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UNSETTLED

(dir. Adam Hootnick, 80 min, 2007)

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Slamdance Grand Jury Prize Best Documentary,
Florida Film Festival Audience Award Best Documentary,
Temecula Valley Film Festival Jury Prize Best Documentary,
Winner Sonoma Valley Film Festival Special Jury Prize Documentary

Before summer ends, three young Israelis will be forced from their homes, two soldiers will be sent to evict them, and one activist will fight to help her country avoid a war. Featuring music from reggae superstar Matisyahu, UNSETTLED is the true story of six people in their twenties, facing each other on the front lines of a battle where there is no enemy.

'Remarkable for the balance of its compassion, and for the range of youthful intelligence it reveals on both sides of a heartbreaking issue. An extraordinary film.' - Kurt Loder, MTV

'A well-made film that every person interested in Israel, the Middle East,and, by extension, world politics, should see.' - P. Scott Cunningham, Miami New Times

Tickets for Unsettled are $12.
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AM I EVIL

(dir. Richard Terrasi, 104 mins, 2007)

Sat May 17 6pm - buy tix

Winner * Best Director
Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival 2007

"The only film I can even compare this to is 'Henry: Portrait Of a Serial Killer' and I may be going out on a limb here but this film will be uttered in the same breath as that horror classic. This is a film that takes all of the Freddys, Jasons, and Leatherfaces of the horror world and shows them the real meaning of true terror!" -Gorehounds Unite

Andrew Lakewood seems to be a normal average guy. He was raised by a loving family and has a close relationship with his older brother. His girlfriend adores him and his best friend could only think he knows everything about him. But deep inside of Andrew is a dark side, that has been masked over the years. Until one day, his thoughts and fantasies become real! Richard Terrasi is the Writer, Producer and Director of this pure horrific and disturbing film "Am I Evil". The film digs deep into the mind of a serial killer.

THE MACHINE GIRL

(dir. Nobori Iguchi, 96 min, 2008)

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New York Premiere

Written and directed by Noboru Iguchi (SUKEMAN BOY, THE CAT'S EYED BOY), the film boasts special effects by Yoshihiro Nishimura(MEATBALL MACHINE, EXTE aka HAIR EXTENSION). Handling the action choreography is Yuji Shimomura (VERSUS, SHINOBI).

Iguchi's movie is about a teenager named Ami who sets out for revenge on a gang of bullies who tortured her little brother to death. She winds up losing an arm along the way, and replaces it with a gattling gun, a la Rose McGowan in GRINDHOUSE. But she doesn't stop at one limb -- Ami continues to lose body parts and replaces them with more weapons, until she becomes a walking, talking arsenal! There’s ninjas, flying guillotines, a drill bra (you heard me), and more blood than you’ve ever seen before.

BLITZKRIEG:
ESCAPE FROM
STALAG 69

(Keith Crocker, 2008)

Sat May 24 10pm - buy tix

World Premiere!
Director and Cast will be present for Q&A!

From Keith Crocker, director of 1997’s THE BLOODY APE, comes a brand-new Nazi exploitation flick for 2008! For nearly 30 years no one has dared tackle the genre, leaving us rerunning Ilsa in our DVD players. Now, in period costume and refashioning New York, Long Island locales, Crocker has fathomed a return to the glorious ’70s when the Nazi genre was more grindhouse fodder rather than a political nod.

During the final days of World War II, Helmut Schultz and his cohorts in Nazi crime terrorize the prisoners with biochemical weapons experiments and shoot-on-sight torture for entertainment. After a captured showgirl, the voluptuous Southern belle Candice, escapes her captors and hides out in the women’s camp, other ragamuffin defenders bolster up their wits to overthrow the Nazi demons, even if it means leaving the camp on a slab… while Russian POW Natasha takes on soldier after soldier using only her body and her wits as she tackles the brown and black shirts all on her naked own.

Featuring fan favorite Brandon Slagle (guest at the 2008 Austin Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors), and a cast willing to get naked and bloody, BLITZKRIEG: ESCAPE FROM STALAG 69 has all the violence, gore and torture you would hope for a Nazi exploitation flick, filtered through the underground auteur sensibility of Nathan Schiff contemporary Keith Crocker. Which means it’s got just a teench (okay, maybe a pinch) of that good ol’ John Waters camp touch.

RFK MUST DIE:
THE ASSASSINATION
OF BOBBY KENNEDY

(dir. Shane O'Sullivan, 102 min, 2008)

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Q&A with the Filmmaker
on THU. 6/5, FRI. 6/6 & SUN. 6/8 at 7pm!

Speculation about the 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy is fueled by the new documentary RFK MUST DIE: THE ASSASSINATION OF BOBBY KENNEDY by Shane O'Sullivan, an independent researcher. The film is an expansion of a 2006 BBC broadcast attempting to prove that CIA operatives were present at the Ambassador the night of the assassination and may have been involved in the events that took place that horrible night. Sullivan believes that the CIA targeted Kennedy because of his role in the Bay of Pigs invasion, his pledge to end the War in Vietnam, and his vow to reopen the investigation into the murder of his brother if he became President.

Though Sirhan Sirhan was arrested, tried, and convicted for the RFK killing and is now serving a life sentence for murder, he still maintains that he has no recollection of the shooting and his easy susceptibility to hypnosis has led to speculation that he may have been a programmed "Manchurian Candidate".

For those saturated with official government cover-ups, the film is a frightening revelation. For a new generation too young to remember 1968 and too idealistic to think the worst about government complicity, it may be an eye opener.

BLUE PLANET
(IL PIANETA AZZURO)

(dir. Franco Piavoli, 90 min, 1982)

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"in a beautifully understated fashion, a warning about what man can do to his own planet" -I. Cohen

"Piavoli's films act like some primal memory bank, recalling a biological rhythm of life, a spiritual communion that has been severed; yet the language of Piavoli’s poetic images reaffirms this lost universality" -D. Laderman

"Blue Planet poem, concert, journey into the universe, nature, life... truly a different vision" -A. Tarkovsky

For over a quarter century, Franco Piavoli- "Italy's best-known experimental filmmaker" (Deborah Young)-- has been creating a symphonic cinema in which natural sounds and images play like the notes of a musical score. A poet who invites us to look for the natural rhythm of life, Franco reminds us of the "alphabet of reality we have lost" (T. Kezich). Praised as "unusually beautiful" by the San Francisco Chronicle, BLUE PLANET, his first feature film, was enthusiastically received at the 1982 Venice Film Festival. Since then it has won numerous prizes, including the Italian Academy Award (Nastro d'Argento). The film played continuously for a year in Rome and for ten weeks in San Francisco.