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Director: Ruben Alves [CTC] Director: Ben Stiller [CTC] Director: Alexander Payne [CTC] Director: John Wells [CTC] Director: Brian Percival [CTC] Director: Martin Scorsese [CTC] Starring: Rita Blanco, Joaquim de Almeida, Roland Giraud Starring: Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine Starring: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb Starring: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor Starring: Sophie Nélisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey France’s biggest international comedy hit since The Intouchables, writer/ In this comedic adaptation of James Thurber’s short story, Ben Stiller Director Alexander Payne (Sideways, The Descendants) takes the From the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play by Tracy Letts, Based on the beloved international bestselling book, The Book Thief Martin Scorsese reteams with Leonardo DiCaprio on this adaptation director Ruben Alves’ warm-hearted and enormously charming cross- stars as Walter, a milquetoast proof reader for a magazine publishing helm for this black and white road trip drama starring Bruce Dern as a August: Osage County looks at the lives of the strong-willed women tells the story of an extraordinary, spirited young girl sent to live with of Jordan Belfort’s memoir, from his rise to a wealthy stockbroker cultural comedy is the story of a loving, hardworking married couple firm. Walter is constitutionally incapable of standing up for himself, tempestuous Missouri father who’s convinced he’s won a million dollar of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis a foster family in WWII Germany. Intrigued by the only book she living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal whose long-held dream comes true thanks to an unexpected inheritance so he retreats into his fantasy world, where he is heroic, poised, magazine sweepstake, and Will Forte as the son who grudgingly agrees brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the brought with her, she begins collecting books as she finds them. With government. self-assured, and the master of his fate. to drive him to Nebraska to claim his winnings. – only to be secretly undermined by their friends and neighbours. dysfunctional woman who raised them. the help of her new parents and a secret guest under the stairs, she learns to read and creates a magical world that inspires them all. GENIUS DIRECTOR MARTIN SCORSESE RETEAMS WITH LEONARDO “AN HARMONIOUS MIXTURE OF LAUGHS AND EMOTION. A GOLDEN “THE PAIRING OF THE TWO STARS HAS A DELICIOUS “A WISTFUL ODE TO SMALL-TOWN MIDWESTERN LIFE AND THE “A VASTLY ENJOYABLE THEATRICAL BANQUET, IF PERHAPS NOT A “BROUGHT TO THE SCREEN WITH QUIET EFFECTIVENESS AND DICAPRIO ON THIS FILM WITH TERENCE WINTER WRITING THE COMEDY.” PIERRE VAVASSEUR, LE PARISIEN PERPENDICULARITY” TOM STONE, THEGUARDIAN.COM QUIXOTIC DREAMS OF STUBBORN OLD MEN.” SCOTT FOUNDAS, VARIETY PROFOUND ONE” TIM ROBEY, DAILY TELEGRAPH SCRUPULOUS TASTE” DENNIS HARVEY, VARIETY SCREENPLAY, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF SHOWS LIKE BOARDWALK EMPIRE AND THE SOPRANOS.
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Director: David O. Russell [CTC] Director: Stephen Frears [CTC] Director: Jonathan Teplitzky [CTC] Director: John Lee Hancock [CTC] Director: Spike Jonze [CTC] Director: Paolo Sorrentino [MA15+] Starring: Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams Starring: Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Michelle Fairley Starring: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine Starring: Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson, Paul Giamatti Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams Starring: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli The story of a con artist and his partner in crime, who were forced to Philomena, directed by Stephen Frears (The Queen), is the true story of Based on Eric Lomax’s best-selling memoir, The Railway Man is an When Walt Disney’s daughters begged him to make a movie of their Written and directed by Spike Jonze, Her is set in Los Angeles, in the One of the most spectacular and talked-about films of the 2013 work with a federal agent to turn the tables on other cons, mobsters, one mother’s search for her lost son. After falling pregnant as a teenager, inspiring true story of heroism, humanity and the redeeming power of love. favourite book, P.L. Travers’ Mary Poppins he made them a promise, one near future and follows a withdrawn writer Theodore Twombly (Phoenix). Cannes Film Festival, Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty stars Toni and politicians - namely, the volatile mayor of impoverished Camden, Philomena (Dench) was sent to a convent and her baby put up for On his return from war, Eric is tormented by his memories and trapped by that he didn’t realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship, he becomes intrigued Servillo in a powerful and evocative tale of hedonism and lost love, New Jersey. adoption. After fifty fruitless years spent searching in vain, Philomena a code of silence that will destroy him, until the determination of the woman the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising with a new, advanced computer operating system. Upon initiating it, he and an extraordinary depiction of Rome – in a style reminiscent (and meets Martin Sixsmith (Coogan), a journalist, who together set off for he loves gives him the strength to face and survive the battlefield of his writer who has no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny turn into is delighted to meet “Samantha,” (Johansson). As her needs and desires in celebration) of the great Fellini. America on a journey to find Philomena’s son. mind. a Hollywood movie. grow in tandem with his own, their friendship deepens into an eventual love for each other. DAVID O. RUSSELL (DIRECTOR SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, THE FIGHTER) “PHILOMENA IS A REAL DELIGHT. FUNNY, MOVING, BEAUTIFULLY “[AN] EXTREMELY AFFECTING AND ACCOMPLISHED DRAMA ...” “SMART, WITTY ENTERTAINMENT. JOB DONE. SPIT SPOT.” “JONZE CREATES THE SPLENDID ANACHRONISM OF A MOVIE “MAGNIFICENT! GORGEOUS! A SWOONING LOVE LETTER LEADS A REMARKABLE ENSEMBLE CAST IN THIS SEXY AND VOLATILE PERFORMED AND DIRECTED WITH RESTRAINT AND A WONDERFULLY CATHERINE SHOARD, GUARDIAN [UK] DAVID GRITTEN, DAILY TELEGRAPH ROMANCE THAT IS LAUGH-AND-CRY AND WARM ALL OVER” TO ROMAN DECADENCE.” PETER BRADSHAW, THE GUARDIAN STORY OF SCANDAL AND DECEIT” DELICATE TOUCH” MARK ADAMS, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL RICHARD CORLISS, TIME MAGAZINE