October 16, 2019
OREGON
DescriptionDescription The Dark and Quirky Comedy Shorts Program contains seven offerings ranging from the inventive and humorous to the scary and dismal. The program opens with RATILER, the story of a Samaritan who takes the good neighbor scene just a little too far. BLACK XXX-MAS, a dark and violent look at human nature, reminds us...
October 16, 2019
ONE DAY CROSSING
DescriptionDescription In recent years, filmmakers have been challenged to be different and nowhere is it more evident than in this year's Short Drama selection. In ONE DAY CROSSING, a woman struggles to protect her family during a crisis point in WWII. After watching his father drown a litter of puppies in BURLAP, a young boy...
October 16, 2019
THE OPPONENT
DescriptionDescription Have you ever felt so frustrated-so taunted-that you wished you could just beat some sense into the offending party? Patty has. A victim of domestic abuse, Patty is at her wits' end as she wakes up in the temporary shelter of a motel. There, she meets June, a caring soul who offers her a...
October 16, 2019
NAKED STATES
DescriptionDescription New York photographer Spencer Tunick spent two years crossing the country by van, asking strangers in every state to pose nude in public spaces. Beginning with his arrest at a Times Square photo shoot, NAKED STATES follows Tunick's trek, including his run-ins with South Dakota bikers and 1,200 willing participants at a Phish concert....
October 16, 2019
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?
DescriptionDescription Everett Ulysses McGill (George Clooney) is a garrulous, silvertongued, petty criminal, having some difficulty adjusting to the regimentation of life as a man sentenced to a term of hard labor in Mississippi. Reluctant to spend any more time crushing rocks, he scams his way off the chain gang with a clumsy duo of lame...
October 16, 2019
ODD LITTLE MAN (DA JETRAFF JESES… UED SPRETTERT)
DescriptionDescription Based on the book THE WORLD OF MY CHILDHOOD by Norway's beloved jazz poet Odd Borretzen, ODD UTILE MAN takes us back to the years when Borretzen was a child. The film is at once thoughtful, darkly funny, and penetratingly astute about that oftdepicted moment in time when one develops a raw awareness of...
October 16, 2019
ME & ISAAC NEWTON
DescriptionDescription Michael Apted's latest documentary is an exhilarating journey to the center of the lives of seven brilliant scientists, exploring the personal and spiritual underpinnings of their intellectual quests. This captivating, accessible film covers the spectrum of sciences, from theoretical physicist Michio Kaku's search for the equation for "the theory of everything," or string theory;...
October 16, 2019
THE MISSION
DescriptionDescription Taut and atmospheric, Johnnie To's instant Hong Kong neo-classic, THE MISSION, shows that To Kei-Fung is one of the "few Hong Kong filmmakers who can deliver the goods-and this is one of his best. A respected crime boss is almost murdered. Five bodyguards are recruited to protect him and his family. A simple "mission;"...
October 16, 2019
MAN OVER THE HILL
DescriptionDescription Animation as a whole is in the midst of a real renaissance right now, like a smack in the head-or a body blow, as is evident in the opening short PUMP-ACTION, where balloon animals meet RESERVOIR DOGS. On the more traditional side comes the suburban teen comedy PROUD FAMILY which inlvolves a young girl...
October 16, 2019
MAZE
DescriptionDescription Actor Rob Morrow makes a remarkable directorial feature debut with this alternately subtle and painfully realistic love story, in which he stars as Lyle Maze, a sensitive and charming sculptor afflicted with Tourette Syndrome. Isolated by his own fear and other people's misconceptions about his condition, Lyle has resigned himself to never finding true...
