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1-900
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Two busy professionals meet on a telephone sex line for good times. From their initial contact a strange and intense relationship develops that is by turns erotic, funny, frustrating and sinister. 1-900 protocol demands that they never actually meet, nor even discover each other's actual identity. Intimate contact, however, becomes an obsession leading them to explore the boundaries of imagination, fantasy and power. In Dutch with English subtitles. Theo Van Gogh---Netherlands---1995---80 mins.
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101 REYKJAVIK
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Young Hylnur has fallen in love with the new Spanish boarder that has just rented a room in his home. And so has his mother. Life in cold Reykjavik, Iceland is heated up in this debut dark comedy that gives new meaning to "keeping it in the family". Writer/director Baltasar Kormakur delivers "a funny, touching, off-the-wall relationer that's one of the freshest helming debuts in world cinema this year" (Derek Elley, Variety). In Icelandic with English subtitles.
Baltasar Kormakur---Iceland---2000---90 mins.
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1919, CRONICA DEL ALBA 2ND PT
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Antonio Jose Betancor's dramatic sequel to Valentina (1982) jumps ahead to 1939 to relay the story of Jose Garces. Held in a French prison camp following the defeat of Spain's Republicans, Garces entertains his fellow prisoners with the tender story of his own coming-of-age in 1919, and his love for the beautiful Valencia. Betancor's seamless blend of the personal and the historical makes this sequel as accomplished as its predecessor. In Spanish with English subtitles. Antonio Jose Betancor---Spain---1983---90 mins.
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3 FILMS BY LOUIS MALLE
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Three semi-autobiographical coming-of-age films by Louis Malle, a director who emerged from the French New Wave and went on to amass a filmography of staggering breadth, depth, and feeling. Includes Murmur of the Heart (1971, 118 mins.), an affectionate and controversial portrait of a 14-year-old from a bourgeois home who develops complicated feelings for his mother. Lacombe, Lucien (1974, 138 mins.) is a brilliant, poetic work that tells of a French peasant, rejected by the French resistance, who joins the Gestapo instead. Malle's devastating depiction of the amorality of power inflamed French audiences. Finally, Au Revoir les Enfants (1987, 101 mins.) tells the heartrending story of a friendship between two schoolboys, one Jewish and the other Catholic, during the Nazi occupation of France. Louis Malle---France---1971-1987---357 mins.
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7 SONGS FROM THE TUNDRA
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Filmmaker Anastasia Lapsui, a Nenet who hails from the Russian tundra, has combined the legends of her indigenous people with personal experiences in order to convey life under Communist rule. Unfolding in seven separate stories, 7 Songs from the Tundra (Seitseman Laulua Tundralta) offers an impressionist view of an ancient culture caught between nomadic traditions and enforced modernity. Behind the film's mythic allusions is a story of identity and resistance. "It's the small details of Nenet life, captured in grainy B&W images, that fascinate in this strangely beautiful film" Variety. Winner of the Press Award at the Paris Film Festival. In Nenets and Russian with optional English and French subtitles. Anastasia Lapsui/Markku Lehmuskallio---Finland---2001---85 mins.
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800 BULLETS/ 800 BALAS
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Alex de la Iglesia (La Communidad) pays homage to the violent and hyperstylized spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone in this cult hit from Spain. Luis Castro stars as a wayward youth who journeys to a Western theme town where he meets his alcholic grandather, a one-time stunt double for Leone regular Clint Eastwood. The opposing forces of fantasy and reality struggle for dominance when an enterprising scheme to dismantle the town causes its residents to trade their Hollywood blanks for bullets. "A charming comedy [that] celebrates the resilient power of dreams, memories, and the movies" (Village Voice). With Carmen Maura and Sancho Gracia. In Spanish with Alex de la Iglesia---Spain---2002---92 mins.
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99.9 FREQUENCIA / FREQUENCY
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The host of a radio show specializing in paranormal phenomenon (Maria Barranco, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!) learns that the nude body of her ex-boyfriend has been found impaled in a cemetery in a small, disintegrating Spanish village. Her investigation into the strange circumstances surrounding his death leads her on a horrifying journey into the hearts of tortured souls. In Spanish with English subtitles. Agustin Villaronga---Spain---1997---106 mins.
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AALTRA
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After a faulty tractor leaves sworn enemies Ben and Gus (co-directors Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern) paralyzed from the waist down, the pair sets out on an epic journey across Europe to claim compensation from the machine's manufacturer. Easy Rider this is not: the grouchy pair bickers tirelessly as they pilot their wheelchairs from thrash gigs to biker bars in search of the happiness that's always eluded them. A quirky comedy so endearingly bizarre that you'll hardly blink when Aki Kaurismaki shows up to deliver the last word. "Lethally precise and improbably hilarious, Aaltra traces a thoroughline from Tati to Kaurismaki to the Farrellys" (Village Voice). In French with English subtitles. Benoit Delepine/Gustave Kervern---Belgium---2004---92 mins.
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ABERDEEN
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A cocaine-using, commitment-phobic, corporate warrior transports her estranged, alcoholic father from Oslo to Aberdeen in this unusual road film.
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ABOUT ADAM
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Stuart Townsend (Wonderland) is Adam, a man who seems to be all things to all women. He manages to be charming even as he is deceptive, seducing three sisters simultaneously as well as the girlfriend of the brother in the family. Even the brother finds himself interested. Kate Hudson (Almost Famous), Frances O'Connor (A.I.) and Charlotte Bradley play the Irish beauties who fall under Adam's spell. "...a sly romantic comedy...surprisingly sweet and infectious" (Sean Axemaker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer). Gerard Stembridge---Ireland---2001---97 mins.
