six men on a fishing trip off the coast of Greece decide to play a game that will determine which of them is the best. What begins as a lampoon of bourgeois machismo and male anxiety develops into an incisive allegory for the state of contemporary Greece, and leaves a final impression as an empathetic, razor-sharp study of human nature itself.
Many politicians have seen their careers careen off the tracks, but few instances have been captured so completely on film as the incisive and painfully funny Weiner.
Robert Frank, now 91 years old, is among the most influential artists of the last half-century. His seminal volume, The Americans, published in 1958, records the Swiss-born photographer’s candid reactions to peculiarly American versions of poverty and racism.
Emmanuelle Bercot won the Best Actress prize last year at Cannes for her performance as an accomplished lawyer seduced by a sexy, stylish man of the world given to flights of charmingly offbeat spontaneity.
A university student retreats to a country inn to write his masterpiece and becomes caught up in a metaphysical mystery of David Lynch-like dimensions.
Zero Days is a non-fiction thriller about the world of cyberwar and the never-before-told story of Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware (known as a “worm” for its ability to burrow from computer to computer on its own) that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target.
We are screening 3 films at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater: Arsenic and Old Lace, The Exorcist and The Wailing. Frank Capra’s Halloween comedy Arsenic and Old Lace stars Cary Grant as a man learns that his eccentric but sweet aunts have been seeking out lonely, elderly men, poisoning them, and burying them in the basement. Controversial from the day it opened in 1973, The Exorcist is now recognized as a defining classic of the genre.
This Hammer Studios classic is far closer to the letter (and spirit) of the Bram Stoker novel than the Bela Lugosi version of Dracula. The premise finds the infamous count journeying from his native Transylvania to England, where he takes a headfirst plunge into the London nightlife. The Wailing is a murder mystery, a zombie movie, a tale of demonic possession and a parable of bad parenting gone wrong. At times outrageously funny, it's a moral and/or narrative puzzler that will keep you guessing days or weeks later.
Nov 4-11 ♦ Scroll down for times and locations Individual Tickets: $5 ♦ Semester Passes $30 WHERE ARE FILMS SHOWN? ♦ WHERE CAN I PARK? Gimme Danger is Jim Jarmusch’s affectionate tribute to Iggy Pop and The Stooges. Some performers flirted with danger. Iggy Pop embraced it. With abandon. Forming his band The Stooges in the late 1960s, he gained a
Werner Herzog leads viewers on a journey through a series of provocative conversations that reveal the ways in which the online world has transformed how virtually everything in the real world works - from business to education, space travel to healthcare, and the very heart of how we conduct our personal relationships
Short films...Big Stars. Dick Van Dyke, Ed Asner, Peri Gilpin and Julia Louis-Dreyfus star in this program of award-winning short films.
Dec 2-10 ♦ Scroll down for times and locations ♦ Individual Tickets: $5 ♦ Semester Passes $30 WHERE ARE FILMS SHOWN? ♦ WHERE CAN I PARK? Dying to Know is an intimate portrait celebrating two very complex, controversial characters in an epic friendship that shaped a generation. In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing
Dec 2-4 ♦ Individual Tickets: $5 ♦ Semester Passes $30 WHERE ARE FILMS SHOWN? ♦ WHERE CAN I PARK? Little Men is a little movie brimming with big truths about modern life.... Thirteen-year-old Jake is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. When his grandfather dies, his family moves from Manhattan back into his father's old
Back by Popular Demand! Ove patrols his neighborhood, blithely disposing of wrongly parked bikes and chucking shoes at stray cats. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the house opposite Ove’s, she accidentally backs her car into Ove’s mailbox
The true story of Peter Dunning, who is the proud proprietor of Mile Hill Farm, which sits on 187 acres in Vermont. The land’s 38 harvests have seen the arrivals and departures of three wives and four children, leaving Peter with only animals and memories. The arrival of a film crew causes him to confront his history and his legacy, passing along hard-won agricultural wisdom even as he doubts the meaning of the work he is fated to perform until death
The legendary Sonia Braga stars as Clara, a 65 year old widow and retired music critic. Clara is the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story building, built in the 1940s, in the seaside Avenida Boa Viagem, Recife. All the neighboring apartments have already been acquired by a grasping property developer who wants to put up a skyscraper. Clara vows to stay.
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl (Kim Tae-ri) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Kim Min-hee) who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle (Jo Jin-woong). But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket
God exists, and He’s a jerk. He lives in a high-rise apartment in Brussels and never gets out of His pajamas. He takes sadistic delight in dreaming up new “laws” to torment humanity, and He’s a petty tyrant to his wife and ten year-old daughter, Ea. Like her brother before her, Ea has had enough of her Father’s abuse and when she spies the right opportunity, she hacks into His computer
Lost and Beautiful blends fable and reality. A mythical character named Pulcinella rescues a buffalo calf called Sarchiopone from the forsaken palace. Together, man and beast embark on a long journey through a lost and beautiful Italy.
After traveling the world alongside migrating birds (Winged Migration) and diving the oceans with whales and manta rays (Oceans), Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud return to more familiar ground: the lush green forests and megafauna that emerged across Europe following the last Ice Age.
Jan 27, 28 , 29 It took seven years for veteran documentarian Mehrdad Oskouei to get permission to make a film in a rehabilitation center for juvenile delinquent women in Iran. The result is a thoughtful and complex portrait of young women at the extreme margins of Iranian society.
As usual, this year’s assortment of live-action short Oscar contenders is a celebration of intimate, personal storytelling. Every filmmaker leaves his or her fingerprints on the material.
Many Hollywood movies are like impersonal multi-national corporations; they have unimaginable budgets and nothing creative at stake. This year's Animation nominees are small in scope, very personal, and meticulously made.
Five of the bravest international filmmakers working today tell thoughtful, compelling stories in this year's documentary short film program.
Four thirtysomething female friends in the misty seaside city of Kobe navigate the unsteady currents of their work, domestic, and romantic lives. They speak solace in one another’s company, but a sudden revelation creates a rift, and rouses each woman to take stock.
