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THE ARBOR

STRAND

Starring:

Christine Bottomley
George Costigan

Director:

Clio Barnard

Genre:

Documentary

MPAA Rating:

Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.

new

THE ARBOR

STRAND

n/a

$12,424

I AM

PALADIN

Starring:

Director:

Tom Shadyac

Genre:

Documentary

MPAA Rating:

2/18 Portland, 3/11 LA, 3/18 New York Director Tom Shadyac speaks with intellectual and spiritual leaders about what's wrong with our world and how we can improve both it and the way we live in it.

new

I AM

PALADIN

n/a

$1,107,280

CERTIFIED COPY

IFC FILMS

Starring:

Juliette Binoche
William Shimell

Director:

Abbas Kiarostami

Genre:

Romantic

MPAA Rating:

In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.

new

CERTIFIED COPY

IFC FILMS

n/a

$1,255,804

THE TRIP

IFC FILMS

Starring:

Steve Coogan
Rob Brydon

Director:

Michael Winterbottom

Genre:

Comedy

MPAA Rating:

The series is a largely improvised sitcom in which Coogan plays a food critic for the UK's Observer who is joined on a working road trip by his friend (Brydon) who fills in at the last minute when Coogan's romantic relationship falls apart.

new

THE TRIP

IFC FILMS

n/a

PHIL OCHS: THRE BUT FOR FORTUNE

FIRST RUN

Starring:

Joan Baez
Tom Hayden

Director:

Kenneth Bowser

Genre:

Documentary

MPAA Rating:

From civil rights to the anti-war movement to the scandals of Watergate, protest singer Phil Ochs wrote songs that engaged his audiences in the issues of the 1960s and 70s.

new

PHIL OCHS: THRE BUT FOR FORTUNE

FIRST RUN

n/a

$243,640

INTO ETERNITY

International Film Circuit inc.

Starring:

Timo Äikäs
Carl Reinhold Bråkenhjelm

Director:

Michael Madsen

Genre:

Documentary

MPAA Rating:

Conceptual artist Michael Madsen’s film is a creepy, eerily elegant meditation on human folly, punctuated by philosophical and historical references, that asks: how do you keep 3,000 future generations from inadvertently opening this Pandora’s Box?

new

INTO ETERNITY

International Film Circuit inc.

n/a

$34,298

MY PERESTROIKA

International Film Circuit inc.

Starring:

Director:

Robin Hessman

Genre:

Documentary

MPAA Rating:

'My Perestroika' tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain.

new

MY PERESTROIKA

International Film Circuit inc.

n/a

$157,232

POETRY

KINO

Starring:

Jeong-hie Yun
Da-wit Lee

Director:

Chang-dong Lee

Genre:

Foreign

MPAA Rating:

From acclaimed South Korean director Lee Chang-dong, a masterful study of the subtle empowerment — and moral compass — of an indefatigable older woman.

new

POETRY

KINO

n/a

$320,718

THE ROBBER

KINO LORBER

Starring:

Andreas Lust
Franziska Weisz

Director:

Benjamin Heisenberg

Genre:

Drama

MPAA Rating:

A champion marathoner leads a double life as a serial bank robber, sprinting between fixes (and away from police cavalcades) as many as three times a day. A lean, visceral study of pathological compulsion from Austrian director Benjamin Heisenberg, featuring a riveting central performance by Andreas Lust ( Revanche ).

new

THE ROBBER

KINO LORBER

n/a

$42,275

RUBBER

MAGNOLIA PICTURES

Starring:

Stephen Spinella
Jack Plotnick

Director:

Quentin Dupieux

Genre:

Horror

MPAA Rating:

When Robert, an inanimate tire, discovers his destructive telepathic powers, he soon sets his sights on a desert town; in particular, a mysterious woman becomes his obsession.

new

RUBBER

MAGNOLIA PICTURES

n/a

$80,140

13 ASSASSINS

MAGNOLIA PICTURES

Starring:

Kôji Yakusho
Takayuki Yamada

Director:

Takashi Miike

Genre:

Action

MPAA Rating:

A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.

new

13 ASSASSINS

MAGNOLIA PICTURES

n/a

$201,534

LE QUATTRO VOLTE

LORBER FILMS

Starring:

Giuseppe Fuda
Bruno Timpano

Director:

Michelangelo Frammartino

Genre:

Foreign

MPAA Rating:

Inspired by Pythagoras’s belief in four-fold transmigration — by which the soul is passed from human to animal to vegetable to mineral — Michelangelo Frammartino’s wondrous docu-essay traces the cycle of life through the daily rituals of life in the southern Italian region of Calabria.

