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...
October 16, 2019
THE MESSENGER
DescriptionDescription After collecting his medals and recovering from hi s wounds inflicted during a tour of duty in Iraq, Will Montgomery, played by Ben Foster (SIX FEET UNDER, 3lO TO YUMA) in his first leading role, marks his return to civilian life by sleeping with his o ld girlfriend (Jena Malone), now engaged to another...
October 16, 2019
LONDON RIVER
DescriptionDescription On July 7, 2005, four Muslim assassins, traveling on London's public transport during morning rush hour, activate a series of bombs. They kill 56 people and injure many others on three underground trains and one double-decker bus. Rochid Bouchareb's LONDON RIVER tells the emotional story of on unlikely friendship that develops between Mrs. Sommers...
October 16, 2019
LOOKING FOR ERIC
DescriptionDescription Working-class hero Ken Loach makes o surprising shift to a light, even fanciful mood in his new film about Eric a bedraggled postal worker (the winning Steve Evets) who is watching his entire life slip away from him. The realist, street-level setting and Eric's messy domestic world is absolutely Loachian, but for this serious...
October 16, 2019
LEAD
DescriptionDescription Kevin Jerome Everson's unprecedented body of work about the African-American experience in America is beautifully encapsulated in this trio of films THE CITIZENS features a young Muhammad Ali - more a father than a boxer LEAD offers a beautiful expression of work, and THE SIMPLE ANTENNAE does the some for ploy.
October 16, 2019
A LETTER TO UNCLE BOONMEE
DescriptionDescription Three young men describe to an uncle how their Thai village of Nabua has been abandoned in the wake of war.
October 16, 2019
A LAKE (UN LAC)
DescriptionDescription Philippe Grandrieux (SOMBRE, LA VIE NOUVELLE) is an artist fully engaged with the reinvention of cinema. "I don't thin k in terms of stories," Grandrieux hos noted. "To me these films ore objects They're plastic They're formed." Set in a misty and remote corner of the French Alps, A LAKE envisions? family living in...
October 16, 2019
THE LAST STATION
DescriptionDescription In this comic-dramatic account of Leo Tolstoy's final months, Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer, in a magnificent performance) has renounced writing fiction and started a movement focused on pacifism, chastity and the abolishment of private property. His secretary (James McAvoy) mediates between two formidable opponents who vie for control of the author's manuscripts: Chertkov (Paul Giamatti)...
October 16, 2019
JOHN WAYNE HATED HORSES
DescriptionDescription On a hot summer day, a father and his young son struggle with their differing ideas about masculinity, boredom and the proper way to play with army toys.
October 16, 2019
KANIKÔSEN
DescriptionDescription Though famed at home for his wacky comedies, the 45-year-old Japanese actor/director Sobu remains virtually unknown in the US His latest, inspired by a 1929 left-wing agitprop novel that become sensationally popular after being translated into Mango genre graphic fiction, veers in striking, politically motivated new directions while retaining moments of his outlandish brand...
