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Frida

MIRAMAX

CAST & CREW:

Director: Julie Taymor

Screenplay: Rodrigo Carcia and Edward Norton

Produced by: Sarah Green, Salma Hayek, Jay Polstein, Lizz Speed, Nancy Hardin, Lindsay Flickinger, Roberto Sneider

Cast: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Ashley Judd, Geoffrey Rush, Antonio Banderas, Miam Aestro, Roger Rees

SYNOPSIS:

This is a true story of Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera, the larger-than-life painters who became the most acclaimed artist in Mexican history, and whose tempestuous love affair. landmark journeys to America, and outrageous personalities made them legendary.

Web: Frida

Baran

MIRAMAX

CAST & CREW:

Written & Directed by: Majid Majidi
Producers: Majid Majidi & Fou Ad Nahas

Cast:
Hossein Abedini
Mohammad Reza Najj
Zahra Bahrami
Hossein Rahimi
Gholam Ali Bakhshi

SYNOPSIS:

From the Montreal Film Festival comes the award winning Baran, a new film from Oscar-nominated director Majid Majidi. Baran takes place in the years following the 1989 Russian withdrawal from Afghanistan, amid the rise of the Taliban. Set in Iran, it tells the story of an Afghani refugee father whose injury threatens his family'e future, a child too weak to feel his shoes, and a natiev Aranian son forced to trade places with an immigrant. But, the young man's burning resentment is about to be transformed by a surprising discovery, the immigrant is a young woman. For the first time in his life, he's in love. But, he can't let on that he knows her secret. Now, his devotion will lead him to a choice that will change his live forever.

Web: Baran

Cinema Paradiso

MIRAMAX

CAST & CREW:

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore

Screenplay: Guiseppe Tornatore

Producers: Franco Cristaldi

Cast: Phillip Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Marco Leonardi, Antonella Attili

SYNOPSIS:

Cinema Paradiso is the story of an famous Italian film director who returns home to a Sicilian village for the first time after almost 30 years away. At home he is re-connected with the life and people he once knew and revisits the poignant memories formed in the childhood. For him the journey brings back the highlights and tragedies that shaped his life and inspired him to pursue his dream.

Web: Cinema Paradiso

Full Frontal

Miramax

CAST & CREW:

Cast: Julia Roberts, Blair Underwood (Nicholas/Calvin), David Alan Basche, David Duchovny (Gus), David Fincher (himself), Nicky Katt, Catherine Keener (Alice), Eddie McClintock, Mary McCormack, David Hyde Pierce, Brad Pitt (cameo as himself), Brad Rowe, Jerry Weintraub

Director: Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies and Videotape, Erin Brockovich, Out of Sight, Traffic; his latest before this is the remake of Ocean's 11; next up after this will be Solaris and Che Guevara)

Screenwriter: Coleman Hough (feature film debut)

SYNOPSIS:

Not of all of the details of this film are known yet (9/10/01), but one element is that it involves an actor (Underwood) being interviewed by a reporter (Roberts), which is then revealed to actually be part of a movie itself (one of those film-within-a-film things). (2/27/02) The official synopsis is "Set in Los Angeles, it's the story of seven people with very little in common who are about to come together in a way they never expected. Like Day For Night, this is a movie about movies for people who love movies."

Web: Full Frontal

Heaven

MIRAMAX

CAST & CREW:

Director: Tom Tykwer

Screenplay: Krysztof Kieslowski, Kr Yzszt of Piesiewicz

Produced by:Federique Dumas, Anthony Minghella, Maria Koepf

Cast: Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi

SYNOPSIS:

The rawemotions, deadly choices and mysterious impulses that surround the search for a state of grace come to the fore in HEAVEN, the last film written by the late master filmaker Krystal Kieslowski and writing partner Kryzstof Pielsiewicz (the makers of "Blue", "White" and "Red"). Tom Tykwer ("Run Lola Run", "Winetr Sleepers" "The Princess and the Warrior") directs, bringing his intense visual energy to the taut, lyrical, multi-layred story of an ordinary woman who takes divine justice into her own hands.

Web: Heaven

Importance of Being Ernest

MIRAMAX

CAST & CREW:

Director: Oliver Parker

Screenplay: Oliver Parker

Producer: Barnaby Thompson

Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O'Connor, Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench

SYNOPSIS:

Two young gents living in 1890's England have taken to bending the truth in order to put some excitement into their lives. Worthing (Clin Firth) has invented a brother, Ernest, whom he uses as an excuse to leave his dull country behind to visit the ravishing Gwendolyn (Frances O'Connor). Montcrieff (Rupert E Everett) decides to take the name "Ernest" when visiting Worthing's young and beautiful ward, Cecily (Reese Witherspoon) at the country manor. Thomgs start to go awry when they end up together in the country and their deceptions are discovered - threatening to spoil their romantic pursuits.

