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Based on real events, The Children of Huang Shi is a sweeping but intimate story set against war-torn China in the 1930’s. The film centers on a young English journalist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), an American nurse (Radha Mitchell) and the leader of a Chinese partisan group (Chow Yun Fat) who meet in desperate and unexpected circumstances. Together they rescue 60 orphaned children, leading them on an extraordinary journey across hundreds of miles of treacherous terrain, through snow-covered mountains and an unforgiving desert. Along the way they discover the true meaning of love, responsibility and courage. Visit the Official Website Release Date: May 23, 2008 Genre: Drama Running Time: 125 min. Distributor(s): Sony Pictures Classics Tagline: MPAA Rating: R for some disturbing and violent content. Director(s): Roger Spottiswoode Writer(s): Jane Hawksley - Screenplay James MacManus - Screenplay (from idea) Producer(s): Arthur Cohn - Producer Wieland Schulz-Keil - Producer Peter Loehr - Pr...

The freewheeling passion of youth and the unpredictable perils of fate are both the subject and the breathtaking form of Joachim Trier's lean and kinetic journey through friendship, love, madness, and creativity: REPRISE. Trier viscerally captures the way life takes off at rocket-speed in the beginning of adulthood - and the what-ifs and why-nots that both drive and haunt us as the unbridled hopes of youth come to a screeching halt. The fast-moving story kicks off just as Phillip (ANDERS DANIELSON LIE) and Erik (ESPEN KLOUMANHOINER) stand at the maibox, two cocky, grinning rebels full of 20-year-old verve and dreams, their whole lives hanging in the balance at this singular moment. Each is about to ship off his first novel to publishers, each is hoping to become a wildly influential "cult author," each has visions of a new life of non-stop intensity, brilliance, romance and nightclubbing. Fast-forward six months. These reveries have crashed, hard, into reality. Phillip, w...

Languishing in a hospital, Roy Walker (Lee Pace) is a broken man in more ways than one: Unable to walk after a fall from a horse in a movie stunt gone wrong, his heart is also broken after his girlfriend ran off with the movie's leading man. Ready to end his life, Roy befriends five-year-old fellow patient Alexandria (Catinca Untaru), with the goal of persuading her to stealing a fatal dose of morphine pills for him. Roy launches into a story that fuses patients, staff and others at the hospital with imagined personas and exotic lands. What he describes as "an epic tale of love and revenge" is so riveting to Alexandria that she will do whatever Roy asks in order to hear the next installment. The tale loosely mirrors the ill-fated love triangle that has left him heartsick and features Alexandria's favorite nurse Evelyn (Justine Waddell), as the beautiful Princess Evelyn; Sinclair (Daniel Caltagirone), the movie star who stole Roy's girlfriend, as the detested Gover...

Only Harmony Korine (writer of KIDS, auteur of GUMMO, JULIEN DONKEY-BOY) could weave Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, her daughter Shirley Temple and flying nuns into a hypnotically funny and truly poignant tale of the instability behind fanaticism and the redemption we can hope to find in one another. The film follows a lonely Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) who is invited by a beautiful Marilyn Monroe (Samantha Morton) to a commune full of other impersonators including the Queen of England, Madonna, Sammy Davis Junior and James Dean, in the Scottish Highlands. In a parallel story line, the incomparable Werner Herzog plays a Latin American priest who learns his missionary of nuns can literally fly. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: May 2, 2008 Genre: Art, Foreign, Comedy and Drama Running Time: 112 min. Distributor(s): First Take (IFC) Tagline: MPAA Rating: Director(s): Harmony Korine Writer(s): Harmony Korine - Screenplay Avi Korine...

Based on the international bestselling novel by Anne Michaels, FUGITIVE PIECES is a poetic and emotionally charged film about love, loss and redemption. The film, written and directed by Jeremy Podeswa and produced by Robert Lantos tells the story of Jakob Beer, a man whose life is haunted by his childhood experiences during World War II. As a child in Poland, Jakob is orphaned during wartime only to be saved by a compassionate Greek archaeologist. Over the course of his life, he attempts to deal with the losses he has endured. Through his writing and the discovery of true love, Jakob is ultimately freed from the legacy of his past. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: May 2, 2008 Genre: Art, Foreign, Drama, Adaptation, Politics and Religion Running Time: 108 min. Distributor(s): Samuel Goldwyn Company Tagline: He found himself in the love around him. MPAA Rating: R for some sexuality. Director(s): Jeremy Podeswa Writer(s): Jeremy Podeswa - Screen...

