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BY CRITICS:
Peter Travers (CNN/Rolling Stone Magazine, ABC-TV),)
Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly Magazine,
Karen Durbin (Elle/NY Times),
Alison Bailes (NBC) Ebert
Presents,
Marshall Fine (NY Film Critics Circle, STAR Magazine),
David Edelstein (New York Magazine /NPR's Fresh Air/ CBS Sunday Mornings),
Godfrey Cheshire (NY Film Critics Circle, The Independent),
Stephen Whitty (Star Ledger),
Glenn Kenny (National Society Film Critics),
and others.
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2/6 - THIN ICE
"THIN ICE is a thriller about an insurance agent (Kinnear) looking for a way to jump-start his business, reunite with his estranged wife (Thompson) and escape the frigid Wisconsin weather. This self-proclaimed master of duplicity believes that salesmanship is all about selling a story -- all he needs is a sucker willing to buy it. He hits pay dirt with a lonely retired farmer (Arkin) who is sitting on something much bigger than an insurance commission but, after meeting a local locksmith (Crudup) who traps him in his own game of deceit, mayhem ensues."
Cast:
Greg Kinnear,
Alan Arkin,
Billy Crudup,
Lea Thompson,
David Harbour
Bob Balaban
Directed By: Jill Sprecher
Written By:
Jill Sprecher
Karen Sprecher
Co-Producers
ANDREW PETERSON
MARK STEELE
Hosted by Godfrey Cheshire
Godfrey Cheshire
MARIA FULL OF GRACE Director Josh Marston and CBS’s David Edelstein
discuss Josh’s new film FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD.1/30 - THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD
Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival, the powerful and richly textured second feature from Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace) focuses on an Albanian family caught up in a blood feud. Nik (Tristan Halilaj) is a carefree teenager in a small town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own internet café. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father and uncle become entangled in a land dispute that leaves a fellow villager murdered.
According to a centuries-old code of law, this entitles the dead man's family to take the life of a male from Nik's family as retribution. His uncle in jail and his father in hiding, Nik is the prime target and confined to the home while his younger sister Rudina (Sindi Laçej) is forced to leave school and take over their father's business. Working with non-professional Albanian actors and a local co-writer, Marston boldly contrasts antiquated traditions with the lives of the young people whose future is put at risk by them.
Cast:
Tristan Halilaj,
Sindi Lacej,
Refet Abazi,
Zana Hasaj
Director, screenwriter: Joshua Marston
Screenwriter: Andamion Murataj
Producer: Paul Mezey
Director of photography: Rob Hardy
Host: David Edelstein
Guest: Director Josh Marston
Josh Marston
Joshua Jacob Marston is an American screenwriter and film director best known for the film Maria Full of Grace. Born in California, he graduated from Beverly Hills High School. Marston worked in Paris as an intern for Life, then for ABC News during the Gulf War. He returned to the United States and earned a master's degree in Political science from University of Chicago in 1994 before earning a Master of Fine Arts in film at New York University.
Marston also directed an episode of Six Feet Under. Marston directed a segment of the collective film New York, I Love You. His 2011 film The Forgiveness of Blood premiered in competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival and competed for the Golden Bear. Along with Andamion Murataj, Marston won the Silver Bear for Best Script
http://www.portobellopictures.com/Fandango-Portobello/The-Forgiveness-of-Blood2nd Feature
SALMON FISHING IN YEMEN
From the director of Chocolat and the Oscar-winning(R) screenwriter of Slumdog Millionaire comes the inspirational comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. When Britain's leading fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) is approached by a consultant (Emily Blunt) to help realize a sheikh's (Amr Waked) vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert, he immediately thinks the project is both absurd and unachievable. But when the Prime Minister's overzealous press secretary (Kristin Scott Thomas) latches on to it as a "good will" story, this unlikely team will put it all on the line and embark on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible.
Cast:
Emily Blunt,
Ewan McGregor,
Kristin Scott Thomas,
Rachael Stirling,
Amr Waked and
Tom Mison,
Directed by Lasse Hallström,
Written by Simon Beaufoy and Paul Torday,http://www.fishingintheyemen.com
1/30 - Winter Series Opener:
RAMPART
Los Angeles, 1999 - Officer Dave Brown (Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet and a Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing “the people’s dirty work” and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins and his refusal to change his ways in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate.
