NR
An engaged interfaith couple are about to have their parents meet for the first time over a Shabbat dinner when an accidental death gets in the way.
PG-13
Bananas: In his second feature as writer/director, Woody Allen stars as Fielding Melish, a hapless product-testing New Yorker desperately attempting to impress a young and attractive social activist named Nancy (Louise Lasser). When Melish travels to the turbulent country of San Marcos, he falls in with resistance fighters and, before long, becomes drafted as their leader. While Melish’s position of authority wins Nancy over, he has to deal with the many burdens of being a revolutionary leader. Did You Know My Husband: Two women, find themselves together after they have just finished a Thanksgiving dinner. The other guests are off in another room. It seems as if these two women have met before. But where and how is only revealed at the end, as both women, caught in an emotional labyrinth, try to find their way out. Heartfelt drama and suspense build throughout, highlighted by an original score that is both haunting and mesmerizing.
R
Chef Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and businessman Secondo (Stanley Tucci) are immigrant brothers from Italy who open their dream restaurant, Paradise, in New Jersey. However, Primo's authentic food is too unfamiliar for the local tastes, and the restaurant is struggling. When famous Italian-American bandleader Louis Prima is scheduled to appear at Paradise, the two brothers put all of their efforts into the important meal, which will likely decide the fate of their restaurant.
An investigation of Detroit-born Edward Brezinski, charismatic Lower East Side painter on the fringe of success, who thwarted his career with antics that roiled NYC's art elite. Our film reveals a unique snapshot of the 1980's art explosion while we unearth the truth of Brezinski's mysterious death in the Cote d'Azur. Make Me Famous is an intimate look at the art world's attitude towards success and failure, fame and fortune, notoriety and erasure. Filmed in NYC, Detroit, San Francisco, Ireland, Berlin and France.
Golden Nugget by Steve Brand: Produced for the 1976 Off-Broadway revival of Bella & Sam Spewack's 1930's Hollywood farce "Boy Meets Girl" and directed by John Lithgow, "Golden Nugget" is a spoof of Western coming attractions. Sober Sitter by Ellis Senger: A night of babysitting goes awry for a high school senior when his stubborn 11-year-old brother rebels against him by stealing and eating his magic mushrooms. Qotzuñi by Gastón Zilberman and Michael Salama: People of the Lake is about the Uru- Murato indigenous communities of Lake Poopó, Bolivia, and how they are being effected by climate change. IHRAF DOC by Tom Block: IHRAF Values: Beauty as a fundamental creative principle; Sincerity and Vulnerability of presentation; Celebrating Diversity and opening doorways of Engagement! Murmur by Sabrina Seidner and David Bonderoff: Former celebrity grief counselor Dr. Dee Dee Daniels is desperate to get back in the game and Re Open her now defunct ABCs of Grief Support Spas. When disoriented and vulnerable Lizzie Marks wanders into her Wednesday group of desperate dysfunctional, Dee Dee realizes shes found her first new cash cow. Anne by Adi Eshman and Desiree Abeyta: Two actresses, one Black and one white and Jewish, are up for the role of a lifetime. What happens when the role of identity politics enters the audition room? Florhood by Fiona Torres Moino: A woman in her 20s goes through a series of experiences in the city of New York that drive her to growth and self-love. Thank You For Your Interest by Ethan Bash: The typical routine of a job applicant. Acceptance by Eric Weber: A look at the tumultuous marriage of Tim and Emily over half a century, with Phylicia Rashad and Andre Braugher.
NR
One fall day, Ellen Jovin set up a folding table on a Manhattan sidewalk with a homemade sign that said "Grammar Table." It was such a hit that Ellen and her filmmaker husband, Brandt Johnson, took the table on the road, visiting all 50 states as Brandt shot the grammar action. Yes, this is a grammar road trip movie, but the story transcends grammar. It's the story of an epic quest in a divided time to bring us closer together.
PG
Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero, "Manny" to his friends, is a string bassist, a devoted husband and father, and a practicing Catholic. His eighty-five dollar a week gig playing in the jazz combo at the Stork Club is barely enough to make ends meet. The Balestreros' lives will become a little more difficult with the major dental bills his wife Rose will be incurring. As such, Manny decides to see if he can borrow off of Rose's life insurance policy. But when he enters the insurance office, he is identified by some of the clerks as the man that held up the office twice a few months earlier. Manny cooperates with the police, as he has nothing to hide. Manny learns that he is a suspect in not only those hold-ups, but a series of other hold-ups in the same Jackson Heights neighborhood in New York City where they live. The more that Manny cooperates, the more guilty he appears to the police. With the help of Frank O'Connor, the attorney that they hire, they try to prove Manny's innocence.