Thursday, July 29th, 2010
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Middle Men (opens August 6th)
In 1995, everyone had a VCR, music was sold in record stores and the world-wide-web was a new found discovery. Businessman Jack Harris (LUKE WILSON) had the perfect life - a beautiful family and a successful career fixing problem companies. Jerry Haggerty (JAMES CAAN), a lawyer who knows of Jack's stellar reputation as a 'fix-it' guy, asks him to help Wayne Beering (GIOVANNI RIBISI) and Buck Dolby (GABRIEL MACHT), two genius but troubled men who have figured a way to make money on the Internet. Yet, when Wayne and Buck start making millions of dollars within months, they also attract a whirlwind of troubles and are at the mercy of Jack to help them survive. Having agreed to help steer their business and completely unaware of the disaster that lies ahead, Jack soon...
Orlando (re-release in select theaters on August 6th; original release on June 9th, 1993)
ORLANDO, directed by internationally renowned SALLY POTTER, returns to the big screen in a limited engagement for the first time in over 17 years with glorious, vivid new 35mm prints and digital projection.
ORLANDO has had a long and unbroken presence in world cinema since its original release in 1992, when it garnered more than thirty international awards, including two Oscar nominations and Best Young Film in the European Film Awards. It has become a standard teaching tool in film, media and literature courses worldwide and is frequently used as a 'how to' model of adaptation of a classic...
Cairo Time (limited release on August 6th):
CAIRO TIME is a romantic drama about a brief, unexpected love affair that catches two people completely off-guard.
Juliette, a fashion magazine editor in her 40s, travels to Cairo to meet her husband, Mark, a UN official working in Gaza, for a three week vacation. When he is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq, who had been his security office...
The Disappearance of Alice Creed (limited release on August 6th):
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 metic...
Flipped (updated) (opens limited release on August 6th; wide release on August 27th):
When second-graders Bryce and Juli first meet, Juli knows it's love.
Bryce isn't so sure.
Beginning that day, and for the next six years, young Bryce (Callan McAuliffe) does everything he can to keep his outspoken wannabe girlfriend at arm's length...which isn't easy since they go to the same school and live across the street from each other.
Smart, dreamy, independent and willing to ...
Baghdad Texas (limited release on August 27th):
While a Middle Eastern dictator is fleeing his besieged country his plane crashes on the Mexican Border. He is inadvertently carried into Texas by illegal immigrants. Struck by a truck occupied by three cowboys he is taken to their exotic game ranch where their housekeeper nurses him back to health as they slowly discover his true identity. Or is it?
The first act...
Lebanon (limited release on August 6th):
The First Lebanon War -- June, 1982. A lone tank is dispatched to search a hostile town that has already been bombarded by the Israeli Air Force. What seems to be a simple mission gradually spins out of control.
Shmuel the gunner, Assi the commander, Herzl the loader and Yigal the driver are the tank's crew, four 20-something boys who have never fought in a war and are ...
The Sicilian Girl (limited release on August 4th):
The true story of 17-year-old Sicilian Rita Atria (Veronica D'Agostino) -- who broke the Sicilian Mafia's code of silence and testified against the "family business" after both her father and then her brother are both murdered -- is brought to vivid life in Marco Amenta's hard-hitting and wonderfully acted drama.
Brotherhood (limited release on August 6th):
When Lars (Thure Lindhardt) is cheated out of promotion to sergeant following rumors about his unbecoming behavior towards some of his men, he decides to leave the army. Back home, his overly proper suburban parents succeed in driving him nuts in record time, as they do everything in their power to sweep the embarrassing incident under the carpet.
By chance, Lars run...
The Thorn in the Heart (updated) (on DVD August 10th; original limited release on April 2nd):
The filmmaker, Michel Gondry, may be best known for directing the films Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind and the upcoming Seth Rogen scribed movie The Green Hornet.
