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Hyde Park On Hudson and V/H/S
Antiviral
(Country: Canada, US; Year: 2012; Director: Brandon Cronenberg; Writer: Brandon Cronenberg; Stars: Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Malcolm McDowell)
In a future where people pay to be infected with the same diseases as their idols, a dealer races to find a cure after a starlet whose illness he has stolen dies.
Boneboys
(Year: 2012; Director: Duane Graves, Justin Meeks; Writer: Kim Henkel, based on the novel by Jonathan Swift; Stars: Ali Faulkner, Edwin Neal, Sonny Carl Davis, Derek Lee Nixon, Johnny Walter)
Henkel’s new script fuses Jonathan Swift’s tale A Modest Proposal with a Southern cannibalistic elite operating from a meat-feast diner.
Ernest And Celestine (Ernest Et Celestine)
(Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg; Year: 2012; Director: Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier; Writer: Daniel Pennac; Stars: Lambert Wilson, Pauline Brunner)
The unlikely friendship between a gruff bear and an orphaned mouse worries authorities who believe the species shouldn't mix.
Gimme The Loot
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Adam Leon; Writer: Adam Leon; Stars: Tysheeb Hickson, Zoë Lescaze, Joshua Rivera, Tashiana R. Washington), Official Site
A pair of graffiti artists attempt to pull off a daring tagging mission
Hemel
(Country: Netherlands / Spain; Year: 2012; Director: Sacha Polak; Writer: Helena van der Meulen; Stars: Hannah Hoekstra, Hans Dagelet, Rifka Lodeizen)
A father and daughter are more committed to one another than their string of on/off lovers... until the father falls for a young auctioneer.
Gimme The Loot and No
The Hunt
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2012; Director: Thomas Vinterberg; Writer: Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm; Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp)
A much loved teacher's world is shattered when a pupil accuses him of sexual molestation.
Hyde Park On Hudson
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Roger Michell; Writer: Richard Nelson; Stars: Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Marvel, Blake Ritson, Samuel West, Elizabeth Wilson, Eleanor Bron.)
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
In The House
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: François Ozon; Writer: François Ozon, based on the play by Juan Mayorga; Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, Denis Ménochet, Fabrice Luchini, Jean-François Balmer, Ernst Umhauer, Diana Stewart, Fabrice Colson, Stéphanie Campion, Bastien Ughetto)
Fiction and reality become blurred between a teacher and student.
I Wish (Kiseki)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2011; Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda; Writer: Hirokazu Kore-eda; Stars: Koki Maeda, Ohshirô Maeda, Ryôga Hayashi, Cara Uchida, Kanna Hashimoto, Rento Isobe, Hoshinosuke Yoshinaga, Hiroshi Abe, Yoshio Harada, Isao Hashizume, Kirin Kiki, Masami Nagasawa, Yui Natsukawa, Jô Odagiri, Nene Ohtsuka)
Two brothers hatch a plot to make their reunion wish come true.
I, Anna
(Country: UK, Germany, France; Year: 2012; Director: Barnaby Southcombe; Writer: Elsa Lewin, Barnaby Southcombe; Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Gabriel Byrne, Hayley Atwell, Eddie Marsan)
A detective falls for a woman who may be mixed up in a murder case.
Seven Psychopaths and I Wish
A Liar's Autobiography
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson, Ben Timlett; Writer: Graham Chapman, David Sherlock, Douglas Addams, David Yallop, Alex Martin; Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Jones)
A fanciful animated biopic of Monty Python alumnus Graham Chapman.
No
(Year: 2012; Director: Pablo Larraín; Writer: Pedro Peirano; Stars: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro and Antonia Zegers)
Gael Garcia Bernal stars as a Chilean adman trying to organize a campaign to unseat Pinochet in Pablo Larraín’s smart, engrossing political thriller.
Now, Forager (Love & Fungi)
(Country: US, Poland; Year: 2012; Director: Jason Cortlund, Julia Halperin; Writer: Jason Cortlund; Stars: Jason Cortlund, Tiffany Esteb, Almex Lee, Gabrielle Maisels)
A foraging couple's relationship unravels under differing expectations.
