Movies by Mills (August 2014) by Brian Mills

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THE IMITATION GAME Benedict Cumberbatch Keira Knightley 2

EDITORIAL Here is the 16th issue of Movies by Mills and I am pleased to say that we are slowly being recognized in the industry as quite a unique publication. It gives me a great deal of pleasure to sift through the hundreds of films released to find the true nuggets of gold; films that will be remembered in thirty year’s time. So, let us see what we have unearthed for you this month. Robin Wright, star of The Congress, is our cover star and the film is our main feature review. This is not a film that comfortably fits in any one genre, though it definitely nudges science fiction, fantasy, and experimentation. The director is Ari Forman, remembered for Waltz with Bashir, which recounts the director’s memories from the days of the Lebanon war in the 80s. Choosing Robin Wright came when Forman first saw her at an LA convention and found him sitting across from her. He already had the first shot of the film in mind where the actress is being verbally chastised by her agent and envisioned Robin as the actress and the image he had fitted her perfectly. The Congress is probably the most anti-Hollywood film ever made, particularly in its treatment of actresses of a certain age and how Hollywood wants to control them. There are film reviews too from Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, Begin Again and Joe. FilmFest Follower looks at the Melbourne International Film Festival and some of the gems that would be worth discovering there. Melbourne runs for 18 days. We also look at some of films that you might like to mark your card to see in the next three months in Coming Soon. For budding filmmakers we examine the question of funding your project and the help you could get from Kickstarter, plus a few of the films which they have helped to fund. For home viewers there is EXTRAS which gives you MbM’s DVD OF THE MONTH and one of MbM’s favourite films of the year – A New York’s Winter Tale. MbM would like to thank the following companies and people for their help and support: PremierComms.com, Image.Net, UPI Media, ElFilm.com, Asa Martin and Charlotte Presland of Studio Canal, and of course MbM’s designer Paul Ridler...and you the reader. Enjoy the read. Brian Mills

THE CONGRESS Spoiler Alert

You had a future, Robin, the princess bride. Now I’m in this situation. What situation are you in Jeff? ...the situation of offering you the last contract that you’ll ever have. We want to scan you, all of you, your body, your face, your emotions, your laughter, your tears. We want to own this...this thing called Robin Wright. An interesting concept is presented in this latest film excursion by Ari Folman, director of the acclaimed Waltz with Bashir, of a powerful film studio which can control and own a film star. Preposterous as this idea may seem, it was only a couple or so decades ago that Hollywood was looking at using famous dead film stars: Humphrey Bogart, Marlyn Monroe, Marlon Brando etc. by digitally recreating them and using them in any story that their scriptwriters could create. The most blatant example of exploiting a star’s image beyond their lifetime was that of Audrey Hepburn to sell Galaxy chocolate. Framestore, the production company used by Galaxy, began by searching for a suitable Hepburn lookalike, someone who would share as many of her features and characteristics as possible. Once found, the face was scanned using a facial action coding system that allowed Framestore to extract the muscle movements and textures needed to build a more faithful, computer generated Hepburn. Once the live shoot wrapped on the Amalfi Coast, the crew returned to its in-house Capture Lab to further refine their actress’ face, smoothing out transitions and expressions for animation, but unfortunately their facial scans proved rather inexact. Framestore explained on their website: Facial scanning usually provides exact shapes of the person who needs to be recreated, but in this instance, the scans only provided a template based on the double who, although she 4

