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Criterion Pictures 30 MacIntosh Blvd., Unit 7 • Vaughan, Ontario • L4K 4P1 800-565-1996 Fax: 866-664-7545 • www.criterionpic.com The Pallbearer 1996 • 104 minutes • Colour • Alliance Films Inc Director: Matt Reeves Cast: David Schwimmer, Carol Kane, Gwyneth Paltrow, Michael Rapaport, Barbara Hershey A young man agrees to lead the funeral services of a former high school classmate despite one nagging technicality: he can’t remember who the classmate is. Embarking on a set of hilarious adventures to solve the mystery, Tom gets tangled up with the deceased’s mother and yet another old classmate who barely remembers him. Paparazzi 2004 • 85 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox Director: Paul Abascal Cast: Cole Hauser, Larry Cedar, Tom Sizemore, Robin Tunney, Dennis Farina A rising Hollywood actor decides to take personal revenge against a group of four persistent photographers to make them pay for almost causing a personal tragedy involving his wife and son. Paper Heart 2009 • 88 minutes • Colour • Alliance Films Inc Director: Nicholas Jasenovec Cast: Seth Rogen, Michael Cera PAPER HEART follows Charlyne as she embarks on a quest across America to make a documentary about the one subject she doesn’t fully understand. As she and her good friend (and director) Nicholas search for answers and advice about love, Charlyne talks with friends and strangers, scientists, bikers, romance novelists, and children. They each offer diverse views on modern romance, as well as various answers to the age-old question: does true love really exist Paper Moon 1973 • 102 minutes • B/W • Paramount Pictures Director: Peter Bogdanovich Cast: Ryan O’Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn Ryan O'Neal teams up with daughter Tatum, who became the youngest actress ever to win a competitive Oscar, in her first film role. Ryan plays the smooth-talking con man Moses Pray, driving through Depression Era Kansas with a car-load of deluxe Bibles. Addie is a cigarette-smoking, nine-year-old orphan who manages to show the master con man a trick or two. Madeline Kahn gives a beguiling performance as Trixie Delight, who goes along for the ride. Irresistible. Paprika 2006 • 90 minutes • Colour • Mongrel Media Director: Satoshi Kon Cast: Megumi Hayashibara, Tôru Furuya, Kôichi Yamadera, Katsunosuke Hori Toru Emori, Akio Ôtsuka, Hideyuki Tanaka When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika. Paradise Now 2005 • 90 minutes • Colour • Warner Independent Pictures Director: Hany Abu-Assad Cast: Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal, Amer Hlehel, Hiam Abbass, Ashraf Barhom, Mohammad Bustami "PARADISE NOW" is the story of two young Palestinian men as they embark upon what may be the last 48 hours of their lives. On a typical day in the West Bank city of Nablus, where daily life grinds on amidst crushing poverty and the occasional rocket blast, we meet two childhood best friends, Saïd (Kais Nashef) and Khaled (Ali Suliman), who pass time drinking tea, smoking a hookah, and working dead-end menial jobs as auto mechanics. The Party 1968 • 99 minutes • Colour • Maple Pictures Director: Blake Edwards Cast: Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Marge Champion, Denny Miller, Gavin MacLeod A failed, blundering actor and one man wrecking crew Hrundi V. Bakshi is invited to Hollywood mogul Fred Glutterbuck's lavish party complete with gorgeous bimbos, back stabbing producers, wannabe stars and waiters. © 2011 All Rights Reserved Les Films Criterion Pictures 1-800-595-1996 www.criterionpic.com
Criterion Pictures 30 MacIntosh Blvd., Unit 7 • Vaughan, Ontario • L4K 4P1 800-565-1996 Fax: 866-664-7545 • www.criterionpic.com Pascali's Island 1988 • 101 minutes • Colour • TVA International Director: James Dearden Cast: Ben Kingsley, Charles Dance, Helen Mirren, George Murcell, Sheila Allen A largely ignored Turkish spy for the collapsing Ottoman Empire forms a duplicitous alliance with a mysterious Brit to rob the Greek island of Nisi of an archeological treasure. Past Perfect 2002 • 82 minutes • Colour • Mongrel Media Director: Daniel MacIvor Cast: Karen Beverly, Marie Brassard, Maury Chaykin, John Dartt, Valentin Fredrickson Rebecca Jenkins, Daniel MacIvor, Kathryn MacLellan, David McClelland The film intercuts between two days, two years apart. The first: a flight from Vancouver to Halifax, where Charlotte and Cecil, two strangers, meet in seats 3a & 3c and fall in love. The second: a Saturday two years later, where Charlotte and Cecil now a couple, fight, break-up and finally reunite. Pay It Forward 2000 • 122 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers Director: Mimi Leder Cast: Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment A boy creates a scheme as a class project. It involves helping three people who must each help three people and so on until everyone is doing something nice for someone. He put his plan into action and it actually works, though not in the way the boy anticipated, and not until his own world is forever changed for better and worse. Peaceful Warrior 2006 • 120 minutes • Colour • Maple Pictures Director: Victor Salva Cast: Scott Mechlowicz, Nick Nolte, Amy Smart, Paul Wesley, Ashton Holmes, Agnes Bruckner, B.J. Britt, Beatrice Rosen, Tony Black, Jimmy Bradley, Scott Caudill, Bart Conner A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast. The Peacekeeper 1997 • 98 minutes • Colour • Maple Pictures Director: Sean Dwyer Cast: Dolph Lundgren, Montel Williams, Roy Scheider, Michael Sarrazin To the military brass he’s a troublemaker, but to the media he’s a hero. So Air Force Major Frank Cross is given one more “easy” assignment to keep him out of trouble: Cary the President’s “black Bag” containing America’s nuclear missile launch codes. But when a team of terrorist killers steals the briefcase, the stakes become unimaginably high. Cross finds himself racing to prevent rogue ex-marine Colonel Douglas Murphy from unleashing a nuclear nightmare. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief 2010 • 117 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox Director: Chris Columbus Cast: Logan Lerman, Uma Thurman, Rosario Dawson, Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Catherine Keener, Kevin McKidd, Joe Pantoliano, Erica Cerra, Steve Coogan A young boy discovers he's the descendant of a Greek god and sets out on an adventure to settle an on-going battle between the gods. Based on the book by Rick Riordan. The Perfect Storm 2000 • 130 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers Director: Wolfgang Petersen Cast: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, Diane Lane, Karen Allen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Based on Sebastian Junger’s 1997 best-selling book, this epic drama tells of the courageous men and women who risk their lives every working day, pitting their fishing boats and rescue vessels against the capricious forces of nature. Their worst fears are realized in 1991 when they were confronted by the greatest storm in modern history, and the six crew members of the swordfish boat, Andrea Gail, were lost 500 miles from their home beneath waves reaching over 100 feet high. © 2011 All Rights Reserved Les Films Criterion Pictures 1-800-595-1996 www.criterionpic.com
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