Watch Oslo, August 31st (2012)

Oslo, August 31stThirty-four-year-old Anders (Anders Danielsen Lie) is a fortunate, but deeply troubled man battling drug addiction. As part of his rehabilitation program, he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview, but instead uses the opportunity as a way to drift around and revisit old friends.

The day grows increasingly difficult as he struggles to overcome personal demons and past ghosts for the chance at love and a new life. -- (C) Official Site

Unrated, 1 hr. 35 min.
Art House & International, Drama
Directed By: Joachim Trier
Written By: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt
In Theaters: May 25, 2012 Limited

7.5

Oslo, August 31st (2013)

Watch 56 Up (2012)

56 Up"Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man." Starting in 1964 with Seven Up, The UP Series has explored this Jesuit maxim. The original concept was to interview 14 children from diverse backgrounds from all over England, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future.

Every seven years, renowned director Michael Apted, a researcher for Seven Up, has been back to talk to them, examining the progression of their lives. (c) First Run Features

Unrated, 2 hr. 19 min.
Documentary, Special Interest
Directed By: Michael Apted , Paul Almond
In Theaters: Jan 4, 2013 Limited

7.5

56 Up (2013)

Watch This Is Not a Film (2012)

This Is Not a FilmThis clandestine documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (Offside, The Circle) during his house arrest in his Tehran apartment. While appealing his sentence - six years in prison and a 20 year ban from filmmaking - Panahi is seen talking to his family and lawyer on the phone, discussing his plight with Mirtahmasb and reflecting on the meaning of the art of filmmaking. -- (C) Palisades Tartan

Unrated, 1 hr. 15 min.
Documentary, Art House & International, Special Interest
Directed By: Jafar Panahi , Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
Written By: Jafar Panahi
In Theaters: Feb 29, 2012 Limited

7.5

This Is Not a Film (2013)

Wacht Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007

Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 The film focuses on three men with a shared dream - Bond producers Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman and author Ian Fleming. It's the thrilling and inspiring narrative behind the longest running film franchise in cinema history which began in 1962. With unprecedented access both to the key players involved and to Eon Productions' extensive archive, this is the first time the inside story of the franchise has ever been told on screen in this way. Director Stevan Riley follows a story that begins with a ground-breaking spy thriller and continues six Bonds and five decades later. While Bond was saving the world from chaos and catastrophe on screen, this compelling documentary draws back the curtain to reveal the battles, threats and real stakes unfolding behind the camera.

Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.
Documentary, Special Interest
Directed By: Stevan Riley
In Theaters: Oct 5, 2012 Limited

7.4

Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 (2013)

Watch Wild Bill (2012)

Wild BillOut on parole after 8 years inside, Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15-year old sons abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play Dad, his arrival brings them to the attention of social services.

With the danger of being put into care looming, Dean forces his Dad to stay by threatening to grass him up for dealing. Dean soon connects with Jimmy and through this new bond starts to realize what he's been missing. He has a family and a place in the world, but when Jimmy gets into trouble with Bill's old cohorts, he quickly has to decide what kind of Dad he wants to be. A good one, or a free one.

Unrated, 1 hr. 38 min.
Art House & International, Drama
Directed By: Dexter Fletcher
Written By: Dexter Fletcher
On DVD: Jul 16, 2013

7.1

Wild Bill (2013)

Watch Planet of Snail (2012)

Planet of SnailA love story like no other, Planet of Snail is a mesmerizing documentary about an accomplished young poet who can no longer hear or see and his relationship to the world around him. Young-Chan is deaf and blind. He learned to speak when he was very young, but soon after lost his sight and hearing. He lives with his wife, Soon-Ho, who is his soul mate, an inseparable part of his life, and a window to the outside world.

Young-Chan and Soon-Ho communicate through finger braille, a unique form of touch-based sign language in which words are tapped out on each other's hands. They rely on one another completely. However, Young-Chan must be able to survive on his own. One day, as Soon-Ho waits anxiously at home, Young-Chan embarks on the biggest adventure of his life. -- (C) Cinema Guild

Unrated, 1 hr. 27 min.
Documentary, Drama, Special Interest
Directed By: Yi Seung-jun
In Theaters: Jul 25, 2012 Limited

7.1

Planet of Snail (2013)

Wath The Waiting Room (2012)

The Waiting Room The Waiting Room is a character-driven documentary film that uses extraordinary access to go behind the doors of an American public hospital struggling to care for a community of largely uninsured patients.

