October 16, 2019
DR. CUDDLE
DescriptionDescription KUDDLE, a man who treats wounded Furbees befriends a precocious nine-year-old girl with surprising results.
October 16, 2019
THE DESERTED VALLEY
DescriptionDescription An official selection at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival, THE DESERTED VALLEY is one of only a few Vietnamese films post-produced outside of Vietnam. It has already won several awards, including three at the 13th Vietnam Film Festival. Rector Tanh runs a small rural school in the remote mountainous and misty Hoang Lien...
October 16, 2019
DIVINE INTERVENTION (YADON ILAHEYYA)
DescriptionDescription Part parable, part experimental narrative, Elia Suleiman utilizes irreverence,w it, mysticism and insight to craft an intense, hallucinogenic and extremely adept exploration of the dreams and night· mares of Palestinians and Israelis living in uncertain times. In the opening sequence, Santa Claus-with a basket of gifts on his back and a machete in his...
October 16, 2019
THE DANCER UPSTAIRS
DescriptionDescription Based on Nicholas Shakespeare's adaptation of the eponymous novel, THE DANCER UPSTAIRS marks John Malkovich's feature directorial debut, starring Academy Award®-nominated actor Javier Bardem (BEFORE NIGHT FALLS) and acclaimed actress Laura Morante (THE SON'S ROOM). As an unspecified Latin American nation nears collapse under a highly organized terrorist movement, idealistic policeman Agustin Rejas (Bardem)...
October 16, 2019
DARK WATER (HONOGURAI MIZUNO SOKOKARA)
DescriptionDescription Dread. Pure dread. That's the only word to describe the chilling cinema of Hideo Nakata. Tempering his terrors with shades of sorrow and repulsion, Nakata has an unerring knack for unsettling his audience, often-times using seemingly innocuous objects. In his previous films, THE RING and THE RING 2, it was videotape and a ringing...
October 16, 2019
CIVIL BRAND
DescriptionDescription Starring Lisa Raye, DaBrat, MC Lyle and Mos Def, CIVIL BRAND is a hip-hop tale of young black women behind bars who rise up against the "prisons for profit." After Frances, a young nurse and mother in an abusive marriage, kills her husband in self-defense,s he is locked up in a prison that harvests...
October 16, 2019
THE CUCKOO (KUKUSHKA)
DescriptionDescription Writer/director Alexander Rogozhkin's 1998 film CHECKPOINT examined the banality and treachery of war. Now, he has produced an exquisitely tuned look at the misunderstandings among three people - a Russian, a Finn and a Lapp, none of whom speak each other's language. It is September 1944, the month in which Finland was forced to...
October 16, 2019
CINEMANIA
DescriptionDescription For most people, movies are a form of entertainment. But for the five New York cinephiles featured in this unique documentary, movies are a psychological necessity-an obsession that dominates every waking moment. We meet the characters in this delightfully deranged world through interviews in movie houses, on the street and in their homes. Many...
October 16, 2019
CITY OF GOD (CIDADE DE DEUS)
DescriptionDescription Told with equal parts aching tolerance and smoldering activism, CITY OF GOD is a raw, honest film. Director Fernando Meirelles and codirector Katia Lund assembled 110 non-professional actors into a stylishly imaginative story of one boy's coming-of-age in the dark suburb of Rio-Cidade de Deus-City of God. CITY OF GOD, adapted from Paulo Lins'...
October 16, 2019
CITY OF NO LIMITS (EN LA CIUDAD SIN LIMITES)
DescriptionDescription Antonio Hernandez's THE CITY OF NO LIMITS combines exceptional performances and unforgettable visuals to tell the story of the inner workings of a family and the never-ending effect of the past on the present. Newly arrived from Argentina, Viktor (Leonardo Sbaraglia) finds his terminally ill father tortured and apparently on the brink of madness....
