November 2007

Earth

Earth poster Five years in the making, Earth follows the influence of the sun on life on the planet. The critical and international success of Deep Blue proved that audiences were eager to be immersed in the natural history of our world. Now Earth takes audiences on an unforgettable journey around the planet, using the sun as our guide, and three engrossing characters to tell its story. Narrated by Patrick Stewart and with music composed and conducted by George Fenton, Earth offers us a chance to recognise and celebrate the beauty of our planet; whilst at the same time it serves as a timely reminder of the ecological fragility of our planet and the creatures that live on it.

Our three main characters: polar bear, elephant and humpback whale, show the challenges faced by creatures whose lives are dominated by a migratory existence in a world that is fast changing. The natural history of our planet has never been filmed on such a scale before. Earth uses resources and technology on an unprecedented scale, to reveal rarely observed animal behaviours.

These are three incredible journeys; full of beauty, but also rife with danger. Earth combines rare action‚ unimaginable scale‚ impossible locations and intimate moments among our planet’s best-loved‚ wildest‚ and most elusive creatures. To an irresistible eternal rhythm, the Earth moves through the seasons, all life bending to the power of the sun.

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Tales from Earthsea

Tales From Earthsea poster Tales from Earthsea (Gedo Senki) is an adaptation of Ursula K Le Guin’s novel A wizard of Earthsea, the first book of the award-winning Earthsea cycle which includes The tombs of Atuan, The farthest shore and Tehanu.

Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strangely… What’s even more strange is that people are beginning to see dragons, which shouldn’t enter the world of humans. Due to all these bizarre events, Ged, a wandering wizard, is investigating the cause. During his journey, he meets Prince Arren (Junichi Okada), a young distraught teenage boy. While Arren may look like a shy young teen, he has a severe dark side, which grants him strength, hatred, ruthlessness and has no mercy, especially when it comes to protecting Theru (Aoi Teshima). For the witch Kumo this is a perfect opportunity. She can use the boy’s “fears” against the very one who would help him, Ged.

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Interplanetary

Interplanetary still Interplanetary is about a man, Steve, who spends most of his days fighting off boredom on the planet Mars. One day one of his co-workers discovers an ancient Martian fossil, however, and pretty soon Steve finds himself up against an army of seemingly unstoppable alien creatures. Always a suck way to end your day.

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Youth Without Youth

Youth Without Youth poster Youth Without Youth is a love story wrapped in a mystery.

The story centres on a professor whose life changes after a cataclysmic incident during the dark years before WWII. Becoming a fugitive, he is pursued through far-flung locations including Romania, Switzerland, Malta and India.

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Donkey Xote

Donkey Xote poster Donkey Xote is a true adventure comedy. The donkey, Rucio, tells the true story of Don Quixote and defends the idea that he wasnt mad, but in reality, Quixote was a very intelligent, passionate and enthusiastic fellow. We then follow Don Quixote, his squire, Sancho Panza (Quixotes best friend and the wealthiest man in town), Sanchos donkey, Rucio (who wants to be a horse) and a real horse, Quixotes faithful steed, Rocinante (who hates leaving his stable) on their adventure to duel the Knight of the Moon where, if Quixote wins the duel the true identity of Dulcinea will be revealed.

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The League of Extraordinary Alcoholics Vs. The Horde of Really Creepy Undead Zombie Flesh Eaters

The League of Extraordinary Alcoholics Vs. The Horde of Really Creepy Undead Zombie Flesh Eaters The League of Extraordinary Alcoholics VS The Horde of Really Creepy Undead Zombie Flesh Eaters (the official title) is a passion 4 years in the making. It started with a dare and has evolved into a 95 page script filled with humor, strippers, gore, violence, spandex, zombies and, of course, a lot of alcohol.

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Tales From The Dead

Tales from the Dead Tales From The Dead is a Japanese-language anthology feature film of four stories that looks at the quiet terror lurking inside the human soul, showing us that evil does not end when life departs. These original stories show us that life, and the inescapable agonies of the living, carry on into the next … well, life. Deception is as unavoidable as death, and so is payback….

