UPCOMING 2015 AND BEYOND
2015
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1.
The Lobster
(2015)
In a dystopian near future, single people are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days or are transformed into animals and released into the woods. (118 mins.)
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
2.
Midnight Special
(2015)
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
Director: Jeff Nichols
3.
Regression
(2015)
A father is accused of a crime he has no memory of committing.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
4.
Youth
(2015)
Fred and Mick, two old friends, are on vacation in an elegant hotel at the foot of the Alps. Fred, a composer and conductor... (118 mins.)
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
5.
Tale of Tales
(2015)
The film serves as Garrone's English-language debut and will interweave three separate story strands... (125 mins.)
Director: Matteo Garrone
6.
Queen of the Desert
(2015)
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century. (128 mins.)
Director: Werner Herzog
7.
The Duke of Burgundy
(2014)
A woman who studies butterflies and moths tests the limits of her relationship with her lover. (104 mins.)
Director: Peter Strickland
8.
Chappie
(2015)
In the near future, crime is patrolled by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself. (120 mins.)
Director: Neill Blomkamp
9.
War on Everyone
(2015)
Two corrupt cops in New Mexico set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path. Things take a sinister turn, however, when they try to intimidate someone who is more dangerous than they are. Or is he?
Director: John Michael McDonagh
12.
Macbeth
(2015)
Macbeth, a duke of Scotland, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself. (113 mins.)
Director: Justin Kurzel
13.
Sicario
(2015)
In Mexico, Sicario means hitman. In the lawless border area stretching between the U.S. and Mexico, an idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elite government task force official to aid in the escalating war against drugs. Led by an enigmatic consultant with a questionable past, the team sets out on a clandestine journey forcing Kate to question everything that she believes in order to survive. (121 mins.)
Director: Denis Villeneuve
14.
It: Part 1
(????)
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
Stars: Will Poulter
15.
Beasts of No Nation
(2015)
A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.
Director: Cary Fukunaga
16.
The Light Between Oceans
(2015)
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Director: Derek Cianfrance
17.
Warcraft
(2016)
An epic fantasy/adventure based on the popular video game series.
Director: Duncan Jones
18.
Silence
(2016)
In the seventeenth century, two Jesuit priests face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and to spread the gospel of Christianity.
Director: Martin Scorsese
19.
While We're Young
(2014)
A middle-aged couple's career and marriage are overturned when a disarming young couple enters their lives. (97 mins.)
Director: Noah Baumbach
20.
High-Rise
(2015)
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
Director: Ben Wheatley
21.
Entertainment
(2015)
En route to meet his estranged daughter and attempting to revive his dwindling career, a broken, aging comedian plays a string of dead-end shows in the Mojave desert. (110 mins.)
Director: Rick Alverson
22.
Far from the Madding Crowd
(2015)
In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor. (119 mins.)
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
23.
Hold on to Me
(????)
A woman takes advantage of a hapless guy in an elaborate plot to make money that goes awry.
Director: James Marsh
24.
Life
(2015)
A photographer for Life Magazine is assigned to shoot pictures of James Dean. (111 mins.)
Director: Anton Corbijn
25.
Pasolini
(2014)
A kaleidoscopic look at the last day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975. (86 mins.)
Director: Abel Ferrara
26.
The New Girlfriend
(2014)
A young woman makes a surprising discovery about the husband of her late best friend. (108 mins.)
Director: François Ozon
27.
Crimson Peak
(2015)
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds...and remembers.
Director: Guillermo del Toro
28.
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
(2015)
The venerated filmmaker Eisenstein is comparable in talent, insight and wisdom, with the likes of Shakespeare or Beethoven; there are few... (105 mins.)
Director: Peter Greenaway
29.
The Smell of Us
(2014)
A story centered around a group of self-destructive skateboarders in Paris. (92 mins.)
Director: Larry Clark
30.
The Neon Demon
(2016)
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
31.
Janis
(????)
A Rolling Stone writer assigned to write a cover story on the enigmatic Janis Joplin ends up on a long tour with the singer at the height of her success.
Director: Sean Durkin
Stars: Nina Arianda
32.
Blonde
(2016)
A chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe.
Director: Andrew Dominik
Stars: Jessica Chastain
33.
Results
(2015)
Two mismatched personal trainers' lives are upended by the actions of a new, wealthy client. (105 mins.)
Director: Andrew Bujalski
34.
Pixels
(2015)
When aliens misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth in the form of the video games.
Director: Chris Columbus
35.
Minority Report
(2002)
In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder. (145 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
36.
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, the Restless One
(2015)
Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic. (125 mins.)
Director: Miguel Gomes
38.
The Sea of Trees
(2015)
A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out. (110 mins.)
Director: Gus Van Sant
39.
Mia madre
(2015)
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother. (106 mins.)
Director: Nanni Moretti
41.
Galveston
(????)
A noirish crime thriller, Galveston centers on New Orleans hitman Roy Cady, diagnosed with lung cancer at 40...
Director: Janus Metz Pedersen
Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts