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Tag Archives: 2000s
Café Lumière AKA Kôhî jikô (2003) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara
The story revolves around Yoko Inoue, a pregnant woman in search for a cafe that’s frequented by a Taiwanese composer whose life she is researching. Read More »
Wild Berries AKA Hebi ichigo (2003) Miwa Nishikawa, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Miho Tsumiki, Sei Hiraizumi
A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence. Read More »
Chinese Coffee (2000) Al Pacino, Jerry Orbach, Susan Floyd
When aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer Harry Levine is fired from his job as restaurant doorman Read More »
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 »