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0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Drama CalArts professor Thom Andersen directs the digital video essay film Los Angeles Plays Itself, titled after a gay porn classic by Fred Halsted (L.A. Plays Itself). Using clips from well-known mainstream movies to lesser-known obscurities, Andersen explores the myths and realities of the city as produced by Hollywood and as viewed by contemporary philosophy. He divides the film into three segments: The City as Background, The City as Character, and The City as Subject....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary An artumentary from Denmark. Have you ever been addicted to love? Through the personal stories of love addicts and the people around them, this documentary explores the nature of love addiction through the unique lens of a very talented filmmaker. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary An artumentary from Denmark. Have you ever been addicted to love? Through the personal stories of love addicts and the people around them, this documentary explores the nature of love addiction through the unique lens of a very talented filmmaker....

156 votes and 66 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 83% 71% In Theaters: November 23, 2011 (limited) December 23, 2011 (limited) R | 1h 39m | Drama Watch Trailer In 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant for six months on the set of “The Prince and the Showgirl.” The film famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was at the same time, on a honeymoon with her new husband, playwright Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 45m | Fantasy, Sci-Fi By 1965, Jack Smith was exhibiting versions of Normal Love, mixing his soundtracks live and often re-editing the film as it was being shown. After Smith’s death, Jerry Tartaglia prepared this restored 105-minute version, which premiered in 1997. Although shot on backdated color-film stock and paced more languidly than Flaming Creatures, Normal Love again features women and cross-dressed men in an idyll of sexual anarchy....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Drama Actor Tim Reid (WKRP in Cincinnati) made his directorial debut with this filmed adaptation of Clifton L. Taulbert’s autobiography. Set in an African-American community in the segregated South, Once Upon a Time…When We Were Colored follows a young Taulbert through three decades, beginning with his birth in a cotton field in 1946. As he grows up, Taulbert is faced with the harsh realities of being black in the mid-20th century: first from the lessons of his great-grandfather (Al Freeman Jr....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 78% Comedy, Drama, Romance An ordinary and unnoticeable high-school girl, Truly, has a crush on the most popular guy in school. Taiyu, a ruffian and a bully, is in love with the campus belle. By a quirk of fate, Taiyu invited Truly to enter a pack for the losers in love, an “Association of the Dumped”. Their mission is to tear the golden couple apart and helped each other to get the ones they love....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Quilombo de Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves. The colony becomes a safe harbor for other outcasts of the world, including Indians and Jews. Ganga Zumba (Toni Tornado) becomes president of Quilombo, the first freely elected leader in the Western Hemisphere....

26 votes and 6 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: March 27, 2015 (limited) R | 1h 49m | Drama Watch Trailer In 1929, just as the Depression has hit, newlywed couple George (Bradley Cooper) and Serena Pemberton (Jennifer Lawrence), move from Boston to North Carolina to build a timber empire. Although Serena proves herself to be an important part of their success, overseeing crews and handling every bit of trouble that comes upon them, when Serena discovers she’s unable to bear children, it sets her on a path of destruction....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 10, 2010 (limited) Documentary “Shoah” is an epic on the Holocaust featuring interviews with survivors, bystanders and perpetrators in 14 countries. The film does not contain any historical footage but rather features interviews which seek to ‘‘reincarnate’’ the Jewish tragedy and also visits places where the crimes took place. Growing out of Lanzmann’s concern that the genocide perpetrated only 40 years earlier was already retreating into the mists of time, and that the atrocity was becoming sanitized as History, his massive achievement-at once epic and intimate, immediate and definitive-is a triumph of form and content that reveals hidden truths while rewriting the rules of documentary filmmaking....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The 10 Conditions of Love follows the personal and political struggle of Rebiya Kadeer, the most galvanizing leader of the Uyghur people in 60 years. The Uyghur are China’s Muslim minority. From poverty to wealth, protest to imprisonment, Rebiya now lives in exile in the United States. Here she is quickly gaining influential friends and media coverage to help her campaign for her people’s human rights....