September 2017
My viewing log. All the films (listed at IMDb) I've seen during this month.
Also, films NOT listed at IMDb (as of yet):
Motus (Oton Bačar, 2016, sh) - 7.5/10 (R)
Notes:
TV = TV viewing
OL = online viewing
R = Recommended (8-10/10)
FF = For Fanatics Only (5-7/10)
P = Pass (1-4/10)
Also, films NOT listed at IMDb (as of yet):
Motus (Oton Bačar, 2016, sh) - 7.5/10 (R)
Notes:
TV = TV viewing
OL = online viewing
R = Recommended (8-10/10)
FF = For Fanatics Only (5-7/10)
P = Pass (1-4/10)
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- DirectorFadil HadzicStarsBekim FehmiuIlija DzuvalekovskiNada SuboticA man cannot bear the superficiality of human relationships, and when his best friend lets him down, he commits suicide by jumping off a skyscraper.OL, 9/1/17. 9/10 (R).
- DirectorBob GosseStarsLili TaylorCourtney LoveNoah EmmerichA woman attempts to realize the dreams she never knew she had.OL, 9/1/17. 8/10 (R).
- DirectorStephen DunnStarsAaron AbramsJack FultonJoanne KellyA creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.TV, 9/1/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorBudd BoetticherStarsRock HudsonBarbara HaleAnthony QuinnA cavalry lieutenant recounts his efforts to make peace with the Seminole Indian tribe, under an evil major.TV, 9/2/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorAdemir KenovicStarsJohn TurturroKatherine BorowitzTara FitzgeraldIsabel and Clara are growing up in a time of terror. It is 1492, and Spain has decreed that all Jews must either convert to Catholicism, go into exile or face trial and execution. Although forcibly baptized, the sisters are chased through Christendom until they arrive in Venice. It is in this great maritime empire, where opulence rhymes with tolerance, that Isabel organizes secret passages for refugees fleeing the Inquisition while Clara falls in love with a Venetian noble, Paolo Zane. Isabel intends for her family to go to Istanbul, the only place where Jews can live freely, but Clara is reluctant to leave. She challenges Isabel's authority and is prepared to break her family ties and sacrifice her faith for love. Caught in this battle of wills is Clara's daughter, Victoria, who finds she is about to be married into the same faith that murdered her father.TV, 9/2/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorScott Z. BurnsStarsPaddy ConsidineOscar IsaacValeriu Pavel DanA worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow's black market with the help of an incompetent criminal.TV, 9/2/17. 7/10 (FF).
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Shown under the title 'Pu-239' in my country (on Cinemax). - DirectorSophie GoodhartStarsAdam ScottNick KrollGreg ViolandThe rivalry between two brothers reaches a fever pitch during a charity swim competition.TV, 9/2/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorGeorge C. WolfeStarsRenée Elise GoldsberrySylvia Grace CrimReed BirneyAn African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.TV, 9/2/17. 8/10 (R).
- DirectorKenneth BranaghStarsKenneth BranaghEmma ThompsonAndy GarciaA woman who has lost her memory is taken in by a Los Angeles orphanage, and a private eye is enlisted to track down her identity, but he soon finds that he might have a past life connection to her that endangers their lives.TV, 9/2/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorVallo ToomlaStarsMirtel PohlaPriit VõigemastMari AbelIntent on repairing a rift in their relationship, Anna and Juhan retreat to a seaside house lent to them by well-heeled friends. After witnessing an accident on rocky shore, they take in a wounded woman and her husband - a couple they find they have a lot in common with. Anna and Juhan begin to pretend they own the house, engaging their guests in a game of domination that propels their relationship to the brink of destruction.TV, 9/3/17. 6/10 (FF).
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Shown under the title 'Pretenders' in my country (on Cinemax 2). - DirectorYves AngeloStarsSylvie TestudGrégory GadeboisMathilde BissonA tale of a couple of magistrates, a female judge and her husband advocate who are foster parents of a young teen whose the biological mother is in feud with the female judge, and in the same time begins an affair with the advocate.TV, 9/3/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorLuka MarceticStarsDejan KrupicGoran HrvacaninIgor KesinaDue to poor business performance, a small hotel is being sold to an international buyer. Employees do not want to lose their jobs, so they take things into their own hands and try to sabotage the sale of the hotel.TV, 9/3/17. 4/10 (P).
