Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

Title: Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Starring: Elon Musk, Lawrence Krauss, Kevin Mitnick and Lucianne Walkowicz
Release Date: 8/19/2016
Running Time: 98 minutes

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In LO AND BEHOLD: REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD, the Oscar-nominated Herzog chronicles the virtual world from its origins to its outermost reaches, exploring the digital landscape with the same curiosity and imagination he previously trained on earthly destinations as disparate as the Amazon, the Sahara, the South Pole and the Australian outback. Herzog leads viewers on a journey through a series of provocative conversations that reveal the ways in which the online world has transformed how virtually everything in the real world works – from business to education, space travel to healthcare, and the very heart of how we conduct our personal relationships.

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Gleason (2016)*

Title: Gleason
Rating: R
Directed by: Clay Tweel
Written by: Clay Tweel
Starring: Steve Gleason, Mike Gleason and Scott Fujita
Release Date: 7/29/2016
Running Time: 110 minutes

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The hit documentary from the 2016 Sundance Film Festival goes inside the life of Steve Gleason, the former New Orleans Saints defensive back who, at the age of 34, was diagnosed with ALS and given a life expectancy of two to five years. Weeks later, Gleason found out his wife, Michel, was expecting their first child. A video journal that began as a gift for his unborn son expands to chronicle Steve’s determination to get his relationships in order, build a foundation to provide other ALS patients with purpose, and adapt to his declining physical condition—utilizing medical technologies that offer the means to live as fully as possible.

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Miss Sharon Jones! (2015)?

Title: Miss Sharon Jones!
Rating: NR
Directed by: Barbara Kopple
Starring: Sharon Jones
Release Date: 7/29/2016
Running Time: 93 minutes

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On the eve of the release of her new album, internationally recognized soul singer Sharon Jones was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Tour dates were cancelled, the album pushed back and Sharon entered into a fight for her life and career. MISS SHARON JONES! intimately follows this intense and courageous year in Sharon’s life.

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Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016)*

Title: Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Dinesh D’Souza and Bruce Schooley
Written by: Dinesh D’Souza and Bruce Schooley
Starring: Dinesh D’Souza, Jonah Goldberg, Andrea Cohen, Mikaela Krantz and Rebekah Turner
Release Date: 7/15/2016
Running Time: 100 minutes

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In Hillary’s America, New York Times #1 best-selling author and celebrated filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza reveals the sordid truth about Hillary and the secret history of the Democratic Party. This eye-opening film sheds light on the Democrats’ transition from pro-slavery to pro-enslavement; how Hillary Clinton’s political mentor was, literally, a cold-blooded gangster; and how the Clintons and other Democrats see foreign policy not in terms of national interest, but in terms of personal profit.

Hillary’s America will uncover how their plan is to simply steal America.

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Zero Days (2016)

Title: Zero Days
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Alex Gibney
Written by: Alex Gibney
Starring: David Sanger, Emad Kiyaei and Eric Chien
Release Date: 7/8/2016
Running Time: 116 minutes

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Alex Gibney’s ZERO DAYS is a documentary thriller about the world of cyberwar. For the first time, the film tells the complete story of Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware (known as a “worm” for its ability to burrow from computer to computer on its own) that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target. ZERO DAYS is the most comprehensive accounting to date of how a clandestine mission hatched by two allies with clashing agendas opened forever the Pandora’s Box of cyberwarfare. Beyond the technical aspects of the story, ZERO DAYS reveals a web of intrigue involving the CIA, the US Military’s new cyber command, Israel’s Mossad and Operations that include both espionage and covert assassinations but also a new generation of cyberweapons whose destructive power is matched only by Nuclear War.

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Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (2016)?

Title: Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Rating: NR
Directed by: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
Starring: Norman Lear, John Amos, Bea Arthur, Adrienne Barbeau, Valerie Bertinelli, Todd Bridges, Gloria Calderon Kellett and George Clooney
Release Date: 7/8/2016
Running Time: 91 minutes

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Arguably the most influential creator, writer, and producer in the history of television, Norman Lear brought primetime into step with the times. Using comedy and indelible characters, his legendary 1970s shows such as All In the Family, Maude, Good Times, and The Jeffersons, boldly cracked open dialogue and shifted the national consciousness, injecting enlightened humanism into sociopolitical debates on race, class, creed, and feminism.