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary At 4 a.m. on Aug. 22, 1971, eight anti-Vietnam War protestors went up a ladder outside the federal building in Camden, N.J., and broke into the offices of the local draft board. For two hours, they shredded Selective Service records before they were surprised by FBI agents. Twenty co-conspirators were also soon arrested and in 1973 the “Camden 28,” each facing sentences of 47 years on seven felony counts, went on trial....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Horror Watch Trailer Two years ago, the Mugg Brothers, who have never worked a day in their lives, inherited a brownstone apartment building. In that short time, their slacker ways have run the building into the ground. Tenants are moving out, no one drinks at the bar downstairs, and the building’s pets are going missing. If all that isn’t enough to make them sit up and take notice, they soon discover a mysterious creature is hiding in the basement and trying to eat every living thing in the building one by one....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This film is a tale of two sisters caught in the whirlwind of China’s breakneck modernization. Juma and Latso, young women from one of the world’s last remaining matriarchal societies, are thrust into the worldwide economic downturn when they lose their jobs in Beijing. Left with few options, they return home to their remote village in the foothills of the Himalayas. Ultimately, though, it’s the sisters’ relationship with one another that hangs in the balance as they struggle to navigate the vast cultural and economic divides that define contemporary China....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This documentary unearths a treasure trove of material that filmmaker Murray Lerner captured of Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival over three turbulent years in the 1960s. While Lerner’s original Newport documentary-the 1967 release “Festiva"l-surveyed several musicians and included only a fraction of the footage we have here, his new film “The Other Side of the Mirror” is generous with the number of performances and their duration, including many of Dylan’s best known songs....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 14, 2008 (limited) PG-13 | Documentary Filmmaker C. Karim Chrobog recounts the remarkable story of child soldier-turned-hip-hop star Emmanuel Jal in this documentary tracing the life of the Sudan-born rapper through the good times and the bad. Born in Tonj to a Sudanese Liberation Army soldier and a mother who died when he was just a child, Jal was eventually relocated to Ethiopia and trained as a soldier at the tender age of seven....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 80% 50% Drama With only a few weeks left until his two best friends leave for college, Billy Joe robs his cotton farmer boss, Giff, in order to pay for one last blow out weekend in Corpus Christi, Texas. Upon returning, the teens are confronted by the unfortunate and brutal consequences of stealing from his boss. Now Billy Joe, Sue and Bobby must embark on a dangerous journey that will test their trust and friendship and take them across the line from carefree adolescence into the harsh reality of adulthood....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 78% 81% R | 1h 30m | Drama Tim Brown is a devoted family man who has worked hard to provide a good life for his wife Shenae and daughter Maya. But all is threatened when Shenae’s old boyfriend returns from prison and lures her back into a dangerous lifestyle. Though his wife has abandoned him, Tim refuses to give up hope, fighting against impossible odds to bring his family back together in this powerful drama....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 29, 2012 (limited) Comedy, Drama, Horror 3 is an upcoming Tamil film directed by Aishwarya Rajinikanth Dhanush, who makes her directorial debut with the film. It stars her husband Dhanush along with Shruti Haasan.The film which is produced by Dhanush’s father Kasthuri Raja, features music scored by Anirudh Ravichander while the cinematography is handled by Velraj. Director: Tom Tykwer 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 3, 2012 (limited) R | 1h 50m | Drama Following a romantic breakup, heartbroken actress Pandora Isaacs (Tanna Frederick) returns to her family’s upstate country house, located 45 minutes from Broadway. There she meets her non-performing sister (Julie Davis), who has also returned, with her fiancé (Judd Nelson), for the family’s yearly Passover Seder. During the weekend, while secrets are exposed and rivalries are rekindled, love begins to bloom....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Christophe Blanc directs his nuanced character study of a nurse, wife, and mother of three who is on the verge of a breakdown. After learning that her husband of 15 years is having an affair with his young slatternly secretary, Francoise (Agnes Jaoui) throws her spouse out on his ear and starts frequenting seedy bars. As she slowly disconnects from her job and her children, she starts hanging out at boxing rings, having cheap and easy sex....