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Babel
Studio: Paramount Vantage
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Screenwriter: Guillermo Arriaga
Starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal, Rinko Kikuchi, Adriana Barraza, Koji Yakusho, Michael Pena, Clifton Collins Jr., Elle Fanning
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: Armed with a Winchester rifle, two Morrocan boys set out to look after their family's herd of goats. In the silent echoes of the desert, they decide to test the rifle... but the bullet goes farther than they thought it would.
In an instant, the lives of four separate groups of strangers on three different continents collide. Caught up in the rising tide of an accident that escalates beyond anyone's control are a vacationing American couple (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett), a rebellious deaf Japanese teenager and her father, and a Mexican nanny who, without permission, takes two American children across the border. None of these strangers will ever meet; in spite of the sudden, unlikely connection between them, they will all remain isolated due to their own inability to communicate meaningfully with anyone around them.
From Alejandro González Iñárritu comes a film that is at once intimate and epic, shot in four countries, cast with actors and non-actors, and concludes his trilogy that started with "Amores Perros" and "21 Grams."
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Catch a Fire
Studio: Focus Features
Director: Phillip Noyce
Screenwriter: Shawn Slovo
Starring: Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Henna
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Plot Summary: Powerfully telling the story of a South African hero's journey to freedom, "Catch a Fire" is the new film from director Phillip Noyce ("The Quiet American," "Rabbit-Proof Fence"). The political thriller takes place during the country's turbulent and divided times in the early 1980s, and in the new South Africa of today.
Derek Luke portrays real-life hero Patrick Chamusso. Patrick is a charming and loving husband to his wife Precious (Bonnie Henna), and a caring father to his two young daughters. He works as a foreman at the centrally located Secunda oil refinery, which is a symbol of South Africa's self-sufficiency at a time when the world was protesting the country's oppressive apartheid system. In his spare time, Patrick coaches a local boys' soccer team. Carefully toeing the hard line imposed on blacks by apartheid, Patrick is completely apolitical.
Academy Award winner Tim Robbins plays Nic Vos, a Colonel in the country's Police Security Branch. The shrewd and charismatic Vos strives to maintain order in volatile situations, which have become more and more frequent as the outlawed activist organization African National Congress (ANC) rallies blacks against apartheid. Vos is also concerned for the safety of his wife and two daughters. He and his family live a world away from the Chamusso family...
...until the innocent Patrick comes under suspicion and is arrested (in June 1980) for sabotage of the Secunda oil refinery. His alibi is compromised, and Patrick is desperate to shield Precious from a past indiscretion and keep his job. But he is ill-prepared to withstand brutal interrogations by Vos' men. As Vos further insinuates himself into the lives of the Chamussos, to Patrick's shock and shame, Precious herself is jailed and tortured. Although he and Precious are soon released from custody, Patrick is stunned into action and completely reorients his sense of self and purpose. He leaves his family to join up with the ANC.
Becoming a rebel fighter and political operative, Patrick is radicalized on behalf of his people and his country. He ultimately envisions a formidable and dangerous follow-up strike against the Secunda refinery, risking his own life and future. Change must and will come, for Patrick and his family, and for South Africa itself.
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Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Director: Billy Corben
Screenwriter: Billy Corben
Starring: Not Available
Genre: Documentary
Plot Summary: The cocaine trade of the '70s and '80s had an indelible impact on contemporary Miami. Smugglers and distributors forever changed a once sleepy retirement community into one of the world's most glamorous hot spots, the epicenter of a $20 billion annual business fed by Colombia's Medellin cartel. By the early '80s, Miami's tripled homicide rate had made it the murder capital of the country, for which a Time cover story dubbed the city "Paradise Lost."
With "Cocaine Cowboys," filmmaker Billy Corben – whose first feature "Raw Deal: A Question Of Consent," was a sensation at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival – paints a dazzling portrait of a cultural explosion that still echoes as Hollywood myth, evidenced by the latest manifestation, NBC/Universal's "Miami Vice." Composer of the original "Miami Vice" theme, Jan Hammer, provides the score.
