Spring Series Closer:

5/19 - THE PROMOTION



The Promotion: "Two mid-level Chicago supermarket employees--Doug and Richard, a dubious new guy from Canada--compete ruthlessly for a coveted managerial post at a new store location. Doug and Richard could not be more different, but going head-to-head in a contest of wits and will reveals how they have more in common than they once suspected."



Cast:
Seann William Scott
John C. Reilly
Jenna Fischer
Lili Taylor
Gil Bellows
Fred Armisen
Rick Gonzalez
David Moscow
Chris Conrad
Adrian Martinez
Bobby Cannavale

Directors
Steve Conrad Director

Writers:
Steve Conrad

Producers:
Bob Weinstein Executive Producer
Harvey Weinstein Executive Producer




GUEST Director: Steve Conrad Director


Steve Conrad

HOST - GODFREY CHESHIRE

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5/12 - LOVELY BY SURPRISE

"A blocked writer turns to her former mentor (and ex-lover) for advice. When he advises her to kill the main character to strengthen the story, she just can't do it. The real and fictional worlds collide when her character escapes his story, and begins appearing in the oddest of places."

Cast:
Carrie Preston,
Austin Pendleton,
Reg Rogers,
Dallas Roberts,
Michael Chernus

Directed by: Kirt Gunn
Produced by:
Kirt Gunn,
Michael Hilliard,
Marco Londoner

GUEST - DIRECTOR KIRT GUNN


KIRT GUNN
Read the interview over at The Film Lot

HOST GODFREY CHESHIRE

GODFREY CHESHIRE

Info: Link

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5/5 - SAVAGE GRACE



SAVAGE GRACE, based on the award winning book, tells the incredible true story of Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, the dashing heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Beautiful, red-headed and charismatic, Barbara is still no match for her well-bred husband. The birth of the couple's only child, Tony, rocks the uneasy balance in this marriage of extremes. Tony is a failure in his father's eyes. As he matures and becomes increasingly close to his lonely mother, the seeds for a tragedy of spectacular decadence are sown. Spanning 1946 to 1972, the film unfolds in six acts. The Baekelands' pursuit of social distinction and the glittering 'good life' propels them across the globe. We follow their heady rise and tragic fall against the backdrop of New York, Paris, Cadaques, Mallorca and London.



Cast:
Julianne Moore
Stephen Dillane
Eddie Redmayne
Unax Ugalde
Belen Rueda
Elena Anaya
Hugh Dancy



Executive Producers:
John Wells
Temple Fennell
Johnathan Dorfman
Hengameh Panahi
Stephen Hays (II)
Peter M. Graham II
Howard Morales



Guest: IFC DIRECTOR; TOM KALIN

Tom Kalin’s critically acclaimed films and videos have been screened at museums, film festivals, galleries and broadcast on television throughout the world. From short experimental videos to feature-length narrative films, he has created a diverse body of work, garnering top honors including the Berlin Film Festival’s Caligari Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Stockholm Film Festival. His films and videos are in the permanent collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Kalin has been awarded support from institutions including the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Paul Robeson Fund, the Peter Reed Foundation, the American Film Institute, New York State Council for the Arts and the Wexner Center. Commissions include The Whitney Museum, The American Center and The Kobe Museum, Japan. Kalin’s debut feature, SWOON, was awarded Best Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, the Open Palm for best first film at the Independent Feature Project’s Gotham Awards, among others.

FILMOGRAPHY
2007 SAVAGE GRACE (Director / Co-Producer)
1997 OFFICE KILLER (Co-Writer -- Directed by Cindy Sherman)
1996 I SHOT ANDY WARHOL (Producer -- Directed by Mary Harron)
1994 GO FISH (Executive Producer)
1992 SWOON (Director / Co-Producer)


Tom Kalin

Host: PETER TRAVERS

IFC Entertainment

Official Site: Link

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4/28 - THE DUKES

When a group of down-on-their-luck friends try to launch a comeback for their nostalgia group, "The Dukes", creative juices flow, as do the risks of ending up on the wrong side of the law. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical/Performing Arts and Crime/Gangster.



Starring:
Robert Davi,
Chazz Palminteri,
Elya Baskin,
Eloise Dejoria,
Patrick Cupo (II)



Directed by: Robert Davi.
Produced by: Frank Visco Jr, John Paul Dejoria, Herbert F. Boeckmann.

