October 16, 2019
A SINGLE MAN
DescriptionDescription Unfolding on a single day in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, this story follows George Falconer, a 52-year old British college professor (Colin Firth) who struggles to find meaning after the death of his long-time partner. Dwelling on the past and unable to see his future, George...
October 16, 2019
THE SIMPLE ANTENNAE
DescriptionDescription Kevin Jerome Everson's unprecedented body of work about the African-American experience in America is beautifully encapsulated in this trio of films THE CITIZENS features a young Muhammad Ali - more a father than a boxer LEAD offers a beautiful expression of work, and THE SIMPLE ANTENNAE does the some for play.
October 16, 2019
THE SILENT ARMY (WIT LICHT)
DescriptionDescription Even in a barbarous era, one practice that still seems like a special crime against nature is the kidnapping of children by guerrilla forces with the intent of turning them into murderers. It's the impulse to fight this inexcusable outrage that lies at the resilient heart of THE SILENT ARMY. Having grown up on...
October 16, 2019
SHORT TERM 12
DescriptionDescription A thought-provoking story about the effects of child abuse and neglect told through characters living and working in a residential facility for at-risk teens.
October 16, 2019
THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES (EL SECRETO DE SUS OJOS)
DescriptionDescription Argentina's submission for best foreign-language Oscar elevates the procedural drama to witty, entertaining and thrilling new heights, following a retired prosecutor as he revisits a heartbreaking case.
October 16, 2019
SEND ME TO THE ‘LECTRIC CHAIR
DescriptionDescription Guy Maddin straps his muse Isabella Rossellini to an electric chair and plunges the viewer into a feverish world of death wishes and heroic acts.
October 16, 2019
A ROOM AND A HALF (POLTORY KOMNATY ILI SENTIMENTALNOE PUTESHESTVIE NA RODINU)
DescriptionDescription Andrey Khrzhanovsky's bittersweet, endlessly imaginative film begins with the revered poet Joseph Brodsky (Grigory Dityatkovsky, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the Nobel Prize-winning poet) approaching his beloved St. Petersburg after a decades-long exile imposed by the Soviet state In a Proustian wave of memories, his past comes to life, centered around the tiny but...
October 16, 2019
THE ROAD
DescriptionDescription After an unspecified calamity, the world has been destroyed, leaving nothing but shells of cities-and the road. A father and son walk through an ash-gray landscape ducking the ever-present, terrifying threat posed by other survivors. This astonishing adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel strips away the pretension and artifice of science fiction-style apocalypse....
October 16, 2019
S/T
DescriptionDescription What matters in the cinemo? Lisandra Alonso shows us, with help from an imposing owl who stares at the viewer and commands total attention of the eye and ear.
October 16, 2019
PRECIOUS
DescriptionDescription Set in Harlem, this vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful film follows the story of Clareece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe, a 16-y ear-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. Pregnant for the second time by her absent father, she waits hand and foot on her poisonously angry, abusive mother (Mo'nique) School...