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You is the definitive chronicle of Mr. Lear’s life, work, and achievements, but it is so much more than an arm’s-length, past-tense biopic; at 93, Mr. Lear is as vital and engaged as he ever was. Top-notch cinéma vérité documentarians Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp, 12th & Delaware, DETROPIA) seize the opportunity to fashion a dynamic portrait that matches the spirit of their subject. Breaking down the fourth wall to create an evocative collage where past and present intermingle, they reveal a psychologically rich man whose extraordinary contributions emerge from both his personal story and a dialogue with the world.

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Music of Strangers, The (2015)*

Title: The Music of Strangers
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Morgan Neville
Starring: Yo-Yo Ma, Kinan Azmeh and Kayhan Kalhor
Release Date: 3/4/2016
Running Time: 96 minutes

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Over the past 16 years, an extraordinary group of musicians has come together to celebrate the universal power of music. Named for the ancient trade route linking Asia, Africa and Europe, The Silk Road Ensemble, an international collective created by acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, exemplifies music’s ability to blur geographical boundaries, blend disparate cultures and inspire hope for both artists and audiences.

The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, the latest film from the creators of the Oscar-winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom and the critically-hailed Best of Enemies, follows an ever-changing lineup of performers drawn from the ensemble’s more than 50 instrumentalists, vocalists, composers, arrangers, visual artists and storytellers as they gather in locations across the world, exploring the ways art can both preserve traditions and shape cultural evolution.

Blending performance footage, personal interviews and archival film, director Morgan Neville and producer Caitrin Rogers focus on the journeys of a small group of Silk Road Ensemble mainstays from across the globe to create an intensely personal chronicle of passion, talent and sacrifice. Through these moving individual stories, the filmmakers paint a vivid portrait of a bold musical experiment and a global search for the ties that bind.

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Life, Animated (2016)

Title: Life, Animated
Rating: PG
Directed by: Roger Ross Williams
Based on the book by: Ron Suskind
Starring: Jonathan Freeman, Gilbert Gottfried and Owen Suskind
Release Date: 12/9/2016
Running Time: 89 minutes

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LIFE, ANIMATED is the inspirational story of Owen Suskind, a young man who was unable to speak as a child until he and his family discovered a unique way to communicate by immersing themselves in the world of classic Disney animated films. This emotional coming-of-age story follows Owen as he graduates to adulthood and takes his first steps toward independence. The subject of his father Ron Suskind’s New York Times bestseller, Owen was a thriving three year old who suddenly and inexplicably went silent – and for years after remained unable to connect with other people or to convey his thoughts, feelings or desires.

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Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016)?

Title: Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Rating: R
Directed by: Thorsten Schütte
Starring: Frank Zappa
Release Date: 6/24/2016
Running Time: 93 minutes

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It is only fitting that a comet and a mollusk are named in Frank Zappa’s honor. The famed American musician, composer, and thinker created satirical, operatic interpretations of music that seemed to originate from another world. Thorsten Schütte’s film is a sharply edited and energetic celebration of Zappa through his public persona, allowing us to witness his shifting relationship with audiences. Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into the musician’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.

Zappa was uncompromising as he led the charge against music censorship in the ’90s and even went on to embrace the role of quasi-cultural ambassador in the Czech Republic. His music and ideas are vital, and they cut across generations, while his goal of freeing the listener from conformity still resonates today.

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Breaking a Monster (2015)?

Title: Breaking a Monster
Rating: NR
Directed by: Luke Meyer
Written by: Luke Meyer and Brad Turner
Starring: Malcolm Brickhouse, Jarad Dawkins and Alec Atkins
Release Date: 6/24/2016
Running Time: 82 minutes

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BREAKING A MONSTER begins as the three members of band UNLOCKING THE TRUTH are all in 7th grade, spending their weekends playing a blend of heavy metal and speed punk in Times Square – often drawing substantial crowds. They take on a manager: a 70- year-old industry veteran. With his guidance they are soon on their way to a 1.8 million dollar record deal and a precarious initiation into the music industry.

Anything feels possible, and in some moments the band can almost feel the eyes of the world gazing upon them. The boys are coming of age, not only as they make the leap to being professional musicians, but also as they transcend childhood and take their first steps into the complexities of adulthood. The accelerated breakout of any band, let alone one of pre-teens, is an extremely narrow and specific period in time – BREAKING A MONSTER is the story of this rapid transformation.

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Tag: Documentary

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

Gleason (2016)*

Miss Sharon Jones! (2015)?

Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016)*

Zero Days (2016)

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (2016)?

Music of Strangers, The (2015)*

Life, Animated (2016)

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016)?

Breaking a Monster (2015)?

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