Sneak Peek Spring 2012
We Have A Pope
Turn Me On Dammit
Unraveled
Monsieur Lazar
Your Sister’s Sister
Brothers and Sisters
Marigold Hotel
The Perfect Family
Knife Fight
Heavenly Vintage
Elena
Mighty Fine
Eye of the Storm
Plassis
Mighty Fine
Ey
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“Did you ever have that feeling where you can’t tell if something is a memory or if its something you have dreamed?”This is the heart of a film depicting a young womens’ battle with reality after she escapes a cult . The director juxtaposes scenes that the character experiences as she struggles to connect with her estranged sister and brother in law. “Marlene” Marcy May ” battles the traumas and thoughts that the cult experience has embeded in memory . She attempts to bridge reality and transition back to a normal life. She is haunted constantly. The director moves you back and forward as scenes depict her experiences in the cult and how present life triggers these flashbacks. Elizabeth Olsen is incredibly authentic in how she demonstrates her characters’ turmoil. John Hawkes plays the cult leader with reserve but with precise understanding of how to prey on the young people who are his followers. This is a ride that once you get on you are not bored but you are guaranted to feel confusion and dread even up to the abrupt ending. I know I will want to see this one again.
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I predict that this powerful film will generate alot of heat on Wall Street. The film will be compared to previous films dealing with similar issues but this film remains powerful in its straightforward script and presentation. I may not have understood all the particular financial math jargon but the event and its impact is clear. Every actor in this film is powerful in their role. Scenes are so well thought out and framed. There is no hype or hollywood in this film. It is a griping honest portrayal of how a wall street company steps up to save itself and continue to make money. This film will create Oscar buzz. It will also engender much discussion and debate.
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I was not crazy about “Like Crazy”. Perhaps because this is a film for a younger generation or perhaps because I could not buy into the total storyline. I know the film won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and Felicity Jones won the the special Jury prize for Best actress but I was not moved emotionally by this film. Yes the film is impressive considering that there was no definite script and the actors were left on their own to improvise. The actors did sincerely portray their characters. What did not sit well was the particular involvements that each character had with others as they lived their separate lives not together and yet married in an effort to make the relationship work. Parents getting involved in encouraging a marriage when the characters were so young, well that did touch a particular emotional cord and perhaps that is why the film did make me “Not Like Crazy” about it. As a footnote to the above ,I will see the film again in awhile and see if I am stirred by it in different ways the second time around. Sometimes the second time can be “Like Crazy”.
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This film appeared to be in the style of a doc-u-drama. That in itself can be fairly interesting. My problem with this film was it was a french film depicting the french side of politics with subtitles. My familiarity with France and its politics is microcosmic. Except for the publicity about affairs and marriages and divorces. All else escapes me. So here I am watching a movie that is sarcastic and biting and maybe informative. But I do later read that it is based on news clips and videos and interviews. Is the film bias in its representation?.Unfortunately I do not know. But the film does inform the public about how the media is able to distort or report . Similar to how our media manages the news. The truth of the situation is somewhat blended in the film but it may be a solid effort in reporting and recording the events leading to the election of Frances’ president. I would have to see the film again and perhaps do some checking as to facts.
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I did enjoy this film . I do wish it had been the first film that evening. I was in the mood to be swept into a different era and so I was through the music, the scenery and the costumes. This was a lovely romantic and wonderful historical tale. I was transported to Germany 1772 and thoroughly enjoyed my romp there. The task of the director of a period film is quite challenging in of itself as filmaking goes. This director has aptly given the audience an entertaining look at a slice of history that many of us might not have been aware of . I have to say I do enjoy being taught in this manner.
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This was my first time viewing a film directed and conceived by this film maker. I had heard of his antics at the Cannes International Film Festival and I was familar with the plot line. The beginning of this film is simply breathe taking as to sureallistic slow motion clips with the most magnificent music of Tristan and Isolde playing as images on a large screen parade in slow motion Each image is a clue as to the drama that will unfold . There is so much richness as to metaphor locked into every frame and character . The viewer must take in so much at one time as images jump into sight In addition the camera style is difficult to handle with its shaken qualities of Danish Dogma. This is a film that needs to be seen on a more intimate screen and at a distance to enjoy all that the visuals bring to the screen. I sat too close and found it difficult to watch at times. I found many scenes to be painful . The characters sometimes not likeable. As the film progressed I also began to feel anxiety grow and I was shifting in my seat . All of my emotional senses were so easily tiggered and manipulated . But did I truly like the film . I have to be honest and say “No”. I would shout out that it needed much more dialogue to enhance the characters as well as make for a more action driven plot. But I must say the cinematic phototgraphy was so rich and at times I felt I was seeing Salvador Dali’s paintings on the screen . The film certainly is an experience that is similar to the film style of ” The Tree of Life”. Each film attempting to explore ideas and emotions in quite visual paths and thereby expose the audience to a more artistic journey.
