I WAKE UP DREAMING: THE HAUNTED WORLD OF THE B FILM NOIR |
FILM NOIR returns in May to the ROXIE where it once enjoyed its greatest renaissance! Two weeks from May 15 through May 28 of darkly demented, baffling B budget curios of the American style most...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:41:00 GMT |
AUDIENCE OF ONE |
"Ten years ago, Richard Gazowsky, pastor of the Voice of Pentecost Church in San Francisco, received a prophetic whisper from God to make movies. Now, in Michael Jacobs riveting documentary, Pastor...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:01:00 GMT |
CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA |
In one small stretch of land in south Los Angeles, there is enough history, tragedy, and hope to inform a nation. This area is known as South Central LA, once a hotbed of African American culture but ...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:26:00 GMT |
CHARLIE KAUFMANS SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK |
"Part dream, part puzzle, part brainteaser, the dazzling directorial debut from award-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman stars the inimitable Philip Seymour Hoffman as a theatre director who turns h...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:16:00 GMT |
MIKE LEIGH'S HAPPY-GO-LUCKY |
Just how hard is it to be happy? In the effervescent new comedy from writer/director Mike Leigh (VERA DRAKE, SECRETS & LIES), Sally Hawkins stars as Poppy, an irrepressibly free-spirited school teache...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:27:00 GMT |
Nick Broomfieldss GHOSTS |
This film by noted cinematic muckraker, Nick Broomsfield, is based on a true story. It is disturbing portrayal of a secret world that is all around us. Ai Qin, a young Chinese girl from Fujian, China,...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:38:00 GMT |
WILD COMBINATION: A PORTRAIT OF ARTHUR RUSSELL |
WILD COMBINATION is director Matt Wolf's visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his untimely death from ...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:25:00 GMT |
THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK |
In 1978, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco city council, becoming the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California. One year later, he and Mayor George Moscone were ...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:23:00 GMT |
FORBIDDEN LIE$ U.S. Theatrical Premiere! |
Norma Khouri is a thief, a saint, a seductress or a sociopath, depending on who you talk to. Men want to marry her, Islamic extremists want to kill her, and the global publishing industry wishes she w...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:23:00 GMT |
