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AS
THE CALL, (dir. Keir Moreano, 71 mins, 2005) Weds
Nov 1 7pm - buy
tix |
"Vietnam
has never been rendered so beautifully tragic as in Keir Moreano's AS
THE CALL, SO THE ECHO." AS THE CALL, SO THE ECHO tells the story of an American surgeon who volunteers in a poverty stricken hospital in central Vietnam. When a woman with a deadly cancer is presented to him, he must struggle to save her life, fighting to overcome a language barrier, limited equipment, and his deepest fears.
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(dir. Peter Hoare, 64 mins, 2006) Wed Nov 1 9pm - buy tix |
"Comedy
that can only come from taking turns riding the porcelain wave together."
“Once
again, the BEER crew sets the gold standard for the suds-sipping, fart-lighting,
ass-flashing juvenile in us all. I laughed so hard, I peed a little.”
“A
tribute to the heady brew known as friendship." Sud-soaked sketch comedy with a chaser of drunken antics, that's what you get when you pound back the latest installment of BEER THE MOVIE and guzzle that Long Island-brewed video moonshine. In this brand new movie, the BEER Boys hit the road in search of the Best Bars In America, stumbling through a coast-to-coast bar crawl that revels in sex, drunkenness, and indie rock. You want girl-on-girl makeout contests? You got em! You want drinking games with pornstars? You got it! You want beer guzzling mountain goats and a dude who lights his balls on fire?! Damn right, you got it! And here you thought the only things Long Island ever gave you were Joey Buttafuoco and Flavor Flav! Now crack open a cold one and prepare to laugh your ass off. |
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Doors Art Foundation
presents MONDO BOBO showing from DVD (dir. Goran Rusinovic, 80 mins, 1997) Thurs Nov 2 7pm - buy tix A Cultural Thursdays program. At 7pm on the First Thursday of the month, the Doors Art Foundation presents a film from Croatia. Other Thursdays at 7pm often feature programming presented with other ethnic and cultural groups. |
The Doors Art Foundation presents films from Croatia Pula
International Film Festival
International Film Festival Mannheim Mondo Bobo is a thriller and a political parable about a man accused of murder who escapes from prison. A girl who is suspected of having helped him dies during his escape. His lawyer wants him to surrender, but the man continues his flight. A huge police force is pursuing him. They reach the deserted house where the man is hiding with a female hostage. The destinies of several people depend on one single move. Mondo Bobo is one of the first truly independent Croatian films.
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(dir. Kat Candler, 90 mins, 2006) |
"Truly wonderful work." - FILMMAKER MAGAZINE Inspired by invincible friendships, junior high journal entries, heart breaking crushes and the complexities of losing loved ones, jumping off bridges follows a carefree, adventurous group of four best friends deep in the trenches of adolescence. Lauded by the Austin Chronicle as “a realistic narrative portrait of love, death, and human debris as anything you're ever likely to see onscreen." At heart, this story is about the struggle of grief. How each of us deals with grief in our own strange and debilitating ways. How we search for answers at a time when there are none. We get lost beneath our anger and betrayal and flounder for stability and consolation. We seek comfort and solace from the people we push furthest away. It’s a story about friendship, a story about strength and a story about finding hope. |
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EASY RIDER (dir. Dennis Hopper, 90 mins, 1969) 35mm print Sat Nov 4 11pm
- buy tix |
A landmark in film history, EASY RIDER blew the studio doors open for more young directors than any film before or since, helping to create the wide-open climate that would lead to the production of many outstanding films in the 1970s. As its director, Dennis Hopper is usually given the lion's share of credit for the film's success, but the revelations of time suggest that the contributions of the late Terry Southern and, to some degree, Jack Nicholson have endowed the film with much of its residual power. Starring
Peter Fonda as Wyatt (alias Captain America) and Hopper as Billy, it traces
the hippie duo's adventures as they mount their seriously chopped hogs
on a journey to find the real America en route to Mardi Gras. In Arizona,
they visit a commune whose members are having a tough time, and in a small
Texas town they're jailed for joining a parade. But they're quickly sprung
by an ACLU lawyer, the quirky, hard-drinking George Hanson (Jack Nicholson),
