MARCH 12 FISH TANK  
 

Andrea Arnold (UK, 2009)
Starring Michael Fassbender
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THE MOST HONORED BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR

Academy Award winning filmmaker Andrea Arnold's Cannes winner, FISH TANK, is an emotionally stunning coming-of-age story, electrified by the breakthrough performance of its young star Katie Jarvis.

Fifteen-year-old Mia (Katie Jarvis) is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her, without any creative outlet for her considerable energies save a secret love of hip-hop dance. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor (Michael Fassbender), she is amazed to find he returns her attention, and believes he might help her start to make sense of her life. A clear-eyed, potent portrait of teenage sexuality and vulnerability, FISH TANK confirms writer/director Arnold’s status as one of the leading figures of new British cinema.

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WINNER - JURY PRIZE - 2009 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

"An exhilarating gift. Katie Jarvis hits you like a shot in the heart... filled to bursting with the beauty and raw terror of life."
- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"A terrific debut performance by Katie Jarvis, solid support from her veteran co-stars, good production and direction and a well-crafted story make this a worthwhile, mature and engrossing film."
- Robin Clifford, Reeling Reviews

     
  MARCH 12 WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE
 

Emily and Sarah Kunstler (USA, 2009)
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NOMINATED - GRAND JURY PRIZE - 2009 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

In WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE  filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler explore the life of their father, the late radical civil rights lawyer. In the 1960s and 70s, Kunstler fought for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr. and represented the famed "Chicago 8" activists who protested the Vietnam War. When the inmates took over Attica prison, or when the American Indian Movement stood up to the federal government at Wounded Knee, they asked Kunstler to be their lawyer.

To his daughters, it seemed that he was at the center of everything important that had ever happened. But when they were growing up, Kunstler represented some of the most reviled members of society, including rapists and assassins. This powerful film not only recounts the historic causes that Kunstler fought for; it also reveals a man that even his own daughters did not always understand, a man who risked public outrage and the safety of his family so that justice could serve all.

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"This is a wonderful film and Emily and Sarah Kunstler have done a remarkable job in presenting their famous father in an honest, critical light... The film is great history."
- Alec Baldwin, The Huffington Post

"The documentary is expertly put together and never less than compelling. It's a labor of love that helps restore the reputation of a significant player on the American stage in the last half of the 20th century."
- James Greenberg, The Hollywood Reporter

     
  MARCH 19 HARLAN: IN THE SHADOW OF JEW SÜSS
 

Felix Moeller (Germany, 2008)
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Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious filmmakers. Millions all across occupied Europe saw his movies, the most perfidious of which was the treacherous anti-Semitic propaganda film JEW SÜSS - required viewing for all SS members. An unrepentant and blindly obsessive craftsman, no figure - save for Leni Riefenstahl - is as closely associated with the cinema of the Holocaust years as that of Joseph Goebbels' top director. (Harlan’s 1945 epic KOLBERG was the basis for INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS' pivotal film-within-a-film STOLZ DER NATION.) Harlan was also the only artist from the Nazi era to be charged with war crimes.

With never-before-seen archival footage, unearthed film excerpts, rare home movies and new interviews, HARLAN: IN THE SHADOW OF JEW SÜSS  is indeed a searing portrait of the controversial filmmaker and an eye-opening examination of World War II film history. But it also shows how Veit Harlan’s family - especially the youngest generation - struggles even today with the dark myth of his artistic immorality. It’s the story of a German family from the Third Reich to the present, one that is marked by reckoning, denial and liberation.

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"As one of the most notorious helmers of the Third Reich, Veit Harlan has spawned a near industry among academics dissecting his films. Felix Moeller's terrific HARLAN: IN THE SHADOW OF JEW SÜSS cleverly shifts the discourse and concentrates more on the director's family, subtly exploring questions of guilt and filial devotion while keeping the man's monstrous legacy front and center."
- Jay Weissberg, Variety

"Director Felix Moeller shows us the profound impact Harlan's talent and villainy have on his children and grandchildren. By focusing on this unique family, Moeller’s chilling documentary illuminates the legacy of Nazi Germany's artistic life."
- Boston Jewish Film Festival

     
  MARCH 19 THE RED SHOES
 

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (UK, 1948)
Starring Moira Shearer
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WINNER - BEST ART DIRECTION AND MUSIC
NOMINATED - BEST PICTURE, EDITING, AND SCREENPLAY
1948 ACADEMY AWARDS

Directors Powell and Pressburger, who called their unique creative partnership The Archers, were no strangers to controversy. Each film they made aimed it's barb at complacency and tackled a new creative challenge. They intended for this story, of a ballerina's life backstage, to turn into a manifesto for the claims of art over mundane life.