Host: David Edelstein - New York Magazine, NPR's Fresh Air and CBS Sunday Mornings




Guest: DUKES Director/Star ROBERT DAVI (DIE HARD, LICENSE TO KILL, TV'S "THE PROFILER")


ROBERT DAVI

Official Site for The Dukes  Link

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4/21 - SON OF RAMBOW

"Son of Rambow" is a hilariously fresh and visually inventive take on friendship, family, film heroes and the death-defying adventures of growing up in the video age. The story takes place in 1980s Britain, where young Will Proudfoot is raised in isolation among The Brethren, a puritanical religious sect in which music and TV are strictly forbidden.

Filmed in a creatively mad-cap, homemade style with a mostly amateur cast and a wry, comic-tinged nostalgia, creative visionaries Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith, a.k.a. Hammer & Tongs ("Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"), manage to capture both the agony and the giddy ecstasy of a camcorder childhood with humor, poignancy and a rousing dose of cinematic panache.

Cast:
Will Poulter,
Bill Milner,
Jules Sitruck,
Charlie Thrift,
Jessica Stevenson

Director: Garth Jennings
Screenwriter: Garth Jennings
Producer: Nick Goldsmith
Composer: Joby Talbot

HOST: MARSHALL FINE



GUESTS: DIRECTOR GARTH JENNINGS & PRODUCER NICK GOLDSMITH



PARAMOUNT VANTAGE

Official Site: Link

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4/14 - THEN SHE FOUND ME

THEN SHE FOUND ME - 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.

Director: Helen Hunt



Cast:
Helen Hunt,
Bette Midler,
Colin Firth,
Matthew Broderick,
Lynn Cohen

Directed by: Helen Hunt

Executive Producers:
Ralph Kamp
Louise Goodsill
John Wells
Walter Josten
Jeff Geoffray
Chip Signore
Victor Levin Executive Producer

Guest: Mark Urmann , Head of ThinkFilm.


HOST: PETER TRAVERS

Distributors: ThinkFilm

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4/7 - Young @ Heart

Young @Heart - At an age when most people are either dead or living out their last days in retirement homes, these men and women are up on stage singing their hearts out about the big taboos surrounding old age: about love and sex, loss of youth, loneliness and death. In their mouths, familiar lyrics take on whole new meanings. Link

Cast:
Bob Cilman
Young@Heart

Producers:
Jane Villiers - Executive Producer
Sally George -Producer

Official Site: Fox Searchlight



HOST: PETER TRAVERS



GUEST: DR. JOY BROWNE

2ND Feature:

LIFE BEFORE HER EYES

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.

Director: Vadim Perelman

Starring: Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood, Eva Amurri

Officail Site: Link

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3/31 - PADRE NUESTRO (Sundance Grand Jury Winner)



Padre Nuestro- Fleeing a pack of henchman on the Mexican side of the border, Juan hops a truck transporting illegals from Mexico to New York City. En route he befriends Pedro, an innocent from central Mexico who is headed to New York to seek his rich restaurateur father, Diego. Pedro shows Juan a sealed letter that his mother, now dead, has given him--an introduction to the father he never knew. When the truck pulls into New York City, Pedro wakes to find both his belongings and his new friend gone without a trace. He is cast onto the street and stumbles around, lost in an unknown city. Juan, meanwhile, shows up at Diego's door with the letter, claiming to be his long-lost son, Pedro



Cast :
Jesús Ochoa,
Armando Hernández,
Jorge Adrián Espíndola,
Paola Mendoza



Screenwriter : Christopher Zalla
Producers : Benjamin Odell, Per Melita
Cinematographer : Igor Martinovic
Editor : Aaron Yanes
Production Designer : Tommaso Ortino



GUEST:
Director - Christopher Zalla

Christopher Zalla - Born in Kisumu, Kenya, Christopher Zalla spent much of his youth overseas and worked for nine summers as a commercial salmon fisherman in Alaska's Bering Sea. Zalla received his MFA with honors in directing from Columbia University's graduate film program, where he served as a teaching assistant and the faculty awarded him a full research assistant fellowship for merit as a top student. Prior to Padre Nuestro, he wrote "Marching Powder" for Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment. Zalla is fluent in Spanish and lives in New York City.

HOST - Stephen Whitty

Official Site: Link Link

 

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