October 16, 2019
AARDVARK
DescriptionDescription AARDVARK tells the story of a man blind from birth who is in recovery and attending AA Larry is played by Larry Lewis, who is himself actually blind and in AA When Larry joins a jiu-jitsu class, he discovers a new, deeply physical connection to life Unfortunately, his young jiu-jitsu master has demons of...
October 16, 2019
13 ASSASSINS (JÛSAN-NIN NO SHIKAKU)
DescriptionContactDescription A band of samurai is recruited for a virtuoso mission: snuff out the Shogun's brother - a foppishly cold-blooded torturer with a hair-trigger temper and royal impunity - by intercepting his unsuspecting and heavily armed entourage as they pass through a remote village en route to the capital. Led by valiant swordsman Koji Yakusho,...
October 16, 2019
WOMAN WITHOUT PIANO (LA MUJER SIN PIANO)
DescriptionDescription As impressive as director Javier Rebollo's 2006 feature debut LOLA proved to be, it doesn't prepare one for the sheer mastery on display in his second film. Rebollo, with his regular co-writer Lola Mayo, holds o bemused gaze on his favorite sort of character-the middle-closs apartment dweller of Madrid-but abandons the somewhat creepy world...
October 16, 2019
YOUTH IN REVOLT
DescriptionDescription This coming-of-age comedy pulls a fresh and outrageous stamp on a tale of adolescent obsession and rebellion. Starring Michael Cera (SUPERBAD, the Oscar-winning JUNO) and based on the acclaimed novel by CD. Payne, YOUTH IN REVOLT is the story of Nick Twisp a distinctively affable teen with a taste for the finer things in...
October 16, 2019
WAKE IN FRIGHT
DescriptionDescription Hailed as one of Australia's greatest films, Ted Kotcheff's movie (which was released internationally under the title OUTBACK) has the rare distinction of having been programmed twice at the Cannes Film Festival-in official competition in 1971 and, digitally restored, as a Cannes Classic at the 2009 festival. Kotcheff masterfully directs the story of John...
October 16, 2019
THE WHITE RIBBON
DescriptionDescription On the eve of World War 1, disturbing events of an unknown origin upset the surface calm of a rural Northern German village. Michael Haneke won Cannes' Palme d'Or for this stark, uncompromising drama, shot in blistering black-and-white.
October 16, 2019
VINCERE
DescriptionDescription Once considered a filmmaker whose best works (FISTS IN THE POCKET, 1965; CHINA IS NEAR, 1967) were in t he post, Marco Bellocchio hos been on a roll during the past seven years. But even triumphs including MY MOTHER'S SMILE (2002), GOOD MORNING, NIGHT (2003) and THE WEDDING DIRECTOR (2007) hardly prepare viewers for...
October 16, 2019
THE TWO HORSES OF GENGHIS KHAN
DescriptionDescription Chahor·Tugchi, Hicheengui Sambuu, Chimed Dolgor "Old things must be destroyed so that something new can evolve," mournfully observes Urna, the subject of Byambasuren Davao's latest documentary. Ostensibly, the old thing of which she speaks is a song, The Two Horses of Genghis Khan, inscribed on the head and the neck of her grandmother's violin,...
October 16, 2019
TRASH HUMPERS
DescriptionDescription In an unnamed city as deliberately banal as the action is outrageous, a loose circle-a cult, perhaps carries on with all sorts of crazed, indescribable games and antics. All but the youngest in this strange family wear rubber masks that both conceal their identity and transform them into theatrical creatures, frequently singing and chanting...
October 16, 2019
TRANSCENDENT MAN
DescriptionDescription Are we poised at the precipice for a new stage in human evolution? This is the theory proposed by inventor and futurist Roy Kurzweil, the central and deeply complex subject of Barry Ptolemy's debut feature In his non-fiction bestselling The Singularity Is Near, Kurzweil posits that human technological advancement is moving forward at such...
