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Independent Films at the Gaslamp 15
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PINA (3D)
Oscar Nominee - Best Documentary
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In his exhilarating new film, German master Wim Wenders (WINGS OF DESIRE, BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB) captures the incredibly inventive dance world of legendary choreographer Pina Bausch. Wenders had conceived with Bausch a dance film like none seen before, which would take the advantage yet of the newest technology to put the viewer deep inside Bausch's playful, thrillingly unpredictable pieces. After her untimely death in 2009, Wenders continued with the project, turning it into the most exciting tribute he could imagine. Sensual and visually stunning, PINA powerfully renders the beauty and sheer physicality of the dances and dancers of Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal ensemble.
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RAMPART
Independent Spirit Award Nominee - Best Male Lead
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Following Oscar nominated THE MESSENGER, writer/director Oren Moverman assembles an impressive team of talent for RAMPRT, with a script is co-written by crime fiction legend James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential). Woody Harrelson gives a ferocious performance as a dirty cop, balancing a home life with two ex-wives, as he becomes embroiled in the Los Angeles Police Department's infamous 1999 Rampart corruption scandal. As the controversy seeps through the department and into city hall, this hardened, reckless officer finds himself at the centre of a sordid L.A. story. |
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NORWEGIAN WOOD
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NORWEGIAN WOOD is a moving story of loss and sexuality set in Tokyo in the late 1960s against a time of global instability. Watanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama, DEATH NOTE, DETROIT METAL CITY) looks back on his days as a college freshman in Tokyo. Through his reminiscences, we see him develop relationships with two very different women, the beautiful yet emotionally troubled Naoko (Oscar nominee Rinko Kikuchi, BABEL), and the outgoing, lively Midori (Kiko Mizuhara.) The film's gorgeous cinematography is by Mark Lee Ping Bin (IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, DEVILS ON THE DOORSTEP). Writer-director Tran Anh Hung was nominated for an Academy Award for THE SCENT OF THE GREEN PAPAYA and won a Golden Lion in the Venice Film Festival for CYCLO.
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DETACHMENT
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Director Tony Kaye's (AMERICAN HISTORY X) long-awaited film DETACHMENT stars Oscar winner Adrien Brody as Henry Barthes, a substitute teacher grappling with a troubled past, who finds himself at a public school with an apathetic student body and a frustrated, burned-out administration. Inadvertently becoming a role model to his students, while also bonding with a runaway teen who is just as lost as he is, Henry finds that he's not alone. DETACHMENT features a stellar ensemble cast, including Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden, Christina Hendricks, Bryan Cranston (BREAKING BAD), Tim Blake Nelson, Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner, and James Caan.
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CASA DE MI PADRE
Will Ferrell makes his Spanish-language debut in CASA DE ME PADRE,  a riotous homage to telenovelas. Armando Alvarez (Ferrell) has lived and worked on his father's ranch in Mexico his entire life. Just as the ranch encounters financial difficulties, Armando's younger brother, international businessman Raul (Diego Luna, Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN), pledges to settle all debts his father has incurred. But when Armando falls for his brother's fiance, and Raul's business dealings turn out to be less than legit, they find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord, the mighty Onza (Gael Garcia Bernal, THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES).
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SILENT HOUSE
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From the directors of the hit film "Open Water," SILENT HOUSE is a uniquely unsettling horror thriller starring Elizabeth Olsen as Sarah, a young woman who finds herself sealed inside her family's secluded lake house. With no contact to the outside world, and no way out, panic turns to terror to terror as events become increasingly ominous in and around the house. Directed by filmmaking duo Chris Kentis and Laura Lau, SILENT HOUSE uses meticulous camera choreography to take the audience on a tension-filled, real time journey, experienced in a single uninterrupted shot.
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TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
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Swedish helmer Tomas Alfredson, whose LET THE RIGHT ONE IN brought chills to worldwide audiences, directs this Cold War espionage thriller from the pen of John le Carre (THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD). With a cast headed by Gary Oldman (the BATMAN and HARRY POTTER franchises) in an Oscar-nominated performance, last year's Oscar winner Colin Firth (THE KING'S SPEECH), and Tom Hardy (INCEPTION), this intelligent thriller is as rich in pedigree as it is in double-and-triple crosses.
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THE DESCENDANTS
Oscar Winner! - Best Adapted Screenplay
Golden Globe Winner! - Best Picture & Best Actor (Drama)
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Academy Award winner for Best Adapted Screenplay, THE DESCENDENTS is a sharply observed comic drama from Alexander Payne (SIDEWAYS). George Clooney stars as Matt King, a middle aged lawyer under pressure to sell the massive plot of land entrusted to him as the descendent of Hawaiian royalty while struggling to keep his family together. Backed by a strong supporting cast that includes Robert Forster as Matt's father-in-law and Shailene Woodley (THE SECRET LIFE OF THE AMERICAN TEENAGER) in a standout turn as Matt's teenaged daughter, Clooney's Oscar-nominated performance is one of the finest and most mature of his career.
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THE TROUBLE WITH BLISS
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THE TROUBLE WITH BLISS tells the story of 35-year-old Morris Bliss (Michael C. Hall), who is clamped firmly in the jaws of New York City inertia. He wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; and he still shares an apartment with his widowed father (Peter Fonda), who treats Morris with a mix of disdain and exasperation. When he finds himself juggling a bizarre relationship with the sexually precocious 18-year-old daughter (Brie Larson) of a former classmate and the advances of his very forward neighbor (Lucy Liu), Morris realizes that even though his life is unraveling, it's also opening up in ways that are long overdue.
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