They say that opposites attract. Well, for slacker Ben (Seth Rogen) and career girl Alison (Katherine Heigl), that's certainly the case—at least for one intoxicated evening.
Our Take: Lewd but true to life, tasteless yet sincerely tenderhearted: Apatow has rewritten the rules for modern-day romantic comedies, and this clever take on slacker-stoner lifestyle is his flagship entry. We can definitely relate.
Picturehouse and HBO Films present a critically acclaimed biopic about the legendary international singing icon Edith Piaf, whose voice and talent captivated the world. Starring award-winner Marion Cotillard (A Very Long Engagement, A Good Year) in an astonishing performance, the film is a portrait of a remarkable artist born into poverty who survived using the only gift she had: her ...
Our Take: What a life! And what a brilliant and heart-stirring performance by Oscar winner Marion Cotillard as the legendary French chansonnier. You’ll never hear Piaf’s music the same way again.
Nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima tells the untold story of the Japanese soldiers who defended their homeland against invading American forces during World War II. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of Iwo Jima itself, the unprecedented tactics of General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe, The Last ...
Our Take: Clint Eastwood has already taken his place in the pantheon of iconic American directors, but with Letters he has outdone himself, telling a World War II story from the perspective of Japanese soldiers. This is humanistic filmmaking of the highest order.
Manufactured Landscapes is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris. The film follows him through China, as he shoots the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. ...
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Baichwal’s doc is equally frightening and awe-inspiring, not least because of how we’re implicated in China’s industrial excesses, as consumers of cheap electronics and prime exporters of e-junk. Somehow, Burtynsky makes gorgeous art out of all the environmental degradation. His point? Gawk, recoil, then connect the dots.
Author and filmmaker James D. Scurlock takes on the powerful financial industry in an insightful and infuriating documentary about credit card debt in America. As he crisscrosses the United States, Scurlock interviews average Americans whose lives have been ruined by predatory financial lenders. His subjects are from all walks of life--everyone from retired widows in the Midwest, to poverty-stricken Southerners, ...
Our Take: Despair over out-of-control credit-card debt is literally killing people in the U.S., a point Scurlock’s doc on corporate loan-sharking makes painfully clear. So why are we addicted to credit cards? Is the lending industry to blame or individual irresponsibility? The makers of Maxed Out go looking for answers in an America seemingly hell-bent on borrowing.
An adventurous experiment in cinematic storytelling, this low-budget independent Thai feature is structured like the Surrealist idea of the "exquisite corpse." One person begins a story, and a succession of others continue it in whatever way they see fit. Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul gleans his participants from all over the Thai countryside. The story, begun by a young woman with a ...
Our Take: Part art film, part ethnographic travelogue, visionary Thai filmmaker “Joe” Weerasethakul investigates the universal nature of story with a documentarian’s eye in his first feature film. His mini-portraits of local villagers are as entrancing as the bizarre tale they collectively weave, unprompted by a written script. Take that, Robert McKee!
Five cities. Five taxicabs. A multitude of strangers in the night. Jim Jarmusch assembled an extraordinary international cast of actors (including Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Beatrice Dalle, and Roberto Benigni) for this hilarious quintet of tales of urban displacement and existential angst, spanning time zones, continents, and languages. Jarmusch's lovingly askew view of humanity from the passenger seat ...
Our Take: Indie maverick Jim Jarmusch’s wry, oddball sense of humor is on fine display in this suite of five urban tales told in the backseat of a cab. The Finnish actors who populate the Helsinki segment are a perfect match for Jarmusch’s deadpan style, while Roberto Benigni earns his keep with an uproarious Roman reminiscence about his erotic encounter with a pumpkin.
An obsessive French perfumer with a highly developed olfactory sense and an all-consuming drive to capture the essence of love eventually resorts to murder in his unrepentant quest to find the key ingredient for his recipe in director Tom Tykwer's adaptation of author Patrick Suskind's best-selling 1985 novel.
