Winter 2010 Season Recap

Winter Series Recap:

2/8- GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

A journalist gets tangled in the underworld when he is hired to write the saga of a powerful family.

Starring:
Michael Nyqvist,
Noomi Rapace,
Peter Haber,
Lena Endre,
Marika Lagercrantz.

Directed
Produced by: Peter Nadermann, Ole Sondberg, Soren Staermose.

Guest Director: Niels Arden Oplev

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(L-R, Actor Edward Norton, Rolling Stone Critic Peter Travers and Writer, Star, Director Tim Blake Nelson (O' Brother Where Art Thou), discuss the new film LEAVES OF GRASS)

Credit: Bridget Laudien

2/1-LEAVES OF GRASS

Edward Norton stars in this taught thriller from actor-director Tim Blake Nelson (O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?). Bill Kincaid left his native Oklahoma years ago and has since become a professor at an Ivy League school, but his past comes back to haunt him when he returns home for his twin brother's funeral. But his twin isn't dead, and he's going to draw his brother into a plot that is sure to fail and drag Bill down with him. LEAVES OF GRASS also stars Susan Sarandon and Richard Dreyfuss.

Cast:
Edward Norton,
Tim Blake Nelson,
Susan Sarandon,
Richard Dreyfuss,
Keri Russell

Director: Tim Blake Nelson
Screenwriter: Tim Blake Nelson


Guest: Edward Norton and Tim Blake Nelson


Edward Norton

Host Peter Travers.

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A PROPHET

The rise through the criminal ranks of a young orphan of North African origin, who has only known a prison life and who will become, with the help of the Corsican mafia and an influential Imam, the ultimate crime kingpin of all of France's immigrant suburbs.



Starring: Niels Arestrup,
Gilles Cohen,
Sonia Hell,
Hichem Yacoubi,
Antoine Basler.



Directed by: Jacques Audiard.
Produced by: Pascal Caucheteux, Martine Cassinelli.

Host: Karen Durbin

Double Feature:

TERRIBLY HAPPY



Robert Hanson (Jakob Cedergren) is a Copenhagen police officer who, following a nervous breakdown, is transferred to a small provincial town to take on the mysteriously vacated Marshall position and subsequently gets mixed up with a married femme fatale. Robert’s big city temperament makes it impossible for him to fit in, or understand the uncivilized, bizarre behavior displayed by the townspeople. Quickly spiraling downward into an intense fable blending cutting edge dark humor with classic noir elements, "Terribly Happy" displays a unique, often macabre vision of the darkest depths to which people will go to achieve a sense of security and belonging.



Cast:
Jakob Cedergren,
Kim Bodnia,
Lene Maria Christensen,
Lars Brygmann

Director: Henrik Ruben Genz

Henrik Ruben Genz graduated in 1995 from the National Film School of Denmark. Of his documentaries and short feature films, the most successful has been "Theis & Nico" which brought him an Oscar® nomination and a Glass Bear at the Berlinale.

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1/18 -Opening Night!

YELLOW HANKERCHIEF

"Brett Hanson is an ex-convict, just released from prison after serving six years for manslaughter and now adrift in a world of new freedoms and responsibilities. Finding initial difficulties in reconciling himself to a troubled past, Brett crosses paths with lonely and troubled teenager Martine and her new 'ride' Gordy. The trio head out in the same car and direction--Martine to cut loose and get away from her family, Gordy to get closer to Martine, and Brett who must decide whether he wants to return to his troubled past and an uncertainty with May, the woman that he left behind. Once on the road, the trio find their relationships forging and changing in myriad ways, but it is Brett's story and his need to reconcile his past to his future that drives the two young people to reassess their own passages as well.
Distributors: Samuel Goldwyn Films, Dodi Film Productions. "

Starring:
William Hurt,
Maria Bello,
Eddie Redmayne,
Kristen Stewart,
Marco St John



Directed by: Udayan Prasad.
Produced by: Lillian Birnbaum, Arthur Co

Host: Alison Bailes

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