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Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Pictures
Director: Stephen Simon
Screenwriter: Eric DelaBarre
Starring: Henry Czerny, Ingrid Boultin, Jerry McGill, Michelle Merring, T. Bruce Page, Vilma Silva, Michael A. Goorjian
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: Adapted from the books by Neale Donald Walsch that inspired and changed the lives of millions worldwide, "Conversations with God" tells the true story of Walsch (Henry Czerny) who, at the lowest point in his life, asks God some very hard questions. The answers he gets from God/within become the foundation of an internationally-acclaimed book series that has sold over 7 million copies and been translated into 34 languages. The film chronicles the dramatic journey of a down and out man who inadvertently becomes a spiritual messenger and bestselling author.
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Death of a President
Studio: Newmarket Films
Director: Gabriel Range
Screenwriter: Simon Finch, Gabriel Range
Starring: Hend Ayoub, George W. Bush, Brian Boland, Becky Ann Baker, Michael Reilly Burke, Neko Parham, Holly Barrett, Patricia Buckley, Bryan Cohen, Andrea Frisby, John R. Haley, Theophilus Jamal, Jay Patterson, Chavez Ravine, January Scarpino, Christian Stolte, Matt Ukena, James Urbaniak, Jay Whittaker
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Plot Summary: "Death of a President" follows the investigation of the fictional assassination of President George W. Bush in October 2007. Combining real archival footage with a credible but fictional story, "Death of a President" presents a fascinating and thought-provoking political thriller.
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Saw III
Studio: Lionsgate
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Screenwriter: Leigh Whannell
Starring: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Angus MacFadyen, Bahar Soomekh, Dina Meyer
Genre: Thriller
Plot Summary: Jigsaw has disappeared.
With his new apprentice Amanda (Shawnee Smith), the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon (Bahar Soomekh) is unaware that she is about to become the latest pawn on his vicious chessboard.
One night, after finishing a shift at her hospital, Lynn is kidnapped and taken to an abandoned warehouse where she meets Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), bedridden and on the verge of death. She is told that she must keep the madman alive for as long as it takes Jeff (Angus Macfayden), another of his victims, to complete a game of his own. Racing against the ticking clock of Jigsaw's own heartbeat, Lynn and Jeff struggle to make it through each of their vicious tests, unaware that he has a much bigger plan for both of them...
This Halloween, from Twisted Pictures and Lionsgate comes the latest chapter in the psychologically intense and disturbing horror franchise. "Saw III" stars Shawnee Smith and Tobin Bell. The film is directed by Darren Lynn Bousman ("Saw II"), with story by franchise originators Leigh Whannell and James Wan ("Saw," "Saw II") and screenplay by Whannell. The producers are Mark Burg, Oren Koules and the late Gregg Hoffman, to whom the film will be dedicated. The film is executive produced by James Wan, Leigh Whannell, Peter Block, Jason Constantine, Stacey Testro and Dan Heffner.
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Shut Up & Sing
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Director: Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Emily Robison, Simon Renshaw
Genre: Documentary
Plot Summary: "Shut Up & Sing" travels with the Dixie Chicks, from the peak of their popularity as the national-anthem-singing darlings of country music and top-selling female recording artists of all time, through the now infamous anti-Bush comment made by the group's lead singer Natalie Maines in 2003. The film traces the lives and careers of the Dixie Chicks over a period of three years during which they were under political attack and received death threats, while continuing to live their lives, have children, and of course make music. At a time when the United States is fighting for democracy and freedom in another country, it raises questions about our own right to freedom of speech and the negative consequences it sometimes has.
20 Centimeters
Studio: TLA Releasing
Director: Ramón Salazar
Screenwriter: Ramón Salazar
Starring: Mónica Cervera, Pablo Puyol, Rossy De Palma, Pilar Bardem, Najwa Nimri, Miguel O'Dogherty, Macarena Gómez, Lola Dueñas, Concha Galan, Geli Albaladejo
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Plot Summary: With an "Almodovarian" twist and the flamboyance of "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," director Ramón Salazar's "20 Centimeters" tells the story of Marieta (Mónica Cervera) a narcoleptic, transsexual who longs to get rid of 8 inches of equipment that separates her from being the glamorous woman she dreams to be. When she accidentally falls asleep in the most inopportune times, Marieta's dreams become lavish and colorful musical numbers, where as a real woman she can sing in Spanish, French & English. So cue up the lights, powder that face and slip on that sexy gown because Marieta's dreams are about to come true...
