Jacob Burns

"Manages to take the thriller, media fascination, psychological insight, and pop culture and stand them all on their heads." (San Francisco Chronicle)

In his directorial debut, Kon gives us a former pop idol, Mima, who takes a job on a gritty soap opera. Things veer toward the dark side as a stalker lurks in the shadows and Mima discovers (or imagines?) that she has an identical twin. Violent and profane, Perfect Blue is also a fascinating exploration of the perception of reality.

"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.

"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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“Expertly put together and never less than compelling.” (Hollywood Reporter)

In the 1960s and ’70s, William Kunstler was the most famous lawyer in America, an icon of the American Left and a galvanizing presence who worked with Martin Luther King, the Chicago Eight, the Attica prisoners, and the Indians involved in the standoff at Wounded Knee. But later he also represented the accused 1993 World Trade Center bomber, the suspects in the Central Park Jogger case, and the mobster John Gotti. Who was the real William Kunstler? His filmmaker daughters grapple with their father’s legacy, interweaving home movies with revelatory newsreel footage and interviews with associates of the man the New York Times called “the most hated and most loved lawyer in America.”
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Q&A 7:30: directors Emily Kunstler & Sarah Kunstler