THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG

DescriptionDescription Spike has only been out of prison for four hours when everything goes wrong. Best friends Spike and Heaton must rethink their weekend plans after their van runs out of gas in the middle of nowhere. Now, instead of holing up inside a comfortable pub, they find themselves racing across the English countryside tailed...

THREE LOVES (DIE FRAU NACH DER MAN SICH SEHNT)

DescriptionDescription In this melodrama, Marlene Dietrich plays her first full-blown femme fatale-a sinister seductress who sets the wheels of her own demise in motion when she claims her next victim aboard a speeding passenger train. THREE LOVES, shot in Berlin, is Curtis Bernhardt's last silent movie and the first leading role for Dietrich. "Marlene Dietrich...

TO STAY ALIVE (BEMANI)

DescriptionDescription Director Dariush Mehrjoui paints a vivid portrait of a society and culture rarely seen in the West. Within its framework, he creates a world filled with beauty and loss, love and death. Bemani's world is thrown into upheaval when, against her wishes, her family forces her to marry an older, wealthier man. Bemani dreams...

TEMPO

DescriptionDescription In TEMPO, we learn that inventive methods are sometimes necessary for daily life-timing is everything.

TESTIMONY: THE MARIA GUARDADO STORY

DescriptionDescription Director Randy Vasquez was immediately impressed when he met Maria Guardado at a political meeting in 1997. Drawn to her spirit and ideas, he started documenting her protests in and around Los Angeles. A patient woman with the stubborn, admirable idealism of a dozen student activists, Guardado is a familiar sight at the Los...

TALK TO HER (HABLE CON ELLA)

DescriptionDescription From Academy Award®-winning writer/director Pedro Almodovar (MATADOR, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER) comes TALK TO HER, a tender film about madness. Two strangers, Benigno (Dario Grandinetti) and Marco (Leonor Watling), sit together in an audience, watching an emotional experimental dance performance to the music of Henry Purcell's...

TATTOO

DescriptionDescription TATTOOis a rich, suspenseful murder mystery that slithers from the trendy German rave scene into more ominous territory. With cinematic fervor, the film combines mesmerizing and unflinching imagery with all-too-human characters to tell a gripping psychological drama. After graduating from the police academy, Marc Schrader's (August Diehl) hopes of securing a cushy desk job...

SUV TAGGERS

DescriptionDescription And finally, two committed environmentalists take action in SUV TAGGERS by placing bumper stickers on vehicles in the parking lots of California malls.

SWEET SIXTEEN

DescriptionDescription Fearless British director Ken Loach (BREAD AND ROSES, MY NAME IS JOE, LADYBIRD LADYBIRD, RIFF RAFF, KES) returns in fine form with SWEET SlXTEEN, starkly beautiful and naturalistic work which breathes real life into its gritty characters SWEET SIXTEEN is set in the Greenock and Inverclyde areas of Glasgow, where unemployment, drugs, poverty and...

SPIDER

DescriptionDescription David Cronenberg (CRASH, NAKED LUNCH, DEAD RINGERS, THE FLY) has developed a reputation for his distinctive, memorable films. SPIDER's unique tone and pace are driven by the hypnotic, unforgettable performances of Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson and Gabriel Byrne. The details of life are acute to Spider (Fiennes), who is in a constant struggle to...

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