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A Prophet (MA15+)
starts February 11
Director: Jacques Audiard (Beat My Heart Skipped, Read My Lips)
155 mins
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Winner of the Grand Jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Jacques Audiard’s A PROPHET is a gritty account of young French-Arab Malik (Tahar Rahim) who winds up behind bars after being arrested for a petty crime. Discovering that the prison community is made up of various tribes that are constantly at war, Malik quickly adjusts and establishes his place amongst the jailbirds before attempting to rise through the ranks.
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Crazy Heart (M)
starts February 18
Director: Scott Cooper
111 mins
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Four-time Academy Award® nominee Jeff Bridges stars as the richly comic, romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film Crazy Heart from writer-director Scott Cooper. Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who’s had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can’t help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man’s crazy heart. |
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Shutter Island (MA15+)
starts February 18
Director: Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas,
The Departed)
138 mins
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Based on the novel by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River), Academy Award winner Martin Scorsese’s psychological thriller is set in an asylum for the criminally insane in 1954. U.S. Marshalls Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Ruffalo) travel to the isolated Shutter Island off the coast of Massachusetts to search for an escaped mental patient under the care of Dr John Cawley (Kingsley). Having to surrender many of their jurisdictional powers as well as their weapons, they gradually uncover what they suspect to be a web of deception and cover-up before beginning to experience unexplained phenomena. |
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North Face (tbc)
starts February 18
Director: Philipp Stolz
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Based on a true story, NORTH FACE is a gripping adventure drama about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps. In July of 1936 - less than a year after the most recent and fatal attempt, two top German mountaineers, Toni Kurz (BENNO FÜRMANN) and Andi Hinterstoisser (FLORIAN LUKAS), take up the challenge to become the first to scale the infamous rock face, the so-called Murder Wall. |
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The Hurt Locker (MA15+)
starts February 18
Director: Kathryn Bigelow (Strange Days, Point Break)
131 mins
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Bringing together groundbreaking realistic action and intimate human drama, THE HURT LOCKER is a riveting, suspenseful portrait of courage under fire. Amongst the military’s many unrecognized heroes are the bomb squad technicians (Jeremy Renner, Guy Pearce, Brian Geraghty) responsible for disarming roadside bombs found daily on the war-torn Baghdad streets. A heart pounding look at the psychology of bomb technicians, Kathryn Bigelow’s film not only considers the addictive elements of war but was inspired by real events experienced by screenwriter Mark Boal, who was embedded with a special bomb unit in Iraq. |
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A Single Man (tbc)
starts February 25
Tom Ford (debut)
99 mins
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Winner of Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival, Colin Firth stars in the cinema adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s seminal novel A SINGLE MAN. The striking directorial debut of influential fashion designer Tom Ford, Firth stars as George: a middle aged college professor grieving the death of his lover in early 1960s Los Angeles. Set over the course of a single day, George goes about his daily routine while secretly contemplating suicide to end his sadness. Interacting with his housekeeper, colleagues and a young student (Nicholas Hoult) whose questions suggest an interest beyond academia, George joins his old friend Charley (Julianne Moore) for an evening unlike any other. |
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The Men Who Stare At Goats (tbc)
starts March 4
Director: Grant Heslov (Par 6)
90 mins
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Small-time journalist Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) accidently discovers that the US Military undertook a program to train “psychic spies” in the 1980’s, giving soldiers the power to walk through walls, read minds and kill simply by staring at the enemy. Chasing the story to the Middle-East, Wilton meets Lyn Cassady (George Clooney) a man who is either an eccentric trash can salesman or the most deadly officer to emerge from the secret “New Earth” psychic branch of the US Army. |
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The Girl With Dragon Tattoo (TBA)
starts March 25
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
152 mins
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Based on the critically acclaimed best-selling novel of the same name and one third of Stieg Larsson’s bestselling ‘Millennium’ trilogy - THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is the anticipated epic tale of serial murder and corporate trickery spanning several continents. 16-year old Harriet Vanger disappeared without a trace on September 29th 1966. Nearly 40 years later, a journalist (Michael Nyqvist) is contacted by the industrial leader Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube), who wants him to write the history of the Vanger family. The family chronicle is just a cover for the real assignment: to find out about what really happened to Harriet. The most successful local film of all time at the Nordic box office. |
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Welcome (M)
starts April 1
Director: Philippe Lioret (Don’t Worry, I’m Fine)
106 mins
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Winner of the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, WELCOME is an emotionally affecting drama about intersecting lives, unlikely friendships and the hope of new beginnings. Bilal (Firat Ayverdi), a 17-year-old Kurdish refugee, has traveled across Europe in an attempt to reunite with his girlfriend who emigrated to England. When he is detained by local authorities in Northern France, Bilal devises a plan to swim across the English Channel, and heads to the local swimming pool to start training. It is here that he crosses paths with Simon (Vincent Lindon), a middle-aged swimming instructor with a sour attitude. A surprise hit with audiences in its native France, writer-director Philippe Lioret has created an a gripping contribution to the cycle of French cinema concerned with exile and refugees. |
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The Last Station (M)
starts April 1
Director: Michael Hoffman (Restoration, A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
112 mins
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Winner of Best Actress for Helen Mirren at the Rome Film Festival, this is Michael Hoffman’s account of novelist Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. Young idealist Valentin (James McAvoy) is sent to assist the aging Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) on his grand estate where he lives with his wife Sofya (Mirren), his family and a band of Tolstoyan followers. Witnessing a battle over Tolstoy’s legacy between Sofya and follower Vladimir Chertkov (Paul Giamatti), Valentin cannot help but question the true meaning of his leader’s teachings. |
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Soul Kitchen (MA15+)
starts May 6
Director Fatih Akin (The Edge of Heaven)
99 mins
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Winner of the special jury prize at the Venice Film Festival, SOUL KITCHEN follows young, down on his luck restaurant owner Zinos (Adam Bousdoukos). His girlfriend Nadine has moved to Shanghai, the customers of his Hamburg eatery ‘Soul Kitchen’ are boycotting the new gourmet chef and he has serious back pain! Things start looking up when the hip crowd embraces his revamped culinary concept, but that doesn't mend Zinos's broken heart (or broken back). He decides to fly to China for Nadine, leaving the restaurant in the hands of his unreliable ex-con brother Illias (Moritz Bleibtreu). Both decisions turn out disastrously. But the brothers might have one last chance to get Soul Kitchen back if they stop arguing and work together. |
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