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5 Dysfunctional People in a Car
"Five family members crowd into a car to take grandma to a nursing home against her will. An omniscient narrator reveals each person’s predicament, divulging their caustic thoughts about each other and the transpiring events. Even the dog has come...
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- 2009
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1916 silent film directed by Stuart Paton. The film's storyline is based on the novel of the same name by Jules Verne, along with other elements used from Verne's The Mysterious Island.
This version is notable for...
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- Dec 24, 1916
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25 Carat
"Shot on the streets of Barcelona, 25 Carat probes the ugly side of a city known the world over for its beauty. Using stripped-down hand-held camera work, the debut feature by Patxi Amezcua pushes deep into a harsh environment of thieves, hustlers...
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- Oct 29, 2008
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75 El Camino
"In Sarnia’s Chemical Valley, a red-hot Chevy El Camino is the last treasured possession that Travis and Marianne have hung on to after losing everything, including their house. Should they sell this reminder of more prosperous days or take off on...
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- 2009
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10101
"T. Marie’s 010101 (USA) is an incredibly meticulous digital painting, offering one minute, one second and one frame of shimmering and breathtaking beauty through its diaphanous and forever-changing palette."
Quoting the synopsis on the 2009 TIFF...
Quoting the synopsis on the 2009 TIFF...
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- 2009
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A Brand New Life
"Striking a perfect balance between the vague, distant memories of childhood and the accuracy of a rigorous script, Ounie Lecomte makes her directorial debut with A Brand New Life, a remarkable film that has the pace and the humility of a precocious...
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- 2009
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A Gun to the Head
"Trevor (Tygh Runyan), the hero of Blaine Thurier's A Gun to the Head, is facing one dismal evening. His wife, Grace (Marnie Robinson), is hosting a dinner party with her appallingly obnoxious boss Dwayne (Benjamin Ayres) and his daft wife, Audrey ...
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- 2009
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A Hindu's Indictment of Heaven
"Ever wondered what the afterlife is like? Dev Khanna provides us with a cynical take on romanticized visions of eternal happiness in this charming tongue-in-cheek drama about a woman who waits at the gates of heaven for her soulmate to arrive. When...
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- 2009
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A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
"A slowly moving camera captures the interiors of various houses in a village. They are all deserted except one house with a group of young soldiers. They are digging the up the ground. It is unclear whether they are exhuming or burying something....
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- 2009
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A Prophet
A Prophet (French: Un prophète) is a 2009 French prison film directed by Jacques Audiard. Audiard claims that the film aims at "creating icons, images for people who don't have images in movies, like the Arabs in France," though he also had stated...
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- May 16, 2009
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A Serious Man
A Serious Man is a 2009 dark comedy written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The film stars Michael Stuhlbarg as a Minnesota Jewish man whose life crumbles both professionally and personally, leading him to questions about his faith....
Initial release date:
- Sep 12, 2009
A Shine of Rainbows
A Shine of Rainbows, also known as Tomás and the Rainbows, is a 2009 Irish family drama, directed and co-written by Vic Sarin and is a film adaptation of the novel A Shine of Rainbows by Lillian Beckwith.
Young Tomás (John Bell) is an orphan,...
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- Apr 9, 2010
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A Single Man
A Single Man is a romantic drama film written by Tom Ford and David Scearce and directed by Tom Ford.
"Tom Ford's historical importance (to date) rests in part on his unique collaborations with the late twentieth century's great commercial...
"Tom Ford's historical importance (to date) rests in part on his unique collaborations with the late twentieth century's great commercial...
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- Sep 11, 2009
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A Town Called Panic
A Town Called Panic (French: Panique au village) is a 2009 stop-motion animated film, co-produced by Belgium, Luxembourg and France. It was directed by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar and is based on the TV series of the same name. It premiered at...
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- May 21, 2009
Accident
Accident (Chinese: 意外; pinyin: Yì Wài; Cantonese Yale: Yi Ngoi), originally titled Assassins (Chinese: 暗殺), is a 2009 Hong Kong action thriller directed by Soi Cheang, produced by Johnnie To and starring Louis Koo, and Richie Ren. Accident competed...
