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Hostel, Oceans 13, Fantastic Four

Cast: Parker Posey, Melvil Poupaud, Gena Rowlands, Drea de Matteo

Director: Zoe Cassavetes

In a rare dramatic role, Posey stars as a Manhattan hotel exec unlucky in love, until the night she meets and falls hard for a visiting Frenchman (Poupaud, who was so good in 2005's Time to Leave). For her feature debut, writer-director Zoe Cassavetes, daughter of the late John Cassavetes, cast her mother, the great Gena Rowlands, as Posey's disapproving mom.

EXILED

Cast: Anthony Wong, Francis Ng, Simon Yam, Lam Suet

Director: Johnnie To

Four hired killers descend on the house of a fellow bad guy. Two want to kill him; two want to save him. There's a gunfight. No one dies. All five sit down to dinner. Sergio Leone meets the Coen brothers in this modern Western from virtuoso director To.

FIERCE PEOPLE

Cast: Diane Lane, Anton Yelchin, Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Perkins

Director: Griffin Dunne

Fifteen-year-old Finn (Yelchin), who dreams of becoming an anthropologist like his absent father, moves with his drug-addicted mother (Diane Lane) to an upscale New Jersey suburb and sets out to study the anthropologically peculiar ways of its wealthy inhabitants.

GOYA'S GHOSTS

Cast: Stellan Skarsgard, Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman

Director: Milos Forman

Milos Forman, Oscar-winning director of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, dramatizes the rivalry between Spanish painter Francisco Goya (Skarsgard) and a powerful clergyman (Bardem) who's infatuated with Goya's teenage muse (Portman).

THE HOTTEST STATE

Cast: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Laura Linney, Mark Webber, Michelle Williams, Sonia Braga, Ethan Hawke

Director: Ethan Hawke

Hawke wrote and directed this adaptation of his 1996 novel, in which Webber stars as a 20-year-old New York actor who meets a young singer (Moreno), takes her to Mexico City and, before long, regrets it.

INTERVIEW

Cast: Steve Buscemi, Sienna Miller

Director: Steve Buscemi

Buscemi stars as a hardened political reporter who's sent to interview a soap star (Miller). As their interview stretches into a long night, each discovers unexpected depth in the other. Buscemi directs from a screenplay that he co-adapted from one written by Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was on the verge of directing Buscemi and Miller in the movie when he was murdered by an Islamic extremist.

JOSHUA

Cast: Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga, Jacob Kogan

Director: George Ratliff

Everyone's thrilled when parents Brad and Abby (Rockwell and Farmiga) bring home their beautiful new baby girl. Everyone except 9-year-old older brother, Joshua (Kogan), that is. Soon, evil plagues the family.

THE KING OF KONG

Director: Seth Gordon

This documentary follows a middle-school science teacher as he battles a hot-sauce mogul for the Guinness World Record on the arcade classic Donkey Kong.

KLIMT

Cast: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Dillane

Director: Raoul Ruiz

Malkovich stars as the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, who's lying on his deathbed as the film opens, thinking back to the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris where he meets Lea de Castro (Burrows), a French dancer who became both mistress and muse.

LOOKING FOR CHEYENNE

Cast: Mila Dekker, Aurélia Petit, Malik Zidi,

Director: Valerie Minetto

A hit on the festival circuit, this French romantic comedy tells of two women, Cheyenne (Dekker) and Sonia (Petit), who are madly in love with each other but separate when they can't come to terms on where and how they should live.

MOLIRE

Cast: Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Laura Morante

Director: Laurent Tirard

Duris, who was extraordinary in 2005's The Beat That My Heart Skipped, stars as the great French playwright Molière. It's 1644, and the 22-year-old starving artist encounters a succession of people who will later inspire and appear in his greatest play, Tartuffe.

RESCUE DAWN

Cast: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies

Director: Werner Herzog

This taut and surprisingly straightforward action film from iconoclastic director Herzog (Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man) tells the true story of Dieter Dengler (Bale), who was shot down over Laos in 1964, captured and thrown into a brutal North Vietnamese prison. There, two Americans (Zahn, Davies) reluctantly join his escape plan.

TALK TO ME

Cast: Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Director: Kasi Lemmons

Don Cheadle stars as Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene, a legendary 1960s radio host who galvanized Washington, D.C., by leading public protests against poverty and racism.

THE TEN

Cast: Paul Rudd, Jessica Alba, Winona Ryder, Adam Brody, Gretchen Mol, Famke Janssen, Liev Schreiber, Oliver Platt, Justin Theroux

Director: David Wain

Ten comic vignettes, set in the modern day, inspired by the Ten Commandments.

TRIAD ELECTION

Cast: Louis Koo

Director: Johnnie To

Young Hong Kong gangster Jimmy (Koo) is trying to go straight, but pending corruption charges force him to battle his way to the top of the crime family.

TWO DAYS IN PARIS

Cast: Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg

Director: Julie Delpy

In a comedy that marks the directorial debut of actress Delpy, the filmmaker brings her American boyfriend (Goldberg) to meet her parents in Paris. Things do not go well.

WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE STORY

Cast: Patrick Fugit, Shea Whigham

Director: Goran Dukic