August 2008 Availabilities!



 

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WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS

FEATURING: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Rob Corddry, Lake Bell, Jason Sudeikus
 
Two strangers awaken together to discover they've gotten married following a night of debauchery in Sin City, and one of them has won a huge jackpot after playing the other's quarter. The newlyweds devise ever-escalating schemes to undermine each other and get their hands on the money - only to find themselves falling in love amid the mutual backstabbing.
 

Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Tom Vaughan

Producer: Michael Aguilar, Shawn Levy, Jimmy Miller
Runtime: 99 Minutes
Rating: PG-13
Versions: Theatrical / Edited

 
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There are no big surprises, and only a handful of unexpected developments. But Kutcher and Diaz are undeniably appealing...nd the scene-stealing supporting players...go about their petty larceny with amusing adroitness.
Joe Leydon
Variety

Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz hate on each other with dynamite verve in What Happens in Vegas.
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

Though likely not a film you'll remember a month after seeing it, it does hit most of the right notes for a good date flick.
Bill Zwecker
Chicago Sun-Times


 

There's always a way out. You just have to find it.

 

 

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REDBELT
 
FEATURING: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tim Allen,
Alice Braga, Emily Mortimer, Joe Mantegna,
Ricky Jay
 
Set in the west-side of Los Angeles fight world, a world inhabited by bouncers, cagefighters, cops and special forces types, Redbelt is the story of Mike Terry, a Jiu-Jitsu teacher who has avoided the prize fighting circuit, choosing instead to pursue an honorable life by operating a self-defense studio with a samurai's code. Terry and his wife Sondra, struggle to keep the business running to make ends meet. Accident on a dark, rainy night at the Academy between and off duty officer and a distraught lawyer puts in motion a series of events that will change Terry's life dramatically introducing him to a world of promoters and movie star Chet Frank. Faced with this, in order to pay off his debts and regain his honor, Terry must step into the ring for the first time in his life.
 
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: David Mamet

Producers:
Chrisann Verges
Runtime: 99 Minutes

Rating: R
Versions: Theatrical
 
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Anchored by a powerful and nuanced performance by Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mamet's latest writing and directing effort is a compelling drama about the world of martial arts fighting.
Claudia Puig
USA Today


In the story of a purist-minded jiu-jitsu instructor trying to keep his distance from the vulgar commercialism of arena-style martial arts competition, David Mamet may have found the ideal metaphor for his own relationship with mainstream Hollywood.
Todd McCarthy
Variety

Mamet takes up jiu-jitsu with honorable results. Michael Rechtshaffen Hollywood Reporter [A] very strong film. Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper


 

When you're in this world, no one is who they seem, and everyone is playing the game.

 

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DECEPTION
 
FEATURING: Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor,
Michelle Williams, Lisa Gay Hamilton
 
An accounting consultant, Jonathan Messer (Ewan McGregor), while passing from one job to another, meets a charismatic, womanizing lawyer, Wyatt (Hugh Jackman), who personifies everything the numbers cruncher wishes he could be. Over lunch one day, Jonathan inadvertently leaves with Wyatt's cell phone and when it rings, a seductive female voice invites him to meet at a hotel. Before he knows what's happening, he is inducted into an anonymous sex club, where beautiful women are just a phone call away. Wyatt encourages Jonathan to participate. At first Jonathan thinks he finally has it all but soon learns that Wyatt's motives were sinister to say the least. While Jonathan tries to extricate himself from this web of blackmail and intrigue, he finds himself the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.
 

Genre: Drama / Romance / Thriller
Director: Marcel Langenegger
Producer: Robbie Brenner, David L. Bushell,
Christopher Eberts
Runtime: 107 Minutes
Rating: R
Versions: Theatrical / Edited

 
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Life can change in a heartbeat.

 

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THEN SHE FOUND ME
FEATURING: Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Bette Midler, Matthew Broderick
Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Bette Midler and Matthew Broderick star in this comedic tale about a schoolteacher in the thick of a midlife crisis involving a messy divorce, the death of her adoptive mother and a reunion with her eccentric birth mother. As if that weren't enough to juggle, things grow even more complicated when she begins dating a man who turns out to be the father of one of her students.

