Hardcore Comedy / Zhong Kou Wei (2013)
Comedy
Three flavors of multi-colored mayhem, this is the summer high school comedy full of sex, drugs, and ridiculosity.
Starring: William Chan, Dada Chan, Lit Wai Leung, Christine Kuo, Paulyn Sun, Michelle Wai, Terence Chui, Kelvin Kwan
Director: Henri Wong, Yiu Fai Lo, Richard Zhuang
Springsteen & I (2013)
Documentary
"Springsteen & I" is a unique feature music documentary celebrating a rock 'n' roll icon: Bruce Springsteen. Working with the filmmakers, Springsteen's fans have helped create a film that reflects on their personal insights and experiences to explore what this timeless artist means to them. Their stories are at times touching, at times humorous, at times extraordinary and they all come from the heart. Combined with previously unseen archive footage of performances throughout Springsteen's career, this is a film by the fans and for the fans created with the full support of Bruce Springsteen. "This beautifully crafted film provides a unique insight into the powerful bond between a recording artist and those who connect so profoundly with his music." Ridley Scott, Executive Producer
Starring: Bruce Springsteen, Mitchell A. S. Hallock
Director: Baillie Walsh
27 Dresses (2008)
Comedy | Romance
Jane is an idealistic, romantic and completely selfless woman-a perennial bridal attendant whose own happy ending is nowhere in sight. But, when younger sister Tess captures the heart of Jane's boss-with whom she is secretly in love-Jane begins to reexamine her "always-a-bridesmaid" lifestyle.
Starring: Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Akerman, Judy Greer, Edward Burns, Melora Hardin
Director: Anne Fletcher
Max (2002)
Drama | War
Munich, 1918. German-Jew Max Rothman has returned to much of his pre-war life which includes to his wife Nina and their two children, to his mistress Liselore von Peltz, and to his work as an art dealer. He has however not returned to being an aspiring painter as he lost his dominant right arm during the war. He is approached by an aspiring painter, a thirty-year old Austrian war veteran named Adolf Hitler, who wants him to show his works. Although he doesn't think the paintings are all that original and he doesn't really like Hitler as a person, Rothman takes Hitler under his wings if only because of their camaraderie of being war veterans, and knowing that Hitler had nothing and no one to come back to after the war unlike himself. Rothman believes that Hitler has promise if only he can find his original artistic point of view. In part out of need for money, Hitler, on the urging of Captain Karl Mayr, agrees to work for the army as a political spokesman in anti-Semitic propaganda. Slowly, Hitler's view becomes a holistic one of a new world, where he begins to meld his art and politics. Rothman becomes excited about Hitler's artistic viewpoint, despite its anti-Semitic bent. The question becomes if the sentiments behind the view will take over its artistic merit.
Starring: John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski, Molly Parker, Ulrich Thomsen
Director: Menno Meyjes
Mahler (1974)
Biography | Drama | Music
Both trifles and structure are tossed out the door by director Ken Russell in this film. Here, historical content matters not so much as metaphors, feelings, emotions, and interpretations, and pay close attention, as every word and frame is intended to be important. The film takes place on a single train ride, in which the sickly composer Gustav Mahler and his wife, Alma, confront the reasons behind their faltered marriage and dying love. Each word seems to evoke memories of past, and so the audience witnesses events of Mahler's life that explain somewhat his present state. Included are his turbulent and dysfunctional family life as a child, his discovery of solace in the "natural" world, his brother's suicide, his [unwanted] conversion from Judiasm to Catholicism, his rocky marriage and the death of their young child. The movie weaves in and out of dreams, flashbacks, thoughts and reality as Russell poetically describes the man behind the music.
Starring: Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Lee Montague, Miriam Karlin, Rosalie Crutchley, Gary Rich
Director: Ken Russell
Possession / The Night the Screaming Stops (1981)
Drama | Horror
With their marriage in pieces, Anna and Mark's tense relationship has become a psychotic descent into screaming matches, violence and self-mutilation. Believing his wife's only lover is the sinister Heinrich, Mark is unaware of the demonic, tentacled cre ature that Anna has hidden away for liaisons in a deserted apartment and will stop at nothing to protect.
Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
We Are What We Are (2013)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
American re-imagining of the 2010 Mexican horror film of the same name. The reclusive Parker family headed by ailing patriarch Frank (Bill Sage) have a dark and macabre family secret. While grieving for their mother, Iris (Ambyr Childers) and Rose (Julia Garner) are left to care for their father and younger brother Rory (Jack Gore) as well as take responsibility for attending to their horrific familial custom. As a storm hits the small town where the family live, a number of gruesome discoveries by the local authorities lead them to the door of the Parkers and ever closer to the ancestral secret they work so hard to maintain.
Starring: Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner, Wyatt Russell, Nick Damici, Kelly McGillis
Director: Jim Mickle
We Are What We Are / Somos lo que hay (2010)
Drama | Horror
Mexican cannibal horror drama. When their good-for-nothing, whoring, debt-ridden husband/father dies in supremely undignified circumstances, a long-suffering wife and her teenage children are left to fend for themselves. But this is no ordinary family: they live as cannibals, and as their fractured family falls inexorably to pieces in the wake of Papa's death they must also take on the responsibilities of the ritual hunting and butchering that puts their meat on the table.
Starring: Francisco Barreiro, Adrián Aguirre, Miriam Balderas, Carmen Beato, Alan Chávez, Juan Carlos Colombo
Director: Jorge Michel Grau
Charulata / Charulata: The Lonely Wife (1964)
Drama | Romance
This film about a woman's artistic and romantic yearning by Satyajit Ray is set in late nineteenth-century, pre-independence India. It takes place in the gracious home of a liberal-minded, workaholic newspaper editor and his lonely, stifled wife, Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee), whose exquisitely composed features mask a burning creativity. When her husband's poet cousin comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both inspired by him to pursue her own writing and dangerously drawn to him physically. Based on a novella by the great Rabindranath Tagore, Charulata is a work of subtle textures, a delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the first steps toward establishing her own voice.
