1980: THE RED RIDING TRILOGY PART 2

DescriptionDescription This harrowing serpentine, five-hour tale of crime, revenge and ultimate redemption was adapted by Tony Grisoni (FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS) from British writer David Peace's acclaimed series of crime novels about the true-life sexual murders committed by the Yorkshire Ripper in the 1970s and 80s. In the first film, directed by Julian...

1974: THE RED RIDING TRILOGY PART 1

DescriptionDescription This harrowing serpentine, five-hour tale of crime, revenge and ultimate redemption was adapted by Tony Grisoni (FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS) from British writer David Peace's acclaimed series of crime novels about the true-life sexual murders committed by the Yorkshire Ripper in the 1970s and 80s. In the first film, directed by Julian...

YELLOW SUBMARINE

THE WRESTLER

DescriptionDescription Back in the late '80s, Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a headlining professional wrestler Now, 20 years later, he ekes out a living performing for handfuls of die-hard wrestling fans in high school gyms and community centers around New Jersey. Estranged from his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) and unable to sustain any...

WORLDS APART

DescriptionDescription The Danish contender for the Best Foreign-language Film Academy Award, WORLDS APART is director Niels Arden Oplev's follow-up film to the acclaimed WE SHALL OVERCOME. Based on a newspaper story Oplev read about a girl expelled from the Jehovah's Witnesses, the film tells the story of Sara, a pretty, sheltered 17-year-old girl who, with...

THE WORLD WE WANT

DescriptionDescription Patrick Davidson 's empowering documentary follows a group of self-motivated teenagers from a brood spectrum of countries who come together to strive for societal betterment. In the film, eight teams compete in Project Citizen, an international program in which teams of teens present game plans for community improvement in their home cities. An array...

WOMANS’ WORK

DescriptionDescription A mild-mannered housewife accidentally discovers her superpowers, but can she get this hero stuff right?

WITCH HUNT

DescriptionDescription Dana Nachman and Don Hardy's documentary film, narrated and executive produced by Sean Penn and featuring music from Pearl Jam, chronicles the unraveling of a small town's justice system. The subjects, working -class moms and dads , all were wrongly convicted of child molestation in the early 1980s in Bakersfield, Calif, where the Kern...

WENDY AND LUCY

DescriptionDescription Wendy is alone save for her dog, Lucy, and traveling toward Alaska in hopes of finding seasonal employment. Then her car breaks down and Lucy vanishes. Avoiding the usual cliches of class-conflict melodrama, Kelly Reichardt (OLD JOY) manages to give us a sense of, what everyday economic desperation feels like through Wendy's encounters with...

WELLNESS

DescriptionDescription Film and literature are filled with charming charlatans-suave frauds who take our money, yes, but also steal our hearts. This oxymoronic breed is nowhere to be found in writer-director Jake Mahaffy's devastating drama WELLNESS, which instead presents a starkly prosaic take on the modern confidence man. In the story of the erstwhile salesman Thomas...

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