EVENHAND

DescriptionDescription "You wanna help people? You arrest them. That's what you do, you're a cop." Those are the words of wisdom Officer Ted Morning offers new partner Officer Rob Francis during his first week on the job in San Lovisa, Texas. Equal parts cocky high school quarterback and rugged cowboy, Morning (Bill Sage) finds joy...

EVERY STEWARDESS GOES TO HEAVEN (TODAS LAS AZAFATAS VAN AL CIELO)

DescriptionDescription Director Daniel Burman's deeply satisfying E VERY STEWARDESS GOES TO HEAVEN is a rousing confirmation that Argentinean independent filmmaking is alive and well, championing a new style of filmmaking incorporating strong narratives and complex visual styles. This is the story of a woman who is trying not to fall from heaven and a man...

EAT, SLEEP, NO WOMAN (ESSEN, SCHLAFEN, KEINE FRAUEN)

DescriptionDescription As American Cruise missiles begin raining down upon Taliban targets, their impact is felt far beyond Afghanistan's borders. Throughout he world, people notice subtle shifts in their daily lives. In Pakistan, a billboard painter for a local movie theater worries that attendance will drop because everyone is watching television. In the Amazon, two prospectors...

EDUCATING RITA

DescriptionDescription Rita (Julie Walters) is a married, working-class hairdresser with a sharp wit. She is 26 and doesn't want a baby. Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine) is a disillusioned university professor of literature. His marriage has failed, his girlfriend is having an affair with his best friend and he can't get through the day without...

DON’T TEMPT ME (SIN NOTICIAS DE DIOS)

DescriptionDescription In this very imaginative comedy by Agustin Díaz Yanes, feisty bad girl Penelope Cruz and sexy angel Victorial Abril are instruments in a battle between Heaven and Hell to rule the world. Angel Lola (Victoria Abril), a nightclub singer in her spare time, is sent to Earth to save the soul of a boxer,...

DR. CUDDLE

DescriptionDescription KUDDLE, a man who treats wounded Furbees befriends a precocious nine-year-old girl with surprising results.

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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