“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” — Orson Welles Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles looks at Welles’ remarkable genius on the eve of his centenary — the enigma of his career as a Hollywood […]
When a teenage boy goes missing in a small town already devastated by a fatal mining accident, three strangers find themselves drawn together in a tangle of secrets, lies, and the collective grief of the community. Reeling from the disappearance of her son, Diane (Elizabeth Banks) finds herself […]
For Shirin (Desiree Akhavan), being part of a perfect Persian family isn’t easy. Acceptance eludes her from all sides: her family doesn’t know she’s bisexual, and her ex-girlfriend, Maxine (Rebecca Henderson), can’t understand why she doesn’t tell them. Even the six-year-old boys in her moviemaking class are too […]
When out-of-work actors Raphael (Ivan Martin) and Dominic (Michael Godere) hustle a prominent New York producer into believing they’ve written a hot movie script, they have 10 days to deliver the goods or lose their last opportunity for a big break. Hoping to escape the bustle of New […]
PRESERVATION follows brothers Sean (Pablo Schreiber), a recently returned veteran, and Mike (Aaron Staton), a hedge fund manager, who head out of town to hunt in a closed nature preserve with Mike’s wife, Wit (Wrenn Schmidt) – a brainy anesthesiologist – in tow. With Sean unhinged from his […]
Executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, Citizenfour is a real-life thriller that gives unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National […]
In Zürich in the mid-1950s, shy young teacher Ernst Ostertag joins the underground gay organization Der Kreis (The Circle). Founded in the 1930s, The Circle was the only gay association that had survived the Nazi period in Europe, serving as a model for similar organizations in many other […]
While you might not think of The Apartment as a Christmas movie, most of the film occurs between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Besides, it’s one of the best films ever made, regardless of the time of year. Jack Lemmon stars as C.C. “Bud” Baxter, a worker bee […]
During the 1960s and 1970s, the jazz pianist Joe Albany (John Hawkes) performed with the likes of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Charles Mingus. Sadly, at the height of his musical career, he fell prey to heroin addiction. Low Down tells the story of Albany’s life from the […]
“There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the dampness of the summer rains brings out the frogs and snails… For ghost stories to be told on any other evening than the evening […]