Opened Wednesday: Memorial Day
Memorial Day (limited release on Wednesday, May 16th):
When SSgt. Kyle Vogel leaves a handwritten letter on the seat of his car, grabs a pistol and steps into a Minnesota forest, we wonder who he is and what he's about to do. Flash back a few months as Vogel lies wounded in a hospital near Anbar Province, Iraq. The night before he's due to return to combat, his doctor, Lt. Kelly Tripp, presses him on why...
More info »Tonight Only: All's Well and Fair
All's Well and Fair (NYC premiere on Friday, May 18th (free show at the reRun; Friday night only); premiered on Wednesday, April 18th):
The documentary All's Well and Fair will be released as an interactive web series in 18 episodes starting May 16, 2012 and as a stand--alone 90--minute film to be released on DVD at the New York City premiere on May 18th, 2012.
All's Well and Fair juxtaposes the lives and...
More info »Details on Films Opening Friday, May 18th
Battleship (wide release):
Peter Berg (Hancock, The Kingdom, Friday Night Lights) directs and produces Battleship, an epic-scale action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force.
Battleship stars Taylor Kitsch as Lieutenant Alex Hopper, a naval weapons officer assigned to USS John Paul Jones; Alexander Skarsgård as Hopper's older brother, Stone, Comma...
What to Expect When You're Expecting (wide release):
Inspired by the perennial New York Times bestseller of the same name and the first book in a series that has sold over 35 million copies worldwide, WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING is a hilarious and heartfelt big screen comedy about five couples whose intertwined lives are turned upside down by the challenges of impending parenthood.
Over the...
American Animal (limited release):
Jimmy is a terminally ill young man. He is also quite eccentric, bordering on plain old crazy, and starting today he has decided that he is 'happy' and no longer sick. Jimmy's roommate James is a healthy, dreamy young man. They're best friends. They live together. They don't do much of anything and they seem very happy that way. Today, they have a couple of female friends over to their downtown...
Beyond the Black Rainbow (limited release):
Set in the strange and oppressive emotional landscape of the year 1983, BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW is a Reagan-era fever dream inspired by hazy childhood memories of midnight movies and Saturday morning cartoons. From the producer of Machotaildrop, RAINBOW is the outlandish feature film debut of writer and director Panos Cosmatos. Featuring a hypnotic analog synthesizer...
Bill W. (limited release):
In 1999, Bill Wilson was named one of TIME Magazine's 100 Heroes and Icons of the 20th Century for his role as co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. But 65 years earlier, in 1934, he had faced almost certain death from his uncontrollable drinking. At the time, medicine viewed alcoholism as a symptom of deeper psychiatric issues, and alcoholics were treated with lobotomies, shock therapy, or...
The Color Wheel (limited release):
The Color Wheel is the story of JR (Carlen Altman), an increasingly transient aspiring news-anchor, as she forces her disappointing younger brother Colin (Alex Ross Perry) to embark on a road trip to move her belongings out of her professor-turned-lover's apartment (Bob Byington). Traveling through fog-shrouded highways of New England, uncomfortably running into old school-mates...
Crooked Arrows (limited release):
CROOKED ARROWS is a feel-good and inspiring family film set against the excitement of the fastest growing sport in the country—lacrosse. Weaving the modern world of the game with its Native American roots—the film tells a heartening universal story that goes far beyond the excitement on the field.
A mixed-blood Native American, Joe Logan (Brandon Routh) is eager to modernize his...
Department (limited release):
Alarmed at the hitherto unseen escalation in underworld criminal activities some top officials including the home secretary, the home minister, and the director general of police hold a secret meeting in which they take a decision to create a new unit which is unofficially referred to as "The Department".
Directed by Ram Gopal Varma and written by Nilesh Girkar, DEPARTMENT stars Amitabh...
Entrance (limited release):
ENTRANCE is a subtle psychological thriller centered upon Suzy (Suziey Block), a young woman in Los Angeles who can't get comfortable in her own skin. She's haunted by nostalgia, has no real friends, and finds herself wandering aimlessly through life in the city. Suzy now feels stuck, her part-time-turned-full-time job at a coffee house was never meant to be forever. With each day she finds it...
