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TITLE: PRETTY PERSUASION
SYNOPSIS: A sophomore in an exclusive private school in Beverly Hills, Kimberly is preoccupied with the passions raised by her world: chasing fame, boys, and success without regard for the consequences. But Pretty Persuasion is anything but derivative or formulaic, and when Kimberly and two classmates decide to pursue a sexual-harassment suit against one of their teachers, this roller coaster takes off.
DIRECTOR: Marcos Siega
KEY CAST: Evan Rachel Wood, Ron Livingston, James Woods, Elisabeth Harnois, Jane Krakowski, Selma Blair
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: Samuel Goldwyn / Roadside Attractions
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TITLE: THE PROPOSITION
SYNOPSIS: THE PROPOSITION is visually stunning tale of loyalty, betrayal and retribution. Set in Australia in the 1880s, the film opens in the middle of a frenzied gunfight between the police and a gang of outlaws. Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) and his brother Mikey are captured by Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone). Together with their psychopathic brother Arthur (Danny Huston), they are wanted for a brutal crime. Stanley makes Charlie a seemingly impossible proposition in an attempt to bring an end to the cycle of bloody violence. Emily Watson plays Stanley’s wife Martha Stanley; John Hurt plays the bounty hunter Jellon Lamb and David Wenham plays Eden Fletcher, the powerful local landowner.
DIRECTOR: John Hillcoat
Writer & Composer: Nick Cave
KEY CAST: Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, John Hurt, David Wenham, Danny Houston
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: The Works Ltd.
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TITLE: QUILL
SYNOPSIS: "If you see only one Japanese seeing-eye-dog movie this year, let it be Quill. The opening scenes present a bounty of puppies so unbearably cute, they'll elicit a chorus of coos from even the stoniest audience. The movie's hero is a Labrador named Quill who undergoes the most demanding training regimen seen on screen since the 36th Chamber of Shaolin. Smart, diligent and charming, he wins the affection of his stern trainer, Tawada, and his grumpy blind handler. Audiences are just as unlikely to resist him in Yoichi Sai's simply rendered and indisputably sweet film." - Jason Anderson, EYE Magazine.
DIRECTOR: Yoichi Sai
KEY CAST: Kaoru Kobayashi, Kippei Shiina, Teruyuki Kagawa
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: Shochiki Co., Ltd.
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TITLE: RHINOCEROS EYES
SYNOPSIS: Rhinoceros Eyes is a fantastical coming-of-age story revolving around Chep (Michael Pitt), a young, reclusive prop-house employee who falls in love with a detail-obsessed movie production designer named Fran (Paige Turco). Fran's need for authentic props sends Chep to great and questionable lengths as he tries to satisfy her requests, and ultimately...win her heart.
DIRECTOR: Aaron Woodley
KEY CAST: Michael Pitt, Paige Turco, Gale Harold, Jackie Burroughs
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: Madstone Films
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TITLE: ROSENSTRASSE
SYNOPSIS: After her husband dies, Ruth seems to be acting very distraught, according to her daughter Hannah. When Hannah starts probing into the past, she finds out that her mother, whose Jewish parents were deported during World War II, was raised by an "Aryan" woman named Lena. Hannah travels to Berlin and finds the now almost 90-year-old Lena. The old woman tells Hannah her story: the story of the women of the Rosenstrasse.
DIRECTOR: Margarethe von Trotta
KEY CAST: Katja Reinmann, Maria Schrader, Martin Feifel
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: Samuel Goldwyn
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TITLE: TARNATION
SYNOPSIS: Jonathan Caouette's brutal and spellbinding musical docudrama TARNATION defies categorization. Part documentary, part narrative fiction, part home movie, part acid trip, this completely original debut is breathtaking and establishes Caouette as a cinematic visionary to reckon with.
DIRECTOR: Jonathan Caouette
KEY CAST: Jonathan Caouette, Renee Leblanc, David Sanin Paz.
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: Wellspring Media
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TITLE: THEY CAME BACK (LES REVENANTS)
SYNOPSIS: One morning, the neighbourhood wakes to see a group of recently deceased people strolling back into town, looking much as they did just before death. Many of the residents are unprepared to resume their lives with their former family members, so a large "refugee" and reintegration camp is set up. Frequent meetings of the town council address employment and benefits for the returnees, as well as how to counsel those on both sides of death. All seems fine until the returnees start exhibiting peculiar behaviour: they never sleep, are immune to disease, seek comfort underground and are incapable of learning. Suddenly, they are a community feared and hated by the others.
