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Tag Archives: 2000s
How to Cook Your Life (2007) Doris Dörrie, Edward Espe Brown
Doris Dörrie’s camera greets Edward Espe Brown when he arrives in Australia to give a class on cooking, Zen, and meditation. Read More »
Nightmare Detective AKA Akumu tantei (2006) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Ryûhei Matsuda, Hitomi, Masanobu Andô
Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. Read More »
Where the Money Is (2000) Marek Kanievska, Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney
Carol Ann MacKay is a fine, popular nurse at a retirement home Read More »
Fleeing by Night AKA Ye ben (2000) Li-Kong Hsu, Chi Yin, Rene Liu, Lei Huang, Chao-te Yin
Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters. Read More »
The Final Curtain (2002) Patrick Harkins, Aidan Gillen, Adrian Lester, Peter O’Toole
Jonathan Stitch, having just won a prestigious MacKinlay Award for his first novel Read More »
The White Sound AKA Das weiße Rauschen (2001) Hans Weingartner, Tobias Amann, Daniel Brühl, Anabelle Lachatte, Patrick Joswig
Driving through the countryside, Kati, Jochen and Lukas take some magic mushrooms. Read More »
The Son AKA Le fils (2002) Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Olivier Gourmet, Morgan Marinne, Isabella Soupart
Olivier – meticulous, careful, even-handed – teaches carpentry at a vocational school in Liège. Read More »
In Jackson Heights (2015) Frederick Wiseman
Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse communities in the United States and the world. Read More »
Aviva, My Love AKA Aviva Ahuvati (2006) Shemi Zarhin, Assi Levy, Rotem Abuhab, Levana Finkelstein
Aviva, a hard-working hotel cook in the small northern Israeli town of Tiberias, is on the brink of finally fulfilling her lifelong dream. Read More »