FILMS
All Films by Category
- Adam’s Apples
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A pitch-black comedy/religious parable in which a truculent neo-Nazi ex-convict and a dementedly upbeat country priest square off amid Old Testament plagues centered on a parish apple tree.
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- Anders Thomas Jensen
- World Cinema
- Denmark
- 2005
- Art School Confidential
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This deliriously barbed black comedy from the director of Ghost World tears the lid off of the art school experience, leaving nothing and no one unscathed. Featuring a breakout performance by Max Minghella (Bee Season).
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- Terry Zwigoff
- World Cinema
- USA
- 2005
- Bashing
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A controversial, fictionalized account of a young woman whose kidnapping and release in the Middle East has made her a town pariah back at home. Inspired by the experiences of several Japanese aid workers held hostage in Iraq in 2004.
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- Masahiro Kobayashi
- World Cinema
- Japan
- 2005
- The Betrayal
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An understated, intelligent and suspenseful thriller, The Betrayal traces the fine ethnic lines between European and Arab soldiers fighting under the French flag while stationed in Algeria in 1960.
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- Philippe Faucon
- World Cinema
- France/Belgium
- 2005
- Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw
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A young cyclist’s lyrical ride through the stunning landscapes of northern Japan becomes a piercing exploration of Japan’s recent history. Outspoken veteran filmmaker Wakamatsu shows a deep social conscience often overshadowed by his more sensational and erotic pinku eiga movies.
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- Koji Wakamatsu
- World Cinema
- Japan
- 2004
- Delicate Crime
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An emotionally detached theater critic’s chance encounter with the beautiful young muse of a painter propels three people into a web of passion, jealousy and manipulation, where there can be no turning back.
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- Beto Brant
- World Cinema
- Brazil
- 2005
- Eden
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A character-driven film about intimacy, jealousy, redemption and the transformative power of food, Eden is an uplifting and nuanced story about an unlikely friendship between a married but lonely waitress and a socially awkward but masterful chef.
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- Michael Hofmann
- World Cinema
- Germany/Switzerland
- 2005
- Factotum
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Bent Hamer brings his offbeat Scandinavian sensibility to the seedy American underbelly in this droll adaptation of writer/barfly Charles Bukowski’s 1975 novel of the same name, starring Matt Dillon and Lili Taylor.
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- Bent Hamer
- World Cinema
- Norway
- 2005
- Gabrielle
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Isabelle Huppert delivers a remarkable performance as Gabrielle, a wife who tries to free herself from an unhappy marriage to a dispassionate husband in this powerful period drama set in the bourgeois society of 1912 Paris.
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- Patrice Chéreau
- World Cinema
- France
- 2005
- The Grönholm Method
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In a large multinational corporation in Madrid, seven job applicants are thrown together in a room in a suspenseful dog-eat-dog competition, Survivor style, for a high position in the company.
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- Marcelo Piñeyro
- World Cinema
- Spain/Argentina
- 2005
OPENING NIGHT
7:00 pm, Thursday April 20, 2006
Join us for an exceptional cinematic event and a world-class after-party,
with a screening of the lavish Pan-Asian musical, Perhaps
Love.