DIRECTOR: Robin Campillo
KEY CAST: Geraldine Pasilhas, Jonathan Zaccai, Frederic Pierrot
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: Films Distribution
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TITLE: TIBET: A BUDDHIST TRILOGY
SYNOPSIS: Four years in the making and hailed as a cinematic masterpiece in 1979, writer/director Graham Coleman's three-part feature has been unseen for over 20 years. Now, the film has been reworked into a single presentation, complete with digital restoration of the original material and new commentary. Part 1 is an intimate portrait of the Dalai Lama as a spiritual and temporal leader. Part 2 journeys deep into the mystical inner world of monastic life and presents an authentic revelation of tantric Buddhism, with commentaries by the great 20th century master Dudjom Rinpoche. Part 3, photographed in the awesome landscapes of Ladakh, is a meditation on impermanence and the depiction of the monastery's moving ritual response to a death in the community.
PRODUCERS: David Lascelles
DIRECTOR: Graham Coleman
KEY CAST: Documentary
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: Thread Cross Films
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TITLE: TIDELAND
SYNOPSIS: In the great tradition of child fantasy
stories such as The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland, Terry Gilliam takes us on a wild
adventure with his adaptation of Mitch Cullin's cult classic novel. Welcome to the world of
Jeliza-Rose, the young heroine and narrator of TIDELAND. What has brought Jeliza-Rose from the
big city to the prairies? And why is her former rockabilly guitarist father not talking to her
anymore? And who is making all that noise in the attic? Jeliza-Rose drifts from the harsh
reality of her childhood and escapes into the fantasies of her own active imagination. This is
a fantasy world to rival all others; here fireflies have names, bog-men awaken at dusk, monster
sharks swim down railroad tracks, and disembodied Barbie heads share in her adventures. TIDELAND
is as optimistic as it is surreal, as humorous as it is suspenseful - a celebration of the power
of a child's imagination.
PRODUCERS: Jeremy Thomas, Gabriella Martinelli
DIRECTOR: Terry Gilliam
KEY CAST: Jeff Bridges, Janet McTeer, Jennifer Tilly, Jodelle Ferland, Brendan Fletcher
RELEASE DATE: Now Available
SOURCE: Capri Films & HanWay Films
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TITLE: TRAVELLERS AND MAGICIANS
SYNOPSIS: In the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan,
nestled deep in the Himalayas, two men seek to escape their mundane lives. Dondup, an educated
university graduate decides that he will be better off picking grapes in the US than working as
a government officer in a remote rural village. Tashi, a restless farm youth studying magic,
cannot bear the thought of a life consigned to his village. Through a trick of his brother, he
is delivered into a dream world of seduction and intrigue. The two men embark on parallel, if
separate, journeys. Their yearning is a common one - for a better and different life. Dondup,
delayed by the timeless pace of his village, is forced to hitchhike through the beautiful wild
countryside of Bhutan to reach his goal. He shares the road with a monk, an apple seller, a
papermaker and his beautiful young daughter, Sonam. Throughout the journey the perceptive,
yet mischievous monk relates the story of Tashi. It is a mystical fable of lust, jealousy and
murder, that holds up a mirror to the restless Dondup, and his blossoming attraction to the
innocent Sonam. The cataclysmic conclusion of the monk's tale leaves Dondup with a dilemma -
is the grass truly greener on the other side?
DIRECTOR: Khyenste Norbu
KEY CAST: Tshewang Dendup, Sonam Lhamo, Lhakpa Dorji and Deki Yangzom
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: HanWay Films
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TITLE: WALK ON WATER
SYNOPSIS: WALK ON WATER follows Eyal, a fierce Mossad agent (Lior Ashkenazi), on assignment to track down an aging Nazi war criminal, Alfred Himmelman. By posing as a tour guide, Eyal befriends Himmelman's liberal grandchildren in Tel Aviv, but what begins as a deceptive mission crossing from Jerusalem to Berlin dissolves into a contemporary journey through conflicting ideologies and histories, changing Eyal's view of the world forever.
DIRECTOR: Eytan Fox
KEY CAST: Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Carolina Peters and Gidon Shemer
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: Samuel Goldwyn
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