Jacob Burns

"Spectacle, a love triangle, heritage settings, bravura acting, witty dialogue, a bittersweet finale: There's something for everyone in Anne Fontaine's Coco Before Chanel." (Hollywood Reporter)

Audrey Tautou (Amélie) plays Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel in this intelligent, carefully crafted biopic of her early life, from her childhood in a French orphanage to the love triangle that set her career in motion. Director and co-writer Anne Fontaine brings wit, style, and restraint to match Tautou's layered performance as the penniless young girl who came to embody the modern woman.

 “Campion’s wild vitality makes this movie romantic in every possible sense of the word.” (NY Times)

Directed by Jane Campion, the Academy Award–winning writer and director of The Piano, Bright Star was a hit at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. A film of exquisite poetry, both literary and visual, it’s the true story of the 19th-century love affair between 23-year-old English poet John Keats, and Fanny Brawn, the girl next door. Starring Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish, Bright Star has been called "one of the most deeply moving romantic films in memory” (LA Times).

"Capitalism: A Love Story is a searing outcry against the excesses of a cutthroat time." (Entertainment Weekly)

Academy Award–winning director Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 911, Sicko) is back. This time he’s using his provocative approach to examine the global economic meltdown and what he has described as “the biggest robbery in the history of this country”—the massive transfer of US taxpayer money to private financial institutions. “It will be the perfect date movie,” he says. “It’s got it all—lust, passion, romance, and 14,000 jobs being eliminated every day.” Opening nationally on Oct. 2—a year and a day after the Senate voted to approve the $700 billion bailout—it’s sure to generate more than its share of controversy.
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“Trucker is a revelation.” (Marshall Fine, Huffington Post)

The world of the long-haul trucker isn’t glamorous, even when the trucker in question is the beautiful Diane Ford, played by Michelle Monaghan (Gone Baby Gone, Eagle Eye, Mission: Impossible III). You got your drinking, your smoking, and your one night stands. But the trucker life pleases Diane just fine, until one of her reckless dalliances rears its head in the form of an 11-year-old estranged son. With his father (Benjamin Bratt) in the hospital, Diane is forced to take care of her child, threatening the open-road, free-wheeling existence she loves. Led by Monaghan's nuanced performance, Trucker is a finely crafted independent film by first time writer-filmmaker James Mottern that skillfully succeeds in examining a unique character at a crossroads.

Q&A: filmmaker James Mottern and actress Michelle Monaghan will be interviewed by New York Times critic Janet Maslin.