2009 Film List
2009: 21
2008: 29
Pre-2008: 31
Short films: 57
[Copyright dates noted / not year of release]
JANUARY
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Seven Pounds / 2008 / USA / Gabriele Muccino
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Video 3000 / 2006 / Germany / J. Edelmann + J. Großhans + J. Hausecker + M. Schleiss / 5min
video
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Airplane II: The Sequel / 1982 / USA / Ken Finkleman
HiDef-B
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Osaka Elegy / 1936 / Japan / Kenji Mizoguchi
video
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Sisters of the Gion / 1936 / Japan / Kenji Mizoguchi
video
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The Reader / 2008 / USA / Stephen Daldry
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Sonata for Hitler / 1989 / Russia / Aleksandr Sokurov / 10min
video
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Quartet for the End of Time / 1982-83 / Mexico / Alfonso Cuarón / 17min
video
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My Bloody Valentine (3D) / 2009 / USA / Patrick Lussier
DLP
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Gran Torino / 2008 / USA / Clint Eastwood
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Defiance / 2008 / USA / Ed Zwick
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Vantage Point / 2007 / USA / Pete Travis
HiDef-B
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Last Chance Harvey / 2008 / UK-USA / Joel Hopkins
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Be Kind Rewind / 2007 / USA / Michel Gondry
HiDef-B
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Underworld: Rise of the Lycans / 2009 / USA / Patrick Tatopoulos
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Disaster Movie / 2008 / Jason Friedberg + Aaron Seltzer / unrated
video
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Inkheart / 2008 / USA / Iain Softley
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Citizen Kane / 1941 / USA / Orson Welles
video
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The Battle over Citizen Kane / 1996 / USA / M. Epstein + T. Lennon
video
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Taken / 2007 / France / Pierre Morel
FEBRUARY
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Frost/Nixon / 2008 / USA / Ron Howard
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Gulliver's Travels / 1939 / USA / Dave Fleischer
video
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The Fall of the Roman Empire / 1964 / USA / Anthony Mann
video
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The New World / 2005 / USA / Terrence Malick [172min version]
video
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One Night of Love / 1934 / USA / Victor Schertzinger
video
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A Little Princess / 1995 / USA / Alfonso Cuarón
video
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A Boy and His Dog / 1946 / USA / LeRoy Prinz / 21min
video
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Hamlet / 1996 / UK-USA / Kenneth Branagh
HiDef-B
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Marines in the Making / 1942 / USA / Herbert Polesie / 9min
video
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Service with the Colors / 1940 / USA / B. Reeves Eason / 21min
video
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Army Champions / 1941 / USA / Paul Vogel / 11min
video
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Jammin the Blues / 1944 / USA / Gjon Mili / 10min
video
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You Can't Win / 1948 / USA / Dave O'Brien / 8min
video
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Rugged Bear / 1953 / USA /Jack Hannah / 6min
video
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Lavatory - Lovestory / 2006 / Russia / Konstantin Bronzit / 10min
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Oktapodi / 2007 / France / J. Bocabeille + F. Chanioux / 3min
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Le Maison en Petits Cubes / 2008 / Japan / Kunio Katô / 12min
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New Boy / 2007 / Ireland / Steph Green / 11min
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Auf Der Strecke (On the Line) / 2008 / Switzerland / Reto Caffi / 30min
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Spielzeugland (Toyland) / 2007 / Germany / Jochen Alexander Freydank / 13min
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Grisen (The Pig) / 2008 / Denmark / Dorthe Warnø Høgh / 23min
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Manon Sur Le Bitume (Manon on the Asphalt) / 2007 / France / E.Mare + O. Pont / 15min
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The Battle of Gettysburg / 1955 / USA / Herman Hoffman / 30min
video
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Hitler Lives! / 1945 / USA / 17min
video
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War Dance / 2006 / USA / Sean Fine + Andrea Nix
video
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Hearts and Minds / 1974 / USA / Peter Davis
video
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Woodstock / 1970 / USA / Michael Wadleigh
video
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He's Just Not That Into You / 2008 / USA / Ken Kwapis
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So You Think You're Not Guilty / 1950 / USA / Richard L. Bare / 10min
video
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Swing High / 1932 / USA / Jack Cummings / 10min
video
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Calgary Stampede / 1948 / USA / Saul Elkins / 18min
video
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Goodbye Miss Turlock / 1948 / USA / Edward L. Cahn / 11min
video
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So You Want to Be in Pictures / 1947 / USA / Richard L. Bare / 11min
video
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Romance of Radium / 1937 / USA / Jacques Tourneur / 10min
video
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That Mothers Might Live / 1938 / USA / Fred Zinnemann / 10min
