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Tiny Furniture
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Twenty-two year old Aura has just come home from college in Ohio with a degree in film theory and no idea what to do with herself. "I'm in a post-graduate delirium," she says. Tiny Furniture plays like a post-graduate, post-The Graduate-quarter-life crises of Woody Allen if Woody Allen was a twenty-two year old girl. [To read the full review of this film please refer to our Anaheim International Film Festival coverage in the Frame of Mind section here.]
The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
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Martin is a mentally disturbed loner who lives with his nagging mother in a bleak London housing project, where loud neighbors and cramped living conditions threaten to plunge this victim of sexual and psychological abuse over the edge. He works the night shift as a security guard in an underground parking garage, where customers and their vehicles come and go as he indulges his obsession with THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE) watching the film over and over on the small TV set in his office and meticulously...

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Take Shelter
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The LaForche family lives a simple small-town existence in Ohio. Curtis (Michael Shannon) works for a construction company, his wife Samantha (Jessica Chastain) a stay-at-home mother to their deaf daughter who also makes hand-sewn items she sells on the weekends at a fair. Every morning the family has breakfast together, and the love in the air is contagious. The LaForche family is the ideal family, but all of this is about to change with the first of many dreams. The establishment of the immense...

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11-11-11
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Almost as inevitable as the fact that a movie called 11-11-11 will be released on November 11th, 2011 is the fact that it will be a horror movie. 11-11-11 stars Timothy Gibbs ("Another World") as Joseph Crone, a bestselling novelist who has just lost his wife and child in a terrible fire. After the tragedy, he has a string of bad luck, including a wicked case of writer's block and a horrific car accident that almost kills him. Once he's out of the hospital, his poor fortune continues and he gets a call...

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The Rum Diary
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Based on the Hunter S. Thompson novel of the same name, The Rum Diary is the story of Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp), an American novelist who takes a job as a freelance journalist at a struggling newspaper in 1960's Puerto Rico. His first day at the paper, he is offered a place to stay by the freewheeling photographer Bob Sala (Michael Rispoli from Kick-Ass), who shares a run-down shack with another reporter from the paper, a drunken lunatic named Moberg (Lost in Translation's Giovanni Ribisi). While he's on an...

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J. Edgar
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J. Edgar stars Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic) as J. Edgar Hoover, the former director of the FBI. An aging Hoover dictates his memoirs to a writer, focusing on his rise to power and the policies and procedures that he implemented during his reign. Told through flashbacks, the story takes place over the course of about 50 years but mainly concentrates on the Lindberg baby kidnapping case, as well as on Hoover's relationship with his secretary, Helen Gandy (The Ring's Naomi Watts), and his associate director...

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Tower Heist
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Queens native Josh Kovacs (Stiller) has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh’s building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda) is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage. With only days before Arthur gets...

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Martha Marcy May Marlene
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Presented as part of the new film series between Film Independent and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Martha Marcy May Marlene marks the second event in the series. The moderator for the evening was Elvis Mitchell, esteemed film critic and curator at Film Independent; and to the audiences delight quite friendly, engaging and funny with his opening address. After giving a brief synopsis of the film, and throwing in a well-received joke about star Elizabeth Olsen's famous sisters, matters turned...

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Puss In Boots
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A supporting character in three of the Shrek movies, Puss In Boots (Antonio Banderas) has been given his very own origin story from Dreamworks Animation. The myth, the legend, and the answer everyone wants to know, Where did he get those boots,? will all be revealed in Puss In Boots, the movie. When we first meet Puss In Boots (Puss) he is an outlaw, on the run for a crime he claims he was not responsible for doing. But Puss is no saint looking for redemption, he has become a thief--stealing the hearts...

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I Melt With You
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Four middle-aged men are experiencing life crisis' in I Melt With You. On their annual friend vacation in Big Sur they all meet to spend a week binging on liquor and drugs, while experiencing existential moments alone, and with one another. Jonathan (Rob Lowe) is a doctor who has become the go-to for prescription drug addiction by his clients--his cash for drugs practice has eaten away at his pride and respect for his career, as well as ruined his marriage and caused his own son to dismiss him as his father....

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Hugo
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There is a glimmer of nostalgia in Martin Scorses's Hugo. Scorsese is a known supporter of film preservation, and a lover of classic cinema; something that may be seen in every film he has made over an illustrious career. Hugo may well be his homage to cinema itself, as it is filled with small hat tipping's to cinematic history. Hugo is the story of a young boy, Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield), an orphan who came to live in the Central Train Station of Paris, France after his father died unexpectedly....

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Jack and Jill
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Adam Sandler's new film stars Adam Sandler, and Adam Sandler. Yes, one Adam Sandler is not enough this time around, he has created a twin in the form of a husky woman who looks just like Adam Sandler--the frightening image of such a creation that just flashed in your mind is accurate. Jack and Jill is typical Sandler fare, except for the double trouble of having him in both starring roles as the role of his wife Erin, played by Katie Holmes, may as well be a mannequin because she says very little, and has...

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The Skin I Live In
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Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault. In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed three more things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig. Scruples were never a problem. Marilia, the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his...

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My Week With Marilyn
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My Week with Marilyn is the story of Colin Clark (played by Eddie Redmayne, Black Death's Osmund), a third assistant director on The Prince and the Showgirl, and his experiences with Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams from "Dawson's Creek") on and off the set of the Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh from Valkyrie) directed film. Fresh off the plane from America, Marilyn initially shows up as a high-maintenance, Hollywood movie star amongst a cast of snooty British thespians. At first, Olivier asks Colin...

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Like Crazy
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A love story is both a physical and emotional tale, one that can be deeply personal and heartbreaking for an audience to experience. Director Drake Doremus' film Like Crazy beautifully illustrates how your first real love is as thrilling and blissful as it is devastating. When a British college student (Felicity Jones) falls for her American classmate (Anton Yelchin) they embark on a passionate and life-changing journey only to be separated when she violates the terms of her visa. Like Crazy explores how a...

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The Women On The 6th Floor
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Set in 1960's Paris, France, The Women on the 6th Floor is the story of an affluent French couple and the relationship that they have with their poor, Spanish housekeeper. Stockbroker Jean-Louis Joubert (Fabrice Luchini from Beaumarchais the Scoundrel) owns the building where he grew up and where he and his wife Suzanne (Alias Betty's Sandrine Kiberlain) now live. When the couple get a new maid - a young, Spanish woman named Maria (Natalia Verbeke from Dot the I) - Jean-Louis finds himself drawn to her,...

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The Three Musketeers 3D (2011)
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Alexandre Dumas is the author of one of the most famous, and often adapted, novels, "The Three Musketeers". There have been great adaptations on film of the novel and there have been those whom should be forgotten immediately. The most recent adaptation follows the three acclaimed lead characters, Athos (Matthew Macfadyen), Aramis (Luke Evans), and Porthos (Ray Stevenson) on an adventure to save, "a coming apocalypse" at the dawn of the 17th Century. In other words, war between France and England, and everyone...

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Happy Feet Two
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As a sequel to the 2006 Happy Feet the second film in the series finds original tap dancing Penguin Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood) all grown up and with a son of his own, Erik (voiced by Ava Acres). Opening with a rousing dance number choreographed to the infectious song "Rhythm Nation," originally performed by Janet Jackson, Happy Feet Two starts on a high note. The film then falls victim to the trappings of a simple, less than sophisticated animated film that relies on music and visuals to keep the attention...

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Melancholia
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In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire's best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth… MELANCHOLIA is a psychological disaster film from...

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