Genre: Romance / Comedy
Director: Helen Hunt
Producers: Helen Hunt, Pamela Koffler, Katie Roumel
Runtime: 100 Minutes
Rating R
Versions: Theatrical / Edited

 
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Hunt draws some good performances from the cast and wisely chose a low-key personal story for her directorial debut.
Claudia Puig
USA Today


Hunt's performance is terrific and far more nuanced than her Oscar-winning turn in As Good as It Gets. As an actress, she helps make her director look very good indeed.
Clark Collis
Entertainment Weekly


With subtle laughs but solid emotional thrust, it will play very well with older audiences.
John DeFore
Hollywood Reporter

 


 

 

 

 

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DARK MATTER

FEATURING: Meryl Street, Aidan Quinn, Liu Ye
 
Chinese science student Liu Xing (Liu Ye) arrives at a big U.S. university in pursuit of a Ph.D. and with plans to study the origins of the universe. When the head of the department (Aidan Quinn) welcomes him into his select academic group, it seems that only hard work stands between him and a bright future. Driven by ambition, but unable to navigate academic politics when his teacher turns against him for pursuing a project in opposition to the professor's favorite theory, Liu Xing is pushed over the edge and he reacts violently. Meryl Streep co-stars as a university donor who tries to help the troubled student. Based on a true story.
 

Genre: Drama
Director: Chen Shi-Zheng
Producers: Andrea Miller, Mary Salter, Janet Yang
Runtime: 88 Minutes
Rating: R
Versions: Theatrical / Edited

 
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Dark Matter, with its view of cutthroat politics and competing egos inside a university, is also laudable in its refusal to soft-pedal the viciously petty side of the academic fishbowl.
Stephen Holden
New York Times


Challenging subject matter best suited to discerning audiences.
Justin Lowe
Hollywood Reporter


First-time director Chen Shi-Zheng shows great sensitivity to the pressure and isolation felt by Chinese brains at American universities, and the relationship between Liu and Quinn provides a rare look at the intellectual serfdom of graduate study
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader

 


 

Featuring the continuing adventures of Henry Fool

 

 

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FAY GRIM
 
FEATURING: Parker Posey, Jeff Goldblum,
Saffrom Burrows
When it's discovered that her deceased husband's yet to be published notebooks contain information that could threaten national security and implicate the US government in a variety of conspiracies, Fay Grim is forced to travel to Paris and retrieve the manuscript before it falls into the wrong hands. A follow-up to the critically acclaimed Henry Fool, the puzzling thriller from Hal Hartley.

Genre: Action / Comedy / Thriller
Director:
Hal Hartley
Producers:
Martin Hagemann, Hal Hartley, Jason Kliot
Runtime:
118 Minutes
Rating:
R
Versions:
Theatrical

 

Despite its imperfections, Fay Grim is worth seeing for Posey's and Goldblum's performances and particularly for the witty, literate dialogue.
Claudia Puig
USA Today


The unorthodoxy of the film is perhaps its biggest asset -- along with the idea that a personal cinema can still exist, be so entertaining and provide something new to feel about character -- and maybe even the universe.
John Anderson
Newsday


This film feels like Hartley has been handed a Bourne or a Bond movie to direct and maintained his own style and low-budget aesthetic while thoroughly enjoying and deconstructing his new toy.
Kevin Crust
Los Angeles Times



 

It's never too late to rewrite your life's story.

 

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MAN IN THE CHAIR
FEATURING: Chrisopher Plummer, Emmet Walsh, Michael Angarano, Robert Wagner
This award-winning drama stars Christopher Plummer as Flash, a man who longs for the days when he worked as a film crew member on such cinematic masterpieces as Citizen Kane. When Flash meets teenage cinema fanatic Cameron Kincaid, he agrees to help Cameron make a film for a student competition where the top prize is a film school scholarship and, for Cameron, a way out of his difficult life at home. Flash, who sees his own life drawing to a close, recruits the support of his old, eccentric friends to help Cameron make his film and chase his dream.
 

Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Michael Schroeder
Producers: Alex Gartner, William Green,
Charles Roven
Runtime: 109 Minutes
Rating: PG-13
Versions: Theatrical / Edited

 

At a time when most films wallow in mankind's basest instincts, Man in the Chair is a rare, once-in-a-blue-moon kind of movie that celebrates the best qualities in people and makes you applaud the human race.
Rex Reed
New York Observer


Once its machinery is humming, it settles into a soothing fable of a last hurrah.
Stephen Holden
New York Times


This genuinely moving picture, with its edgy hand-cranked camerawork, represents a remarkable reinvention for a former B-movie maven whose most notable achievement before this was directing an 18-year-old Angelina Jolie in Cyborg 2.
Chad Greene
Boxoffice Magazine


 

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DEAL

FEATURING: Burt Reynolds, Bret Harrison,
Shannon Elizabeth

 
Set against the world of high stakes poker, Deal follows the story of Tommy Vinson (Burt Reynolds), an ex gambler who quit the game 30 years ago after missing a family emergency. He constantly tries to be content with life without poker but when he sees a young player Alex (Brett Harrison), who reminds him of himself when he was young, he finds him and makes a pact with him; Tommy will pay all the entrance fees to the big tournaments if Alex will play the way Tommy wants him to. After great success on the circuit, a disagreement causes them to split, only to find themselves facing each other in the final tournament of the season…..the finals of the world series of poker.
 

