The NY Film Critics "COMING
ATTRACTIONS" Film Series
Fall 2003
THE CLOSING NIGHT SCREENING OF THE FALL SEASON
11/24 THE STATEMENT
Set in modern day France, it is the story of Pierre Brossard who as a young man was a Nazi executioner under the Vichy regime. Brossard has never been brought to trial and has lived a peaceful and anonymous life sheltered by right-wing elements within the Catholic Church. A new investigation into his crimes is launched and Brossard finds himself the target of hit men on the one hand and police investigators on the other. A wily old fox, he keeps outwitting his pursuers while desperately trying to figure out who they are. Who will get to him first? The investigators or the assassins?
Cast :
Michael Caine,
Tilda Swinton,
Alan Bates,
John Neville,
Charlotte
Rampling,
Matt Craven,
Noami Jenkins,
Jeremy Northam
Director : Norman Jewison
Written By : Ronald Harwood
Producers : Norman Jewison
Directed by: Norman Jewison
GUEST: Dylan Leiner, Sony Pictures Classics
HOSTED BY JAMI BERNARD OF THE NY DAILY NEWS
Official Site: Here
Trailers:
'The Statement' Trailer No. 1
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11/17 Girl with a Pearl Earring
Based on the popular book which speculates about the life of the young lady depicted in Vermeer's famous painting. Starring Colin Firth, Scarlet Johansen and Tom Wilkinson. Set in 17th century Holland GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING tells the imagined, intriguing and highly seductive story behind one of Vermeer's greatest and most enigmatic paintings.
Cast:
Scarlett Johansson,
Colin Firth,
Tom Wilkinson,
Judy Parfitt,
Cillian Murphy
Directed by: Peter Webber
Executive Producer: Francois Ivernel, Cameron McCracken, Duncan Reid, Tom
Ortenberg, Peter Block, Nick Drake, Philip Erdoes, Daria Jovivic
Producer: Andy Paterson, Anand Tucker
Screenplay: Olivia Hetreed, based on the novel by Tracy Chevalier
GUEST: will be David Freedberg, Director, Academy for Advanced art Studies at Columbia University
Hosted by Thelma Adams US Weekly Magazine and Blink Radio
Official Site: here
11/10 In America
Jim Sheridan's autobiographical film, IN AMERICA, begins as Irish immigrants Johnny (Paddy Considine), his wife Sarah (Samantha Morton), and their two daughters, drive their wood-paneled station wagon across the Canadian border and into America. As they enter New York City at night, 10-year-old Christy (Emma Bolger) records the lights, skyscrapers, and general excitement on her camcorder. Her little sister Ariel (Sarah Bolger) coos at all there is to see, and the whole family is filled with new hope.
CAST:
Paddy Considine
Samantha Morton
Djimon Hounsou
Sarah Bolger
Emma Bolger
Director: Jim Sheridan
Screenwriter: Naomi Sheridan
Screenwriter: Kirsten Sheridan
Producer: Arthur Lappin
Producer: Jim Sheridan
Our GUEST: Director: Jim Sheridan ( In the Name of
the Father, My Left Foot) In the 7:00 slot
Hosted by David Edelstein of NPR and Slate.com
Official Site: here
Additional Links: here here
The Bonus Double Feature will be The Triplets of Belleville animated and in French
10/3: THE COOLER
"The Cooler is a love story about the changing fortunes of this loser who has made a career out of his contagious bad luck. The Cooler plies his trade on the floor of Las Vegas' aging Shangri-La casino, an old-school "gambler's casino," a dinosaur in the shadow of the new Strip and its theme-park attractions."
