Man on Wire
MAGNOLIA Street: Dec. 9 Prebook: Nov. 11 > Inspirational documentary about a tightrope walker with a dream. This fascinating film looks at the true-life story of Philippe Petit, a Frenchman who walked a tightrope between the two World Trade Center towers in 1974 New York. Filmmaker James Marsh uses archival footage and reenactments to depict the events, which play out like a classic heist f...
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Woman on the Beach
NEW YORKER Street: Oct. 28 Prebook: Oct. 1 > Romantic drama explores love in modern-day Korea. Though marketed as a romantic comedy, Woman on the Beach from Korea is serious in tone and elicits few laughs, which could have been lost in translation. The film follows a director (Seung-Woo Kim) who takes a trip with his friend (Tae-Woo Kim) and a beautiful musician (Hyun-Jung Go) to a seaside ...
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Before the Rains
LIONSGATE Street: Sept. 16 Prebook: now > Indian drama about the cultural battle between East and West. In the latest film from Santosh Sivan ( Bride and Prejudice ), British businessman Henry Moores (Linus Roache) attempts to build a spice plantation in ’30s India.
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Taxi to the Dark Side
IMAGE Street: Sept. 30 Prebook: Sept. 2 > Emotional and informative look at the controversial issue of torture. Winner of the 2007 Best Documentary Oscar, Taxi to the Dark Side is a profoundly disturbing look at the unsavory methods the U.S. practices overseas in its fight against terrorism. To narrow its scope, the film focuses on an innocent Afghan taxi driver who was taken into custody b...
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Jellyfish
ZEITGEIST Street: Sept. 30 Prebook: now > Dreamy Israeli drama about three dissimilar women who connect. Winner of the Cannes Camera d’Or, this dream-like film follows three women in Israel whose lives intersect in unexpected ways. There is Keren (Noa Knoller), a new bride; Batia (Sarah Adler), a waitress at Keren’s wedding; and Joy (Ma-nenita De Latorre), a Filipino caretaker a...
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How to Rob a Bank
IFC/GENIUS Street: Sept. 2 Prebook: now > Visually slick comedic thriller lacks suspense. How to Rob a Bank follows a slacker (Nick Stahl) upset by his ATM surcharge fees who goes to a bank to complain while a robbery is underway. He winds up locked in a vault with a cyber thief (Erika Christensen), and much of the film is spent with the pair as they bicker and predictably fall in love.
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Towards Darkness
PEACE ARCH Street: July 22 Prebook: now > Fast-paced thriller about Colombia kidnappings. Told in the fast-paced style and disjointed storytelling of 24, this bilingual thriller follows the kidnapping of a photographer (Roberto Urbina) and the rescue mission initiated by his parents (Tony Plana, Alejandra Borrero) to find him.
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The Counterfeiters
SONY Street: Aug. 5 Prebook: now > Compelling WWII drama should draw interest from its Oscar win. Winner of this year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, The Counterfeiters tells the true-life story of the Nazi counterfeiting operation during World War II. Karl Markovics stars as Salomon “Sally” Sorowitsch, a Jewish counterfeiter who is captured by the Nazis and assigned t...
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