Petra Seeger (Germany, 2009)
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FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY ERIC KANDEL

FEBRUARY 13TH SCREENING WILL INCLUDE INTRODUCTION AND Q & A LED BY NEUROSCIENTIST CHRIS WOOD, VICE PRESIDENT, ADMINISTRATION
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"Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing," says neuroscientist Eric Kandel, winner of the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking research on the physiology of the brain's storage of memories. As he explains, memory is the glue that binds our mental life together and provides a sense of continuity in our lives.

IN SEARCH OF MEMORY is a compelling blend of autobiography and history that recounts the life of one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th century and illuminates scientific developments in our understanding of the brain's role in recording and preserving memory. In addition to archival footage and dramatic re-creations of Kandel's childhood experiences in Nazi-occupied Vienna and his formative years as an immigrant in New York, the film features discussions with Kandel, friends and family, as well as his public lectures in Vienna and New York, which explore both his professional and personal life, especially his emotional ties to Judaism.

Both through its personal journey into the memory of this amazingly spry and witty 79-year old, especially his traumatic experiences during the Holocaust, and a visit to his Columbia University laboratory, where Kandel and his colleagues demonstrate their experimental research, IN SEARCH OF MEMORY examines how the brain stores memories, the difference between short-term and long-term memory, Alzheimer's and age-related memory loss, and structural modifications to the brain that enhance memory.

In revisiting the people, places and objects of Kandel's lifetime experiences, IN SEARCH OF MEMORY reveals how everything we undergo changes the brain, even our genetic make-up, and can determine the focus of a life's work.

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"A passionate exploration of the life and work of Eric Kandel, the brilliant and irrepressible neurobiologist, whose pioneering work has illuminated the very workings of memory. But, like Eric, Petra Seeger's film resonates in all directions, illuminating not only the trajectory of psychology and neuroscience in the last century, but the nature of art and science, history and remembrance, work and love, inspiration and achievement. It is an unforgettable journey."
- Oliver Sacks, Author

"Because of Kandel's powerful charm and energy, the science-less and more personal aspects of the documentary add an engaging and often comical texture to this very delicate quest for memory and remembrance."
- Stephanie Lee, NYPress.com

UNCLE VANYA

Andrei Konchalovsky (USSR, 1970)
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WINNER - BEST DIRECTOR
1971 SAN SEBASTIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Anton Chekhov's masterwork about the breakdown of a family held together by a tissue of lies and self-deceptions is brought to stunning life in Andrei Konchalovsky's brilliant adaptation.

A retired professor returns with his new, much younger wife in tow to the estate that he inherited from his now-deceased first wife. The estate is still managed by his former brother-in-law, Vanya - a man who has learned to sublimate all his personal desires and dreams. The delicate balance that defines the world of this fading clan is decidedly upset by the arrival of the professor’s new wife, and once broken that balance will prove impossible to restore. Konchalovsky effectively captures the mood of a world coming to an end, the peeling paint and slightly ramshackle condition of the house signaling the future of these characters even more succinctly than their actions.

"The best version of UNCLE VANYA I've ever seen."
- Woody Allen, director

“An exceedingly graceful, beautifully acted production that manages to respect Chekhov as a man of his own time, as well as what I would assume to be the Soviet view of Chekhov as Russia's saddest, gentlest, funniest and most compassionate revolutionary playwright."
- Vincent Canby, The New York Times

"UNCLE VANYA" PLAYS AS PART OF THE CELEBRATING CHEKHOV SERIES

2010 marks the 150th anniversary of Anton Chekhov's birth. One of the most celebrated figures in the history of literature, his works still remain of great importance. 2010 also marks the 10th anniversary of Seagull Films, a company that during the decade since its formation has serviced North American audiences with the best of Russian cinema - named after the writer's famous play The Seagull. 

Celebrating Chekhov is a surgically selected package of Chekhov's finest filmic adaptations, and provides a deep cinematic look into the master's work at its best.

ALL CELEBRATING CHEKHOV FILMS PLAY TWICE ONLY

Presented by Seagull Films in collaboration with National Gallery of Art and Concern Mosfilm. Special thanks to Karen Shakhnazarov. Learn more HERE.

