Narrative
ABOUT ELLY [blu-ray]
With the return of their friend Ahmad from Germany, a group of old college pals (two married couples and a brother and sister, along with three young kids) decide to reunite for a weekend outing by the Caspian Sea. The fun starts right away as they quickly catch on to the plan of lively Sepideh, who has brought along Elly, her daughter’s kindergarten teacher, in hopes of setting her up with recently divorced Ahmad.
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ABOUT ELLY
With the return of their friend Ahmad from Germany, a group of old college pals (two married couples and a brother and sister, along with three young kids) decide to reunite for a weekend outing by the Caspian Sea. The fun starts right away as they quickly catch on to the plan of lively Sepideh, who has brought along Elly, her daughter’s kindergarten teacher, in hopes of setting her up with recently divorced Ahmad.
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JAUJA [blu-ray]
An astonishingly beautiful and gripping Western starring Viggo Mortensen, JAUJA (pronounced how-ha) begins in a remote outpost in Patagonia during the late 1800s. Featuring a superb performance from Mortensen, JAUJA (the name suggests a fabled city of riches sought by European explorers) is the story of a man’s desperate search for his daughter, a solitary quest that takes him to a place beyond time, where the past vanishes and the future has no meaning.
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JAUJA
An astonishingly beautiful and gripping Western starring Viggo Mortensen, JAUJA (pronounced how-ha) begins in a remote outpost in Patagonia during the late 1800s. Featuring a superb performance from Mortensen, JAUJA (the name suggests a fabled city of riches sought by European explorers) is the story of a man’s desperate search for his daughter, a solitary quest that takes him to a place beyond time, where the past vanishes and the future has no meaning.
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WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM
A director asks his actress whether she’s comfortable doing a nude scene. As long as its justified, she says. Don’t worry, he replies. So begins Corneliu Porumboiu’s deliciously witty new film.
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STRAY DOGS
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, Stray Dogs is an extraordinary film from Tsai Ming-liang, a haunting vision of a father and his two young children trying to survive on the streets of Taipei. DVD includes Tsai's latest film, the astounding Journey to the West (featuring a memorable cameo by Denis Lavant).
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JEALOUSY
An enthralling tale of love, temptation and betrayal directed by major post-New Wave auteur Philippe Garrel (Regular Lovers) and starring his son, actor Louis Garrel (The Dreamers, Saint Laurent). Shot in lustrous, widescreen black-and-white by the great Willy Kurant (Masculin Feminin, Under Satan's Sun).
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NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY
An embittered law student commits a brutal double murder; a family man takes the fall and is forced into a harsh prison sentence; a mother and her two children wander the countryside looking for some kind of redemption. Lav Diaz's epic reimagining of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is both an intimate human drama and a cosmic treatise on the origin of evil.
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THE LAST TIME I SAW MACAOA film by João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata A wonderfully mysterious, shape-shifting feature from celebrated filmmakers João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, THE LAST TIME I SAW MACAO is a detective tale that blends film noir, documentary footage and personal travelogue to intoxicating effect. |
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VIOLAA film by Matías Piñeiro A young woman joins a Shakespeare theater company in Buenos Aires and becomes entangled in a seductive roundelay of romantic dalliances, intrigue and revelation in this delightful mystery from filmmaker Matias Piniero - named one of "20 Directors to Watch" by The New York Times. |
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