Hysteria (limited release):
HYSTERIA is a romantic comedy with an accomplished cast led by Maggie Gyllenhaal (CRAZY HEART, NANNY McPHEE RETURNS), Hugh Dancy (ADAM, CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC), Jonathan Pryce (PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, Miss Saigon on Broadway), Felicity Jones (LIKE CRAZY) and Rupert Everett (MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING), that tells an untold tale of discovery -- the surprising...
Indie Game: The Movie (limited release):
With the twenty-first century comes a new breed of struggling independent artist: the indie game designer. Refusing to toil for major developers, these innovators independently conceive, design, and program their distinctly personal games in the hope that they, too, may find success.
After two years of painstaking work, designer Edmund McMillen and programmer Tommy Refenes await the release...
Love, Lies and Seeta (limited release):
LOVE, LIES AND SEETA is a story of 7 youngsters during a New York Summer. The movie follows the lives of 3 youngsters Tom, Rahul and Bhavesh Patel (aka Bhavuk) who met Seeta by chance at different points in their life. A chance encounter with her again in NY after they are grown up, and all fall for the same girl.
But one problem, Seeta doesn't believe in Love. Seeta, adopted daughter...
Lovely Molly (limited release):
When newlywed Molly Reynolds returns to her long-abandoned family home, reminders of a nightmarish childhood begin seeping into her new life. A malevolent force, whether her own haunted past or some supernatural 'thing,' tirelessly seeks to overwhelm her. Alone and isolated in a centuries-old manor, she soon begins an inexorable descent into depravity. Somewhere in the house, in...
Mahler on the Couch (limited release):
Gustav Mahler snatched Alma under the noses of Vienna's artistic elite, but ten years of marriage and the death of one child have exacerbated the strains caused by the 19 year gap in their ages, and Mahler's refusal to allow Alma to write music ("I need a wife, not a colleague"). While staying at a spa resort, Alma falls in love with Walter Gropius, five years her junior. Tormented...
Mansome (limited release):
From America's greatest beardsman, to Morgan Spurlock's own mustache, Executive Producers Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Ben Silverman bring us a hilarious look at men's identity in the 21st century. Models, actors, experts and comedians weigh in on what it is to be a man in a world where the definition of masculinity has become as diverse as a hipster's facial hair in Williamsburg. The hilarious...
Never Stand Still (limited release):
Legendary dancers and choreographers Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Suzanne Farrell, Mark Morris, Judith Jamison and Bill Irwin appear alongside new innovators to reveal the passion, discipline, and daring of the world of dance in Never Stand Still. Filmed at the iconic Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, this thrilling documentary features amazing performances by world-renowned dancers...
Over My Dead Body (limited release):
OVER MY DEAD BODY is a 2012 South Korean dark comedy about a man who fakes a suicide for insurance money, and the body he used that becomes the central focal point of the film. OVER MY DEAD BODY is written and directed by Wu Seon-ho and stars Lee Beom-soo as The Brain-Storming Genius, Kim Ok-bin as The Punk Rebel and Ryoo Seung-bum as The Crazy Crook.
Polisse (limited release):
Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for 13 Cesar Awards, this smash hit from France follows the daily lives of a tight-knit team of men and women working in the Child Protection Unit of the Parisian police.
Basing her richly textured script on real child investigation cases, writer-director-actor Maiwenn has gathered an accomplished ensemble cast of French actors...
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog (limited release):
Born with a curious mark on his side resembling a bird spreading its wings, Labrador Retriever puppy Quill's life as a normal dog drastically changes when he leaves his mother's side to become a seeing-eye dog. He is sent to live with a couple, Isamu and Mitsuko Nii, who work as volunteer foster parents training seeing-eye dogs. There he basks fully in their love and spends...
The Samaritan (limited release):
After twenty-five years in prison, Foley (Samuel L. Jackson) is finished with the grifter's life. When he meets an elusive young woman named Iris (Ruth Negga), the possibility of a new start looks real. But his past is proving to be a stubborn companion: Ethan (Luke Kirby), the son of his former partner, has an ingenious plan and he wants Foley in. The harder Foley tries to escape his past, the tighter he...
Tales from Dell City, Texas (limited release):
Like much of rural America, Dell City, Texas, just 70 miles east of El Paso, has been in a long, slow decline. A once thriving farm and ranch town with a population of several thousand, and an important water hub for the region, Dell City is down to a few hundred stubborn souls committed to life in what was once their desert oasis.
