The Woodsman
Kevin Bacon, an indispensable fixture of American cinema over the past 20 years, delivers his finest performance in The Woodsman, a harrowing and moving tale of one man?s attempt to re-enter society. After twelve years in prison, Walter (Bacon) arrives in an unnamed city and mostly keeps to himself. A quiet, guarded man, Walter finds unexpected solace from Vickie (Kyra Sedgwick), a tough-talking woman who promises not to judge him for his history. A convicted sex offender, Walter is war…
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2046
2046 continues the story of Chow Mo Wan (Tony Leung - Hero) from Wong Kar-Wai?s previous film, In The Mood for Love, a few years after his ephemeral affair with Maggie Cheung?s Su Li-zhen. Set in late-1960?s Hong Kong, Chow is now an out of work journalist and pulp fiction writer living in a cheap hotel. Bruised and battered by love, he pursues a playboy lifestyle of zero commitment and one-night stands. He develops a passion for a beautiful call girl (Zi Yi Zhang ? House Of The Flying Daggers),…
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Milwaukee Minnesota (Wide Screen)
Albert is a championship ice fisherman, but his fortunes begin to change when his mother is killed. Tuey, her brother Stan, and travelling salesman Jerry James are new in town, and all see a financial opportunity in the vulnerable fisherman….
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Port Of Call
A girl who has recently been released from a reform centre meets a poor sailor and they begin an affair. Set in Gothenburg harbour….
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Control Room
In the spring of 2003, just before President Bush declared that the United States would go to war with Iraq, documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim and her crew set up their cameras inside Al Jazeera, the satellite news network for the Arab world. Though US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld accuses Al Jazeera of lying in its news reports, CONTROL ROOM tells a different story. Candid interviews with some of Al Jezeera’s leaders–like Sudanese journalist Hassan Ibrahim who formerly headed the BBC…
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Anatomy Of Hell (Wide Screen)
Over the course of her career as a writer and filmmaker, Catherine Breillat (ROMANCE, FAT GIRL) has never shied away from controversial topics, using both mediums to explore her strong feminist opinions. Joining a generation of similarly taboo-breaking French directors such as Francois Ozon and Gaspar Noe, Breillat has no problem displaying explicit material to her audience and forcing them to confront their own assumptions about the relations between men and women. In ANATOMY OF HELL, based on…
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Save The Green Planet (2 Disc)
This is a jaw-droppingly bizarre movie from Korea that mixes scenes of gruesome torture and violence with comedy and heartbreaking profundity. Perhaps as a result of too many amphetamines and violent incidents in his past, beekeeper Lee Byeong Gu (Sin Ha-Gyun) has become convinced that an unscrupulous business tycoon (Kan Man-Shik) is actually an alien from the planet Andromeda. Lee’s frumpy acrobat girlfriend (Hwang Jung-Min) helps him abduct the ‘alien’ and torture him into confessing. Meanwhi…
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The Isle (Subtitled) (Wide Screen)
The eerily beautiful photography and melodic musical score of THE ISLE stand in odd contrast to the brutal horror story it tells. On the serene surface of a secluded bay float a series of candy-coloured fishing houses, rented to men who seek an escape. The owner and operator of the village is a mute woman with a row boat who delivers her guests to their floating rooms, and sells them bait, food, coffee, prostitutes, and occasionally her own body. The men mistreat her, and her wounded spirit haun…
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16 Years Of Alcohol
The story of one man’s battle against the effects, both socially and psychologically, of alcohol. Frank’s problems go back to his childhood when he witnessed his father as a womaniser and drinker making him feel both rejection and a need to imitate him….