Our Take: How many films can you think of that have the olfactory sense as a central conceit? Obsession, murder, and Tom Tykwer’s signature visual eccentricities are the essence of this lurid period drama based on Patrick Suskind’s novel. Scent-sational!
Winner of numerous international awards and garnering universal acclaim worldwide, Philippe Garrel’s Regular Lovers (Les Amants réguliers) is a rapturous paean to France’s near-revolution of May ’68 and its aftermath. Leading a young cast who look and act uncannily period-perfect, the director’s son Louis Garrel (The Dreamers, Dans Paris, Ma Mère) confirms himself as one of the hottest new French ...
Our Take: Wavy-haired heartthrob Louis Garrel anchors this contemplative story about youth, idealism, poetry, and the dissolution of radical politics in the aftermath of the May ’68 student riots. Directed by Louis’ father, Maurice Garrel, a distinguished but little-known filmmaker of the New Wave generation, Lovers moves from the flaming barricades of insurgent Paris avenues to the blazing opium pipes of a dreamy mansion where a group of 20-ish artists loll about. It is a sad and stunningly gorgeous film. Highly recommended.
Inge (Elizabeth Reaser) is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf (Tim Guinee), a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI, anti-German climate, the local minister (John Heard) openly forbids the marriage. Inge and Olaf fall in love despite the town's disapproval. But when the town banker (Ned Beatty) attempts ...
Syndromes and a Century is a film in two parts which sometimes echo each other. The two central characters are inspired by the filmmaker`s parents, in the years before they became lovers. The first part focuses on a woman doctor, and is set in a space reminiscent of the world in which the filmmaker was born and raised. The second ...
Academy Award® nominee Don Cheadle portrays the one and only Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene Jr. in this funny, feel-good and inspiring true story. Ex-convict Greene talks his way into an on-air radio gig with program director Dewey Hughes (Chiwetel Ejiofor), and his unprecedented "tell it like it is" style breaks all the rules while electrifying a city and bringing a ...
Set centuries ago and in mythical times, Ten Canoes is a surreal tragi-comedy in the Ganalbingu language of the remote Arafura Swamp region of north-eastern Arnhem Land. This is the first major Australian feature film completely filmed in an indigenous Aboriginal language.
Everyone in 1880s America knows Jesse James. He’s the nation’s most notorious criminal, hunted by the law in 10 states. He’s also the land’s greatest hero, lauded as a Robin Hood by the public. Robert Ford? No one knows him. Not yet.
The owner of an Information Technology firm wants to sell his business for profit. The trouble is that when he started his firm he invented a nonexistent company president to hide behind when unpopular steps needed to be taken. When potential purchasers insist on negotiating with the "Boss" face to face the owner has to hire a failed actor to ...
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Gone are Von Trier’s trademark torture symphonies: This is comedy pure and simple, ripped right out of The Office playbook. And Lars does it well!
Matt Damon returns as highly trained assassin Jason Bourne, who is on the hunt for the agents who stole his memory and true identity. With a new generation of skilled CIA operatives tracking his every move, Bourne is in a non-stop race around the globe as he finally learns the truth behind his mysterious past.
“Why don‘t they stop me?“ Erica Bain wonders. Bain, a popular N.Y radio host, watched her fiancé die and nearly lost her own life to a vicious, random attack. Now she discovers a stranger within herself, an armed wanderer in the urban night, out for vengeance and at war with her own soul.
Krista’s body is found by Arden (Toni Collette), a lonesome caretaker living with her irascible mother (Piper Laurie). This leads to Leah (Rose Byrne), a forensics graduate student whose sister went missing as a child, stumbling upon possible closure when Krista’s body appears on her gurney.
The tragedy taking place in Darfur as seen through the eyes of an American witness and who has since returned to the US to take action to stop it. Uses the photographs and first hand testimony of former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle to take the viewer on a journey into the heart of Darfur, Sudan, where an Arab run ...
Berlin, July, 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference, issued a captain's uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who's now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin.
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