In his lapidary style, Producer-Director Josh Carter who grew...
Virginia (limited release):
Written and directed by Dustin Lance Black (MILK), VIRGINIA stars Jennifer Connelly in the title role as a beautiful yet unhinged single mother who struggles to raise her son Emmett (Harrison Gilbertson) while dreaming of escaping her small Southern boardwalk town.
Her long time affair with the very married, Mormon Sheriff Richard Tipton (Ed Harris) is thrown into question when he decides to run for public off...
The Yankles (limited release):
When a down-and-out ex-baseball player, Charlie Jones (Brian Wimmer), needs to meet his community service hours as a coach and no one wants him, it takes an obscure orthodox yeshiva baseball team to get him to see the light. The humorous match made in heaven has both Charlie and a group of aspiring rabbis reaching unexpected triumphs, which results in entrance to the college...
Details on Films Opened Wednesday, May 16th
The Dictator (wide release):
The heroic story of a North African dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
THE DICTATOR is directed by Larry Charles and stars Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris and Ben Kingsley.
The writers include Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg, David Mandel and Jeff Schaffer. The movie was produced by Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg, David...
Elena (limited release):
Winner of Cannes' Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize, Elena is a gripping, modern twist on the classic noir thriller.
Sixty-ish spouses Vladimir and Elena uneasily share his palatial Moscow apartment--he's a still-virile, wealthy businessman; she's his dowdy former nurse who has clearly "married up." Estranged from his own wild-child daughter, Vladimir openly despises his wife's freeloading son and family. But ...
Memorial Day (limited release):
When SSgt. Kyle Vogel leaves a handwritten letter on the seat of his car, grabs a pistol and steps into a Minnesota forest, we wonder who he is and what he's about to do. Flash back a few months as Vogel lies wounded in a hospital near Anbar Province, Iraq. The night before he's due to return to combat, his doctor, Lt. Kelly Tripp, presses him on why he's so obsessed with collecting battle souvenirs. Kyle...
Details on DVD/Blu-ray Releases, Tuesday, May 15th
Albert Nobbs (limited release):
Award winning actress Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs) plays a woman caught in an unusual love triangle. Passing as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland, some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself lost in a prison of her own making. Mia Wasikowska (Helen), Aaron Johnson (Joe) and Brendan Gleeson (Dr. Holloran) also join a prestigious, international cast that inc...
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Chronicle (wide release):
Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over.
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The Devil Inside (wide release):
In 1989, emergency responders received a 9-1-1 call from Maria Rossi confessing that she had brutally killed three people. 20 years later, her daughter Isabella seeks to understand the truth about what happened that night. She travels to the Centrino Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Italy where her mother has been locked away to determine if her mother is mentally ill or demonically...
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The Grey (wide release):
In THE GREY, Liam Neeson's character leads an unruly group of oil-rig roughnecks when their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. Battling mortal injuries and merciless weather, the survivors have only a few days to escape the icy elements -- and a vicious pack of rogue wolves on the hunt -- before their time runs out.
From the literary classic MOBY DICK to the groundbreaking motion pic...
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One For the Money (wide release):
Katherine Heigl brings Stephanie Plum - the popular heroine of Janet Evanovich's worldwide best-selling eighteen-book mystery series - to vibrant life in Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertainment's ONE FOR THE MONEY.
A proud, born-and-bred Jersey girl, Stephanie Plum's got plenty of attitude, even if she's been out of work for the last six months and just lost her car to a debt collector. Desper...
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Agent Vinod (limited release):
The story begins with a series of seemingly unconnected events all over the Globe.
In Uzbekistan, an ex-KGB Officer is tortured and murdered. In Cape Town, a group of international business tycoon's discuss a rumour that the dead KGB officer had a nuclear suitcase bomb hidden away.
In Moscow, an Indian secret agent is exposed. The Agent is shot dead while trying to send a code red message to...
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Dragonslayer (limited release):
Directed by Tristan Patterson and executive produced by indie-maverick Christine Vachon, DRAGONSLAYER is the Grand Jury Prize Winner for Best Documentary at SXSW 2011 and the second feature film to be released theatrically by Drag City Records following Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers.
