2001-2010

A recently-singled New York writer finds herself in two surprising and complicated relationships.Read More »

A love story in the city of dreams . . . Blonde Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia (Laura Harring). Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux) runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project. David Lynch’s seductive and scary vision of Los Angeles’s dream factory is one of the true masterpieces of the new millennium, a tale of love, jealousy, and revenge like no other.Read More »

Two teenage girls, one of them desperate to lose her virginity, take a hitchhiking road trip.Read More »

Cultures and families clash in Mira Nair’s exuberant Monsoon Wedding, a mix of comedy and chaotic melodrama concerning the preparations for the arranged marriage of a modern upper-middle-class Indian family’s only daughter, Aditi. Of course there are hitches—Aditi has been having an affair with a married TV host; she’s never met her husband to be, who lives in Houston; the wedding has worsened her father’s hidden financial troubles; even the wedding planner has become a nervous wreck—as well as buried family secrets. But Nair’s celebration is ultimately joyful and cathartic: a love song to her home city of Delhi and her own Punjabi family.Read More »

“The odyssey of a young woman who becomes addicted to self-mutilation…” ~EyeForFilm

Synopsis:
Esther (Marina de Van) is a smart, weirdly attractive, professional woman on the way up. She grafts extra hours at work and soon achieves promotion. She has a supportive boyfriend and what most normal people would call a fairly successful living. But she has another agenda.
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D E S C R I P T I O N
Ulrike Ottinger’s documentary Prater (Austria-Germany), a half-decade in the making, chronicles over the past century and more the attractions that contributed to the rise and fall of the world’s oldest amusement park.(..)Read More »

Jaime (Fernando Cayo) and Marta (Ana Wagener) have just moved to a remote gated community in Madrid. Their teenage daughter Isa (Manuela Vellés) is not happy about the transition; she constantly and unapologetically fights with her mother. As the family prepares to celebrate their first night in the new house, three men break in and take them hostage. One man takes Jaime out to collect cash from various ATMs in town while the other two stay behind with the women to torment them.Read More »

August Underground’s Penance is the personal home video of two sociopathic killers on a murder spree. Again two killers videotape their bloodthirsty madness, but Penance also shows their slow decline.Read More »

a beautiful and very powerful film

Quote:
“A 28-minute tour de force… a beautiful and original exploration of grief and loss.” – Mick LaSalle, San Francisco ChronicleRead More »