October 16, 2019
ALEX AND HER ARSE TRUCK
DescriptionDescription Featuring Baby Shoes, his nymphomaniac girlfriend, her black lover, a mentalist and a pair of drug-dealing lesbians.
October 16, 2019
ALONE IN FOUR WALLS (ALLEIN IN VIER WANDEN)
DescriptionDescription Director Alexandra Westmeier's absorbing documentary offers a poignant look at what a devastated economic structure can do to impressionable youth. This beautifully lensed film about Russian delinquent boys, all under the age of 14, allows its subjects to recount their offenses and share the often-tragic stories of their lives Many of the boys have...
October 16, 2019
AFTERSCHOOL
DescriptionDescription A teenage rites-of-passage drama, AFTERSCHOOL vividly captures the corrosive omnipresence of Web video footage for American teens. From violent You Tube-style clips to Internet pornography, our new media, suggests this debut film from director Antonio Campos, is creating a tangled web of confusion for young people going through puberty. Among them is the skinny,...
October 16, 2019
AGILE, MOBILE, HOSTILE: A YEAR WITHIN ANDRE WILLIAMS
DescriptionDescription A larger-than-life presence, magnetic raconteur and blues-soaked dandy, Andre Williams is o singular figure in American music. On the backs of hit 45s like Bacon Fat, Jail Bait and Shake a Tail Feather, Williams become on R&B star in the late 1950s and early 1960s. At Motown he mentored young Stevie Wonder and worked...
October 16, 2019
ACNE
DescriptionDescription Few films capture the pitfalls of growing up as simply and effectively as Federico Veiroj's heartfelt, beautifully crafted debut. A teenage rite-of-passage drama infused with comedy and raging hormones, ACNE vividly captures the tangled confusion of adolescence and ripeness of puberty for this young Jewish boy. At 13, Rafa Bregman (Alejandro Tocar) is going...
October 16, 2019
ADAM RESURRECTED
DescriptionDescription Like his Oscar-nominated AFFLICTION ( 1997), Paul Schrader's latest film deals with on individual tormented by memories of horrific violence . Like MISHIMA ( 1985), it jumps boldly through time and space . And like AUTO FOCUS (2002), it serves up on alternately playful and disturbing mix of sordid reality and stylized, sexually charged...
October 16, 2019
3 WOMEN (SE ZAN)
DescriptionDescription Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Manijeh Hekmat unfurls a beautifully paced, visually rich and emotionally insightful story about a family of three women. On a day that should be ordinary, Minou, a museum rug conservator, sets out with her aging, senile mother to visit the doctor. Already distracted and fretting over her daughter Pegah, who's simply...
October 16, 2019
ACHILLES AND THE TORTOISE (AKIRES TO KAME)
DescriptionDescription The West has no real analogue to Takeshi "Beat" Kitano. One of Japan 's best-known celebrities, he has been a stand-up comic, TV personality, novelist, pointer, academic and , as international film buffs know, a major film director. The fluidity he's demonstrated in his creative life is also echoed in his film work ,...
October 16, 2019
24 CITY (ER SHI SI CHENG JI)
DescriptionDescription Jia Zhangke goes one (magnificent) step further in his idiosyncratic exploration of both the thin border between documentary and fiction and the self-imposed destruction experienced by China in her march toward a free-market economy. Though factories were once the temples in which socialism was built, with their workers treated as heroes, they are now...
October 16, 2019
THE YEAR OF THE NAIL (AÑO UÑA)
DescriptionDescription THE YEAR OF THE NAIL is a thoughtful, evocative portrayal of friendship, love, longing and the sometimes static nature of life. Director/Screenwriter Jonas Cuaron (Alfonso Curaron's son) tells this story through photographs and voiceover. Using a year's worth of photos that he took of spontaneous events and day-to-day activities, Cuaron creates an understated but...
