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...
October 16, 2019
PETITION (PETITION: LA COUR DES PLAIGNANTS)
DescriptionDescription Zhao Liang filmed this documentary, without permission, over more than a decade, building a harrowing testimony of suffering on the part of Chinese citizens who spend years of their lives appealing various injustices and abuses committed by Chinese authorities Zhao used hidden cameras to record the plight of these petitioners - farmers expelled from...
October 16, 2019
POLICE, ADJECTIVE (POLITIST, ADJECTIV)
DescriptionDescription After researching the subject of POLICE, ADJECTIVE - which begins with the depiction of a cop on the beat and and ends with a comic inquiry into the meaning of the word "conscience" - filmmaker Corneliu Porimboiu (12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST, AF/ FEST 2006) realized "that the truth of my character lies in the...
October 16, 2019
PERPETUUM MOBILE
DescriptionDescription Nervous about leaving the nest, a 24-year-old truck driver still lives with his mother. They keep a careful distance until they stumble upon a body
October 16, 2019
OIL CHANGE
DescriptionDescription Kole and Teresa never thought they had a need for fancy cars, big houses or a clean track record to make their relationship work. But then, they got to know each other better.
October 16, 2019
NORTHLESS (NORTEADO)
DescriptionDescription Selecting Debussy's Claire de lune as supporting music for o film about a young man's interrupted quest to cross the Mexican border for the US is typical of the inventiveness in Rigoberto Perezcano's tender yet ironic opera prima. To love your characters as much as Perezcono isn't pandering, but instead is a deliberate act...
October 16, 2019
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
DescriptionDescription In Hitchcock/Truffaut, his essential book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffout states that NORTH BY NORTHWEST epitomizes the whole of the director's work in America Cory Grant, at his most Cary Grant plays Roger 0. Thornhill (the "O." doesn't stand for anything, but makes for a great monogram) He's a Madison Avenue ad man...
October 16, 2019
NE CHANGE RIEN
DescriptionDescription Though the title of Pedro Costa's latest translates as "nothing ever changes," those who know him only from his masterpiece COLOSSAL YOUTH (2006) w ill find everything's different. Costa filmed actor-chanteuse Jeanne Balibar performing in club settings, and, using additional materials, created a transfixing black-and-white contemplation of an artist as she rehearses and finds...
October 16, 2019
NEIL YOUNG TRUNK SHOW: SCENES FROM A CONCERT
DescriptionDescription Few musical artists have shown cataloging their has much interest in history as Neil Young. Since RUST NEVER SLEEPS in 1979, Young has been at the center of concert films. Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme has always exhibited a passion for music in his films and reset the standard for concert films with 1984's STOP...
October 16, 2019
NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS (KASI AZ GORBEHAYE IRANI KHABAR NADAREH )
DescriptionDescription Bahman Ghobadi's infectiously lively and youthfully exuberant film follows two intelligent and determined Persian teens as they jump through hoops doing what in many other countries is relatively simple: forming a rock band As they comb Tehran's basements, recording studios, and even cattle ranches(!) for other fellow indie rockers they begin to understand the...