KILLING KASZTNER

Gaylen Ross (USA, 2008)
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FEBRUARY 19TH & 20TH SCREENINGS WILL INCLUDE APPEARANCES AND DISCUSSIONS LED BY DIRECTOR GAYLEN ROSS AND SURVIVOR TOM MARGITTAI

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To an even greater degree than Oskar Schindler, Dr. Israel Kasztner played a key role in saving the lives of well over 1,000 Jews from the Holocaust (1,600 in Kasztner's case; 1,200 in Schindler's). However, a fascinating and deeply sad irony lies buried in the differences between the men's stories: Schindler was a Nazi party member who manipulated the Gestapo to save the said individuals, and he died a veritable hero.

Meanwhile, Kasztner was a Jew who bargained with Adolf Eichmann for the salvation of the 1,600 (whom he shuttled off to Switzerland on a train), and was not ultimately laurelled as a hero, but branded a traitor by his own people. This occurred largely because the notion of bargaining with the Nazis struck many as morally unacceptable (indeed, a greater moral infraction, in the eyes of some, than simple party membership). Kasztner's tale thus speaks volumes about the complex loyalties, conflicting allegiances, and deep-seated confusion at the heart of World War II, and those are the gray areas explored by director Gaylen Ross in this penetrative documentary account of Kasztner's life.

The film ultimately poses key questions about the extent to which collaboration with the enemy is morally acceptable in a time of war; it reveals the extent to which Kasztner touched innumerable lives, and features deeply moving interviews with Kasztner's family - still attempting to restore his legacy - even as it also features conversations with Kasztner's political opponents and detractors.

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AUDIENCE AWARD - BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
2009 BOSTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

"A stunning, shocking bit of suppressed history that is finally coming to the fore. Makes for fascinating viewing."
- Jeffrey Lyons, KNBC

"Absorbing untangling of how history judges choices made in extreme circumstances. Scrapes the scab off raw ethical, emotional and political perceptions of WWII heroism."
- Nora Lee Mandel, Film-Forward.com

THE 2010 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS

Ensemble (International, 2009)
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This year, Shorts International and Magnolia Pictures will once again bring the wildly popular Oscar nominated short film programs (Live-Action and Animated) to The Screen.

The theatrical release of the Academy Award nominated short films has met with enthusiastic audiences ever since their launch 5 years ago, giving people around the world an opportunity to see the nominated films prior to the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony on March 7th, to be broadcast live in HD at The Screen.

ANIMATED PROGRAM

FRENCH ROAST
Fabrice O. Joubert (France)

GRANNY O’GRIMM’S SLEEPING BEAUTY
Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell (Ireland)

THE LADY AND THE REAPER
Javier Recio Gracia (Spain)

LOGORAMA
Nicolas Schmerkin (France)

WALLACE AND GROMIT IN “A MATTER OF LOAF AND DEATH”
Nick Park (UK)

LIVE-ACTION PROGRAM

THE DOOR
Juanita Wilson and James Flynn (Russia)

INSTEAD OF ABRACADABRA
Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström (Sweden)

KAVI
Gregg Helvey (India)

MIRACLE FISH
Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey (Australia)

THE NEW TENANTS
Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson (Denmark)

WARD #6

Karen Shakhnazraov (Russia, 2009)
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OFFICIAL ENTRY - RUSSIA - BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
2010 ACADEMY AWARDS

A bold and modern update to the famed Anton Chekhov story, WARD #6 is based on the true story of a mental ward doctor checking into his own hospital. The gradual estrangement of Dr. Andrey Ragin was used by Chekhov as a metaphor for man’s disappointment with the promises of science; in director Karen Shaknazarov’s version, (based on a screenplay he co-wrote with Alexander Boraadyansky) that disappointment might be read as an increasing loss of faith in the nation’s future. Shot in a real asylum in a vibrant, documentary style, the film was made in a record four weeks time and has gone on to be a major box office and critical hit in Russia, in addition to becoming the nation’s nominee for Best Foreign Language Film in the 2009 Academy Awards.

"Fragmenting Chekhov's descriptions and putting them into the mouths of characters in mock interviews, juggling chronology, inserting silent home movie footage and finally abandoning narrative altogether, the director deconstructs Chekhov to dazzling effect..."
- Ronnie Scheib, Variety

"WARD #6" PLAYS AS PART OF THE CELEBRATING CHEKHOV SERIES

2010 marks the 150th anniversary of Anton Chekhov's birth. One of the most celebrated figures in the history of literature, his works still remain of great importance. 2010 also marks the 10th anniversary of Seagull Films, a company that during the decade since its formation has serviced North American audiences with the best of Russian cinema - named after the writer's famous play The Seagull. 

Celebrating Chekhov is a surgically selected package of Chekhov's finest filmic adaptations, and provides a deep cinematic look into the master's work at its best.

