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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

PSYCHO HILLBILLY CABIN MASSACRE!

DescriptionDescription A bloodbath erupts when a group of Ivy League students discover an isolated hillbilly cabin in the woods.

POP SKULL

DescriptionDescription There's a moment early on in Director Adam Wingard's debut feature POP SKULL where you will begin to doubt yourself. Don't freak out - it happens to everyone . This isn't a film that is 'difficult to watch' in the traditional use of the phrase - denoting challenging subject material or intense, visceral performances...

PRINCE OF THE HIMALAYAS

DescriptionDescription Almost every country in the world at one time or another has displayed and defined its cultural identity by offering up its own interpretation of the plays of Shakespeare. Now that China has again become a global cultural force, especially in cinema, it's not surprising that we're starting to see Chinese Shakespeare on film....

THE PRINCESS OF NEBRASKA

DescriptionDescription Wayne Wang's career as a filmmaker has been marked by a restless desire to adopt drastically different styles from film to film. EAT A BOWL OF TEA and JOY LUCK CLUB a re beautiful jewel-like pieces that handle melodramatic family stories with quiet precision. SMOKE and CHINESE BOX unfold in harsher more frenetic urban...

PIERRE RISSIENT: MAN OF CINEMA

DescriptionDescription For the past 50 years, in the world of film, Pierre Rissient has operated behind the scenes as powerfully as any mythic cardinal in a 19th-century novel-either launching the careers of countless great filmmakers, or giving their work a vital, expertly-timed when most needed. Clint Eastwood, John Boorman , Sydney Pollack, Werner Herzog, Jane...

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