Compiled by Maya Gaddie
Oct. 4
Bloody Sunday (NY)
The Players: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell; directed by Paul Greengrass
The Skinny: A documentary-style drama re-creating the massacre of January 1972 in Northern Ireland.
Heaven (LA/NY)
The Players: Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Stefania Rocca; directed by Tom Tykwer
The Skinny: In Turin, four innocent people are victims of a bomb attack set off by an English teacher who intended it for a drug dealer responsible for the death of her husband and students.
Children On Their Birthdays
The Players: Joe Pichler, Ritch Brinkley, Tania Raymonde, Tom
Arnold; directed by Mark Medoff
The Skinny: In 1947 Alabama, two thirteen-year-old boys fall in love with the same girl, who has just moved to town with her mute mother, putting their friendship at risk.
Hell House (Dallas)
The Players:Directed by George Ratliff
The Skinny: Documentary of a high-tech fire-and-brimstone sermon that a Dallas Pentecostal church puts on every Halloween to scare kids into coming to services.
The Man from Elysian Fields (LA/NY)
The Players: Andy Garcia, Mick Jagger, James Coburn, Julianna
Margulies, Olivia Williams; directed by George Hickenlooper
The Skinny: A failing novelist is recruited by the dapper head of a male escort service, and he is hired out to the lonely wife of a famous, dying author whom he idolizes.
Welcome to Collinwood
The Players: Luis Guzman, Michael Jeter, Patricia Clarkson, Sam
Rockwell, Gabrielle Union; directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo
The Skinny: Five misfits from Cleveland’s mean streets try to pull off the greatest job they’ve ever heard of–attempting to burgle a pawnbroker’s safe.
Oct. 11
Below
The Players: Bruce Greenwood, Olivia Williams, Scott Foley, Zach Galifianakis; directed by David Twohy
The Skinny: As if a crew aboard a World War II submarine at risk of combat doesn’t have enough to worry about, they discover something else–something evil–lurks in the dark waters with them.
Brown Sugar (LA/NY)
The Players: Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Mos Def, Queen Latifah,
Nicole Ari Parker; directed by Rick Famuyiwa
The Skinny: A music critic and a successfulmusic executive realize that their true-life passions will only be fulfilled by remembering what they learned 15 years before on the streets where hip-hop was born.
Roger Dodger (LA/NY)
The Players: Campbell Scott, Jesse Eisenberg, Isabella Rossellini, Jennifer Beals, Elizabeth Berkley; directed by Dylan Kidd
The Skinny: A womanizing ad executive takes his teenage nephew out for a night on the town to show him the ways of the world, and in the process discovers a newly earned respect for women.
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The Rules of Attraction
The Players: James Van Der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica
Biel, Ian Somerhalder, Kate Bosworth; directed by Roger Avary
The Skinny: Set in an affluent New England liberal arts college in the 1980’s, an emerging sexual triangle emerges between Sean
Bateman, who deals drugs on the side, Paul Owen, who’s bisexual,
and Paul’s ex-girlfriend, Lauren.
Swept Away
The Players: Madonna, Adriano Giannini, John Turturro, Bruce
Greenwood, Jeanne Tripplehorn; directed by Guy Ritchie
The Skinny: Guy Ritchie directs Madonna in this remake of the 1975 Italian role-reversal comedy in which a slovenly sailor and a wealthy, spoiled woman fall in love after being cast away on a desert island.
Tuck Everlasting
The Players: Alexis Bledel, Ben Kingsley, Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, Jonathan Jackson; directed by Jay Russell
The Skinny: A teenage girl who longs for a life outside the control of her domineering mother discovers the mysterious, kind Tuck family, who takes her in as their own.
Oct. 18
BB>Auto Focus (LA/NY)
The Players: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Maria Bello, Marieh
Delfino, Kurt Fuller; directed by Paul Schrader
The Skinny: The life and 1978 murder of actor, comedian, and Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane.
Hush (NY)
The Players: Takahashi Kazuya, Tanabe Seiichi, Kataoka Reiko; directed by Hashiguchi Ryosuke
The Skinny: Two gay men and their female friend hatch an idea to conceive and raise a child in this Japanese drama/comedy about the true meaning of family.
Love In The Time Of Money (LA/NY)
The Players: Steve Buscemi, Rosario Dawson, Dominick
Lombardozzi, Vera Farmiga, Michael Imperioli; directed by Peter Mattei
The Skinny: Nine New Yorker–including a streetwalker, a repressed art dealer and a lovesick psychic–look ng for connection and intimacy in the big city.
The Grey Zone (LA/NY)
The Players: David Arquette, Daniel Benzali, Steve Buscemi, David Chandler; directed by Tim Blake Nelson
The Skinny: As the Jewish Sonderkommando struggles to organize the only armed revolt that would ever take place at Auschwitz, a girl who has miraculously survived a gassing is discovered. This film asks to what terrible lengths we are willing to go to save our own lives, and what in turn we would sacrifice to save the lives of others. (David Arquette in a serious movie about the Nazis? This we gotta see.)
All The Queen’s Men (top 10 cities)
The Players: Matt LeBlanc, Eddie Izzard, James Cosmo, Nicolette
Krebitz, David Birkin; directed by Stephan Ruzowitsky
The Skinny: An American-led team of British Special Forces in WWII disguise themselves as women in order to infiltrate a female-run
factory in Berlin that manufactures military decoding devices.
Paid in Full
The Players: Wood Harris, Mekhi Phifer, Cam’ron, Kevin Carroll, Chi McBride; directed by Charles Stone III
The Skinny: A dry-cleaning worker is seduced by his friends’ wealth into the world of drug dealing, but his friends and family become pawns and victims as he rises to success.
Waking Up In Reno
The Players: Billy Bob Thornton, Natasha Richardson, Patrick
Swayze, Charlize Theron, Dennis Quaid; directed by Jordan Brady
The Skinny: Two couples travel to Reno, Nevada, for a monster truck extravaganza, but along the way they learn that their relationships are not altogether committal.
