Screenings: February 29, 9:30pm (Rep); March 2, 9pm (Rep); March 4, 4:30pm (Rep) Elliott is a product of the foster system, with no family. When his childhood friend Matt dies, he goes to the funeral and overhears one of Matt’s friends and Matt’s ex-girlfriend planning to take some of Matt’s ashes to Mexico. Elliott insists […]
Read more →Screenings: March 6, 7pm (Cam 12); March 8, 7:15pm (Cam 12); March 9, 3pm (Cam 12) I don’t know how to class this film. It’s a drama, with a strong streak of black comedy. Or maybe it’s a black comedy with a strong streak of drama. A black dramedy? Whatever it is, it’s a trip. […]
Read more →Screenings: March 1, 7:45pm (Rep); March 4, 4:15pm (Cam 12); March 8, 7:45pm (Rep) This is one of those slow, character-driven films that only works if you resonate with the characters somehow. I did not, and so it felt more like a long, slow eavesdropping on other people’s lives. Daisy is a young woman with […]
Read more →Screenings: February 28, 6:30pm (Cam 12); February 29, 9:30pm (Cam 12); March 2, 1:30pm (Cam 12) The opening scenes of “Disfigured” ring so true that they feel like a documentary. It quickly becomes clear that this is not, in fact, a documentary — but it often feels as if it were. “Disfigured” tells the story […]
Read more →Screenings: March 2, 4:30pm (Cam 12); March 4, 9pm (Cam 12); March 7, 4:30pm (Rep) Mardik Martin wrote or co-wrote some of the seminal films of the 70s and (early) 80s: “Mean Streets” was one of his early screenplays, and “Raging Bull” was his last. Since then he has taught other screenwriters his craft. With […]
Read more →Screenings: March 6, 9:15pm (Cam 12); March 7, 4:15pm (Cam 12) Taylor is no longer young, but she’s still single and wondering why she can’t seem to find a decent guy and get the wedding she dreamed of when she was a girl. Her friends, the mildly predatory alcoholic Dot, winsome and promiscuous Katy, and […]
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