looked similar to Audrey Hepburn, was nonetheless a different person with different nuances. Ultimately they had to build a 3D model of the iconic actress, using footage from her film catalogue as well as old images and documentaries and eventually went with full CG to get it absolutely right. Further, the very cleverly edited Final Cut – Ladies and Gentlemen, juxtaposed archival images of famous film stars to give the impression that they were in scenes together. So, The Congress has a totally feasible narrative. The Congress opens on a close-up of a tearful Robin Wright playing Robin Wright. She is being verbally chastised by her agent Al (Harvey Keitel). He is telling her a few home truths as her best friend and the father she never had, and the one who has secretly loved her. Robin is being offered a chance to make another film and they have a meeting with the CEO of Miramount Studios, Jeff Green (Danny Huston) about a project that Al knows nothing about. Green savagely tells Robin that she is been a given one last chance to salvage what is left of Robin Wright in what will be her last film as the studio wants to purchase her cinematic identity. The deal would allow Miramount to have exclusive ownership of the character known as ‘Robin Wright’ and have the right to recreate her forever in their movies as a 3D computer-generated character. Robin in turn, will remain an eternal thirtysomething in all Miramount films but also is forbidden from acting on any other stage anywhere in the world, forever. Eventually Robin signs the contract because it is the only way that she can survive in the business, but more importantly, she must take care of her son, Aaron, who suffers from a rare disorder known as Usher’s syndrome, a disease that manifests itself in adolescence with symptoms such as loss of hearing and balance and usually end in total blindness and deafness. Twenty years later, Robin is an anonymous older woman when she comes face to face with the screen character created by Miramount computers who is now idolized as a goddess. In this animated world, Robin snorts an ampule of pink liquid to attend the Futurological Congress where people are able to live their lives in the guise of their favourite celebrities: The Congress is populated by John Wayne, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Frank Sinatra and the like. Although The Congress would benefit from trimming down its 12O minutes running time, the resulting film is refreshingly different, and Robin Wright gives a career performance best without having to sell her soul to a studio. TH UK Release: 25

August

BOYHOOD Spoiler Alert

I was trying to make a movie about childhood. Well, how about if I had the same cast and we’ll film a little bit each year. Could you do that? Would that work as a movie? The film was going to capture this fictional family aging over twelve years. It is not a documentary, it’s a story. Every year became like a fun reunion. One story, made up of a lot of little pieces. This was Richard Linklater’s intention and it has resulted in a film like no other you will have ever seen. The passage of time and how one changes, fascinates Linklater, a subject that he has revisited in the relationship trilogy Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight, where two people, Jesse and Celine, meet on a train in Europe and end up spending an evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately they both know that it will probably be their last time together. But nine years later, they meet again in France. And fast forward another nine years and there are Jesse and Celine meeting in Greece. So, like Mason’s twelve year progression in Boyhood, for Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy they have travelled together over a period of years and will no doubt do so again in perhaps Before Moonlight or Noon or Evening.... In a few years time, we will no doubt encounter Mason in Manhood; a follow-up almost guaranteed due to the critical success of Boyhood. The film is compulsive viewing as it provides a flyon-the-wall time capsule of what it is like growingup. 8

It may well encourage you to finger-flip through family albums or ask incessant questions of your parents about your childhood to see if those images are still in the library of your mind. There are family connections in the cast as well: Mason’s sister is played by Linklater’s daughter, Lorelei. Ellar Coltrane’s father is seen as a guitarplaying street performer. It is that kind of movie – cuddlesome. Ethan Hawke has been a mainstay actor for Linklater appearing in eight of his films: Waking Life, Fast Food Nation, Tape, School of Rock, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight, and of course Boyhood. Hawke has built up an impressive filmography which is definitely worth examining at length for any aspiring actor or student to note the range of parts that he has taken and consequently the attraction he has for directors choosing him for their films, but he has only worked with one other director besides Linklater more than once and that is with Andrew Nichol, but he learnt a lot from working with Peter Weir on Dead Poet’s Society. Ethan Hawke has also directed one film, no doubt inspired by working with Linklater, The Hottest State, based on Hawkes first novel. Of Boyhood, he has said: It is an original. It is the first movie I’ve ever done that’s truly not like any other movie. Patricia Arquette: It was incredible to work with these people every year. I looked forward to going back. It was like a family. Richard Linklater: There is a certain commonality to growing up. There is something so normal in a certain way about Mason’s story that I really always thought it would be about moments everyone shares. That is the kernel in the shell of life that we break into every day. Few have been able to capture it the way that Boyhood manages to. Movies are about reflecting lives and some people will perhaps take away more from this film than others, but one thing we all share is the experience of growing up. Boyhood is being screened at all good arthouse cinemas across the country including the Gate, Notting Hill. 9

