THiNK Film http://virb.com/thinkfilm Virb 2.0 (@thinkfilm) en Before The Devil Knows You're Dead http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1743313 Master filmmaker Sidney Lumet directs this absorbing suspense thriller about a family facing the worst enemy of all - itself. Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Andy, an overextended broker who lures his younger brother, Hank (Ethan Hawke) into a larcenous scheme: the pair will rob a suburban mom-and-pop jewelry store that appears to be the quintessential easy target. The problem is, the store owners are Andy and Hank's actual mom and pop and, when the seemingly perfect crime goes awry, the damage lands right at their doorstep. Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei plays Hoffman's trophy wife, who is having a clandestine affair with Hawke, and the stellar cast also includes Albert Finney as the family patriarch who pursues justice at all costs, completely unaware that the culprits he is hunting are his own sons. A classy, classic heist-gone-wrong drama in the tradition of "The Killing" and Lumet's own "The Anderson Tapes," BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOW YOU'RE DEAD is smart enough to know that we often have the most to fear from those who are near and dear.

]]> Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:57:57 -0700 http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1743313 In The Shadow Of The Moon http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1740717 Between 1968 and 1972, nine American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon, and 12 men walked upon its surface. They remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON brings together for the first, and possibly the last, time surviving crew members from every single Apollo mission that flew to the Moon, and allows them to tell their story in their own words.
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This riveting first-hand testimony is interwoven with visually stunning archival material which has been re-mastered from the original NASA film footage - much of it never used before. The result is an intimate epic that vividly communicates the daring, the danger, the pride, and the promise of this extraordinary era in history when the whole world literally looked up at America.
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The participating astronauts include Jim Lovell (Apollo 8 and 13), Dave Scott (Apollo 9 and 15), John Young (Apollo 10 and 16), Gene Cernan (Apollo 10 and 17), Mike Collins (Apollo 11), Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11), Alan Bean (Apollo 12), Edgar Mitchell (Apollo 14), Charlie Duke (Apollo 16) and Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17). Beautifully shot by Clive North in High Definition video, the astronauts talk directly to camera. They emerge as surprisingly eloquent, witty, emotional and very human.
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The producers Duncan Copp and Chris Riley spent many weeks in the NASA film library examining cans of film some of which had not been opened for over 30 years. This search uncovered many gems, astonishing space shots which have been re-mastered from the original film rolls to reveal the Apollo program with a visual clarity and impact it has never had before. The mute 16mm rolls shot in Mission Control have been laboriously lip-synced with the 16-track audio recordings of the mission controllers' voice loop to re-unite the pictures and sound of many historic moments for the first time, lending a striking immediacy to many dramatic scenes.
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Editor David Fairhead and director David Sington have woven this material together with a beautiful orchestral score from composer Philip Sheppard to create a moving, nostalgic and inspiring cinematic experience.

]]> Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:10:19 -0700 http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1740717 The Hottest State http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1738936 Release Date: August 24, 2007 <br /><br />

Adapted by Ethan Hawke from his own novel of the same name, THE HOTTEST STATE is a bittersweet romance that distills the joy, pain, erotic highs, and emotional lows of first love. Ethan Hawke directs and co-stars in the film along with Mark Webber, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Laura Linney.

Days before his 21st birthday, William (Mark Webber), an actor, meets and quickly falls madly in love with Sara (Oscar-nominee Catalina Sandino Moreno), a seductive yet elusive singer/songwriter. The film follows William from a Lower East Side tenement to a Mexican hotel room to a snowbound weekend in Connecticut to a sweltering homecoming in the hottest state of all - Texas - in the pursuit of Sara. His stubborn and sweetly innocent quest to find someone who loves him as much as he loves her may not lead to happiness, but surely leads to newfound maturity.<br /><br />
Written and Directed by: Ethan Hawke<br />
Starring: Mark Webber, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Laura Linney, Michelle Williams, Sonia Braga, and Ethan Hawke<br />
Original Songs and Score: Jesse Harris<br />
Release Date: August 24, 2007 <br />

]]> Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:41:46 -0700 http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1738936 The Ten http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1736939 COMING TO THEATERS AUGUST 3, 2007! <a href="http://www.thetenmovie.com">http://www.thetenmovie.com</a>

]]> Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:26:45 -0700 http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1736939 Keeping Mum http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1736440 KEEPING MUM stars Atkinson as an absent-minded vicar of a rural parish who is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife's (Thomas) dalliance with her brash golf instructor (Swayze), his daughter's parade of new boyfriends, and his young son's regular trouncing by the school's bullies. Enter their charming new housekeeper, Grace (Smith), the answer to the family's prayers: a sweet, grey-haired old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house. One by one, the family members find that Grace is able to solve their problems, but they don't realize that her means are leading to a lot of ends and the population of their sleepy hamlet is rapidly diminishing.