Absolute Wilson
Studio: New Yorker Films
Director: Katharina Otto-Bernstein
Screenwriter: Katharina Otto-Bernstein
Starring: Robert Wilson, David Byrne, Susan Sontag, Tom Waits, Suzanne Wilson, Philip Glass, Jessye Norman, Arthur Holmberg, Charles Fabius, Cindy Lubar, Andy Groat, Arnold Aronson, Maita de Nescimi, Harvey Lichtenstein, John Rockwell, John Simon
Genre: Documentary
Plot Summary: More than a biography, Absolute Wilson is the moving and revealing tale of a child, the son of the mayor of Waco, who grew up as a troubled outsider in a segregated, fundamentalist Texas during the 40’s and 50’s. Plagued by a speech impediment and learning disabilities, longing for the love of a disapproving father; Robert Wilson learns to embrace his differences and discovers profound liberation in the New York arts world of the 1960s.
“Absolute Wilson” is a tour de force into the mind of an unbending spirit. Providing further insight into Wilson’s life and art is lively commentary from a range of collaborators, lovers, admirers, family members -- and even detractors -- including musician David Byrne, writer Susan Sontag (in one of the last interviews before her recent death), composer Philip Glass, opera star Jessye Norman, critics John Rockwell and John Simon.
The creator of revolutionary works of theatre, opera, dance, performance and fine art, Wilson continues to change the landscape of 21st century expression with groundbreaking international theatre sensations such as "Deafman Glance," “Einstein on the Beach,” and “The Black Rider." Wilson's work pushes the limits of time and space, forging images of astonishing beauty, nightmarish psychological complexity, stark wit and haunting emotion. Many have lauded him as a mesmerizing visual genius. Others damn his productions as indulgent and costly. Incendiary, influential, contradictory, puzzling, other-worldly, mischievous, unclassifiable – Wilson is absolutely all of these.
The Bridge
Studio: First Stripe Productions
Director: Eric Steel
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Kevin Hines, Pat Hines, Carolyn Pressley, Dave Williams, Matt Rossi
Genre: Documentary
Plot Summary: More people choose to end their lives at the Golden Gate Bridge than anywhere else in the world. "The Bridge" offers glimpses into the darkest, and possibly most impenetrable corners of the human mind. The fates of the 24 people who died at the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004 are linked together by a 4 second fall.
Climates
Studio: Zeitgeist Films
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Screenwriter: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Starring: Arif Asçi, Ufuk Bayraktar, Ebru Ceylan, Emin Ceylan, Fatma Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Mehmet Eryilmaz, Nazan Kesal, Nazan Kirilmis, Can Ozbatur
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: Winner of the prestigious Fipresci Award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, "Climates" is internationally acclaimed writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's sublime follow-up to his Cannes multi-award winner "Distant." Beautifully drawn and meticulously observed, the film vividly recalls the cinema of Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni with its poetic use of landscape and the incisive, exquisitely visual rendering of loneliness, loss and the often-elusive nature of happiness. During a sweltering summer vacation on the Aegean coast, the relationship between middle-aged professor Isa (played by Ceylan himself) and his younger, television producer girlfriend Bahar (the luminous Ebru Ceylan, Ceylan's real-life wife) brutally implodes. Back in Istanbul that fall, Isa rekindles a torrid affair with a previous lover. But when he learns that Bahar has left the city for a job in the snowy East, he follows her there to win her back. Boasting subtly powerful performances, heart-stoppingly stunning cinematography (Ceylan’s first work in high definition) and densely textured sound design, "Climates" is the Turkish filmmaker's most gorgeous rumination yet on the fragility and complexity of human relationships.
Cruel World
Studio: Indican Pictures
Director: Kelsey T. Howard
Screenwriter: Eugene Hess, Paul Lawrence, Paul T. Murray
Starring: Edward Furlong, Jaime Pressly, Daniel Franzese, Susan Ward, Andrew Keegan, Laura Ramsey, Joel Michaely, Brian Geraghty, Sanoe Lake, Nicole Bilderback, Aimee Garcia, Nate Parker
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Plot Summary: Reeling from his dismissal from a reality show, a deranged runner-up holds a group of co-eds hostage on the set of his own fictitious show, where losers suffer a deadly fate.
