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Tag Archives: 2000s
Year by the Sea (2016) Alexander Janko, Karen Allen, Yannick Bisson, Celia Imrie, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Hoping to reclaim who she was before marriage and children, an empty nester retreats to Cape Cod where she embarks upon a quest to set herself free. Read More »
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (2017) Yûya Ishii, Mikako Ichikawa, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Shizuka Ishibashi, Drama
Newcomer Shizuka Ishibashi throws herself into the role of Mika, a nurse by day, a ‘girlie bar’ hostess by night, subject to feelings of anxiety and isolation Read More »
The Outside Man (1972) Jacques Deray, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a French contract assassin hired by a Los Angeles crime family, ostensibly to perform a hit on some other mafia target. Read More »
Brief Crossing (2001) Catherine Breillat, Sarah Pratt, Gilles Guillain, Marc Filipi, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Read More »
The Look of Silence (2014) Joshua Oppenheimer, Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Documentary, Biography, History
An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the “Communist” purge occurred in 1965. Read More »
Memory of the Camps (2014) Sidney Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock, Jasper Britton, Adolf Hitler, Sidney Bernstein, Documentary
On 29 September 1945, the incomplete rough-cut of a disturbing yet compelling documentary revealing the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps Read More »
Addictions and Subtractions (2004) Víctor Gaviria, Juan Carlos Uribe, Fabio Restrepo, Fredy York Monsalve, Drama
During the 1980s in Medellín, Santiago, an engineer, gets involved in drug traffic to make a quick buck. Read More »
The Brown Bunny (2003) Vincent Gallo, Chloë Sevigny, Cheryl Tiegs, Drama
After racing in New Hampshire, the lonely motorcycle racer Bud Clay drives his van in a five-day journey to California for the next race. Read More »
Feelings (2003) Noémie Lvovsky, Nathalie Baye, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Isabelle Carré, Drama, Romance
Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues Read More »