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Come Early Morning
Studio: Roadside Attractions
Director: Joey Lauren Adams
Screenwriter: Joey Lauren Adams
Starring: Ashley Judd, Jeffrey Donovan, Laura Prepon, Diane Ladd, Scott Wilson, Ray McKinnon, Tim Blake Nelson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Plot Summary: "Come Early Morning" is a beautifully rendered film about a southern woman in a small-town, rural community, a subject director Joey Lauren Adams obviously knows intimately. Delicately told, and rather efficiently related, it is the story of Lucy, a 30-something woman who keeps waking up with a stiff hangover and a guy she doesn't even want to look at. If coming to grips with why she keeps repeating this pattern isn't enough, Lucy also begins to realize that she needs to get in touch with her familial past and, more importantly, with the person she has become. Fueled by a perfectly nuanced performance from the gifted Ashley Judd, "Come Early Morning" is about life transitions, the search for love, and the burdens we carry with us. A portrait of simple truths that isn't archetypal melodrama, it steadfastly avoids wallowing in the depths of sentimentality of self-destruction.
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Copying Beethoven
Release Date: November 10, 2006 (limited)
Studio: MGM
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Screenwriter: Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson
Starring: Ed Harris, Diane Kruger, Matthew Goode, Ralph Riach, Bill Stewart, George Mendel, Joe Anderson, Angus Barnett, Nicholas Jones, Phyllida Law
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Plot Summary: Classical music aficionado or no, it's tough not to be moved by the soaring notes of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The work stands as both a defining highpoint in the composer's career and a dynamic and beguiling legacy of its era. An imaginative exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on the Ninth, "Copying Beethoven" draws inspiration from the music itself. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, the film is both thrilling and romantic.
It is 1824. The composer, played brilliantly by Ed Harris, is racing to finish his new symphony. However, it has been years since his last success and he is plagued by deafness, loneliness and personal trauma. A copyist is urgently needed to help the composer finish in time for the scheduled first performance - otherwise the orchestra will have no music to play. Insightful young conservatory student and aspiring composer Anna Holtz (Diane Kruger) is recommended for the position. The mercurial Beethoven is skeptical that a woman might become involved in his masterpiece but slowly comes to trust in Anna's assistance and in the end becomes quite fond of her.
By the time the piece is performed - a moment in history captured in an exquisitely moving shot from Anna's perspective, as she sits on the orchestra floor helping the deaf Beethoven to keep time - her presence in his life is an absolute necessity. Her deep understanding of his work is such that she even corrects mistakes he has made, while her passionate personality opens a door into his proud, private world.
Harris is no stranger to bringing iconic, larger-than-life figures to the screen; his lead performance in "Pollock" was a masterful exploration of a tormented but talented artist. He channels a similar esprit here: his Beethoven is ribald and volatile, vulnerable and, ultimately, endearing. He is matched in intensity and skill by Kruger, who makes the young Anna both an enraptured apprentice and a paragon of willful female independence and ambition. These two characters break down barrier after barrier, and the result is a harmonious wonder.
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F*ck
Studio: THINKFilm
Director: Steve Anderson
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Pat Boone, Drew Carey, Billy Connolly, Sam Donaldson, Janeane Garofolo, Ice-T, Ron Jeremy, Bill Maher, Michael Medved, Alanis Morrisette, Kevin Smith, Hunter S. Thompson
Genre: Documentary
Plot Summary: A definitive look at the infamous expletive, "F*ck" explores how this oft-used word, still widely seen as obscene, somehow permeates every aspect of our culture - from Hollywood, to the schoolyard, to the Senate floor in Washington D.C., where it is at the very center of the ongoing debate on Free Speech. "F*ck" examines the word's impact through various interviews, film and television clips, and original animation by Oscar-nominee Bill Plympton.
Scholars and linguists examine its long and colorful history; comedians, actors, and writers who have charted and popularized the word defend their Constitutional right to use it. Even people who do "it" for a living are interviewed, all in an effort to discover what it is about this one syllable that both unites and polarizes people.
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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Studio: Picturehouse
Director: Steven Shainberg
Screenwriter: Erin Cressida Wilson
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey, Jr., Ty Burrell, Harris Yulin, Jane Alexander, Emmy Clarke, Genevieve McCarthy
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Plot Summary: Kidman stars as legendary photographer Diane Arbus. Set in New York in the late 1950s, the film explores an unlikely romance that leads Arbus into a strange new world, sparking her evolution into one of the most provocative and visionary photographers of all time.