new

LE QUATTRO VOLTE

LORBER FILMS

n/a

$101,235

AMERICAN: THE BILL HICKS STORY

VARIANCE

Starring:

Director:

Paul Thomas,
Matt Harlock

Genre:

Documentary

MPAA Rating:

Photo-animated feature documentary, uniquely narrated by the 10 people who knew Bill best.

new

AMERICAN: THE BILL HICKS STORY

VARIANCE

n/a

$78,653

BLANK CITY

INSURGENT

Starring:

Director:

Celine Danhier

Genre:

Documentary

MPAA Rating:

During the punk rock stage in the late '70s, downtown New York experienced a wave of "Do it yourself" independent filmmaking.

new

BLANK CITY

INSURGENT

n/a

$75,310

THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER

IFC FILMS

Starring:

Mélanie Thierry
Lambert Wilson

Director:

Bertrand Tavernier

Genre:

Foreign

MPAA Rating:

Bertrand Tavernier is in top form with this gripping, superbly mounted drama set against the savage Catholic/Protestant wars that ripped France apart in the 16th century.

new

THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER

IFC FILMS

n/a

$214,947

CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS

IFC FILMS

Starring:

Director:

Werner Herzog

Genre:

Documentary

MPAA Rating:

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.

new

CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS

IFC FILMS

122

n/a

$3,253,767

L'AMOUR FOU

IFC FILMS

Starring:

Director:

Pierre Thoretton

Genre:

Documentary

MPAA Rating:

A documentary on the relationship between fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent and his lover, Pierre Berge.

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L'AMOUR FOU

IFC FILMS

n/a

$37,250

HEY BOO

FIRST RUN FEATURES

Starring:

Director:

Mary Murphy

Genre:

Documentary

MPAA Rating:

HEY, BOO explores the To Kill a Mockingbird phenomenon and unravels some of the mysteries surrounding Harper Lee, including why she never published again.

new

HEY BOO

FIRST RUN FEATURES

n/a

$5,457

OUT THE GATE

FAR I FILMS

Starring:

Paul Campbell
Oliver Samuels

Director:

Qmillion,
Stevie Johnson

Genre:

Action

MPAA Rating:

After a turn of unfortunate events in Jamaica, Everton leaves his home to make it big in the music business in America.

new

OUT THE GATE

FAR I FILMS

n/a

$14,990

THE TENANT

INDICAN PICTURES

Starring:

J. LaRose
Michael Berryman

Director:

Ric La Monte

Genre:

Thriller

MPAA Rating:

A simple man, Dr. Walter Newman, has high aspirations to cure all disease through genetic manipulation.

new

THE TENANT

INDICAN PICTURES

n/a

$9,586

CARS 2

Walt Disney

Starring:

Owen Wilson
Michael Caine

Director:

Brad Lewis,
John Lasseter

Genre:

Kids/Family

MPAA Rating:

Racing star Lightning McQueen teams up with his best friend Mater for an international adventure as they go up against the world's fastest cars.

new

CARS 2

1.77%

Walt Disney

1763

$722,520

$103,217

$183,584,494

RIO

Fox

Starring:

Anne Hathaway
Jesse Eisenberg

Director:

Carlos Saldanha

Genre:

3-D

MPAA Rating:

A nerdy macaw from small-town Minnesota takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro.

new

RIO

Fox

210

n/a

$142,837,003

WINNIE THE POOH

Walt Disney

Starring:

Peter Cullen
Craig Ferguson

Director:

Stephen J. Anderson,
Don Hall

Genre:

Animated

MPAA Rating:

new

WINNIE THE POOH

1.47%

Walt Disney

1632

$600,161

$85,737

$23,633,846

AFRICAN CATS

Disney Nature

Starring:

Director:

Alastair Fothergill,
Keith Scholey

Genre:

Documentary

MPAA Rating:

A nature documentary centered on two cat families and how they teach their cubs to survive the ways of the wild.

new

AFRICAN CATS

Disney Nature

631

n/a

$14,039,566

GNOMEO AND JULIET

Miramax

Starring:

Emily Blunt
James McAvoy

Director:

Kelly Asbury

Genre:

3-D

MPAA Rating:

A version of Shakespeare's play, set in the world of warring indoor and outdoor gnomes.

new

GNOMEO AND JULIET

Miramax

194

n/a

$99,294,445

BATTLE: LOS ANGELES

Sony

Starring:

Aaron Eckhart
Bridget Moynahan

Director:

Jonathan Liebesman

Genre:

Action

MPAA Rating:

A Marine platoon faces off against an alien invasion in Los Angeles.

