USA

In 1979 Santa Barbara, Dorothea is a determined single mother who is raising her son, Jamie. Dorothea enlists the help of two women — Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist and Julie, a savvy teenager — to help with Jamie’s upbringing.Read More »

A woman engages a down-on-his-luck sailor to help her find her sister, who was kidnapped by modern day pirates.Read More »

When tragedy strikes, an unexpected bond forms between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Far from home, their labor-filled lives intertwine as they grieve and search for familial connections.Read More »

A woman makes a descent into Hell after she kills a man she brought home as a one-night stand.Read More »

In New Mexico, Billy the Kid is involved in the Lincoln County War, kills many rivals and eventually becomes a wanted fugitive.Read More »

A woman hired to write the history of a wealthy family stays at the family’s estate in Oregon. She discovers that she strongly resembles a long-dead ancestor in the family, and finds things happening to her that happened to–and led to the death of–that woman.Read More »

BREAKING A MONSTER chronicles the break-out year of the band UNLOCKING THE TRUTH, following 13-year-old members Alec Atkins, Malcolm Brickhouse and Jarad Dawkins as they first encounter stardom and the music industry, transcending childhood to become the rock stars they always dreamed of being.Read More »

Sidemen were musicians for hire that elevated tracks from B-sides to hits and deep cuts. Earl Slick explores the hidden men/women that made the likes of Prince, Bowie and the Stones sound even better than they were.Read More »

This film, written and directed by Paul Morrissey, is very strange. It tells the story of a young East German who swims ashore on a US beach. Stripping down to his swimming costume, he uses a switchblade to mutilate his thigh, for no apparent reason. Wandering the streets, he falls in with a streetwalker and her gay pimp who is obsessed with doorknobs. The streetwalker’s father is a fat transvestite who spends most of the time talking about junk food and the rest of the time tormenting his adolescent son. Our hero moves into an abandoned building full of strange characters. It turns out that the East German is in America to recruit Jane Fonda (who not surprisingly is not in the film) to aid the Communist revolution. Meanwhile, Madame Wang runs the only punk Chinese restaurant in town.Read More »