John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.Read More »
Joyce Chandler (Trish Goff), a young divorced woman and recovering alcoholic, moves into a Manhattan apartment that seems a bit too secluded to be true. It is: Upstairs lives Charlotte Bancroft (Ally Sheedy), a woman with a wall of obliviousness who can turn even an ‘apology’ into a guilt trip, Charlotte persists in making Joyce’s nighttime hours a living hell. As the torture continues, Joyce starts to lose her grip on her job, her health and her sanity. It’s a heck of a price to pay for having your own place.Read More »
An American tourist on vacation in Turkey is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn’t want; then she is cast into prison for smuggling an antique.Read More »
“Down In The Valley is the ideal project for Jacobson, who has already shown his affinity for marginalized, outlaw figures in Criminal (1994) and Dahmer (2002). His Harlan – part rootless romantic, part self-reliant individualist, part gun-toting fantasist, part self-appointed hero, part deluded psychotic – is the embodiment of the American Dream in all its schizophrenic contradictions; and by serving all at once as critique of, homage to, and requiem for, the nostalgic values that Harlan tries to uphold, Jacobson’s film dramatises the powerful hold that the cowboy myth continues to exercise, both as a genre and as a wider ideology, over the modern American psyche.Read More »
Judge Nash is highly regarded for his position and decisions in the courtroom. He’s approached by a special agent from a government task force investigating corrupt judges and lawyers, and asked to participate in a sting operation. Initially it’s against some people Nash has no trouble believing are corrupt, but as the scope of the sting widens to include some of his friends, he tries to get out. That’s when the agent threatens to reveal information that would embarrass Judge Nash if he doesn’t continue.Read More »
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Elliott Gould, Margot Kidder and Mike Farrell star in this clever and wry mystery-thriller reminiscent of such Hitchcock high-adventures as “Vertigo” and “North by Northwest.”
Set in a Rocky Mountain ski resort, honeymooning Harry Kenyon (Farrell) reports his wife Chris is missing to the idiosyncratic police chief, Lt. Rudameyer (Gould). Unexpectedly, Mrs. Kenyon turns up in the company of a priest named Father M acklin (Fred Gwynne), from whom she says she sought solace after an argument with her husband. But the startled Kenyon claims that this woman (Kidder) is not his wife. Maybe she’s not, but th efacts convince Rudameyer that she is an that Kenyon is off his rocker. Is she really his wife? If she’s not, what is she up to? The answers li in a series of plot twists in this brilliantly acted and cleverly written thriller.Read More »
After breaking up with her boyfriend Sam, engineering designer Maggie falls in love with a very romantic and mysterious Roy Calvin. But soon he turns to be a violent man and makes Maggie’s life a hell.Read More »
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Before fast food we had something better. Our grandparents told us stories of gathering around communal tables, sharing their lives, their struggles, and their dreams with strangers at The Automat. In the long awaited Horn & Hardart documentary relive the phenomena of America’s original and most beloved restaurant chain. The one hundred year Automat saga serves up never before-seen archival footage and photographs and a cast including celebrity customers, company executives, historians, and members of the Horn & Hardart families.Read More »
The wife of a dentist suspects her husband of multiple homicide. After sharing her concerns with the authorities, she is convinced to help bring him to justice… but at what price?Read More »