October 16, 2019
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
DescriptionDescription In Hitchcock/Truffaut, his essential book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffout states that NORTH BY NORTHWEST epitomizes the whole of the director's work in America Cory Grant, at his most Cary Grant plays Roger 0. Thornhill (the "O." doesn't stand for anything, but makes for a great monogram) He's a Madison Avenue ad man...
October 16, 2019
NORTHLESS (NORTEADO)
DescriptionDescription Selecting Debussy's Claire de lune as supporting music for o film about a young man's interrupted quest to cross the Mexican border for the US is typical of the inventiveness in Rigoberto Perezcano's tender yet ironic opera prima. To love your characters as much as Perezcono isn't pandering, but instead is a deliberate act...
October 16, 2019
NE CHANGE RIEN
DescriptionDescription Though the title of Pedro Costa's latest translates as "nothing ever changes," those who know him only from his masterpiece COLOSSAL YOUTH (2006) w ill find everything's different. Costa filmed actor-chanteuse Jeanne Balibar performing in club settings, and, using additional materials, created a transfixing black-and-white contemplation of an artist as she rehearses and finds...
October 16, 2019
NEIL YOUNG TRUNK SHOW: SCENES FROM A CONCERT
DescriptionDescription Few musical artists have shown cataloging their has much interest in history as Neil Young. Since RUST NEVER SLEEPS in 1979, Young has been at the center of concert films. Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme has always exhibited a passion for music in his films and reset the standard for concert films with 1984's STOP...
October 16, 2019
NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS (KASI AZ GORBEHAYE IRANI KHABAR NADAREH )
DescriptionDescription Bahman Ghobadi's infectiously lively and youthfully exuberant film follows two intelligent and determined Persian teens as they jump through hoops doing what in many other countries is relatively simple: forming a rock band As they comb Tehran's basements, recording studios, and even cattle ranches(!) for other fellow indie rockers they begin to understand the...
October 16, 2019
MOSCOW (MOSCOU)
DescriptionDescription Eduardo Coutinho, Brazil's premier documentary filmmaker, reaches new heights with this surprising, even mysterious account of the Galpoo Theatre Company in Belo Horizonte. Coutinho and his crew are invited to record the process as the troupe creates a new, emotionally charged production of Chekhov's The Three Sisters. Stage director Enrique Diaz and his company...
October 16, 2019
MOTHER (MADEO)
DescriptionDescription After only three films, including his cult sensation THE HOST (2006), Bong Joon-ho's slightly bent and always inventive approach to genre filmmaking has pushed him to the Korean cinema forefront. Although MOTHER is a dazzling murder mystery, it's also built on Bong's reliable penchant for psychologically astute, character-centered storytelling. A single mother (played with...
October 16, 2019
THE MILK OF SORROW (LA TETA ASUSTADA)
DescriptionDescription Winner of the Golden Bear for best film at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival, this exquisitely original allegory details the lingering trauma from the decades-long conflict in Peru that was passed on through la teta austada - milk of sorrow - to women including the beautiful, enigmatically silent Fausta (Magaly Solier). The film begins...
October 16, 2019
MODUS OPERANDI
DescriptionDescription After the mysterious "The Cowboy" double-crosses the CIA, two important briefcases go missing. Black Ops special agent Stanley Cashay is dragged out of retirement to track them down. His reward? The name of the man who killed his wife. But Cashay needs to clean up quickly if he wants to get back into the...
October 16, 2019
LUNCHFILMS
DescriptionDescription Truly independent films ore mode from the gut. One day I bought a broke filmmaker friend lunch. I suggested that, instead of owing me, he make a film for the amount I spent. We mode a napkin contract with "rules" to follow Fifty Lunchfilms hove now been commissioned. Like a menu, the series has...
