Documentary about artist Do Ho Suh's house-on-a-ledge installation at UCSD.
He’s a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star, solve …
He’s a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star, solve …
He’s a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star, solve …
He’s a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star, solve …
Ripped from today's headlines! It begins with a traffic jam reminiscent of the one at the beginning of Fellini's 8 H -- if anything, a bit more grotesque -- but the hero, a laid-off defense worker, doesn't just imagine an escape from his car; he actually walks off and leaves …
Brief Encounter on the Manhattan commuter train -- but not all that brief after all, and without anything like Noel Coward's verbal facility. Michael Christofer's underwritten script maneuvers the characters fairly cleverly into place, but then gives them nothing much to do or say once there. A glaring oversight, this, …
Director Tony Chan's story of a young musician's difficult romance with his manager. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Denys Arcand’s followup to The Decline of the American Empire is more of a slow backslide. It’s lunchtime, and somewhere between Pierre-Paul’s (Alexandre Landry) railing against geniuses (bad people) and philosophers (even worse), our arrogantly insecure delivery man’s exasperated girlfriend Linda (Florence Longpré), decides to call it quits. What they …
From Freshman auditions to Senior graduation, Alan Parker chaperones one entire class through New York City's prestigious High School of the Performing Arts. Parker's own lack of discipline, or lack of form, allows the students to carom at random among the conventions of the coming-of-age movie and the aspiring-artist movie, …
Scott Hamilton Kennedy spends 16 months hanging around the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and taking pictures of the beautiful young people he finds there. Only it isn't creepy! Because he's investigating their lives, documenting their dreams, plumbing their depths, and generally sussing out what it's like …
In the profusion of European-produced Charles Bronson vehicles, this one, from Sergio Sollima, about a Mafia hit man, merits special attention. As usual, Bronson's wife, Jill Ireland, is on hand; but not as usual, her role here is more than token. It is primarily her presence that invests these conventional …