Red Dawn (2012)
Action
A group of teenagers look to save their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers.
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Adrianne Palicki, Josh Hutcherson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Isabel Lucas, Josh Peck
Director: Dan Bradley
Fun Size (2012)
Comedy
Wren's Halloween plans go awry when she's made to babysit her brother, who disappears into a sea of trick-or-treaters. With her best friend and two nerds at her side, she needs to find her brother before her mom finds out he's missing.
Starring: Victoria Justice, Chelsea Handler, Jane Levy, Josh Pence, Thomas Mann, Thomas McDonell
Director: Josh Schwartz
Wasted on the Young (2010)
Drama | Thriller
Set in an elite high school where social hierarchies are rigorously enforced, Zack is the ruler of cool and his half brother Darren is a geek-boy misfit tenuously connected to the clique through his position on the swim team. Trouble ensues when they both fall for Xandrie, a smart, literary girl with a healthy disregard for conformity and the hipster scene. Things get horribly out-of-hand when Zack throws a party and the imploding consequences threaten Xandrie's life.
Starring: Oliver Ackland, Adelaide Clemens, Alex Russell
Director: Ben C. Lucas
The Front Page (1974)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during the 1920s. Tired of the whole game he's determined to quit his job to get married. His scheming editor, Walter Burns, has other plans though. It's the day before guilty (but insane) murderer, Earl Williams, is due to go to the gallows and Burns tempts Johnson to stay and write the story.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia, David Wayne
Director: Billy Wilder
Small Apartments (2012)
Comedy | Crime
Based on the novel by Chris Millis, when clumsy deadbeat Franklin Franklin accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother and a crew of misfit characters, force him on a journey where a fortune awaits him.
Starring: Matt Lucas, Billy Crystal, Juno Temple, James Marsden, Dolph Lundgren, Rebel Wilson
Director: Jonas Akerlund
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Falling Uphill (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Robert asks Jenny, a girl he found on Craigslist, to be his new roommate. Now after a year of living together, he finds himself falling in love with her, but his ability to keep afloat in San Francisco is coming to an end. With a lame job and not enough income, he has no choice but to move back with his parents in Rochester, NY. With only three days until his flight home, Robert struggles to tell Jenny his true feelings and to determine what direction his life is headed.
Starring: Ari Kanamori, Jessiqa Pace, Jack McGee, Jena Hunt
Director: Richard J. Bosner
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Comes a Bright Day (2012)
Romance | Thriller
A romantic thriller set during the armed robbery of one of London's most exclusive jewelers.
Starring: Timothy Spall, Imogen Poots, Craig Roberts, Ben Cura, Geoff Bell, Kevin McKidd
Director: Simon Aboud
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Broken Roads (2012)
Drama
A teens life is shattered by a tragic car accident. Leaving his mother dead and him lost from the world. He's forced to move to a small town to live with his grandmother, whom he's never met. After living together they discover that they're unable to find peace with their own demons until they've found peace with each other. Broken Roads is a contrasted portrait of life; dealing with loss. A character driven journey of rediscovery and the hills climbed which forever change us.
Starring: Sally Kirkland, Aidan Bristow, Shoshana Bush, Rolonda Watts, Ross Marquand, Lisa Glass
Director: Justin Chambers
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Rita, Sue and Bob Too! (1987)
Comedy | Drama
Realistic story of working class Yorkshire life. Two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man. Serious and light-hearted by turns.
Starring: Siobhan Finneran, Michelle Holmes, George Costigan, Lesley Sharp, Kulvinder Ghir
Director: Alan Clarke
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Comedy | Drama | Mystery | War
A 'Land Girl', an American GI, and a British soldier find themselves together in a small Kent town on the road to Canterbury. The town is being plagued by a mysterious "glue-man", who pours glue on the hair of girls dating soldiers after dark. The three attempt to track him down, and begin to have suspicions of the local magistrate, an eccentric figure with a strange, mystical vision of the history of England in general and Canterbury in particular.
Starring: Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, John Sweet
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Film Independent Spirit Awards 2013 (TV 2013)
Awards
The Independent Spirit Awards (originally known as the FINDIE or Friends of Independents Awards), founded in 1984, are awards dedicated to independent filmmakers. Winners were typically presented with acrylic glass pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films. In 1986, the event was renamed the Independent Spirit Awards. The Independent Spirit Awards are presented by Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers. In 2007, the ceremony was slightly changed to Film Independent's Spirit Awards. Since 2006, winners have received a trophy depicting a bird sitting atop of a pole with the shoestrings from the previous design wrapped around the pole.
The awards show was previously held inside a tent on the beach in Santa Monica, California, usually on the day before the Academy Awards (since 1999; originally the Saturday before). Since 1994, the show has been broadcast on the Bravo network and Independent Film Channel.
The 28th Independent Spirit Awards ceremony, celebrating the films of 2012, was held on February 23, 2013.
Starring: Andy Samberg, Derek Connolly, Stephen Chbosky, Matthew McConaughey, Mynette Louie, Adam Leon, Peter Nicks, Michael Haneke, Helen Hunt, Ben Richardson, David O. Russell, Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life / Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) (2010)
Biography | Drama | Music
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
Starring: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta, Caroline Tillette, Doug Jones, Anna Mouglalis
Director: Joann Sfar
The Ballad of Narayama / Narayama-bushi kô (1983)
Drama | Music
In a small village in a remote valley where the harshness of life dictates that survival overrules compassion, elderly widow Orin is approaching her 70th birthday – the age when village law says she must go up to the mythic Mount Narayama to die. But there are several loose ends within her own family to tie up first.
Starring: Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari, Aki Takejô, Shoichi Ozawa
Director: Shôhei Imamura
The Ballad of Narayama / Narayama bushiko (1958)
Drama
This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die.
Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki, Danko Ichikawa, Keiko Ogasawara
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Communion (1989)
Biography | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Whitley Strieber goes with his family and some friends to his holiday home in the forest. They experience some weird occurances, are they UFO activity? Whitley is abducted and then faces a horrible dilema; was I abducted or am I going mad? He sees a psychiatrist who tries to use hypnotic regression to discover the truth.
Starring: Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse, Frances Sternhagen, Andreas Katsulas, Terri Hanauer, Joel Carlson, John Dennis Johnston, Dee Dee Rescher
Director: Philippe Mora
Auto Focus (2002)
Biography | Crime | Drama
In 1965, Bob Crane, who had achieved some earlier success as a television supporting actor, was working as a successful morning radio DJ at KNX Los Angeles. Despite enjoying his work, photography (especially of the female form) and drumming, Crane wanted to be a movie star. So it was with some reluctance that he accepted the title starring role in a new television sitcom called Hogan's Heroes, a WWII POW comedy. To his surprise, the show became a hit and catapulted him to television stardom. The fame resulting from the show led to excesses and a meeting with home video salesman and technician John Carpenter, with who he would form a friendship based on their mutual interests, namely excessive sex (for Crane, purely heterosexual sex) and capturing nude females on celluloid. His fame allowed Crane to have as much sex as he wanted, which was incongruent to his somewhat wholesome television friendly image, and the way he portrayed himself to almost everyone except Carpenter and his…
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Maria Bello, Maria Bello, Ron Leibman
Director: Paul Schrader