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Michelle Williams captures the fagile candle in the wind behind Monroes’ larger than life image in this sweet film. The lightening , costumes,makeup and hair all blend together to give us the “Marilyn Monroe”, of the screen but also the haunting ,lonely,little girl seeking love and respect. We see Monroe tortured by emotional ghosts and larger than life control feaks such as Sir Laurence Olivier as he tries to bed and direct Marilyn Monroe in his film “The Prince and the howGirl”. The camera captures Michelle Williams performance just as it capatured Monroe in all her films. You really just want to watch this Monroe on the screen. Michelle will certainly be nominated for an Oscar for this truly incredible performance.
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Opening Nights
Bravo to The Mighty Macs! Beautiful attention to period with stunning locations!
MMMM will launch Lizzie Olsen’s career into the stratosphere much like SHERRYBABY catapulted Maggie Gyllenhaal’s!
Can’t wait for more!
Murray
“You gotta know what day it is!”
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Tags: Elizabeth Olsen, John Hawkes, Martha Marcy May Marlene, The Mighty Macs, Tim Chambers
NYFCS 2011 Fall Series Line-Up
Paramus and Morristown 10/10 – 12/7
Confirmed and Those Under Consideration:
MARGIN CALL
Studio: Roadside Attractions
Director: J.C. Chandor
Screenwriter: J.C. Chandor
Starring: Zachary Quinto,
Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Stanley Tucci, Demi Moore, Penn
Badgley, Simon Baker, Mary McDonnell, Aasif Mandvi
Set in the high-stakes
world of the financial industry, “Margin Call” is a thriller
entangling the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour
period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. When entry-level
analyst Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto) unlocks information that could prove to
be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster ride ensues as decisions both
financial and moral catapult the lives of all involved to the brink of
disaster. Expanding the parameters of genre, “Margin Call” is a
riveting examination of the human components of a subject too often relegated
to partisan issues of black and white.
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE
Studio: Fox Searchlight
Pictures
Director: Sean Durkin
Screenwriter: Sean Durkin
Starring: Elizabeth Olsen,
Christopher Abbott, Brady Corbet, Hugh Dancy, Genre: Drama, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for
disturbing violent and sexual content, nudity and language)
“Martha Marcy May
Marlene” is a powerful psychological thriller starring Elizabeth Olsen as
Martha, a young woman rapidly unraveling amidst her attempt to reclaim a normal
life after fleeing from a cult and its charismatic leader (John Hawkes).
Seeking help from her estranged older sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson) and
brother-in-law (Hugh Dancy), Martha is unable and unwilling to reveal the truth
about her disappearance. When her memories trigger a chilling paranoia that her
former cult could still be pursuing her, the line between Martha’s reality and
delusion begins to blur.
LIKE CRAZY
Studio: Paramount Vantage
Director: Drake Doremus
Screenwriter: Drake
Doremus, Ben York Jones
Starring:Anton Yelchin,
Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlie Bewley, Alex Kingston, Oliver
Muirhead
Genre: Drama, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for
sexual content and brief strong language)
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. “Like Crazy” explores how a couple faces the real
challenges of being together and of being apart. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize
for Best Picture at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and of the Special Jury
Prize for Best Actress for Felicity Jones, “Like Crazy” depicts both
the hopefulness and the heartbreak of love.
THE RUM DIARY
Studio: FilmDistrict
Director: Bruce Robinson
Screenwriter: Bruce
Robinson
Starring:Johnny Depp,
Aaron Eckhart, Amber Heard, Michael Rispoli, Richard Jenkins, Giovanni Ribisi,
Marshall Bell
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for
language, brief drug use and sexuality)
Based on the debut novel
by Hunter S. Thompson, “The Rum Diary” tells the increasingly
unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp). Tiring of the
noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late
Eisenhower-era America, Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to
write for a local newspaper, The San Juan Star, run by downtrodden editor
Lotterman (Richard Jenkins). Adopting the rum-soaked life of the island, Paul
soon becomes obsessed with Chenault (Amber Heard), the wildly attractive
Connecticut-born fianc�e of Sanderson (Aaron
Eckhart). Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development
deals, is one of a growing number of American entrepreneurs who are determined
to convert Puerto Rico into a capitalist paradise in service of the wealthy.