Through a young dancer's eyes, unforgettably played by Moira Shearer, we meet a young composer, played by Marius Goring, and we enter a ballet company under the leading dancer and choreographer Robert Helpmann. At the center of the company is the malevolent charming impresario Boris Lermontov. Lermontov lives through his creations. People and relationships are ruthlessly subordinated to a drive that inevitably reminds us of the drive to make films. Under the authoritarian rule this charismatic ballet impresario, his proteges realize the full promise of their talents, but at a price: utter devotion to their art and complete loyalty to Lermontov himself.

Under his guidance, the young ballerina is poised for superstardom, but earns Lermontov's scorn when she falls in love with the composer of "The Red Shoes," the ballet Lermontov is staging to showcase her talents.

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"The film is voluptuous in its beauty and passionate in its storytelling. You don't watch it, you bathe in it."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"A look beneath its lushly romantic surface reveals a dark, complex sensibility, and that surface, rendered in the somber tones of British Technicolor, reflects a fantastically rich cinematic inventiveness."
- Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

     
  MARCH 26 THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA
 

Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith (USA, 2009)
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WINNER - FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AWARD
2009 USA NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW

“First, I didn’t like their decision, unbelievable, wasn’t it? You know those clowns we got on there. I tell you, I hope I outlive the bastards.”
– President Richard M. Nixon (in conversation with J. Edgar Hoover, on the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the ongoing publication of the Pentagon Papers, July 1, 1971)

“I just say that we’ve got to keep our eye on the main ball. The main ball is Ellsberg. We’ve got to get this son-of-a-bitch.”
– Nixon (in conversation with Attorney General John Mitchell, June 29, 1971)

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concludes that the war is based on decades of lies and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times, making headlines around the world.

A riveting story of how one man’s profound change of heart creates a landmark struggle involving America’s newspapers, its president and Supreme Court. A political thriller whose events lead directly to Watergate, Nixon’s resignation and the end of the Vietnam War.

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"A tremendously important lesson for times when it seems like we are always at war. Will the person stopping them always be branded a traitor?"
- Ron Wilkinson, Monsters and Critics

"Fortunately, the staunchly committed and controversial Ellsberg, now 78, is still around to tell his history-making tale, and he lends the film gravitas as both its persuasive narrator and primary talking head."
- Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

     
  APRIL 2 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
 

Niels Arden Oplev (Sweden, 2009)
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THE FIRST INSTALLMENT
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLING "MILLENIUM" SERIES

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, ruthless computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) to investigate.

When the pair link Harriet’s disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vanger’s are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is based on the trilogy of books by Stieg Larsson and has sold over 7 million copies worldwide. Tragically, Larsson did not live to see the phenomenon his work has become as he died suddenly in 2004 soon after delivering the manuscripts to his Swedish publisher.

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NOMINATED - AUDIENCE AWARD - 2009 EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS

"A gripping thriller based on the first book of the wildly popular "Millenium" trilogy... a relief for fans of the novel who can forgo 'the book was much better' phrase for once. This mystery is as devastating, suspenseful, and satisfying on screen."
- Dennis Dermody, Paper Magazine

"The "Millennium" novels are probably the biggest international phenom to emerge from Sweden since Abba. Actress Noomi Rapace turns her subject into a mesmerizing, highly intelligent yet absolutely uncontrollable animal with her own sense of justice."
- Boyd van Hoeij, Variety

     
  APRIL 9 35 SHOTS OF RUM
 

Claire Denis (France/Germany, 2008)
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WINNER - SPECIAL JURY AWARD - 2008 GIJON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

“The warmth radiating from 35 Shots of Rum, smoother than the finest liquor, reminds viewers how rarely movies capture the easygoing love embodied in a functional family, with all its support and...Director Claire Denis, long known for her subtle, fluid and intriguing movies, sets her story in a Paris suburb: a widowed metro conductor - approaching retirement - lives with his beautiful grown daughter, slowly becoming the object of a next door neighbor’s desire. Through this conduit 35 SHOTS OF RUM considers the mysterious complexities that surround evolving relationships, whether romantic or parental.

It is that rare movie in which the plot is driven by what people say and what they hold back, the meaningful pauses between words, a significant glance, a sexy outfit, a thoughtful gift. In other words, it holds a mirror up to life as it is actually led.

