October 16, 2019
THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON’T THEY?
DescriptionDescription Famously holding the record for the most number of Academy Award nominations (nine) that didn't include Best Picture, Sydney Pollack's 1969 adaptation of a Depression-era Horace McCoy novel packs a timely punch today in the midst of the financial industry crisis. Jane Fonda plays Gloria, a bitter Dust Bowl evacuee and aspiring actress who...
October 16, 2019
SUPER SMILE
DescriptionDescription Before you con bat an eye, this woman has you hypnotized. There is no escape
October 16, 2019
THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY
DescriptionDescription As a novelist and screenwriter (Hitchcock's STRANGE RS ON A TRAIN), Patricia Highsmith had a remarkable sensitivity for the way people and their inner lives-their motives and desires-interrelate and compete. Anthony Minghella , whose lush, novelistic films were also sensitive to the circumstantial underpinnings of human relationships, once told The New York Times'. "One...
October 16, 2019
TANAREXIA
DescriptionDescription Some people go to church, Johnny goes to the tanning salon . until changes force him to take a hard look at his life.
October 16, 2019
SUMMER HOURS
DescriptionDescription Helene (Edith Scob) gathers her children and grandchildren at her French country estate to celebrate her 75th birthday Their gift of a tricky-to-use mobile phone, however, seems to symbolize the 21st-century pressures that are closing in on her precious way of life . The growing sense the exquisite Helene - the niece of a...
October 16, 2019
THE SUN AND THE MOON
DescriptionDescription A meditative, atmospheric portrait of a distant culture shot in gorgeous black and white.
October 16, 2019
STILL ORANGUTANS (AINDA ORANGOTANGOS)
DescriptionDescription Hyperkinetic and brash, ca-writer and director Gustavo Spolidoro's adventurous film is not so much a traditional piece of cinema as it is an incitement to riot. Veering from sublime to ridiculous, mashing up sacred and profane, bitingly funny and piercingly sad, this film's contempt for propriety is only exceeded by its utter loathing of...
October 16, 2019
SUGAR
DescriptionDescription For many Dominicans, baseball represents the pathway from poverty to wealth and glory. And so when Sugar, a gifted 19-year-old pitcher, gets called up to the American minor leagues, it seems a dream fulfilled for him, his family and his community. But life on the road and under the glare of the lights carries...
October 16, 2019
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
DescriptionDescription Today is the biggest day in Jamal Malik's life. A penniless, 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, he's one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? But when the show breaks for the night, he is suddenly arrested on suspicion of cheating. After...
October 16, 2019
THE SOLOIST
DescriptionDescription From Academy Award-nominated director Joe Wright (ATONEMENT) and starring Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx and Academy Award-nominee Robert Downey Jr., this poignant and ultimately soaring tale is based on on incredible true story of a disenchanted journalist's transformative odyssey through the hidden streets of Los Angeles, where he discovers and builds on unlikely friendship...
