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Tag Archives: 2000s
Cavedweller (2004) Lisa Cholodenko, Kyra Sedgwick, Aidan Quinn, Sherilyn Fenn, Drama, Music

After rock musician Randall Pritchard’s fatal car accident, his wife and band mate Delia Byrd drags their unwilling daughter Cissy from his California home to her own, a Georgia backwater. Read More »
At Sea (2007) Peter B. Hutton, Documentary

A haunting meditation on human progress, both physical and metaphorical, At Sea charts a three-year passage from twenty-first-century ship building in South Korea Read More »
Les Destinées sentimentales / Sentimental Destinies (2000) Olivier Assayas, Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert, Drama, Romance

In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife – and more talk when he decides to take her back. Read More »
Hjemve / Just Like Home (2007) Lone Scherfig, Lars Kaalund, Bodil Jørgensen, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Comedy

As the citizens of a secluded Danish town gradually lose their trust in one another, the sight of a naked man in the early morning hours sets off an unsettling wave of paranoia. Read More »
3:10 to Yuma (2007) James Mangold, Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Ben Foster, Adventure, Crime, Western, Drama

Outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) terrorizes 1800s Arizona, especially the Southern Railroad, until he is finally captured. Read More »
Telets / Taurus (2001) Aleksandr Sokurov, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mariya Kuznetsova, Sergey Razhuk, Drama

The second in Alexander Sokurov’s teratology of films concerning twentieth century dictators, Taurus is a poetic and partially factual film of the last days of Russian revolutionary, Vladimir Ulyanov ‘Lenin’. Read More »
Aurora (2014) Rodrigo Sepúlveda, Alfredo Castro, Francisca Gavilán, Luis Gnecco, Drama

Based on a real story, Sofía Olivari is a small town elementary school teacher who has been rejected twice by adoption agencies. Read More »
Barbara (2012) Christian Petzold, Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christina Hecke, Drama

A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.
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Wolfsburg (2003) Christian Petzold, Benno Fürmann, Nina Hoss, Antje Westermann, Drama

Philipp Gerber is a smart, but self-satisfied car salesman. In an inattentive moment at the wheel of his car, he runs over a biker and drives away. Read More »
