Gunner's Palace
Director Michael Tucker spent two months in Iraq living with the U.S. Army's 2/3 Field Artillery unit, a.k.a. “The Gunners.” Their barracks? Uday Hussein's pleasure palace -- complete with swimming pool and putting green. In between dangerous missions around Baghdad and dealing with a war that seems to have no end, these young troops try to maintain some semblance of their life back home. Strangers in a strange land, Gunner Palace takes you inside the war in a way you've never been.
Les Miserables
Finally, a film version of the Victor Hugo novel, and it's a masterpiece. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, director Claude Lelouch takes this classic story and transports it to Nazi-occupied France. A Jewish family on the run is picked up by an illiterate ex-boxer named Fortin (played by the great French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo). Fortin searches for the strength to be the hero he never thought he could be in this rich, powerful and ageless story.
Time Out
A prize-winning film from the Venice Film Festival, this is our second film from French director Laurent Cantet. It tells the story of Vincent, a man who gets up every morning and goes to work. The only problem is, Vincent was laid off months ago. Too embarrassed to tell his wife and friends he no longer has a job, Vincent creates a series of lies which dig him in only deeper – with growing consequences and dangerous results.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
A high school wise-guy is determined to have a day off from school, and no meddling High School Principal is going to stop him.