- DirectorDrazen StaderStarsNatasa Barbara GracnerZvezdana MlakarBit SeverA story about 17-year-old Anja, one of those pretty and flirtatious girls whose life and self-image depend on the number of likes received in the social media. Overnight Anja becomes a target of a web scandal as someone posts her intimate video clip on the social network. The video clip spreads like a blaze and creates a maelstrom of disgust and ridicule aimed against our protagonist. On the night of her birthday Anja decides to forget the unpleasant emotions by going out to party with her best friend Nina and her boyfriend Peter.Orig. title: Všečkana.
TV, 9/3/17. 7/10 (FF). - DirectorTobias NölleStarsGeorg FriedrichTilde von OverbeckKamil KrejcíA lonely private investigator is contacted by a mysterious woman who pulls him into a mind game known as 'telephone walking'. Fascinated by her voice, Aloys discovers an imaginary universe that allows him to break out of his isolation.TV, 9/3/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorBernard VorhausEdgar G. UlmerStarsPaul HenreidCatherine McLeodGrace CoppinA psychiatrist and nurse overthrow the abusive heads of a girls' reform school in order to teach the unfortunate young women that they have a chance at healthy lives.OL, 9/4/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorTom GormicanStarsZac EfronMichael B. JordanMiles TellerThree best friends find themselves where we've all been - at that confusing moment in every dating relationship when you have to decide "So...where is this going?"TV, 9/4/17. 5/10 (FF).
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Shown under the title 'Are We Officially Dating?' in my country (on TV 1000). - DirectorZorz SkriginStarsHusein CokicBora TodorovicMilan SrdocAfter breaking the enemy's rings, a partisan batch is left only with three wounded and two healthy fighters. Through his binoculars, the German captain Anders monitors the surviving soldiers who are walking through the fog in an effort to reach their brigade. Anders quietly starts a manhunt on wounded while anticipating their physical and mental exhaustion.TV, 9/5/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorJoachim LafosseStarsBérénice BejoCédric KahnMarthe KellerAfter 15 years of marriage, a couple with two kids is about to divorce. Until the husband find a new place to live, they have to cohabit, and figure out how to share their belongings.TV, 9/5/17. 7/10 (FF).
- StarsMorten Hauch-FausbøllNutjaporn 'Bow' SwasdipromCarsten BjørnlundDanish UN member, prosecutor Julie Carlsen in Cambodia 2003 was killed collecting evidence against Red Kermer. Experienced Morton Topsoe arrives.TV, 9/5/17. 6/10 (FF).
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Shown as a (one) TV movie in Croatia (on HRT 3). - DirectorChris GerolmoStarsStephen ReaDonald SutherlandMax von SydowDuring the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods.TV, 9/5/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsIrina KupchenkoMikhail UlyanovEduard ArtemyevWithout Witness is an unflinchingly intimate and wickedly plotted two-actor tour de force pitting a divorced couple against each other and themselves.OL, 9/6/17. 9/10 (R).
- DirectorBourlem GuerdjouStarsJulie GayetFabrizio RongioneLuàna BajramiThe real story of Marion Fraisse, who committed suicide at the age of 13 after being viciously and repeatedly bullied by her classmates.TV, 9/6/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorJace AlexanderStarsNoah ReidStephany JacobsenJames MarstersAn average boy who resents his mundane life is struck by lightning during a particularly violent thunderstorm. When he recovers from the ordeal, he discovers that he has telekinetic powers.TV, 9/6/17. 5/10 (FF).
- DirectorMladomir 'Purisa' DjordjevicStarsTanasije UzunovicLjuba TadicZoran VelickovicA man from a small place has become a coach of the biggest club in the country. He's coming back to his home town to buy a talented striker from a local club. A new striker immediately becomes a star in the big club. But a conflict between coach on one side and striker and manager of the club on the other occurs and results in coach leaving the club. He then becomes a coach of a big German club and in international competition has a match against his former club. In first game in Munich his former club wins which puts him in danger of losing position of coach in new club. But in the second game his team wins in Belgrade and goes trough. He once again goes to his home town and in the graveyard, at the tomb of his father, who died in war fighting Germans, asks himself what happened so he's now fighting for the Germans against a club from his own country.OL, 9/7/17. 5/10 (FF).