Babel
Studio: Paramount Vantage
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Screenwriter: Guillermo Arriaga
Starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal, Rinko Kikuchi, Adriana Barraza, Koji Yakusho, Michael Pena, Clifton Collins Jr., Elle Fanning
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: Armed with a Winchester rifle, two Morrocan boys set out to look after their family's herd of goats. In the silent echoes of the desert, they decide to test the rifle... but the bullet goes farther than they thought it would.
In an instant, the lives of four separate groups of strangers on three different continents collide. Caught up in the rising tide of an accident that escalates beyond anyone's control are a vacationing American couple (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett), a rebellious deaf Japanese teenager and her father, and a Mexican nanny who, without permission, takes two American children across the border. None of these strangers will ever meet; in spite of the sudden, unlikely connection between them, they will all remain isolated due to their own inability to communicate meaningfully with anyone around them.
From Alejandro González Iñárritu comes a film that is at once intimate and epic, shot in four countries, cast with actors and non-actors, and concludes his trilogy that started with "Amores Perros" and "21 Grams."
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Catch a Fire
Studio: Focus Features
Director: Phillip Noyce
Screenwriter: Shawn Slovo
Starring: Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Henna
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Plot Summary: Powerfully telling the story of a South African hero's journey to freedom, "Catch a Fire" is the new film from director Phillip Noyce ("The Quiet American," "Rabbit-Proof Fence"). The political thriller takes place during the country's turbulent and divided times in the early 1980s, and in the new South Africa of today.
Derek Luke portrays real-life hero Patrick Chamusso. Patrick is a charming and loving husband to his wife Precious (Bonnie Henna), and a caring father to his two young daughters. He works as a foreman at the centrally located Secunda oil refinery, which is a symbol of South Africa's self-sufficiency at a time when the world was protesting the country's oppressive apartheid system. In his spare time, Patrick coaches a local boys' soccer team. Carefully toeing the hard line imposed on blacks by apartheid, Patrick is completely apolitical.
Academy Award winner Tim Robbins plays Nic Vos, a Colonel in the country's Police Security Branch. The shrewd and charismatic Vos strives to maintain order in volatile situations, which have become more and more frequent as the outlawed activist organization African National Congress (ANC) rallies blacks against apartheid. Vos is also concerned for the safety of his wife and two daughters. He and his family live a world away from the Chamusso family...
...until the innocent Patrick comes under suspicion and is arrested (in June 1980) for sabotage of the Secunda oil refinery. His alibi is compromised, and Patrick is desperate to shield Precious from a past indiscretion and keep his job. But he is ill-prepared to withstand brutal interrogations by Vos' men. As Vos further insinuates himself into the lives of the Chamussos, to Patrick's shock and shame, Precious herself is jailed and tortured. Although he and Precious are soon released from custody, Patrick is stunned into action and completely reorients his sense of self and purpose. He leaves his family to join up with the ANC.
Becoming a rebel fighter and political operative, Patrick is radicalized on behalf of his people and his country. He ultimately envisions a formidable and dangerous follow-up strike against the Secunda refinery, risking his own life and future. Change must and will come, for Patrick and his family, and for South Africa itself.
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Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Director: Billy Corben
Screenwriter: Billy Corben
Starring: Not Available
Genre: Documentary
Plot Summary: The cocaine trade of the '70s and '80s had an indelible impact on contemporary Miami. Smugglers and distributors forever changed a once sleepy retirement community into one of the world's most glamorous hot spots, the epicenter of a $20 billion annual business fed by Colombia's Medellin cartel. By the early '80s, Miami's tripled homicide rate had made it the murder capital of the country, for which a Time cover story dubbed the city "Paradise Lost."
With "Cocaine Cowboys," filmmaker Billy Corben – whose first feature "Raw Deal: A Question Of Consent," was a sensation at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival – paints a dazzling portrait of a cultural explosion that still echoes as Hollywood myth, evidenced by the latest manifestation, NBC/Universal's "Miami Vice." Composer of the original "Miami Vice" theme, Jan Hammer, provides the score.
