Chattanooga Pulse

1) Rage
Director Sally Potter’s film tells its story through a series of lo-fi interviews with a schoolboy and his camera phone backstage at a New York fashion show after the death of a model. Potter spent two days each with 14 different actors, assisted by no one but a sound recordist.

2) Coco Before Chanel
Before she was a legendary couturier, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was a headstrong orphan. Amelie’s Audrey Tatou will be vying for an Oscar as she brings Chanel’s story to the screen.

3) A Serious Man
Joel & Ethan Coen’s latest black comedy takes place at a Midwestern university in 1967, as a physics professor watches his world fall apart just as he’s up for tenure. He turns to three different rabbis for advice.

4) Whip It
Ellen Page. Indie rock. Austin, Texas. And roller derby. What’s not to love?

5) The Men Who Stare at Goats
George Clooney’s production partner Heslov takes the helm in this wild goose chase in Iraq. Clooney plays a member of the U.S. Army’s First Earth Battalion, who reportedly use paranormal powers in an effort to end all war. Ewan McGregor is the reporter who wonders if he’s following a real story.

6) Pirate Radio
Philip Seymour Hoffman plays an American radio pirate among a group of international renegades broadcasting from a ship in Britain’s North Sea in the 1960s, and Kenneth Branagh plays the government agent trying to shut them down.