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LOCAL COLOR |
Opens Friday July 3rd |
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A renowned artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974, when he befriended an elderly alcoholic yet genius painter who has turned his back not only on art, but on life. As a student he wants to learn all the secrets the master has locked away inside his head and heart. But time has not been kind to the old master and his life and work have lost their meaning. Over the course of the summer the students's enthusiasm and innocence rekindles the master's artistic passion--a tenuous relationship forms between student and master. Together, they give one another a priceless gift. The student learns to see the world through the eyes of an artist, while the master remembers how to see past the ugliness in life and once again embrace the beauty. (Running time 1:47)
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I HATE VALENTINES DAY |
Opens Friday July 3rd |
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After the mammoth success of MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING in 2002, Nia Vardalos and John Corbett reunite for this unromantic and at the same time a romantic comedy. As the owner of the Brooklyn florist Roses for Romance, Genevieve (Vardalos) should welcome the love-centric holiday. But heartache has kept her from serious relationships, and she has obeyed her rule for romance: never go on more than five dates with the same man. New restaurateur Greg can’t follow any rules when it comes to dating--he doesn’t know how male-female relationships are supposed to work, so he stays unmarried. When the two pair up, they try to stick to Genevieve’s five-date mandate, but they didn’t count on love entering the equation. (Running time 1:38)
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YOO-HOO MRS.GOLDBERG |
Opens Friday July 10th |
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From Aviva Kempner, award-winning maker of "The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg", comes this humorous and eye-opening story of television pioneer Gertrude Berg. She was the creator, principal writer, and star of The Goldbergs, a popular radio show about a Jewish family living in New York City which became television’s very first character-driven domestic sitcom in 1949. She combined social commentary, family values and lots of humor to win the hearts of America. (Running time 1:32)
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THE VANISHED EMPIRE |
Opens Friday July 10th |
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Set during the first half of the 1970s, The Vanished Empire depicts a love
triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same Moscow
university. As they argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and
victories, the country they love undergoes irreversible changes. The latest
film by celebrated Russian filmmaker Karen Shakhnazarov (Zero City, Jazzman)
is a cinematic love letter to a unique moment in the lives of the Soviet
youth. (Running time 1:45)
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OFF JACKSON AVENUE |
Opens Friday July 17th |
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An interwoven crime story set in New York City involving a Mexican woman who has been tricked into sexual slavery by an Albanian pimp, and must find a way to break out; A Japanese hit man who is in town to do a job for the Chinese mob and must finish his assignment despite the fact that he is haunted by his recently-dead mother's ghost; And a local car-thief, who must go on one last stealing-spree to raise enough money to buy a tire store and go legit. A smack-bang tale of ambition, survival and fate, this film reminds us that there are still some parts of New York City that you won't find on any map. (Running time 1:20)
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DEATH IN LOVE |
Opens Friday July 17th |
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The story follows the tale of two opposite brothers (Josh Lucas and Lukas Haas) who are trying to climb out of the shadows of their Holocaust survivor mother's (Jacqueline Bisset) dark past-and the eerie love affair she conducted with a Nazi doctor to survive in the camps. Decades after their mother's experience, which left her blurring the lines between pleasure and pain, the sons' lives still reverberate with the damage. One (Lucas) is a sharp, charming, intensely sexual but loveless con artist working in an exploitive modeling agency, while carrying on a relationship with his boss (Vanessa Kai). The other (Haas) is a brilliant but reclusive pianist unable to venture from the house. But change has come upon the family. The reclusive brother is moving out of his parent's home for the first time; the third brother is about to make a deal with an alluring new business partner (Adam Brody) who promises to jump start his new life; and their mother finds herself pursued by a treacherous figure from long ago. As duplicity, moral compromise and the ghosts of the past haunt their vivid sexual and emotional relationships, the family careens towards a shattering catharsis. (Running time 1:40)
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PARAISO TRAVEL |
Opens Friday July 24th |
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A young seductive woman named Reina, living in Medellin, Columbia, is intent on finding her fortune in New York. Meanwhile, a young man named Marlon falls desperately in love with this rebellious teen, as he gets entangled in her web of fantasies. The two proceed to embark on the the brutal exodus of Latin-American immigrants who cross to the U.S. illegally through Mexico. The couple get separated upon arrival in New York. Marlon is in a panic. Fueled by his love for Reina he goes through all sorts of hell trying to find her. This is his story. (Running time 1:50)
In Spanish with English subtitles. More Info: Movie Web Site |
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GHOSTED |
Opens Friday July 31st |
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Shot beautifully in both Hamburg and Taipei, Ghosted is a mysterious love story centered around Hamburg artist Sophie Schmitt (Inga Busch), who is trying to come to terms with the murder of her young Taiwanese lover, Ai-ling (Huan-Ru Ke). To ease her pain, Sophie creates a video installation dedicated to Ai-ling and takes the exhibit to Taipei, where she meets the ambitious, seductive journalist Mei-li (Ting-Ting Hu). Intrigued at first but still in grief over Ai-ling, Sophie rejects Mei-li's attempts at seduction and returns immediately to Hamburg. When Mei-li suddenly turns up on her Hamburg doorstep, Sophie can no longer deny her attraction and risks opening up her heart once more. But soon Sophie begins to suspect that the beautiful and mysterious Mei-li is not all that she seems. (Running time 1:29)
In German & Mandarin with English subtitles. |
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FRAGMENTS |
Opens Friday July 31st |
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A moment of random violence erupts in an ordinary Los Angeles diner. The survivors (Kate Beckinsale, Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, Forest Whitaker, Josh Hutcherson) find that the meanings of their lives have changed.