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A Good Year
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Ridley Scott
Screenwriter: Marc Klein
Starring: Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Abbie Cornish, Marion Cotillard, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Didier Bourdon, Tom Hollander, Freddie Highmore
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: Oscar-winner Russell Crowe reunites with "Gladiator" director Ridley Scott in "A Good Year." London-based investment expert Max Skinner (Crowe) moves to Provence to sell a small vineyard he has inherited from his late uncle. As Max reluctantly settles into what ultimately becomes an intoxicating new chapter in his life, he encounters a beautiful California woman who also lays claim to the property.
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Harsh Times
Studio: MGM
Director: David Ayer
Screenwriter: David Ayer
Starring: Christian Bale, Freddy Rodriguez, Eva Longoria
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Plot Summary: From the creator of "Training Day" comes "Harsh Times," a gritty look at friendship, loyalty and ambition set on the extremely rough streets of south central Los Angeles.
Jim Davis (Christian Bale) is an ex-Army Ranger recently discharged from the military, yet still haunted by nightmares of his former occupation. While seeking a position with the LAPD that will allow him to marry his Mexican girlfriend and bring her to the United States, Jim kills time chilling with his best friend, Mike (Freddy Rodriguez).
Mike is feeling the heat from his longtime girlfriend, Sylvia (Eva Longoria): either get a job or get out. But the love of a beautiful woman can't compare to the bonds of friendship, and Jim and Mike are soon cruising the streets of South Central, slipping back into a deceitful life of drugs, violence and petty crime, just like when they were kids.
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The Return
Studio: Rogue Pictures (Focus)
Director: Asif Kapadia
Screenwriter: Adam Sussman
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kate Beahan, Peter O'Brien, Adam Scott, Sam Shepard
Genre: Drama, Supernatural Thriller
Plot Summary: A new supernatural thriller starring Sarah Michelle Gellar ("The Grudge," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") as Joanna Mills, a tough young Midwesterner determined to learn the truth behind the increasingly terrifying supernatural visions that have been haunting her. Joanna has made a successful career for herself, as sales representative for a trucking company. But her private life has been difficult; estranged from her father (Sam Shepard), stalked by an obsessed ex-boyfriend (Adam Scott), and with few friends, Joanna fears that she is losing control. She sees and feels the brutal murder of a young woman she's never met, at the hands of a heartless killer - a man who appears to be making Joanna his next target. Determined to fight back, Joanna is guided by her nightmares to the murdered woman's hometown. Once there, she will discover that some secrets can't be buried; some spirits never die; and that the murder she is trying to solve may be her own.
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Stranger Than Fiction
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Marc Forster
Screenwriter: Zach Helm
Starring: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Plot Summary: Columbia Pictures and Mandate Pictures' "Stranger Than Fiction" is an inventive comedy about a novelist (Emma Thompson) struggling to complete her latest, and potentially finest, book — she only has to find a way to kill off her main character, Harold Crick, and she'll be done. Little does she know that Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) is inexplicably alive and well in the real world and suddenly aware of her words. Fiction and reality collide when the bewildered and hilariously resistant Harold hears what she has in mind and realizes he must find a way to change her (and his) ending.
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Night of the Living Dead 3D
Release Date: November 10, 2006 (limited)
Studio: Midnight Movies Entertainment
Director: Jeff Broadstreet
Screenwriter: Robert Valding
Starring: Brianna Brown, Joshua DesRoches, Sid Haig, Greg Travis, Johanna Black, Adam Chambers, Ken Ward, Alynia Phillips, Max Williams, Cristin Michele
Genre: Horror
Plot Summary: In this 3D chiller, Barb and her brother, Johnny, arrive late for the burial of their aunt - and walk straight into a nightmare. With zombies on her heels, Barb flees the cemetery and is rescued by Ben, a local college student. The two seek refuge in the neary farmhouse of the Cooper family, wher the laid-back residents aren't remotely prepared to have their lives turn into a horror movie. But Barb is destined for an even grimmer confrontation - with the dark secret of the pyrophobic mortician, Gerald Tovar, Jr.