BEGIN AGAIN Spoiler Alert

Mark was one of the main reasons I wanted to do this film. I have been such a massive massive fan of his work for years and I just wanted to get the opportunity to stand up close to him and see what he does and see how he rolls and he is just one of the world’s loveliest people and he is so talented and interesting and it’s been a total pleasure. Keira Knightley’s praise for her co-star Mark Ruffalo is warranted because he is one of the top actors around today and the onscreen chemistry between them gels well. Gretta (Knightley) and her boyfriend Dave (Adam Levine) are songwriting partners who move to New York when he gets a deal with a major record company. But his love life is diverted and he cheats on Gretta. The realization is painfully received by her when he plays her his latest composition with lyrics which are clearly not meant for her. She puts her feelings to a song which she reluctantly performs on stage at the persuasion of a friend. The lyrics waken the inebriated stupor of a disgraced record-label exec named Dan (Mark Ruffalo) He immediately wants to record her, which she does not want to do, and he desperately needs her to accept so that he can get his job back. When she realizes that it will give her a chance to get her life together again she gives in to Dan’s requests but neither can convince his ex12

record company to make the record, so they decide to go their own way and form a group and record live there and everywhere: on tops of buildings, at subway stations, in alleyways... But Dan has his own family problems with a teenage daughter Violet who does not know him and a wife who does not need him. But somehow you just know everything will turn out fine for him and everyone. How refreshing it is to feel good about these characters and their optimistic journey. There are some great magical moments too: when Dan and Gretta are walking along together and they start talking about their favourite songs and on the soundtrack we hear Stevie Wonder singing For Once in my Life and Dooley Wilson playing and singing As Time Goes By, Gretta’s choice from her favourite film Casablanca. On one of the group’s recording ventures a shy and backward Violet picks up her electric guitar which everyone assumes that she is not very good and plays...and she is amazing. The father daughter relationship begins to bond and he is proud of her. Later, when he drops her off home, he tears up. Some critical cadavers have stated that songs are weak but actually that is not There are plenty of songs that will get feet tapping and one in particular Lost given a great rendition by Adam Levine.

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An imaginative scene shows band instruments playing without musicians, cello, violin, and drums – an imagined band. This is a song for anyone who is alone in the city, sings Gretta at the beginning of the film, and that line struck a chord in Dan’s heart and got his attention, and I think if you will give this film your attention , it will reach your heart too. Currently on UK release 13

KICKSTART YOUR DREAM How do you get help in funding your dream film project? Whether your film is a feature or a short, you will need funding even if it is to pay for feeding your cast and crew. The chances are that somewhere along the way during production or post or marketing, you will run short of funds, so where do you go to raise that extra cash? The answer is Kickstarter. Kickstarter can help you get your film made and out there to an audience. 150 Kickstarter funded films have opened theatrically, thousands have played at film festivals around the world and have been critically acclaimed. Here are just a few: I Am I, Blue Ruin, Meanwhile, Obvious Child, Veronica Mars and God Help the Girl. I AM I. Directed by Jocelyn Towne. A woman meets her mentally ill father who abandoned her as a child. He is convinced that she is his wife. 902 backed the film. $111,965 was pledged out of their $100.000 goal. The film opened at the Newport International Film Festival. MEANWHILE. Directed by Hal Hartley. A funny and moving tale of Joe Fulton who can fix anything for anybody but he can’t achieve success for himself, but maybe today will be different. Hal Hartley is an independent filmmaker who has avoided the tendency to direct big budget-films. He achieved critical recognition as a leading influence in the 1990s and his film Henry Fool is his most celebrated work. On Meanwhile, Hartley used funding from Kickstarter. BLUE RUIN. Directed by Jeremy Saulnier. Starring: Macon Blair. A mysterious outsider’s quiet life is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. Kickstarter’s most successful film. 438 backers. $33,434 pledged of $35,000 goal, selected for Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Cannes, Locarno, Toronto and Torino film festivals. Theatricaly released in Canada, USA, Belgium, UK, Ireland, The Netherlands and Portugal. OBVIOUS CHILD. Directed by Gillian Robiespiere. A twentysomething comedienne’s unplanned pregnancy forces her to confront the realities of independent womanhood for the first time. 631 backers. $37,214 pledged of $35,000 goal. It won the Red Crown Producer’s Award at Sundance, selected for Rotterdam, Toronto and Sundance, theatrically released in the USA on June 20, opens in the UK on August 29. GOD HELP THE GIRL. Directed by Stuart Murdoch, starring: Emily Browning. Olly Alexander, the latest film of standing to receive backing from Kickstarter. A young woman suffering from depression starts composing songs to lift her out of it. A musical set in Glasgow, selected at Sundance, Berlin, Sydney and New Zealand. UK release date: August 29, opens in the USA on September 5, in Spain on September 19. The film won a special jury prize at Sundance. VERONICA MARS. Directed by Rob Thomas, starring: Kirstin Bell. 91, 585 backers. $5,702.153 pledged of 2,000.000 goal. Years after walking away from her past as a teenage private eye, Veronica Mars gets pulled back to her hometown. The film was theatrically released in Germany in March 2014. www.kickstarter.com 16