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“The warmth radiating from 35 SHOTS OF RUM, smoother than the finest liquor, reminds viewers how rarely movies capture the easygoing love embodied in a functional family, with all its support and tenderness.”
– Jay Weissberg, Variety

“One of the best films of the year.”
– Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

     
  APRIL 16

VINCERE

 

Marco Bellochio (Italy, 2009)
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WINNER - BEST DIRECTOR, ACTOR, ACTRESS, AND CINEMATOGRAPHY
2009 CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

There is a secret in the life of Benito Mussolini: a wife and a son, Benito Albino, who was born, acknowledged and then denied, born to Ida Dalser. It is a dark page in history, one ignored in the official biography of the Duce.

When Ida first meets Mussolini in Milan, he is the editor of Avanti! and an ardent Socialist who intends to guide the masses towards an anti-clerical, anti-monarchical, socially emancipated future. Ida is thunderstruck - and truly believes in his ideas. In order to finance Il Popolo d’Italia, a newspaper he has founded and the nucleus of the forthcoming Fascist Party, Ida sells everything she has.

When the First World War erupts, Benito Mussolini enrolls in the Army and disappears. When Ida finds him again in a military hospital, he has already married his nurse. Ida lashes out at her rival furiously, demanding her rights as Mussolini’s true wife and the mother of his first-born son. She is led away by force.

For more than eleven years, she is locked away in an insane asylum (and her son in an institute) where she is put under physical restraint and tortured, never to see her son again. But Ida will not give up without a fightn and unknowingly writes her own untold page in history's books.

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"Director Bellocchio reaffirms the power of the movies to bring about a sort of redemption."
- Andrew Schenker, Slant Magazine

"An operatic tour de force."
- Mark Peranson, Globe and Mail

     
  APRIL 23

THE ART OF THE STEAL

 

Don Argott (USA, 2009)
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AN UN-MISSABLE LOOK AT ONE OF THE ART WORLD’S
MOST FASCINATING CONTROVERSIES

In 1922, Dr. Albert C. Barnes created The Barnes Foundation in Lower Merion Pennsylvania, five miles outside of Philadelphia. He formed this remarkable collection of Post-Impressionist and early Modern art to serve as an educational institution.  

Dr. Barnes built his Foundation away from the city and cultural elite who scorned his collection as "horrible, debased art," and set it on the grounds of his own home, an arboretum in the leafy suburbs. Tastes changed, and soon the very people who belittled Barnes wanted access to his collection.  

When Dr. Barnes died in a car accident in 1951, he left control of his collection to Lincoln University, a small African-American college. His will contained strict instructions, stating the Foundation shall always be an educational institution, and the paintings may never be removed. Such strict limitations made the collection safe from commercial exploitation. But was it really safe?

More than fifty years later, a powerful group of moneyed interests have gone to court to take the art - recently valued at more than $25 billion - and bring it to a new museum in Philadelphia. Standing in their way is a group of former students who are trying to block the move. Will the students succeed, or will a man's will be broken and one of America's greatest cultural monuments be destroyed?

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"A riveting - and tragic - documentary... It's a classic story of destroying the village in order to save it."
-
Christopher Knight, The Los Angeles Times

"A passionate telling of a story... told like a crime thriller and riveting throughout."
- Moira Macdonald, The Seattle Times

     
  APRIL 30

MID-AUGUST LUNCH

 

Gianni Di Gregorio (Italy, 2008)
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WINNER - BEST DIRECTOR - 2009 DAVID DI DONATELLO AWARDS

Gianni is a middle-aged man, the only son of his widowed mother, with whom he lives in an old house in central Rome. Living under the tyranny of this impoverished aristocrat, his life drags on between housework and going to the bar.

A day before the August bank holiday the condominium manager asks him to take his mother into his home for the two days of the bank holiday. In exchange, he will knock some money off the condominium debts Gianni has run up over the years. He is forced to accept.

The manager treacherously turns up with two women, since he doesn't know where to take his aunt, he brings her along too. Gianni is overwhelmed and crushed by the clash between them, but heroically does his best to keep them happy. At a certain point he feels faint and calls a friend of his who is a doctor. The doctor not only reassures Gianni, but foists his own elderly mother on him, since he is on shift at the hospital. Gianni goes through 24 hours of hell. But when at last it’s time to say goodbye, the women have other ideas…

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"A miniature gem, by turns comic, embarrassing, engaging and emotionally affecting... beautifully rendered drama of manners... A completely unique film."
- Adrian Wootton, London Film Festival

"A film of gentle wit with a wicked twinkle in its eye"
- Sight and Sound Magazine

     
  MAY 7

SWEETGRASS

 

Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (USA, 2009)
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OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2009 NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL

A paean to the Old West: SWEETGRASS captures modern cowboys’ overland journey, wrangling thousands of sheep, as they move across Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth Mountains, amid sweepingly dramatic vistas and endless skies.

