane lives can hide the darkest secrets. ...