SOUTHLAND TALES

DescriptionDescription In 1920, Robert Frost described two roads in a yellow wood. More than 85 years later, filmmaker Richard Kelly, director of the cult favorite DONNIE DARKO, takes the one less traveled. In one of the year's most anticipated films, Kelly takes us on a journey into a parallel reality. The year is 2008, the...

SILENT LIGHT (STELLET LICHT)

DescriptionDescription Carlos Reygadas's (JAPON, BATTLE IN HEAVEN) new film is a beautifully haunting meditation on the impermanence of existence and love, infused with an ethereal peace. In this emotion ally mature story about a small Mennonite community in Mexico, Reygadas lets the audience peek into the domestic rituals of a couple living a life rarely...

SMILEY FACE

DescriptionDescription OK, just hang on a second, because it's not like this is a complicated movie with tons of shadows or peasants , but there's, you know, a lot of moving parts and stuff. It definitely starts on a Ferris wheel, which I just realized is TOTALLY WEIRD because it also stars Anna Faris. Faris...

SHUTEYE HOTEL

DescriptionDescription As cops investigate gruesome murders in a sleazy hotel they become victims of an evil force.

SIGUR ROS: HEIMA

DescriptionDescription Sigur Ros's thank you letter to their motherland, HEIMA will carry you on an ethereal cloud of profoundly gorgeous compositions as you float over the breathtaking Icelandic countryside, a landscape as hypnotic and serenely beautiful as their music. In the summer of 2006, Sigur Ros - who have inspired legions of devoted fans and...

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...

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...

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),...

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...

ROCK POCKETS

DescriptionDescription A moving musical portrait of PDA.

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