video
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Mr. Blabbermouth! / 1942 / USA / Basil Wrangell / 19min
video
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Coraline / 2008 / USA / Henry Selick
3D-DLP
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Friday the 13th / 2009 / USA / Marcus Nispel
DLP
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The International / 2009 / USA+Germany / Tom Tykwer
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The Class (entres les murs) / 2008 / France / Laurent Cantet
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Departures (Okuribito) / 2008 / Japan / Yojiro Takita
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Menu / 1933 / USA / Nick Grinde / 10min
video
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Penny Wisdom / 1937 / USA / David Miller / 10min
video
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Seeing Hands / 1943 / USA / Gunther von Fritsch / 11min
video
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Revanche / 2008 / Austria / Götz Spielmann
video
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How To Sleep / 1935 / USA / Nick Grinde / 11min
video
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Movie Pests / 1944 / USA / Will Jason / 11min
video
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So you Want to Be on Radio? / 1948 / USA / Richard L. Bare / 10min
video
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Story of a Dog / 1945 / USA / (no directed credited) / 10min
video
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Drunk Driving / 1939 / USA / David Miller / 22min
video
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Declaration of Independence / 1938 / USA / Crane Wilbur / 17min
video
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Give us the Earth! / 1947 / USA / Gunther von Fritsch / 21min
video
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Night at the Movies / 1937 / USA / Roy Rowland
video
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Stop Look and Listen / 1967 / USA / Len Janson + Chuck Menville
video
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Eyes of the Navy / 1940 / USA / (no director credited) / 20min
video
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Calvacade of Dance / 1943 / USA / Jean Negulesco / 11min
video
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Sons of Liberty / 1939 / USA / Michael Curtiz / 20min
video
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Sure Cures / 1946 / USA / Dave O'Brien / 11min
video
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The Gay Parisian / 1941 / USA / Jean Negulesco / 20min
video
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La Cucaracha / 1934 / USA / Lloyd Corrigan / 20min
video
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Water Trix / 1949 / USA / Charles T. Trego / 9min
video
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Harlan County U.S.A / 1976 / USA / Barbara Kopple
video
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Star in the Night / 1945 / USA / Don Siegel / 22min
video
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Kings of the Turf / 1941 / USA / Del Frazier / 10min
video
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Prophet without Honor / 1939 / USA / Felix E. Feist / 11min
video
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Of Pups and Puzzles/ 1941 / USA / George Sidney / 10min
video
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Quicker 'N A Wink / 1940 / USA / George Sidney / 10min
video
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Teddy the Rough Rider / 1949 / USA / Ray Enright / 19min
video
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Traffic with the Devil / 1946 / USA / Gunther von Fritsch / 19min
video
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Le Plaises / 1952 / France / Max Ophüls
video
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Cherry Blossoms (Kirschblüten - Hanami) / 2008 / Germany / Doris Dörrie
Sony DP
MARCH
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Jonas Brothers 3D Concert Experience / 2009 / USA / Bruce Hendricks
3D-DLP
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Watchmen / 2009 / USA / Zack Synder
IMAX-Digital
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3 Monkeys (Üç maymun) / 2008 / Turkey / Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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Two Lovers / 2008 / USA / James Gray
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Race to Witch Mountain / 2009 / USA / Andy Fickman
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Gutterballs / 2008 / Canada / Ryan Nicholson
video
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Van Gogh: Brush with Genius / 2008 / Peter Knapp / 37min
IMAX
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Knowing / 2009 / Australia / Alex Proyas
DLP
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Waterhorse: Legend of the Deep / 2007 / USA+UK / Jay Russell
HiDef-B
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I Love You, Man / 2008 / USA / John Hamburg
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Chris & Don / 2007 / USA / T. Mascara + G. Santi
video
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Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon / 2008 / USA / Jeffrey Schwarz
video
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Monsters vs. Aliens (3D) / 2009 / USA / R. Letterman + C. Vernon
IMAX-Digital
APRIL
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Hunger / 2008 / UK-Ireland / Steve McQueen
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Duplicity / 2009 / USA / Tony Gilroy
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Peter & Ben / 2007 / UK / Pinny Grylls / 10min
video
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Observe and Report / 2009 / USA / Jody Hill
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Marcello, Marcello / 2008 / Switzerland-Germany / Denis Rabaglia
(FilmFest DC)
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Earth / 2007 / UK-USA / Alastair Fothergill + Mark Linfield
