October 16, 2019
BODY OF WAR
DescriptionDescription One of the most effective ways to give an important story life beyond the 60-second news bite is to present it in o film. So it is no surprise that Phil Donahue, one of the fathers of the modern television talk show, has collaborated with veteran documentary filmmaker Ellen Spiro to give us an...
October 16, 2019
CARAMEL
DescriptionDescription ln her gorgeous and love-affirming feature debut - which was the sleeper hit of this year 's Cannes Film Festival - Nadine Labaki finds gold in the hot goo used to strip body hair. Set in and around a Beirut beauty salon, CARAMEL stirs together the stories of five women's lives. In Beirut, five...
October 16, 2019
BLIND MOUNTAIN (MANG SHAN)
DescriptionDescription A demographic time bomb haunts China today. Den Xiaoping 's One-Child Policy has left too few women available for Chinese men to marry, especially in the less prosperous countryside. Writer/director Li Yang's film, which received sustained. ovations at Cannes uses this society-wide crisis as the basis for raw and powerful melodrama. The promise of...
October 16, 2019
BLISS
DescriptionDescription Director Robert Todd's haunting, evocative work will spill over our public space for all to enjoy. With deep ties to the natural world, Todd's films have elevated modern experimental filmmaking.
October 16, 2019
BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER THREE
DescriptionDescription The third part in a series of films dealing with naturally derived psychedelia. Shot during a performance by local Rhode Island noise band Lightning Bolt, this film documents the transformation of a rock audience's collective freak-out into a trance ritual of the highest spiritual order .
October 16, 2019
THE BAND’S VISIT (BIKUR KATIZMORET)
DescriptionDescription This audience-pleasing sensation of Cannes' Un Certain Regard and winner of eight Israeli Oscars follows the comic plight of the Alexandria Police Orchestra. These eight slightly bewildered Egyptian officers, after getting lost at the airport, arrive in a remote, nearly deserted Israeli village, their powder-blue uniforms standing out against the desert landscape. Fortunately, they...
October 16, 2019
BIG RIG
DescriptionDescription Sleek steel monsters roll through the night on a cross-country odyssey that keeps the wheels of the American machine turning. Meet the working-class heroes who deliver your food-and all the goods you can't live without. Doug Pray (SCRATCH, HYPE!, SURFWISE), travels 21 ,000 miles-spanning 45 states and dozens of truck stops - riding with...
October 16, 2019
AUTUMN BALL
DescriptionDescription In a shabby Estonian hotel, a coat room attendant pretends be a guest at a conference of intellectuals so he can scam a free meal. As he tucks in, a woman starts a one-sided conversation, opining, There is no such thing as a Slavic identity. He nods mutely, still shoveling food into his face,...
October 16, 2019
BABY
DescriptionDescription A mother holds her child. Her face barely shows any expression.
