Michael Almereyda’s docu-biography never once attempts to fool the gullible into thinking the footage assembled is anything but fictive. In the mind of the film’s subject, Hampton Fancher, his life and his work are inseparable to the point one might just as easily speak on behalf of the other. Fancher …
Roger Moore as a Nazi prison camp commandant, Elliott Gould as a Jewish vaudevillian on tour in Nazi-occupied Europe, Stefanie Powers as a stripper in the same troupe, Telly Savalas as a Greek resistance leader, Claudia Cardinale as a bordello madame also in cahoots with the resistance, and the paying …
Love can make you do stupid things. Like, say, move from Canada to Colombia to help your hobbled brother build a shack/shop on the beach while you give surf lessons, then start dating a pretty local who happens to be the niece of the most powerful guy in town, then …
This film plays as part of the San Diego Latino Film Festival. According to the festival brochure, "A group of young actors with Down syndrome begin rehearsal for one of Panama’s most popular plays, “La Cucarachita Mandinga.” Despite the difficulty, the actors rise to the challenge and work diligently, memorizing …
The situation of a Mexican wife with five current and contented husbands, and of the public scandal that erupts upon her arrest, is fresh and promising; and the initial disclosure of it is deftly done (the secret compartment of wedding rings in the heroine's compact, the collage of wedding photos …
Monet, her mother Rosa, husband Jack and son Keith, are a dysfunctional family grieving the death of their family patriarch Pabling. The harvest from the rice land of Pabling helped them survive all these years, but when a drought ravaged the land, Monet had to put up a small business, …
Italian short-story collection -- three in all, by screenwriter Tonino Guerra and three different directors. The biggest name, Giuseppe Tornatore, contributes the slightest and dullest, to do with a stray mutt who attaches himself to a lonely old stuck-in-his-ways bachelor. The other two have a more explicit, more titillating eroticism …
This feature-length documentary explores the struggle between Church and government throughout history, in particular Grace Community Church’s struggle against the County and State of California. Mandated restrictions cause the church to close its doors indefinitely. The church congregation led by Pastor John MacArthur takes a courageous stand and re-opens its …
Two sisters try to win over their terminally ill, difficult-to-please aunt in hopes of becoming the beneficiaries of her wealthy estate, only to find the rest of their greedy family has the same idea. Starring Anna Faris and Toni Collette, directed by Dean Craig.
This film plays as part of the San Diego Latino Film Festival. According to the festival brochure, "Nine-year-old Esteban lives alone with his mother in the harsh environment of contemporary Cuba. Seeking to overcome his surroundings, Esteban pursues his dream of becoming a pianist, backed by nothing but hope and …
Mastectomies as subject matter are, not surprisingly, a hard sell. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the first time Hollywood breached the subject was the small screen 1978 biopic, First, You Cry starring Mary Tyler Moore as news correspondent Betty Rollin. Some 22 years earlier, Kinuyo Tanaka’s The Eternal Breasts …
Returning to a hotel now haunted by its mysterious past, an artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets in their former family home. From director Joanna Hogg and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, Carly-Sophia Davies, Zinnia Davies-Cooke.
Augusto and Paulina have been together and in love for 25 years. Eight years ago, their lives were forever changed by Augusto’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis. As one of Chile’s most prominent cultural commentators and television presenters, Augusto is no stranger to building an archive of memory. Now he turns that work …