PLEASE RELEASE ME An Occasional Look at Films That Despite Critical Acclaim Have Never Had Theatrical Distribution.

Gazzara Directed by Joseph Rezwin An unforgettable homage to the actor Ben Gazzara. www.gazzarathemovie.com

First Winter Directed by Benjamin Dickinson Starring: Samantha Jacober. Jennifer Kim. During a winter of record-breaking cold; an apocalyptic blackout strands a group of Brooklynites in a remote farmhouse. www.firstwintermovie.com/trailer

Final Cut Ladies & Gentlemen Directed by Gyorgy Palfi A film where anything can happen. The hero and the heroine change their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: the love between a man and a woman â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is an archetypical love. www.finalcut-movie.com/pages/p/trailer

Harry Dean Stanton Partially Fiction Directed by Sophie Huber A documentary on the actor that is visually addictive. One of the best docs in years, full of music, film clips, and revealing truths. www.facebook.com/HarryDeanStantonPartlyFiction

Shepard and Dark Directed by Treva Wurmfield Two complete opposites, one an actor, writer, traveller, and the other a man who leads the life of a hermit. Yet they share a lifetime bond of friendship which is shown in the hundreds of letters that they wrote to each other. www.facebook.com/ShepardandDark If there are any film distributors out there who would like a screening of their film with the view to distribution, please contact Movies by Mills brian@movies-by-mills.com 20

JOE I don’t know who I am but I know what keeps me alive, keeps me out of jail, keeps me from hurting people. But what’s the point of any of it? So it’s all just gonna boil up and wash us away. Nicolas Cage who plays the eponymous Joe, a loner, an ex-con, with a violent temper that can and has proved lethally dangerous, is a role that came along in time to save Cage from himself as his career was seriously nose-diving into obscurity, or at least, irritatingly predictable in just plain bad movies. In JOE, Cage is devastatingly good as a man trying to balance inner rage with instinctive kindness. It works because of his relationship with the boy Gary, because he sees in him the childhood he had of being beaten and the vitriolic venom it unleashed from within like an erupting volcano upon the person he sets his wrath on and once the storm has passed there comes a calming stillness which Cage is able to project convincingly to the onlooker. With this film Nicolas Cage whispers his return. Hidden in the shadows of Cage’s genealogy is the name ‘Coppola’, his real name being Nicholas Kim Coppola, a label that he has chosen to remove and stand on his own talents. It was his uncle Frances Ford Coppola who gave him his first big break, in the now cult movie: Rumble Fish, while Sofia Coppola and Roman Coppola are cousins. The nineties were good for him and produced some memorable works: Wild at Heart, Leaving Las Vegas (which won him the Oscar for Best Actor), City of Angels, and Bringing out the Dead. No film has offered him such a challenging role as the dual part of Charlie Kaufman and his brother Donald in Spike Jonze’s Adaptation. The film is an 21

