Band's Visit Ahuva Keren, Ronit Elkabetz, Sasson Gabai, and Khalifa Nat.
A fading Egyptian police band arrives in Israel to play at the Arab Cultural Center. They take the wrong bus and find themselves in a desolate Israeli village. With no other option, they spend the night with the local townspeople. The two distinctly different cultures realize the universal bonds of love, music and life. Arabic, Hebrew and English.
Bank Job Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, and Stephen Campbell Moore.
An enormously funny, completely entertaining movie about a small-time crook who takes on a bank heist when an old friend offers him an inside track to the vault.
Bella Eduardo Verástegui, Tammy Blanchard, Manny Perez, and Ali Landry.
Impulsively leaving work to follow Nina, Jose spends a day with her. The two become incredibly close in the space of a day, sharing their pasts, feelings, and fears, and a lasting friendship is born becoming permanently intertwined in a most beautiful and unexpected way. Spanish with English subtitles.
Belle Toujours Michel Piccoli Bulle Ogier. Reuniting the leading characters from the 1967 classic Belle de jour, we find that although Henri Husson is older and wiser,he is still every bit the sadist libertine who in the original film lusted after and callously taunted Séverine. After years of lingering torment, Séverine is finally offered an opportunity to uncover the truth about what her husband learned or didn't learn about her during that fateful visit with Husson so many years earlier. French with English subtitles.
Counterfeiters Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, and Martin Bramb.
Salomon Sorowitsch, "King of the Counterfeiters," has his life of women and easy money cut short when he is arrested and placed in a Nazi concentration camp. With the German army on the verge of bankruptcy, Sorowitsch makes a sobering deal with his captors: counterfeiting bank notes to fund the Nazi war effort. If he does as they say, he lives another day. If he rebels, he faces the same fate as the rest of the camp's prisoners. But if he lives, will he be able to live with himself? German, English subtitles.
The Flock Richard Gere, Claire Danes, KaDee Strickland, and Ray Wise.
A career spent tracking sex offenders by unorthodox methods that are nearly as brutal as the criminals monitored, Errol Babbage finds himself linked to one of his deranged parolees and the disappearance of a local girl. He must scour the underground to find her before it's too late.
Honeydrippers Vondie Curtis-Hall, Charles S. Dutton, Darryl Edwards, Danny Glover.
When owner of the Honeydripper lounge is faced with having to shut down his juke joint, his hopes rest on one man—the famous Guitar Sam. It's a make or break weekend for the Honeydripper. This better be some Saturday night!
Life Before Her Eyes Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood, and Eva Amuri.
Based on the novel by Laura Kasischke, this powerful drama unfolds in out-of-sequence flashbacks. A recklessly hedonistic teenager and her best friend come face to face with a machine-gun-wielding classmate one morning at school in a situation reminiscent of Columbine.
Military Intelligence and You Patrick Muldoon, Elizabeth Bennett.
In a hilarious spoof on WW II training films, Lt. Monica Tasty and Maj. Nick Reed defend all things American--the escalator, TV dinners, popcorn, and the Panama Canal--by demonstrating the important role military intelligence plays in "distinguishing dangerous enemies from merely annoying foreigners."
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Lee Pace.
A charming comedy about finding a new life and a new love all in one day. Stumbling upon the chance to become the new "social secretary" to a glamorous high-society singer and actress, Miss Pettigrew seizes the opportunity despite being totally out of her element. Swept up into the glamorous whirl of high society, it’s all she can do to keep up juggling her love life and career.
My Mom’s New Boyfriend Meg Ryan, Antonio Banderas, Eli Danker.
After a three-year assignment in the field, FBI agent Henry Durand returns home with his fiancée only to find that his once-dowdy over-weight mother has been transformed into a highly attractive enlightened woman who dates every night of the week. Henry is ordered to spy on his mother after learning that her new boyfriend may be involved in an international art theft ring.
Out of Africa Meryl Streep, Robert Redford. The most acclaimed motion picture of 1985 and one of the silver screen’s greatest epic romances, this fascinating true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who, with her philandering husband, run a coffee plantation in Kenya, circa 1914. To her astonishment, she soon discovers herself falling in love with the land, its people and a mysterious white hunter. A masterfully crafted and breathtakingly beautiful true love story.
Smart People Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Quaid, and Thomas Haden Church.
Sometimes the smartest people have the most to learn. Into the life of a widowed professor comes a new love and an unexpected visit from his adopted brother.
Step Up 2 : the streets Briana Evigan, Robert Hoffman, Adam G. Sevani.
When a rebellious street dancer lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. By joining forces with the school's hottest dancer and a crew of classmate outcasts, they compete in Baltimore’s underground dance battle The Streets. This opportunity enables her to find a way to live her dream while building a bridge between her two separate worlds.
21 Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, and Aaron Yoo.
Looking for a way to pay for tuition, Ben Campbell finds himself quietly recruited by MIT's most gifted students in a daring plot to break Vegas.
Vantage Point Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver. During an historic counter-terrorism summit in Spain, the President of the United States is struck down by an assassin's bullet. Eight strangers have a perfect view of the kill but what did they really see?
