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An Education is the story of a teenage girl's coming-of-age set in
1961 London, a city caught between the drab, post-war 1950s and the glamorous,
more liberated decade to come. Jenny (Carey Mulligan) stands on the brink
of becoming a woman: a brilliantly witty and attractive 16-year-old whose
suburban life is about to be blown apart by the utterly unsuitable 30-something
David (Peter Sarsgaard). Urbane and witty, David manages to charm her conservative
parents Jack (Alfred Molina) and Marjorie (Cara Seymour). David introduces
Jenny to a glittering new world of classical concerts and late-night suppers
with his attractive friend and business partner, Danny (Dominic Cooper) and
Danny's girlfriend, the beautiful but vacuous Helen (Rosamund Pike). Just
as Jenny's family's long-held dream of getting their brilliant daughter into
Oxford seems within reach, Jenny is tempted by another kind of life. Written
by Nick Hornby (About a Boy, High Fidelity) and directed by Lone Scherfig
(Italian for Beginners). Official Web Site Tom Long's Detroit News review... |
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The new dramatic comedy from the Coen Brothers (Burn After Reading, Fargo)
is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson
Airplane is on the radio and "F-Troop" is on TV. It is 1967, and
Larry (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university,
has just been informed by his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) that she is leaving
him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues, Sy (Fred
Melamed), who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry.
Larry's unemployable brother Arthur (Richard Kind) is sleeping on the couch,
his son Danny (Aaron Wolf) is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew
school, and his daughter Sarah (Jessica McManus) is filching money from his
wallet in order to save up for a nose job. While his wife and Sy blithely
make new domestic arrangements, and his brother becomes more and more of a
burden, an anonymous hostile letter-writer is trying to sabotage Larry's chances
for tenure at the university. Also, a graduate student seems to be trying
to bribe him for a passing grade while at the same time threatening to sue
him for defamation. Plus, the beautiful woman next door torments him by sunbathing
nude. Struggling for equilibrium, Larry seeks advice from three different
rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous
person—a mensch—a serious man? Official
Web Site Tom Long's Detroit News review... |
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A grieving couple retreat to 'Eden,' their isolated cabin in the woods, where
they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature
takes its course and things go from bad to worse… Willem Dafoe and Charlotte
Gainsbourg (winner of the Best Actress Award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival)
give brave, outstanding performances in the new provocation from writer/director
Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville). Antichrist
is a totally uncompromising psychological horror film conceived and made while
the director was experiencing emotional challenges in his own life. Reviewing
the intense and controversial film at its Cannes premiere, Roger Ebert called
it "powerfully made" and continued: "The performances by Willem
Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg are heroic and fearless…Von Trier's visual
command is striking…And if you can think beyond what he shows to what
he implies, its depths are frightening…Von Trier has reached me and shaken
me." Official
Web Site Tom Long's Detroit News review... |
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| A little girl who is sent with her sister to an orphanage in the heart of France, who waits in vain every Sunday for her father to come for her… A cabaret performer with a weak voice who sings to an audience of drunken soldiers… A humble seamstress, who stitches hems at the back of a provincial tailor's shop… A young, skinny courtesan, to whom protector Étienne Balsan (Benoît Poelvoorde) offers a safe haven, amongst the idle and decadent… A woman in love who knows she will never be anyone’s wife, refusing marriage even to Arthur 'Boy' Capel (Alessandro Nivola), the man who returned her love… A rebel who finds the conventions of her time oppressive, and instead dresses in her lovers' clothes… This is the story of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (Audrey Tautou, Amélie), who begins her life as a headstrong orphan, and through an extraordinary journey becomes the legendary couturier who embodied the modern woman and became a timeless symbol of success, freedom and style. Official Web Site |
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An extraordinary life of adventure, celebrity and continuing mystery comes
to light in Amelia, a vast, thrilling account of legendary aviation
pioneer Amelia Earhart (two time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank). After
becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia was thrust into
a new role as America's sweetheart—the legendary "goddess of light,"
known for her bold, larger-than-life charisma. Yet, even with her global fame
solidified, her belief in flirting with danger and standing up as her own,
outspoken woman never changed. She was an inspiration to people everywhere,
from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (Cherry Jones) to the men closest to her
heart: her husband, promoter and publishing magnate George P. Putnam (Richard
Gere), and her long time friend and lover, pilot Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor).
In the summer of 1937, Amelia set off on her most daunting mission yet: a
solo flight around the world that she and George both anxiously foresaw as
destined, whatever the outcome, to become one of the most talked-about journeys
in history. Directed by Mira Nair (The Namesake, Monsoon Wedding).
Official Web
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| In the new comedy from director/co-writer Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre), Michael Angarano stars as Benjamin, a teenager being home-schooled by his eccentric mother (Jennifer Coolidge). A loveable loner, Benjamin's passion for writing leads him on an offbeat and hilarious journey as his story first gets ripped off by legendary fantasy novelist Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement), and then is adapted into a disastrous movie by the small town's most prolific homespun filmmaker. Official Web Site |
Starts Wednesday, November 25
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| Viggo Mortensen leads a stellar cast (including Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall and Guy Pearce) in the epic, post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of a father (Moretensen) and his young son (newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee) as they journey across a barren America that was destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm. A masterpiece of adventure, The Road is adapted from author Cormac McCarthy's (No Country for Old Men) beloved, best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which boldly imagines a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the best that they are capable of—a future in which father and son are sustained by love. Directed by John Hillcoat (The Proposition). Official Web Site |
Starts Wednesday, November 25
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In his most powerful performance to date, Ben Foster stars as Will Montgomery,
a U.S. Army officer who has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is
assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. Partnered with fellow
officer Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) to bear the bad news to the loved ones
of fallen soldiers, Will faces the challenge of completing his mission while
seeking to find comfort and healing back on the home front. When he finds
himself drawn to Olivia (Samantha Morton), to whom he has just delivered the
news of her husband's death, Will's emotional detachment begins to dissolve
and the film reveals itself as a surprising, humorous, moving and very human
portrait of grief, friendship and survival. Featuring tour-de-force performances
from Foster, Harrelson and Morton, and a brilliant directorial debut by Oren
Moverman, The Messenger brings us into the inner lives of these outwardly
steely heroes to reveal their fragility with compassion and dignity. Official
Web Site Director Oren Moverman on the need to find optimism in dark times |
Starts Friday, December 4
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| The award-winning drama Skin tells one of the most unusual and moving true stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa. Sandra Laing (Sophie Okonedo of Hotel Rwanda and The Secret Life of Bees) is a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners (Sam Neill and Alice Krige) who are unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, who lovingly bring her up as their 'white' little girl. But at the age of ten, Sandra is driven out of white society. The film follows Sandra's thirty-year journey from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in a changing world—and triumphs against all odds. Official Web Site |
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