ALMOST BLUE
Italy - U.S. Premiere
105 mins. Paramount Theater, 5:00 p.m., Aug 4, Saturday
A hush comes down. The fear calls to you. A thriller that takes your breath away.

Director: Alex Infascelli
Writers: Sergio Donati, Alex Infascelli, Luca Infascelli, Carlo Lucarelli (novel)
Producer: Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Cinematography: Arnaldo Catinari
Editor: Valentina Girodo
Cast: Lorenza Indovina, Claudio Santamaria, Rolando Ravello, Andrea Di Stefano

AN AMERICAN RHAPSODY
WINNER -- BEST FEATURE FILM
United States - Los Angeles Premiere
SPECIAL EVENT SCREENING
107 mins. Paramount Theater, 7:00 p.m., Aug. 3, Friday.

Straight from the heart of writer-director Eva Gardos comes a moving story of love and determination based on her own experience of coming to America.

Director/Writer: Eva Gardos
Producers: Colleen Camp, Bonnie Timmermann
Cinematography: Elemér Ragályi
Editor: Margaret Goodspeed
Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Scarlett Johansson, Tony Goldwyn, Lisa Jane Persky, Vladimir Mashkov, Emmy Rossum, Larisa Oleynik, Agi Bánfalvy

THE CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION
United States
SPECIAL EVENT SCREENING -- BY INVITATION ONLY
103 mins. Chaplin Theater, Raleigh Studios, 6:00 p.m., Aug. 5, Sunday.

Woody Allen wrote, directed and stars in his latest comedy, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, as CW Briggs, the top insurance investigator in New York in 1940 -- or so he keeps telling the firm's new efficiency expert, Betty Ann "Fitz" Fitzgerald (Helen Hunt). Briggs prides himself on being able to crack any insurance caper by getting into the mind of the thief, but now, thanks to the hypnotic powers of the Jade Scorpion, the mind of a thief is getting into Briggs.

Director/Writer: Woody Allen
Producers: Letty Aronson, Helen Robin (Co-Producer)
Executive Producers: Stephen Tenenbaum, Datty Ruth, Jack Rollins, Charles H. Joffe
Cinematography: Zhao Fei
Editor: Alisa Lepselter
Cast: Woody Allen, Dan Aykroyd, Helen Hunt, Brian Markinson, Wallace Shawn, David Ogden Stiers, Charlize Theron

GIRL FROM RIO
WINNER - BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
United Kingdom/Spain - U.S. Premiere
OPENING NIGHT SCREENING - BY INVITATION ONLY
98 mins. Paramount Theater, 7:00 p.m., Aug. 2, Thursday.

Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obsessed London clerk named Raymond, robbing a bank and boarding the first flight to Rio are just the beginning.

Director/Writer: Christopher Monger
Producers: Andrés Vicente Gómez, Muir Sutherland
Director of Photography: José Luis Alcaine
Editors: Nicholas Wentworth
Cast: Hugh Laurie, Santiago Segura, Vanessa Nunes