Wed May 01, 2013
Post Tenebras Lux
NY and/or LA Release
Director(s): Carlos Reygadas
Childhood and adolescence memories, dreams of life, emotions and thoughts of the present existence. It’s a feature film with a loose plot link in its discourse but really clear in its poetics. It is not united by the plot but by the harmony in the expression of the feelings. It works like this: at a superficial level, by the stylistic coherence; at a deep level, making sense through the identity of the personal visio …
Fri May 03, 2013
Iron Man III
Wide Release
Director(s): Shane Black
This pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy’s hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those …
Fri May 03, 2013
Love is All You Need
NY and/or LA Release
Director(s): Susanne Bier
Philip (Brosnan), a well-off Englishman living in Denmark, is a long-time bachelor and single father. Ida (Dyrholm) is an attractive, middle-aged Danish hairdresser who has just conquered cancer only to find her husband in bed with his secretary, Thilde. Their two fates collide at the airport as they embark upon a trip to Italy to attend the wedding of Patrick and Astrid, Phillip’s son and Ida’s daughter.
Fri May 03, 2013
Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s
NY and/or LA Release
Director(s): Matthew Miele
The legend, the parties, the fashion idols, the windows, the women, the buyers and shoppers — and most of all, the quintessentially American dreams of New York’s high-fashion hot-spot – all come to life in an ode to a realm where creativity and commerce reign equally supreme. With a light touch, Miele explores not just the glamour but the passion behind the dailycreation of this luxury mecca in a film as dynami …
Fri May 03, 2013
Something in the Air
NY and/or LA Release
Director(s): Olivier Assayas
Assayas’ semi-autobiographical tale is about a young man’s artistic awakening in the politically turbulent French student movement of the early ‘70s. Gilles (Clément Métayer) is a graduating high school student in Paris deeply involved in the counterculture of the time. While Gilles begins to realize that his interests lie more in the revolutions in music and art, he finds himself pulled into ever more danger …
Fri May 03, 2013
The Iceman
NY and/or LA Release
Director(s): Ariel Vromen
Based on the The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer and James Thebaut’s documentary film The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer, this is the electrifying true story of Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon), notorious mob contract killer and loving family man. He earned his nick-name by freezing the bodies of his victims, disguising the time of death and throwing police off-track. He was a man who u …
Fri May 03, 2013
What Maisie Knew
NY and/or LA Release
Director(s): David Siegel, Scott McGehee
Scripted by Nancy Doyne and Carroll Cartwright, the film which is an adaptation of the Henry James novel is about Maisie, a six-year-old girl enmeshed in the bitter divorce of her mother (Moore), a rock and roll icon, and her father (Coogan), a charming but distracted art dealer. Told through the eyes of the titles’ heroine, Maisie navigates this ever-widening turmoil with a six-year-old’s innocence, charm and genero …
Fri May 10, 2013
Erased
NY and/or LA Release
Director(s): Philipp Stolzl
When ex-CIA agent Ben Logan (Eckhart) discovers that he and his daughter have been marked for termination as part of a wide-reaching international conspiracy, a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse ensues as Logan tries to outsmart his hunters and uncover the truth.
Fri May 10, 2013
The Great Gatsby
Wide Release
Director(s): Baz Lurhmann
Based on the classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald first published in 1925, this follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), and …
Fri May 10, 2013
Mommy and Me
Release
Director(s): Stanley Tucci
The actresses will play a mother and daughter pair, though specific plot elements are currently unknown outside of the fact that the film will play as a comedy.
Fri May 10, 2013
Peeples
Wide Release
Director(s):
Formerly titled “We the Peeples”, sparks fly when Wade Walker (Craig Robinson) crashes the preppy Peeples annual reunion in the Hamptons to ask for their precious daughter Grace’s (Kerry Washington) hand in marriage. Wade might be a fish-out-of-water among this seemingly perfect East Coast clan, but he’s not about to let himself flounder. Instead, in a wild weekend of fun, dysfunction and hilarious surprises, Wade …
Fri May 17, 2013
Augustine
NY and/or LA Release
Director(s): Alice Winocour
This is an examination of the real case story and unusual relationship between Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot, the pioneering 19th century French neurologist – whom Sigmund Freud studied under – and his star teenage patient. After suffering an inexplicable seizure which leaves her paralyzed on her right side,19-year-old illiterate kitchen maid Augustine (Soko), is shipped off to Paris’ all female psychiatric hospital Pitié …
Fri May 17, 2013
Frances Ha
NY and/or LA Release
Director(s): Noah Baumbach
Fri May 17, 2013
Leaf Men
Wide Release
Director(s): Chris Wedge
Based on William Joyce’s illustrated children’s novel, this is described as an epic adventure centering on ancient elfin magic, the book follows a troop of brave bugs who march off to save a garden, where they encounter an evil spider queen and must summon the mythical Leaf Men to save the day.
Fri May 17, 2013
The English Teacher
NY and/or LA Release
Director(s): Craig Zisk
Written by Dan and Stacy Chariton, Linda Sinclair (Julianne Moore) is a forty-year-old unmarried high school English teacher in the small town of Kingston, Pennsylvania. She shares a small apartment with two Siamese cats and her rich collection of great literature. She maintains no close personal relationships aside from those she has with her favorite authors and stories. Her life is far less complicated than the d …
Fri May 17, 2013
Untitled Star Trek Sequel
Release
Director(s): J.J. Abrams
Scripted by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Damon Lindelof.
Fri May 24, 2013
Fast Six
Release
Director(s): Justin Lin
Fri May 24, 2013
The Hangover Part III
Release
Director(s): Todd Phillips
Scripted by Todd Phillips and Craig Mazin,
Fri May 31, 2013
The Lone Ranger
Wide Release
Director(s): Gore Verbinski
Scripted by Justin Haythe, The Lone Ranger’s origin story begins with a group of Texas Rangers chasing down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish. The gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulou …
Fri May 31, 2013
The East
NY and/or LA Release
Director(s): Zal Batmanglij
Co-written by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, this stars Marling as former FBI agent Sarah Moss. Moss is starting a new career at Hiller Brood, an elite private intelligence firm that ruthlessly protects the interests of its A-list corporate clientele. Handpicked for a plum assignment by the company’s head honcho, Sharon (Patricia Clarkson), Sarah goes deep undercover to infiltrate The East, an elusive anarchist c …
"Ron and I wanted to make a film that looked at what it means to be an outsider and we wanted to explore what it takes to reach out to someone whose life is very removed from your own."