ALL CELEBRATING CHEKHOV FILMS PLAY TWICE ONLY

Presented by Seagull Films in collaboration with National Gallery of Art and Concern Mosfilm. Special thanks to Karen Shakhnazarov. Learn more HERE.

POLICE, ADJECTIVE

Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania, 2009)
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OFFICIAL ENTRY - ROMANIA - BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
2010 ACADEMY AWARDS

One of the most critically-acclaimed films of the year and a double prize winner at Cannes, POLICE, ADJECTIVE is the new whip-smart, dryly funny comedy from Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST).

Cristi is a young undercover cop who undergoes a crisis of conscience when he is pressured to arrest a teenager who offers marijuana to classmates. Not wanting to ruin the life of a young man he considers merely irresponsible, Cristi must either allow the arrest to be a burden on his conscience, or face censure by his self-serious superior (Vlad Ivanov of 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS), for whom the word “conscience” has an entirely different meaning. Porumboiu approaches his story with the exacting patience of a master ironist, culminating in one of the most unexpected comedic payoffs in years, – an extraordinary dissection of language that affirms his reputation as one of the most exciting new talents in European cinema.

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WINNER - JURY PRIZE - 2009 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

THE BOONDOCK SAINTS 2: ALL SAINT'S DAY

Troy Duffy (USA, 2009)
Starring Sean Flanery and Norman Reedus
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FROM THE WRITER AND DIRECTOR OF THE ORIGINAL CULT CLASSIC

THE BOONDOCK SAINTS, the 2000 crime picture renowned for the unique story of the fast rise and fall of its egomaniacal filmmaker, Troy Duffy, as well as the cult following that appeared later on home release, gets the sequel treatment with this follow-up. Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus reunite as the vigilante MacManus brothers, with Billy Connolly returning as Il Duce. Duffy once again directs from his own script, with Clifton Collins Jr., Julie Benz, and David Della Rocco filling out the rest of the cast.  

Set eight years after the events in the first film - The MacManus brothers have gone into deep hiding in the quiet valleys of Ireland, far removed from their former lives or modern technologies. When word comes that a priest has been killed by sinister forces in the tough underworld of Boston, they return to mount a violent and bloody crusade to bring justice to those who must now suffer the consequences, with a new partner in crime (Clifton Collins) and a sexy FBI operative (Julie Benz) hot on their trail.

VIEW TRAILER

"Indulges in extreme movie love."
- Mike Hale, New York Times

"All I can really say is that if liking a movie where two guys swing off of ropes tied to a building into a window with guns blazing and proceed to slide across the floor on their knees while shredding mobsters up with bullets is wrong, then I don't want to be right.”
- Matthew Razak, Examiner

Andrew Bujalski (USA, 2009)
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NOMINATED - PRODUCER'S AWARD - 2010 INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

The marvelous new film from Andrew Bujalski, one of the brightest stars in indie film, BEESWAX revolves around the personal and professional entanglements of twin sisters Jeannie and Lauren – living in Austin, Texas. Jeannie co-owns a vintage clothing store with Amanda, a semi-estranged friend who she fears is trying to end their partnership. Lauren leads a looser, less tethered existence and is considering getting out of the country altogether. When Jeannie receives an email from Amanda threatening a lawsuit, she calls her law student ex-boyfriend Merrill for help. Eager for distraction from his own problems, he begins helping the sisters with theirs.

Imbued with an innate charm, BEESWAX is a story about families, friends, lovers and those awkward moments that bring all of them together.

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"At first glance a modest, ragged slice of contemporary life, turns out to be a remarkably subtle, even elegant movie. Its leisurely scenes and hesitant, circling conversations conceal both an ingenious comic structure and a rich emotional subtext."
- A.O. Scott, New York Times

"A crayon-colorful comedy steeped in colloquial American English."
- Karina Longworth, Spout Blog

CHEKHOV'S MOTIFS

Kira Muratova (Russia, 2002)
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WINNER - BEST DIRECTOR - 2002 RUSSIAN GUILD OF FILM CRITICS

Based on two works by Anton Chekhov, the play Tatiana Repina and the short story "Difficult People," CHEKHOV'S MOTIFS is a fascinating diptych, two parts that share characters but on the surface little else. The film begins as a young man returns to his small village to borrow money, a request that sets off a bitter confrontation between him and his father. The long-suffering wife (and mother) can do little but look on. Director Kira Muratova powerfully captures the emotional rawness of this generational confrontation, exposing a wide array of issues and prejudices.

