CODENAME: SIMON

DescriptionDescription In CODENAME: SIMON, Simon thinks he's a space traveller trapped on Earth awaiting pick-up by his parents' spaceship.

THE CHORUS (LES CHORISTES)

DescriptionDescription With France's official Oscar® selection for Best Foreign Language Film, Christophe Barratier debuts as an astoundingly graceful storyteller who delights in the power of art to mend lives. When his mother dies, world-class conductor Pierre Morhange returns home and is unexpectedly thrust into his past. The obstinate young Morhange attends the "Rock Bottom" school...

CHRYSTAL

DescriptionDescription Set in the backwoods and barrooms of the South, CHRYSTAL not only transports you to this evocative place, but also plugs you into its pulse. Sixteen years after Joe (Billy Bob Thornton) plunged the family car off the road with his beautiful wife Chrystal and their young son inside, a damaged Joe returns from...

CAMPFIRE (MEDURAT HASHEVET)

DescriptionDescription Winner of the Israeli Academy Award for Best film, director Joseph Cedar (TIME OF FAVOR) utilizes personal insight and poetic storytelling to craft a thoughtful coming-of-age story of a young girl, her family and the West Bank. Israel's official Oscar® selection for Best foreign Language Film. The year is 1981. Rachel Gerlik, a 42-year-old...

CHILDREN WILL LISTEN

DescriptionDescription In a world where we all too often sit our children down in front of a screen to learn-be it TY or computer-Charlene Gilbert's documentary shows us how well the old adage of "learning by doing" can still work. Almost 150 children in the Washington, DC, public-school system most of whom had never seen...

BRIDE AND PREJUDICE

DescriptionDescription From the team that created the internation al hit BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM comes a classic romance not just retold but reinvented in a new globally connected world. BRIDE AND PREJUDICE puts an entirely different spin on Jane Austen's story of spirited courtship - Bollywood-style. Music, dance and spectacle merge with love, vanity and...

CALLING HEDY LAMARR

DescriptionDescription Seventy years ago, young Hedy Lamarr caused a sensation in the erotically charged ECSTASY. Her beauty and acting prowess led to a Hollywood career that spanned more than two decades, but ended in frustration. Director Georg Misch examines a fascinating life shrouded in myth and invention. Lamarr is a compelling subject and her son,...

BEYOND THE SEA (2004)

DescriptionDescription Kevin Spacey's highly anticipated film is a lovingly crafted account of '50s heartthrob singer and actor Bobby Darin. BEYOND THE SEA steers well clear of most biopic conventions, instead delivering a complex portrait of a gifted performer driven to succeed, following a childhood illness that gave him a life expectancy of just 15 years....

THE BIG QUESTION

DescriptionDescription On the set of THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, two Italian men are asking THE BIG QUESTION, and, luckily for us, they decided to film it, posing direct questions to people regarding their own intimate perception of the divine. THE BIG QUESTION comes from an idea that is very simple. What were the existential...

BLACKBALLED: THE BOBBY DUKES STORY

DescriptionDescription "Second place is first place for losers." Bobby Dukes ... paintball legend ... fallen hero. Ten years after a "wiping" violation got him ejected from the championship and banned from the game, Bobby Dukes (Rob Corddry) returns to the Hudson Valley after years of planning and training in exile to reclaim his lost glory....

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