Screenings: February 27, 9:30 PM (Rep); March 1, 1:30 PM (Rep); March 4, 5:00 PM (Cam 12) Nick is a struggling musician in Los Angeles who spends most of his time gaming online with a large group of folks, many of whom are his close friends. When he meets Kei, a struggling actress who knows […]
Read more →Cinequest 2009 Ealasaid said it best – “Another Man” is a French film, a noir tale told with a brooding mood and angst feel. Francois finds himself writing for a local newspaper and, by chance, covering the local film world as a critic. This is new to his experience. His negative critiques causes a potential […]
Read more →Cinequest 2009 “How To Be”, directed by Oliver Irving, is one of those films you can enjoy if you catch it, and not miss if you miss it. It comes under radar, not carrying a big punch. Art hasn’t made much of his life to date and has allowed his parents disappointment to be his […]
Read more →Cinequest 2009 “Capers” is a happy little ditty. Really. Take three groups of sad sacks, each wanting Connie’s treasure to bring about changes in their own lives, schedule three simultanious break-in buglaries, throw in a delightfully uncaring sullen fence of stolen goods, and you’ve got a hit film. In competition for the valuables in Connie’s […]
Read more →Cinequest 2009 The Caller, directed by Richard Ledes, is a melancholy drama about Jimmy (Frank Langella) who has resigned himself to his last days of life. He’s not sick, but he expects a visit by a hit man as consequence for exercising his conscience. Before he meets his executioner, we’re treated to a view of […]
Read more →Screenings: February 27, 11:30 PM (Cam 12); March 2, 9:30 PM (Rep) Everyone knows that the standard samurai movie tropes and the standard Western movie tropes mesh well together — look at Kurosawa’s samurai classics and Clint Eastwood’s early “spaghetti” Westerns. But what do you get when you mesh them with a little less subtlety? […]
Read more →Screenings: February 26, 7:00 PM (Cal); February 27, 4:30 PM (Rep); March 1, 9:30 PM (Cam 12) Things are tough in New York since 9/11. Your photo ID has to match what you actually look like. Fences are picky about what stolen stuff they’ll fence. A forged green card is expensive. Nobody is paying up […]
Read more →Screenings: February 28, 2:30 PM (Cam 12); March 2, 7:15 PM (Cam 12); March 3, 12:30 PM (Cam 12). Renaldo Kuhler is a scientific illustrator with a lifelong project: his own nation, Roccaterania. With the same detail he uses to record the scale patterns of snakes or the curves of microscopic bones, he has designed […]
Read more →Opening Night: February 25, 7:00 PM (Cal) Carys (Bijou Phillips, “Choke”) is an unusual gal who attends the funerals of strangers looking for something ineffable. She meets Tyler (Ian Somerhalderl, “Pulse”), the fiance of the dead individual at one of the funerals she crashes. She manages to accidentally steal the dead girl’s wedding ring, but […]
Read more →Screenings: March 1, 7:00 PM (Cal) Jimmy Stevens (Frank Langella) has blown the whistle on his company’s corrupt practices. He knows he will be killed for it, so he anonymously hires private eye Frank Turlotte (Elliott Gould) to follow him. As the time draws near for Jimmy’s execution, we learn more about his past and […]
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