who accepts their offer to join them on the trip to New Orleans, eager
to visit the best whorehouse in the South. EASY RIDER accurately reflects
the tensions and hostilities of the period, Laszlo Kovacs's photography
is superb, Nicholson is exceptional in his breakthrough role--and the
startling, stunning ending is a shocker. |
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Chicago City Limits First Sundays Comedy Films First Sundays Sun Nov 5 7pm - buy tix filmmakers & special guests will attend! This is a Sunday Shorts program. Early evenings on many Sundays, the Pioneer presents programs of short films. |
Part stand-up comedy act, part film festival, part party, First Sundays is a monthly festival featuring the best in short comedy films from around the world. Each screening features new films, audience and judges awards, and an after party sponsored by Stella Artois. Hosted by the illustrious Jay Stern and Victor Varnado. |
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Monday! DARK REMAINS (dir. Brian Avenet-Bradley, 91 mins, 2006) Mon Nov 6 6:30pm - buy tix This is a "Bizarro Monday" program. Every Monday at 7pm the Pioneer presents the finest (and trashiest) in horror, sci-fi, freakshow, exploitation, martial arts, genre, b-movies, z-movies, and just plain weird stuff |
"A
genuinely creepy ghost story guaranteed to make you jump." "DARK
REMAINS is a genuinely creepy ghost story that packs maximum dread per
reel…skillfully orchestrated atmosphere and shocks en route make
DARK REMAINS notably scary…” “Scared me half to death. Four Stars.” -Fredrik Nordström, Slasherpool.com “Dark
Remains serves up a vicious little story… a thoroughly cringeworthy
affair. Four Stars.” Best
Horror Feature: Los Angeles’ Shriekfest Horror Film Festival After
their daughter is brutally murdered in their home, a grieving young
couple escapes the city to find solace in the mountains. Allen tries
to stay busy with work and Julie forces herself to continue her photography,
but they find their tattered relationship strained by their guilt over
their daughter’s death. Soon their pain re-ignites deadly entities
from the mountain’s past- causing their visiting friend Steve
to have a horrific encounter in the middle of the night. |
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FUCK (dir. Steve Anderson, 93 mins, 2005) Tues Nov 7 6:30pm - buy tix This is a Tuesdays@7 program. Every Tuesday at 7pm features special guests presenting their film, and is followed by a beer and pizza reception for ticket holders. Sponsored by Harpoon India Pale Ale, Radeberger Pilsner, and Woodchuck Cider. |
A definitive look at the infamous expletive, FUCK explores how this oft-used word, still widely seen as obscene, somehow permeates every aspect of our culture -- from Hollywood, to the schoolyard, to the Senate floor in Washington D.C., where it is at the very center of the ongoing debate on Free Speech. FUCK examines the word's impact through various interviews, film and television clips, and original animation by Oscar-nominee Bill Plympton. Scholars and linguists examine its long and colorful history; comedians, actors, and writers who have charted and popularized the word defend their Constitutional right to use it. Even people who do "it" for a living are interviewed, all in an effort to discover what it is about this one syllable that both unties and polarizes people. Sneak preview courtesy of ThinkFilm. Thank you to them. After the movie, eat, drink, and watch the election returns. Will the election be "fuck yeah!" or "fuck no!"? |
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THE LAST ATOMIC BOMB (dir. Robert Richter) Weds
Nov 8 9pm - buy
tix |
Nuclear terror: Nagasaki survivors and today’s generation “”Of great documentary significance and moral beauty….An essential gift to every genration of our nuclear age.” - Joanne Macy, author and activist “Indelible images. . .effectivbely explains the calculations that factored heavily into the decision to drop the bomb.” - Wm Hartung, author “[has] suddenly become even more germane, thanks to our impetuous national leadership. . .Thought-provoking and inspiring.” - Don Kelley, Voices of the Heartland “An affecting portrait of the human costs of war." - Frida Berrigan, Arms Trade Resource Center Festivals: Sao Paulo International, Goias (Press Trophy), Edinburgh Fringe, San Diego Asian, Planet in Focus (Toronto) “An affecting portrait of the human costs of war that pairs triumphal archival footage from U.S, news reels with recollections of atomic survivors as they revisit their childhood calamity and reach out to the next generation—begging, imploring, demanding a total commitment to nuclear abolition. In one of the film’s most moving scenes, a young woman in a NYC classroom asks survivor Sakkue shimohira, “Are you mad at what we did to you?” She responds that her anger has been transformed into work for peace, and the young people bend at the waist to embrace the tiny woman as they leave the classroom, affected and motivated to take up her challenge.” - Frida Berrigan, Arms Trade Resource Center |
