Everything Must Go

"Everything Must Go": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

Will Ferrell is a revelation playing against type as a muddled man whose life has collapsed around him, leaving him to choose whether to be buried by the wreckage or to dig his way out.

With a bruised and nearly broken Will Ferrell in a Barcalounger presiding over a yard sale of all his worldly possessions, "Everything Must Go" is like the Raymond Carver short story it is loosely based on — a precision cut at an already small slice of life.

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Everything Must Go
Everything Must Go tells the story of NICK HALSEY (WILL FERRELL) a career salesman whose days of being on top are long gone. The same day Nick gets fired, for falling off the wagon one last time, he returns home to discover his wife has left him , changed the locks on their suburban home and dumped all his possessions out on the front yard. Faced with his life imploding, Nick puts it all on the line – or more properly, on the lawn – reluctantly holding a yard sale that becomes a unique strategy for survival.

Opened May 13, 2011 (Limited 5/13) | Runtime:1 hr. 36 min.
Cast: Will Ferrell, Christopher Jordan Wallace, Rebecca Hall, Michael Peña, Rosalie Michaels, Stephen Root, Laura Dern, Glenn Howerton
Director: Dan Rush
Genres: Drama, Addiction Drama, Slice of Life


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Cave of Forgotten Dreams

"Cave of Forgotten Dreams": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

Werner Herzog's 3-D documentary gives us the privilege and pleasure of stepping inside the Chauvet cave to gaze at ancient paintings that speak to our humanity across the ages. Evocatively titled by writer-director and narrator Werner Herzog, a filmmaker who seems almost born for this project, "Cave" not only takes us inside the Chauvet cave, home to hundreds of wall paintings and named after the man who led the discovery team on Dec. 18, 1994, it takes us there in 3-D.

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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Opened April 29, 2011 (Limited 4/29) | Runtime:1 hr. 29 min.
Cast: Werner Herzog, Dominique Baffier, Jean Clottes, Jean-Michel Geneste, Carole Fritz, Gilles Tosello, Michel Philippe, Julien Monney, Wulf Hein, Nicholas Conard, Maria Malina, Maurice Maurin
Director: Werner Herzog
Genres: Culture & Society, Natural Environments, Anthropology, Documentary


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Bridesmaids

"Bridesmaids": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

This clever romp to the altar is made to order for maid of honor Kristen Wiig and her raunchy gal pals.

From the first overheated moments of "Bridesmaids," with its Kama Sutra-plus-six-positions sex — so satisfying for him, so exhausting for her — it's clear we're in for that rarest of treats: an R-rated romantic comedy from the Venus point of view.
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Bridesmaids
A woman's life unravels as she helps the bride, her lifelong friend, prepare for the wedding.

Opened May 13, 2011 | Runtime:2 hr. 5 min.
R Some strong sexuality, and language throughout
Cast: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ellie Kemper
Director: Paul Feig
Genres: Romantic Comedy, Farce, Comedy


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Poetry

"Poetry": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

"Poetry" is daring in the ways only quiet, unhurried but finally haunting films have the courage to be. A character study of remarkable subtlety joined to a carefully worked-out plot that fearlessly explores big issues like beauty, truth and mortality, it marks the further emergence of Korean writer-director Lee Chang-dong.
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Poetry
Mija is a grandmother who lives with her middle-school grandson in a small suburban city located along the Han River, in South Korea. A happy-go-lucky woman who likes to dress in flower-decorated hats and fashionable outfits, Mija is also an unpredictable character with an inquisitive mind. All of the sudden, she decides to take a poetry class at a neighborhood cultural center, and throws herself into the challenging task of writing a poem for the first time in her life. Following her instructor's guidance, Mija begins her quest for poetic inspiration by opening herself to life's small pleasures and observing everyday life. But when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and discovers that her grandson is involved in a horrific crime, she quickly realizes that life is not as beautiful as she had thought it was.

Opened February 11, 2011 | Runtime:2 hr. 19 min.
Note: Film is presented in Korean with English subtitles.
Cast: Yun Junghee, Lee David, Kim Hara, An Naesang
Director: Lee Chang-dong
Genres: Drama, Family Drama, Slice of Life

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Incendies

"Incendies": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

In this foreign-language Oscar-nominated film, family secrets originate in world conflict.

Writer-director Denis Villeneuve begins "Incendies," his film adaptation of Wajdi Mouawad's critically acclaimed play, with beauty and rage, motifs that will drive this modern tragedy of ancient conflicts from its roots in the Middle East to the seemingly safe haven of Canada.

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Incendies
When notary Lebel (Rémy Girard) sits down with Jeanne and Simon Marwan (Mélissa Désormeaux Poulin, Maxim Gaudette) to read them their mother Nawal’s will (Lubna Azabal), the twins are stunned to receive a pair of envelopes – one for the father they thought was dead and another for a brother they didn’t know existed. In this enigmatic inheritance, Jeanne sees the key to Nawal’s retreat into unexplained silence during the final weeks of her life. She immediately decides to go to the Middle East to dig into a family history of which she knows next to nothing. Simon is unmoved by their mother's posthumous mind games. However, the love he has for his sister is strong, and he soon joins her in combing their ancestral homeland in search of a Nawal who is very different from the mother they knew. With Lebel’s help, the twins piece together the story of the woman who brought them into the world, discovering a tragic fate as well as the courage of an exceptional woman.
Opened April 22, 2011 | Run time: 2 hr. 10 min.
Cast: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Rémy Girard, Abdelghafour Elaaziz
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Genres: Drama, Fantasy Drama


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The Double Hour

"The Double Hour": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

Nothing is ever completely the way it appears to be in this Italian thriller. A love story wrapped in a way-twisty thriller, this Italian film was made to mess with our heads. It's a wild tale that's so full of surprises, reversals and double-jointed plot twists that you wouldn't think there'd be room for anything else. But there is.

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The Double Hour
Guido (Filippo Timi), a former cop, is a luckless veteran of the speed-dating scene in Turin. But, much to his surprise, he meets Slovenian immigrant Sonia (Ksenia Rappoport), a chambermaid at a high-end hotel. The two hit it off, and a passionate romance develops. After they leave the city for a romantic getaway in the country, things suddenly take a dark turn. As Sonia’s murky past resurfaces, her reality starts to crumble. Everything in her life begins to change - - questions arise and answers only arrive through a continuous twist and turn of events keeping viewers on edge until the film’s final moments.

Opened April 15, 2011 | Runtime:1 hr. 35 min.
Cast: Kseniya Rappoport, Filippo Timi, Antonia Truppo, Gaetano Bruno, Fausto Russo Alesi, Michele Di Mauro
Director: Giuseppe Capotondi
Genres: Romantic Mystery, Drama, Mystery, Psychological Thriller


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