exploration of the creative process, with all its frustrations, digressions and spectacular highs. Adaptation was an opportunity to do something totally brand new, to really transform myself. I’m playing the writer of the movie in which I am appearing, and his brother. It’s a Cubist thing and very exciting, Cage recalled. That was over ten years ago and between then and now and total credibility in Joe, there has been little to get excited about with perhaps the possible exceptions of his performances as John Koestler in Knowing and Big Daddy in Kick-Ass. The director of Joe is David Gordon Green, his ninth feature film. He is very much a character person but sometimes he gets diverted but fortunately he is back on target with Joe, which is totally character-driven. He also likes to use people who have never acted before and did it again in this picture when he gave the role of Wade, Joe’s drunken father, to a homeless man named Gary Poulter who gave a remarkable performance. Regrettably it was his last and only one, as he died on the streets two years later. Green also has a penchant for strange oddball characters which sometimes works as it does here in this film, but sadly missed the mark in Prince Avalanche. It looks as if Green, like Cage, is back with us again, and his next film seems to confirm this as he directs Al Pacino in Manglehorn, which is being premiered at Venice. Pacino plays a locksmith in a small town who never got over the love of his life. JOE also offers the chance again to see the talented young actor Tye Sheridan who impressed MbM with his acting talents in Malick’s The Tree of Life and Mud, the latter which again had him playing a boy befriended by a stranger. So JOE is not short of a pedigree of excellence and proves once again that with the right story, actors, and director, it will provide a rewarding experience for both audience and filmmaker. 22

COMING SOON SEPTEMBERâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;NOVEMBER HERE IS THE RUNDOWN OF THE FILMS THAT YOU CAN EXPECT TO GET EXCITED ABOUT OVER THE NEXT THREE MONTHS.

BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP Directed by Rowan Joffe Stars: Nicole Kidman. Colin Firth. Mark Strong. A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her. UK RELEASE: SEPTEMBER 5

A MOST WANTED MAN Directed by Anton Corbijn Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman. Rachel McAdams. Robin Wright. A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror. UK RELEASE SEPTEMBER 12

20,000 DAYS ON EARTH Directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. Stars: Nick Cave. Writer and musician Nick Cave marks his 20,000th day on the planet Earth. UK RELEASE SEPTEMBER 19

MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT Directed by Woody Allen Stars: Colin Firth. Emma Stone. A romantic comedy about an Englishman brought in to help unmask a possible swindle. Personal and professional complications ensue. UK RELEASE SEPTEMBER 19

HUMAN CAPITAL Directed by Paolo Virzi. Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve. UK RELEASE SEPTEMBER 26

PALO ALTO Directed by Gia Coppola. Stars: Emma Roberts. James Franco. Shy, sensitive April is the class virgin, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach Mr. B and a unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy. UK RELEASE OCTOBER 3

THE HOMESMAN Directed by Tommy Lee Jones. Stars: Tommy Lee Jones. Hilary Swank. A claim jumper and a pioneer woman team up to escort three insane women from Nebraska to Iowa. UK RELEASE OCTOBER 17

MY NAME IS HMMM Directed by Agnes B Stars: Sylvie Testud. Jacques Bonnaffe. Lou-Lelia Demerliac. An 11 year old runaway, the oldest daughter of three, an absent mother, an abusive father, and a grandmother too pure to imagine what is going on. On a field trip, the girl disappears. UK RELEASE October 17

THE JUDGE Directed by David Dobkin Stars: Robert Downey Jr. Robert Duvall. Vera Farmega. Big city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his father, the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s judge, is suspected of murder. Hank sets out to discover the truth and, along the way, reconnects with his estranged family. UK RELEASE OCTOBER 24

INTERSTELLAR Directed by Christopher Nolan. Stars: Matthew McConaughey. Anne Hathaway. Jessica Chastain. A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage UK RELEASE NOVEMBER 7

THE IMITATION GAME Directed by Morton Tyldum Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch. Keira Knightley. Matthew Goode. English mathematician and logician, Alan Turing, helps crack the Enigma code during World War II. UK RELEASE NOVEMBER 14

LIFE ITSELF Directed by Steve James. Stars: Roger Ebert. Chaz Ebert. Gene Siskel The life and career of the renowned film critic and social commentator, Roger Ebert UK RELEASE NOVEMBER 14

THIRD PERSON Directed by Paul Haggis Stars: Liam Neeson. Olivia Wilde. James Franco. Mila Kunis. Adrian Brody. Kim Basinger. Three interlocking love stories involving three couples in three cities: Rome, Paris and New York. UK RELEASE NOVEMBER 14

