October 16, 2019
MOSCOW (MOSCOU)
DescriptionDescription Eduardo Coutinho, Brazil's premier documentary filmmaker, reaches new heights with this surprising, even mysterious account of the Galpoo Theatre Company in Belo Horizonte. Coutinho and his crew are invited to record the process as the troupe creates a new, emotionally charged production of Chekhov's The Three Sisters. Stage director Enrique Diaz and his company...
October 16, 2019
MOTHER (MADEO)
DescriptionDescription After only three films, including his cult sensation THE HOST (2006), Bong Joon-ho's slightly bent and always inventive approach to genre filmmaking has pushed him to the Korean cinema forefront. Although MOTHER is a dazzling murder mystery, it's also built on Bong's reliable penchant for psychologically astute, character-centered storytelling. A single mother (played with...
October 16, 2019
MODUS OPERANDI
DescriptionDescription After the mysterious "The Cowboy" double-crosses the CIA, two important briefcases go missing. Black Ops special agent Stanley Cashay is dragged out of retirement to track them down. His reward? The name of the man who killed his wife. But Cashay needs to clean up quickly if he wants to get back into the...
October 16, 2019
THE MILK OF SORROW (LA TETA ASUSTADA)
DescriptionDescription Winner of the Golden Bear for best film at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival, this exquisitely original allegory details the lingering trauma from the decades-long conflict in Peru that was passed on through la teta austada - milk of sorrow - to women including the beautiful, enigmatically silent Fausta (Magaly Solier). The film begins...
October 16, 2019
THE LOVED ONES
DescriptionDescription Sean Byrne's heart-pounding thriller opens with tragedy, and then slowly spirals out of control. Brent (Xavier Samuel) ts a brooding teen who has suffered the loss of his father Otherwise, his world is not much different than any other teenager's around the world: a cool best friend a cute girlfriend and too many hormones....
October 16, 2019
THE MESSENGER
DescriptionDescription After collecting his medals and recovering from hi s wounds inflicted during a tour of duty in Iraq, Will Montgomery, played by Ben Foster (SIX FEET UNDER, 3lO TO YUMA) in his first leading role, marks his return to civilian life by sleeping with his o ld girlfriend (Jena Malone), now engaged to another...
October 16, 2019
LUNCHFILMS
DescriptionDescription Truly independent films ore mode from the gut. One day I bought a broke filmmaker friend lunch. I suggested that, instead of owing me, he make a film for the amount I spent. We mode a napkin contract with "rules" to follow Fifty Lunchfilms hove now been commissioned. Like a menu, the series has...
October 16, 2019
LONDON RIVER
DescriptionDescription On July 7, 2005, four Muslim assassins, traveling on London's public transport during morning rush hour, activate a series of bombs. They kill 56 people and injure many others on three underground trains and one double-decker bus. Rochid Bouchareb's LONDON RIVER tells the emotional story of on unlikely friendship that develops between Mrs. Sommers...
October 16, 2019
LOOKING FOR ERIC
DescriptionDescription Working-class hero Ken Loach makes o surprising shift to a light, even fanciful mood in his new film about Eric a bedraggled postal worker (the winning Steve Evets) who is watching his entire life slip away from him. The realist, street-level setting and Eric's messy domestic world is absolutely Loachian, but for this serious...
October 16, 2019
A LETTER TO UNCLE BOONMEE
DescriptionDescription Three young men describe to an uncle how their Thai village of Nabua has been abandoned in the wake of war.