The Cave of the Yellow Dog
Studio: Tartan Films
Director: Byambasuren Davaa
Screenwriter: Byambasuren Davaa
Starring: Batchuluun Urjindorj, Buyandulam Daramdadi Batchuluun, Nansalmaa Batchuluun, Batbayer Batchuluun
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Family
Plot Summary: Director Byambasuren Davaa once again enchants us with a story set in her native Mongolia. This time, she brings us into the rapidly disappearing world of a modern day nomadic family struggling to continue their traditional way of life (living off the land). Mongolian folklore and the eternal cycle of reincarnation figure into this tale about a 6-year-old girl - just back from attending school in the city, who finds a dog and takes it home to her family. But her father worries it may have been running with wolves (as many abandoned dogs do when their owners move to the city) and will attack their herd of sheep. The family is divided over whether or not to keep the dog. Davaa's attention to detail - depictions of the family at work - taking down their yurt (tent-like house) to move on, making cheese, collecting dung to cure their meat (and to play with) and even sewing clothing (deel) for the children - will fascinate. At first, Western audiences may gasp when 6-year-old Nansal is sent off alone on a horse to graze the herd, but then it becomes evident that these children are taught survival skills from the time they can walk, so that they can help sustain the family. Davaa uses a real nomadic Mongolian family, consisting of a mother, a father and three lively children to tell her story of what may well be, the last generation to grow up in this rural environment. Davaa says that with this film she wanted to "show a life beyond linear and material values." The film is subtitled in English.
Shottas
Studio: Triumph Pictures (Sony)
Director: Cess Silvera
Screenwriter: Cess Silvera
Starring: Ky-Mani Marley, Spragga Benz, Paul Campbell, Louie Rankin, Wyclef Jean, Screechie Bop, Lennox Lewis, San San, Jabba, Assassin, Beast, Fabien Dominique, J.R. Silvera, Carlton Grant Jr.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Plot Summary: "Shottas" tells the true story of two young men, Wayne (Benz) and and Bigs (Marley), who grow up together in the tough and dangerous streets of Kingston. They rob a soda truck and shoot the truck's driver while still in their early teens. The robbery money is used to purchase visas to go the United States, where they continue their criminal activities, hustling on the streets of Miami. Wayne is then deported to Jamaica and continues his surge in crime, where he begins to extort money from business people. Bigs gets deported a few years later. After a while, they both head back to the US with some of their cronies and continue stealing, targeting drug dealers. The drug dealers decide to put up a strong resistance to the two.
Come Early Morning
Studio: Roadside Attractions
Director: Joey Lauren Adams
Screenwriter: Joey Lauren Adams
Starring: Ashley Judd, Jeffrey Donovan, Laura Prepon, Diane Ladd, Scott Wilson, Ray McKinnon, Tim Blake Nelson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Plot Summary: "Come Early Morning" is a beautifully rendered film about a southern woman in a small-town, rural community, a subject director Joey Lauren Adams obviously knows intimately. Delicately told, and rather efficiently related, it is the story of Lucy, a 30-something woman who keeps waking up with a stiff hangover and a guy she doesn't even want to look at. If coming to grips with why she keeps repeating this pattern isn't enough, Lucy also begins to realize that she needs to get in touch with her familial past and, more importantly, with the person she has become. Fueled by a perfectly nuanced performance from the gifted Ashley Judd, "Come Early Morning" is about life transitions, the search for love, and the burdens we carry with us. A portrait of simple truths that isn't archetypal melodrama, it steadfastly avoids wallowing in the depths of sentimentality of self-destruction.
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Copying Beethoven
Release Date: November 10, 2006 (limited)
Studio: MGM
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Screenwriter: Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson
Starring: Ed Harris, Diane Kruger, Matthew Goode, Ralph Riach, Bill Stewart, George Mendel, Joe Anderson, Angus Barnett, Nicholas Jones, Phyllida Law
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Plot Summary: Classical music aficionado or no, it's tough not to be moved by the soaring notes of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The work stands as both a defining highpoint in the composer's career and a dynamic and beguiling legacy of its era. An imaginative exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on the Ninth, "Copying Beethoven" draws inspiration from the music itself. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, the film is both thrilling and romantic.
It is 1824. The composer, played brilliantly by Ed Harris, is racing to finish his new symphony. However, it has been years since his last success and he is plagued by deafness, loneliness and personal trauma. A copyist is urgently needed to help the composer finish in time for the scheduled first performance - otherwise the orchestra will have no music to play. Insightful young conservatory student and aspiring composer Anna Holtz (Diane Kruger) is recommended for the position. The mercurial Beethoven is skeptical that a woman might become involved in his masterpiece but slowly comes to trust in Anna's assistance and in the end becomes quite fond of her.