The film - using a blend of cinema verité and characters' voiceover offers a raw, intimate, and even uplifting look at how patients, staff and caregivers each cope with disease, bureaucracy and hard choices.

Unrated, 1 hr. 21 min.
Documentary
Directed By: Peter Nicks
In Theaters: Sep 26, 2012 Limited

6.3

Wath The Waiting Room (2013)

Watch How to Survive a Plague (2012)

How to Survive a Plague How to Survive a Plague is the story of two coalitions-ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group)-whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.

Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time. With unfettered access to a treasure trove of never-before-seen archival footage from the 1980s and '90s, filmmaker David France puts the viewer smack in the middle of the controversial actions, the heated meetings, the heartbreaking failures, and the exultant breakthroughs of heroes in the making. -- (C) Official Site

Unrated, 1 hr. 49 min.
Documentary, Special Interest
Directed By: David France
In Theaters: Sep 21, 2012 Limited

7.3

How to Survive a Plague (2013)

Watch The Invisible War (2012)

The Invisible WarThe Invisible War is a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of our country's most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within our US military. Today, a female soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire with the number of assaults in the last decade alone in the hundreds of thousands.

Focusing on the powerfully emotional stories of several young women, the film reveals the systemic cover up of the crimes against them and follows their struggles to rebuild their lives and fight for justice. The Invisible War features hard-hitting interviews with high-ranking military officials and members of Congress that reveal the perfect storm conditions that exist for rape in the military, its history of cover-up, and what can be done to bring about much needed change. -- (C) Official Site

Unrated, 1 hr. 37 min.
Documentary, Special Interest
Directed By: Kirby Dick
Written By: Kirby Dick
In Theaters: Jun 22, 2012 Limited
On DVD: Oct 23, 2012

7.4

The Invisible War (2013)

Watch War Witch (2012)

War Witch Montreal-based filmmaker Kim Nguyen paints a poignant and harrowing portrait of Komona, a 14-year-old girl (wonderfully played by nonprofessional actress Rachel Mwanza) who has been kidnapped from her African village by rebels to become a child soldier. She escapes from the camp with an older albino soldier and experiences for the very first time the joys of a peaceful and loving life, but a fresh tragedy will force her to confront and fight the ghosts haunting her mind.

Although inspired by a real story that took place in Burma, Nguyen decided to film War Witch in the Democratic Republic of the Congo without giving a specific location to the plot. He worked on the film for 10 years, watching and catching children's points of view with his camera and mixing in tightly edited flashbacks in which the spirits of human beings appear with an ultra-realistic and violent storyline. But War Witch is also a poignant and impossible love story filled with magic, picturesque images, and even light moments like the powerful visit to an albino camp or the chasing of a white rooster. (c) Tribeca film

Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.
Drama
Directed By: Kim Nguyen
Written By: Kim Nguyen
In Theaters: Mar 1, 2013 Limited
US Box Office:$37.9k

7.0

War Witch (2012)

Watch Stories We Tell (2013)

Stories We Tell In this inspired, genre-twisting new film, Oscar (R)-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who's telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets kept by a family of storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory, answers to the same questions.

As each relates their version of the family mythology, present-day recollections shift into nostalgia-tinged glimpses of their mother, who departed too soon, leaving a trail of unanswered questions. Polley unravels the paradoxes to reveal the essence of family: always complicated, warmly messy and fiercely loving. Stories We Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families, all interconnecting to paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story. (c) Roadside Attractions

PG-13, 1 hr. 48 min.
Documentary, Drama, Art House & International, Special Interest
Directed By: Sarah Polley
In Theaters: May 10, 2013 Limited
US Box Office:$1.1M

7.8

Stories We Tell (2013)

Watch Mud (2012)

Watch Mud Two teenage boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the bounty hunters on his trail and to reunite him with his true love.

Director: Jeff Nichols
Writer: Jeff Nichols
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland



Mud is an adventure about two boys, Ellis and his friend Neckbone, who find a man named Mud hiding out on an island in the Mississippi. Mud describes fantastic scenarios-he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper, who is waiting for him in town. Skeptical but intrigued, Ellis and Neckbone agree to help him. It isn't long until Mud's visions come true and their small town is besieged by a beautiful girl with a line of bounty hunters in tow. (c) Roadside Attractions

MUD (2013) - Official Trailer [HD]: Matthew McConaughey,Tye Sheridan