- DirectorMarkus ImbodenStarsUlrike FolkertsBarbara RudnikPeter KremerAttractive uncompromising politician Mona Dengler is investigating the tobacco industry. Tomboyish bodyguard and single mother Johanna Sieber is assigned to protect her. This endangers Johanna's son. Mona unexpectedly falls for her.OL, 9/7/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorClaudia LorenzStarsUrsina LardiDominique JannRifka FehrAfter eighteen years of marriage, Alice finds herself confronted with the fact that her husband Frank feels more and more attracted to men. Not only Frank, but also she and their three children undergo an irreversible change.TV, 9/7/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorHenrik Ruben GenzStarsDavid DencikNatalie MadueñoJakob OftebroIn " Tordenskiold " we follow the only 29 -year-old vice admiral Tordenskiold and his valet Cold . The year is 1720, the peace is signed, the war is over and the naval hero has no idea what he should do with his life. Cold persuades him to take the suitor journey to England, but the trip develops into an amusing and grotesque journey from Christianshavn , down through Denmark over the border and into the north German kingdoms . ' Tordenskiold ' is an atypical and cheeky period film and a portrait of a friendship between a master and his servant.TV, 9/7/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsVal KilmerDuncan RegehrJulie CarmenGore Vidal's historical novel is brought to life in this television production of Turner Network Television's Billy the Kid.TV, 9/7/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorPeter SegalStarsJack LemmonJames GarnerDan AykroydTwo former U. S. Presidents, hated rivals, join forces to expose the current, corrupt President at the risk of their lives.TV, 9/7/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorHoward HughesHoward HawksStarsJack BuetelThomas MitchellJane RussellWestern legends Pat Garrett, Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid are played against each other over the law and the attentions of vivacious country vixen Rio McDonald.OL, 9/8/17. 5/10 (FF).
- DirectorPierre MorelStarsSean PennIdris ElbaJasmine TrincaA sniper on a mercenary assassination team kills the minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier's successful kill shot forces him into hiding. Returning to the Congo years later, he becomes the target of a hit squad himself.TV, 9/8/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsAaron Taylor-JohnsonTaylor KitschBlake LivelyPot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.TV, 9/8/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsAudie MurphyCharles DrakeJoan EvansWhen hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.TV, 9/9/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorRoland JofféStarsPaul NewmanDwight SchultzBonnie BedeliaThis film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret WWII project, and the first atomic bombs designed, built, and tested in Los Alamos.TV, 9/9/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorEsmé LammersStarsMaya van den BroeckeLisa de RooyCas EnklaarA fairytale about a young girl who learns to play chess and at the same time finds her father.TV, 9/9/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorHenry SelickStarsDakota FanningTeri HatcherJohn HodgmanWandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, an 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.TV, 9/9/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorDaniel SchechterStarsJennifer AnistonYasiin BeyIsla FisherTwo common criminals get more than they bargained for after kidnapping the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer who shows no interest in paying the $1 million dollar ransom for her safe return.TV, 9/9/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorDenzel WashingtonStarsDenzel WashingtonViola DavisStephen McKinley HendersonA working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.TV, 9/9/17. 8/10 (R).
