Flight of the Red Balloon

Alternate Title: Le Voyage du ballon rouge
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Simon Iteanu, Hippolyte Girardot, Song Fang, more cast
Directed By: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Released By: IFC
Run Time: 113 min.
Genre: Drama, Coming Soon

Synopsis : A precious young boy, Simon (Simon Iteanu) must deal with the increasing fragility of his mother, the loving yet preoccupied Suzanne (Academy Award Winner Juliette Binoche of ‘The English Patient,’ ‘Cache’).

Completely immersed in her own tribulations, Suzanne hires Song (Song Fan), a Taiwanese film student, to help care for Simon. Together with Song, a unique extended family is formed, utterly interdependent yet lost in separate thoughts and dreams mirrored by a delicate, shiny red balloon.

Sex and Death

Starring: Simon Baker, Winona Ryder, Patton Oswalt, Leslie Bibb, more cast
Directed By: Daniel Waters
Released By: Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: 04/04/2008
Run Time: 100 min.
Genre: Comedy, New Release

Synopsis :Sex and Death 101′ stars Golden Globe nominee Simon Baker (’The Guardian,’ ‘The Devil Wears Prada’) as Roderick Blank, a successful executive and ‘ladies man,’ whose life is turned around by an email that includes the names of everyone he’s had sex with and ever will have sex with. Oscar® nominee and Golden Globe winner Winona Ryder (’The Age of Innocence,’ ‘Little Women’) stars as ‘Death Nell,’ the mysterious femme fatale who becomes an urban folk hero when she targets men guilty of sex crimes against women. The film co-stars Leslie Bibb (’Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby’), Julie Bowen(”Boston Legal”), Sophie Monk (’Click,’ ‘Date Movie’), Mindy Cohn (”The Facts of Life”), Dash Mihok (’Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang’), Patton Oswalt (’Ratatouille’) and Neil Flynn (”Scrubs”).

My Blueberry Night

Starring: Jude Law, Norah Jones, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, more cast
Directed By: Wong Kar-Wai
Released By: Weinstein Company
Theatrical Release Date: 04/04/2008
Run Time: 111 min.
Genre: Drama, Romance, New Release

Synopsis : In Wong Kar Wai’s debut English language feature, the internationally acclaimed director takes his audience on a dramatic journey across the distance between heartbreak and a new beginning.

After a rough break-up, Elizabeth (played by songstress Norah Jones in her screen debut) sets out on a journey across America, leaving behind a life of memories, a dream and a soulful new friend — a café owner (Jude Law) — all while in search of something to mend her broken heart. Waitressing her way through the country, Elizabeth befriends others whose yearnings are greater than hers, including a troubled cop (David Strathairn) and his estranged wife (Rachel Weisz) and a down-on-her luck gambler (Natalie Portman) with a score to settle.

Through these individuals, Elizabeth witnesses the true depths of loneliness and emptiness, and begins to understand that her own journey is part of a greater exploration within herself.

Stones Scorsese

Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Released By: Paramount Vantage
Theatrical Release Date: 04/04/2008
Run Time: 121 min.
Genre: Documentary, Musicals, New Release

Synopsis : After exploring the careers of the Band and Bob Dylan in The Last Waltz and No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, respectively, acclaimed director Martin Scorsese turns his lens on rock & roll legends the Rolling Stones for this documentary focusing on two concerts from the band’s 2006 A Bigger Bang tour. In addition to extensive coverage of the band’s two-night stand at New York’s Beacon Theater (an engagement that was staged as part of President Bill Clinton’s lavish birthday bash), the documentary also features historical footage, interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage from decades past. Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Richardson (JFK and The Aviator) supervised photography for the film, with an impressive array of A-list talents, including Andrew Lesnie, John Toll, Ellen Kuras, Anastas Michos, Stuart Dryburgh, Declan Quinn, Emmanuel Lubezki, Robert Elswit, and Albert Maysles, stepping in to insure that the Beacon performances were covered from every angle possible