Smash His Camera (limited release on July 30th):
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis sued him, Marlon Brando broke his jaw and Steve McQueen gave him a look that would have killed, if looks could kill. To the celebrities he pursued, photographer Ron Galella was the beast who threatened beauty. As it turned out, he gave them a strange and lasting beauty they might never have known without him. Inherent in the story of this ...
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (limited release on July 30th):
An intimate look at the outspoken, flamboyant founder of the Playboy empire. With humor and insight, the film captures Hefner's fierce battles with the government, the religious right and militant feminists. Rare footage and compelling interviews with a remarkable who's who of 20th Century American pop culture, present a brilliant and enterta...
A Prophet (updated) (on DVD August 3rd; original limited release on February 26th):
Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena, cannot read or write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican gang currently ruling the prison, he is given a number of "missions" to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the gang leader's confidence in...
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Get Low (limited release on July 30th):
Get Low is inspired by the true story of Felix "Bush" Breazeale, who attracted national attention and the largest crowd to assemble up to that date when he threw himself a living funeral party in 1938 in Roane County, Tennessee.
For years, townsfolk have been terrified of the backwoods recluse known as Felix Bush (Robert Duvall). People say he's done all manner of unspeakable...
Who Killed Nancy? (limited release on July 30th):
On October 12th 1978 New York Police discovered the lifeless body of a 20 year-old woman, slumped under the bathroom sink in a hotel room. She was dressed in her underwear and had bled to death from a stab wound. The woman was Nancy Spungen, an ex-prostitute, sometimes stripper, heroin addict, and girlfriend of Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious. In a trial by tabloi...
My Name Is Khan (updated) (on DVD August 10th; original limited release on February 12th):
Theirs was a storybook romance told against the shadow of a great American city, until a series of life-changing events threatened more than just their own happiness. Imagine what happens when a single act from a determined man seeking forgiveness and love lost can do to inspire the hearts and minds of a wounded nation.
In MY NAME...
Garbo: The Spy (limited release on Friday, July 23rd):
This is the story about "the greatest actor in the world". On the stage that is life he made his unique contribution to the good of mankind.
He went by many names, yet never existed.
He lived many lives, yet only one was real.
In the darkest time in the history of humanity he perpetrated the greatest fraud of the Second World War -fooling the German High Command int...
Khatta Meetha (limited release on Friday, July 23rd):
Struggling road construction contractor, Sachin Tichkule (Akshay Kumar) is doomed to dream big. There is no chance in hell that his dreams will ever come true, simply because he has no money to bribe!
To make matters worse, the new municipal commissioner turns out to be his ex-girlfriend (Trisha) who now hates him. Even as you laugh as Sachin bumbles his way from o...
Monica & David (limited release on Friday, July 23rd):
MONICA & DAVID explores the marriage of two adults with Down syndrome and the family who strives to support their needs. Monica and David are blissfully in love and want what other adults have -- an independent life. Full of humor, romance and everyday family drama, the film uses intimate fly-on-the wall footage to reveal the complexity of their story. While Monic...
The Extra Man (limited release on July 30th):
A sophisticated and moving comedy, THE EXTRA MAN follows Louis Ives (Paul Dano), a lonely dreamer who fancies himself the hero of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel... When a deeply embarrassing incident forces him to leave his job at an exclusive Princeton prep school, Louis heads to New York City to make a fresh start. He quickly finds a nine-to-five jo...
Twelve Thirty (limited release on October 8th):
Filmmaker Jeff Lipsky won wide critical praise for his unflinching look at the rise and fall of a marriage in the indie hit "Flannel Pajamas." Now, working with a truly extraordinary ensemble of actors, he takes on the nuances of family life, and the unique complexities of the relationship between mothers and daughters in his newly completed feature "Twelve Thirty."
Letters To God (updated) (On DVD August 10th; original limited release on April 9th):
A heartfelt tale of inspiration, hope and redemption, Letters to God is the story of what happens when one boy's walk of faith crosses paths with one man's search for meaning -- the resulting transformational journey touches the lives of everyone around them.
Tyler Doherty (TANNER MAGUIRE) is an extraordinary eight-year-old boy. Surrounded by a...