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ADAM'S APPLES
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"A funny, politically incorrect, and somewhere deep down, thoughtful black comedy" (Variety) from Academy Award-winning Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen. Ivan (Mads Mikkelsen), a naive country priest, takes on a new helper, Adam (Ulrich Thomsen), who is doing community service for some violent neo-Nazi shenanigans. Adam is put in charge of the parish's cherished apple tree, which, in hindsight, might have been the wrong move. Nominated for an Audience Award for Best Film at the European Film Awards. In Danish with Anders Thomas Jensen---Denmark---2005---94 mins.
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ADIOS CON EL CORAZON
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Juan, a roguish loner who makes his living gambling and blackmailing ex-lovers, meets Caty, a young woman who claims to be his illegitimate child from Havana seeking to gain residence in Spain. He is then caught up in a love triangle and plot by one of the husbands of his lovers who desires to marry Caty and get Juan to go to jail in his place. In Spanish with English Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez---Spain---2000---89 mins.
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AFTER THE WEDDING
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Acclaimed Danish director Susanne Bier crafted this Academy Award-nominated drama about a foreign aid worker, Jacob (Mads Mikkelsen, Casino Royale), stationed at an impoverished orphanage in Mumbai. He returns home to Denmark to meet with a wealthy potential sponsor, Jorgen (Rolf Lassgard), who invites him to his daughter's wedding. There, deep family secrets, shattering confessions, and entrenched class conflicts come to the surface. In Dogme fashion, the film was shot by hand in DV, heightening the already exhilarating plot with the kinetic camerawork. "Powerful...Emotionally complex and gripping" (Allan Hunter, Screen International). In Danish with English Susanne Bier---Denmark---2006---127 mins.
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AGES OF LULU
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A charged, intensely erotic film by Bigas Luna (Golden Balls, Jamon, Jamon) with graphic scenes that fell afoul of censors upon its theatrical release. Restored here to its original form, the film explores the encounters of a blossoming fifteen year-old named Lulu (Francesca Neri) who transforms from an insecure and inexperienced virgin to a woman whose sexual cravings immerse her in a dangerous and shadowy underworld. Though some of the film's sections flirt with pornography, Luna maintains an artist's view of desire and human emotion throughout. In Spanish with English subtitles. Bigas Luna---Spain---1990---95 mins.
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AGORA
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The latest from Spanish filmmaker Alejandro Amenabar is an historical epic set in 4th-century Alexandria, Egypt, when the subjugated Christian faith came to challenge the empire's established pantheistic religion. At the center of all the controversy is Hypatia, the philosopher whose rational views are in the crossfire, as is her heart, being torn between a dutiful student (Oscar Isaac) of their pagan beliefs and a Christian slave (Max Minghella). If you want to look for modern day parallels, you won't have to excavate very hard. Winner of seven Goya Awards. In English.
Alejandro Amenabar---Spain---2009---127 mins.
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ALARM (2008)
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In this Irish psychological thriller from Gerard Stembridge (About Adam), a young journalist (Ruth Bradley) flees to an expensive flat in the countryside after living through some undisclosed trauma in Dublin. She declines a costly (titular) alarm system, which proves to be a mistake. At a housewarming party, she meets a handsome man (Aidan Turner), who ultimately moves in with her. Though his presence helps her to get over her hang-ups and depression, a series of increasingly malicious burglaries threatens to push her back over the edge.
Gerard Stembridge---Ireland---2008---105 mins.
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ALAS ROTAS/ BROKEN WINGS
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Fabio Fulco stars as Carlos Ayala, an Air Army commander and renowned member of the air acrobatic team Eagle Patrol. When Ayala discovers that a brain tumor could end his flying career, he feels destroyed, and his struggle to accept his situation becomes the crux of this moving film. In Spanish without Carlos Gil---Spain---2002---95 mins.
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ALFRED LIND
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These two silent films, written and directed by Alfred Lind, are the only surviving works from the Scandinavian-Russian Trading Company, an early film production house responsible for close to 100 works of documentary, educational, and narrative filmmaking. The Flying Circus (1912, 46 mins.) was the company's most famous film--a sensational circus epic about a tight-rope walker who temps fate to win the hand of a lovely snake charmer. The Bear Tamer (1912, 50 mins.), the film's sequel, stars Lind himself. With Lilli Beck, Peter Fjeldstrup, Richard Jensen, and Holger Madsen. Musical accompaniment by Neil Brand. Silent with Danish and English intertitles. Alfred Lind---Denmark---1912---96 mins.
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ALIAS
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Eva (Hilde De Baerdemaeker) accidentally captures the suicide of a beautiful young girl on her video camera. Soon after the tragedy, the mysterious and charming Dieter (Geert Hunaerts) enters Eva's life, sweeping her off her feet. But, Eva's life changes more than she had anticipated as these two seemingly unrelated events become intertwined. In Dutch with English subtitles. Jan Verheyen---Belgium---2002---98 mins.
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ALL THINGS FAIR
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A young man and his teacher become wrapped up in an extremely volatile romance in the impressive final film from director Bo Widerberg (Elvira Madigan), who died two years after its release. Set in Sweden during WWII, the coming-of-age story unfolds as 15-year-old Stig (Johan Widerberg, Bo's son) falls madly in love with his older, married teacher, Viola (Marika Lagercrantz), who readily returns the boy's affections. The relationship takes a bitter, violent turn when Stig attempts to break it off. Winner of the Blue Angel and Silver Bear Awards at the 1966 Berlinale Film Festival. In Swedish Bo Widerberg---Sweden---1995---125 mins.
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