Cultural
Thursday Cartoon Jews Thurs Nov 9 7pm - buy tix This is a Tuesdays@7 program. Every Tuesday at 7pm features special guests presenting their film, and is followed by a beer and pizza reception for ticket holders. Sponsored by Harpoon India Pale Ale, Radeberger Pilsner, and Woodchuck Cider. |
Who knew Jews could draw this stuff up? Not for a general audience, Jewish animation takes on nose jobs and the shtetl, the pope, the Holocaust, JDate, the Western Wall, and true love. Celebrate the best in Jewish animation with an array of styles from all over the world. These are nobody's Sunday morning cartoons. Curated by Ilana Trachtman. ALMONDS
AND WINE THE
NUCLEAR PHYSICIST GIVES HIS SON FREE ADVICE A
GOOD JOKE SILENCE JACOB'S
WALL JOHN
AND MICHAEL DOCUMENTARY |
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(dir. Lee Toland Krieger, 92 mins, 2006) Fri Nov 10 7pm - buy tix |
Love. Will. Destroy. Josh Janowicz, Alex Thayer, Barrett James, Bill Buell, and Jacob Reynolds After his mother dies, Chris' father breaks down and Chris turns to running drugs for Hayden, only to find himself falling in love with Hayden's girlfriend, Audrey. When Hayden OD's and ends up in the hospital, Chris and Audrey spend the night together. With Hayden in the hospital, Chris' cousin and best-friend Brian begins supplying his customers. After leaving the hospital, an incensed Hayden meets with Brian and kills him in a fit of rage. When
Chris learns that Hayden killed Brian, he decides to take revenge for
his cousin's death and protect Audrey from a dangerous man. Chris follows
Hayden to a Hamptons New Year's Eve party. When Audrey arrives to try
to stop him, the results are tragic. |
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(dir. Paul Dinello, 97 mins, 2005) Fri Nov
10 11pm - buy
tix |
Starring Amy Sedaris and Stephen Colbert Jerri
Blank (Amy Sedaris) is a 47-year-old former jailbird, recovering heroin
addict, and ex-prostitute with a bemused, elastic face. Director Paul
Dinello takes a skip back in time, essentially making this a prequel
to the television show, with Jerri fresh out of jail at the start of
the film and starting a new life as an over-age high school student.
With Jerri's dad in a coma, she decides she has to excel in school in
a desperate bid to awaken him, although Principal Blackman (Gregory
Hollimon) and science teacher Mr. Noblet (Stephen Colbert) frequently
throw curveballs in her path. The loose plot revolves around the hiring
of a consultant, Roger Beekman (Matthew Broderick), to change the school's
ailing fortunes, ultimately resulting in a Science Fair that Jerri is
determined to win. But the story is merely a hook on which the cast
hangs myriad jokes, with DAILY SHOW favorite Colbert and Sedaris herself
deliriously extending gags from the original series. So Jerri's ability
to spin a web of sexual desire over all the high school hotties remains,
as do the various After School Special lampoons, such as the "lessons"
Jerri learns from her behavior, which fail to teach her anything at
all. Cameos come thick and fast throughout, with Allison Janney, Philip
Seymour Hoffman, and Sarah Jessica Parker all appearing, and the overall
feel perfectly replicates the original TV series. Unlikely to appeal
beyond the show's hardcore fanbase, Danillo's movie is nevertheless
a welcome opportunity to see Sedaris and co. in action once again. |
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(dir. Curtis Green, 110 mins, 2006) |
Murder
has no end Friends Darnell and Romeo lure a young woman home to attend their dinner party and she is accidentally murdered. Fearing the worst Darnell and Romeo hide the body and proceed to hold the small party. Through further investigation they discover the murdered woman is the daughter and sister of two of the guests. Throughout the evening Darnell becomes increasingly more daring while Romeo becomes increasingly more suspect until the unimaginable happens. |
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A CANTOR'S TALE (dir. Erik Greenberg Anjou, 95 mins, 2005) |
"A
CANTOR'S TALE is a real rarity, a very funny but very serious documentary
that touches on issues of deep concern to the Jewish world." "A
movie that manages to be part biography of the amazing cantor, Jack
Mendelson, part history lesson, and more than anything, a movie that
undoes years of bad Hebrew School experiences and excruciating Saturday
mornings. . ."