- DirectorGary AlazrakiStarsGonzalo VegaLuis Gerardo MéndezKarla SouzaThree spoiled children are cut off from their family fortune and forced to do the unthinkable: get jobs.TV, 9/9/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorRichard QuineStarsWilliam HoldenAudrey HepburnGrégoire AslanThe sprightly young assistant of a Hollywood screenwriter helps him over his writer's block by acting out his fantasies of possible plots.TV, 9/10/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorKing VidorStarsJennifer JonesCharlton HestonKarl MaldenA sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.TV, 9/10/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsJohn WayneClaire TrevorLaraine DayWhen a commercial airliner develops engine problems on a trans-Pacific flight and the pilot loses his nerve, it is up to the washed-up co-pilot Dan Roman to bring the plane in safely.TV, 9/10/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsTroy DonahueSuzanne PleshetteDiane McBainWest Point graduate Lt. Hazard is posted to Fort Delivery, Arizona, where he has to deal with lax discipline, romantic complications, Apaches and his conflicting feelings toward the Indians.TV, 9/10/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorAdam BrooksStarsRyan ReynoldsRachel WeiszAbigail BreslinA political consultant tries to explain his impending divorce and past relationships to his 11-year-old daughter.TV, 9/10/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorJaume Collet-SerraStarsLiam NeesonEd HarrisJoel KinnamanMobster and hit man Jimmy Conlon has one night to figure out where his loyalties lie: with his estranged son, Mike, whose life is in danger, or his longtime best friend, mob boss Shawn Maguire, who wants Mike to pay for the death of his own son.TV, 9/11/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorPeter MarkleStarsJeffrey NordlingBrennan ElliottKendall CrossFlight 93 is the story of the heroic passengers that took back their plane in an effort to stop a 9-11 terrorist attack.TV, 9/11/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorJohn StockwellStarsScott MechlowiczAlphonso McAuleyWinter Ave ZoliTwo quirky NYC PIs head to New Orleans for a cooking contest and to clear a cousin's name in a shootout on a military base. Who are the strippers/spies/assassins?TV, 9/11/17. 4.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorVojislav 'Kokan' RakonjacStarsDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicOlga VujadinovicDusan DjuricA psychological study of a hero who, being badly beaten up by Gestapo, rats on his comrades and friends and becomes their vicious killer. Now the death seems like a salvation for him.OL, 9/12/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorJovan ZivanovicStarsLjubisa SamardzicRadmila ZivkovicVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicBuzga the shepherd, an object of ridicule among his fellow villagers, discovers his painting talent and becomes famous. Their envy leads them to paint themselves and try to outperform him, but after realizing that only Buzga's paintings are valued, they decide to steal his works.OL, 9/12/17. 7/10 (FF).
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In memoriam Ljubiša Samardžić (1936–2017). RIP! - DirectorRobert Jan WestdijkStarsLeopold WitteTim LindeHelen BelbinBoth newly single, a Dutch crime author and his cellist son attempt to rekindle their feeble bond as the latter joins the former on a publicity trip to Scotland.TV, 9/12/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJacopo Olmo AntinoriTea FalcoSonia BergamascoAn introverted teenager tells his parents he is going on a ski trip, but instead spends his time alone in a basement.TV, 9/12/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorJulien LeclercqStarsSami BouajilaGuillaume GouixYoussef HajdiWork-life balance breaks down for Paris's most gifted armed robbers when a grave mistake forces them to work for a crime boss in a high-stakes heist.TV, 9/12/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorChi Leung 'Jacob' CheungStarsCarina LauCharlie YeungAh-Lei GuaFoon escapes an arranged marriage by walking the road of a Ji Sor. After an affair with Shing, she becomes pregnant. An attempted abortion nearly costs Foon her life. Wan, the young owner of a silk factory, rescues her. Wan and Foon share their romances, reflecting the experience of women during the 40's.OL, 9/13/17. 7.5/10 (R).
- DirectorNikola TanhoferStarsBoris DvornikAna KaricEdo KoludrovicTwo married couples cruise from town to town along the Adriatic coast. While men are occupied with booze and sea, their wives are more interested in the young "skipper", who seems to be a virgin. Frivolous flirting evolves into drama when one of the wives and the skipper start feeling something that appears to be love.OL, 9/13/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorDan FogelmanStarsAl PacinoAnnette BeningJennifer GarnerAn aging rock star decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year-old letter written to him by John Lennon.TV, 9/13/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorNicolas PesceStarsKika MagalhãesWill BrillOlivia BondIn their secluded farmhouse, a mother (a former surgeon) teaches her daughter, Francisca, anatomy, and how life and death are not to be feared. One afternoon, a mysterious visitor shatters the idyll of their family life, and deeply traumatises Francisca, but also awakens curiosities. Years later, Francisca clings to her increasingly distant father, but the trauma she sustained reawaken when her desire to connect with the world around her takes on a dark form.TV, 9/13/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorJames BenningOL, 9/14/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorFadil HadzicStarsMile GataraBoris DvornikAna PavicPeter is a pensioner who works for a bank - a department store, more precisely - and his job is to collect debts from the citizens. While conducting his work, he finds the young man Miki to be his reliable assistant, and he inadvertently connects him with the girl named Maja.Orig. title: Da li je umro dobar čovjek?.
