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For more information contact Suzanne Hitchon at 1-800-565-1996 or via email at [email protected] LARGE FILM LIBRARY A Small Sample of titles Available: Avatar 127 Hours 2009 • 150 min • Color • 20th Century Fox 2010 • 93 min • Color • 20th Century Fox Director: James Cameron Director: Danny Boyle Cast: Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Cast: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara, Michelle Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, Giovanni Ribisi, Clemence Poesy, Kate Burton, Lizzy Caplan CCH Pounder, Laz Alonso, Joel Moore, 127 HOURS is the new film from Danny Boyle, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang the Academy Award winning director of last Avatar is the story of an ex-Marine who finds year’s Best Picture, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE. 127 himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet HOURS is the true story of mountain climber filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a Aron Ralston’s (James Franco) remarkable adven- human mind in an alien body, he finds himself ture to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes torn between two worlds, in a desperate fight for his own survival and on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next that of the indigenous people. More than ten years in the making, five days Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally Avatar marks Cameron’s return to feature directing since helming 1997’s discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by Titanic, the highest grossing film of all time and winner of eleven Os- any means necessary, scale a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles be- cars: including Best Picture. WETA Digital, renowned for its work in The fore he is finally rescued. Throughout his journey, Ralston recalls friends, Lord of the Rings Trilogy and King Kong, will incorporate new intuitive lovers (Clemence Poesy), family, and the two hikers (Amber Tamblyn CGI technologies to transform the environments and characters into and Kate Mara) he met before his accident. Will they be the last two photorealistic 3D imagery that will transport the audience into the alien people he ever had the chance to meet? A visceral thrilling story that world rich with imaginative vistas, creatures and characters. will take an audience on a never before experienced journey and prove what we can do when we choose life. An Inconvenient Truth 2006 • 100 min • Color • Paramount Pictures The Abyss Director: Davis Guggenheim • Cast: Al Gore 1989 • 140 min • Color • 20th Century Fox KEY FEATURES Director eloquently weaves the science of global Director: James Cameron warming with Mr. Gore’s personal history and Cast: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester global climate change. A team of civilian divers on a prototype under- A longtime advocate for the environment, Gore water oil-drilling rig are pressed into service by presents a wide array of facts and information in the U.S. navy in a rescue effort for a sunken nu- a thoughtful and compelling way. “Al Gore strips clear submarine. The mission involves an uneasy his presentations of politics, laying out the facts blend of wonder, discovery and conflict as the for the audience to draw their own conclusions in a charming, funny navy supervisor begins to have paranoid ideas and engaging style, and by the end has everyone on the edge of their about what is in the abyss. seats, gripped by his haunting message,” said Guggenheim. An Incon- venient Truth is not a story of despair but rather a rallying cry to protect The Agony and the Ecstasy the one earth we all share. “It is now clear that we face a deepening global 1965 • 140 min • Color • 20th Century Fox climate crisis that requires us to act boldly, quickly, and wisely,” said Gore. Director: Carol Reed Cast: Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews, Alberto Lupo The Great Gatsby Based on Irving Stone’s fictionalized biography of 1974 • 146 min • Color • Paramount Pictures Michelangelo, this beautiful film dramatizes the Director: Jack Clayton triumphs and conflicts in the artist’s life. CUSTOMIZATION Cast: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Sam Waterston, Karen Black A look at the wealthy, sophisticated society of the Jazz Age, the exquisite screen version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel tells the tragic story of Oxbow Incident Jay Gatsby - desperately in love with rich, spoiled 1943 • 75 min • Black and White/Monochrome and married Daisy Buchanan. A magnificent 20th Century Fox • Director: William A. Wellman film, meticulously faithful to time Cast: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth and place. Hughes, Anthony Quinn, William Eythe, Harry Morgan Norma Rae This tale of a cowboy who is unable to stop the 1979 • 113 min • Color • 20th Century Fox unjust lynching of three travelers probes deeply Director: Martin Ritt • Cast: Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman into violence and hostility which lurk beneath the Sally Field won an Oscar for her portrayal of a textile worker whose surface. mundane life is changed by the arrival of a union organizer from New York. www.criterionondemand.com 3 Life of Pi Beasts of the Southern Wild 2012 • 127 min • Color • 20th Century Fox 2012 • 94 min • Color • 20th Century Fox Director: Ang Lee Director: Benh Zeitlin Cast: Tobey Maguire, Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Cast: Quvenzhan Wallis, Dwight Henry, Jonshel Sonu Sood, Suraj Sharma, Adil Hussain Alexander, Joseph Brown, Kendra Harris, Based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, Henry D. Coleman is a magical adventure story centering on Pi Pa- In a forgotten but defiant bayou community tel, the precocious son of a zookeeper. Dwellers cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling in Pondicherry, India, the family decides to move levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of or- to Canada, hitching a ride on a huge freighter. phanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and After a shipwreck, Pi is found adrift in the Pacific extraordinary imagination, she believes that the Ocean on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, all fighting for survival. her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to Babel survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions. 2006 • 142 min • Color • Paramount Pictures Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Cast: Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, Gael García Bernal, 1969 • 112 min • Color • 20th Century Fox Mahima Chaudhry, Jamie McBride, Kôji Yakusho, Director: George Roy Hill Shilpa Shetty, Lynsey Beauchamp, Paul Terrell Clayton Cast: Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Three stories set in Morocco, Tunisia, Mexico and Katharine Ross Japan. The story begins with a tragedy striking a Redford and Newman are perfectly cast as the married couple on vacation. outlaw buddies who are running for their lives to Bolivia with Katharine Ross and are not exact- ly sure who’s chasing them. This classic of the True Grit changing West won five Academy Awards. 2010 • 109 min • Color • Paramount Pictures Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Cast: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Ordinary People Barry Pepper, Hailee Steinfeld 1980 • 124 min • Color • Paramount Pictures Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross’s (Hailee Stein- Director: Robert Redford feld) father has been shot in cold blood by the Cast: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, coward Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), and she is Timothy Hutton, Judd Hirsch determined to bring him to justice. Enlisting the “Ordinary People” is a stunning film and winner of help of a trigger-happy, drunken U.S. Marshal, four Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Support- Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), she sets out with ing Actor, and Best Director. A teenager, troubled him — over his objections — to hunt down Chaney. Her father’s blood because he failed to save his older brother from demands that she pursue the criminal into Indian territory and find him drowning, attempts suicide. His parents, affluent before a Texas Ranger named LeBoeuf (Matt Damon) catches him and suburbanites, do not seem to be able to restore brings him back to Texas for the murder of another man. the boy’s confidence in himself nor do they appear capable of true un- derstanding. Only after a period of time is the family able to reconcile Carmen Jones itself to life’s difficulties.