An intimate verite portrait of the life and times of Josh "Skreech" Sandoval, a 23-year-old skate legend from...
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Golf in the Kingdom (limited release):
Golf in the Kingdom, is adapted from Michael Murphy's 1972 classic novel, the best-selling work of fiction ever written about the game of golf, with millions of readers in many languages.
En route to India in 1956 in search of enlightenment, a young American philosophy student -- Michael Murphy -- takes a Scottish detour to the "Links of Burningbush." Seeking to enjoy one last round before...
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Kinyarwanda (limited release):
During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the Mufti of Rwanda, the most respected Muslim leader in the country, issued a fatwa forbidding Muslims from participating in the killing of the Tutsi. As the country became a slaughterhouse, mosques became places of refuge where Muslims and Christians, Hutus and Tutsis came together to protect each other. KINYARWANDA is based on true accounts from survivors who ...
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Man on a Mission (limited release):
In 2008 Richard Garriott became the first son of an astronaut to go to space. But this is no millionaire's joy ride: he pioneered private space travel to make his dream come true. From his training in Russia to his launch in Kazakhstan to the dramatic, never before seen footage inside the capsule during fiery re-entry, this is a historic moment in human space travel.
Not just for space fa...
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Michael (limited release):
MICHAEL chronicles the involuntary relationship between 10-year-old Wolfgang and 35-year-old Michael during a five-month period.
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, director Markus Schleinzer reveals a tense portrait of how...
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My Perestroika (limited release):
My Perestroika follows five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times -- from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia. Together, these childhood classmates paint a complex picture of the dreams and disillusionments of those raised behind the Ir...
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My Piece of the Pie (limited release):
Writer/director Cedric Klapisch (L'auberge Espagnole) returns with the energetic and insightful My Piece of the Pie, a contemporary drama with a comedic edge, a timely social bent, and a surprising twist. Actress Karin Viard (Time Out, Avenue Montaigne) is mesmerizing as fiery single mother France, a blue-collar worker who loses her job when the local factory in her French seaside...
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No Room for Rockstars (limited release):
For 17 years, the Vans Warped Tour has been a punk rock juggernaut, a misfit circus criss-crossing North America every summer as a wondering minstrel show for youth culture. Embracing a powerful, unifying ethic created by its founder Kevin Lyman, the Vans Warped Tour has grown and prospered as the music industry itself imploded and continues to sift through the rubble in search of a new...
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Norwegian Wood (limited release):
Tokyo, the late 1960s...Students around the world are uniting to overthrow the establishment and Toru Watanabe's personal life is similarly in tumult. At heart, he is deeply devoted to his first love, Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman. But their complex bond has been forged by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Watanabe lives with the influence of death everywhere. T...
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The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (limited release):
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home.
It began as a housing marvel. Built in 1956, Pruitt-Igoe was heralded as the model public housing project of the future, "the poor man's penthouse." Two decades...
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Rampart (limited release):
The 1990s Los Angeles police family drama explores the dark soul and misadventures of an LAPD cop whose past finally catches up with him in a department-wide corruption scandal. He is forced to answer to his family and the police department heads for his misdeeds.
Woody Harrelson stars in the drama Rampart, directed by Oren Moverman from a screenplay by James Ellroy and...
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We Were Here (limited release):
We Were Here documents the coming of what was called the "Gay Plague" in the early 1980s. It illuminates the profound personal and community issues raised by the AIDS epidemic as well as the broad political and social upheavals it unleashed. It offers a cathartic validation for the generation that suffered through, and responded to, the onset of AIDS. It opens a window of...
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Windfall (limited release):
Wind power... it's sustainable ... it burns no fossil fuels...it produces no air pollution. What's more, it cuts down dependency on foreign oil. That's what the people of Meredith, in upstate New York first thought when a wind developer looked to supplement the rural farm town's failing economy with a farm of their own -- that of 40 industrial wind turbines. Windfall, a beautifully photographed featu...
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Details on Films Opened Friday, May 11th
Dark Shadows (wide release):
Director Tim Burton brings the cult classic series "Dark Shadows" to the big screen in a film featuring an all-star cast, led by Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter.
In the year 1750, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from England to start a new life in America, where they build a fishing empire in the coastal Maine town that comes to carry their name...
