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Modern-day urban problems like unemployment and teenage depression come under the microscope. Husband and wife lose their jobs, and their daughter is under considerable stress studying for her college exams. Meanwhile, grandmother is having an unexpected romantic liaison. Will the family be able to pull together to solve their problems?Read More »
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Above all, the two Argentinean filmmakers wanted their latest co-direction, the fourth since 2008, to reflect their vision of cinema: a way of reaching out to others, to touch them, to move them. Los Labios is a film about company, about the meaning of “being together”. “The camera approaches people. It moves towards their faces and bodies, discovering their spontaneity and truth. It’s a film that is alive, in the present moment.” they explain.Read More »
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The ringmaster of an impoverished circus hires Chaplin’s Little Tramp as a clown, when he discovers that he can only be funny unintentionally, not on purpose.Read More »
An intimate coming of age story of a pregnant single mother who embraces her Bay Area community as she determines the fate of her family.Read More »
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Through its wildly comic, furiously creative, and intensely moving façade, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil ponders a future made to sustain a draconian past molded by inequality. In this dystopia, the rich, having long knelt at the alter of radical capitalistic tyranny, spend their days having their flesh stretched, sliced, and injected with ultraviolet potions, while the working class types, files, signs, and stamps its way through pointless paperwork. Overrun by communicative ducts, coated wires, cement and metals, and magnified, miniature computer screens, the future conjured up by Gilliam averts the familiar prophecy of an anaesthetized, plastic world overrun by rampantly advancing technology. Indeed, men, who see advancing technology as an affront to their fiscal station and take the pecuniary gain of the morbid, perverse 1% as their modus operandi, unmistakably run the future of Gilliam’s film. New technology is expensive; paper is cheap.Read More »
Macho Dancer is a 1988 Philippine film, directed Lino Brocka, which explores the harsh realities of a young, poor, rural gay man, who after being dumped by his American boyfriend, is forced to make a living for himself in Manila’s seamy red-light district. Based on a true story, the film frank depiction of homosexuality, prostitution, drag queens and crooked cops, porno movie-making and sexual slavery, and drugs and violence caused the Filipino government censors to order extensive edits of the film, forcing an uncensored edition to be smuggled out of the Philippines and shown to a limited number of international film festivals. This print is now part of the permanent collection at The Museum of Modern Art in New York [Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video. 1994. Raymond Murray]Read More »
A morgue technician successfully reanimates the body of a little girl, but to keep her breathing, she will need to harvest biological materials from pregnant women. When the girl’s mother, a nurse, discovers her baby alive, they enter into a deal that forces them both down a dark path of no return.Read More »
Ardiente Paciencia, or El Cartero De Neruda, is a 1983 film directed by Antonio Skármeta. It was remade in 1994 as Il postino. It tells the story of Mario Jiménez, a fictional postman in Allende’s revolutionary-era Chile, who befriends the real-life poet Pablo Neruda in the years before Neruda’s death.Read More »
A young girl growing up in Bergen, Norway just after the 2nd world war, is trying to deal with the father’s adultery and mother’s deep depression, as she befriends a boy.Read More »