Best-selling author Judith Ralitzer is researching unlikely places to find characters for her next bestseller. As luck would have it, a serial killer with a penchant for magic tricks has just escaped from a high-security prison... providing the perfect source material for an intricately plotted, moody mystery. Deceptively layered and intriguingly misleading, this highly anticipated new film from Oscar winning director Claude LeLouch (A MAN AND A WOMAN) stars Dominique Pinon and Fanny Ardant as unlikely pair caught up in a game with high stakes - and deadly consequences. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Release Date: April 25, 2008 Genre: Art, Foreign, Drama, Romance and Thriller Running Time: 103 min. Distributor(s): Samuel Goldwyn Company Tagline: Everybody has a secret. Every mystery has a twist. MPAA Rating: R Director(s): Claude Lelouch Writer(s): Claude Lelouch - Screenplay Pierre Uytterhoeven - Screenplay Claude Lelouch - Story By Producer(s): Remi Bergman - Executive Producer ...

When a reclusive detective (Willem Dafoe) is drawn into the case of a serial killer who is enacting anamorphosis - a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective - only with human bodies; he is thrust into a dark and unsettling underworld that threatens to reveal the secrets of his tormented past. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: April 18, 2008 Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime and Gangster Running Time: 103 min. Distributor(s): First Take (IFC) Tagline: MPAA Rating: R for disturbing grisly images, some violence and language. Director(s): Henry Miller Writer(s): Henry Miller - Screenplay Tom Phelan - Screenplay Producer(s): Campbell Miller - Executive Producer Marissa McMahon - Producer Movie Casts: Willem Dafoe - Stan Scott Speedman - Carl Peter Stormare - Blair Clea DuVall - Sandy James Rebhorn - Brainard Amy Carlson - Alexandra Fredericks Yul Vazquez - Jorge Don Harvey - Killer Paul Lazar - Medical Examiner Edward Hibbert - Galle...

On December 8, 1980 Mark David Chapman shocked the world by murdering the beloved purveyor of peace, 40-year old musician and activist, John Lennon, outside The Dakota, his New York apartment building. Chapman's motives were fabricated from pure delusion, fueled by an obsession with the fictional character Holden Caulfield and his similar misadventures in J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. In one instant, an anonymous, mentally unstable 25-year old, socially awkward Beatles fan who had fluctuated between idealizing Lennon and being overcome with a desire to kill him - altered the course of history. Jared Leto, 60 pounds heavier for the role, bears an uncanny physical resemblance to the real Chapman, who to this day, is incarcerated in Attica Prison, on a guilty plea. Aside from a Larry King interview in 1992, he has not spoken with the media. However, Chapman did reveal the mechanics of his unraveling during those three fateful days in New York City, to crime journalist Jack J...

Nearing 40, April Epner (Hunt), a schoolteacher in New York who was adopted at birth, wants to have a baby of her own - a desire made that much stronger by the fact that she never knew her biological mother. A snag in her plans presents itself when her sweet but immature husband Ben (Matthew Broderick) announces one night that their marriage was a mistake, leaving April devastated and bewildered. With her life in disarray, one more surprising bolt is thrown April's way in the form of Bernice (Bette Midler), an eccentric local talk show host, who declares herself to be April's birth mother. Despite the influence of her newfound mother and a relationship with Frank (Colin Firth), the father of one of her students, April's once simple life begins to spiral out of control. Based on the eponymous first novel by writer Elinor Lipman, the film tells the funny and moving story of one woman's very unlikely path towards personal fulfillment. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Vis...

Set against the world of high stakes poker, DEAL follows the story of Alex Stillman Bret Harrison), a cocky, hotshot, card-playing senior at Yale University. Alex dreams of becoming a professional Texas Hold'em poker player but does not yet have the skill to master the table. Fortunately for him, a chance encounter introduces Alex to retired poker legend, Tommy Vinson (Burt Reynolds). Tommy was at the top of his game twenty years ago but gave it all up in order to save his family. Upon meeting Alex, Tommy realizes he can regain his own self-confidence, pride and a poker championship title by turning Alex into his protégé. The two pair up and master every tournament they enter. The winning streak and friendship between the two is eventually thwarted by the interference of a Las Vegas call girl, Michelle (Shannon Elizabeth). The pair eventually part ways and separately prepare for the World Poker Tour. Only one will take home the championship title. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer ...

