Abused by her gendarme father and forced to provide for her younger siblings, Jeanne Francoeur looks to make a living in the world of financeRead More »

Synopsis:
Alfred and Lisa – he a car mechanic, she a nurse – live in a tiny old apartment in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg district. After two years of marriage, they seem to have nothing more to say to each other. Divorce proceedings have been initiated. Alfred takes a few days off, lives aimlessly into the day and yet is looking for something out of the ordinary. Lisa doesn’t quite understand Alfred’s request for divorce, but doesn’t fight to preserve the marriage. Alfred’s vacation also becomes too monotonous, so he would rather work for free in his auto repair shop than be bored. There, the head of the squad morally reproaches him for his failed marriage. The film leaves open whether Alfred and Lisa find their way back to each other.Read More »

An ambitious and idealistic young actress comes to Berlin to convince an American ex-pat filmmaker that she must be his next muse – the leading lady of his first great German film.Read More »

“A film that has garnered recognition for its cinematography and direction by eliminating sentimentality and unaffectedly capturing the quiet life of a mountain temple. A Hometown in Heart demonstrates the camera technique and directorial skill of movies that appeared after the liberation of Korea.”
A Hometown in Heart, adapted from playwright Ham Se-deok’s A Little Monk (Dong-seung), was hailed upon its release as “a masterpiece that marked a new pinnacle in Korean moviemaking after the liberation.” Eschewing new-school sentimentality to quietly express a boy’s longing for maternal love, the film unfolds the everyday lives of three generationsthe head monk, a young monk, and a little child monkagainst the backdrop of a quiet temple in the mountains. Read More »

In present-day Nicaragua, a headstrong American journalist and a mysterious English businessman strike up a romance as they become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country.Read More »

Roger Ebert wrote:
“The Last Days of Disco” is about people who would like to belong to the kinds of clubs that would accept them as members. It takes place in “the very early 1980s” in Manhattan, where a group of young, good-looking Ivy League graduates dance the night away in discos. Unlike the characters in “Saturday Night Fever,” who were basically just looking for a good time, these upwardly mobile characters are alert to the markers of social status. New York magazine is their textbook, and being admitted to the right clubs is the passing grade.Read More »

Three middle-aged friends reunite for the first time in years. Each of them sets out to confess unexpressed feelings, but their vacation takes a surprising turn when the undercurrent of their past lives threatens to resurface.Read More »

This is a beautiful documentary with hand-drawn animations for the most part. The film gives the linguistics theories of Noam Chomsky a proper medium of expression to make them understandable even for people who had not any previous contact with the field.
This could be the perfect educational material for the introduction of linguistics to people of almost any age above 10!Read More »

Quote:
Based on the novel by Roberto Saviano (“Gomorrah”), Piranhas follows fifteen year-old Nicola (newcomer Francesco Di Napoli) who lives with his mother and younger brother in the Sanità neighborhood of Naples, a place that has been controlled by the Camorra mafia for centuries.

Dreaming of a life lush with designer clothing and elite nightclub bottle service, Nicola and his naive group of friends begin selling drugs, an entryway into the violent, power-hungry world of crime that begins to threaten their innocence, relationships, and safety of their families.Read More »