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Gozu
This wildly bizarre Japanese horror movie from master Takeski Miike (AUDITION) follows the mysterious disappearance of Brother, a gangster who was accidentally killed by one of his Mafia cohorts, Minami. Searching for Brother’s body–which vanished minutes after he was shot–Minami stumbles into a strange secluded inn and gets a room. He is instantly aware that something fishy is going on, and as he gets to know the innkeepers more intimately that feeling is backed up by evidence. Given to loud,…
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The Cooler
Bernie Lootz is an unlucky guy. Everything he touches turns bad. However, his ill fortune is actually the one thing he depends upon to do his job to the best of his abilities; Bernie Lootz is the best ?cooler? in town. Working in one of Las Vegas? few remaining golden-era Casinos, Bernie is employed by the ruthless Shelly to end the winning streak of anyone whose luck is on the up. But life in the bad luck lane has taken its toll and, after working for Shelly for years, Bernie has decided to mov…
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Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter And Spring
Prayer, meditation, and appreciation of nature are the sacraments by which two monks live a simple life in Korean director Kim Ki-Duk’s SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER… AND SPRING. A wise old monk (Oh Young-soo) is master to a young student, and remains so throughout the changing seasons of the younger monk’s life. In springtime the young monk is a 5-year-old boy, in summer he is a teenager, in fall he is a 30-year-old man, and in winter he is in mid-life. The master and his student live in a tra…
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The Twilight Samurai (Subtitled) (Wide Screen)
Hiroyuki Sanada, who played Ujio in Edward Zwick’s Hollywood epic THE LAST SAMURAI, stars in a different kind of samurai film in Yoji Yamada’s poignant drama THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI. Sanada plays the title character (Seibei Iguchi), who gets his nickname because he is a lowly worker who chooses to go home to his family every night after work instead of going out with his colleagues. Seibei’s wife has recently died, so he is raising his two daughters alone, as well as caring for his ageing mother. H…
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Three Strange Loves (Subtitled)
A psychological drama of the type director Ingmar Bergman would become famous for later in his career, THREE STRANGE LOVES was adapted for the screen by Herbert Grevenius from four short stories by source writer Birgit Tengroth. In this film, Bergman depicts the three heroines’ emotional struggles with astuteness and finesse. Rut and Bertil, played by Eva Henning and Birger Malmsten (Bergman’s leading man of choice in several of his early features), play a couple whose marriage is in a detriment…
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Mysterious Skin
Ten years later, Brian Lackey is still tormented by the black hole in his life - the fi ve missing hours that have left him convinced he was abducted by aliens. In the same small Kansas town, another teen has no such worries. A hustler wise beyond his years, he has only one thing on his mind; sex and the path his urges are going to take. Searching for answers, he heads for New York City and then home again, where a twist of fate brings them together to realize that their future happiness lies in…
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Black And White
In 1950s Australia, Max Stuart, an illiterate Aborigine, is suddenly arrested by police for murdering a nine year old white girl. He crumbles under interrogation and signs a confession to the killing, signing away his right to life. Robert Carlyle and Kerry Fox play young, naive defence lawyers determined to reveal the police force’s intimidation and institutional racism. They draw the attention of up-an-coming press mogul Rupert Murdoch to champion their case through his newspapers in London, a…
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Party Monster
With PARTY MONSTER, directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE) rework their 1999 shockumentary into a feature film. Based on the book by James St. James, PARTY MONSTER tells the lurid tale of Michael Alig (Macauley Culkin), a self-made party promoter who made a big splash in New York City nightclubs in the 1980s and early ’90s. Told in shifting perspectives between Alig and James (an utterly fabulous Seth Green), the film recounts the events that eventually landed Alig in…
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Crisis (Subtitled)
Nelly lives with her poor foster mother in a small town. When Nelly wants to go to a charity ball, her stepmother manages to save enough money to buy her a new dress. However Nelly’s glamorous real mother appears with a more expensive dress and Nelly wears this instead and also accepts her mothers invitation to a more glamorous life in the city. However Nelly soon discovers a dark side to human nature that she never knew existed….
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Vendredi Soir
Claire Denis’ FRIDAY NIGHT, a fantasy that follows a woman into a one-night stand, is an adaptation of the popular novel by Emmanuelle Bernheim who also cowrote the story with Denis. Dreamy and confused, the film begins as Laure (Valerie Lemercier) is packing up her Paris apartment and preparing to move. The chaos of this situation leads directly into the next, as Laure gets in her car and begins to drive across town to a dinner party, only to become stuck in a massive traffic jam. As radio repo…
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Le Souffle (Subtitled)
David is a teenager working on his uncle’s farm for the summer. One day his uncle lets him eat and drink to excess with a group of the uncles friends. David overdoes it and is sick as a result, he still decides though to go and meet his friend Matthieu (Laurent Simon) in the woods. His excess earlier in the day soon leads David to start behaving in a bizarre and horrific way….
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