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- 2009
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Adrift
Adrift (Vietnamese: Chơi vơi) is a 2009 Vietnamese film directed by Bui Thac Chuyen and stars Linh Dan Pham, Do Thi Hai Yen, Johnny Tri Nguyen and Nguyen Duy Khoa. Hai Yen plays Duyen, a young tourist guide who married Hai (Duy Khoa), a taxi driver...
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- 2009
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Agora
Agora is a 2009 Spanish English-language historical drama film directed by Alejandro Amenábar and written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil. The biopic stars Rachel Weisz as Hypatia, a female mathematician, philosopher and astronomer in late 4th century...
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- May 17, 2009
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Ahead of Time
"History has many unsung chroniclers, but perhaps none has been eyewitness to as many of the modern world's pivotal events as Ruth Gruber. Now ninety-seven, Gruber has been unswerving in her drive to capture her experiences in print and photos so...
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- Sep 10, 2010
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Air Doll
Air Doll (空気人形, Kūki Ningyō) is a 2009 Japanese drama film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. It is based on the manga series Kuuki Ningyo by Yoshiie Gōda, which was serialized in the seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original, and is about an inflatable...
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- May 14, 2009
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Ajami
Ajami (Arabic: عجمي; Hebrew: עג'מי) is a 2009 Arab/Jewish collaboration drama film. Its plot is set in the Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa.
Written and directed by Scandar Copti (a Palestinian, born and raised in Yafa) and Yaron Shani (a Jewish...
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- Sep 17, 2009
All Fall Down
"Piecing together the various narratives of Philip Hoffman's brilliant All Fall Down, his first feature-length work after innumerable magnificent shorts, is one of the most invigorating and rewarding pleasures you're likely to have in a cinema this...
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- 2009
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An Education
An Education is a 2009 British coming-of-age drama film, based on an autobiographical article in Granta by British journalist Lynn Barber. The film was directed by Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by Nick Hornby, and stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny, a...
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- Jan 18, 2009
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Antichrist
Antichrist is a 2009 film written and directed by Lars von Trier, starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg. It follows horror film conventions and tells the story of a couple who, after the death of their child, retreat to a cabin in the woods...
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- Oct 23, 2009
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Applause
Applause is a 2009 Danish film starring Paprika Steen from director/co-writer Martin Peter Zandvliet and Koncern Film. The story relates actress Thea Barfoed’s (Paprika Steen) journey to reclaim her life and her family from the ravages of alcoholism...
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- Sep 25, 2009
Art & Copy
Art & Copy is a 2009 documentary film directed by Doug Pray about the advertising industry in the U.S. The film follows the careers of people from "advertising's creative revolution of the 1960s", including Hal Riney, George Lois, Mary Wells...
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- 2009
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- 2009 Sundance Film Festival ,
- 2009 San Francisco International Film Festival ,
- 2009 Atlanta Film Festival ,
- 2009 Toronto International Film Festival
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At the End of Daybreak
"Based on a true story ripped from the headlines, At the End of Daybreak is a slow-burning crime drama in which no one is innocent. Ho Yuhang, one of Malaysia's leading independent filmmakers, returns with a sharply critical take on his society....
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- Oct 8, 2009
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Baaria - La porta del vento
"Baaria is Giuseppe Tornatore's lush and romantic reimagining of the path of one person, a Sicilian who grows, marries, has children, matures and ages, compiling a rich breadth of experiences along the way. It is also the tale of a typical village...
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- Sep 2009
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Backyard
"Sometime in 1996, a terrifying phenomenon surfaced in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. In this now-infamous city, young women are regularly murdered. Most often, no arrests are made or charges laid for the killings. This ongoing tragedy is a painful stain on...
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- 2009
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurts his back in the process and earns a promotion to lieutenant plus an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, a family is murdered over drugs; Terence runs the...
