2001-2010

  • George Bamber – The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (2005)

    George Bamber2001-2010CampQueer Cinema(s)USA

    Based on Eric Ormer’s comic strip, The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green is an almost fluffy romantic comedy starring Ethan (Daniel Letterle), a gay man whose trials and tribulations amount to not much more than difficulties in dating and finding a rented apartment. Leo (David Monahan), Ethan’s ex-boyfriend, is selling the house Ethan currently resides in, while Ethan enters a whirlwind romance with baseball fetishist, Kyle (Diego Serrano). While Ethan debates where to live, he dumps Kyle and starts dating Punch (Dean Shelton), a cute, young real estate agent who hatches a plan to sabotage Leo’s intentions to sell the property. The finest moments of this situational comedy occur when the Hat Sisters (Joel Brooks and Richard Riehle), a pair of cross-dressing, older lovers, are on screen cracking jokes and looking like Erma Bombeck. Read More »

  • Mark Peranson, Albert Serra – Waiting for Sancho (2008)

    2001-2010Albert SerraArthouseDocumentaryMark PeransonSpain

    Quote:
    Waiting for Sancho is an ontological investigation into a place where cinema becomes something more than cinema. Filmed in high-definition colour over five days in the Canary Islands of Fuerteventura and Tenerife, Waiting for Sancho is a kind of experimental “making of” the critically acclaimed El cant dels ocells (Birdsong_/_Le chant des oiseaux). A particular take on the Biblical story of The Three Kings en route to the baby Jesus, El cant dels ocells premiered at the Quinzaine des Realisateurs at Cannes 2008Read More »

  • James Longley – Gaza Strip (2002)

    2001-2010DocumentaryJames LongleyUSA

    Focuses on 13-year-old Mohammed Hejazi, a second-grade dropout the filmmaker encountered at the Karni crossing in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian children often gather to throw stones.Read More »

  • Seung-koo Jhung – Pen-teu-ha-woo-seu Ko-kki-ri AKA Searching for the Elephant (2009)

    2001-2010AsianDramaSeung-koo JhungSouth Korea

    Three childhood friends in Seoul grapple with mental illness, addiction, and infidelity as adults. Their secrets surface, escalating personal battles. The climax forces them to face adulthood’s trials after turbulent youths.Read More »

  • Deborah Kampmeier – Virgin (2003)

    2001-2010Deborah KampmeierDramaUSA

    When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.Read More »

  • Arnaud des Pallières – Diane Wellington (2010)

    Arnaud des Pallières2001-2010DocumentaryExperimentalFrance

    Diane Wellington disappeared in South Dakota in 1938 at the age of 15. She has just be found.Read More »

  • David Mackenzie – Hallam Foe AKA Mister Foe (2007)

    David Mackenzie2001-2010DramaRomanceUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis –
    Hallam is almost over the sudden death of his mother when he begins to suspect that his beautiful step mother may have had a hand in her death, and it doesn‘t help that Hallam fancies her rotten. After a confrontation with his step mum, Hallam escapes to Edinburgh. Out of money and out of friends, he finds his tree–top skills well suited to the rooftops of the city, where he lives ferally, attempting to avoid the perils of the streets below and becoming obsessed with a gorgeous girl who happens to look just like his mother.Read More »

  • Marc Caro – Dante 01 (2008)

    Marc Caro2001-2010FranceSci-FiThriller

    A prisoner is brought to psychiatric detention space station orbiting a prison planet. He was exposed to aliens and gained healing power. A new doctor wants to experiment on the 7 prisoners/patients.Read More »

  • Nanni Moretti – La stanza del figlio AKA The Son’s Room (2001)

    Arthouse2001-2010DramaItalyNanni Moretti

    In Ancona, Giovanni is a therapist, whose 17-year-old son Andrea is accused of stealing a rare ammonite fossil from his school. Andrea is suspended and protests his innocence, but later confesses to his mother Paola he and his friend stole it as a prank, and intended to return it before it broke. Giovanni and Andrea make plans to go jogging together, but Giovanni is called to the distant home of a patient who is severely distressed about a possible cancer diagnosis. Instead, Andrea goes scuba diving with a friend and swims into an underwater cave, where he accidentally drowns. Giovanni, Paola and their daughter Irene are left to mourn. Giovanni investigates the diving equipment model and becomes suspicious that Andrea’s was defective, but Paola reminds him the verdict was that it was functioning properly. Giovanni, once a distant observer of his patients’ struggles, begins having difficulty analyzing them, particularly the one he went to see on the day Andrea died, against whom he shows signs of impatience and hostility.Read More »

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