Le Weekend
A British
couple return to Paris many years after their honeymoon there in an attempt to
rejuvenate their marriage.
The U.S.
government recruits Machete to battle his way through Mexico in order to take
down an arms dealer who looks to launch a weapon into space.
Romeo and Juliet
When the
star-crossed lovers of two enemy families meet, forbidden love ensues.
The Fifth Estate
Through the
eyes of Daniel Domscheit-Berg, an early supporter and eventual colleague
of Julian Assange, the film follows the heady, early days of Wikileaks to its
abrupt end after a series of controversial and history changing info leaks. The
website's overnight success brought instant fame to its principal architects,
but as their power expanded across the globe, Daniel grew increasingly
disillusioned with Julian's questionable tactics and ethics. The rift between
the two friends became irreparable and their ideological differences tore them
apart, but not before they revolutionized, for better and worse, the flow of
information to news media and the world at large.
The
tradition of the Irish pub. Speaking to pub owners all over Ireland, Alex Fegan
gets into the heart of what makes "the Irish pub" the institution
that it is.
The
"front line" is war-speak that has become a recognised English
language idiom, describing an exposed position with nowhere to hide. In one of
his videos, we hear Tim Hetherington's voice behind the camera asking to be
taken there: to the "front line", the thick of conflict. Unlike the
"embedded journalists" in mainstream media, Hetherington was not
interested in getting to the gory action, but to the people who lived under its
threat every day. Betraying his journalistic objectivity by genuinely befriending
the soldiers and rebels he followed, Hetherington captured an intimate
understanding of wartime aggression through his photography: macho posturing is
sometimes a way to exorcise fear; bravery has less to do with politics than the
wish to get home alive. Sebastian Junger's (colleague and co-director of
Academy Award-nominated Restrepo) thoughtful homage is as much for his good
friend as it is for the young fighters we send off to the "front line".