When Kemp is recruited by Sanderson to write favorably about his latest
unsavory scheme, the journalist is presented with a choice: to use his words
for the corrupt businessmen’s financial benefit, or use them to take the
bastards down.
ANOTHER HAPPY DAY
Studio: Phase 4 Films
Director: Sam Levinson
Screenwriter: Sam Levinson
Starring: Ellen Barkin,
Demi Moore, Kate Bosworth, Thomas Haden Church, George Kennedy, Ellen Burstyn,
Ezra Miller
Genre: Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Ellen Barkin stars in this
darkly comic story of the emotional rollercoaster of a family gathering. On the
eve of her estranged son’s (Michael Nardelli) wedding, Lynn (Barkin), a woman
who has always worn her emotions on her sleeve, must deal with her
long-simmering feud with her ex-husband (Thomas Hayden Church) and his
hot-tempered wife (Demi Moore), the disdain of her cold mother (Ellen Burstyn)
and distant father (George Kennedy) and the ridicule of her ever-judgmental
sisters. And the fact that she brings along her three deeply troubled children
(Ezra Miller, Daniel Yelsky, Kate Bosworth) don’t make things any easier for
Lynn.
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
Studio:The Weinstein
Company
Director: Simon Curtis
Screenwriter: Adrian
Hodges
Starring: Michelle
Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Dominic Cooper, Emma
Watson, Julia Ormond, Dougray Scott, Zoe Wanamaker, Toby Jones, Philip Jackson,
Geraldine Somerville, Derek Jacobi, Simon Russell Beale
Genre: Biography, Drama
“My Week with
Marilyn” chronicles a week in the life of Marilyn Monroe in which she
escapes the shackles of her Hollywood career and embraces British life with
Colin Clark. Directed by Simon Curtis and produced by David Parfitt, the film
is based on Colin Clark’s diaries and has been adapted for the screen by Adrian
Hodges.
In the early summer of
1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark, 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 and
Marilyn Monroe, who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright
Arthur Miller.
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.
THE SON OF NO ONE
Studio: Anchor Bay Films
Director: Dito Montiel
Screenwriter: Dito Montiel
Starring: Al Pacino,
Channing Tatum, Ray Liotta, Katie Holmes, Tracy Morgan, Juliette Binoche, James
Ransone, Jake Cherry
Genre: Thriller
“Son of No One”
is a police thriller that centers on a young cop (Channing Tatum) who is
assigned to a precinct in the working class neighborhood where he grew up, with
an old secret surfacing and threatening to destroy his life and family.
MELANCHOLIA
Studio:Magnolia Pictures
Director:Lars von Trier
Screenwriter: Lars von
Trier
Starring: Kirsten Dunst,
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsg�rd, Brady Corbet,
Cameron Spurr, Charlotte Rampling, Jesper Christensen, John Hurt, Stellan
Skarsg�rd, Udo Kier, Kiefer Sutherland
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi,
Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
“Melancholia” is
described as a beautiful movie about the end of the world, and the story hinges
on a large object from outer space approaching Earth that affects the planet’s
inhabitants.
CARNAGE
Studio:Sony Pictures
Classics
Director: Roman Polanski
Screenwriter: Roman
Polanski, Yasmina Reza
Starring: Jodie Foster,
Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Set in contemporary
Brooklyn, New York, “Carnage” centers on two pairs of parents one of
whose child has hurt the other at a public park, who meet to discuss the matter
in a civilized manner. However, as the evening goes on, the parents become increasingly
childish, resulting in the evening devolving into chaos.
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY
An intelligence officer is
recalled from retirement when there are signs that one of the top-ranking
officers of the British Secret Intelligence Service is a Soviet mole.
Starring: Gary Oldman,
Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones
Directed by: Tomas
Alfredson
Produced by: Debra
Hayward, John LeCarré (II), Liza Chasin
THE ARTIST
Studio:The Weinstein Company
Director: Michel
Hazanavicius
Screenwriter: Michel
Hazanavicius
Starring: Jean Dujardin,
Berenice Bejo, Malcolm McDowell, John Goodman, Missi Pyle, James Cromwell,
Penelope Ann Miller
Genre: Romance
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
THE DESCENDANTS
Studio: Fox Searchlight
Pictures
Director:Alexander Payne
Screenwriter: Alexander
Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
Starring: George Clooney,
Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Robert Forster, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard,
Nick Krause, Amara Miller, Mary Birdsong, Rob Huebel, Patricia Hastie
Genre: Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Plot Summary: From
Alexander Payne, the creator of the Oscar-winning SIDEWAYS, set in Hawaii,
“The Descendants” is a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey
for Matt King (George Clooney) an indifferent husband and father of two girls,
who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife
suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement
with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the
family’s land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
CORIOLANUS
Studio:The Weinstein
Company
Director:Ralph Fiennes
Screenwriter: John Logan
Starring: Ralph Fiennes,
Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox, Jessica Chastain, James Nesbitt
Genre: Drama, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Plot Summary: Caius
Martius ‘Coriolanus’ (Ralph Fiennes), a revered and feared Roman General is at
odds with the city of Rome and his fellow citizens. Pushed by his controlling
and ambitious mother Volumnia (Vanessa Redgrave) to seek the exalted and
powerful position of Consul, he is loath to ingratiate himself with the masses
whose votes he needs in order to secure the office. When the public refuses to
support him, Coriolanus�s anger prompts a riot
that culminates in his expulsion from Rome. The banished hero then allies
himself with his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius (Gerard Butler) to take his
revenge on the city.