No matter how much their families and friends (Jennifer Hudson, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Embeth Davidtz) attempt to understand, these individuals must follow their own paths to recovery seeking to regain trust in a world that now seems chaotic.
A story of tragedy and hope for our times, in this film, is a powerful ensemble drama that explores the notion that our lives are fleeting, like birds in flight, like winged creatures. (Running time 1:33)
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MY FUHRER |
Opens Friday August 14th |
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December 1944: the "total war" is as good as totally lost. Goebbels, however, isn't willing to be so easily defeated. On New Year's Day, the Fuhrer is supposed to re-ignite the public's fighting spirit with an aggressive speech. The only problem is that the Fuhrer can't do it. Sick and depressive, he is avoiding the public. The only person who can now help is his former acting teacher, Adolf Grunbaum ... a Jew. Goebbels spirits him and his family out of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and sets them up in the Reich Chancellery. Time is running out- the Fuhrer has only five days to return to top form. (Running time 1:29)
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EARTH DAYS |
Opens Friday August 14th |
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It is now all the rage in the Age of Al Gore and Obama, but can you remember when everyone in America was not “Going Green”? Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, This film looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement—from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s incendiary bestseller "Silent Spring", to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action.
Earth Days’ secret weapon is a one-two punch of personal testimony and rare archival media. The extraordinary stories of the era’s pioneers—among them Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; biologist/Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich; Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand; Apollo Nine astronaut Rusty Schweickart; and renewable energy pioneer Hunter Lovins—are beautifully illustrated with an incredible array of footage from candy-colored Eisenhower-era tableaux to classic tear-jerking 1970s anti-litterbug PSAs. Directed by acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone (Oswald's Ghost, Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst) Earth Days is both a poetic meditation on humanity's complex relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements—and missed opportunities—of groundbreaking eco-activism. (Running time 1:42)
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GOSPEL HILL |
Opens Friday August 21st |
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In the small town of Julia, the residents of the black neighborhood of Gospel are being forced out of their homes to make way for a multi-million dollar golf course development. Dr. Ron Palmer (Giancarlo Esposito), an influential black community leader is supporting the project. As the confrontations get hot, the residents remember when, 30 years ago, Peter Malcolm (Samuel Jackson) , a black civil rights activist, was assassinated. The black community is now looking to Malcolm's brother John (Danny Glover) to lead the fight. He's haunted by his brother's assassination and is hesitant despite the pushing from his outspoken wife Sarah (Angela Bassett). Getting in the middle of this fracas is the new teacher Rosie (Julia Stiles) who sides with the blacks. Meanwhile, John Malcolm begins to realize that the fight for equality didn't die with his brother. His wife Sarah continues to stir things up and expose the corruption until John is thrust into the position he shared with his brother thirty years ago. (Running time 1:39 )
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WALT & EL GRUPO |
Opens Friday September 11th |
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For ten weeks in 1941, Walt Disney, his wife Lilly, and sixteen colleagues from his studio visited nations in Latin America to gather story material for a series of films with South American themes. The feature documentary film WALT & EL GRUPO uses this framing device to explore inter-American relations, provide a rare glimpse into the artists who were part of the magic of Disney’s “golden age” and give an unprecedented look at the 39 year old Walt Disney during one of the most challenging times of his entire life. (Running time 1:46)
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EULOGY FOR A VAMPIRE |
Opens Friday October 23rd |
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A remote rural monastery inhabited by the monks of the mysterious Order of
Pathicus is the site of a heinous murder, committed by a young novice, Anthony, upon another young novice, Florian, when Florian's affections and sexual desires are not reciprocated. Flash forward twenty-five years – Father Anthony, now the head priest of the monastery, has maintained the secret of the murder, and the hiding place of Florian’s corpse. But all is not well: animal eviscerations, strange sounds in the night, and the presence of a strange “phantom goat” in the dark
corridors forebode an evil presence. Add to this, the handsome young drifter,
Sebastian who is found unconscious near the monastery. His strong sexual
presence unsettles the young novices as well as the other resident priest, Father
Lars. One by one, each of the monks unravel by their own obsession with the
young man. All but Rafael, who resists the temptations set before him, and
escapes the crumbling monastery by the film’s end. Rafael discovers that
Sebastian is possessed by the evil spirit of Florian, in order to avenge Florian’s death at the hands of Anthony over two decades ago. (Running time 1:46)
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