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Film Reviews

Bhutto

BHUTTO is the definitive documentary that chronicles the life of one of the most complex and fascinating characters of our time. Hers is an epic tale of Shakespearean dimension. It’s the story of the first woman in history to lead a Muslim nation: Pakistan. Newsweek called it the most dangerous place in the world, and the home of nuclear war heads and the Taliban.

La Legge Violenta Della Squadra Anticrimine

A mobster kills a cop during a robbery and then finds himself pursued by the police, his gang, and the media.

The Crush

Olmi’s 1967 short about a young boy’s first love.

The Garden of Sinners - Chapter 1: Overlooking View

When an odd string of suicides begins to occur at a local high rise building, most of the townsfolk treat it as an unfortunate series of events. One girl, however, senses something more sinister at work - especially when a close friend of hers falls mysteriously ill.

(Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies

A documentary about why people lie. Includes profiles with famous liars.

Everybody Has a Plan

Following the death of his identical twin brother Pedro, Agustín sets out to begin his life anew by assuming Pedro’s identity and returning to the mysterious Tigre Delta region where the brothers had spent their childhood. Soon after his homecoming, however, Agustín finds himself unwittingly embroiled in the deadly criminal underworld that his brother had been part of.

Köyden İndim Şehire

Köylerinde buldukları bir çuval altını bozdurmaya şehre, şehirde kuyumcu dükkanı olan hemşehrilerine gelen dört kardeşin komikliklerle dolu öyküsü.

The Golden Fortress

A young boy becomes a target for crooks, after he claims to remember his past life and mentions precious jewels in a golden fortress.

No Budget Story

In order to secure money for the production of his first film, a young man asks help from a film producer. The producer, however, was involved with pornographic films, and now his main business is drug dealing. The young director will have to become a drug runner in order to get the money he needs for his film

Möbius

An FSB officer fall in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.

Manon of the Spring

In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon (Beart) has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.

Amreeka

Eager to provide a better future for her son, Fadi (Melkar Muallem), divorcée Muna Farah (Nisreen Faour) leaves her Palestinian homeland and takes up residence in rural Illinois -- just in time to encounter the domestic repercussions of America's disastrous war in Iraq. Now, the duo must reinvent their lives with some help from Muna's sister, Raghda (Hiam Abbass), and brother-in-law, Nabeel (Yussuf Abu-Warda). Cherien Dabis writes and directs.

Extreme Justice

Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to target important criminals and to get them to stop. Police brutality is not a known term for the division and they will stop at nothing to get the job done, even if it means murder.

The Danube Exodus

In the travelogue The Danube Exodus, Forgács documents the Jewish exodus from Slovakia just before the beginning of World War II. In two boats, a group of nine hundred Slovak, Austrian Jews tried to reach the Black Sea via the river Danube, in order to get to Palestine from there. Forgács based his film on the amateur films of Captain Nándor Andrásovits, the captain of one of the boats. He filmed his passengers while they prayed, slept and even got married. At the end of this journey, it is clear that the boat will not return empty: a reverse exodus takes place, this time of repatriating Bessarabian Germans, fleeing to the Third Reich because of the Soviet invasion of Bessarabia

Wives Under Suspicion

A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life. Director James Whale's 1938 drama stars Warren William, Gail Patrick, William Lundigan, Constance Moore, Cecil Cunningham, Milburn Stone, Ralph Morgan, Lillian Yarbo, Jonathan Hale, James Flavin and Samuel S. Hinds.

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