]]> Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:10:25 -0700 http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1736440 The Wendell Baker Story http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1733791 In his return to screenwriting and debut as director, Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted conman named Wendell Baker whose latest scam lands him in jail and alienates him from his longtime girlfriend Doreen (Eva Mendes), best friend Reyes (Jacob Vargas) and even his dog, Junior. Eternally optimistic, Wendell makes the most of his time behind bars and vows to turn his life around. Upon release, he gets a job at the Shady Grove retirement hotel, where he befriends residents Boyd (Seymour Cassel), Skip (Harry Dean Stanton) and Nasher (Kris Kristofferson). Wendell's new friends advise him on how to win back his girlfriend, while he helps them battle the hotel's evil head nurse, Neil King (Owen Wilson) and right-hand man, McTeague (Eddie Griffin).

]]> Tue, 08 May 2007 21:23:51 -0700 http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1733791 The Hip Hop Project http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1732244 From Executive Producers Bruce Willis and Queen Latifah, THE HIP HOP PROJECT is the compelling story of Kazi, a formerly homeless teenager who inspired a group of New York City teens to transform their life stories into powerful works of art, using hip hop as a vehicle for self-development and personal discovery.

Kazi challenges these young people to write music about real issues affecting their lives as they strive to overcome daunting obstacles to produce a collaborative album. Russell Simmons, hip hop mogul and long-time supporter of the project, partners with Bruce Willis to donate a recording studio to the Hip Hop Project. After four years of collaboration, the group produces a powerful and thought-provoking CD filled with moving personal narratives and sharp social commentary. In contrast to all of the negative attention focused on hip hop and rap music, this is a story of hope, healing and the realization of dreams.

Inspired by Kazi’s work, 100% of the net profits from this film are being donated to organizations working with youth.

]]> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:37:23 -0700 http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1732244 Suicide is Depressing Clip http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1731164 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:11:27 -0700 http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1731164 Taxi Driver Clip http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1731163 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:53:10 -0700 http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1731163 Avenue Montaigne (Trailer) Release Date: February 16, 2007 http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1730550 Directed and co-written by Danièle Thompson (“La Bûche,” “Jet Lag”), and selected as France’s Official Entry for this year’s Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar, AVENUE MONTAIGNE centers around Jessica (Cecile de France) a beautiful young woman from the provinces who comes to Paris and lands a job waiting tables at a chic bistro on fabled Avenue Montaigne, the city’s nexus for art, music, theater and fashion. Jessica’s customers include a popular TV actress (Valérie Lemercier) who is courting a major Hollywood director (Sydney Pollack) for her first serious film role; a wealthy art collector (Claude Brasseur) who is about to liquidate a lifetime’s worth of treasures at auction; and an illustrious classical pianist (Albert Dupontel) who is at odds with his manager/wife (Laura Morante) as to where his career is headed. Precisely because Jessica doesn’t know how celebrated these people are, her guileless and completely unintimidated engagement in their lives has a transforming effect on them – and ultimately her.

]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:32:07 -0700 http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1730550 The TV Set (Trailer) Release Date: April 6, 2007 http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1730549 A hair-raising comedy of art and compromise, THE TV SET follows an idealistic writer (Duchovny), as he tries to navigate his TV pilot down the mine-laden path from script, through production, to the madness of prime-time scheduling – all while trying to stay true to his vision. Along the way he has to juggle the agendas of a headstrong network president (Weaver), volatile young stars, a pregnant wife, and an ever-optimistic personal manager.

]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:17:30 -0700 http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1730549 Half Nelson (Trailer) http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1730548 an Dunne (Ryan Gosling), an idealistic inner-city junior high school teacher, inspires his 13 and 14-year-olds to examine everything from civil rights to Civil War with a new enthusiasm. Rejecting the standard Civil Rights curriculum in favor of an edgier approach, Dan teaches his students how change works – on both a historical and personal scale.

Though Dan can get it together in the classroom, he spends his time outside school on the edge of consciousness. Dealing with a serious drug habit, Dan is a strung-out role model. He juggles his hangovers and his homework, keeping his lives precariously separated, until one of his troubled students, Drey (Shareeka Epps), catches him getting high after school.

From this awkward beginning, Dan and Drey stumble into an unexpected friendship that threatens either to undo them or to provide the vital change they both need to move forward in their lives.

]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:43:10 -0700 http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1730548 Live Free Or Die (Trailer) http://virb.com/thinkfilm/videos/1730547 Taking its title from the state motto of New Hampshire, LIVE FREE OR DIE is a deadpan comedy about a clueless, aspiring criminal named John “Rugged” Rudgate (Aaron Stanford), who spends his days forging rebate coupons and selling speakers out the back of his van. One day, Rugged runs into an old acquaintance, the dim-witted Jeff Lagrand (Paul Schneider), who recently returned home to help his cynical sister (Zooey Deschanel) run the storage facility that they inherited from their father. When Rugged tries to force his way into the Lagrand family business, things go terribly wrong -- and the situation gets even more complicated when an emotionally unstable cop (Michael Rapaport) begins investigating.

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