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Director:
Julian Schnabel
Writer:
Ronald Harwood
Producers:
Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kilik
The true story of a man who took an adversity beyond all imagining and transformed
it into a testament to the irrepressible human urge to love, create and dream. With
his third film, director and artist Julian Schnabel (“Basquiat,” “Before Night Falls”)
forges a visual ode to what drives a man to go on when all truly seems lost. Through a
blast of color, beauty and humor, Schnabel tells the story of Jean-Dominique Bauby
(Mathieu Amalric, “Munich”), AKA “Jean-Do,” the high-flying editor of French Elle and
father of two, who was renowned for his sense of humor and style, his joie de vivre
and amorous energy, when, in an instant, his world was plunged into the depths of
catastrophe. Faced with a harrowing predicament, Jean-Do will use enormous
courage and determination but, most of all, his soaring imagination to escape from
his trap.
Director:
Todd Haynes
Writer:
Todd Haynes & Oren Moverman
Producers:
Christine Vachon, John Sloss, John Goldwyn, James D. Stern
I'm Not There is a biographical film reflecting the life of musician Bob Dylan. The
iconic singer-songwriter is be depicted through seven distinct stages of his life by six
different actors. The film tells the story using rather non-traditional techniques,
much like the poetic narrative style utilized in Dylan's songwriting. The title I'm Not
There is a reference to the Dylan outtake recorded during The Basement Tapes
(Sessions). I'm Not There is one of the most famous and highly regarded outtakes,
not just of the Basement Tapes, but Dylan’s whole career.
Juno
Director:
Jason Reitman
Writer:
Diablo Cody
Producers:
Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Mason Novick, Russell Smith
Meet Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) –a confidently frank teenage girl who calls the shots
with a nonchalant cool and an effortless attitude as she journeys through an
emotional nine-month adventure into adulthood. Quick witted and distinctively
unique, Juno walks Dancing Elk High's halls to her own tune - preferably anything by
The Stooges - but underneath her tough no nonsense exterior is just a teenage girl
trying to figure it all out.
Director:
Michael Winterbottom
Writer:
John Orloff
Producers:
Dede Gardner, Andrew Eaton, Brad Pitt
On January 23, 2002, Daniel Pearl, South Asia Bureau Chief for the Wall Street
Journal, disappeared while researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. In the
face of death, Danny's spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief in the power of
journalism led his wife, Mariane, to write about his disappearance, the intense effort
to find him and his eventual murder in her memoir. Six months pregnant when the
ordeal began, she was carrying a son that Danny hoped to name Adam. She wrote the
book, upon which the film is based, to introduce Adam to the father he would never
meet.
Alex, a teenage skateboarder, accidentally kills a security guard in the vicinity of
Paranoid Park, Portland's tough skate park. He decides to say nothing.
