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Oct 26, 1985
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Dark Freeman, the protagonist of D.A. Bullock's debut feature, is repelled by the condescension of his professors at the University of Chicago, intimidated by the streetwise aplomb of his cocky friends, and irrationally jealous of his attractive, empathetic girlfriend.
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Mar 13, 2008
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An enjoyable if paper-thin Swedish drama about a vain young beauty (Michelle Meadows) whose callous indifference finally catches up with her, causing a precipitous fall in her social and economic standing.
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Oct 8, 2004
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Director Simon Staho's film, set almost entirely in an SUV, follows the vehicle's morose owner (Mikael Persbrandt) over the course of a day as he picks up various friends, family members, and strangers in an attempt to settle personal accounts before following through with his suicide plan.
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Mar 9, 2007
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Two brothers—one a glib rock star (Michael Sheen), the other a mopey divorce lawyer (Jason Hughes)—return to their childhood haunts in a picturesque Irish seaside town and duke it out over the gal they each dumped two decades earlier, much to the consternation of the now-married woman.
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Sep 22, 2006
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When a mother in Burkina Faso tries to find the man who raped her 16-year-old daughter, the culprit takes advantage of their village's mounting hysteria over the unexplained deaths of several children to accuse the mother of witchcraft and force her to flee to the countryside.
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Oct 26, 1985
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A pleasant if cloying comedy (2000) inspired by the true story of a small Australian community's contribution to the Apollo 11 mission.
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Oct 22, 2004
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Francis Nielsen's 2003 French film The Dog, the General, and the Birds is the beautifully animated story of a retired Russian general who faces retaliation from Saint Petersburg's birds for having misused them decades earlier while securing a victory against Napoleon's army.
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Oct 26, 1985
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One wouldn't expect a documentary by Frederick Wiseman about domestic violence to be anything less than powerful, but it's his subtle, low-key approach to such an emotionally charged subject—one too often presented in luridly melodramatic terms—that makes this 2001 film so devastating.
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Oct 30, 2008
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A young naif, afflicted with bouts of sleepwalking in the wake of his father's death, lands in the bed of his neighbor's visiting granddaughter, and the soulful young woman decides to help him overcome his grief by schooling him in the Kama Sutra.
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- by Reece Pendleton
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Tags: Drama
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Oct 26, 1985
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Director Cecilia Neant-Falk follows three lesbian teenagers for three years in this occasionally affecting but not very substantial Swedish documentary.
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Mar 10, 2006
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Returning home after a two-year prison term, a small-time hood (Dariusz Majchrzak) finds that his sweetheart has married his younger brother, who's trying to sell the family farm out from under him; the ex-con struggles to win back his woman and his inheritance while fending off the advances of his old criminal cohorts.
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Oct 26, 1985
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You might think that satires about Hollywood's cravenness and the public's insatiable appetite for lurid voyeurism as entertainment would have exhausted themselves by now, but along comes Dropping Out to take yet another whack at the obvious.
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