Cast:
Woody Harrelson
Ned Beatty
Ben Foster
Anne Heche
Ice Cube
Cynthia Nixon
Sigourney Weaver
Robin Wright
Steve Buscemi
Director:
Oren Moverman
Writers:
James Ellroy,
Oren MovermanExecutive Producer:
Lila Yacoub
Michael DeFranco
Paul Currie
Host: Alison Bailes
Guest: Oren Moverman; Director
Oren Moverman is an Israeli filmmaker, screenwriter, and former journalist based in New York City. Moverman was the screenwriter and associate producer of Jesus' Son, a 2000 Lion’s Gate/Alliance Release. Directed by Alison Maclean, the film stars Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton, Jack Black, Holly Hunter & Dennis Hopper. He co-wrote Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There, starring Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Richard Gere, Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Moverman has reportedly been in negotiations with Universal Studios to re-write and direct the studio's planned Kurt Cobain biopic.[1] Originally scripted by David Benioff, and partially based on the biography Heavier Than Heaven by Charles R. Cross, the untitled film will be executive produced by Courtney Love and her lawyer, Howard Weitzman.
FALL Series Closer: 11/28- A Seperation
Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin goes back to her parents’, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader…
Producer: Asghar Farhadi
Executive producer: Negar Eskandarfar
Written and Directed by: Asghar Farhadi
Cast:
Leila Hatami,
Peyman Moaadi,
Sareh Bayat,
Sarina Farhadi
Host: Godfrey Cheshire
http://www.sonyclassics.com/aseparation/
11/21 - THE ARTIST
Hollywood 1927. George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), it seems the sky's the limit - major movie stardom awaits. The Artist tells the story of their interlinked destinies.
Directed By: Michel Hazanavicius
Written By: Michel Hazanavicius
Producers:
Thomas Langmann Producer
Gilles Waterkeyn Co-Producer (uFilm)
Adrian Politowski Co-Producer (uFilm)
Nadia Khamlichi Co-Producer (uFilm)
Jeremy Burdek Co-Producer (uFilm)
Daniel Delume Executive Producer
Richard Middleton (II) Executive Producer
Antoine De Cazotte Executive Producer
Emmanuel Montamat Associate Producer
Jerome Lateur Executive Producer
Cast:
Jean Dujardin,
Bérénice Béjo,
John Goodman,
James Cromwell,
Penelope Ann Miller
Hosts: Alison Bailes & Caryn James
Alison Bailes
Caryn James
11/14 - MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’. The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Aurthur Miller (Dougray Scott).
Nearly 40 years on, his diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as My Week with Marilyn – this is the story of that week. When Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for Colin to introduce Marilyn to some of the pleasures of British life; an idyllic week in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.
Cast:
Michelle Williams,
Kenneth Branagh,
Eddie Redmayne,
Emma Watson,
Judi Dench,
Dominic Cooper
Director: Simon CurtisScreenwriter: Adrian Hodges, based on the diaries by Colin Clark
Producers:
David Parfitt,
Harvey WeinsteinExecutive producers:
Jamie Laurenson,
Simon Curtis,
Ivan Mactaggart,
Christine Langan,
Bob Weinstein,
Kelly Carmichael
Host: Farran Nehmehttp://myweekwithmarilynmovie.com/
BONUS DOUBLE FEATURE
HEIR APPARENT: LARGO WINCH
When billionaire Nerio Winch (Miki Manojlovic) is murdered, the focus shifts to his reluctant heir, Largo (Tomer Sisley), to take over the reins of his late father's major international corporation. But first he must overcome the onslaught of drug traffickers, assassins, militia fighters and double-dealing corporate-political traders to fulfill his destiny at the head of the table in this fast-paced Euro action-adventure thriller.
Directed by Jérôme Salle
Cast:
Tomer Sisley,
Kristin Scott Thomas,
Miki Manojlovic,
Mélanie Thierry,
Karel Roden,
Gilbert Melki
http://www.musicboxfilms.com/largo-winch
11/7 – MELANCHOLIA
Lars Von Trier is back with his new film, officially premiered in Cannes 2011. Described as “A beautiful movie about the end of the world”, MELANCHOLIA tells the story of two sisters (Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg), who find their relationship challenged as a nearby planet threatens to collide into the Earth.
LARS VON TRIER – DIRECTOR AND SCRIPTWRITER
META LOUISE FOLDAGER – PRODUCER
LOUISE VESTH – PRODUCER
MANUEL ALBERTO CLARO – DIR. OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Cast:
Kirsten Dunst,
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Kiefer Sutherland
Guest: Jytle Jensen
Jytle Jensen
Hosted by Godfrey Cheshire
Godfrey Cheshire
http://www.magpictures.com
Ed Arentz of Music Box Films and Glenn Kenny discuss THE CONQUEST & YOUNG GOETHE IN LOVE
10/31 - THE CONQUEST
Chronicles the volatile right-leaning Sarkozy's startling rise to become President of France and the emotional and psychological stakes involving the conquest of power. On the day the diminutive Sarkozy conquered his ultimate ambition, his wife, who for twenty years had struggled to pull the man she loved from the shadow into the light, walked out on him for another man.
