Movies
Across 110th Street
SAY IT LOUD When three low-rent crooks from the far side of 110th street (where Manhattan ends and Harlem begins) steal a fortune from the mob, its up to a corrupt cop (Anthony Quinn) and his idealistic partner (Yaphet Kotto) to catch the thieves before the gangsters do. Fast-paced,
The Warriors
The Warriors – Screening on November 25, 28, 30! Advance tickets now available for The Warriors! In the near future, a charismatic leader summons the street gangs of New York City in a bid to take it over. When he is killed,
Martha Marcy May Marlene
WINNER, BEST DIRECTOR, SUNDANCE 2011 A young woman named Martha flees a ramshackle cult and seeks refuge at her sisters home but the after-affects of her identity-obliterating experience prove much harder to escape. Hypnotic, narcotic, and trembling on the verge of either dread or redemption or some hazy state
Like Crazy
WINNER, GRAND JUR Y PRIZE, SUNDANCE 2011 Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl when her student visa expires. Boy and girl try to maintain a a transatlantic relationship. “A crazily inventive and totally irresistible tale of first love that makes the familiar seem bittersweet and heartstoppingly new.” [Rolling Stone]
Way, The
After the death of his son Daniel (director Estevez), Tom (Estevezs real-life father, Martin Sheen) flies to the Pyrenees to collect the body and then decides to complete Daniels final trip, an 800-km trek along the Camino de Santiago. Its a long walk, but the scenery is beautiful. Gentle,
Tower Heist
The 99% (represented, improbably enough, by Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy) get their revenge on the 1% (represented, improbably enough, by Alan Alda) in this #occupy caper that finds our heroes attempting to steal back $20 million in pilfered pension funds (yes, from a tower). A smoothly engineered crowd pleaser.
Melancholia
WINNER, BEST ACTRESS CANNES 2011 Sisters Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) find their already strained relationship deteriorating even further under the stress of Justines wedding oh, and the fact that the Earth is about to be destroyed by a rogue planetoid. Did I mention it’s a Lars
Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS
Exploitation movies dont come much more exploitative than this tale of a warden in a P.O.W. camp who conducts vicious experiments (which mostly look like low-rent bondage fantasies) aimed at proving that women can endure more pain than men. Filmed on the sets of Hogans Heroes, if that helps.
Machine Gun Preacher
Forster (Quantum of Solace, Monsters Ball) directs Gerard Butler in the based-on-a-true-story of Sam Childers, a biker-gang member and drug dealer who found grace under (gun)fire when he moved to Sudan to protect orphans threatened by the countrys civil war.
Le Havre
AWARD WINNER, CANNES 2011 A young Senegalese refugee is separated from his stowaway family and ends up in the French port city of Le Havre (Haven), where hes befriended by an aging shoe-shiner in director Kaurismakis welcome return an intelligent and emotional vision of Europe as it could be,