Under the supervision of young Tamika, a medium who has heard enough ghost confessions to understand the venom and malice of human souls, we meet a range of characters whose ails begin in life and carry on in death.

A family, newly reunited with their estranged son, faces the remnants of the bad marriage, and evil intentions, of their home’s previous owners.

An old accountant, trying to set his “books” straight after a life of working for a criminal gang, takes his revenge on the man who wouldn’t let him.

A businessman, hungering for success and material opulence, finds that time is the only truly scarce resource – and the only one genuinely valuable.

Lastly, a surprise ending for Shoko, a lady of leisure, who has a deadly definition of divorce, and meets young Tamika on the wrong dark and foggy road.

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Crime Insiders

Crime Insiders poster Paris, 2005, organized crime. Claude Corti, 50 years, is one of the rare men to be able of the trade. Procuring, traffic of narcotics, counterfeit bills, cars, rackets, steerings, he knows all that it occurs in his zone from influence and takes a commission on all. He hates to be forgotten, he does not hesitate to show it. No scruple, no moral, never forgiveness. He is paranoiac and violent, that enables him to survive.

Franck, 30 years, is a professional killer. He is close to Corti but is due to his independence. Intelligent, effective, Claude relies on him.

Hicham and Larbi, small flourishing company of the sector. Corti does not like them, he uses them. Very good professionals, organized, violent, ambitious.

All goes well in the worst of the worlds, some tears and corpses from time to time, much of benefit.

To the first sand grain. Corti falls on a peccadillo, spends a few months in prison. Just enough so that his business starts to be put out of order. Simple paranoia or beginning of a plot? The close relations of Corti suspect Hicham and Larbi, but Corti does not believe in it, Franck either. However…

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Starting Out in the Evening

Starting Out in the Evening poster All that remains for Leonard Schiller (Frank Langella) is to finish the novel he has been laboring on for almost ten years. With his four earlier books out of print, he has learned to starve himself of the desire for the success he was once so close to, though beneath this practice lives a pull for his work to be rediscovered. His solitary writer’s life is shaken by the arrival of Heather (Lauren Ambrose), an ambitious graduate student who persuades him that she can use her thesis to spur a rediscovery of his work. But as her inquiry proceeds, Heather displays a profound personal interest in Leonard, which unsettles him and stirs up his long-dormant need for intimacy. Meanwhile, Leonard’s daughter Ariel (Lili Taylor) reconnects with her ex-boyfriend Casey (Adrian Lester), a man Leonard firmly disapproves of. Leonard’s encounters with Heather lead him down an unfamiliar path that threatens his writing, his health, and his relationship to his daughter. But in living out in the open, in the evening of his life Schiller puts into practice the core theme of his novels — life is not designed for our comfort but for our struggle, for in struggle there is growth.

Starting Out in the Evening stars Lauren Ambrose, Frank Langella, Lill Taylor, Karl Bury, Anitha Gandhi, Sean T. Krishnan, Jessica Hecht and Adrian Lester and was directed by Andrew Wagner.

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Chicago 10

Chicago 10 poster From his Academy Award-nominated “On the Ropes, to his singular blend of fact and legend in the Robert Evans portrait The Kid Stays in the Picture, Brett Morgen has explored increasingly provocative ways to transform documentary materials into new and exhilarating kinds of movies. Chicago 10 tells the story of the buildup and unraveling of the Chicago Conspiracy trial not as “history,” but as an electrifying experience felt with up-to-the-moment immediacy.

Interweaving footage of the brutal clashes between police and demonstrators at the 1968 Democratic convention with 3-D animated reenactments of the outrageous trial that followed it, Morgen turns the audience into eyewitnesses of violent turmoil and absurdist spectacle. Set to a blazing soundtrack that ranges from Black Sabbath and Steppenwolf to the Beastie Boys and Eminem, Chicago 10 is a stirring account of young Americans taking a stand in the face of an oppressive government—a story with deep resonance to the world of today.

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