2012 Screening List
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1.
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
(2011 Mini-Series)
A comprehensive history of the medium and art of motion pictures. (60 mins.)
2.
Stolen Seas
(2012 Documentary)
Stolen Seas presents a chilling exploration of the Somali pirate phenomenon and forces you to rethink everything you thought you knew about pirates... (90 mins.)
Director: Thymaya Payne
3.
Frankenweenie
(2012)
Young Victor conducts a science experiment to bring his beloved dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous, consequences. (87 mins.)
Director: Tim Burton
4.
Bernie
(2011)
In small-town Texas, an affable mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, though when she starts to become controlling, he goes to great lengths to separate himself from her grasp. (99 mins.)
Director: Richard Linklater
5.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
(2012)
An introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world. (102 mins.)
Director: Stephen Chbosky
6.
Pitch Perfect
(2012)
Beca, a freshman at Barden University, is cajoled into joining The Bellas, her school's all-girls singing group. Injecting some much needed energy into their repertoire, The Bellas take on their male rivals in a campus competition. (112 mins.)
Director: Jason Moore
7.
Won't Back Down
(2012)
Two determined mothers, one a teacher, look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children. (121 mins.)
Director: Daniel Barnz
8.
Killer Joe
(2011)
When a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance. (102 mins.)
Director: William Friedkin
9.
Anna Karenina
(2012)
In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky. (129 mins.)
Director: Joe Wright
10.
Friends with Kids
(2011)
Two best friends decide to have a child together while keeping their relationship platonic, so they can avoid the toll kids can take on romantic relationships. (107 mins.)
Director: Jennifer Westfeldt
11.
King Kelly
(2012)
King Kelly is the online username of Kelly, a young girl from Long Island, NY who dreams of becoming famous through her webcam strip tease show. Obsessed with the prospect of celebrity, Kelly stops at nothing to get what she wants. (84 mins.)
Director: Andrew Neel
12.
Alex Cross
(2012)
A homicide detective is pushed to the brink of his moral and physical limits as he tangles with a ferociously skilled serial killer who specializes in torture and pain. (101 mins.)
Director: Rob Cohen
13.
Aquí y allá
(2012)
"AQUÍ": Pedro returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico after years of working in the US... (110 mins.)
Director: Antonio Méndez Esparza
14.
Robot & Frank
(2012)
Set in the near future, an ex-jewel thief receives a gift from his son: a robot butler programmed to look after him. But soon the two companions try their luck as a heist team. (89 mins.)
Director: Jake Schreier
15.
Union Square
(2011)
Jenny, who has rejected her tumultuous family for a more ordered life, gets a surprise visit from her sister Lucy at a critical time - right at the moment where she's feels ready to commit to her longtime fiancé. (80 mins.)
Director: Nancy Savoca
16.
The Comedy
(2012)
Indifferent to the notion of inheriting his father's estate, a restless, aging New Yorker passes time with his friends in games of mock sincerity and irreverence. (95 mins.)
Director: Rick Alverson
17.
LUV
(2012)
An 11-year-old boy gets a crash course in what it means to be a man when he spends a day with the ex-convict uncle he idolizes. (94 mins.)
Director: Sheldon Candis
18.
28 Hotel Rooms
(2012)
A novelist and an accountant meet while they are traveling for work, and though they both are in relationships, their one-night stand could become something more. (82 mins.)
Director: Matt Ross
19.
The Innkeepers
(2011)
During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay. (101 mins.)
Director: Ti West
20.
Roadie
(2011)
After 20 years on the road with Blue Oyster Cult, Jimmy Testagros returns to his hometown to life with his ailing mother. Complications arise when he falls for an old friend, who is now married to his longtime nemesis. (95 mins.)
Director: Michael Cuesta
21.
Gayby
(2012)
Jenn (straight) and Matt (gay) are best friends from college who are now in their thirties. Single by choice, they decide to fulfill a youthful promise to have a child together... the old fashioned way. (89 mins.)
Director: Jonathan Lisecki
22.
