October 16, 2019
SHAME (SKAMMEN)
DescriptionDescription "History is a nightmare from which I cannot awake," wrote James Joyce. Bergman dramatizes that idea unforgettably in SHAME. Liv Ullman wakes up to a roar of rockets that sound like they're emanating from an endless newscast inside her head . Her meek husband (Max Von Sydow) is far less capable than she of...
October 16, 2019
SECRET SUNSHINE (MILYANG)
DescriptionDescription Lee Chang-Dogn's movie possesses the fullness and complexity of a great novel, revealing new layers to us the deeper we move into it. It begins as the story of a recent widow (Jeon Do-yeon) and her young son adjusting to their new lives in a small town that suddenly, without warning, becomes a thriller...
October 16, 2019
THE SAVAGES
DescriptionDescription Wendy (Laura Linney) is a struggling playwright, surviving on temp jobs while enduring a bad relationship with a married man. Her brother John (Philip Seymor Hoffman), is a university professor forever delaying the finish of his PhD thesis and struggling with commitment issues. With the sudden physical decline of their estranged father (Philip Bosco),...
October 16, 2019
SEARCHERS 2.0
DescriptionDescription SEARCHERS 2.0 is Alex Cox's (REPO MAN, SID & NANCY) eclectic, laugh-out-loud send-up of the original SEARCHERS, steeped in all the elements we have come to expect and want from an Alex Cox film. Mel and Fred are two actors who spent their careers in American westerns. When they discover that legendary screenwriter Fritz...
October 16, 2019
SAKURAN
DescriptionDescription As apprentice courtesan Kiyoha in this racy, mango-inspired film, Japanese pop superstar Anna Tsuchiya turns in a knowing, nuanced performance that suggests she recognizes the numerous similarities between her own day job and her character's profession. Both exist in celebrity-driven worlds where youth and beauty trump experience. One hopes that is where the analogy...
October 16, 2019
ROCK POCKETS
DescriptionDescription A moving musical portrait of PDA.
October 16, 2019
SALIVA
DescriptionDescription A young girl is about to experience her first kiss, but a crippling fear of drowning in saliva threatens to overtake this seminal moment.
October 16, 2019
PUBLIC ENEMY: WELCOME TO THE TERRORDOME
DescriptionDescription Public Enemy's 20 year career has had a monumental impact on the music world. Robert Patton-Spruill's WELCOME TO THE TERRORDOME chronicles their legacy, their history and what icons of the music world say about their influence. Two decades later, the most controversial rap group of the '80s is all grown up ... and still...
October 16, 2019
THE QUEST FOR THE MISSING PIECE
DescriptionDescription THE QUEST FOR THE MISSING PIECE is a compelling documentary about rituals and their meanings in a modern world. Creatively telling his story as a fairy tale, Director Oded Lotan punctures the surface of time honored traditions. Once upon a time in a small land by the seashore, a baby was born. Eight days...
October 16, 2019
PSYCHO
DescriptionDescription Probably Hitchcock's most famous film is the gothic thriller, PSYCHO. The film features Hitchcock at his most startling pitch and at the height of his manipulative technique. The famous shower scene in which he expeditiously disposes of the co-star, Janet Leigh, is a masterpiece of economic and powerful editing, pulling the audience irresistibly into...