MY OLD LADY Directed by Israel Horovitz Stars: Maggie Smith. Kevin Kline. Kristin Scott Thomas. An American inherits an apartment in Paris that comes with an unexpected guest. UK RELEASE NOVEMBER 21

FILMFEST FOLLOWER MbM RECOMMENDS MELBOURNE 31st June - 15th July

BABYLON Directed by Jon S. Baird & Danny Boyle. Starring: Brit Marling. Bertie Carvel. A look at the people in charge and on the front lines of contemporary police force.

BOYHOOD Directed by Richard Linklater Starring: Ethan Hawke. Patricia Arquette. Ellar Coltrane. Spanning the life of a young child of eight to the teenage of eighteen, filmed over a period of twelve years Currently on UK Release.

CASA GRANDE Directed by Felipe Barbosa Starring: Thales Cavacanti Exploring issues of class privilege.

CLARA & THE LOVE OF THE BEARS Directed by.Tobias Ineichen Starring: Restarda Zimmerer. The balance of nature is in danger and only Clara and her friend have the heart to solve the secret of the bears and break a century-old spell.

THE DISAPPERANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY – HER – HIM Directed by Ned Benson Starring: Jessica Chastain. James McAvoy. A relationship told from two perspectives male & female, and in two separate films. 27

GOD HELP THE GIRL Directed by Stuart Murdoch Starring: Emily Browning. Olly Alexander. A girl suffering from depression starts writing songs to get well again. UK Release date: 29th August.

THE GRANDMASTER Directed by Kar Wai Wong Starring: Tony Chi Wai Leung. Ziyi Zhang. The story of martial-arts master who trained Bruce Lee.

HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS Directed by Peter Chelsom Starring: Rosamund Pike. Simon Pegg. Toni Collette. Christopher Plummer. Stellan Skarsgard and Jean Reno. Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. Deciding to break of his deluded routine, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive formula for true happiness? UK Release date: 15th August.

HEAVEN ADORES YOU Directed by Nikolas Dylan Rossi Starring: Rossie Harris. Elliott Smith. A meditative and intimate inquiry into the music of Elliott Smith.

HUMAN CAPITAL Directed by Paolo Virzi Starring: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi. The lives of two families are irrevocably tied together after a tragic accident.

ROHMER IN PARIS Directed by Richard Misek A film about the film director Eric Rohmer, Paris, and the pleasures of cinephilia. 28

I ORIGINS Directed by Mike Cahill Starring: Michael Pitt. Steven Yeun. Astrid Beagles-Faisbey. Brit Marling. A molecular biologist and his partner uncover evidence that may fundamentally change society as we know it. *This film will open Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Raindance Film Festival on 2nd September.

THE IMMIGRANT Directed by James Gray Starring: Marion Cotillard. Joaquin Phoenix. Jeremy Renner. Unfortunate circumstances drive a newly arrived immigrant into a life of prostitution and a relationship with her pimp and his romantic cousin.

THE INFINITIVE MAN Directed by Hugh Sullivan Starring: Josh McConville. A manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempts to construct the ultimate romantic weekend backfires when his quest for perfection traps his lover.

LIFE ITSELF Directed by Steve James The life and career of the renowned film critic and social commentator, Roger Ebert.

THE NIGHTINGALE Directed by Philippe Muyl Starring Baotian Li. Xiao Ran Li. The story of an old man and his grand-daughter, who walk together through China with a bird in a cage.

EXTRAS

DVD OF THE MONTH

A NEW YORK WINTERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TALE Directed by Akiva Goldsman Starring: Colin Farrell.Jessica Brown Findlay. Russell Crowe.

FILM **** Peter Lake (Colin Farrell) is a master thief, who never expected to have his own heart stolen by the beautiful Beverly Penn (Jessica Brown Findlay). But their love is star-crossed. She burns with a deadly form of consumption, and Peter has been marked for a much more violent death by his onetime mentor, the demonic Pearly Soames (Russell Crowe)

EXTRAS None at the time of publication.

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