ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE!

Director Fernando Trueba:
"Chico & Rita is a love story. Or should I say several love stories.... It's the love story of Chico, a young pianist, and Rita, a young singer. It's also the love story of two towns: Havana and New York. And that takes us to a third love story, of Cuban music and American jazz."

Director Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace) focuses his powerful second feature on an Albanian family caught up in a blood feud. When the father of carefree teenager Nik (Tristan Halilaj) takes a shortcut through a neighbor's land, the dispute escalates to a major confrontation and murder.

In the darkly comedic Midwestern noir Thin Ice, insurance agent Mickey Prohaska (Greg Kinnear) looks for a way to jump-start his business, reunite with his estranged wife (Lea Thompson) and escape the frigid Wisconsin weather. To him, salesmanship is about selling a story—all he needs is a sucker willing to buy it.

ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE!

Director Agnieszka Holland:
"I didn't want to make this film at first. I didn't want to spend 2-3 years of my life in the ghettos. But the screenwriter was very stubborn, sending me newer and newer versions of his script. Finally I started to dream about it, to imagine the characters.... This story became mine."

Don't miss this rare opportunity to see all five Academy Award nominees in the category of Best Animated Short and all five Academy Award nominees in the category of Best Live Action Short!

Meet Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson), a cop unleashed from the rules of the Los Angeles Police Department. When his Rampart division gets caught up in a corruption scandal, Brown makes an easy target. Co-written by crime fiction legend James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential).

NOMINATED FOR 2 ACADEMY AWARDS!

Set in contemporary Iran, A Separation is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father.

Valérie Donzelli's Declaration of War is an exuberant and deeply moving film following a young couple, Romeo (Jérémie Elkaïm) and Juliette (director Donzelli), who must face the ultimate test when they discover their newborn child is very ill. They confront this ordeal together with friends and family as a form of warfare.

From Adult Swim cult comedy heroes Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim comes the raunchy and hilarious Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie. Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to make a movie, but squander every dime. Their lives at stake, the guys skip town in search of a way to pay the money back.

Being Flynn is an evocative drama from writer/director Paul Weitz (About a Boy). After abandoning his wife and child, Jonathan Flynn (Robert De Niro) scrapes through life on his own terms. Then one night he arrives at the homeless shelter where his son Nick (Paul Dano)—now a young writer—works, seeking a bed.

Friends with Kids is a daring and poignant ensemble comedy about a close-knit circle of friends at that moment in life when children arrive and everything changes. Starring director Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein), Megan Fox, Adam Scott, Jon Hamm, Edward Burns, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Chris O'Dowd.

Lasse Hallström's inspirational romantic comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen stars Ewan McGregor as Dr. Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist who one day receives an unusual request. A businesswoman (Emily Blunt) wants his help in fulfilling a wealthy sheikh's (Amr Waked) desire to bring sport fishing to Yemen.

Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman:
"At the Crazy Horse no matter where the filming was being done—in the dressing rooms, backstage, costume fittings, or in informal conversations among the dancers—no one ever refused to be photographed."

NOMINATED FOR 10 ACADEMY AWARDS!

Silent movie matinee idol George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) meets funny, sexy young extra Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo), a dancer set for a big break, and sparks fly. With the advent of the talkies George's career nosedives, while Peppy's takes off.

NOMINATED FOR 3 ACADEMY AWARDS!

Actress/writer/producer Glenn Close:
"The haunting character of Albert Nobbs never left me.... Albert was unforgettable because she embodies for me three human qualities that I find deeply compelling: innocence, a lack of self-pity and the capacity to be compelled by a dream."

NOMINATED FOR 2 ACADEMY AWARDS!

The Iron Lady is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom, and one of the 20th century's most famous and influential women.

NOMINATED FOR 5 ACADEMY AWARDS!

From writer/director Alexander Payne (Sideways) comes the sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic story of Matt King (George Clooney), a distracted husband and father of two who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a life-threatening boating accident off of Waikiki.

NOMINATED FOR 3 ACADEMY AWARDS!

Director Tomas Alfredson:
"I believe the film we have made is faithful to the source material but re-imagines it in a way that makes it relevant and dynamic for a contemporary audience."

NOMINATED FOR 2 ACADEMY AWARDS!

In 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) worked on the set of the film that united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams). At her request, Colin introduces Marilyn to some of the pleasures of British life.

Director David Cronenberg:
"I had never come across a chair like it.... Strangely modern, it had a cheerful Gumby-like human shape. It would have been a crime not to have our Freud—played by Viggo Mortensen—sit in that amazing and expressive chair, so we commissioned the replica maker to make us our own."