October 16, 2019
WITCH HUNT
DescriptionDescription Dana Nachman and Don Hardy's documentary film, narrated and executive produced by Sean Penn and featuring music from Pearl Jam, chronicles the unraveling of a small town's justice system. The subjects, working -class moms and dads , all were wrongly convicted of child molestation in the early 1980s in Bakersfield, Calif, where the Kern...
October 16, 2019
WOMANS’ WORK
DescriptionDescription A mild-mannered housewife accidentally discovers her superpowers, but can she get this hero stuff right?
October 16, 2019
THE WORLD WE WANT
DescriptionDescription Patrick Davidson 's empowering documentary follows a group of self-motivated teenagers from a brood spectrum of countries who come together to strive for societal betterment. In the film, eight teams compete in Project Citizen, an international program in which teams of teens present game plans for community improvement in their home cities. An array...
October 16, 2019
WENDY AND LUCY
DescriptionDescription Wendy is alone save for her dog, Lucy, and traveling toward Alaska in hopes of finding seasonal employment. Then her car breaks down and Lucy vanishes. Avoiding the usual cliches of class-conflict melodrama, Kelly Reichardt (OLD JOY) manages to give us a sense of, what everyday economic desperation feels like through Wendy's encounters with...
October 16, 2019
WELLNESS
DescriptionDescription Film and literature are filled with charming charlatans-suave frauds who take our money, yes, but also steal our hearts. This oxymoronic breed is nowhere to be found in writer-director Jake Mahaffy's devastating drama WELLNESS, which instead presents a starkly prosaic take on the modern confidence man. In the story of the erstwhile salesman Thomas...
October 16, 2019
WALTZ WITH BASHIR
DescriptionDescription Beginning with unnerving images of a pock of dogs racing through the streets of Tel Aviv-on emblem of tormented conscience-writer-director and former Israeli soldier Ari Folman offers the most powerful statement yet about the agony of years of Middle East violence. Using of times otherworldly, atmospheric animation , Folman reconstructs a notorious atrocity that...
October 16, 2019
WAITING FOR SANCHO
DescriptionDescription How can filmmaking be filmed? The question would seem to have been answered already, given the teeming amount of "making of" featurette extras that cling to DVD packages. But the dirty little secret of "making of" films is that none of them show filmmaking as it is, in the moment of creation. Which is...
October 16, 2019
LA VIE DES MORTS
DescriptionDescription Two lesser-known works by the master of contemporary French cinema showcase Desplechin's versatility and explore themes of family and transition: his award-winning debut LA VIE DES MORTS tells the story of a reunion built on a tragedy, and the documentary L'AIMEE reconstructs his own family's past.
October 16, 2019
UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US
DescriptionDescription In 1991 , Norwegian churches started to burn, just after on underground scene of anti consumerist metal musicians had begun to jell. While reporters and police scrambled for answers, more and more churches went up in flames. They had no leads until Varg Vikernes, one of the architects of an underground music-art-political scene known...
October 16, 2019
VISIONEERS
DescriptionDescription George Washington Winsterhammerman lives an ordinary life. He has a wife, a kid, a house and a boat. Every day George gets in his minivan and goes to work as a Level Three Tunt at the Jeffers Corporation, the largest and most profitable corporation in the history of humankind . Though he lives an...