Twenty-first century cowboys call their mothers on cell phones and complain about rainy weather, ornery sheep and exhausted horses. A strikingly beautiful film, SWEETGRASS is at once funny, awe-inspiring and endearing. At first the passive, fuzzy sheep seem utterly adorable; over time we come to understand the exasperated cowboy who screams profanities at this sea of stubborn, bleating beasts over which he struggles to reign.

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"A one-of-a-kind experience. At once epic-scale and earthbound… a mad cross between Howard Hawks’ Red River and Grass…with a dash of Tex Avery’s Drag-along Droopy."
- Ronnie Scheib, Variety

"Magnificent... Wonderful... The first essential movie of this young year… Astonishingly beautiful… Nature overwhelms the screen and even minds."
- Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

     
  MAY 14

THE RED RIDING TRILOGY

 

Julian Jarrold, James Marsh, and Anand Tucker (UK, 2009)
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FROM THE NOVELS BY DAVID PEACE

One of the a biggest art house events of the year, RED RIDING is a mesmerizing neo-noir epic based on factual events and adapted for the screen by Tony Grisoni (FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS) from David Peace's electrifying series of novels. An official selection of the Telluride, New York, Chicago and AFI Festivals, and acclaimed by critics an eminent accomplishment, the trilogy follows several characters in intertwining storylines united by the horror wrought by the "Yorkshire Ripper," a serial killer who terrorized northwest England in the 1970s and '80s.

The three films are directed by three notable filmmakers - Julian Jarrold (BRIDESHEAD REVISITED), Academy Award winner James Marsh (MAN ON WIRE) and Anand Tucker (SHOPGIRL). Each boasts a stellar British cast that includes Andrew Garfield (THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS), Sean Bean (LORD OF THE RINGS), Paddy Considine (DEAD MAN'S SHOES), Rebecca Hall (VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA), and Peter Mullan (TRAINSPOTTING).

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"Each RED RIDING film has a different style - and all contain haunting, mesmerizing performances. Simply stunning."
- Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News

"It may lack vampires and blue people, but the already much-discussed RED RIDING TRILOGY is perhaps the moviegoing event of the year."
- John Anderson, Wall Street Journal

     
  MAY 21

DANCING ACROSS BORDERS

 

Anne Bass (USA, 2009)
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OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2009 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

A new feature documentary which chronicles the intimate and triumphant story of ballet dancer Sokvannara Sar, discovered by longtime dance patron Anne Bass on a trip to Angkor Wat, Cambodia - and brought to the ballet stage in America.

In 2000, Bass arranged for Sy to visit New York and audition for the prestigious School of the American Ballet (SAB). What unfolds in DANCING ACROSS BORDERS is a tentative negotiation between Sy and the world of American ballet and culture - from the serene countryside of Southeast Asia to the halls of SAB, to the stage of the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle. The film follows Sy’s unusual development as a dancer and offers a remarkable behind-the-scenes look into the world of American ballet. At its heart, DANCING ACROSS BORDERS is an extraordinary story of growth, adaptation, and belonging as well as of the development of talent and the mastery of an art form.

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"I believe that every young person connected to dance should see it."
- Merrill Brockway, Producer, DANCE IN AMERICA

"I was floored and riveted by DANCING ACROSS BORDERS. It is an ode to possibility, risk, discipline, and passion."  
- Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine

     
  MAY 28

THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD

 

Kim Jee-Woon (South Korea, 2009)
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WINNER - BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - 2009 ASIAN FILM AWARDS
NOMINATED - BEST FILM, DIRECTOR, ACTOR, CINEMATOGRAPHY, SCORE, AND EFFECTS
2009 ASIAN FILM AWARDS

Set in the 1930s Manchurian desert where lawlessness rules and many different ethnic groups clash, three Korean men fatefully meet each other on a train. The train’s diverse passengers and imminent danger with guns and knives everywhere serves as a microcosm of the turbulent times.

Do-won (the Good) is a bounty hunter who tracks down any criminals with rewards on their heads. Chang-yi (the Bad) is the leader of a group of tough-as-nails bandits who cannot stand to be second best. Tae-goo (the Weird) is a train robber with nine lives. The three strangers engage in a chase across Manchuria to take possession of a map Tae-goo discovers while robbing the train. Also on the hunt for the mysterious map are the Japanese army and Asian bandits. In this unpredictable, escalating battle for the map, who will stand in the end as the winner?

