October 16, 2019
O’HORTEN
DescriptionDescription "It seems most everything comes too late . so nothing comes too late," someone tells Odd Horten, o shy, willfully isolated man whose life has been organized around the rigid rituals associated with his career as a train engineer. Now at mandatory retirement age and robbed of his familiar, by-the-clock patterns, Horten finds chaos...
October 16, 2019
NILOOFAR
DescriptionDescription Niloofar, a 12-year-old Iraqi girl, dreams of reading and writing, but she lives in a village where education is only for boys Her mother, a well-known midwife, insists that Niloofar become her apprentice. While assisting her mother during a delivery, Niloofar meets a feminist woman who undertakes to educate her in secret. Unfortunately, in...
October 16, 2019
NINETY THREE
DescriptionDescription A happy birthday from an acclaimed film artist.
October 16, 2019
A NECESSARY DEATH
DescriptionDescription The difficulties facing today's independent filmmakers ore immense. In addition to securing financing, mentorship and other support, these artists also need a subject or story worth their time and effort With exploitation and sensationalism ever more reworded, how can young artists make a name for themselves? It is in this context that a group...
October 16, 2019
NED KELLY
DescriptionDescription After making a successful transition to a Hollywood career, Australian-born Heath Ledger returned to his native soil to star in this handsomely mounted 2003 epic directed by his friend Gregor Jordon (TWO HANDS) It's a romanticized version of the history of the notorious 19th-century Kelly Gang that not only permeates Australian legend but also...
October 16, 2019
MY SEX LIFE… OR HOW I GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT
DescriptionDescription A prequel of sorts to KINGS AND QUEEN, Amalric (garnering his first Cesar) is a part-time philosophy lecturer laboring over a 400-page doctoral thesis while trying to break off his 10-year relationship with Devos. The film's round-robin bed swapping and hyperarticulate ensemble recalls Rohmer, but Desplechin's indefatigable exuberance is singular.
October 16, 2019
NATIVE DANCER (BAKSY)
DescriptionDescription Co-written and produced by the Oscar-nominated Russian director Sergei Bodrov (MONGOL), this debut feature by Omarova collides two sensibilities-the rough-and -tumble nature of gangsters and the mysticism of witch doctors- in a conflict over a piece of real estate. The elderly and wise Aidai (Neisipkul Omarbekova, a real-life witch doctor) dispenses spiritual guidance, provides...
October 16, 2019
MR. MUSTACHE
DescriptionDescription Several interviews reveal the disadvantages and positive effects from growing hair beneath one's nose, including the complexities of kissing and eating ice cream.
October 16, 2019
MUGS
DescriptionDescription Your favorite celebrity mug shots morph from one to the next, with a trancelike soundtrack adding to the hypnotic effect.
October 16, 2019
MAKE MY DAY
DescriptionDescription A boy arriving at the hospital with a sprained ankle . finds himself standing up for his father against a bullying doctor.