Some say that Pathology is a window to God. As doctors, they see the perversion and corruption of the flesh by all means unnatural...by violence...by toxin...by madness...to determine the cause of death. On April 18th, No Body Is Safe. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: April 18, 2008 Genre: Drama and Thriller Running Time: Distributor(s): MGM Distribution Company Tagline: Every body has a secret. MPAA Rating: R for violence, gruesome images, strong sexual content, nudity, drug use and language. Director(s): Marc Schoelermann Writer(s): Brian Taylor - Screenplay Mark Neveldine - Screenplay Producer(s): Barrett Stuart - Executive Producer Yan Fisher Romanovsky - Executive Producer Tom Rosenberg - Producer Gary Lucchesi - Producer Mark Neveldine - Producer Brian Taylor - Producer Skip Williamson - Producer Gary Gilbert - Producer Movie Casts: Milo Ventimiglia - Ted Gray Michael Weston - Jake Lauren Lee Smith - Juliette Bath Dan Callahan - Chip Ben...

In a world of six billion people, it only takes one to change your life. In actor and filmmaker Tom McCarthy's follow-up to his award winning directorial debut The Station Agent, Richard Jenkins ("Six Feet Under") stars as a disillusioned Connecticut economics professor whose life is transformed by a chance encounter in New York City. Sixty-two-year-old Walter Vale (Jenkins) is sleepwalking through his life. Having lost his passion for teaching and writing, he fills the void by unsuccessfully trying to learn to play classical piano. When his college sends him to Manhattan to attend a conference, Walter is surprised to find a young couple has taken up residence in his apartment. Victims of a real estate scam, Tarek (Haaz Sleiman), a Syrian man, and Zainab (Danai Gurira), his Senegalese girlfriend, have nowhere else to go. In the first of a series of tests of the heart, Walter reluctantly allows the couple to stay with him. Touched by his kindness, Tarek, a talented musicia...

The feature film debut of renowned opera and theater director Chen Shi-Zheng, DARK MATTER delves into the world of Liu Xing (Chinese for Shooting Star), a Chinese science student pursuing a Ph.D. in the U.S. in the early 1990's. Driven by ambition, yet unbale to navigate academic politics, Liu Xing is inexorably pushed to the margins of American life, until he loses his way. Liu Xing (Liu Ye) arrives at a big Western university with plans to study the origins of the universe. In the beginning, everything is looking up. He finds other Chinese students to share a cheap apartment with him,and flirts with an attractive American girl who works in a local tea shop.When the head of the department, Jacob Reiser (Aidan Quinn), welcomes Liu Xing into his select cosmology group, it seems that only hardwork stands between him and a bright future in American science. At an orientation for foreigners sponsored by a local church, Joanna Silver (Meryl Streep), a wealthy patron of the university, n...

Imaginative, impetuous and wild Diana (Evan Rachel Wood) can't wait for her adult life to begin. Whiling away the final days of high school in the lush springtime, Diana tests her limits with sex and drugs as her more conservative friend Maureen (Eva Amurri) watches with concern. But Diana's aura of invincibility is shattered when a senseless act of violence erupts at school, forever changing the lives of the two best friends. Fifteen years later, a grown Diana (Uma Thurman) is still trying to come to terms with the traumatic events of that fateful day. On the surface, the adult Diana has made a picture perfect life for herself. She’s still living in the sleepy Connecticut suburb she grew up in with her husband Paul, a professor at the local college. Her beautiful young daughter, Emma, is smart and creative, and possesses a fiercely independent streak reminiscent of her mother. But all is not well—as the anniversary of her adolescent trauma approaches, the darkness that Diana...

