HOT DOG

DescriptionDescription This is the third in the DOG series. In this one episode our plucky hero joins the fire company to save the world from house fires and gain the affection he so richly deserves. Typically, the results never turn out the way he had planned.

HI MY NAME IS RYAN

DescriptionDescription I like to stay busy. I like to make people happy. I am an entertainer," quips the exuberantly youthful Ryan Avery, luminous figurehead, rebellious visionary and eclectic member of Phoenix's outsider art scene . Charmingly crafted by Paul Eagleston and Stephen Rose, this accomplished documentary portrait introduces the life's work of a confounding and...

THE HIDDEN LIFE OF THE BURROWING OWL

DescriptionDescription Through the lens of a wild life documentary, we meet an owl who recently lost his mate to a large predator. Can he survive in this dangerous wilderness alone?

THE GOOD THE BAD THE WEIRD

DescriptionDescription One might call director Kim Jee-woon's stunning $10 million homage to Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone a kimchi Western The sixth film by the director of the cult favorite A TALE OF TWO SISTERS (2003) and A BITTERSWEET LIFE (2005), THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE WEIRD continues Kim's South Korean box-office winning streak....

THE HEADLESS WOMAN

DescriptionDescription Lucrecia Martel's LA CIENEGA skewered the corruption of a wealthy Argentine family and their servants. In THE HOLY GIRL, Martel explored an adolescent girl's erotic-religious obsession. Now , in her third and most demanding film, THE HEADLESS WOMAN (co-produced by Pedro Almodovar and his brother Augustin), Martel ingeniously depicts an upper-class matron in crisis....

GOGOL BORDELLO NON-STOP

DescriptionDescription Gogol Bordello is a collective, musically and politically We create an insane party atmosphere to deliver social and political commentary." - Eugene Hutz After years spent in various European refugee camps, Eugene Hutz made his reputation in the U.S as a DJ at New York's hipster clubs. But he had bigger plans. Recruiting musicians...

GOMORRAH

DescriptionDescription We've seen the story on screen before: first a breakdown in loyalties among crime gongs , then a wave of unthinkable violence . But writer-director Matteo Garrone injects this tale- winner of Cannes's Grand Prize-with an epic Balzacian vision. Garrone adapted Roberto Saviano's sensational best-selling investigative account of Naples's organized crime organizations (a book...

A GOOD DAY TO BE BLACK AND SEXY

DescriptionDescription African-American writer-director Dennis Dortch's smart, sensuous debut explores the ever-shifting balance of power in the tug of war between the genders . Set in Los Angeles over the course of one day, the film is composed of six vignettes about the intimate territory of sexual desire as played out in bedrooms, kitchens and the...

GACHI BOI WRESTLING WITH A MEMORY (GÂCHI BOI)

DescriptionDescription Every morning, the 20-year-old low student lgarashi (Ryuto Sato) wakes up able to remember only a portion of his life-the port that happened prior to a bicycle occident that damaged his frontal cortex and temporal lobe. Resorting to copious notes and Polaroids, lgoroshi tries to cull together some semblance of continuity to his life...

FINALLY, LILLIAN AND DAN

DescriptionDescription Mike Gibisser's auspicious debut feature includes so much original vision it's hard not to feel a tremor of excitement a new voice in American cinema has arrived. FINALLY, LILLIAN AND DAN offers o meditation on young love and its delicacy, its hope and exhilaration, as well as its loneliness and naivete . Lillian lives...

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