But after the son runs out of the house, he walks into a wedding service taking place in the local Orthodox Church. The groom is an overweight opera singer, and the bride and her family are grotesque examples of Russia's nouveaux riches. Yet the point is less satire perhaps than Muratova's meticulous rendition of the entire ceremony, refusing the spectator a comfortable distance from which to judge these characters by bringing the audience into the world of the film itself.

"CHEKHOV'S MOTIFS" PLAYS AS PART OF THE
CELEBRATING CHEKHOV SERIES

2010 marks the 150th anniversary of Anton Chekhov's birth. One of the most celebrated figures in the history of literature, his works still remain of great importance. 2010 also marks the 10th anniversary of Seagull Films, a company that during the decade since its formation has serviced North American audiences with the best of Russian cinema - named after the writer's famous play The Seagull. 

Celebrating Chekhov is a surgically selected package of Chekhov's finest filmic adaptations, and provides a deep cinematic look into the master's work at its best.

ALL CELEBRATING CHEKHOV FILMS PLAY TWICE ONLY

Presented by Seagull Films in collaboration with National Gallery of Art and Concern Mosfilm. Special thanks to Karen Shakhnazarov. Learn more HERE.

Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar (Belgium, 2009)
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WINNER - BEST ANIMATED FILM - 2009 SITGES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

"3 1/3 STARS!"
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

The first stop-motion animated feature selected to Cannes, A TOWN CALLED PANIC follows the wacky, hilarious and often surreal adventures of three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and Horse who share a rambling house in a rural town which never fails to attract the weirdest events. Each speedy character is voiced - and animated - as if they are filled with laughing gas. With hysteria a permanent feature of life in this papier-mâché burg, will Horse and his equine paramour - flame-tressed music teacher Madame Longray - ever find a quiet moment alone? The only way to find out is by seeing this love-child of a Gallic Monty Python and Art Clokey.

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"You know how kids play with little plastic action figures that balance their feet on their own little platforms? And how they're not on the same scale? And how kids move them around while doing their voices and making up adventures for them? And how literally anything is likely to happen in those adventures? Then you have a notion of the goofy charm generated by A TOWN CALLED PANIC."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin
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Each January, the entertainment community and film fans around the world turn their attention to the Academy Awards. Interest and anticipation builds to a fevered pitch leading up to the Oscar telecast in Early Spring, when hundreds of millions of movie lovers tune in to watch the glamorous ceremony and learn who will receive the highest honors in filmmaking.

The Oscars reward the previous year’s greatest cinema achievements as determined by some of the world’s most accomplished motion picture artists and professionals. The Academy’s roughly 6,000 members vote for the Oscars using secret ballots.

Awards are presented for outstanding individual or collective efforts in up to 25 categories. Members select winners from as many as five nominees in each category, which are determined by members of the relevant Academy branch. For a full list of this year's Nominees, click HERE.

The Screen is proud to host a live in HD broadcast of the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, at 6:00pm on March 7, to celebrate the best in motion pictures - at standard admission rates.

ACADEMY AWARD(S)®, OSCAR(S)®, OSCAR NIGHT® and OSCAR® statuette design mark are the registered trademarks and service marks, and the OSCAR® statuette the copyrighted property, of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Andrea Arnold (UK, 2009)
Starring Michael Fassbender
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THE MOST HONORED BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR

Academy Award winning filmmaker Andrea Arnold's Cannes winner, FISH TANK, is an emotionally stunning coming-of-age story, electrified by the breakthrough performance of its young star Katie Jarvis.

Fifteen-year-old Mia (Katie Jarvis) is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her, without any creative outlet for her considerable energies save a secret love of hip-hop dance. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor (Michael Fassbender), she is amazed to find he returns her attention, and believes he might help her start to make sense of her life. A clear-eyed, potent portrait of teenage sexuality and vulnerability, FISH TANK confirms writer/director Arnold’s status as one of the leading figures of new British cinema.

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WINNER - JURY PRIZE - 2009 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

"An exhilarating gift. Katie Jarvis hits you like a shot in the heart... filled to bursting with the beauty and raw terror of life."
- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"A terrific debut performance by Katie Jarvis, solid support from her veteran co-stars, good production and direction and a well-crafted story make this a worthwhile, mature and engrossing film."
- Robin Clifford, Reeling Reviews

Felix Moeller (Germany, 2008)
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Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious filmmakers. Millions all across occupied Europe saw his movies, the most perfidious of which was the treacherous anti-Semitic propaganda film JEW SÜSS - required viewing for all SS members. An unrepentant and blindly obsessive craftsman, no figure - save for Leni Riefenstahl - is as closely associated with the cinema of the Holocaust years as that of Joseph Goebbels' top director. (Harlan’s 1945 epic KOLBERG was the basis for INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS' pivotal film-within-a-film STOLZ DER NATION.) Harlan was also the only artist from the Nazi era to be charged with war crimes.

