Sons of a Gun (2008)
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FEATURE FILM | DOCUMENTARY
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A freshly minted classic, Sons of a Gun is a portrait of a new archetypal American family—Larry, a laissez-faire LAPD hostage negotiator, and the three mentally ill adults under his care in a Bay Area motel room. |
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Our Beloved Month of August (2008)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity. |
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The Portuguese Nun (2009)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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Young French actress speaks Portuguese like her mother but has never been to Lisbon. She arrives in the city for the first time just as they are about to start shooting a film based on the Letters of a Portuguese Nun by the Count of Guilleragues, a French nobleman from the... more » |
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25 Watts (2001)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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Montevideo, Saturday, 7 in the morning. El Leche, Javi, and Seba have not gone to sleep yet. Tired and bored, they sit in the usual wall fence to have a beer. El Leche has just stepped on dog excrement and is convinced that, consequently, bad luck will follow him everyw... more » |
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Montenegro (1981)
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FEATURE FILM | COMEDY
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An American-born mother and socialite living in Sweden is crumbling under the weight of her own existence. She resents her husband's absences and his indifferent attitude toward their two children. Moreover, her eccentric father and her children start to drive her insan... more » |
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Sebastiane (1976)
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FEATURE FILM | INDEPENDENT
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Director Derek Jarman's (Caravaggio, The Tempest) feature film debut Sebastiane lays bare the latent homoeroticism that has always lurked beneath the glossy surface of Hollywood biblical epics. |
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The General (1927)
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FEATURE FILM | CLASSICS
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Confederate army reject Johnnie Gray (Keaton) sets out to single-handedly win the war and the heart of his beloved with the help of his cherished locomotive. Considered one of the most cleverly choreographed comedies ever recorded on celluloid. |
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Room (2005)
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FEATURE FILM | INDEPENDENT
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Julia struggles to make ends meet and to raiser her daughters. But the excruciating migraines keep coming. Inside her splitting mind, disturbing visions erupt: water, rafters and then the windows of a warehouse sized room. Julia knows that she must find the room, and so... more » |
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Yella (2007)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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A young businesswoman gets in touch with her taste for cutthroat corporate tactics by slowly seducing her inner demons in The State I Am In writer/director Christian Petzold's free-flowing dramatic thriller. |
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Of Freaks and Men (1998)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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Alexlei Balabanov (Brother) directed this period film, set in turn-of-the-century St. Petersburg, where a middle-class family and an upper-class family both become intertwined with pornographic photographer Johann. |
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Death in the Garden (1956)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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Shot in brilliant Eastmancolor and featuring a star-studded cast, Death in the Garden is a pulsating adventure film alive with Surrealist gestures, making it classic Luis Buñuel. |
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Wonderful Town (2007)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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A young architect from Bangkok flirts and falls in love with a young woman who runs a hotel in a tsunami-ravaged small town. |
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The Order of Myths (2008)
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FEATURE FILM | DOCUMENTARY
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Mobile, Alabama, 2007: the oldest Mardi Gras in the United States is a study in Black and White. Groups prepare coronations, parades, balls, and revelry. People comment on these vestiges of segregation, some critical and some okay with it. |
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father's killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months; finally he rejoins the colorful life around him, marrying Palagna. |
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Blind Mountain (2007)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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Chinese director Li Yang's meller Blind Mountain unabashedly tackles the issue of white slavery. Lu Huang stars as Bai Xuemei, a student conned by traffickers and sold as a wife to an isolated village. Raped, beaten, and forced into sex slavery, she gains no sympathy from... more » |
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Eat Your Heart Out (1997)
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FEATURE FILM | COMEDY
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A young man returns to his family home in order to confront the major trauma of his childhood: the suicide of his brother. But none of his family—his egocentric mother, his withdrawn sister, and his dreamer father—are prepared to help him. From actor/filmmaker... more » |
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For Fun (1993)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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Pensioner Han was a janitor for many years at the Beijing Opera. He discovers a common passion for Beijing Opera with a group of senior citizens he meets in the park. They decide to amuse themselves by staging various operatic scenes. What was initially "just for fun"... more » |
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Waiting for the Clouds (2004)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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Aysheh, an elderly woman and Mehmet, an eight-year-old boy, live in the Black Sea region of Turkey. In trying to make Aysheh forget the painful loss of her sister, Mehmet uncovers her secrets veiled for more than 50 years and, in doing so, he also learns the hidden history... more » |
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Faust (1994)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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Legendary animator Jań Švankmajer brings to life the story of Faust, who is solicited by the devil at a Prague subway exit and sells his soul in exchange for 24 pleasure-filled years. An unusual and surreal adaptation of Goethe's, Grabbe's and Marlowe's classics. |
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Fallen Angels (1995)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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Expanding on the latter's style, themes, and mood, Fallen Angels is set in the surreal milieu of urban, nighttime Hong Kong; This visually stylish and unabashedly effusive work is considered by some critics to be the quintessential Wong film. |
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