Edward Yang’s intricate comedy is set in a world of compromised artists, trash TV, and vacuous public relations firms. Taking place over two intense days, the movie follows a group of bored, affluent, twentysomething Taipeians who anguish over love and money, art and commerce, and each other.
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Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
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An overworked and underpaid production assistant has to shoot a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company. But an interviewee makes a statement that forces him to re-invent his story to suit the company's narrative.
PGfor some western violence, and smoking
A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at high noon when the gang leader, an outlaw he sent up years ago, arrives on the noon train.
In this wackadoodle new action comedy that has taken the fantasy-film-festival world by storm, a 19th-century applejack manufacturer living in the Great Lakes region turns fur trapper in order to kill the legion of beavers that threaten his livelihood. If this sounds too violent for your delicate sensibilities, don’t worry. The beavers here are actors in goofy animal costumes and the whole wordless, b&w movie is an affectionate tribute to the gag-filled slapstick comedies of the silent era. Filmmaker Mike Cheslik and star Ryland Brickson Cole Tews (Lake Michigan Monster; see 2/4 at 4:15) will answer audience questions after the screening.
This delightful romance is one of the most satisfying films by the formidable team of Powell and Pressburger (The Red Shoes). It tells of a confident, headstrong young British woman (Wendy Hiller) whose determined march to marriage to an older, wealthy man living on a tiny Hebridean island is delayed by headwinds that scotch her boat trip there. With Roger Livesey.
Rfor sexuality, bloody violence, language and brief drug use
A newly possessed high school cheerleader turns into a succubus who specializes in killing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?
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A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal giant gorilla who takes a shine to their female blonde star. Then he`s captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition.
“A screwball comedy made by an arthouse director” is how Variety described Edward Yang’s funny, convoluted tale of trendy foreigners in modern Taipei who get caught up with Chinese hoodlums. Yang’s theme is the amorality and soullessness of life in the booming, all-consuming metropolis, but colorful characters and amusing incidents help his bitter pill go down. With Virginie Ledoyen.
Often cited as a Rocky forebear, the Oscar-winning Best Picture of 1955 is a working-class comedy-drama starring Ernest Borgnine as a single, 34-year-old Italian-American butcher living in the Bronx with his mother. This ordinary man, Marty, is resigned to bachelorhood until he meets a plain and lonely schoolteacher (Betsy Blair) one Saturday night. Screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky adapted his 1953 teleplay and won an Oscar. The movie also won the top prize at Cannes.
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A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.
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Follows patients and caregivers at a psychiatric centre with a unique floating structure located in the middle of the Seine river in central Paris.
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Hank and Frannie don't seem to be able to live together anymore. After a five-year relationship, lustful and dreamy Fanny leaves down-to-earth Hank on the anniversary of their relationship. Each one of them meets their dream mate, but as bright as they may seem, they are but a stage of lights and colours. Will true love prevail over a seemingly glamorous passion? Welcome to Coppola's Broadway-like romantic musical.
Brazil’s official selection for the 2024 Academy Awards, PICTURES OF GHOSTS, from acclaimed director Kleber Mendonca Filho (BACURAU, AQUARIUS and NEIGHBORING SOUNDS), is a multidimensional journey through time, sound, architecture and filmmaking, set in the urban landscape of Recife, Brazilian coastal capital of Pernambuco: a historical and human territory, examined through the great movie theatres that served as spaces of conviviality during the 20th century. Having hosted dreams and progress, these places have also embodied a major transformation on social practices. Combining archive documentary, mystery, film clips and personal memories, PICTURES OF GHOSTS is a map of a city through the lens of cinema.
On March 28th, 2023, legendary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away after his struggle against cancer. In the years leading up to his death, Sakamoto could no longer perform live. Single concerts, not to mention sprawling global tours, were too taxing. Despite this, in late 2022, Sakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave the world with one final performance: a concert film, featuring just him and his piano.
Guardian of the underworld, Cerberus still has a muzzle but here he is called Rainer and has the breasts and the voice of a woman, wears a studded black leather jacket, and a flash camera fit for the paparazzi. Talking to us from the great beyond, he details the successive reincarnations of Conann the Barbarian, a bloodthirsty Amazon from ancient times. A visceral and impulsive queer illusionist, Bertrand Mandico casts his magic lantern on an imaginary pre-history, as well as some new little shops of horrors, rendered simultaneously in color and black-and-white.
