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Tag Archives: 2000s
The Wig / Gabal (2005) Shin-yeon Won, Min-seo Chae, Jung-sung Lee, Kyeong-bin Rah

In Seoul, Su-Hyeon is terminal with leukemia, and bald due the treatment of chemotherapy. Read More »
The Buried Forest AKA Umoregi (2005) Kôhei Oguri, Tadanobu Asano, Mai Enoki, Tokie Hidari

Machi, a young high school student from a small mountain town, is having fun with her friends Read More »
Factory Girl (2006) George Hickenlooper, Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen

In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol’s famous Factory and becomes his muse. Read More »
Tony Manero (2008) Pablo Larraín, Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Héctor Morales

Raúl, a middle-aged, unemployed man, is obsessed by the character Tony Manero, who John Travolta plays in the film “Saturday Night Fever”. Read More »
A Coffee in Berlin AKA Oh Boy (2012) Jan Ole Gerster, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Justus von Dohnányi

This tragicomedy is a self-ironic portrait of a young man who drops out of university Read More »
Van Diemen’s Land (2009) Jonathan auf der Heide, Oscar Redding, Arthur Angel, Paul Ashcroft

The true story of Alexander Pearce, Australia’s most notorious convict. Read More »
Kuro AKA Hanare banareni (2012) Daisuke Shimote, Daisuke Iijima, Hikari Kajiwara, Airi Kido

The story begins in modern Tokyo, following three young people. Kuro is a girl working part-time job at a bakery Read More »
Hot Boyz (2000) Master P. Gary Busey, Silkk Tha Shocker, Jeff Speakman

Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. Read More »
A Place on Earth AKA Une place sur la Terre (2013) Fabienne Godet, Benoît Poelvoorde, Ariane Labed, Max Baissette de Malglaive

Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and the son of his neighbor, who is often absent. Read More »