"If the hills are alive with the sound of Julie Andrews' music, then
Cantor Jacob 'Jackie' Mendelson would have viewers believe that Brooklyn
is once again to be alive with the sound of Chazzanut." The tradition of Eastern European Jewish cantorial music is alive and well in modern America in no small part thanks to the efforts of Brooklyn-born Cantor Jacob Mendelson. "Jackie," as he is affectionately called by everyone, explores the American roots of "hazzanut"( Jewish liturgical music) while taking us on a musical voyage that spans the Atlantic, originating in his birthplace of Boro Park, Brooklyn and reaching all the way to Jerusalem. There's music in the air, everywhere. The experience of hearing the world's most renowned cantors in the synagogue was part of a lifestyle that provided American Jewry with a rich cultural heirloom. It is Cantor Mendelson's mission to insure that this legacy is passed on to this and the next generation and generations to come, in a way that is both true to its origins and relevant to the modern world. This feature-length documentary provides a nostalgic journey through family, neighborhood, and tradition. It also treats us to appearances by renowned cantors and aficionados Joseph Malovany, Ben-Zion Miller, Alberto Mizrahi, Matthew Lazar, Neil Shicoff, Jackie Mason and Alan Dershowitz. A Cantor's Tale is very much like "Levy's Real Jewish Rye", you don't have to be Jewish to love it! |
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(dir. Fred Vogel, 89 mins, 2006) Sun Nov
12 7pm - buy
tix |
Butchery and carnage will reign upon the holy. A cutthroat horror tale. Kim has just ended a six-year relationship with her boyfriend Mitch. After a little encouragement, she agrees to get her mind off the break up by hitting the biggest party of the year with her best friend. Mortified and enraged Mitch sets out to find his beloved Kim, in hopes of winning her back. After the party gets busted, Kim and her group of friends decide to continue the party at the town’s most notorious urban legend. Butchery and carnage will reign as Mitch seeks vengeance on Kim, her best friend and anyone else that gets in his way of following her to THE REDSIN TOWER. From the creators of August Underground, August Undergrounds MORDUM and The Redsin Tower, featured in the new film S&MAN (directed by J.T. Petty) |
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THE ONE INCH PUNCH (dir. John Bergdahl, 49 mins, 2006 * screening with other short films) Mon Nov 13 7pm - buy tix This is a "Bizarro Monday" program. Every Monday at 7pm the Pioneer presents the finest (and trashiest) in horror, sci-fi, freakshow, exploitation, martial arts, genre, b-movies, z-movies, and just plain weird stuff |
Starring German rock band Lesion: Dr. Gustave Hurtz, Piss Promise, Venison and Mr. Pod Hyper-masculine
German rock band Lesion has "quite a day" after their drummer
Venison is accused of being an international terrorist by the FBI and
thrown into prison at Guantanamo. Meanwhile bass player Mr. Pod joins
an internet dating service after revealing that he hasn't had an orgasm
in over a week, and may not be able to rock ever again. Four unprotected
intercourse sessions later, he still hasn't gotten his rocks off, but
hope looms on the horizon in the form of a mysterious African sex talisman.
Later, in a desperate and shameless attempt to land a television series,
lead singer Dr. Gustave Hurtz declares himself an alcoholic and starts
going to AA, hoping to make self-righteous industry connections. Finally,
nappy-haired guitarist Piss Promise is forced to live in a storage locker.
Oh, and the band has a gig that night! All this, plus appearances by
Enrico Caruso and Robert Oppenheimer. |
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AFRAID OF EVERYTHING Tues Nov 14 7pm - buy tix This is a Tuesdays@7 program. Every Tuesday at 7pm features special guests presenting their film, and is followed by a beer and pizza reception for ticket holders. Sponsored by Harpoon India Pale Ale, Radeberger Pilsner, and Woodchuck Cider. David Barker in person. |
AFRAID OF EVERYTHING features Sarah Adler (Godard's NOTRE MUSIQUE) and Nathalie Richard (IRMA VEP) as two sisters with an intense spiritual and physical connection. Virtually imprisoned in her home with her husband after an accident, Anne (Richard) sees her life transformed when Iris (Adler) her free-spirited sister comes to visit, stirring up repressed feelings and activating dormant sexual energies. A game of cat-and-mouse ensues in which hands are played and hostages taken. This film introduced Sarah Adler to the world, and led to her being cast as the lead in Jean-Luc Godard¹s most recent film. "David
Barker's AFRAID OF EVERYTHING is a great and important work, capturing
the mystery of being as deeply as Bresson does‹a love triangle
with depths beyond depths of secrets, silences, and mysteries." "Hollywood
can't top this - a miracle of Indie Filmmaking" |
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DANCE PARTY USA (dir. Aaron Katz, 66 mins, 2006) Weds
Nov 15 9pm - buy
tix
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"May
be one of the best films of the year. . .a remarkable act of insight
and restraint, refreshing in its authenticity and absolute lack of manufactured
effect." "A
remarkably delicate construction, whose narrative relies more on natural
drift than artificial drama to nudge its cast toward adulthood. . .
