Produced for Japanese TV by the highly regarded animation outfit Studio Ghibli, this 1993 romance tells the story of a Tokyo university student whose return to his rural hometown for a high school reunion stirs up memories of a love triangle between him, his best friend, and a bubbly city girl.
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The Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli is known in the U.S. for the technically and narratively imaginative features of cofounder Hayao Miyazaki (most recently, The Secret World of Arriety).
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The award-winning short on this program, the Disney-produced Paperman, is a clever mix of hand-drawn and computer animation that’s most striking for its photorealist images of 1950s Manhattan.
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Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier has a genuine feel for the inexplicable despair of the young and gifted: his feature debut, Reprise, showed a talented novelist (Anders Danielson Lie) buckling under the pressure of his own success, and in this second feature (2011) a recovering addict (Lie again) contemplates suicide despite his obvious sensitivity and insight.
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Through an implausible series of events, a wealthy gay couple in Mexico City become the fathers of an eight-year-old boy abandoned by his poor, crack-addicted mother.
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Preserved by the LGBT film festival Outfest and restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, these three obscure shorts range from a historical curio (Queens at Heart) to an accidental work of art (Mona's Candelight).
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A steely performance from Robert Duvall anchors this 1974 crime flick, adapted from a Donald Westlake novel and directed by action specialist John Flynn (Rolling Thunder).
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