With never-before-seen archival footage, unearthed film excerpts, rare home movies and new interviews, HARLAN: IN THE SHADOW OF JEW SÜSS  is indeed a searing portrait of the controversial filmmaker and an eye-opening examination of World War II film history. But it also shows how Veit Harlan’s family - especially the youngest generation - struggles even today with the dark myth of his artistic immorality. It’s the story of a German family from the Third Reich to the present, one that is marked by reckoning, denial and liberation.

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"As one of the most notorious helmers of the Third Reich, Veit Harlan has spawned a near industry among academics dissecting his films. Felix Moeller's terrific HARLAN: IN THE SHADOW OF JEW SÜSS cleverly shifts the discourse and concentrates more on the director's family, subtly exploring questions of guilt and filial devotion while keeping the man's monstrous legacy front and center."
- Jay Weissberg, Variety

"Director Felix Moeller shows us the profound impact Harlan's talent and villainy have on his children and grandchildren. By focusing on this unique family, Moeller’s chilling documentary illuminates the legacy of Nazi Germany's artistic life."
- Boston Jewish Film Festival

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (UK, 1948)
Starring Moira Shearer
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WINNER - BEST ART DIRECTION AND MUSIC
NOMINATED - BEST PICTURE, EDITING, AND SCREENPLAY
1948 ACADEMY AWARDS

Directors Powell and Pressburger, who called their unique creative partnership The Archers, were no strangers to controversy. Each film they made aimed it's barb at complacency and tackled a new creative challenge. They intended for this story, of a ballerina's life backstage, to turn into a manifesto for the claims of art over mundane life.

Through a young dancer's eyes, unforgettably played by Moira Shearer, we meet a young composer, played by Marius Goring, and we enter a ballet company under the leading dancer and choreographer Robert Helpmann. At the center of the company is the malevolent charming impresario Boris Lermontov. Lermontov lives through his creations. People and relationships are ruthlessly subordinated to a drive that inevitably reminds us of the drive to make films. Under the authoritarian rule this charismatic ballet impresario, his proteges realize the full promise of their talents, but at a price: utter devotion to their art and complete loyalty to Lermontov himself.

Under his guidance, the young ballerina is poised for superstardom, but earns Lermontov's scorn when she falls in love with the composer of "The Red Shoes," the ballet Lermontov is staging to showcase her talents.

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"The film is voluptuous in its beauty and passionate in its storytelling. You don't watch it, you bathe in it."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"A look beneath its lushly romantic surface reveals a dark, complex sensibility, and that surface, rendered in the somber tones of British Technicolor, reflects a fantastically rich cinematic inventiveness."
- Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith (USA, 2009)
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WINNER - FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AWARD
2009 USA NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW

“First, I didn’t like their decision, unbelievable, wasn’t it? You know those clowns we got on there. I tell you, I hope I outlive the bastards.”
– President Richard M. Nixon (in conversation with J. Edgar Hoover, on the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the ongoing publication of the Pentagon Papers, July 1, 1971)

“I just say that we’ve got to keep our eye on the main ball. The main ball is Ellsberg. We’ve got to get this son-of-a-bitch.”
– Nixon (in conversation with Attorney General John Mitchell, June 29, 1971)

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concludes that the war is based on decades of lies and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times, making headlines around the world.

A riveting story of how one man’s profound change of heart creates a landmark struggle involving America’s newspapers, its president and Supreme Court. A political thriller whose events lead directly to Watergate, Nixon’s resignation and the end of the Vietnam War.

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"A tremendously important lesson for times when it seems like we are always at war. Will the person stopping them always be branded a traitor?"
- Ron Wilkinson, Monsters and Critics

"Fortunately, the staunchly committed and controversial Ellsberg, now 78, is still around to tell his history-making tale, and he lends the film gravitas as both its persuasive narrator and primary talking head."
- Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

Niels Arden Oplev (Sweden, 2009)
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THE FIRST INSTALLMENT
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLING "MILLENIUM" SERIES

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, ruthless computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) to investigate.

