Tag Archives: 2000s

Just as in her previous film, Oxhide, the Chinese director films herself and her parents in their rather claustrophobic apartment with documentary realism. Read More »

17-year-old Mariano finds a gun in his house and, in a thoughtless impulse, shoots himself twice. But he survives. Read More »

In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year-old girl named Helena who works at the family circus with her father and mother Read More »

After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr (Dustin Hoffman) against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch (Gene Hackman) Read More »

A series of scenes that focus specially on a single idea, emotion or act us. Read More »

TSAR, French poster art, Pyotr Mamonov as Ivan the Terrible, 2009. ph: Alexandra Morozova/©Rezo

In 16th-century Russia in the grip of chaos, Ivan the Terrible strongly believes he is vested with a holy mission. Read More »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »