A Place for Great Cinema
Incessant wind… a dirge of clawing violins on repeat… ’Doom’ on his hands and knees, crawling ever closer with each sunset, along his impending trail of inevitable cataclysm, until finally he … Continue reading The Turin Horse (2011) – Béla Tarr (Jane McCracken)
Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) is an IRS auditor who leads a punctual but uneventful life – until one day he is interrupted by a disembodied omniscient narrator who makes him … Continue reading Stranger than Fiction (2006) – Marc Forster (Samantha Schäfer)
The 2009 directorial debut of Drew Barrymore – Whip It – is arguably the ultimate feminist movie. While that may seem to be a fairly bold statement, it is absolutely … Continue reading Whip It (2009) – Drew Barrymore (Sarah Myles)
The Legend of the Scarecrow (La leyenda del espantapájaros) is a 10 minute short Spanish film about a lonely scarecrow who befriends birds and heals a bird that thinks that … Continue reading The Legend of the Scarecrow (2005) – Marco Besas (Isabelle Birch)
A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.
Drama about a woman who assists her friend to arrange an illegal abortion in 1980’s Romania.
Synopsis: A lonely hitman hides out in an Italian village and falls in love with a prostitute.
Directed by Leos Carax, Holy Motors tells the story of a mysterious man Monsieur Oscar (Denis Lavant) as he spends his day travelling around Paris in a stretched limo. The … Continue reading HOLY MOTORS – Directed by Leos Carax
Short Plot Summary: A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space.
A World of Film 