Film Search
- Sep 22, 2011
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Autoerotic (NR)
In the films of Joe Swanberg, sex serves chiefly as a catalyst for loneliness and frustration, but that unhappy worldview turns comic in this collection of bawdy vignettes he codirected with horror specialist Adam Wingard (Pop Skull). more...
- Aug 11, 2011
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Autumn Execution (NR)
Taiwanese director Lee Hsing (Beautiful Duckling, Oyster Girl) isn't known for his subtlety, and part of the fun of this endearingly soapy historical melodrama (1972) is his insistence on directing with exclamation marks; every key scene is punctuated with a smash zoom, a match cut, or an ominous gong. more...
- Apr 7, 2011
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Chicogrande
The films of Mexican director Felipe Cazals (Canoa) tend to be more admirable for their subject matter than for their execution, and this 2010 take on the unsuccessful U.S. military campaign against Pancho Villa is no exception. more...
- Apr 7, 2011
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Cold Water of the Sea
With its long takes, nature imagery, and noncommittal narrative, this 2010 debut feature from Costa Rica seems tailor-made for the festival circuit. more...
- Oct 6, 2011
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The Forgiveness of Blood
Joshua Marston's follow-up to Maria Full of Grace (2004) lacks his debut feature's sense of momentum and urgency; it's intelligent, well-intentioned, and largely inert. more...
- Oct 6, 2011
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The Giants
Two teenage brothers and their best pal, left unsupervised by neglectful parents, spend their summer getting stoned in the house that once belonged to the brothers' late grandfather. more...
- Mar 31, 2011
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The Great Vazquez
This madcap biopic (2010) dramatizes the life of the influential Spanish cartoonist Manuel Vazquez Gallego. more...
- Jun 1, 2011
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The Green Wave (NR)
This 2010 documentary about the protests that followed Iran's 2009 presidential election is a good primer on the country's current political climate; too bad its extensive use of animation amounts to little more than topical kitsch. more...
- Jul 21, 2011
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The Hedgehog (NR)
Lacking any depth of its own, this upper-middlebrow French drama (2009) resorts to the old trick of referencing acknowledged masters. more...
- May 5, 2011
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I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You (NR)
A road movie in the literal sense, this 2009 drama was shot partly through the windshield of a moving car. more...
- Aug 4, 2011
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In Our Time (NR)
The Taiwanese new wave—a film movement whose earthiness and restrained realism have had a lasting impact on world cinema—began modestly with this 1982 omnibus, which contains four episodes set in different decades. more...
- Oct 4, 2010
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Internal Systems: Coleen Fitzgibbon
Fitzgibbon, an alumnus of the School of the Art Institute, will attend this screening of her 70s experimental films. more...