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
Studio: Oscilloscope
Laboratories
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Screenwriter: Rory
Kinnear, Lynne Ramsay
Starring: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra
Miller
Genre: Psychological
Thriller
A suspenseful and
psychologically gripping exploration into a parent dealing with her child doing
the unthinkable, “We Need to Talk About Kevin” is told from the
perspective of Eva, played by Tilda Swinton in a tour-de-force performance.
Always an ambivalent
mother, Eva and Kevin have had a contentious relationship literally from
Kevin’s birth. Kevin (Ezra Miller), now 15-years-old, escalates the stakes when
he commits a heinous act, leaving Eva to grapple with her feelings of grief and
responsibility, as well as the ire of the community-at-large. “We Need to
Talk About Kevin” explores nature vs. nurture on a whole new level as
Eva’s own culpability is measured against Kevin’s innate evilness, while
Ramsay’s masterful storytelling leaves enough moral ambiguity to keep the
debate going.
THE IRON LADY
Studio: The Weinstein
Company
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Screenwriter: Not
Available
Starring: Meryl Streep,
Jim Broadbent, Alexandra Roach, Harry Lloy, Olivia Colman, Nicholas Farrell,
Susan Brown, Roger Allam, Anthony Head, Julian Wadham, Pip Torrens, Nick
Dunning, Richard E Grant, David Westhead, Angus Wright, John Sessions
Genre: Biography, Drama
“The Iron Lady”
is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the
first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th
century’s most famous and influential women
IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY
A look at how a couple’s
romance is affected by the Bosnian War.
Directed by
Angelina Jolie
Writers
Angelina Jolie Written by
Cast
Rade Serbedzija
Branko Djuric
Zana Marjanovic … Ajla
Nikola Djuricko
Goran Kostic … Danijel
WAR HORSE
Studio: DreamWorks
Pictures
Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenwriter: Lee Hall,
Richard Curtis
Starring: Emily Watson,
David Thewlis, Peter Mullan, Niels Arestrup, Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irvine,
Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Kebbell
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Plot From director Steven
Spielberg comes “War Horse,” an epic adventure for audiences of all
ages. Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the
First World War, “War Horse” begins with the remarkable friendship
between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains
him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary
journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the
lives of all those he meets�British cavalry,
German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter�before the story reaches its emotional climax in the
heart of No Man’s Land.
The First World War is
experienced through the journey of this horse�an
odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure. “War
Horse” is one of the great stories of friendship and war� a successful book, it was turned into a hugely
successful international theatrical hit that is arriving on Broadway next year.
It now comes to screen in an epic adaptation by one of the great directors in
film history.
PRARIE LOVE
Three lost souls look for
love on the North Dakota tundra.
Dusty Bias – Director /
Writer / Editor, Ashley Martin¹ – Writer, Holly Lynn Ellis – Writer / Producer,
Bryant Mock – Producer, Douglas Mueller – Producer, Brian Quist – Producer,
Lawrence Schweich – Cinematographer, Ted Speaker – Composer more »
CAST: Jeremy Clark, Holly Lynn Ellis, Garth Blomberg, Greta Grosch
KAREN CRYING ON THE BUS
Karen discovers, after 10
years of marriage, she has left behind her dreams devoting herself to home
chores and realizes it has been a mistake that cost her her youth. She decides
then to separate and go in search of a life of its own. With her savings she
rents a room in the center of Bogota and tries to get a job, but her age and inexperience
makes it difficult. Karen will have to decide between returning to the
stability of a relationship or facing life for herself.
Filmmakers: Gabriel Rojas Vera – Director /
Writer, Alejandro Prieto – Producer.
CAST: Angela Carrizosa
, Diego Galindo
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