Year My Parents Went on Vacation Paulo Autran, Caio Blat, Simone Spoladore.
A 12 year old boy hurriedly dropped off at his grandparent's house in Sao Paulo finds the patriarch has passed away. Now being left to fend for himself, some Jewish neighbors take him under their wing. The remainder of the film yields a beautiful story of how the boy learns about life, the World Cup, a dictatorship government, Jewish culture, and in the end - how to become a man years before his time.
Be Kind Rewind Jack Black, Danny Glover. A clerk at a failing video store in a rundown New Jersey neighborhood accidentally wipes all of the videotapes blank and decides to recreate the movies rather than face the store's owner.
Bonneville Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Allen. Faced with the decision of a lifetime Arvilla Holden hijacks her two best friends and sets off in a vintage '66 Bonneville convertible across the great American West to deliver her husband's ashes to her step-daughter.
Charlie Bartlett Hope Davis, Robert Downey Jr., David Fraser. The kids at Western Summit High have "issues" and newcomer Charlie Bartlett is coming to their rescue. With a briefcase full of prescription pills and a head full of pop psychology, this rebel with a cause brings hilarious help to the student body and unending grief to their neurotic principal
Mr. Gardner.
Definitely Maybe Ryan Reynolds, Kevin Kline, Rachel Weisz. A romantic comedy that begins with a discussion about sex education and ends with a bit of an unexpected twist that focuses on an engaging father and his 10-year-old daughter as her curiosity about the women her dad loved prior to marrying (and separating from) her mother.
Drillbit Taylor Owen Wilson. A homeless ex-soldier who wants to emigrate illegally to Canada is hired by three misfit high-school students to protect them from bullies and he uses this opportunity to fleece boys for the money he needs to get away.
Factory Girl Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon. Tragic 1960s icon Edie Sedgwick is a naive art student who comes to New York City seeking freedom from her troubled family just as Warhol was surrounding himself with oddballs, sycophants, and drug addicts. The eager girl briefly becomes Warhol's favorite and the center of the city's attention, but when she falls into an affair with 'The Musician' Warhol is stricken with jealousy.
Flawless Demi Moore, Michael Caine. The lone female officer of London Diamond Corporation, is smarter and more capable than her male colleagues, but that doesn't deter the company from promoting them over her while profiting from her talents. This has long since gotten old, so when the mild-mannered night janitor enlists her in a scheme to fill his thermos with two million pounds' worth of diamonds from the vault, she listens.
Fool’s Gold Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland. A dreamer, on the trail of a sunken pirate's treasure, and his now-ex-wife, a historian who prefers life to be a little more sedate, become grudgingly reunited in search of the booty.
Golden Door Charlotte Gainsbourg, Aurora Quattrocchi, Vincenzo Amato. Sicilian peasant Salvatore yearns for a better life, one he believes exists only in the fabled land known as America. On the perilous steamship crossing Salvatore meets a mysterious worldly Englishwoman Lucy and an unexpected romance unfolds. Neither Salvatore or Lucy are prepared for their arrival at Ellis Island where families are inspected, interrogated and split apart. They bravely face their personal and collective dilemmas in order to become part of the American dream.
In Bruges Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson. A tale of two Irish gangsters "keepin' a
low profile" after a murder gone messily wrong. This edgy, action-packed comedy is filled with thrilling chases, spectacular shoot-outs and an explosive ending.
My Blueberry Nights Jude Law, Norah Jones. When her boyfriend takes up with another woman, Elizabeth drowns her sorrows in the hand-crafted pie served up by asympathetic café proprietor. Deciding her best plan of attack is to leave town, she hops a bus to Memphis, where she waitresses for awhile before she tries her luck in Vegas. Throughout her journeys, she sends postcards to her ex-boyfriend and through these wistful messages, he finds himself falling in love again.
No End in Sight Campbell Scott, Gerald Burke, Ali Fadhil. A staggering portrait of arrogance and incompetence, this documentary avoids the question of why the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, by choosing instead to focus on the war's aftermath--and meticulously examines the chain of decisions that led Iraq into a grotesque state of lawlessness and civil war.
Persepolis Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux. A fascinating and wholly unexpected take on Iran’s Islamic revolution beginning in the 1970s, Persepolis is an enthralling, animated feature about a spirited young woman who spends her life trying to deal with the consequences of her nation’s history. Based on the autobiographical comic book by Marjane Satrapi.
Shine a Light Rolling Stones. Martin Scorsese leaps into the madness of the Rolling Stones’ organization barely controlling a documentary that culminates in the Stones’ best concert on film.
Stop-loss Ryan Phillippe. A band of brothers return home to Brazos, Texas, only to discover that their team leader has gotten a Stop-Loss order to head back to the Middle East.
The Violin Angel Tavira Maldonado, Gerardo Taracena, Dagoberto Gama. Don Plutarco, his son Genaro and his grandson Lucio live a double life: on one hand they are musicians and humble farmers, on the other they also support the campesino guerilla movement's armed efforts against the oppressive government.
