October 16, 2019
I THINK I THOUGHT
DescriptionDescription Joe's life threatens to come apart when he begins thinking too much. He discovers Thinkers Anonymous, where he learns that thinking is best left to professionals like politicians, religious leaders and the news media .
October 16, 2019
THE HUSTLER
DescriptionDescription Paul Newman brought a new, casual intelligence to male stardom in the 1950s and '60s, a sensitive tricksterism versus Brando's and Dean's wounded inarticulation; David Thomson wrote that Newman "seems to me an uneasy, self-regarding personality, as if handsomeness had left him guilty." As Fast Eddie, the talented pool player who lacks the self-esteem,...
October 16, 2019
HUNGER
DescriptionDescription Though ostensibly about the 1981 hunger strike initiated by Irish Republican Army leader Bobby Sands, this poetic-realist debut by Steve McQueen ventures into far deeper territory, seeking to visually articulate the very nature of oppression and resistance. Beginning with bloody knuckles rinsed in a basin, McQueen builds scene after vivid scene to provoke or...
October 16, 2019
HORSE TERRITORY
DescriptionDescription A woman in transition, traverses the Horse Territory.
October 16, 2019
THE HIGHER FORCE (STORA PLANID)
DescriptionDescription On the heels of his stunning, critically acclaimed drama THE AMAZING TRUTH ABOUT QUEEN RAQUELA (2008), rising Icelandic filmmaker Olaf de Fleur Johannesson presents a quirky, hilarious, kindly comedy about a bumbling petty criminal who dreams of a better life as the true artist he really is. David spends his days as a mostly...
October 16, 2019
HOT DOG
DescriptionDescription This is the third in the DOG series. In this one episode our plucky hero joins the fire company to save the world from house fires and gain the affection he so richly deserves. Typically, the results never turn out the way he had planned.
October 16, 2019
HI MY NAME IS RYAN
DescriptionDescription I like to stay busy. I like to make people happy. I am an entertainer," quips the exuberantly youthful Ryan Avery, luminous figurehead, rebellious visionary and eclectic member of Phoenix's outsider art scene . Charmingly crafted by Paul Eagleston and Stephen Rose, this accomplished documentary portrait introduces the life's work of a confounding and...
October 16, 2019
THE HIDDEN LIFE OF THE BURROWING OWL
DescriptionDescription Through the lens of a wild life documentary, we meet an owl who recently lost his mate to a large predator. Can he survive in this dangerous wilderness alone?
October 16, 2019
THE HEADLESS WOMAN
DescriptionDescription Lucrecia Martel's LA CIENEGA skewered the corruption of a wealthy Argentine family and their servants. In THE HOLY GIRL, Martel explored an adolescent girl's erotic-religious obsession. Now , in her third and most demanding film, THE HEADLESS WOMAN (co-produced by Pedro Almodovar and his brother Augustin), Martel ingeniously depicts an upper-class matron in crisis....
October 16, 2019
THE GOOD THE BAD THE WEIRD
DescriptionDescription One might call director Kim Jee-woon's stunning $10 million homage to Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone a kimchi Western The sixth film by the director of the cult favorite A TALE OF TWO SISTERS (2003) and A BITTERSWEET LIFE (2005), THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE WEIRD continues Kim's South Korean box-office winning streak....