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State of Play / 2009 / USA / Kevin Macdonald
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American Swing / 2007 / USA / Jon Hart + Matthew Kaufman
video
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Small Crime (Mikro eglima) / 2008 / Greece / Christos Georgiou
(FilmFest DC)
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The Soloist / 2008 / USA / Joe Wright
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Laid to Rest / 2009 / USA / Robert Hall
video
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Martyrs / 2008 / France / Pascal Laugier
video
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The Angelic Conversation / 1985 / UK / Derek Jarman
video
MAY
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine / 2009 / USA /Gavin Hood
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Ghosts of Girlfriend's Past / 2009 / USA / Mark Waters
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Remembrance of Things to Come / 2001 / France / Yannick Bellon + Chris Marker
video
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Shoeshine (Sciuscià) / 1946 / Italy / Vittorio De Sica
video
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Angels & Demons / 2009 / USA / Ron Howard
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The Good, The Bad, The Weird / 2008 / Korea / 135min version
video
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Tokyo Gore Police / 2008 / Japan
video
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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies / 2006 / France
video
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Star Trek / 2009 / USA / J.J Abrams
IMAX
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Easy Virtue / 2008 / UK / Stephen Elliot
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Summer Hours / 2008 / France / Olivier Assayas
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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian / 2009 / USA / Shawn Levy
IMAX
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Terminator: Salvation / 2009 / USA / McG
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The Rape of Europa / 2006 / USA / R. Berge + B. Cohen
HiDef-B
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The Rapture / 1991 / USA / Michael Tolkin
video
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Up / 2009 / USA / Pete Docter & Bob Peterson
REAL-D 3D
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Partly Cloudy / 2009 / USA / Peter Sohn / 6min
REAL-D 3D
JUNE
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Drag Me to Hell / 2009 / USA / Sam Raimi
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Anonymous / 2004 / USA / Todd Verow
video
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The Song of Sparrows (Avaze gonjeshk-ha) / 2008 / Iran / Majid Majidi
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The Hangover / 2009 / USA / Todd Phillips
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Moscow, Belgium (Aanrijding in Moscou) / 2007 / Belgium / Christophe Van Rompaey
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 / 2009 / USA / Tony Scott
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Voices from El-Sayed / 2008 / Israel / Oded Adomi Leshem
(Silverdocs) DLP
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Mugabe and the White African / 2009 / UK / Lucy Bailey + Andrew Thompson
(Silverdocs) DLP
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October Country / 2009 / USA / Michael Palmieri + Donal Mosher
(Silverdocs) DLP
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12 Notes Down / 2008 / Denmark / Andreas Koefoed / 27min
(Silverdocs) DLP
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The Philosopher Kings / 2009 / USA / Patrick Shen
(Silverdocs) DLP
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Une histoire d'eau / 1961 / France / Jean-Luc Godard + François Truffaut / 18min
video
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The Proposal / 2009 / USA / Anne Fletcher
Sony DP
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The Country Teacher (Venkovskı ucitel) / 2008 / Czech Republic / Bohdan Sláma
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Of Time and the City / 2008 / UK / Terence Davies
video
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$9.99 / 2008 / Israel-Austraila / Tatia Rosenthal
JULY
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The Invisible Boy / 1957 / USA / Herman Hoffman
video
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My Sister's Keeper 2009 / USA / Nick Cassavetes
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Public Enemies / 2009 / USA / Michael Mann
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The Blob / 1958 / USA / Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
video
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Forbidden Planet / 1956 / USA / Fred M. Wilcox
video
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Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs / 2009 / USA / Carlos Saldanha + Mike Thurmeier
Sony DP: 3D
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Nude on the Moon / 1961 / USA / Raymond Phelan + Doris Wishman
video
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Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen / 2009 / USA / Michael Bay
IMAX-Digital
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Quatermass II / 1957 / UK / Val Guest
video
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The Quatermass Conclusion / 1979 / UK / Piers Haggard
video
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Brüno / 2009 / USA / Larry Charles
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Moon / 2009 / UK / Duncan Jones
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The Mysterians video
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Tokyo Sonata
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Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
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Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
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Pluto's Dream House video
