Film Search
- Jun 14, 2012
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Abdia do Nasciemento
The subject of this 2011 Brazilian documentary was an early demonstrator for Afro-Brazilian civil rights, the founder of the enormously influential Black Experimental Theater (founded in the 40s), a professor at many prominent American universities (including Wesleyan and Yale), a senator, and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. more...
- Aug 9, 2012
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Ballplayer: Pelotero
This competent documentary looks at the training and recruiting of baseball players in the Dominican Republic, which produces nearly 20 percent of athletes in the major leagues. more...
- Feb 16, 2012
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Be Like an Ant
Directed by Mike Plante, this 2011 documentary looks at a Vietnam veteran living in upstate New York who funnels all his energy into "an extension to his mobile home" that "gradually grew into an elaborate four-story structure that stands like a dark fortress tucked deep inside his wooded property." more...
- May 31, 2012
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Beauty Beneath the Dirt
Katherine Imp directed this documentary about her travels along the Appalachian Trail, on which she was accompanied by her brother and a friend. more...
- Jul 23, 2012
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A Better Life (NR)
Guillaume Canet (best known here as the writer-director of Tell No One) plays a solitary, working-class Parisian who tries to better his lot after falling for a tough single mother from Lebanon (Leila Bekhti). more...
- Nov 1, 2012
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Big Love
Reminiscent of Nicolas Roeg's Bad Timing (1980), this sexually explicit art movie jumps back and forth between two story lines, one tracing the obsessive affair between a teenage music student (Aleksandra Hamkalo) and a biochemist (Antoni Pawlicki) some ten years her senior, and the other chronicling the police investigation that ensues after the man has murdered the girl. more...
- Apr 12, 2012
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Bound for Glory (PG)
Hal Ashby's 1976 biography of Woody Guthrie begins well, with some wonderfully aimless footage of life in the Dust Bowl, and builds detail as Guthrie migrates west to the promised land of California, only to find the conditions there no better than those he's left. more...
- Jan 7, 2013
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Broken City (R)
Solid but unambitious, this detective movie recalls a late-40s noir programmer in its brisk plotting and gritty but affectionate portrait of city life. more...
- Jul 9, 2012
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A Burning Hot Summer
Directed by French master Philippe Garrel, this leisurely paced drama continues his penchant for intimate, small-scale narratives that nevertheless aspire to complex emotions and themes. more...
- Sep 6, 2012
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California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat Brown
Best known now as Jerry Brown's father, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown was one of California's great liberal lions, winning election as governor in 1958 and defeating Richard Nixon in 1962 before Ronald Reagan took him down in 1966. more...
- Apr 12, 2012
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Captains of the Sands
Like Hector Babenco’s Pixote (1981) and Fernando Meirelles’s City of God (2002), this Brazilian drama considers the abbreviated childhood of feral street kids. more...
- Jun 14, 2012
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Come Back, Africa
Shot clandestinely in Johannesburg with a nonprofessional cast, this 1959 feature by director Lionel Rogosin (On the Bowery) is an extraordinary document of black life under apartheid. more...
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