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AMC SANTA MONICA 1310 3rd Street Promenade, at Arizona Avenue


CRITERION 1313 3rd Street Promenade, across from AMC Santa Monica at Arizona Avenue


BROADWAY CINEPLEX 1441 3rd Street Promenade, just north of Broadway


FAIRMONT SCREENING ROOMS 101 Wilshire Boulevard, enter from 2nd Street


MARKET 8:45AM


THE SOURCE Drama, 120mins. EuropaCorp. Dir: Radu Mihaileanu. Key cast: LeIla Bekhti, Hafsia Herzi. In a little village in the Maghreb, Leila, aged 20, fights for an end to the


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REBELLION Action/adventure, 136mins. Kinology. Dir: Mathieu Kassovitz. Key cast: Mathieu Kassovitz, Sylvie Testud. Criterion 6


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THE SOURCE See box, above


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1911 Action/adventure, 105mins. Jackie Chan International Cinema. Dir: Jackie Chan. Key cast: Jackie Chan, BingBing Li. Le Merigot 1


BANGKOK KUNG FU Action/adventure, 107mins. Golden Network Asia. Dir: Yuthlert Sippapak. Key cast: Arak Amornsupasiri, Athikit Pringprom, Visava Thaiyanont. Four young boys are stolen from their families and forced to become beggars on the street.


women’s water-fetching duty: the men sit around doing nothing while the women do all the work. Leila declares a sex strike: no more lovemaking until the men build a conduit to supply water to the village. Criterion 3


However, they manage to escape and, along with a young girl, are taught Shaolin Kung Fu by a master. AMC Santa Monica 5


BLIND ALLEY Horror, thriller, 75mins. DeAPlaneta. Dir: Antonio Trashorras. Key cast: Ana De Armas, Diego Cadavid. In a tiny laundrette hidden down an alleyway, Rosa is trapped, isolated and unable to escape the nightmare of being attacked by a serial killer. AMC Santa Monica 6


THE DAY Action/adventure, horror, 90mins. Content. Dir: Doug Aarniokoski. Key cast: Shawn Ashmore, Ashley Bell, Cory Hardrict. AMC Santa Monica 3


FIGHTING FEAR Action/adventure, Documentary, 95mins. Odin’s Eye Entertainment. Dir: Macario De


n 32 Screen International at the AFM November 2, 2011


Souza. Key cast: Mark Matthews, Ritchie Vas Vaculik, Kelly Slater. Provides a unique insight into two world- class athletes and their personal challenges in sports with deadly consequences. They celebrate the highs and survive the lows. It’s not the mistakes you make but how you overcome them. AMC Santa Monica 7


HELL Thriller, 86mins. Beta Cinema. Dir: Tim Fehlbaum. Key cast: Hannah Herzsprung, Stipe Erceg, Lars Eidinger. In the near future, the world that we know today no longer exists. Violent solar storms have dried up the Earth, which is prey to an unbearable heat. Laemmle Monica 1


THE HUNTER Drama, 102mins. Entertainment One. Dir: Daniel Nettheim. Key cast: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Frances O’Connor. An anonymous company wants the tiger’s genetic material. Martin arrives in Tasmania posing as a scientist. He proceeds to set up base camp at a broken-down farmhouse, where he stays with a family whose father has gone missing. Laemmle Monica 3


LIVID Horror, 85mins. SND M6 Group. Dir: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury. Key cast: Marie-Claude Pietragalla, Beatrice Dalle. It’s Lucy’s first day as a trainee caregiver. She visits Mrs Jessel, a lonely old woman who lies in a coma in her large remote house. Hearing of a treasure that Mrs Jessel, a celebrated dance teacher, has supposedly hidden for years, Lucy and friends William and Ben decide to search for it. AMC Santa Monica 2


MAGIC SILVER 2 — THE QUEST FOR THE MYSTIC HORN Childrens, family, 85 mins. NonStop Sales. Dir: Arne Lindtner Naess. Key cast: Ane Viola Andreassen Semb, Johan Tinus Austad Lindgren, Toralf Maurstad. The story is set high up in the Blue Mountain, where young Queen Blureose finds it more and more difficult to live within the boundaries of the Blue Gnome community. When she becomes aware that a dangerous glacier is threatening the Blue Mountain Valley and the Red Gnomes living there, she sets out on a journey to find the Blue Horn, a magical instrument that can change the weather. AMC Santa Monica 4


NOMADS Drama, 82mins. Green Communications. Dir: Ricardo Benet. Key cast: Lucy Lui, Tenoche Huerta. Two disparate souls are lost in New York City. She is afraid of heights and he is claustrophobic. Their common place will be at ground level. Broadway Cineplex 3


STELLA DAYS Drama, 100mins. Films Distribution. Dir: Thaddeus O’Sullivan. Key cast: Martin Sheen, Trystan Gravelle. A small-town cinema in rural Ireland becomes the setting for a dramatic struggle between faith and passion, Rome and Hollywood, and a man and his conscience. Criterion 4


WHEN PIGS HAVEWINGS Comedy, 98mins. StudioCanal. Dir: Sylvain Estibal. Key cast: Sasson Gabai, Baya Belal, Ulrich Tukur. Following a storm at sea, Jafaar, a poor Palestinian fisherman, is surprised when he reels in a pot-bellied pig along with his usual catch. Unsure of what to do with this “impure” beast, he attempts to sell it but trying to profit from a pig in Gaza is not as easy as it sounds, and the pair become entangled in an


extraordinary chain of events and a rather dubious line of work. AMC Santa Monica 1


YOUR SISTER’S SISTER Comedy, 90mins. Protagonist Pictures. Dir: Lynn Shelton. Key cast: Emily Blunt, Mark Duplass, Rosemarie DeWitt. Jack is sent by his close friend Iris to her family’s remote vacation home to reflect on his life, only to unexpectedly find Iris’ older sister Hannah there for similar purposes. The two quickly get to know each other over an evening of tequila, but when Iris arrives unannounced the next morning, it sets off a chain reaction of revelations that will complicate their lives forever. Broadway Cineplex 4


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CARJACKED Thriller, 92mins. CMG — Cinema Management Group. Dir: John Bonito. Key cast: Stephen Dorff, Maria Bello. Lorraine, a vulnerable single mom, and her five-year-old son are carjacked by Roy, a vicious bank robber who forces her to drive cross country to meet up with his accomplice who still has the money from the robbery. Her fight for survival marks the


LAEMMLE’S MONICA 1332 2nd Street, between Arizona Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard


LE MERIGOT SCREENING ROOMS 1740 Ocean Avenue, next to Loews Hotel


OCEAN SCREENING ROOM 1401 Ocean Avenue, at Santa Monica Boulevard


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