October 16, 2019
THE ART OF THE STEAL
DescriptionDescription What is art's relationship to the public at large, and who decides who gets to see it? Rarely has the beauty of brotherly love seemed so rancorous as in Don Argott s fascinating, thoroughly researched documentary on the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania. The Foundation, established by Dr. Albert Barnes in 1922, boosts one...
October 16, 2019
AFTER.LIFE
DescriptionDescription When are the dead in fact dead? In its pleasure at simultaneously embracing and sending up horror genre conventions, AFTER.LIFE suggests that the line between the living and the dead is thin indeed. Christina Ricci and Justin Long (fast earning a reputation as the busiest man in American movies) play a sophisticated couple on...
October 16, 2019
AJAMI
DescriptionDescription It is difficult to find metaphors that capture the complex essence of the greater Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or of Israel's internal Jewish-Arab clash. The impasse seems existential in nature. This is why, of the many films about the decades-long turmoil, Scandor Copti's and Yaron Shani's AJAMI is so remarkable This muscular, intensely realistic depiction of...
October 16, 2019
ABOUT ELLY (DARBAREYE ELLY)
DescriptionDescription This tout, involving drama, centered around the mysterious disappearance of a young woman, confirms director Asghar Farhadi as a major talent, with on unrivaled ability to chronicle the malaise of middle-class Iranian society Working in a highly controlled film industry that hos progressively shut down the most innovative directors over the post three years,...
October 16, 2019
1983: THE RED RIDING TRILOGY PART 3
DescriptionDescription This harrowing serpentine, five-hour tale of crime, revenge and ultimate redemption was adapted by Tony Grisoni (FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS) from British writer David Peace's acclaimed series of crime novels about the true-life sexual murders committed by the Yorkshire Ripper in the 1970s and 80s. In the first film, directed by Julian...
October 16, 2019
1980: THE RED RIDING TRILOGY PART 2
DescriptionDescription This harrowing serpentine, five-hour tale of crime, revenge and ultimate redemption was adapted by Tony Grisoni (FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS) from British writer David Peace's acclaimed series of crime novels about the true-life sexual murders committed by the Yorkshire Ripper in the 1970s and 80s. In the first film, directed by Julian...
October 16, 2019
1974: THE RED RIDING TRILOGY PART 1
DescriptionDescription This harrowing serpentine, five-hour tale of crime, revenge and ultimate redemption was adapted by Tony Grisoni (FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS) from British writer David Peace's acclaimed series of crime novels about the true-life sexual murders committed by the Yorkshire Ripper in the 1970s and 80s. In the first film, directed by Julian...
October 16, 2019
WORLDS APART
DescriptionDescription The Danish contender for the Best Foreign-language Film Academy Award, WORLDS APART is director Niels Arden Oplev's follow-up film to the acclaimed WE SHALL OVERCOME. Based on a newspaper story Oplev read about a girl expelled from the Jehovah's Witnesses, the film tells the story of Sara, a pretty, sheltered 17-year-old girl who, with...
October 16, 2019
THE WRESTLER
DescriptionDescription Back in the late '80s, Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a headlining professional wrestler Now, 20 years later, he ekes out a living performing for handfuls of die-hard wrestling fans in high school gyms and community centers around New Jersey. Estranged from his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) and unable to sustain any...