Starring: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Tarapada Basu, Nilotpal Dey
Director: Satyajit Ray
Birth of the Living Dead / Year of the Living Dead (2013)
Documentary
A documentary that shows how George A. Romero gathered an unlikely team of Pittsburghers to shoot his seminal film: Night of the Living Dead.
Starring: Larry Fessenden, Mark Harris, Gale Anne Hurd, Elvis Mitchell, Samuel D. Pollard, George A. Romero, Chiz Schultz, Jason Zinoman
Director: Rob Kuhns
Killer Holiday (2013)
Horror | Thriller
Taylor, a former juvenile delinquent, convinces straight-'A' student, Cammi to join her and her friends on a Spring Break road trip through the California desert. Ignoring evil premonitions from Cammi, the 8 friends party heavily as they get farther and farther away from civilization along old Route 66 with a killer in pursuit. Anxiety builds as each stop along the way proves stranger and stranger until the group is lured to an abandoned amusement park with a mysterious past far off the main highway. There the group discovers that the park comes complete with broken down vintage carnival rides, shocking surprises, the smell of death, and an enticing, young tattooed serial killer named Spider.
Starring: Michael Copon, Rachel Lara, Julia Beth Stern, Alex Mandel, Randolph Mantooth
Director: Marty Thomas
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Solo (2013)
Mystery | Thriller
Attempting to move past a family tragedy the summer previous, 17-year-old Gillian takes a job as a counselor at a remote summer camp. As part of her initiation, she must spend two nights by herself on the camp's island, an intimidating collision of rock and wilderness carved out of the lake, supposedly haunted by the ghost of a camper who disappeared suspiciously decades before. When Gillian's 'solo' is interrupted by a local man responding to a distress call, what was meant to be a peaceful time alone in nature devolves into something disturbingly different. As her paranoia mounts, a horrifying secret is uprooted and Gillian finds herself in desperate fight to survive.
Starring: Annie Clark, Daniel Kash, Richard Clarkin, Steven Love, Alyssa Capriotti
Director: Isaac Cravit
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Girl Most Likely / Imogene (2012)
Comedy
After staging an unsuccessful suicide to get her boyfriend's attention, a struggling playwright moves back home to live with her mother, her mother's boyfriend and a handsome lodger who sings with a Backstreet Boys cover band.
Starring: Kristen Wiig, Darren Criss, Matt Dillon, Annette Bening, June Diane Raphael, Natasha Lyonne
Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
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As I Lay Dying (2013)
Drama
Based on the 1930 classic by Faulkner, it is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest to honor her wish to be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson.
Starring: James Franco, Danny McBride, Logan Marshall-Green, Richard Jenkins, Ahna O'Reilly, Jim Parrack, Tim Blake Nelson
Director: James Franco
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Scoot & Kassie's Christmas Adventure / K-9 Adventures: A Christmas Tale (2013)
Family
A new friend. A big secret. An unforgettable holiday story. Luke Perry stars in this heartwarming charmer that will have the whole family cheering. After Kassie (Ariana Bagley) rescues a wounded former police dog, she and her new best friend, Scoot, celebrate the season with a group of feisty friends by organizing a charity concert to raise money for less fortunate kids. When two crooks show up and plot to steal the cash, Scoot leads the way as the unlikely group of heroes work together to catch the bad guys and save Christmas.
Starring: Luke Perry, Ariana Bagley, Taylor Negron, Adam Johnson, Jake Suazo
Director: Benjamin Gourley
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Storm Rider (2013)
Family
When her father is put into jail, the spoiled teenager Dani loses everything. Forced to live with her uncle Sam on a farm without horses to ride and to train a sad Dani takes care of a young mule and learns what really counts.
Starring: Kristy Swanson, Kevin Sorbo, Danielle Chuchran, C. Thomas Howell
Director: Craig Clyde
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Turbo (2013)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Sport
A garden snail with dreams of becoming the fastest snail in the world experiences a freak accident that might just allow him to realize his goal.
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Michael Peña, Luis Guzmán, Bill Hader, Richard Jenkins
Director: David Soren
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Ghost Ship (2002)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Julianna Margulies, Gabriel Byrne and Isaiah Washington are aboard a mysteriously adrift luxury liner hexed by a seafaring collector of souls.
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Ron Eldard, Desmond Harrington, Isaiah Washington, Karl Urban
Director: Steve Beck
Library Wars / Toshokan sensô (2013)
Action | Comedy | Drama | Romance
Set in the year 2019 in Japan. In order to crack down on free expression, a new law is passed, which allows for the government to create an armed force to find and destroy objectionable printed material. Meanwhile, to oppose this oppressive crackdown, the Library Force is created. The Library force, including instructor Atsushi Dojo (Junichi Okada) and Iku Kasahara (Nana Eikura), work to protect the libraries. A fierce battle then ensues between these two groups.
Starring: Jun'ichi Okada, Nana Eikura, Chiaki Kuriyama, Kei Tanaka, Sôta Fukushi, Kôji Ishizaka
Director: Shinsuke Sato
Giant (1956)
Drama | Romance | Western
Jordan 'Bick' Benedict Jr., is a wealthy land owner and cattle rancher who marries a spoiled and wealthy Virginian woman. When the two return to his cattle empire in Texas, conflicts around race, class and changing traditions including former cowboy and now rich oil tycoon Jett Rink rise to epic proportions through the years and test the unity of the family and surrounding community.
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo
Director: George Stevens