Genre: Drama
Director: : Gil Cates Jr.
Producers: Michael Arata, Steve Austin, Albert J. Salzer
Runtime: 84 Minutes
Rating: PG-13
Versions: Theatrical / Edited

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Sometimes the smartest people have the most to learn

 

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SMART PEOPLE

FEATURING: Dennis Quaid, Sara Jessica Parker, Thomas Hayden Church, Ellen Page

 
Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant--but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy. His collegiate son won't confide in him, his teenaged daughter (Ellen Page) is an acid-tongued overachiever who follows all too closely in dad's misery-loving footsteps, and his adopted, preposterously ne'er-do-well brother (Thomas Hayden Church) has perfected the art of freeloading. As a widower who can't seem to find passion in anything anymore, not even the Victorian Literature in which he's an expert, it seems Lawrence is sleepwalking through a very stunted middle age. When his brother shows up unexpectedly for an extended stay at just about the same time as he accidentally encounters his former student Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker), the circumstances cause him to stir from his deep, deep freeze, with consequences for himself and everyone around him.
 

Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Noam Murro
Producer: Michael Costigan, Bridget Johnson,
Michael London
Runtime: 95 Minutes
Rating: R
Versions: Theatrical / Edited

 
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So much good work must not go overlooked. I just loved this movie because it's witty, intellectual without being pretentious, and filled with characters who are logically stressed and anxious to connect to a world outside of themselves.
Rex Reed
New York Observer

Call the cops. Oscar nominees Ellen Page and Thomas Haden Church steal Smart People right from under the noses of its ostensible stars, Sarah Jessica Parker and Dennis Quaid.
Lou Lumenick
New York Post


Smart People made me happy from start to finish.
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal

 

 

 

A cyber killer has finally found the perfect accomplice: You.

THE SECRETS
FEATURING: Fanny Ardant, Ania Bukstein,
Michael Shtamler, Adir Miller, Guri Alfi, Alma Zack
In The Secrets, two brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive orthodox culture where females are forbidden to sing, let alone speak out. Naomi, the studious, devoutly religious daughter of a prominent rabbi, convinces her father to postpone her marriage for a year so that she might study at a Jewish seminary for women in the ancient Kabalistic seat of Safed. Naomi's quest for individuality takes a defiant turn when she befriends Michelle, a free-spirited and equally headstrong fellow student. When the pair encounters a mysterious, ailing foreigner with a disturbing past named Anouk (Fanny Ardant) they begin a risky journey into forbidden realms. In the hopes of easing her suffering, Naomi and Michelle secretly lead Anouk through a series of Kabalistic cleansing rituals. The process opens up overwhelming new horizons for the girls who find themselves caught between the rigid male establishment they grew up in, and the desire to be true to themselves, no matter the cost.

Genre: Drama
Director: Avi Nesher
Producers: Avi Nesher, David Silber
Runtime: 127 Minutes
Rating R
Versions: Theatrical

 
FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
 

 

 

 

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THE KILLING OF JOHN LENNON
 
FEATURING: Jonas Ball, Joe Abbate, Gail Bell,
J. Francis Curley, Nicole Delorey
 
Lifting dialogue directly from notorious assassin Mark David Chapman's real-life journal, director Andrew Piddington paints a chilling portrait of the man who infamously shot John Lennon outside his New York City apartment building in 1980. The film chronicles Chapman's trek from his home on the islands of Hawaii to Lennon's home on the island of Manhattan, where he made history.
 
Genre: Drama
Director: Andrew Piddington
Producer: Rakha Singh
Runtime: 114 Minutes
Rating: Not Rated
Versions: Theatrical
 
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Piddington does a beautiful balancing act, creating a movie that works both on the level of suspense and as a detailed factual chronicle.
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News

Andrew Piddington's devastating re-enactment of events leading up to, including and immediately after the murder is taken from interviews, depositions and court transcripts.
Stephen Holden
New York Times


 

Bound By Love. Separated By History.

 

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PARTITION

FEATURING: Jimi Mistry, Kristin Kreuk,
Neve Campbe

 
In 1947, the same tumultuous year that India and Pakistan were divided into two separate states, a Sikh and former soldier puts his life on the line to save a beautiful Muslim woman. In the wake of his heroic rescue, the two strangers find themselves falling in love. But are they destined to stay confined by the strict boundaries of their respective faiths?
 

Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Vic Sarin
Producers: Tina Pehme, Kim Roberts
Runtime: 116 Minutes
Rating: R
Versions: Theatrical / Edited

 
 

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