TV, 9/14/17. 7/10 (FF). - DirectorPavel SoukupStarsVladimíra HavlíckováMiroslav KarelJakub KoudelaKarel is a passionate gamekeeper. He has been taking good care of the forest and there are many enviable trophies in his collection. In a remote part of the forest, poachers waken a creature who could prove to be Karel's equal.TV, 9/14/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorAkizStarsCarolyn GenzkowSina TkotschWilson GonzalezAfter attending a rave party, a teenage girl forms a bond with a strange monster as she suffers a slow chaotic mental breakdown.TV, 9/14/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorJens AssurStarsBrasse BrännströmFanny KetterAnki LidénA young, teenage girl, is being filmed through a simple video camera. She is being told to dance by an older man. Two months later they are traveling together by car through small town Sweden. She wants to go home but he insists that they should go on. After all, they have a few more friends to visit. HOT NASTY TEEN depicts a seemingly well-known Sweden. But underneath the ordinary surface it simmers from suppressed desires and oppression. HOT NASTY TEEN brings a new and daring perspective to male exercise of power and sexual abuse. The cast consists of some of Sweden's most well-known actors.TV, 9/14/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorVojislav 'Kokan' RakonjacStarsDusan JanicijevicBekim FehmiuMilena DravicA group of people go on a picnic in the mountains. Longing for some love and understanding, they try to get close to one another, but the barriers are insurmountable. Failing to pull through their nutshells of solitude, they get back to the city, the eternal desert.OL, 9/15/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsKurt RaabMargit CarstensenHelen VitaA famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dim-witted brother, and a murder investigation.OL, 9/15/17. 8/10 (R).
- DirectorSteve MartinoStarsNoah SchnappBill MelendezHadley Belle MillerSnoopy embarks upon his greatest mission as he and his team take to the skies to pursue their archnemesis, while his best pal Charlie Brown begins his own epic quest back home to win the love of his life.TV, 9/15/17. 7/10 (FF).
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Shown under the title 'Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie' in my country (on HBO). - DirectorYaelle KayamStarsShani KleinAvshalom PollakHitham OmariA young Orthodox Jewish woman becomes ensconced in a nocturnal community of prostitutes and drug dealers that congregates in the ancient cemetery atop Jerusalem's Mount of Olives.TV, 9/15/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorMike LeighStarsPhil DavisRuth SheenEdna DoréThe life of a working class couple living in London and their complicated relationships with other members of the family.TV, 9/15/17. 9/10 (R).
- DirectorEarl BellamyStarsAudie MurphyJoan StaleyWarren StevensA young, determined sheriff and his posse chase a gang of murderous train robbers, and a kidnapped woman into New Mexico.TV, 9/16/17. 4.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsJan-Michael VincentKim BasingerMichael ParksAmbitious young Jodie wants more out of life than the small Texas country town she lives in has to offer. Jodie realizes that in order to pursue her dreams she will have to leave Texas and move to the big city. However, her shiftless factory worker boyfriend Kyle wants to stay in Texas.TV, 9/16/17. 5.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorFrédéric MermoudStarsEmmanuelle DevosNathalie BayeDavid ClavelDiane Kramer is led by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha (Moka) color Mercedes which hit her son and devastated her life. With a few belongings, some money and a gun, she goes to Evian, where she's learned the driver lives.TV, 9/16/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorPredrag AntonijevicStarsDennis QuaidNastassja KinskiPascal RollinA hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.TV, 9/16/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorJalil LespertStarsPierre NineyGuillaume GallienneCharlotte Le BonA look at the life of French designer Yves Saint-Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Bergé.TV, 9/16/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorKároly Ujj MészárosStarsMónika BalsaiSzabolcs Bede FazekasDavid SakuraiLiza's a nurse, seeking love. Her only company is a long-dead Japanese pop star, who turns her into a fox-fairy out of jealousy. Now, every men who desires Liza shall die horribly. Can she overcome the curse?TV, 9/16/17. 7.5/10 (R).