Cast:
Denis Podalydès
Florence Pernel
Samuel Labarthe
Bernard LeCoq
Michèle Moretti
Director: Xavier DurringerWriters:
Patrick Rotman Screenplay
Xavier Durringer Screenplay
Producers:
Eric Altmeyer .... producer
Nicolas Altmeyer .... producer
Host: Glenn Kenny
Guest Ed Arentz - Music Box Films
Ed Arentz
http://www.theconquestmovie.com/BONUS DOUBLE FEATURE
YOUNG GOETHE IN LOVE
Germany 1772 – The young and tumultuous Johann Goethe (Alexander Fehling) aspires to be a poet, but after failing his law exams, is sent by his father (Henry Huebchen) to a sleepy provincial court to mend his ways. At first, he tries to do his best and even wins the praise and friendship of his superior, Kestner (Moritz Bleibtreu). Suddenly, Lotte (Miriam Stein) enters his life and changes his world. However, Johann is unaware that Lotte has already been promised to Kestner by her father (Burghart Klaußner).
Cast:
Alexander Fehling
Miriam Stein
Moritz Bleibtreu
Volker Bruch
Blughart KlauBner
Henry Hübchen
Directed by: Philipp Stölzl
Writing credits
Alexander Dydyna- screenplay
Christoph Müller- screenplay
Philipp Stölzl- screenplay
http://www.younggoetheinlove.com/
10/24 - LIKE CRAZY
A love story is both a physical and emotional tale, one that can be deeply personal and heartbreaking for an audience to experience. Director Drake Doremus' film Like Crazy beautifully illustrates how your first real love is as thrilling and blissful as it is devastating. When a British college student (Felicity Jones) falls for her American classmate (Anton Yelchin) they embark on a passionate and life-changing journey only to be separated when she violates the terms of her visa.
Directed By: Drake Doremus
Written By: Drake Doremus, Ben York Jones
Cast:
Anton Yelchin
Felicity Jones
Jennifer Lawrence
Charlie Bewley
Alex Kingston
Oliver Muirhead
Finola Hughes
Host: Karen Durbin (ELLE & NY Times)
10/17 – THE GREEN
Having left behind a life in New York City for the village charm of shoreline Connecticut, Michael Gavin, a drama teacher at a progressive private high school, thinks he can live a simple, harmonious domestic existence with his partner Daniel, a locavore caterer. Seemingly more concerned with the minutiae of suburban life than he is about challenging the bias he experiences in the provincial, recession-weary yankee bastion, Michael adheres to an unspoken survival code: Don't speak up, don't make trouble.
Director: Steven Williford
Writer: Paul Marcarelli
Produced by
Tena Clark - co-executive producer
Molly Pearson - producer
Dawn Porter - co-executive producer
Gregory Rae - co-executive producer
Daryl Roth - co-executive producer
Michelle Seward - co-executive producer
Steven Williford - co-executive producer
Guests: Writer/Producer (Verizon guy) Paul Marcarelli,
Molly Pearson
Director: Steven WillifordHost Allison Bailes
http://www.thegreenthemovie.com/
10/10 Opening Night:
L-R Peter Travers, the real Coach Cathy Rush, actress/player Katie Hayak, and writer, director, producer Tim Chambers celebrate THE MIGHT MACS
Photo: W. FrancisMIGHTY MACS
THE MIGHTY MACS is based on the incredible true story of the 1971-72 Immaculata College team that started in obscurity but became the original Cinderella story in women's basketball. This team of pioneers went from barely making that inaugural tournament to the first dynasty in their game. And Cathy Rush, the woman that was ahead of her time, became immortalized when she was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.THE MIGHTY MACS stars Carla Gugino as Cathy Rush; David Boreanaz as her husband, NBA referee Ed Rush; Marley Shelton as Sister Sunday; and Academy Award and Tony Award winner Ellen Burstyn as Mother St. John. The film was written, directed, and produced by Tim Chambers. The film's executive producers are Pat Croce, the former president of the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers, and Vince Curran, a successful businessman and former basketball star at Penn. Curran and Chambers are founders and partners of Quaker Media.
Starring:
Carla Gugino
David Boreanaz
Marley Shelton
Ellen Burstyn
James Rebhorn
Phyllis Somerville
Produced by: Whitney Springer
Written by: Tim Chambers
Directed by: Tim Chambers
HOST: Peter Travers
GUESTS: Director:
Tim Chambers
Carla Gugino
