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MARKET 5:00PM


LOOSIES Thriller, romance, drama, 86mins. CMG — Cinema Management Group. Dir: Michael Corrente. Key cast: Peter Facinelli, Jaimie Alexander, Michael Madsen.


sending him deep into the heart of darkness. Laemmle Monica 4


LOOSIES See box, above


MOUNT ST. ELIAS Documentary, action/ adventure, 100mins. Red Bull Media House GmbH. Dir: Gerald Salmina. Key cast: Axel Naglich, Peter Ressmann, Jon Johnston. A dramatic and awe- inspiring feature documentary following three of the world’s greatest ski mountaineers to Mount St. Elias in their attempt to realise the longest ski descent in the world. AMC Santa Monica 2


NEVER TOO LATE Drama, comedy, Romance, 90mins. Imageworks Entertainment International. Dir: Nick Felix. Key cast: Felix Felix, Mindy Stitt, Don Tayloy. Lenny, a homeless bum, finds a job working as janitor in a dance studio. The studio owner


n 48 Screen International at the AFM November 2, 2011


An NYC pickpocket, living a fast and free lifestyle, is confronted by a woman with whom he had a one-night stand, as well as a detective from whom he lifted his badge. Broadway Cineplex 1


encourages Lenny to learn to dance from the studio teachers in return for doing errands. Lenny’s dance career and new girlfriend disappear abruptly when Leonard is exposed as a escapee from a witness protection programme. He must then dance his way through FBI agents and assassins. Le Merigot 1


PSYCHOPHONY Horror, 83mins. Vertice Sales. Dir: Xavier Berraondo. Key cast: Tania Sarrias, Ferran Carvajal, Dafnis Balduz. A psychiatrist and a parapsychologist conduct an experiment to demonstrate that hallucinations of mental patients that are misdiagnosed as paranoid schizophrenics have their true origin in paranormal phenomena. The research leads to them to open a Pandora’s Box of horror, terrifying the participating patients. Fairmont 1


PX 3D Horror, Thriller,


88mins. Stonebrook International. Dir: Sergi Vizcaino. Key cast: Amaia Salamanca, Maxi Iglesias, Ursula Corbero. Angela is a medical student and skeptical when it comes to believing in the existence of ghosts and the paranormal world. In order to help her pass her class, Professor Fuentes challenges her and four of her classmates to prove him wrong and refute the existence of the beyond by investigating a cursed village called Susurro. AMC Santa Monica 3


QUICK Action/adventure, comedy, 115mins. CJ Entertainment. Dir: Jo Bum-gu. Key cast: Lee Min-ki, Kang Ye-won, Kim In-kwon. A motorbike messenger escorts a girl group singer to a TV station. As she puts a proffered helmet on her head, a countdown clock appears. He gets a call from a stranger telling him that the helmet is booby-trapped and will blow up if he fails to make a series of deliveries. AMC Santa Monica 6


SHADES OF GRAY Drama, 103mins. Tasha Pictures. Dir: Marco Aurelio. Key cast: Jorge A. Jimenez, Jay McClure, Rachel McKinney. A man decides to rehabilitate the murderer of his wife and children. Broadway Cineplex 2


SIMON AND THE OAKS Drama, 118mins. NonStop Sales. Dir: Lisa Ohlin. Key cast: Bill Skarsgard, Helen Sjoholm, Jan Josef Liiefers. Simon has had a loving childhood, but still feels alienated in the working class neighborhoods of 1940s Gothenburg. Against his parents’ will he, being intellectually gifted, turns to an education otherwise reserved for young men of academic heritage. There he meets Isak, the son of a wealthy Jewish bookseller, who has fled the German persecutions. The boys and their families’ lives will interconnect in unexpected ways as the war rages all over Europe. Broadway Cineplex 4


A SIMPLE LIFE Drama, 119mins. Distribution Workshop. Dir: Ann Hui. Key cast: Andy Lau, Deanie IP. A heartwarming tale about the relationship between a film producer and his old family maid. The master- servant relationship takes a sentimental turn when the maid enters an elderly people’s home. Criterion 4


UNDER THE SKY OF URUMQI Romance, 98mins. Huaxia Film Distribution Co. Dir: Yakup Xirzat. Key cast: Bin Yu, Xiwen Cao, Islamjian Waris. Le Merigot 2


WAR OF THE ARROWS Action/adventure, 122mins. Lotte Entertainment. Dir: Kim Han-min. Key cast: Park Hae-il, Ryu Seung-ryong. During the second Manchurian invasion of Korea, 500,000 civilians were taken prisoners of war. In the midst of the fierce battle, there was a legendary archer whose name was never recorded. AMC Santa Monica 1


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LUCKY TROUBLE Family, comedy, 101mins. Bazelevs. Dir: Levan Gabriadze. Key cast: Milla Jovovich, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Ivan Urgant. An ordinary school teacher with an uncommon name, Fingers, has arrived from a small, sleepy seaside town to conquer Moscow with a novel manuscript in his hands, and has conquered… a beauty named Nadja. Le Merigot 1


THE SUN Drama, 107mins. Huaxia Film Distribution Co. Dir: Yazhou Yang. Key cast: Ping Ni, Peiqi Liu, Qinqing Jiang. Based on the 5.12 Sichuan earthquake of China in 2008. A local young woman lost her home and family in the disaster. She has lost her mind since the tragedy happened, but finally, a new life gives her new hope. Le Merigot 2


TURN ME ON, GODDAMMIT Comedy, 76mins. Celsius Entertainment. Dir: Jannicke Systad Jacobsen. Key cast: Helene Bersholm, Malin Bjoerhovde, Matias Myren. Alma, a teenage girl from a small-town, has an active imagination and an overactive libido. After a titillating but awkward encounter with school heartthrob Artur turns her into a social outcast, her world is turned upside down. She desperately wants to get out of town and on with her life. Fairmont 4


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