October 16, 2019
DEADGIRL
DescriptionDescription This unexpectedly challenging film tangles the archetypal male coming-of-age narrative with the mechanics of paracinema . Using familiar visual tropes of a slasher-zombie-voyeur-horror flick, co-directors Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel make literal the terrifying hyperbolic metaphors of adolescent anxiety. Thus, the story begins under the guise of a film that we have seen countless...
October 16, 2019
A DAY AT THE BEACH
DescriptionDescription An animated look at the complexity of modern love.
October 16, 2019
CRY ME A RIVER (HESHANG DE AIQUING)
DescriptionDescription Jia Zhangke stages this exquisite film=poem over the romantic canals of the historic city of Suzhou during a 10-year reunion of university friends. They used to be poets or writers; now they discuss investment banking. One of them, the editor of a doomed literary magazine, had written, "The end of our generation does not...
October 16, 2019
A CHRISTMAS TALE
DescriptionDescription During a bittersweet holiday season, three generations of the Vuillard family gather at their home for what may be the last time. The matriarch, Junon (Catherine Deneuve), has a rare genetic condition. Her adult children, Henri (Mathieu Amalric), Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) and Ivan (Melvil Poupaud), and their wives and girlfriends are all at each...
October 16, 2019
THE CLASS
DescriptionDescription Laurent Cantet, already a hero to cineastes for his class-strife studies TIME OUT and HEADING SOUTH, breaks into the international spotlight with this Palme d'Or-winning story of Francois, who , along with his fellow teachers, is preparing for a new year at a high school in a tough Parisian neighborhood. Armed with the best...
October 16, 2019
CHE: PART TWO
DescriptionDescription One of American film's leading revolutionaries takes on one of modern history's most famous radicals in this two-part epic. The first segment, THE ARGENTINE, opens with Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Benicio Del Toro, in his most extraordinary, charismatic and nuanced performance yet), as an Argentine doctor who casts his fate with Fidel Castro (a remarkable...
October 16, 2019
CHOUGA
DescriptionDescription Since winning prizes for KAIRAT( Silver Leopard, Venice 1992) and KILLER (Un Certain Regard Prize, Cannes, 1998), Darezhan Omirbaev has served as the inspirational center of Kazakhstan's resurgent cinema . With this loose adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, he demonstrates the versatility, psychological insights, formal innovation and skill with actors that have made him...
October 16, 2019
THE CHASER
DescriptionDescription Ex-cop pimp Joong-ho is irritated because his girls keep disappearing without clearing their debts . One night, he gets a call from a customer and sends Min-ji. Joong-ho realizes the phone number of the customer matches that of the calls the missing girls got last. As something smells fishy, he searches for her During...
October 16, 2019
CHE: PART ONE
DescriptionDescription One of American film's leading revolutionaries takes on one of modern history's most famous radicals in this two-part epic. The first segment, THE ARGENTINE, opens with Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Benicio Del Toro, in his most extraordinary, charismatic and nuanced performance yet), as an Argentine doctor who casts his fate with Fidel Castro (a remarkable...
