Betty Blue (1986)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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Betty Blue is quintessential French cinema material, an uninhibited and tumultuous story of an obsessive relationship that descends into madness. |
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Beeswax (2009)
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FEATURE FILM | DRAMA
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From director Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation), one of the brightest stars in indie film, Beeswax revolves around the personal and professional entanglements of twin sisters Jeannie and Lauren—played by extraordinary... more » |
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The Bothersome Man (2006)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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A 40-year-old man arrives in a mysteriously idyllic city with no memory of having traveled there, only to realize that there is something decidedly sinister about his emotionally sterile new home in director Jens Lien’s surreal, genre-jumping... more » |
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Le Bonheur (1965)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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A young husband and father finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker in |
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Vagabond (1985)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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Sandrine Bonnaire won the Best Actress César for her portrayal of the defiant young drifter Mona, found death in a ditch at the beginning of Vagabond; with its sparse, poetic imagery, |
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37 Uses for a Dead Sheep (2006)
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FEATURE FILM | DOCUMENTARY
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Ben Hopkins' documentary 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep provides a warm, benevolent, and occasionally humorous glimpse at the lifestyles, mores, and background of the Pamir Kirghiz, a nomadic tribe from the central Asia. |
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The Free Will (2006)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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Theo, a rapist, is released after nine years in a psychiatric hospital's prison ward. His fear of women and the unfulfilled desire this generates turns normal life into a kind of martyrdom. |
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Dark Horse (2005)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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A young man spurs romance and helps his friend and himself go through times and struggles of their ordinary life in Denmark. |
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Epidemic (1987)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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A film director and a script writer (performed by Lars von Trier and Niels Vørsel themselves) write a screenplay, in which an epidemic spreads about the whole world. Like the protagonist, they do not notice that a real epidemic is... more » |
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Jerichow (2008)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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In a small desolate town in northeastern Germany, a handsome ex-soldier, a Turkish businessman, and his beautiful, restless wife find themselves in a desperate love triangle in this suspenseful reworking of classic film noir |
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24 City (2008)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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A masterful film from Jia Zhang-ke, the renowned director of |
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Harakiri (1962)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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Following the collapse of his clan, unemployed samurai Hanshiro Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to commit ritual suicide on his property in Masaki Kobayashi's scathing denouncement of feudal authority... more » |
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Amarcord (1974)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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Federico Fellini satirizes his youth in this carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy in the Fascist period. His most personal film, the Academy Award-winning |
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Divorce, Italian Style (1961)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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In Pietro Germi's hilarious and cutting satire of Sicilian male-chauvinist culture, Baron Ferdinando Cefalù (Marcello Mastroianni) longs to marry his nubile young cousin Angela (Stefania Sandrelli), but one obstacle stands in his way:... more » |
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Fat Girl (2001)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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Twelve-year-old Anaïs is fat; her sister, Elena, is a teenage beauty. Catherine Breillat's |
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L'Avventura (1960)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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A girl mysteriously disappears on a yachting trip. While her lover and her best friend search for her across Italy, they begin an affair. Antonioni's penetrating study of the idle upper class offers stinging observations on spiritual isolation and the many meanings of l... more » |
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Mon Oncle (1958)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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Slapstick prevails when Jacques Tati's eccentric hero Monsieur Hulot is let loose in the ultramodern home of his brother-in-law, and in an antiseptic factory that manufactures plastic hose. Tati directs and stars in the second entry... more » |
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Sons of a Gun (2008)
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FEATURE FILM | DOCUMENTARY
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A freshly minted classic, Sons of a Gun is a portrait of a new archetypal American family—Larry, a laissez-faire LAPD hostage negotiator, and the three mentally ill adults under his care in a Bay Area motel room. |
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Our Beloved Month of August (2008)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity. |
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The Portuguese Nun (2009)
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FEATURE FILM | FOREIGN
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Young French actress speaks Portuguese like her mother but has never been to Lisbon. She arrives in the city for the first time just as they are about to start shooting a film based on the Letters of a Portuguese Nun by the Count of Guilleragues, a French nobleman from the... more » |
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