Cast:
William H. Macy,
Alec Baldwin,
Maria Bello,
Shawn Hatosy,
Ron Livingston,
Paul Sorvino,
Estella Warren,
Arthur J. Nascarella,
M.C. Gainey,
Ellen
Greene,
Joey Fatone,
Don Scribner,
Tony Longo,
Richard Israel,
Timothy
Landfield
Director: Wayne Kramer
Screenwriter: Frank Hannah, Wayne Kramer
Produced by: Sean Furst, Michael
A. Pierce
FEATURED GUESTS:
PRODUCERS ED
PRESSMAN (OWNING MAHONEY, WALL STREET)
and JOHN
SCHMIDT
HOST : PETER TRAVERS
Official site: here
10/27: Shattered Glass
Shattered Glass stars Hayden Christensen as
Stephen Glass, a staff writer for the respected current events and policy
magazine
The New Republic and
a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's
and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of
the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain
of events - chronicled
in Buzz Bissinger's September, 1998 Vanity Fair article upon which "Shattered
Glass" is based - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks. UGO
Director:
Billy Ray
Cast:
Hayden Christensen,
Chloe Sevigny,
Hank Azaria,
Rosario Dawson,
Jamie Elman,
Melanie Lynskey,
Peter Sarsgaard,
Steve Zahn,
Cas Anvar,
James Berlingieri,
Mark Blum,
Jamie Elman
Writer:
Billy Ray
Featured Guest: Peter Sarsgaard, Boys
Don't Cry, Empire, K-19: The Widowmaker
HOST: MARSHALL FINE
Official Site: here
BONUS DOUBLE FEATURE: TBD
10/20 The Barbarian Invasions
This is the sequel to the Oscar-nominated Canadian arthouse hit, 1986's
Decline of the American Empire. MIRAMAX.
Clockwise from center: Rémy Girard (Rémy, seated), Louise
Portal (Diane), Toni Cecchinato (Alessandro), Marina Hands (Gaëlle),
Yves Jacques (Claude), Pierre Curzi (Pierre), Dorothée Berryman
(Louise), Stéphane Rousseau (Sebastian) and Dominique Michel (Dominique)
in Denys Arcand’s THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS. Photo Courtesy: Miramax
Films
Stéphane Rousseau and Rémy
Girard in Denys Arcand’s THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS. Photo Courtesy:
Miramax Films
Cast:
Dma MICHEL
Louise PORTAL
Yves JACQUES
Pierre CURZI
Rémy GIRARD
Stéphane ROUSSEAU
Marie-Josée CROZE
Marina HANDS
Dorothée BERRYMAN
Johanne Marie TREMBLAY
Directed by: Denys Arcand
Produced by: Daniel Louis, Denise Robert
GUEST: Director: Denys Arcand (Jesus of Montreal, Stardom, Love and Human Remains, The Decline of the American Empire)
HOSTED BY: Peter Travers (CNN/Rolling Stone Magazine)
Official site: here
10/12- The Singing Detective
While hospitalized with an extreme case of psoriasis, novelist Dan Dark
(Downey Jr.) reworks his first book in his head. Feverish, paranoid and
prone to musical outbreaks, he confuses himself with the his protagonist,
a detective investigating the muder of a prostitute in 1950s Los Angeles. Summary
written by IMDb Editors
Cast:
Robert Downey, Jr.,
Robin Wright Penn,
Jeremy Northam,
Katie Holmes,
Carla Cugino,
Mel Gibson
Director: Keith Gordon
Executive Producer: Stan Wlodkowski
Producers: Mel Gibson, Steven Haft, Bruce Davey
Associate Producer: Kevin Lake
Screenwriter: Dennis Potter
Cinematographer: Tom Richmond
Editor: Jeff Wishengrad
Production/Costume Designer: Patricia Norris
FEATURED GUEST : Keith
Gordon (A Midnight Clear, Mother Night, The Chocolate
War)
David Edelstein and Director Keith Gordon on Monday,
Oct. 12, 2003
David
Edelstein hosts, slate.com
Official Site: here
Other Links: here
here
OPENING NIGHT
TUES 10/ 7 - Anything but Love
This
homage to the golden era of 1950s Technicolor musicals tells the story
of a cabaret singer, Billie Golden living with her mother in Queens who
aspires to get out of the "airport circuit" (she sings at a
dingy lounge at JFK Airport).
Cast :
Isabel Rose
Cameron Bancroft
Eartha Kitt
Ilana Levine
Robert Cary Director
Isen Robbins Producer
Aimee Schoof Producer
James Calleri Casting Director
Robert Cary Screenplay
FEATURED GUEST:
Isabel Rose -
Star/Writer (Forrest
Gump).
SAMUEL GOLDWYN PICTURES
Official site: here