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsElizabeth TaylorDana AndrewsPeter FinchThe young bride of a rich planter finds herself the only white woman at Elephant Walk tea plantation, British Ceylon.TV, 9/17/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorWilliam A. FrakerStarsKlinton SpilsburyMichael HorseChristopher LloydThe sole surviving Texas Ranger (Klinton Spilsbury) of an ambush arranged by outlaw leader Major Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish (Christopher Lloyd) returns to fight back as a great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger.TV, 9/17/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorDarrell RoodtStarsLeleti KhumaloLihle MvelasePepi KhambuleAfter falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.TV, 9/17/17. 8/10 (R).
- DirectorNick CassavetesStarsEmile HirschJustin TimberlakeAnton YelchinJohnny and his pals kidnap Jake's 15-year-old brother Zach, then assign his buddy Frankie to be Zach's minder. They develop a brotherly friendship. Zach parties with his captors as things begin to spin out of control.TV, 9/17/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorZdravko RandicStarsDusica ZegaracBoris DvornikPavle VuisicA young woman leaves her older husband, the owner of a village mill, for a truck driver whom she met while he was in their village by business. While trying to find him, she experiences the life in suburbia, and gets back to her husband disappointed, disgraced and humiliated.TV, 9/17/17. 7.5/10 (R).
- DirectorElzbieta BenkowskaLukasz OstalskiMichal WawrzeckiStarsPaulina GalazkaHassan AkkouchMagdalena CzerwinskaA story about a group of immigrants living in Poland.Orig. title: Nowy świat.
TV, 9/18/17. 6.5/10 (FF). - DirectorMark PellingtonStarsRichard GereLaura LinneyDavid EigenbergA reporter is drawn to a small West Virginia town to investigate a series of strange events, including psychic visions and the appearance of bizarre entities.TV, 9/18/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsGlenn FordIngrid ThulinCharles BoyerIn Argentina, one daughter of patriarch Madariaga is married to a Frenchman while the other is married to a German thus leading to a crisis when Nazi Germany occupies France and some Madariaga family members fight on opposite sides.TV, 9/18/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorJames BenningStarsRhonda BellElion SucherIn "Landscape Suicide" Benning continues his examination of Americana through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple murderer who taxidermied his victims in the 1950s. Bernadette Prott was a California teenager who stabbed a friend to death over an insult in 1984. Benning's distanced approach to such grisly material is as far removed as possible from sensationalism, however. Although the acts of murder are both bizarre and violent, Benning dwells on them only minimally, emphasizing instead the details of psychological motivation, which in both cases seem frighteningly mundane. Benning has created a script which is a masterpiece of understated colloquial writing, and the actors he employs to re-enact confessional testimony and incidents recounted in trial transcripts perform with a flatly convincing lack of affect reminiscent of Gary Gilmore. The two monologues are embedded in Benning's characteristic meditations of landscape: long shots of the Wisconsin farmlands, general stores, dirt roads and pick-up trucks, and the carefully tended lawns, swimming pools, sprawling bungalows and malls of the middle-class California suburb. These images are offered in the classically spare mise-en-scene which Benning has perfected in his work as a cinematic poet of the contemporary American environment. Here, in his most accessible film so far, the beautiful, open vistas are dense with the significance of the catastrophes they engenderedOL, 9/19/17. 7.5/10 (R).
- DirectorKlaus HäröStarsMärt AvandiUrsula RataseppHendrik Toompere Jr.Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.TV, 9/19/17. 7.5/10 (R).
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Shown under the title 'The Fencer' in my country (on Cinemax 2). - DirectorJoan ChenStarsRichard GereWinona RyderAnthony LaPagliaRomantic drama about an aging playboy who falls for a sweet, but terminally ill, young woman.TV, 9/19/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorJohn StockwellStarsGina CaranoCam GigandetIsmael Cruz CordovaWhen her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.TV, 9/19/17. 4.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorNikola-Kole AngelovskiStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicNeda ArnericMeto JovanovskiStory about forbidden love, set in a remote area in a mountain, where a miller lives with his son and daughter-in-law.OL, 9/20/17. 7.5/10 (R).