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- Nov 20, 2009
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Balibo
Balibo is a 2009 Australian feature film that follows the story of the Balibo Five, a group of journalists who were captured and killed whilst reporting on activities just prior to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. The film is loosely...
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- 2009
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Bare Essence of Life
"The darling of new Japanese cinema, Satoko Yokohama confirms her talent and brilliant originality with Bare Essence of Life, a satisfying tale of rural eccentricity that combines black humour and fantasy with romanticism and drama. Scripted and...
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- 2009
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Bassidji
"This year, millions of Iranians poured into the streets to support reforming their government, and their protests elicited a violent response from a militia group known as the Bassidj. Director Mehran Tamadon had the prescience to explore the world...
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- 2009
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Beautiful Kate
Beautiful Kate is a 2009 Australian film directed by Rachel Ward and starring Rachel Griffiths, Bryan Brown, Sophie Lowe and Ben Mendelsohn. Rachel Ward adapted the script from a 1982 novel of the same name by Newton Thornburg; this was the first...
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- 2009
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Bena
Bena is a 2009 drama film written and directed by Niv Klainer.
"In Bena, a simple portrait of a father, a son and a stranger reveals fascinating layers of meaning.
Amos, a Tel Aviv man, is doing everything he can to keep his schizophrenic teenaged...
"In Bena, a simple portrait of a father, a son and a stranger reveals fascinating layers of meaning.
Amos, a Tel Aviv man, is doing everything he can to keep his schizophrenic teenaged...
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- 2009
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Between Two Worlds
"Sri Lanka's civil conflict raged so furiously for twenty-six long years that when it was declared over, one of the main reactions was numb disbelief. Director Vimukthi Jayasundara last explored the hollow absurdities of his homeland's war in The...
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- 2009
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Beyond the Circle
"Two years ago, Festival audiences discovered a lovely surprise in On the Wings of Dreams. In this gentle, humane fable, director Golam Rabbany Biplob showed the richness of village life in Bangladesh, even as he explored the modern tensions that...
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- 2009
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Big Eyes
"Ask Tel Avivians about artists who have defined their city's cinema and they will mention Uri Zohar without fail. Zohar was one of Israel's most influential filmmakers. Starting as an actor and comedian in the fifties, he headed up an ad hoc troupe...
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- 1974
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Big Head
"Ten-year-old Billy is mercilessly teased at school because he has a large cranium. He learns that one of his classmates has found a way to get a new nose, so he decides to do everything he can to modify his own perceived flaw. This dark comedy...
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- 2009
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Bitch Slap
Bitch Slap is a 2009 action and exploitation film directed by Rick Jacobson and stars Julia Voth, Erin Cummings, America Olivo and Michael Hurst, with cameos by Lucy Lawless, Kevin Sorbo, and Renée O'Connor.
Three girls, a down-and-out stripper...
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- May 16, 2009
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Blaumilch Canal
Blaumilch Canal (international release title: The Big Dig) is a 1969 Israeli comedy directed by Ephraim Kishon, which depicts the madness of bureaucracy through a municipality’s reaction to the actions of a lunatic.
The film was nominated for the...
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- 1969
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Blessed
"Filmmaker Ana Kokkinos last appeared at the Festival with The Book of Revelation, her third feature after Head On and Only the Brave. Fans of these powerful and provocative films will be enthralled with Blessed,for it shows us an evolving artist in...
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- 2009
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Bran Nue Dae
"One of Australia's most anticipated films of the year, the musical Bran Nue Dae arrives with all the energy, fun and downright sass of the original stage version. Featuring a cast that includes both acclaimed and emerging Australian actors and...
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- Jan 14, 2010
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Bright Star
Bright Star is a 2009 film based on the last three years of the life of poet John Keats and his romantic relationship with Fanny Brawne. It stars Ben Whishaw as Keats and Abbie Cornish as Fanny. A British/Australian/French co-production, it was...
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- May 15, 2009
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Broken Embraces
Broken Embraces (Spanish: Los abrazos rotos) is a 2009 Spanish romantic thriller film written, produced, and directed by Pedro Almodóvar; a four-way tale of dangerous love, and was shot in the style of a hard-boiled 1950s American film noir, or its...