By the time the piece is performed - a moment in history captured in an exquisitely moving shot from Anna's perspective, as she sits on the orchestra floor helping the deaf Beethoven to keep time - her presence in his life is an absolute necessity. Her deep understanding of his work is such that she even corrects mistakes he has made, while her passionate personality opens a door into his proud, private world.
Harris is no stranger to bringing iconic, larger-than-life figures to the screen; his lead performance in "Pollock" was a masterful exploration of a tormented but talented artist. He channels a similar esprit here: his Beethoven is ribald and volatile, vulnerable and, ultimately, endearing. He is matched in intensity and skill by Kruger, who makes the young Anna both an enraptured apprentice and a paragon of willful female independence and ambition. These two characters break down barrier after barrier, and the result is a harmonious wonder.
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F*ck
Studio: THINKFilm
Director: Steve Anderson
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Pat Boone, Drew Carey, Billy Connolly, Sam Donaldson, Janeane Garofolo, Ice-T, Ron Jeremy, Bill Maher, Michael Medved, Alanis Morrisette, Kevin Smith, Hunter S. Thompson
Genre: Documentary
Plot Summary: A definitive look at the infamous expletive, "F*ck" explores how this oft-used word, still widely seen as obscene, somehow permeates every aspect of our culture - from Hollywood, to the schoolyard, to the Senate floor in Washington D.C., where it is at the very center of the ongoing debate on Free Speech. "F*ck" examines the word's impact through various interviews, film and television clips, and original animation by Oscar-nominee Bill Plympton.
Scholars and linguists examine its long and colorful history; comedians, actors, and writers who have charted and popularized the word defend their Constitutional right to use it. Even people who do "it" for a living are interviewed, all in an effort to discover what it is about this one syllable that both unites and polarizes people.
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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Studio: Picturehouse
Director: Steven Shainberg
Screenwriter: Erin Cressida Wilson
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey, Jr., Ty Burrell, Harris Yulin, Jane Alexander, Emmy Clarke, Genevieve McCarthy
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Plot Summary: Kidman stars as legendary photographer Diane Arbus. Set in New York in the late 1950s, the film explores an unlikely romance that leads Arbus into a strange new world, sparking her evolution into one of the most provocative and visionary photographers of all time.
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A Good Year
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Ridley Scott
Screenwriter: Marc Klein
Starring: Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Abbie Cornish, Marion Cotillard, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Didier Bourdon, Tom Hollander, Freddie Highmore
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: Oscar-winner Russell Crowe reunites with "Gladiator" director Ridley Scott in "A Good Year." London-based investment expert Max Skinner (Crowe) moves to Provence to sell a small vineyard he has inherited from his late uncle. As Max reluctantly settles into what ultimately becomes an intoxicating new chapter in his life, he encounters a beautiful California woman who also lays claim to the property.
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Harsh Times
Studio: MGM
Director: David Ayer
Screenwriter: David Ayer
Starring: Christian Bale, Freddy Rodriguez, Eva Longoria
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Plot Summary: From the creator of "Training Day" comes "Harsh Times," a gritty look at friendship, loyalty and ambition set on the extremely rough streets of south central Los Angeles.
Jim Davis (Christian Bale) is an ex-Army Ranger recently discharged from the military, yet still haunted by nightmares of his former occupation. While seeking a position with the LAPD that will allow him to marry his Mexican girlfriend and bring her to the United States, Jim kills time chilling with his best friend, Mike (Freddy Rodriguez).
Mike is feeling the heat from his longtime girlfriend, Sylvia (Eva Longoria): either get a job or get out. But the love of a beautiful woman can't compare to the bonds of friendship, and Jim and Mike are soon cruising the streets of South Central, slipping back into a deceitful life of drugs, violence and petty crime, just like when they were kids.
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The Return
Studio: Rogue Pictures (Focus)
Director: Asif Kapadia
Screenwriter: Adam Sussman
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kate Beahan, Peter O'Brien, Adam Scott, Sam Shepard
Genre: Drama, Supernatural Thriller
Plot Summary: A new supernatural thriller starring Sarah Michelle Gellar ("The Grudge," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") as Joanna Mills, a tough young Midwesterner determined to learn the truth behind the increasingly terrifying supernatural visions that have been haunting her. Joanna has made a successful career for herself, as sales representative for a trucking company. But her private life has been difficult; estranged from her father (Sam Shepard), stalked by an obsessed ex-boyfriend (Adam Scott), and with few friends, Joanna fears that she is losing control. She sees and feels the brutal murder of a young woman she's never met, at the hands of a heartless killer - a man who appears to be making Joanna his next target. Determined to fight back, Joanna is guided by her nightmares to the murdered woman's hometown. Once there, she will discover that some secrets can't be buried; some spirits never die; and that the murder she is trying to solve may be her own.