Web: Importance of Being Ernest

Prozac Nation

MIRAMAX

CAST & CREW:

Director: Erik Skjoldbaejrg

Screenplay: Frank Deasy and Larry Gross

Producers: Galt Neiderhoffer, Brad Weston, R. Paul Miller

Cast: Christina Ricci, Jason Biggs, Anne Heche, Michelle Williams, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Jessica Lange Nicholas Campbell

SYNOPSIS:

Prozac Nation is anew film starring Christina Ricci (The Opposite of Sex, Sleepy Hollow), Jessica Lange (Titus), Jason Biggs (American Pie 1&2), Michelle Williams (Dick, Halloween H2o), Anne Heche (Return to Paradise), and Jonathan Rhyse- M<eyers (Velvet Goldmine).

Based on the best selling novel, set in the mid 1980's before the prevalence of anti-depresents, it follows a young working class woman's (RICCI) bout with depressants, it follows a young working class woman's (RICCI) bout with depression during her first year at Harvard. The film explores this generation's struggle to navigate the effects of divorce, sex, and an overbearing mother(Lange).

Web: Prozac Nation

The Quiet American

MIRAMAX

CAST & CREW:

Director:Phillip Noyce

Screenplay: Robert Schenikan, Christopher Hampton

Producers: William Horberg, Staffan Ahrenberg

Executive Producers: Sydney Pollock, Anthony Mingella

Cast: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Sherbedgia

SYNOPSIS:

From the classic novel by Graham Green comes a murder mystery centered on a love triangle set against the french Indochina War in Vietnem, circa 1952. It's the story of a veteran English journalist (Michael Caine), a young American (Brenadan Fraser), and the beautiful Vietmanese woman caught between them. This is a world where nothing is what it seems - suffised with opium, intrigue and betrayal.

Web: The Quiet American

Rabbit-Proof Fence

MIRAMAX

CAST & CREW:

Director: Phillip Noyce

Screenplay: Christine Olsen

Producer: Phillip Noyce, Christine Olsen, John Winter

Executive Preoducers: David Elfick, Jeremy Thomas, Kathleen McLaughlin

Cast: Ningali Lawford, David Gulpili, Jason Clarke, Deborah Mai,man, Kenneth Branagh

SYNOPSIS:

Rabbit-Proof Fence tells the story of three aboriginal girls who are forcilbly taken from their families in 1931 to be trained as domestic servants as part of an official Australian government policy. They make a daring escape and embark on an epic 1,500 mile journey to get back home - following the rabbit-proof fence thast bisects the Australian continent - with the authorities in hot pursuit.

Web: Rabbit-Proof Fence

The Third Wheel

MIRAMAX

CAST & CREW:

Director:Jordan Brady

Screenplay: Jay Lacopo

Executive Producers: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Yoram Pelman

Cast: Luke Wilson, Denise Richards, Ben Affleck

SYNOPSIS:

When Stanley met Diana, he hadn't been on a date for 3 1/2 years. She was easily the most appealing woman he'd ever seen smart, successful, georgeous - and newly single. For months now, he's been writing down the perfect way to ask her out , and imagining the perfect date. Much to his surprise, when he finally summons the nreve to ask her out, she says "yes". When the big night fianlly comes, everything that can go wrong with a date, does - thanks to the constant interruptions from an uninvited stranger (The Third Wheel). But what starts out as an annoyance could turn into soemthing that surprises them all.

Web: The Third Wheel

The Warrior

MIRAMAX

CAST & CREW:

Director: Asif Kap Adia

Screenwriter: Asif Kap Adia, Timmiller

Producer: Bertrand Faivre

Executive Producers: Paul Webster, Hanno Huth

Cast: Aino Annuddin, Puru Chhibber, Mand Akini Goswami, Irfan Khan, Noor Mani

SYNOPSIS:

Set in feudal India, the film is a sweeping mythical adventure story about alone warrior who announces his violent role as the longtime enforcer to a local lord - only to be murderously pursued into the Himalayan mountains by the lord, who refuses to accept his depature.

Web: The Warrior

Zu Warriors

MIRAMAX

CAST & CREW:

Director: Tsui Hark

Screenplay: Tsui Hark, Li Man Choi

Martial Arts Director: Yuen Wo-Ping

Cast: Eric Cheng, Louis Koo, Cecilia Cheung, Sammo Hung, Patrick Tam, Zhang Zi Yi

SYNOPSIS:

In the world beyond our world there lies a mystic realm that guards the mortal universe - the kingdom of Zu. Starring Zhang Zi Yi ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"), Zu Warrior's invites you to enter a place where myth and mystery collide.

Web: Zu Warriors

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