October 16, 2019
SUPPLEMENT (SUPLEMENT)
DescriptionDescription Krzysztof Zanussi's previous film, LIFE AS A FATAL SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE, won the grand prize at the Moscow Film Festival and was Poland's entry for the Foreign Language Film Oscar. Half sequel and half companion piece to that film, SUPPLEMENT focuses on frustrated medical student Filip and his pragmatic girlfriend, Hanka. Torn between a...
October 16, 2019
SNAKESKIN
DescriptionDescription Gillian Ashurst's brazen portrait of contemporary teenage angst is an homage to the great American Western. Separated by a century and a couple of continents, SNAKESKIN is part cowboy mythology, part THELMA & LOUISE and part EASY RIDER. Two Kiwi kids, Alice and Johnny, are looking for a fast trip out of mundane suburbia....
October 16, 2019
SOLITUDE
DescriptionDescription Louis and Hilary are as far from average as any middle-class Phoenix siblings can get. Louis is brilliant but suicidal. Hilary is seductive but falling apart. The "fun and games" escalate when Hilary tips the delicate balance of their relationship by arriving home with a new girlfriend. With an unwitting guest in their apartment,...
October 16, 2019
SMALL VOICES (MGA MUNTIN TINIG)
DescriptionDescription For many, the best of Filipino cinema is defined by its resolute devotion to exposing the country's problems. With SMALL VOICES director Gil M. Portes opts for a decidedly more optimistic stance, albeit one tempered by a realistic outlook. The film follows Melinda (Alessandra de Rossi), who arrives at a remote province to replace...
October 16, 2019
THE SMITH FAMILY
DescriptionDescription Kim and Steve Smith of Salt Lake City, Utah, are seemingly the picture-perfect Morman couple. Proud parents of two bright and loving teenagers, active in the Morman community and absolutely devoted to each other and their family, the Smiths seem nearly flawless. But, on their ninth wedding anniversary, Steve reveals his sexual affairs with...
October 16, 2019
THE SLAUGHTER RULE
DescriptionDescription Capturing the stark landscape of a rural Montana winter in Cinemascope and smoldering performances by Ryan Gosling and David Morse, THE SLAUGHTER RULE is an astute, harsh meditation on the interminglings of growing up, identity and sense of place. Set in a rugged rural town in Montana, Roy (Gosling) is cut from his high...
October 16, 2019
SLEEPING ROUGH (TUSSENLAND)
DescriptionDescription One of the winners of the 2002 Rotterdam Film Festival, filmmaker Eugenie Jansen's SLEEPING ROUGH is a rich story that cuts to the heart of friendship between two disparate individuals. Jakob, an 80-year-old moody widower and veteran of the Dutch East Indies war, is estranged from his only daughter Majok, a young Sudanese illegal...
October 16, 2019
SHATTERED GLASS (SCHERBENTANZ)
DescriptionDescription The destructive nature of family secrets and the redemptive power of the truth, however painful, are at the heart of this taut family drama. Resentful and disillusioned, underachieving younger son Jesko just wants to be left alone to die from leukemia. At his father's insistence, however, Jesko reluctantly returns home under the pretense of...
October 16, 2019
SHOUJYO: AN ADOLESCENT
DescriptionDescription One of Japan's most popular actors, Eiji Okudo's directorial debut is a beautiful, erotic fable. The film portrays a Japan more complex and dysfunctional than what is often displayed on American movie screens. Tomokawa, played by Okuda, is a middle-aged cop who travels his beat by bicycle in an urban residential neighborhood outside Tokyo....
