Bonjour Tristesse
Durga Chew-Bose
At the height of summer, 18-year-old Cécile (Lily McInerny) is relaxing by the French seaside with her father (Claes Bang) and falling in love with her new boyfriend. The arrival of her late mother's enigmatic friend (Chloë Sevigny) turns her world upside down. A modern take on Françoise Sagan's unforgettable coming-of-age novel. A Toronto International Film Festival premiere.—Greenwich Entertainment
The Man from Earth
Richard Schenkman
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine.
Big Boys
Roughcut TV
Shy, closeted Jack has spent the past year at home with his mum, mourning his father, but the time has come for him to take his place at Uni.
Cool World
Ralph Bakshi
When ex-con cartoonist Jack Deebs ('Gabriel Byrne' (qv)) was behind bars, he found escape by creating Cool World, a cartoon series featuring a voluptuous vixen named Holli Would. But the cartoonist becomes a prisoner of his own fantasies when Holli pulls Jack into Cool World with a scheme to seduce him and bring herself to life. A hard-boiled detective ('Brad Pitt' (qv)) - the only other human in Cool World - cautions Jack with the law: Noids (humans) don't have sex with doodles (cartoons). However, the flesh proves weaker than ink as Holli takes human form ('Kim Basinger' (qv)) in Las Vegas, starting a trans-universal chase that threatens the destruction of both worlds. With a splashy mix of animation and live-action sequences, Cool World delivers the hottest action around.
Juno
Jason Reitman
Elk River, Minnesota. After a sweet one-time tryst with best friend Paulie Bleeker, 16-year-old Juno MacGuff is about to discover what pregnant women face. And as Juno assesses the situation, slowly turning into a cautionary whale, she summons the courage to go through with the pregnancy. Then, she'll give the baby up for adoption to Mark and Vanessa Loring, a childless yuppie couple. Now, there's no turning back. However, has Juno picked the right grown-ups? What happens if the Lorings are far from perfect?
Belle de Jour
Haunted by disturbing memories of abuse, Séverine, the respectable and glacially beautiful 23-year-old wife of handsome young surgeon Pierre, finds herself trapped in an uneventful marriage. As a result, even though vivid fetishistic scenarios govern her wild fantasy world, Séverine's sex life is at a standstill, and despite having been married to Pierre for well over a year, she has never slept with him. Having all the time in the world, and with her days filled with nothing but meaningless social engagements, Séverine becomes increasingly fascinated by the tantalising idea of working in a Parisian brothel. Now, as her pale, firm body quivers at the very thought of being touched by perfect strangers, Séverine sets foot in Madame Anaïs' discreet establishment and plucks up the courage to work there in the afternoons. But desire can be dangerous, and swaggering, violent Marcel grows increasingly jealous and possessive. Can Belle de Jour prevent a scandal and a catastrophe?—Nick Riganas
Santa Sangre
In a mental institution in Mexico, the former circus artist Fenix is showing progress in his treatment. Fenix had tragic childhood in the circus owned by his father Orgo, who is a knife thrower. During a performance, his mother Concha, who is a trapeze artist and a fanatic religious woman, sees from the trapeze her husband cheating on her with The Tattooed Woman. She leaves the trapeze, locks Fenix in the trailer and throws acid on Orgo's penis. Orgo uses his knives to cut off both arms of Concha and commit suicide. The Tattooed Woman flees from the circus with her deaf and dumb stepdaughter Alma, who is Fenix's best friend, and Fenix sees everything. One night, Fenix sees The Tattooed Woman in a red-light district and soon he escapes from the institution. He meets Concha and their former friend Aladin and works in a theater, with Fenix performing Concha's arms. Meanwhile, Concha controls him and Fenix begins a crime spree.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Son of the White Mare
In this dreamlike Hungarian folk myth, a horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors' lost kingdom.
The Children's Hour
William Wyler
A private school for young girls is scandalized when one spiteful student, Mary Tilford, accuses the two young women who run the school of having a lesbian relationship
Summertime
David Lean
Jane Hudson ('Katharine Hepburn' (qv)), a jaunty as well as attractive middle-aged secretary from Akron, Ohio, has finally made it to Venice, Italy, for her long-awaited dream vacation. Never-married Jane is a self-described "independent type" who's content, or so she claims, to go it mostly alone, armed with her movie camera. Jane soon discovers that even in a city as beautiful and fascinating as Venice, going it alone can still leave one feeling terribly lonely. All that is about to change, starting with a brief encounter at an outdoor café in the Piazza San Marco, where Jane draws the attention of a handsome antiques-shop owner named Renato de Rossi (Rossano Brazzi).—Eugene Kim
Twin Peaks
David Lynch
The story begins with the murder of Laura Palmer, a teen aged girl who lived in the quiet town of Twin Peaks, near the US - Canadian borders. Everyone seems surprised and devastated by the girl's murder, and the town's sherif welcomes the help of FBI agent Dale Cooper, who comes to investigate the case. As Cooper begins his search for Laura's killer, the town's secrets are gradually exposed. This is definitely not an average quiet town, it seems as everyone has something big to hide, During the nights, agent Cooper sees strange visions of Laura and other mysterious people, visions that tell him that something big is happening here, something far more evil than a single murder case...