captures the way sex and assorted substances distract from the creeping
terror of life after high school . . . Directed with extraordinary empathy
by Aaron Katz." "Challenging,
gritty, and true." "Impressive.
The actors are tremendous. I watched it and couldn't quite figure out
how it came together. That elusive quality is something special." "Dance
Party, USA snuck up on me, which is a testament to writer/director Katz.
. .He captures the empty conversation of young people. . .It's funny,
but then it's kind of sad." "Pensinger's
performance is flawlessly natural. This is the best truly independent
American film I've seen since MUTUAL APPRECIATION." South by South West Film Festival 2006 * Chicago Underground Film Festival 2006 Seventeen-year-old Gus hangs around doing nothing with his buddy Bill most of the time. Gus likes to tell half-true stories about all the girls he’s slept with and all the drugs he’s done. Jessica is seventeen too. She doesn’t seem to have much in common with anyone anymore – not even her best friend Christie. Every year this guy Brian throws a 4th of July party. The party’s never that great, the there’s free beer, so people always go. Gus and Jessica meet each other there. They watch fireworks outside and light sparklers. Gus says that he’s not the sort of guy she thinks he is. He tells her a secret. It changes everything. |
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(dir. Jay Hollinsworth, 80 mins, 2005) Sat Nov 18 7pm - buy tix |
“…like
a dream that was ripped out of someone’s head."
“…sort of like what if Hal Hartley directed Pi” Todd has lost his job, his apartment, and his girlfriend. The only thing left to lose may be his mind. A dark, lo-fi comedy about head trauma, heartbreak, and brotherly strife, Broken tells the story of Todd Kellogg, a disconsolate everyman tattered and tossed by bad decisions. Over-educated, under-employed and heartbroken, he returns to his childhood home for a change of scenery and a change of luck. What he gets is a quixotic, time-mangling reality twist that may change his life, or unseat his consciousness. |
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SHORTZ Sun Nov 19 7pm - buy tix |
Mad
Hatter Filmz presents SHORTZ, a third Sunday event profiling the latest
indie short films. Now screening productions from young filmmakers as
well as professionals alike, with films from every genre which compliment
every taste. Happening at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater every third
Sunday of the month! |
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THE
HALF- (dir. Samir Zikra, Syria, 1981, 110 min) Tues Nov 21 6:30pm - buy tix This is a Tuesdays@7 program. Every Tuesday at 7pm features special guests presenting their film, and is followed by a beer and pizza reception for ticket holders. Sponsored by Harpoon India Pale Ale, Radeberger Pilsner, and Woodchuck Cider. |
In THE HALF-METER INCIDENT, a man in his thirties has become a creature of habit, and still lives with his mother, despite her nagging that he find someone to marry and go about changing his life. One day he meets a student on a bus, who has in fact been yearning for his attention for some time -- just a half-meter away from his body every day on the bus, on her way to the university. They have a potent if at first repressed attraction to one another, but the romance is soon strained and beset with conflict. THE HALF-METER INCIDENT is a benchmark in Syrian and pan-Arab cinema. Based on a story by Egyptian novelist Sabri Moussa, the narrative highlights the social contradictions and personal trauma experienced in the aftermath of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. |
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(dir. Patrick McGuinn, 92 mins, 2006) Weds
Nov 22 9pm - buy
tix |
Love In The Desert Can Be Killer John Ort, Gregory Marcel, Laura Leigh Teddy, a budding novelist, retreats to his professor’s isolated desert home in California to pursue the completion of his first novel. There he meets Leo, a handsome young caretaker who shows Teddy the ropes of desert living. Teddy becomes instantly smitten by Leo’s casual and sexy demeanor. When Teddy seduces Leo one night, hidden layers of who Leo really could be are gradually revealed. Was Leo married? Did Leo’s wife die under mysterious circumstances? And what is the true nature of Leo’s relationship with Crispin, the older gay gentleman who owns and controls the desert house where the two young men frolic? Reminiscent of the cinema of David Lynch and Francois Ozon, this daring and surreal desert noir is sure to thrill cinephiles everywhere. |