In Wong Kai Wai's debut English language feature, the internationally acclaimed director takes his audience on a dramatic journey across the distance between heartbreak and a new beginning. After a rough break-up, Elizabeth (played by songstress Norah Jones in her screen debut) sets out on a journey across America, leaving behind a life of memories, a dream and soulful new friend; a cafe owner (Jude Law) - all while in search of something to mend her broken heart. Waitressing her way through the country, Elizabeth befriends others whose yearnings are greater than hers, including a troubled cop (David Strathairn) and his estranged wife (Rachel Weisz) and a down-on-her luck gambler (Natalie Portman) with a score to settle. Through these individuals, Elizabeth witnesses the true depths of loneliness and emptiness, and begins to understand that her own journey is part of a greater exploration within herself. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: Ap...

A highlight at the 2007 Cannes, Toronto and New York film festivals, FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON is the latest masterpiece from Hou Hsiao Hsien (CAFE, LUMIERE, THREE TIMES). Inspired by Albert Lamorisse*s 1956 Academy Award Winning classic, THE RED BALLOON, Hou expands on its key elements-a young boy, a red balloon and Paris- to weave an achingly beautiful tale on the mysteries of familial bonds and the lingering effects the past has on us all. A precious young boy, Simon (Simon Iteanu) must deal with the increasing fragility of his mother, the loving yet preoccupied Suzanne (Academy Award Winner Juliette Binoche of THE ENGLISH PATIENT, CACHE). Completely immersed in her own tribulations, Suzanne hires Song (Song Fan), a Taiwanese film student, to help care for Simon. Together with Song, a unique extended family is formed, utterly interdependent yet lost in separate thoughts and dreams mirrored by a delicate, shiny red balloon. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Websit...

In 88 Minutes, Al Pacino stars as Dr. Jack Gramm, a college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI. When Gramm receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live, he must use all his skills and training to narrow down the possible suspects, who include a disgruntled student, a jilted former lover, and a serial killer who is already on death row, before his time runs out. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: April 18, 2008 Genre: Drama and Thriller Running Time: Distributor(s): Sony Pictures Releasing Tagline: Jack Gramm has eighty-eight minutes to solve a murder. His own. MPAA Rating: R for disturbing violent content, brief nudity and language. Director(s): Jon Avnet Writer(s): Barry Schindel - Screenplay (Current Rewrite) Gary Scott Thompson - screenplay Producer(s): Danny Dimbort - Executive Producer Boaz Davidson - Executive Producer Trevor Short - Executive Producer Lawrence Bender - Executive Producer Jo...

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 teenage 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 HADEN CHURCH) has perfected the art of freeloading. 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 often comical, sometimes heartbreaking, consequences for himself and e...

STREET KINGS stars Keanu Reeves as Tom Ludlow, a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he’s been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him. Visit the Official Website Release Date: April 11, 2008 Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime and Gangster Running Time: Distributor(s): Fox Searchlight Pictures Tagline: Their city. Their rules. No prisoners. MPAA Rating: R for strong violence and pervasive language. Director(s): David Ayer Writer(s): Jamie Moss - Screenplay Kurt Wimmer - Screenplay James Ellroy - Screenplay Nick Cassavetes - Writer John Ridley - Writer (rewrite) David Ayer - Writer (rewrite) James Ellroy - Story By Producer(s): Avi Lerner - Executive Producer Michele Weisler - Executive Producer Alexandra Milchan - Producer Lucas Foster - Producer Erwin Stoff - Producer Movi...

The new film from acclaimed and adventurous French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, BOARDING GATE is an erotic noir-thriller boasting an exciting international cast. Asia Argento plays sexy ex-prostitute Sandra, who is forced to flee London after a steamy S&M encounter with a debt ridden ex-lover (Michael Madsen) ends in violence. Fleeing to Hong Kong in search of a fresh start, she becomes involved with an attractive young couple, Lester (Carl Ng) and Sue (Kelly Lin), who promise to help her obtain papers and money. But nothing turns out as expected for Sandra, and she finds herself trapped in a sordid game of manipulation. [-/+] Watch the Movie Trailer Visit the Official Website Release Date: March 21, 2008 Genre: Art, Foreign and Drama Running Time: 93 min. Distributor(s): Magnet Tagline: She's losing control again MPAA Rating: R for violence, sexual content, language and some drug material. Director(s): Olivier Assayas Writer(s): Olivier Assayas - Written by Producer(s): Fra...