When the pair link Harriet’s disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vanger’s are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is based on the trilogy of books by Stieg Larsson and has sold over 7 million copies worldwide. Tragically, Larsson did not live to see the phenomenon his work has become as he died suddenly in 2004 soon after delivering the manuscripts to his Swedish publisher.

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NOMINATED - AUDIENCE AWARD - 2009 EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS

"Lisbeth Salander is, to me, one of the most intriguing characters in mystery literature. Who would have the wiry build, the right look, the martial arts? Noomi Rapace does all that, with a mercurial beauty that fulfills the image precisely. "
- Jules Brenner, Cinema Signals

"The "Millennium" novels are probably the biggest international phenom to emerge from Sweden since Abba. Actress Noomi Rapace turns her subject into a mesmerizing, highly intelligent yet absolutely uncontrollable animal with her own sense of justice."
- Boyd van Hoeij, Variety

Claire Denis (France/Germany, 2008)
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WINNER - SPECIAL JURY AWARD - 2008 GIJON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

“The warmth radiating from 35 Shots of Rum, smoother than the finest liquor, reminds viewers how rarely movies capture the easygoing love embodied in a functional family, with all its support and...Director Claire Denis, long known for her subtle, fluid and intriguing movies, sets her story in a Paris suburb: a widowed metro conductor - approaching retirement - lives with his beautiful grown daughter, slowly becoming the object of a next door neighbor’s desire. Through this conduit 35 SHOTS OF RUM considers the mysterious complexities that surround evolving relationships, whether romantic or parental.

It is that rare movie in which the plot is driven by what people say and what they hold back, the meaningful pauses between words, a significant glance, a sexy outfit, a thoughtful gift. In other words, it holds a mirror up to life as it is actually led.

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“The warmth radiating from 35 SHOTS OF RUM, smoother than the finest liquor, reminds viewers how rarely movies capture the easygoing love embodied in a functional family, with all its support and tenderness.”
– Jay Weissberg, Variety

“One of the best films of the year.”
– Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

VINCERE

Marco Bellochio Italy, 2009)
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WINNER - BEST DIRECTOR, ACTOR, ACTRESS, AND CINEMATOGRAPHY
2009 CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

There is a secret in the life of Benito Mussolini: a wife and a son, Benito Albino, who was born, acknowledged and then denied, born to Ida Dalser. It is a dark page in history, one ignored in the official biography of the Duce.

When Ida first meets Mussolini in Milan, he is the editor of Avanti! and an ardent Socialist who intends to guide the masses towards an anti-clerical, anti-monarchical, socially emancipated future. Ida is thunderstruck - and truly believes in his ideas. In order to finance Il Popolo d’Italia, a newspaper he has founded and the nucleus of the forthcoming Fascist Party, Ida sells everything she has.

When the First World War erupts, Benito Mussolini enrolls in the Army and disappears. When Ida finds him again in a military hospital, he has already married his nurse. Ida lashes out at her rival furiously, demanding her rights as Mussolini’s true wife and the mother of his first-born son. She is led away by force.

For more than eleven years, she is locked away in an insane asylum (and her son in an institute) where she is put under physical restraint and tortured, never to see her son again. But Ida will not give up without a fightn and unknowingly writes her own untold page in history's books.

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"Director Bellocchio reaffirms the power of the movies to bring about a sort of redemption."
- Andrew Schenker, Slant Magazine

"An operatic tour de force."
- Mark Peranson, Globe and Mail

EARTH DAYS

Robert Stone (USA, 2009)
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OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2009 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

Its now all the rage in the age of Al Gore and Barack Obama, but can you remember when everyone in America was not "Going Green"? Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, EARTH DAYS' secret weapon is a one-two punch of personal testimony and rare archival media.

The extraordinary stories of the era’s pioneers - among them Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; biologist/Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich; Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand; Apollo Nine astronaut Rusty Schweickart; and renewable energy pioneer Hunter Lovins - are beautifully illustrated with an incredible array of footage from candy-colored Eisenhower-era tableaux to classic tear-jerking 1970s anti-litterbug PSAs.

Directed by acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone (OSWALD'S GHOST), EARTH DAYS is both a poetic meditation on humanity's complex relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements - and missed opportunities - of groundbreaking eco-activism.

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"A rapturous and enlightening look at the history of the environmental movement in America."
- Owen Glieberman, Entertainment Weekly

"We may still have a long way to go but EARTH DAYS applauds those who have helped bring us this far."
- Beth Accomando, KPBS.org

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