Fall Movie Release Schedule 2016

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Sept. 23

AUDRIE & DAISY A 15-year-old girl in California and a 14-year-old girl in Missouri both went to parties, drank too much and were

the victims of group sexual assaults by boys they knew. But the pain didn’t stop there. Their lives were made more miserable by cyberbullying and the distribution of videos and photographs. Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk tell the two stories in a documentary that The Hollywood Reporter described as “wrenching to watch but told with clarity and guts.” Both girls attempted suicide; one succeeded.

CHRONIC As long as he’s on the job, as a nurse working with terminally ill patients in their homes, David (Tim Roth) is strong, confident and involved. Away from work, he’s a mess, a chronic depressive who needs help. With Sarah Sutherland (daughter of Kiefer and granddaughter of Donald). Written and directed by Michel Franco, who won the award for best screenplay at Cannes in 2015.

CLOSET MONSTER Oscar, an unhappy gay teenager who witnessed a hate crime when he was a little boy, will do anything to get out of his small town and away from his seriously screwed-up father. A talking hamster and a vivid imagination may help. Connor Jessup stars in this drama, written and directed by Stephen Dunn. It won best Canadian feature film at the Toronto International Film Festival.





DIRTY 30 For Kate’s 30th birthday, she and two female friends — each unhappy in her own way — plan a small, tasteful party that turns out to be neither. A comedy starring Mamrie Hart, Hannah Hart and Grace Helbig. Andrew Bush directed.



THE DRESSMAKER Kate Winslet rocks some glamorous 1950s couture and cigarette holders in this revenge comedy. She’s a successful woman who goes back to her unsophisticated small town. Judy Davis is her mentally unstable mother. And Liam Hemsworth is the handsome hometown farmer. Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse.

THE FREE WORLD When a woman covered in blood stumbles into your workplace, yes, you should help her, but maybe don’t take her home. Mo, an ex-con (who really was innocent), is trying to turn his life around but learns how complicated good deeds can become. Boyd Holbrook and Elisabeth Moss star, with Octavia Spencer as Mo’s boss. Jason Lew wrote and directed this drama, his feature debut.



GENERATION STARTUP Six recent college graduates go entrepreneurial, and this documentary follows them for 17 months. Directed by Cynthia Wade and Cheryl Miller Houser.



 

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  1. GOAT A fraternity-hazing drama about a 19-year-old (Ben Schnetzer) experiencing hell week in a particularly awful way. When it screened at Sundance, Vanity Fair found it both “brutal and harrowing” but with “something deeply sympathetic and sorrowful at work.” Nick Jonas and James Franco star. Andrew Neel directed.

    I.T. Pierce Brosnan plays a rich guy with a smart house in a thriller whose villain is the information-technology guy. James Frecheville plays the young consultant who knows way too many passwords and uses his skills to threaten the boss’s wife, daughter and business. John Moore (“A Good Day to Die Hard”) directed.

    THE JAZZ LOFT ACCORDING TO W. EUGENE SMITH What would midcentury America have done without Life magazine? In the late 1950s and early ’60s, Mr. Smith, a Life photographer, turned his camera and his tape recorder on a rundown apartment in New York’s flower district and captured jazz greats like Thelonious Monk and Hall Overton, just hanging. Sara Fishko directed this documentary.

    THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT In the 1950s, they were the Brad and Angelina of South Korea’s film industry, but their romance ended. In the ’70s, the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, a movie fanatic, kidnapped Choi Eun-hee, the actress, and Shin Sang-ok, the filmmaker, and imprisoned them for years, forcing them to make films together. A stranger-than-fiction documentary from Rob Cannan and Ross Adam.

    THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach and company starred in the original 1960 western. In this remake, Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Chris Pratt, Byung-hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier and Vincent D’Onofrio ride into town as bad guys hired by a small village’s citizens to save them from tyranny. Directed by Antoine Fuqua.

    MY BLIND BROTHER Sophie Goodhart’s rom-com-dram is a love triangle with complications. Boy who feels guilty about his brother’s blindness meets girl who feels guilty about her boyfriend’s death, but the girl is soon dating the blind brother, too. With Nick Kroll, Adam Scott and Jenny Slate.

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  2. QUEEN OF KATWE How a Ugandan girl, an elementary-school dropout selling corn on the streets, became a chess champion. Madina Nalwanga plays Phiona Mutesi, the real-life prodigy. David Oyelowo is the athlete turned missionary who teaches her the game and tells her, “Sometimes the place you are used to is not the place you belong.” Lupita Nyong’o is Phiona’s mother, a widow who says of career and future, “Don’t think about such things.” Mira Nair directed this drama, filmed in Uganda and South Africa.

    THE RUINS OF LIFTA They stand near the western entrance to Jerusalem: dozens of stone houses that were once part of Lifta, a Palestinian-Arab village whose population was driven out by Israelis in the 1948 war — the only one of those villages, in fact, that wasn’t destroyed or hasn’t been repopulated. In the face of a plan to demolish the homes and replace them with luxury villas, Lifta is the setting in this documentary for a reconsideration of the Holocaust and the Nakba (Palestinian exile). Yacoub Odeh, who was forced out of Lifta in his youth, and Menachem Daum, an Orthodox Jewish man from Brooklyn whose mother was a Holocaust survivor, are the key figures in this work directed by Mr. Daum and Oren Rudavsky.

    SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY A full 94 percent of the seed varieties known on earth vanished during the last century, according to this documentary about the sad state of the planet’s food supply. “I see myself as Noah,” one activist says. The directors Jon Betz and Taggart Siegel argue that it’s a battle of good versus evil, with Monsanto, Dow and other purveyors of industrial agriculture as the villains.

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  3. STORKS In the future, storks don’t deliver babies; they drop off packages for a huge global retailer. But in this animated adventure, one bird (voiced by Andy Samberg) accidentally turns on the old Baby Making Machine, and now he and his best friend have to get the resulting pink-haired infant girl to her home. Heartwarming moral: It’s never too late to find your family. The voice cast also includes Jennifer Aniston, Kelsey Grammer, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele.
    Sept. 28

    SAND STORM As if Jalila didn’t have enough problems, she has to plan a beautiful wedding celebration for her husband and his young second bride. And now her daughter is having a very forbidden affair with a university student. From Israel, a drama, set in the polygamous Bedouin culture, that won the world cinema grand jury prize at Sundance. Directed by Elite Zexer.

    THARLO The title character is an isolated Tibetan shepherd with a ponytail who can quote Mao word for word but still needs an identification card. In Pema Tseden’s black-and-white fish-out-of-water drama, Tharlo (Shide Nyima) is forced to go into the nearby town and interact with other human beings. He meets a woman.
    Sept. 29

    THE HURT BUSINESS An inside look at mixed martial arts, complete with big money, doping scandals and life-destroying brain injuries. Vlad Yudin directed this documentary, which features the sport’s major names, including Ronda Rousey, Jon Jones and Chuck Liddell.
    Sept. 30

    AMANDA KNOX A young woman from Seattle studying in Italy, Ms. Knox was found guilty of killing her roommate in Perugia, and spent four years in prison before her conviction was overturned in a complicated and lengthy case. This documentary, directed by Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn, takes a hard look at its subject.

    AMERICAN HONEY Andrea Arnold’s drama, starring Shia LaBeouf and Sasha Lane, won the jury prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. A young woman joins a lost group of young people who try to survive by selling magazines door to door on a road trip that doubles as an examination of a slice of America.

    AMONG THE BELIEVERS “They train kids to be suicide bombers here!” a distraught man shouts outside a school during a demonstration in Pakistan. This documentary, from Hemal Trivedi and Mohammed Ali Naqvi, takes us inside the school to prove that claim. The school system is run by Maulana Abdul Aziz, a cleric and ISIS supporter whose goal is to impose Shariah law around the globe.

    COMING THROUGH THE RYE In 1969, an unpopular boy runs away from boarding school to find J. D. Salinger, the reclusive author whose “Catcher in the Rye” hero, Holden Caulfield, is the boy’s fictional soul mate. Starring Alex Wolff, Stefania Owen (as the townie who gives him a lift) and Chris Cooper as Salinger. Jim Sadwith directed.

    DANNY SAYS The Ramones sang about him. Danny Fields, a music-industry connector extraordinaire, is the subject of this documentary by Brendan Toller. Mr. Fields also discovered or worked with the Doors, Iggy Pop, Cream, Judy Collins and Lou Reed.

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  4. DEEPWATER HORIZON In April 2010, an oil rig drilling for BP exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana, resulting in a major environmental disaster and the deaths of 11 people. Peter Berg directed this drama about what happened that day, starring Mark Wahlberg, Dylan O’Brien and Kate Hudson.

    DENIAL In one of her books, a historian (Rachel Weisz) calls a man (Timothy Spall) a Holocaust denier, and he sues her for libel. In the British judicial system, the burden of proof is on the defendant, so winning the case means she must show the flaws in his arguments. Based on a 2000 court case and directed by Mick Jackson (“Temple Grandin”). The screenplay is by the playwright David Hare.

    DO NOT RESIST In small-town America, police forces behave like military enforcers, with an “us versus them” mentality. That’s the argument made by Craig Atkinson’s film, which was named best documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival this year. The movie travels from Ferguson, Mo., to congressional hearings in Washington and includes the sight of a law-enforcement trainer advocating “righteous violence.”

    FLOCK OF DUDES A coming-of-age story about a man in his 30s. Chris D’Elia (from the series “Undateable” and “Whitney”) stars in this ensemble comedy as a bachelor who decides the only way to grow up, finally, is to dump his emotionally immature best pals. With Skylar Astin, Bryan Greenberg and Hannah Simone. Bob Castrone directed.

    GIRL ASLEEP From Australia, the bittersweet trauma of a 14-year-old (Bethany Whitmore) turning 15 at a new school in a new suburb in the 1970s. After the mean girls at her birthday party serenade her with a song insulting her inadequate breast development, Greta retreats into dark fantasy. Directed by Rosemary Myers.

    HARRY & SNOWMAN One day in 1956, a Dutch immigrant named Harry de Leyer went to a Pennsylvania auction and bought a plow horse for $80, saving the animal from slaughter. That horse, Snowman, turned out to have hidden talents and went on to win the triple crown of show jumping. Ron Davis’s documentary tells the story, with the help of Mr. de Leyer, now in his late 80s.

    LONG WAY NORTH From France, an animated feature set in 19th-century Russia. A young rich girl in St. Petersburg is distraught when her grandfather, an Arctic explorer, doesn’t come home from his latest trip. She sets out on her own adventure to learn what happened to his ship. Rémi Chayé directed.

    A MAN CALLED OVE The grumpiest man in a tenants’ association makes a friend when new neighbors back their car into his mailbox. Rolf Lassgard and Bahar Pars star. Hannes Holm wrote and directed, based on a best-selling Swedish novel.

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