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsMiroslava SafránkováRadovan LukavskýPetr SvojtkaThe little mermaid, one of the daughters of the sea king, seeing the prince on the deck of a luxurious ship, falls in love with him. But during a storm, the ship crashes against a rock. The little mermaid saves her lover from death.OL, 9/20/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorChristian ZübertStarsJördis TriebelBenjamin SadlerVassilis KoukalaniA loving mother searching for her child. A pregnant woman escaping from her responsibility. Two women who couldn't be more different will be pushed to their limits of humanity. Connected by one breath which decides everything.TV, 9/20/17. N/R (rate pending, missed the last 10 min due to higher powers).
- DirectorVatroslav MimicaStarsDarko DamevskiPavle VuisicFabijan SovagovicAt the end of the year 1942 and the start of 1943, to stop spreading the revolution in county of Bitola, bulgarian occupiers are reinforcing the persecutions and the acts of violence on civil population. The movie is based on true events, according to scenario written by Slavko Janevski.TV, 9/20/17. 7.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorJuraj HerzStarsZdena StudenkováVlastimil HarapesVáclav VoskaIn this gothic rendition of the classic fairy tale, a merchant's youngest daughter is held prisoner by a mysterious winged beast.OL, 9/21/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogSteve LiptayScott McKainHerzog examines the world championships for cattle auctioneers, his fascination with a language created by an economic system, and compares it to the lifestyle of the Amish, who live nearby.OL, 9/21/17. 8/10 (R).
- DirectorZivorad 'Zika' MitrovicStarsLjubisa SamardzicSinisa CopicDanilo LazovicThe events that preceded the WWII and subsequent fall of bourgeoisie in Yugoslavia are shown through the bloody strikes and awakening of civic consciousness in Belgrade's poor neighborhood of Savamala.OL, 9/21/17. 7/10 (FF).
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In memoriam Ljubiša Samardžić (1936 - 2017). - DirectorMaggie GreenwaldStarsJulianne NicholsonTakashi YamaguchiMargo MartindaleAutumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a fishing village in South Carolina, two interracial lovers are swept up in the tides of history.TV, 9/21/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorKen KwapisStarsRobert RedfordNick NolteEmma ThompsonAfter spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends, Stephen Katz (Nick Nolte).TV, 9/21/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorGabriele MuccinoStarsRussell CroweAmanda SeyfriedAaron PaulA Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown; 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge her own connections.TV, 9/21/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorLjubisa KozomaraGordan MihicStarsSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicMilan JelicJelisaveta 'Seka' SablicA flat-broke aging boxer living on the verge of existence, associates with the equally desperate people in the city's suburbia to steal, cheat, and even kill for money.OL, 9/22/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorNick BasileStarsWhitney AbleAlexandra BreckenridgeSteel BurkhardtA disturbed young woman must confront her worst fears when she finds herself trapped alone in a New York City loft during the 2003 blackout.OL, 9/22/17. 4/10 (P).
- DirectorChristie ConochallaStarsKate GorneyJillian FedermanHolly HawkinsRachel can't stop herself from falling in love with Paulie, the woman who helps her try on wedding gowns.OL, 9/22/17. 7.5/10 (R).
- DirectorJoachim TrierStarsJesse EisenbergGabriel ByrneIsabelle HuppertThe fractious family of a father and his two sons confront their different feelings and memories of their deceased wife and mother, a famed war photographer.TV, 9/22/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsSean PennFrances McDormandJudd HirschCheyenne, a retired rock star living off his royalties in Dublin, returns to New York City to find the man responsible for a humiliation suffered by his recently deceased father during W.W.II.TV, 9/22/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorWilliam HaleStarsBobby DarinEmily BanksLeslie NielsenA sheriff, haunted by the accidental killing of his best friend, refuses to wear a gun. But when the brother of his best friend is murdered, the lawman must make a choice.TV, 9/23/17. 5/10 (FF).