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Cinewomen NY A group of films presented with the Cinewomen NY group Tues Nov 28 7pm - buy tix This is a Tuesdays@7 program. Every Tuesday at 7pm features special guests presenting their film, and is followed by a beer and pizza reception for ticket holders. |
UNDERPASS 1992, San Diego. A family of Cambodian Khmer Rouge survivors has rebuilt their lives over the past 15 years, operating a donut shop. But the son, Sann, is still tormented by memories. He copes with his anger by painting elaborate and violent graffiti murals on a city wall. When his mother reaches out to a young illegal immigrant from Central America, Sann is forced to face his anger and fears head-on. He finds that his mother, the one person he has shut out, is the only person who can help him. Rain Breaw (UNDERPASS) is currently completing her graduate studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts as a director/producer. Prior to USC, Rain taught interactive and web media at multiple Community Colleges in the New England and Upstate New York region. She also curated a new media center at Vassar College known as the Media Cloisters. While at USC, Rain has produced and assistant directed numerous graduate thesis films, including the award winning Thermopylae. She also directed another advanced project prior to Underpass - a comedic action movie a-la "Alias" titled Secret Agent. Underpass is a story very close to Rain's heart because it is loosely based on her experiences during high school and inspired by a few amazing individuals who offered her support when it seemed they had nothing left to give. www.underpassmovie.com BARE
HANDS AND WOODEN LIMBS In 1974 former Khmer Rouge commander Touj Soeurly and the fourteen year old Chhem Sip were deadly enemies. Sip was imprisoned, tortured, and just barely managed to escape with his life to the US. Soeurly lost his leg in battle. Now these two former enemies are working together to make possible the community of Veal Thom, a cooperative village composed primarily of disabled veterans, from both sides of the war, and their families. Through an unprecedented cooperation in a country still torn by political strife, a miracle takes place. With "bare hands and wooden limbs", the amputees make their village blossom. This film is a testament to what an impossible friendship and cooperation between a former Khmer Rouge commander and a former Khmer Rouge victim can accomplish. Alison McMahan, Ph.D. (BARE HANDS AND WOODEN LIMBS) is a documentary filmmaker - see (www.alisonmcmahan.com) - and the head producer for HOMUNCULUS PRODUCTIONS, a company that producers training films, industrials and documentaries. Recent films include the training film LIVING WITH LANDMINES (2005), see www.LivingwithLandmines.com and industrial and a PSA for Pensamento Digital, an NGO in Brazil that provides computers and internet access to poor communities - see www.HomunculusProds.com. Her latest documentary is BARE HANDS AND WOODEN LIMBS (2006) - see www.FutureofCambodia.com. She is currently in production on a feature length documentary, THE EIGHT FACES OF JANE: THE LIFE AND WORK OF JANE CHAMBERS, see www.8FacesofJane.com. |
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INVISIBLE (dir. Adam Watstein, 86 mins, 2006) Weds
Nov 29 9pm - buy
tix |
The mind makes up for what the eyes cannot see. James
Tupper – star of ABC’s MEN IN TREES A divorcing couple travels upstate to remove personal items from their lakeside cabin. Their trip starts off tenuous, but soon, with the inspiration of the countryside, they rediscover their love for one another. Their happiness doesn’t last long; as the sun sets, they are trapped in the cabin by a pair of men who seek to reveal the true dynamic of their relationship. |
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Doors Art Foundation
presents SEE
YOU showing from DVD Thurs Nov 30 7pm - buy tix A Cultural Thursdays program. At 7pm on the First Thursday of the month, the Doors Art Foundation presents a film from Croatia. Other Thursdays at 7pm often feature programming presented with other ethnic and cultural groups. |
The Doors Art Foundation presents films from Croatia This film is about the importance of friendship, the essential human need to belong and the strength one gains or loses as friendships change. Four friends meet in autumn of 1991 in order to pay respect to one of them who was killed in war. Andre, Maks, Mislav and Kruno meet after a long absence at their friend Borna’s funeral, who was killed while in the National Guard. The four friends decide to steal his coffin from the cemetery and bury it in the forest, according to their previous childhood agreement. Remembering happy pre-war days and being frustrated by dark present and even darker future, they decide to keep the solemn promise given when they were all children.
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