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The Hurt Locker
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Space is the Place video
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The Hidden Dimension video
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(500) Days of Summer
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The Last Mimzy video
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In the Loop
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Mutant Aliens video
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4D Man video
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Robinson Crusoe on Mars video
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Les Visiteurs video
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Martian in Georgia / 1962 / 6min
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Rocket-Bye Baby / 1956 / 7min
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Wild Wild World / 1960 / 6min
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Moon Strip / 6min
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Mickey's Mechanical Man / 1933
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Superman [episode: Electric Earthquake / The Underground World] / 1943 (each 8min)
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DoDo The Kid from Outer Space [episode: DoDo in Japan] / 1965 / 5min
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Lunar Luger
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The Hole / 1962 / 15min
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Duck and Cover / 1952 / 9min
AUGUST
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Julie & Julia / 2009 / USA / Nora Ephron
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Fox and His Friends / 1975 / Germany / Rainer Werner Fassbinder
video
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Odd Shoe / 2008 / UK / Paul Cotter / 8min
video
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Ponyo / 2008 / Japan / Hayao Miyazaki
DLP
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The Time Travelers Wife / 2008 / USA / Robert Schwentke
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District 9 / 2009 / USA-New Zealand / Neill Blomkamp
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Thirst (Bakjwi) / 2009 / South Korea / Chan-wook Park
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The Cove / 2009 / USA / Louie Psihoyos
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Inglourious Basterds / 2009 / USA / Quentin Tarantino
DLP
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[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers with Live Orchestra, Chorus, and Soloists: U.S. Premiere (Wolf Trap for the Performing Arts) HiDef DLP]
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Somers Town
SEPTEMBER
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Lorna's Silence
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The Final Destination (3D)
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A Woman is a Woman
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Taking Woodstock
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Extract
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Black Narcissus HiDef*
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Help!
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Switchblade Sisters
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The Beaches of Agnes
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I Am A Curious - Blue
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Captain Abu Raed
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Bergman Island HiDef*
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Great Expectations HiDef*
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Still Walking
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The Wages of Fear HiDef*
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Zulu HiDef*
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The 400 Blows HiDef*
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The Informant!
OCTOBER
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[Toy Story / Toy Story II (double feature) 'Disney 3D' Sony DP]
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The Invention of Lying
- Mum & Dad
video
- Night Monster
video
- The Shuttered Room
video
- It!
video
- Chamber of Horror
video
- The Brides of Fu Manchu
video
- Zombieland
- Resident Evil: Degeneration
HiDef*
- Trick 'R Treat
video
- The Children
video
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Wild Ocean IMAX 3D
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Betty Blue (Integral)
- Redneck Zombies
video
- The Faceless Monster
video
- Satanik
video
- The Red Headed Corpse
video
- Don't Go in the House
video
- Seeding of a Ghost
video
- The Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf
video
- Mark of the Vampire
video
- The Mask of Fu Manchu
video
- Satan's Slave
video
- Troll 2
video
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The Boys are Back
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Surrogates
- Terror
video
- Man from Deep River
video
- Ghoulies II
video
- El Vampiro
video
- Lord of Illusions [121 minute version]
video
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The Damned United / 2009 / UK
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The Last House on the Left / 2008 / 113min
video
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Carmen / US / Alexander Payne / 18min
video
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Max / 1999 / C. Reygades / 6min
video
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Beyond the Door
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Saw VI Sony DP
- Great Expectations
- Shoeshine (Sciuscià)
- The Wages of Fear
- A Woman is a Woman
- Sisters of the Gion
- Osaka Elegy
- Citizen Kane
- Summer Hours
- The Beaches of Agnes
- Of Time and the City
- Tokyo Sonata
- Still Walking
- Star Trek
- Departures
- Coraline
- Hearts and Minds
- Harlan County U.S.A
- The Song of Sparrows
- The 400 Blows
- Moscow, Belgium
- The Hurt Locker
- The Informant!