Sweetgrass (on DVD August 3rd; original limited release on January 6th, 2010):
An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately...
To Save a Life (on DVD August 3rd; original limited release on January 22nd, 2010):
Jake is the most popular kid in school and has a promising future, but his world is rocked when tragedy strikes his childhood best friend. Now Jake is forced to ask "Could I have saved him?" With help from a few new friends, he embarks on a journey to live a life of purpose, knocking down the sacred social barriers of high school life and befriending a loner...
La Mission (updated) (on DVD August 10th; original limited release on April 9th):
Growing up in the Mission district of San Francisco, Che Rivera (Benjamin Bratt) has always had to be tough to survive. He's a powerful man respected throughout the Mission barrio for his masculinity and his strength, as well as for his hobby building beautiful lowrider cars. At the same time he's also a man feared for his street-tough ways and violent temper.
The Adjustment Bureau (opens September 17th):
Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? Matt Damon stars in the thriller The Adjustment Bureau as a man who glimpses the future Fate has planned for him and realizes he wants something else. To get it, he must pursue the only woman he's ever loved across, under and through the streets of modern-day New York.
On the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. S...
Flipped (select cities on August 6th; wide release on August 27th):
Coming-of-Age Romantic Comedy. When second-graders Bryce and Juli first meet, Juli knows it's love. But Bryce isn't so sure. Girl-phobic and easily embarrassed, young Bryce does everything he can to keep his outspoken wannabe girlfriend at arm's length... for the next six years, which isn't easy since they go to the same school and live across the street from each...
Children of Invention (updated) (DVD on August 10th; original limited release on February 26th, 2010):
Two young children living outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their mother gets embroiled in a pyramid scheme and disappears.
One of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film," writer-director Tze Chun makes his feature film debut with CHILDREN OF INVENTION.
After being evicted, hardworking...
The Dry Land (limited release on July 30th):
James (Ryan O'Nan) returns from Iraq to face a new battle -- reintegrating into his small-town life in Texas. His wife (America Ferrera), his mother (Melissa Leo), and his friend (Jason Ritter) provide support, but they can't fully understand the pain and suffering he feels since his tour of duty ended. Lonely, James reconnects with an army buddy (Wilmer Valderrama), wh...
Enemies of the People (limited release on July 30th):
One of the most harrowing and compelling personal documentaries of our time, ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE exposes for the first time the truth about the Killing Fields and the Khmer Rouge who were behind Cambodia's horrific genocide. More than simply an inquiry into Cambodia's experience, however, ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE is a profound meditation on the nature of good an...
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (updated) (on DVD August 3rd; originally released on March 19th):
Meet the kid who made "wimpy" cool, in a family comedy based on the best-selling illustrated novel Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, the first in a series that has thus far sold 24 million copies. DIARY OF A WIMPY KID chronicles the adventures of wise-cracking middle school student Greg Heffley, who must somehow survive the scariest time of...
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The Ghost Writer (updated) (on DVD August 3rd; original limited release on February 19th):
A gifted author hired to ghostwrite the memoirs of a controversial former British Prime Minister becomes a hunted man when he uncovers explosive secrets about the past. Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Williams and Kim Catrall star in THE GHOST WRITER, a taut, suspenseful thriller from the Oscar®-winning director of The Pianist.
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Spoken Word (limited release on July 23rd):
From acclaimed director Victor Nunez (ULEE'S GOLD), SPOKEN WORD tells the story of Cruz Montoya (Kuno Becker, GOAL!, FROM MEXICO WITH LOVE), a rock star on the West Coast poetry circuit, where audiences from San Diego to Seattle gather to hear him perform. Just off the road from a successful tour, he gets an unexpected phone call alerting him that his father, Senior (Rub...
Mugabe and the White African (limited release on July 23rd):
A South African family fights to retain possession of their farm in the face of the "Land Reform" program operated by Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe.
Selected as one of the 15 feature documentaries on the short list for Oscar consideration, Mugabe and the White African is an intimate account of one family's astonishing bravery as they fight to protect their pro...