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Stranger Than Fiction
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Marc Forster
Screenwriter: Zach Helm
Starring: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Plot Summary: Columbia Pictures and Mandate Pictures' "Stranger Than Fiction" is an inventive comedy about a novelist (Emma Thompson) struggling to complete her latest, and potentially finest, book — she only has to find a way to kill off her main character, Harold Crick, and she'll be done. Little does she know that Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) is inexplicably alive and well in the real world and suddenly aware of her words. Fiction and reality collide when the bewildered and hilariously resistant Harold hears what she has in mind and realizes he must find a way to change her (and his) ending.
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Night of the Living Dead 3D
Release Date: November 10, 2006 (limited)
Studio: Midnight Movies Entertainment
Director: Jeff Broadstreet
Screenwriter: Robert Valding
Starring: Brianna Brown, Joshua DesRoches, Sid Haig, Greg Travis, Johanna Black, Adam Chambers, Ken Ward, Alynia Phillips, Max Williams, Cristin Michele
Genre: Horror
Plot Summary: In this 3D chiller, Barb and her brother, Johnny, arrive late for the burial of their aunt - and walk straight into a nightmare. With zombies on her heels, Barb flees the cemetery and is rescued by Ben, a local college student. The two seek refuge in the neary farmhouse of the Cooper family, wher the laid-back residents aren't remotely prepared to have their lives turn into a horror movie. But Barb is destined for an even grimmer confrontation - with the dark secret of the pyrophobic mortician, Gerald Tovar, Jr.
The Cave of the Yellow Dog
Studio: Tartan Films
Director: Byambasuren Davaa
Screenwriter: Byambasuren Davaa
Starring: Batchuluun Urjindorj, Buyandulam Daramdadi Batchuluun, Nansalmaa Batchuluun, Batbayer Batchuluun
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Family
Plot Summary: Director Byambasuren Davaa once again enchants us with a story set in her native Mongolia. This time, she brings us into the rapidly disappearing world of a modern day nomadic family struggling to continue their traditional way of life (living off the land). Mongolian folklore and the eternal cycle of reincarnation figure into this tale about a 6-year-old girl - just back from attending school in the city, who finds a dog and takes it home to her family. But her father worries it may have been running with wolves (as many abandoned dogs do when their owners move to the city) and will attack their herd of sheep. The family is divided over whether or not to keep the dog. Davaa's attention to detail - depictions of the family at work - taking down their yurt (tent-like house) to move on, making cheese, collecting dung to cure their meat (and to play with) and even sewing clothing (deel) for the children - will fascinate. At first, Western audiences may gasp when 6-year-old Nansal is sent off alone on a horse to graze the herd, but then it becomes evident that these children are taught survival skills from the time they can walk, so that they can help sustain the family. Davaa uses a real nomadic Mongolian family, consisting of a mother, a father and three lively children to tell her story of what may well be, the last generation to grow up in this rural environment. Davaa says that with this film she wanted to "show a life beyond linear and material values." The film is subtitled in English.
Shottas
Studio: Triumph Pictures (Sony)
Director: Cess Silvera
Screenwriter: Cess Silvera
Starring: Ky-Mani Marley, Spragga Benz, Paul Campbell, Louie Rankin, Wyclef Jean, Screechie Bop, Lennox Lewis, San San, Jabba, Assassin, Beast, Fabien Dominique, J.R. Silvera, Carlton Grant Jr.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Plot Summary: "Shottas" tells the true story of two young men, Wayne (Benz) and and Bigs (Marley), who grow up together in the tough and dangerous streets of Kingston. They rob a soda truck and shoot the truck's driver while still in their early teens. The robbery money is used to purchase visas to go the United States, where they continue their criminal activities, hustling on the streets of Miami. Wayne is then deported to Jamaica and continues his surge in crime, where he begins to extort money from business people. Bigs gets deported a few years later. After a while, they both head back to the US with some of their cronies and continue stealing, targeting drug dealers. The drug dealers decide to put up a strong resistance to the two.