Although he’s an experienced director, nothing can prepare Eddie Israel for what occurs on the set of his new project. Helming a film about an abusive marriage, he too becomes entangled in this terrifying trap — one where the fantasy world of his film becomes his haunting reality.Read More »
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Set in the mountains of rural Nara prefecture, the film centers on the Tahara family who eke out a living from the local ancient cedar forests. The head of the family, Kyozo, becomes fixated by plans to build a tunnel to improve the accessibility of the area. Construction begins, but is halted halfway through. Fifteen years later building has still not restarted, and the family is destitute. Against this backdrop, some family affairs develop. Kyozo’s daughter, Michiru, starts to fall in love with Eisuke, her cousin. Eisuke, meanwhile, finds himself attracted to his aunt.Read More »
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Fabrice Luchini recites from La Fontaine, Céline, Flaubert and other great writers, followed and filmed through his performances by Benoît Jacquot. Alone on stage, Luchini speaks, recites, narrates and acts out some of the finest pearls of French literature.Read More »
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“Girls’ Night Out” is the rather unfortunate translation of a title which couples the phonologically-similar terms for “Ladies'” and “Dinner Party”. It was written and directed by first-time director Lim Sang-Soo (not to be confused with Hong Sang-Soo, who directed The Power of Kangwon Province). The film, together with An Affair, opened at the Pusan Film Festival and had its general release during Chusok weekend in September (a major weekend for film releases).Read More »
The action takes place in a strange world of human relationships and broken relationships. And, perhaps best of all it focuses a person who is blind from birth. The film – the story of his dramatic love of a beautiful young woman.Read More »
This enjoyable film combines features of teen movie, coming-of-age film, and lesbian flic. Made by a female director, with attractive actors, it is a role-reversal farce. The appeal is not restricted to lesbians – this is particularly suitable for the male audience, and not only because of the erotically effective love scenes (and the undeniable fact that the two main actresses are well worth looking at). Most importantly the comedy works well. There is an intriguing reversal of roles. The white girl is poor, and the black girl is rich.The poor girl belongs to a sort of “family” of lesbians that is warm and caring, while the black girl’s parents are separated and she lives with her mother. There is the gift from the rich girl of Walt Whitman’s poetry collection “Leaves of Grass” to the poor girl, who reads some of the poems while smoking grass and wakes up to the meaning of the words. The story has a satisfying ending, allowing everyone to get on with their lives.Read More »
Director Peter Yates’ (Breaking Away, Bullitt, The Friends of Eddie Coyle) final theatrically released film re-teams with his lead from The Dresser, Albert Finney. Shane Connaughton wrote the screenplay for The Run of the Country and wrote a book about his experience on the set called A Border Diary.
“In a small village on the border of Northern Ireland and The Republic of Ireland, the relationship between a short tempered policeman and his rebellious son becomes even more strenuous when the young man falls for a ‘wrong’ girl.”Read More »
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A botched police raid on a crack house turns into a 36 hour long siege in which the junkies share their perspective to the cameraman of a reality program.Read More »
Egoyan’s contribution to Inspired By Bach, a series of six films featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma collaborating with different artists to explore new interpretations of six Bach Cello Suites.
Containing commentary with Atom Egoyan and Arsinée Khanjian.Read More »