Shiva Baby
Emma Seligman
While at a Jewish funeral service with her parents, a college student has an awkward encounter with her sugar daddy and ex-girlfriend.
Parkour Civilization
Evbo
Evbo is a parkour noob that dreams of rising to the top of Parkour Civilization, but the better he gets at parkour, the more he realizes the secrets of Parkour Civilization and what he must do to save it.
Kramer vs. Kramer
Out of the blue, after eight years, the workaholic, up-and-coming advertising executive, Ted Kramer, finds himself with his back to the wall when his emotionally fatigued wife, Joanna, announces that she wants out of the marriage. As a result, left all alone to care for their innocent six-year-old son, Billy, Ted must reinvent the father-and-son relationship, and make up for lost time. Suddenly, being a single parent becomes a daunting task, and as if that weren't enough, after eighteen long and challenging months, Joanna re-enters Ted's life, bent on claiming custody of her little boy. But, Ted will never let go of his son. Can there be any winners when a family is in ruins?
Meet Joe Black
Joe Black (Brad Pitt) and William Parrish (Sir Anthony Hopkins) enter into a most unusual gentleman's agreement. Wealthy media tycoon William Parrish leads a charmed existence until Death comes calling with an extraordinary proposition, he'll delay William's imminent demise in exchange for a tour of life. Innocent, enigmatic, and often hilarious, Joe disrupts William's world of privilege and corporate intrigue. But when he falls for William's beautiful daughter, Susan (Claire Forlani), Joe threatens to change the rules. Now William must fight not for his future, but for those he loves in this bittersweet tale of life and death.—Robert Lynch
Robot Chicken
A mad scientist finds a dead chicken in the road, and brings it back to life by turning it into half robot, half chicken. He tortures the robot chicken by showing a series of stop motion sketches of pop culture references, tv shows and movies, and real life celebrities.
Companion
A billionaire's death sets off a chain of events for Iris and her friends during a weekend trip to his lakeside estate.
Love Me
Andrew Zuchero
A postapocalyptic romance in which a buoy and a satellite meet online and fall in love after the end of human civilization.
Everybody Rides the Carousel
John Hubley
Show is an animated tracing of the eight stages of life, from infancy to old age, as they have been described in the works of psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson.
In the Mood for Love
Kar-Wai Wong
Against the backdrop of a bustling 1962 Hong Kong, and a noisy, cramped apartment building, two neighbours, Mr Chow and Mrs Chan, gradually realise that their spouses are having an affair. Blemished by betrayal's painful stain, the lithe Mrs Chan and the morosely handsome Mr Chow now struggle to understand--and keep at bay bottled-up emotions, repression, and loneliness--bound by their noble beliefs and their inflexible morality. However, little by little, a silently passionate undercurrent of inexpressible affection starts to creep up on them, as both find themselves powerless before the catalytic force of love. Are man's vows strong enough to suppress desire?—Nick Riganas
Death of a Unicorn
Alex Scharfman
Riley (Jenna Ortega) and Elliot (Paul Rudd) hit a unicorn with their car and bring it to the wilderness retreat of a mega-wealthy pharmaceutical CEO (Richard E Grant). Naturally, the mythical beast has restorative properties, raising the question of what to do with the body.
Slings and Arrows
Rhombus Media
In the fictional town of New Burbage, legendary theatrical madman Geoffrey Tennant returns to the New Burbage Theatre Festival, the site of his greatest triumph and most humiliating failure, to assume the artistic directorship after the sudden death of his mentor, Oliver Welles. When Geoffrey arrives he finds that Oliver is still there, in spirit anyway, and with his guidance (and often in spite of it) Geoffrey attempts to reconcile with his past while wrestling the festival back from the marketing department. Despite a bitter leading lady, a clueless leading man, and a scheming general manager, he manages to stage a remarkable production of Hamlet -- the play that drove him mad.
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