James Garner, Julie Andrews, and Melvyn Douglas star in this sardonic anti-war black comedy adapted by Paddy Chayefsky from William Bradford Huie’s novel. Set in WWII London shortly before D-Day, the film tells of a cowardly, fun-loving naval officer who falls for a young British war widow shortly before he is selected by his commanding officer for the dubious honor of (probably) becoming the first American to die during the Normandy invasion. Julie Andrews has said that this b&w film, released between Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, is her favorite of her movies.
A woman slowly gleans that her pig-tailed, picture-perfect eight-year-old daughter is in fact a holy terror, prone to lying, theft, and much, much worse. What’s a mother to do? This overwrought, outrageous, but vastly entertaining film version of Maxwell Anderson’s stage shocker is both operatic and campy. Stars Nancy Kelly and Patty McCormack re-create their Broadway roles.
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A man staying at a secluded historical mansion finds himself being haunted by the presence of a spectre.
The stunning final entry in Antonioni’s 1960s “trilogy of alienation” (following L’Avventura and La Notte) focuses on a Roman woman (Monica Vitti) who leaves her lover of four years (Francisco Rabal) for a fling with a young stockbroker (Alain Delon). But she really seems to prefer solitude to a relationship. Antonioni’s great opus concludes with a unique sequence—58 shots lasting a total of seven minutes, without dialogue or even people—that has been discussed for decades.
Either Marilyn Monroe or Ava Gardner was Paddy Chayefsky’s inspiration for the screen “goddess” at the center of his first original movie script. Kim Stanley, an esteemed Actors Studio alum who appeared in only five theatrical features during her illustrious career (and earned Oscar nominations for two of them), made her film debut in the movie. She plays a poor Southern girl who becomes a motion picture sexpot adored by millions—while remaining deeply unhappy and insecure in her personal life. Music by Virgil Thomson.
In Victorian England, the uncle of orphaned niece Flora and nephew Miles hires Miss Giddens as governess to raise the children at his estate with total independence and authority. Soon after her arrival, Miss Giddens comes to believe that the spirits of the former governess Miss Jessel and valet Peter Quint are possessing the children. Miss Giddens decides to help the children to face and exorcise the spirits.
The Old Oak is the last pub standing in a once thriving mining village in northern England, a gathering space for a community that has fallen on hard times. There is growing anger, resentment, and a lack of hope among the residents, but the pub and its proprietor TJ are a fond presence to their customers. When a group of Syrian refugees move into the floundering village, a decisive rift fueled by prejudices develops between the community and its newest inhabitants. The formation of an unexpected friendship between TJ and a young Syrian woman named Yara opens up new possibilities for the divided village in this deeply moving drama about loss, fear, and the difficulty of finding hope. The release of The Old Oak reunites legendary British director Ken Loach with Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber following our 2020 release of his film Sorry We Missed You. Loach, who is 87 years old, has announced that The Old Oak will be his final film.
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Robert Thorn, an American diplomat living in Rome, learns that his infant son died moments after birth. Rather than tell his wife Katherine the truth, which he fears would shatter her emotionally, Robert secretly arranges the adoption of another baby through the Catholic church. Years pass and the Thorn's child, Damien, has a happy, normal childhood. Robert is named Ambassador to the Court of Saint James, and the family relocates to a lavish estate in the English countryside. But their seemingly idyllic life begins to change when, during Damien's fifth birthday, the boy's nanny suddenly commits suicide. Shortly thereafter, Robert is approached by Father Brennan, who claims he was present at the hospital when Damien's adoption took place. He is convinced that the boy is the son of the Devil, and that only a man named Bugenhagen, who lives in Israel, has the power to kill him. Robert initially believes the priest to be mad, but his faith begins to waiver as everyone around Damien is subjected to a series of freak, horrific incidents.
The most expensive African film production up to that time, this long-neglected, anti-colonialist musical extravaganza is set on a vast slave-ship set, where centuries of French oppression in the West Indies are explored via a mix of theatrical and cinematic conventions. French-Mauritanian filmmaker Med Hondo said he “wanted to free the very concept of musical comedy from its American trade mark,” and he succeeded. “An exhilarating cinema experience…A scathing and unapologetic attack on French imperialism and racism.” –Philip Concannon, British Film Institute.
It opens with a wedding and ends with a funeral, and in between are almost three hours of some of the most rapturous cinema you will ever see. Edward Yang’s final film is an extravagantly praised, multi-generational saga that focuses on a middle-aged, middle-class Taipei couple (he works at a computer company, she joins a religious cult), their young daughter and son, and assorted friends and relatives who complicate their lives. Characters represent different stages of life and emotions run the gamut in this modern classic, one of the 21st century’s undisputed screen masterpieces.