The Color Wheel
(2011)
JR has broken up with her professor. She enlists her nervous and obnoxious younger brother Colin to... (83 mins.)
Director: Alex Ross Perry
23.
Bachelorette
(2012)
Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school. (87 mins.)
Director: Leslye Headland
24.
Bad Fever
(2012)
A humorless loner attempts to win the admiration of a drifter with his debut performance at the local comedy club. (77 mins.)
Director: Dustin Guy Defa
25.
Silver Linings Playbook
(2012)
After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own. (122 mins.)
Director: David O. Russell
26.
Hick
(2011)
A Nebraska teen gets more than she bargained for when she sets out for the bright lights of Las Vegas. (99 mins.)
Director: Derick Martini
27.
Hitchcock
(2012)
A love story between influential filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho in 1959. (98 mins.)
Director: Sacha Gervasi
28.
A Royal Affair
(2012)
A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever. (137 mins.)
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
29.
The Sapphires
(2012)
It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all-girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam. (103 mins.)
Director: Wayne Blair
30.
Zero Dark Thirty
(2012)
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011. (157 mins.)
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
31.
Metro Manila
(2013)
Seeking a brighter future in megacity Manila, Oscar Ramirez and his family flee their impoverished life in the rice fields of the northern Philippines... (115 mins.)
Director: Sean Ellis
32.
Kill Your Darlings
(2013)
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. (104 mins.)
Director: John Krokidas
33.
Goon
(2011)
Labeled an outcast by his brainy family, a bouncer overcomes long odds to lead a team of under performing misfits to semi-pro hockey glory, beating the crap out of everything that stands in his way. (92 mins.)
Director: Michael Dowse
34.
The Immortal Augustus Gladstone
(2013)
Augustus Gladstone believes he's immortal. Squatting in an abandoned hotel in Portland, he shares colorful tales of his 150 year existence... (100 mins.)
Director: Robyn C. Miller
35.
A Hijacking
(2012)
The crew of a Danish cargo ship is hijacked by Somali pirates who proceed to engage in escalating negotiations with authorities in Copenhagen. (103 mins.)
Director: Tobias Lindholm
36.
Django Unchained
(2012)
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. (165 mins.)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
37.
Jack Reacher
(2012)
A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims. (130 mins.)
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
38.
Les Misérables
(2012)
In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives for ever. (158 mins.)
Director: Tom Hooper
39.
The Grey
(2011)
After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step. (117 mins.)
Director: Joe Carnahan
40.
How to Survive a Plague
(2012 Documentary)
The story of two coalitions -- ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) -- whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. (110 mins.)
Director: David France
41.
This Is 40
(2012)
Pete and Debbie are both about to turn 40, their kids hate each other, both of their businesses are failing, they're on the verge of losing their house, and their relationship is threatening to fall apart. (134 mins.)
Director: Judd Apatow
42.
Searching for Sugar Man
(2012 Documentary)
Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez. (86 mins.)
Director: Malik Bendjelloul
43.
Barbara
(2012)
A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital. (105 mins.)
Director: Christian Petzold
44.
Marfa Girl
(2012)
A story centered on a directionless 16-year-old living in Marfa, Texas and his relationships with his girlfriend, his neighbor, his teacher, a newly arrived local artist, and a local Border Patrol officer. (105 mins.)
Director: Larry Clark
45.
Teddy Bear
(2012)
The 38-year-old bodybuilder Dennis would really like to find true love. He has never had a girlfriend... (92 mins.)
Director: Mads Matthiesen
46.
Where Soldiers Come From
(2011 Documentary)
A documentary that chronicles four years in the lives of childhood friends as they enter a faraway war.
Director: Heather Courtney
47.
Only the Young
(2012 Documentary)
A documentary on three teenagers living in a small desert town in Southern California. (72 mins.)
Director: Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet
48.
Pearblossom Hwy
(2012)
"What else am I? What else can I say. I'm a trouble maker. I've always wanted to be a rebel," says Cory... (78 mins.)
Director: Mike Ott