Youth Without Youth / Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH, 2007, Sony Picture Classics, 124 min. Director Francis Ford Coppola's gorgeous return to form stars Tim Roth as Dominic Matei, an aging professor of linguistics who survives a cataclysmic event to find his youth miraculously restored. Dominic's physical rejuvenation is matched by a highly evolved intellect, which attracts the attention of Nazi scientists. While on the run, he reunites with his lost love, Laura, and works to complete his research into the origins of human language.

BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD, 2007, ThinkFilm, 117 min. Director Sidney Lumet returns to the crime genre with a vengeance in this devastating portrait of a family destroyed from within. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke play brothers whose severe financial problems lead them to attempt a jewelry store heist -- a heist that, when it goes wrong, has ruinous consequences for the siblings and everyone who has the misfortune to know them.