Initial release date:
- Mar 17, 2009
Bunny and The Bull
Bunny and the Bull is a 2009 British comedy film from writer-director Paul King. It stars Edward Hogg and Simon Farnaby in a surreal recreation of a road trip. King has previously worked on British television comedies The Mighty Boosh and Garth...
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- Oct 2009
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Cairo Time
Cairo Time is a 2009 film by Canadian director Ruba Nadda. It is a romantic drama about a brief, unexpected love affair that catches two people completely off-guard.
This movie won the "Best Canadian Feature Film" at the Toronto International Film...
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- Oct 9, 2009
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Capitalism: A Love Story
Capitalism: A Love Story is a 2009 American documentary film directed, written by and starring Michael Moore. The film centers on the late-2000s financial crisis and the recovery stimulus, while putting forward an indictment of the current economic...
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- Sep 23, 2009
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Carcasses
"Jean-Paul Colmor lives by himself, but he's hardly alone. Many lives are represented all around him in the old cars and piles of discarded objects that litter his land in Saint-Amable, near Montreal. Quietly, Colmor works at repairing what others...
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- 2009
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Carmel
"Amos Gitaï's new film is made much in the mode of last year's extraordinary Plus tard, tu comprendras. It is carefully composed and orchestrated, highly self-aware and sculpted from both collective and personal memories. In addition to being...
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- 2009
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Castaway on the Moon
"Accomplished and original, Castaway on the Moon is a fascinating love story by one of South Korea's most promising young filmmakers. Lee Hey-jun made his debut in 2006 as co-director of the hit comedy Like a Virgin,and he now reconfirms his witty...
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- May 14, 2009
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Cell 211
Cell 211 (Spanish: Celda 211) is a 2009 Spanish prison film directed by Daniel Monzón, starring Luis Tosar, Alberto Ammann and Antonio Resines.
Juan Oliver wants to make a good impression at his new job as a prison officer and reports to work a day...
Initial release date:
- Jun 10, 2009
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Chloe
Chloe is a 2009 erotic thriller directed by Atom Egoyan, a remake of the 2004 French film Nathalie.... This version stars Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, and Amanda Seyfried in the title role. The screenplay was written by Erin Cressida Wilson, based...
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- Sep 13, 2009
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City of Life and Death
"Lu Chuan's remarkable and very moving film chronicles 'the rape of Nanking' by the invading Japanese army in 1937 as a series of telling vignettes.
Nanjing (previously known as Nanking) was China's capital in the 1930s, until the government and...
Nanjing (previously known as Nanking) was China's capital in the 1930s, until the government and...
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- Apr 22, 2009
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Cleanflix
"Mormons can be movie lovers too. The problem is that their religious leaders strongly discourage R-rated content. As one Mormon prophet explained, “The mind through which this filth passes is never the same afterwards.” In order to better serve...
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- 2009
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Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky is a 2009 French film directed by Jan Kounen. It was chosen as the Closing Film of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, and was shown on 24 May 2009.
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky is based on the 2002 fictional novel Coco &...
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- Jul 31, 2009
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Cole
"Cole Chambers (Richard de Klerk) is an aspiring writer living in the small British Columbia town of Lytton. While the community of 350 may lack the speed of the big city, it nonetheless provides intriguing source material for the stories that fill...
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- 2009
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Collapse
Collapse, directed by Chris Smith, is an American documentary film exploring the theories, writings and life story of controversial author Michael Ruppert. Collapse premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2009 to positive...
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- Nov 6, 2009
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Colony
"We admire some documentaries for their artistry and others for their urgency. Rarely do we see a film that combines both of these qualities as impressively as this debut by directors Carter Gunn and Ross McDonnell. Their unlikely topic is the world...
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- 2009
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- 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival ,
- 2009 Toronto International Film Festival ,
- 2009 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam ,
- 2010 AFI Dallas International Film Festival
