Jacob Burns

There's fun, mystery, and even a little romance when Charlie Brown, Linus, Snoopy, and the gang embark on their first overseas adventure. They're going to France as foreign exchange students!

"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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"A tart, brilliantly acted fable of life’s little cosmic difficulties." (Chicago Tribune)

The Coen Brothers' (No Country for Old Men) signature humor and cinematic imagination take on questions of faith, familial responsibility, delinquent behavior, dental phenomena, academia, mortality, and Judaism in their hot awaited new film, A Serious Man. It’s the story of Larry Gopnik, a suburban Jewish physics professor who is plagued with a dysfunctional family, a vindictive neighbor, and a grade-grubbing foreign exchange student who is threatening his long-nurtured chance for tenure. In a moment of existential desperation, he turns to three rabbis for help. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person—a mensch—a serious man?

“Proof that ‘eco’ and ‘entertainment’ aren't mutually exclusive.” (Variety)

A self-proclaimed environmentalist who could no long avoid pointing the finger at himself, author Colin Beavan leaves behind his liberal complacency and vows to make as little environmental impact as possible for one year—and he drags his baby daughter and Prada-wearing, caffeine-loving wife along for the ride. One of the most talkedabout films at Sundance this year, it provides an intriguing inside look at the challenges and rewards of a radical lifestyle change that involves no more electricity, no more plastic, no more material consumption, and definitely no more Starbucks.
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 "A horrifying, mortifyingly violent movie." (Jonathan Demme)

When two young couples this attractive go on an idyllic vacation in Mexico you can be sure something awful is bound to happen. Based on the best-seller by Scott Smith, and disturbingly gory to the extreme, the film operates in the “tourist terror” sub-genre, but creates something much more unique, bizarre, and frightening than most typical Hollywood horror fare.

Q&A: host Jonathan Demme and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Scott Smith, who wrote the novels and film adaptations for both The Ruins and A Simple Plan.