- The Rapture
- Quatermass II
- The Blob (1958)
- The Good, The Bad, The Weird
- Fox and His Friends
- Woodstock
- Robinson Crusoe on Mars
- Le Plaises
- 3 Monkeys
- Cherry Blossoms
- Ponyo
- Hamlet
- A Little Princess
- Zulu
- District 9
- Black Narcissus
- The Class
- The Fall of the Roman Empire
- Captain Abu Raed
- The Mysterians
- Help!
- Forbidden Planet
- Somers Town
- Inglourious Basterds
- Mutant Aliens
- War Dance
- The Reader
- The Battle over Citizen Kane
- The Cove
- Revanche
- Mugabe and the White African
- Martyrs
- Drag me to Hell
- Voices from El-Sayed
- Switchblade Sisters
- Thirst
- Up
- Watchmen
- Gran Torino
- Lorna's Silence
- Julie & Julia
- $9.99
- Bergman Island
- The Rape of Europe
- I Am A Curious - Blue
- Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
- The Last Mimzy
- The Country Teacher
- Extract
- In the Loop
- Brüno
- The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
- The Time Travelers Wife
- Easy Virtue
- Be Kind Rewind
- Airplane II: The Sequel
- Les Visiteurs
- The Final Destination (3D)
- Gulliver's Travels
- Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
- Taking Woodstock
- The Philosopher Kings
- Two Lovers
- One Night of Love
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
- Public Enemies
- 4D Man
- October Country
- Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
- The Proposal
- Inkheart
- Last Chance Harvey
- My Bloody Valentine (3D)
- Anonymous
- The International
- Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
- The Invisible Boy
- Defiance
- Taken
- Frost/Nixon
- The Hangover
- Friday the 13th (2009)
- My Sister's Keeper
- Wolverine
- The Quatermass Conclusion
- Tokyo Gore Police
- Observe & Report
- Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
- Vantage Point
- Terminator: Salvation
- (500) Days of Summer
- Nude on the Moon
- Race to Witch Mountain
- Transformer 2: Revenge of the Fallen
- Space is the Place
- Jonas Brother: 3D Concert Experience
- Disaster Movie
- Seven Pounds
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3rd Annual Academy Award Challenge
Summer Sci-Fi Challenge '09
Criterion Challenge
2009 Horror Movie Challenge
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Play Diary:
The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center) 1-4 / West Side Story (National Theater) Pre-Broadway engagement 1-8 / How Theater Failed America (Woolly Mammoth) 1-9 / Les Miserables (Signature Theater) 1-13 / Avenue Q (Warner Theatre) 2-10 / The Seafarer (Studio Theatre) 2-15 / Urinetown (St. Andrews High School Production) 2-21 / A Chorus Line (National Theater) 3-12 / Jesus Christ Superstar (Warner Theater) 3-17 / Arcadia (Folger Shakespeare Library) 5-17 / Billy Elliot: The Musical (Imperial Theatre: NYC) 5-23 / Rent (The Broadway Tour) (Warner Theater) 5-26 / Rock and Roll (Studio) 5-29 / Design for Living (Folger Theatre) 6-13 / Hair (Hirschfeld Theatre, Broadway NYC) 7-3 / God of Carnage (Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, Broadway NYC) 7-4 / It's Not Easy Being Geen (Journeymen Theatre) Capital Fringe Festival DC 7-22 / Love Letters (Keegan Theatre, Theatre on the Run)
2008 Film List