SCHPAAA

DescriptionDescription Thirteen-year-aid Jonas and his friend Mir, a ticking time bomb always ready to explode into violence, are part of a small gang in Oslo. Easy money calls when Mir's uncle gives them two assignments: deliver some heroin to one of his customers and beat up another one. Gradually, Mir comes to believe they may...

SET ME FREE (EMPORTE-MOI)

DescriptionDescription In a darkened movie theater in 1963 Montreal, thirteen-year-old Hanna first discovers Nana, played by Anna Karina in Jean-Luc Godard's VIVRE SA VIE. Fascinated by this character, Hanna finds a certain similarity between Nana and one of her teachers with whom she hopes to develop a special relationship. Hanna is at a difficult age,...

MUSIC OF THE HEART

DescriptionDescription From acclaimed director Wes Craven comes on extraordinary film for anyone who has ever been told their dreams ore out of reach. MUSIC OF THE HEART is the inspirational true story of a woman who proved to countless children that they could accomplish anything. Roberto Guospori's world collapses when her husband walks out on...

NAILBITER

DescriptionDescription An overbearing man causes his son to develop a worrying and nervous habit. After a violent act, the boy's mother takes matters into her own hands, with gruesome consequences.

PIGEONHOLED

DescriptionDescription Eighteen-year-old Devon has spent his adolescence failing at everything. Disgusted, his father duct-tapes him to the passenger seat of the family Jaguar and drops him at Sunny Meadows rehabilitation center. There, Devon meets Kayleigh (the anorexic), Gabby (the overeater), Eve (the nymphomaniac) and Eric (the sexually confused jock). Devon initially retreats to his room,...

PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES

DescriptionDescription Kick off the Halloween weekend with our all-night Halloween Movie Rave- -Thon! On Friday night the Vogue Theatre will host five classic horror, sci-fi and cult films. Most will include live accompaniment, as guest DJs from Berlin DJ Traveler & DJ Neucleus and notorious L.A. DJs Carlos Nino & Tony Watson spin a web...

PRINCESS MONONOKE

DescriptionDescription Directed by Japan's leading animator, the renowned Hayao Miyazaki, PRINCESS MONONOKE is mature in theme, operatic in scope and mystical in style. Set in ancient Japan and based loosely on Japanese folklore, the film takes place in a time of upheaval, of samurai warriors and isolated villages miles apart. In a remote mountain village...

RENDEZVOUS IN SAMARKAND

DescriptionDescription Randall, an insolent, rich American, is attempting to smuggle a 4x4 vehicle across the Sahara Desert, in a failed attempt to impress his French girlfriend, Cecile. Along the way, they pick up two enigmatic female Japanese hitchhikers, who are not told the reason for Randall and Cecile's trip. But the hitchhikers have a secret...

MIFUNE

DescriptionDescription The morning after Kresten's wedding, he receives word of his father's death, complicating the fact that he has already lied about having no living relatives. Unwilling to reveal his povertystricken past to his new wife, Kresten returns alone to his father's dilapidated farm, where he arranges his father's funeral while caring for Rud, his...

MOONSHINE

DescriptionDescription A portrait of Jim Tom Hedrick's rebellious spirit, his relationship with his Southern Baptist sister, and the process of distilling moonshine from corn mash. It's a taste of bootleg whiskey and Jesus.

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