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Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Pictures
Director: Stephen Simon
Screenwriter: Eric DelaBarre
Starring: Henry Czerny, Ingrid Boultin, Jerry McGill, Michelle Merring, T. Bruce Page, Vilma Silva, Michael A. Goorjian
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: Adapted from the books by Neale Donald Walsch that inspired and changed the lives of millions worldwide, "Conversations with God" tells the true story of Walsch (Henry Czerny) who, at the lowest point in his life, asks God some very hard questions. The answers he gets from God/within become the foundation of an internationally-acclaimed book series that has sold over 7 million copies and been translated into 34 languages. The film chronicles the dramatic journey of a down and out man who inadvertently becomes a spiritual messenger and bestselling author.
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Death of a President
Studio: Newmarket Films
Director: Gabriel Range
Screenwriter: Simon Finch, Gabriel Range
Starring: Hend Ayoub, George W. Bush, Brian Boland, Becky Ann Baker, Michael Reilly Burke, Neko Parham, Holly Barrett, Patricia Buckley, Bryan Cohen, Andrea Frisby, John R. Haley, Theophilus Jamal, Jay Patterson, Chavez Ravine, January Scarpino, Christian Stolte, Matt Ukena, James Urbaniak, Jay Whittaker
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Plot Summary: "Death of a President" follows the investigation of the fictional assassination of President George W. Bush in October 2007. Combining real archival footage with a credible but fictional story, "Death of a President" presents a fascinating and thought-provoking political thriller.
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Saw III
Studio: Lionsgate
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Screenwriter: Leigh Whannell
Starring: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Angus MacFadyen, Bahar Soomekh, Dina Meyer
Genre: Thriller
Plot Summary: Jigsaw has disappeared.
With his new apprentice Amanda (Shawnee Smith), the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon (Bahar Soomekh) is unaware that she is about to become the latest pawn on his vicious chessboard.
One night, after finishing a shift at her hospital, Lynn is kidnapped and taken to an abandoned warehouse where she meets Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), bedridden and on the verge of death. She is told that she must keep the madman alive for as long as it takes Jeff (Angus Macfayden), another of his victims, to complete a game of his own. Racing against the ticking clock of Jigsaw's own heartbeat, Lynn and Jeff struggle to make it through each of their vicious tests, unaware that he has a much bigger plan for both of them...
This Halloween, from Twisted Pictures and Lionsgate comes the latest chapter in the psychologically intense and disturbing horror franchise. "Saw III" stars Shawnee Smith and Tobin Bell. The film is directed by Darren Lynn Bousman ("Saw II"), with story by franchise originators Leigh Whannell and James Wan ("Saw," "Saw II") and screenplay by Whannell. The producers are Mark Burg, Oren Koules and the late Gregg Hoffman, to whom the film will be dedicated. The film is executive produced by James Wan, Leigh Whannell, Peter Block, Jason Constantine, Stacey Testro and Dan Heffner.
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Shut Up & Sing
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Director: Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Emily Robison, Simon Renshaw
Genre: Documentary
Plot Summary: "Shut Up & Sing" travels with the Dixie Chicks, from the peak of their popularity as the national-anthem-singing darlings of country music and top-selling female recording artists of all time, through the now infamous anti-Bush comment made by the group's lead singer Natalie Maines in 2003. The film traces the lives and careers of the Dixie Chicks over a period of three years during which they were under political attack and received death threats, while continuing to live their lives, have children, and of course make music. At a time when the United States is fighting for democracy and freedom in another country, it raises questions about our own right to freedom of speech and the negative consequences it sometimes has.
20 Centimeters
Studio: TLA Releasing
Director: Ramón Salazar
Screenwriter: Ramón Salazar
Starring: Mónica Cervera, Pablo Puyol, Rossy De Palma, Pilar Bardem, Najwa Nimri, Miguel O'Dogherty, Macarena Gómez, Lola Dueñas, Concha Galan, Geli Albaladejo
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Plot Summary: With an "Almodovarian" twist and the flamboyance of "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," director Ramón Salazar's "20 Centimeters" tells the story of Marieta (Mónica Cervera) a narcoleptic, transsexual who longs to get rid of 8 inches of equipment that separates her from being the glamorous woman she dreams to be. When she accidentally falls asleep in the most inopportune times, Marieta's dreams become lavish and colorful musical numbers, where as a real woman she can sing in Spanish, French & English. So cue up the lights, powder that face and slip on that sexy gown because Marieta's dreams are about to come true...
