Events Archive
August 2010.
Japan Drama/Comedy
Director: Yojiro Takita
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Running time: 130 min.
Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and now finds himself without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled "Departures" thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a "Nokanshi" or "encoffineer," a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life.
UK Musical
Director: Max Giwa, DaniaPasquini
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, rachel McDowell
Running time: 99 min.
In order to win the Street Dance Championships, a dance crew is forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in exchange for rehearsal space.
Family Comedy
Director: Sussana White
Starring: Emma Thompson, Ralph Fiennes
Running time: 121 min.
Nanny McPhee arrives to help a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war, though she uses her magic to teach the woman's children and their two spoiled cousins five new lessons.
UK Comedy
Director: Armando Iannuci
Starring: James Galdonfini, Anna Chlumsky
Running time: 106 min.
The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war. But not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. The US General Miller doesn't think so and neither does the British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster. But, after Simon accidentally backs military action on TV, he suddenly has a lot of friends in Washington, DC. I
Drama, Directed by: John Hillcoat
Starring: Viggo Mortensen , Charlize Theron , Kodi Smit-McPhee
A father and son are transformed into homeless scavengers by a cataclysmic event: the destruction of the world. The Road, starring Viggo Mortensen as a once-civilized man shepherding his 11-year-old boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) through an America ravaged into rubble, is adapted from Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer-winning 2007 novel.
July 2010.
The Milk of SorrowSpain/Peru - Drama
Director: Claudia Llosa
Starring: Magaly Solier, Susi Sanchez
Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother's footsteps.
Action Comedy
Director:James Mangold
Starring: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz
June Havens finds her everyday life tangled with that of a secret agent who has realized he isn't supposed to survive his latest mission. As their campaign to stay alive stretches across the globe, they soon learn that all they can count on is each other.
SF Thriller
Director: Miguel Saochnik
Starring: Liev Schreiber, Jude Law
Running time: 112 min.
In the future humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called "The Union". The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you don't pay your bill, "The Union" sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its property... with no concern for your comfort or survival.
GB/France comedy
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Eric Cantona, Steve Evets
Looking for Eric is a 2009 British/French film about the escape from the trials of modern life that football and its heroes can bring for its fans. It was written by screen writer Paul Laverty and directed by English director Ken Loach. The film's cast includes former professional footballer Eric Cantona and former bassist with The Fall, Steve Evets.
American comedy
Director: Michael Patrick King
Starring: Sarah Jassica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynhia Nixon
The fun, the fashion, the friendship: "Sex and the City 2" brings it all back and more as Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda take another bite out of The Big Apple and beyond carrying on with their busy lives and loves in a sequel that truly sparkles. What happens after you say "I do"? Life is everything the ladies ever wished it to be, but it wouldn't be "Sex and the City" if life didn't hold a few more surprises..