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BATTLE: LOS ANGELES

Sony

225

n/a

$83,271,423

WIN WIN

FOX SEARCHLIGHT

Starring:

Paul Giamatti
Melanie Lynskey

Director:

Thomas McCarthy

Genre:

Comedy

MPAA Rating:

Disheartened attorney Mike Flaherty (Giamatti), who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach, stumbles across a star athlete through some questionable business dealings while trying to support his family. Just as it looks like he will get a double payday, the boy's mother shows up fresh from rehab and flat broke, threatening to derail everything.

new

WIN WIN

FOX SEARCHLIGHT

248

n/a

$8,934,332

BORN TO BE WILD

WARNER BROS.

Starring:

Director:

Genre:

IMAX

MPAA Rating:

Since 1969, the animal orphanage at the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy continues to be home to countless animals that were orphaned, injured or needed special care. Many are successfully returned to the wild.

new

BORN TO BE WILD

WARNER BROS.

n/a

$4,816,649

RED RIDING HOOD

WARNER BROS.

Starring:

Amanda Seyfried
Max Irons

Director:

Catherine Hardwicke

Genre:

Thriller

MPAA Rating:

In a story inspired by the famous fairytale, a teenage girl finds herself in extreme jeopardy when her village decides to hunt the werewolf that terrorizes it every full moon.

new

RED RIDING HOOD

WARNER BROS.

100

n/a

$37,611,987

MIRAL

WEINSTEIN CO.

Starring:

Willem Dafoe
Freida Pinto

Director:

Julian Schnabel

Genre:

Drama

MPAA Rating:

A chronicle of Hind Husseini's effort to establish an orphanage in Jerusalem after the 1948 partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel.

new

MIRAL

WEINSTEIN CO.

n/a

$371,352

THE DOUBLE HOUR

SAMUEL GOLDWYN

Starring:

Kseniya Rappoport
Filippo Timi

Director:

Giuseppe Capotondi

Genre:

Foreign

MPAA Rating:

A spark between a newly-met couple is snuffed out tragically.

new

THE DOUBLE HOUR

SAMUEL GOLDWYN

n/a

$381,679

MEEK'S CUTOFF

OSCILLOSCOPE

Starring:

Bruce Greenwood
Paul Dano

Director:

Kelly Reichardt

Genre:

Western

MPAA Rating:

Settlers traveling through the Oregon desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.

new

MEEK'S CUTOFF

OSCILLOSCOPE

n/a

$344,553

OCTUBRE

NEW YORKER

Starring:

Bruno Odar
Gabriela Velásquez

Director:

Diego Vega Vidal,
Daniel Vega Vidal

Genre:

Drama

MPAA Rating:

Clemente, a moneylender of few words, is a new hope for Sofía, his single neighbor, devoted to the October worship of Our Lord of the Miracles.

new

OCTUBRE

NEW YORKER

n/a

$14,623

WOMEN ART REVOLUTION

ZEITGEIST

Starring:

Director:

Lynn Hershman-Leeson

Genre:

Documentary

MPAA Rating:

Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing political consequences of discrimination and violence, the Feminist Art Revolution radically transformed the art and culture of our times .

new

WOMEN ART REVOLUTION

ZEITGEIST

n/a

SUPER

IFC FILMS

Starring:

Rainn Wilson
Ellen Page

Director:

James Gunn

Genre:

Indie

MPAA Rating:

After his wife falls under the influence of a drug dealer, an everyday guy transforms himself into Crimson Bolt, a superhero with the best intentions, though he lacks for heroic skills.

new

SUPER

IFC FILMS

n/a

$315,505

HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN

MAGNOLIA PICTURES

Starring:

Rutger Hauer
Gregory Smith

Director:

Jason Eisener

Genre:

Action

MPAA Rating:

A homeless vigilante blows away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with his trusty pump-action shotgun.

new

HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN

MAGNOLIA PICTURES

n/a

$539,370

CIRCO

FIRST RUN FEATURES

Starring:

Director:

Aaron Schock

Genre:

Documentary

MPAA Rating:

A hardscrabble traveling Mexican circus troupe has lived and performed on the road since the 19th Century, but will their art survive into the 21st?

new

CIRCO

FIRST RUN FEATURES

n/a

$50,015