Quartet
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Dustin Hoffman; Writer: Ronald Harwood; Stars: Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins, Michael Gambon)
Four ageing opera singers are reunited in a retirement home.
Robot And Frank
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Jake Schreier; Writer: Christopher D Ford; Stars: Frank Langella, James Marsden, Liv Tyler, Susan Sarandon, Liev Schreiber, Jeremy Strong, Katherine Waterston, Bonnie Bentley, Joshua Ormond, Dario Barosso, Rachael Ma, Dana Morgan, Hunter Reid, Jesse Newman)
A curmudgeonly OAP's kids install a robot as his caretaker.
Ernest And Celestine and Sightseers
Savage Witches
(Year: 2012; Director: Daniel Fawcett, Clara Pais; Stars: Christina Wood, Victoria Smith)
Two teenage girls want nothing but to play games, dress up and have adventures, but when they find themselves in conflict with the world around them they set out to transform it and break free.
Seven Psychopaths
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Martin McDonagh; Writer: Martin McDonagh; Stars: Olga Kurylenko, Christopher Walken, Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, Helena Mattsson, Zeljko Ivanek, Tom Waits, Kevin Corrigan, Gabourey Sidibe, Brendan Sexton III, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Sandy Martin, Jamie Noel)
A booze-fuelled screenwriter becomes entangled in the Los Angeles underworld.
Shell
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Scott Graham; Writer: Scott Graham; Stars: Chloe Pirrie, Joseph Mawle, Iain de Caestecker, Paul Hickey, Kate Dickie, Michael Smiley)
An intense story of two people who struggle to keep their longings for freedom under control, set against a beautiful and remote landscape that reflects their isolation back at them.
Shock Head Soul
(Country: UK, Netherlands; Year: 2011; Director: Simon Pummell; Writer: Simon Pummell, Helen Taylor-Robinson; Stars: Hugo Koolschijn, Anniek Pfeifer, Thom Hoffman)
Documentary, drama and animation combine to tell the remarkable story of a successful lawyer possessed by psychotic visions.
Sightseers
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Ben Wheatley; Writer: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Alice Jump; Stars: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Eileen Davies, Richard Glover)
A young couple on a caravan holiday find themselves going on a killing spree.
In The House and Quartet
Summer Of Giacomo (L'estate di Giacomo)
(Director: Alessandro Comodin; Writer: Alessandro Comodin; Stars: Giacomo Zulian, Stefania Comodin, Barbara Colombo)
A young 19-year-old deaf man, goes picnicking with his best female friend, Stefania. Though they get lost, they discover a remote place that feels like a little paradise where they are free to be themselves and their childhood games increasingly take on sensual overtones.
V/H/S
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Radio Silence; Writer: Simon Barrett, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence; Stars: Joe Swanberg, Calvin Reeder, Adam Wingard, Sophia Takal, Kate Lyn Sheil)
A horror anthology based around the theft of an old video tape.
War Witch (Rebelle)
(Country: Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Kim Nguyen; Writer: Kim Nguyen; Stars: Rachel Mwanza, Alain Lino Mic Eli Bastien, Serge Kanyinda, Mizinga Mwinga, Ralph Prosper, Jean Kabuya, Jupiter Bokondji, Starlette Mathata, Alex Herabo, Dole Malalou, Karim Bamaraki, Sephora Françoise, Jonathan Kombe, Marie Dilou, Gauna Gau), Official Site
A former child soldier recounts her past to her unborn child.
Yossi (Ha-Sippur Shel Yossi)
(Country: Israel; Year: 2012; Director: Eytan Fox; Writer: Itay Segal; Stars: Lior Ashkenazi, Ohad Knoller, Oz Zehavi, Orly Silbersatz Banai)
Ten years after a tragic love story between two IDF soldiers... we catch up with one of them.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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