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"It's masterfully directed... Unapologetically goofy, absurdly attenuated, brilliantly paced, and backed by a rousing musical score."
-
Eugene Novikov, Cinematical.com

"Cool and outrageous. Each fight scene is a perfect blend of comedy, thrilling choreography, and excellent scoring. An excellent example of the energy and originality emerging in Korean cinema."
-
Kevin Buist, Spout.com

     
  MAY

LOURDES

 

Jessica Hausner (Austria/France, 2009)
Starring Sylvie Testud
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WINNER - FIPRESCI, SIGNIS, SERGIO TRASATTI, AND BRIAN AWARDS
2009 VENICE FILM FESTIVAL

Sylvie Testud, star of LOURDES, may be the greatest French actress of her generation. Like Isabelle Huppert, she effortlessly slips into whatever role she assumes. Unlike Catherine Deneuve, she does not dazzle us with glamorous perfection, but radiates a charisma that is born of flaws that are all too real.

As Christine, she is a young woman confined to a wheelchair, visiting the city of Lourdes in hope of a miraculous recovery – along with thousands of others. Yet the movie’s real subject is not religious belief, but human frailty. LOURDES asks us to consider how we would live life severely disabled. And if the hoped-for miracle befell someone else? If romance and the chance for happiness fell from the sky? The film lets no one off the hook: not Christine, nor her fellow pilgrims, the religious order that runs the show, or the pretty nurses who fancy themselves angels of mercy.

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"One of the pleasures of this intelligent, rigorously thoughtful, somewhat sly film is that it takes place in the space between the inexplicable (no explanation is possible) and the unexplained (enlightenment might be around the corner). Director Jessica Hausner wants to explore the mysteries of life - not its certainties."
- Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

"Fascinating on social and theological levels... satisfying in ways that fiction rarely achieves."
- Daniel Eagan, The Hollywood Reporter

     
  JUNE 4

HOUSE

 

Nobuhiko Obayashi (Japan, 1977)
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NEVER BEFORE RELEASED IN THE UNITED STATES

How to describe Nobuhiko Obayahshi’s 1977 movie HOUSE? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby Doo as directed by Dario Argento? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home, only to come face to face with evil spirits, bloodthirsty pianos, and a demonic housecat.

Too absurd to be genuinely terrifying, yet too nightmarish to be merely comic, HOUSE feels like it was beamed to Earth from another planet. Or perhaps the mind of a child: the director fashioned the script after the eccentric musings of his eleven-year-old daughter, then employed all the tricks in his analog arsenal (mattes, animation, and collage) to make them a visually astonishing, raucous reality. Never before released in the United States, and a bona fide cult classic in the making, HOUSE is one of the most exciting genre discoveries in years.

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WINNER - BEST DIRECTOR - 1978 BLUE RIBBON AWARDS

"MUST-SEE-NOW. Delirious, deranged, gonzo or just gone, baby, gone - no single adjective or even a pileup does justice to HOUSE."
- Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

"Run. Wake your neighbor. Slap your children. Eye your cat with suspicion. Every once in a blue-screen moon, a movie will remind even the most jaded of cult-film aficionados that, no, in fact, they have not seen everything."
- Jim Ridley, The Nashville Scene

     
  TBA

EARTH DAYS

 

Robert Stone (USA, 2009)
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OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2009 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

Its now all the rage in the age of Al Gore and Barack Obama, but can you remember when everyone in America was not "Going Green"? Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, EARTH DAYS' secret weapon is a one-two punch of personal testimony and rare archival media.

 

The extraordinary stories of the era’s pioneers - among them Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; biologist/Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich; Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand; Apollo Nine astronaut Rusty Schweickart; and renewable energy pioneer Hunter Lovins - are beautifully illustrated with an incredible array of footage from candy-colored Eisenhower-era tableaux to classic tear-jerking 1970s anti-litterbug PSAs.

 

Directed by acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone (OSWALD'S GHOST), EARTH DAYS is both a poetic meditation on humanity's complex relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements - and missed opportunities - of groundbreaking eco-activism.

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"A rapturous and enlightening look at the history of the environmental movement in America."
- Owen Glieberman, Entertainment Weekly

"We may still have a long way to go but EARTH DAYS applauds those who have helped bring us this far."
- Beth Accomando, KPBS.org

     
 

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