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All Delia has ever wanted was to be a wife and mother. She lives in Rome in the late 1940s – a city divided between the positive thrust of liberation and the miseries of the war that has just ended – with her husband, Ivano, and their three children. Ivano may be a harsh master; his father even more…Read More »
Jacob, a man who believes he is a wolf trapped in a human body, is sent to a clinic by his family where he is forced to undergo increasingly extreme forms of “curative” therapies at the hands of The Zookeeper. Jacob’s only solace is the enigmatic wildcat with whom he roams the hospital in the dead of night. The two form an improbable friendship that develops into infatuation.Read More »
Follows Nora and Leo who attend the same high school and despite different social and religious backgrounds and everyday lives, they fall in love at first sight.Read More »
Most cinephiles pick up on larger trends in filmmaking. As new artists enter the industry, they bring aspects of their favorite works back into the mainstream. For good or ill, each new generation of artists showcase common themes and concepts with those who came before. To some, this cycle creates derivative art. Yet, as Professor Howard Suber points out, it’s only memorable films that shape popular culture. Pulling from his lectures, his 2006 book, and dozens of films, Suber’s new documentary series, The Power of Film, provides an excellent foundation for audiences to begin a deeper appreciation of the art form.Read More »
An audacious and daring project, Dialogues After the End by Tiago Guedes is a film and a series based on Cesare Pavese’s Dialogues After the End. There are a total of nineteen dialogues, at once eloquent and fragile, between humanised gods, demi-gods, heroes and other pagan figures, which question contemporary society through the imagery of Greek myths.Read More »
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A university student has the usual dreams and aspirations. It turns out to be a pipe dream and so she murders her own flesh and blood. The usual media heads seek an answer in order to sell copy. A psychologist is writing a book about the character and incident. Her research for the subject matter turn the psychologist inward and things come out of the shadows that perhaps are better left buried deep in the shadows of the psyche.Read More »
Chisato and Mahiro were banned from performing tasks because they violated the organization’s rules. Needing money to make ends meet, they resumed their days as part-time workers. Suddenly two other assassins are after them.Read More »
Tensions build as a couple is stuck in their New York City apartment during a pandemic.Read More »
In ancient Greece “theoria” describes a journey to bear witness at a festival taking place in a foreign city. The “theoros” undertook the journey on behalf of their community and, upon returning home, described what they had seen with their own eyes. With “theoria” the first step towards knowledge is seeing. With a hero’s journey the return is as essential as embarking in the first place—through the act of leaving and then returning after the arduous journey the new is metabolized and the old is seen in a new light.Read More »