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.

“Filmmaking at its most fearless....a suspenseful, harrowing account.” (LA Times)

In 2007 when 100,000 people—including thousands of Buddhist monks—took to the streets in Burma to protest decades of repression, foreign news crews were banned and the Internet was shut down. But the Democratic Voice of Burma, a group of video journalists (VJs), risked torture and imprisonment to record the brutal clashes with the military and police. Their footage, which was smuggled out of the country, takes the viewer right into the heart of the turmoil. A rare peek into a land that’s usually behind closed doors.
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In her feature directorial debut, Charlotte Glynn moves home to chronicle her sister Rachel's last year in school. Rachel is developmentally disabled, and the resulting film, Rachel is, moves past the safety of political correctness and into the most intimate and honest moments in their family's life. Rachel—mysterious, funny, and difficult—challenges her mother on a daily basis, forcing her to make tough choices about her daughter's future. Along the way Charlotte documents the tug of war between parent and child, while struggling to come to terms with her only sibling's disability.

Q&A: Panel with filmmaker Charlotte Glynn; Richard P. Swierat, Executive Director of Westchester Arc; Jill Gentile, Director of the Hudson Valley Developmental Disabilities Services Office (DDSO); and Peter Pierri, Executive Director of the InterAgency Council of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Agencies. Also, joining the panel are The Carroll's, a family from Westchester County, who will speak first hand to the complex and challenging issues of community inclusion on a local and personal level. Co-presented with Westchester Arc and Pleasantville SEPTA.

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"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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“The film’s hard-won good vibes had the audience cheering. Wonderful movie.” (Boston Globe)

This entertaining documentary chronicles a group of talented singers as they progress through the stages of a wildly popular televised contest similar to American Idol—except it all takes place in Afghanistan. Revealing an unfamiliar aspect of life in that shattered land, this timely film colorfully demonstrates the dramatic offscreen stories of four leading contestants in a show that is both a magnet for criticism and a crucible of change. Two awards at Sundance!
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