Absolute Wilson
Studio: New Yorker Films
Director: Katharina Otto-Bernstein
Screenwriter: Katharina Otto-Bernstein
Starring: Robert Wilson, David Byrne, Susan Sontag, Tom Waits, Suzanne Wilson, Philip Glass, Jessye Norman, Arthur Holmberg, Charles Fabius, Cindy Lubar, Andy Groat, Arnold Aronson, Maita de Nescimi, Harvey Lichtenstein, John Rockwell, John Simon
Genre: Documentary
Plot Summary: More than a biography, Absolute Wilson is the moving and revealing tale of a child, the son of the mayor of Waco, who grew up as a troubled outsider in a segregated, fundamentalist Texas during the 40’s and 50’s. Plagued by a speech impediment and learning disabilities, longing for the love of a disapproving father; Robert Wilson learns to embrace his differences and discovers profound liberation in the New York arts world of the 1960s.
“Absolute Wilson” is a tour de force into the mind of an unbending spirit. Providing further insight into Wilson’s life and art is lively commentary from a range of collaborators, lovers, admirers, family members -- and even detractors -- including musician David Byrne, writer Susan Sontag (in one of the last interviews before her recent death), composer Philip Glass, opera star Jessye Norman, critics John Rockwell and John Simon.
The creator of revolutionary works of theatre, opera, dance, performance and fine art, Wilson continues to change the landscape of 21st century expression with groundbreaking international theatre sensations such as "Deafman Glance," “Einstein on the Beach,” and “The Black Rider." Wilson's work pushes the limits of time and space, forging images of astonishing beauty, nightmarish psychological complexity, stark wit and haunting emotion. Many have lauded him as a mesmerizing visual genius. Others damn his productions as indulgent and costly. Incendiary, influential, contradictory, puzzling, other-worldly, mischievous, unclassifiable – Wilson is absolutely all of these.
The Bridge
Studio: First Stripe Productions
Director: Eric Steel
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Kevin Hines, Pat Hines, Carolyn Pressley, Dave Williams, Matt Rossi
Genre: Documentary
Plot Summary: More people choose to end their lives at the Golden Gate Bridge than anywhere else in the world. "The Bridge" offers glimpses into the darkest, and possibly most impenetrable corners of the human mind. The fates of the 24 people who died at the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004 are linked together by a 4 second fall.
Climates
Studio: Zeitgeist Films
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Screenwriter: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Starring: Arif Asçi, Ufuk Bayraktar, Ebru Ceylan, Emin Ceylan, Fatma Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Mehmet Eryilmaz, Nazan Kesal, Nazan Kirilmis, Can Ozbatur
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: Winner of the prestigious Fipresci Award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, "Climates" is internationally acclaimed writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's sublime follow-up to his Cannes multi-award winner "Distant." Beautifully drawn and meticulously observed, the film vividly recalls the cinema of Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni with its poetic use of landscape and the incisive, exquisitely visual rendering of loneliness, loss and the often-elusive nature of happiness. During a sweltering summer vacation on the Aegean coast, the relationship between middle-aged professor Isa (played by Ceylan himself) and his younger, television producer girlfriend Bahar (the luminous Ebru Ceylan, Ceylan's real-life wife) brutally implodes. Back in Istanbul that fall, Isa rekindles a torrid affair with a previous lover. But when he learns that Bahar has left the city for a job in the snowy East, he follows her there to win her back. Boasting subtly powerful performances, heart-stoppingly stunning cinematography (Ceylan’s first work in high definition) and densely textured sound design, "Climates" is the Turkish filmmaker's most gorgeous rumination yet on the fragility and complexity of human relationships.
Cruel World
Studio: Indican Pictures
Director: Kelsey T. Howard
Screenwriter: Eugene Hess, Paul Lawrence, Paul T. Murray
Starring: Edward Furlong, Jaime Pressly, Daniel Franzese, Susan Ward, Andrew Keegan, Laura Ramsey, Joel Michaely, Brian Geraghty, Sanoe Lake, Nicole Bilderback, Aimee Garcia, Nate Parker
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Plot Summary: Reeling from his dismissal from a reality show, a deranged runner-up holds a group of co-eds hostage on the set of his own fictitious show, where losers suffer a deadly fate.