Love is a Mix Tape
Summary: Mix tapes: Stick one into a deck and you’re transported to another time in your life. For Rob Sheffield, author of Turn Around Bright Eyes that time was one […]
Tag Archives: Drama
Heathers
Synopsis: Welcome to Westerburg High, where Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder) is beginning to tire of her membership in the powerful yet cruel clique of ‘Heathers’. When Veronica falls for the […]
Malèna
Synopsis: The latest triumph from Giuseppe Tornatore, the writer and director of the Academy Award®-winning Cinema Paradiso, Malena is an utterly unforgettable story of a boy’s journey into manhood amid […]
Madrid, 1987
Synopsis: On a hot summer day in a vacant Madrid during a period of social and political transition in Spain, Miguel (José Sacristan), a feared and respected journalist, sets up […]
The Chumscrubber
Synopsis: Meet Generation Rx Dean Stiffle (Jamie Bell) discovers the body of his best friend, Troy, and doesn’t bother telling any of the parents in his postcard-perfect California neighborhood. He […]
Diavolo in corpo
Synopsis: One of the most controversial Italians films of the 80s, Devil in The Flesh takes Raymond Radiguet’s classic novel and updates it to modern times. Dealing with the legacy […]
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Synopsis: Distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, Zia (Patrick Fugit) decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that […]
The Dreamers
Synopsis: From Academy Award winning director Bernardo Bertolucci (The Last Emperor, 1987), comes an erotic tale of three young film lovers brought together by their passion for movies-and each other. […]
El sexo de los ángeles
Synopsis: Sometimes passion bas no boundaries After struggling martial artist and hip-hop dancer Bruno (Llorenc Gonzalez) is violently mugged on a Barcelona street, mysterious and magnetic fellow dancer Rai (Alvaro […]
Le Magasin des Suicides
Summary: With the twenty-first century just a distant memory and the world in environmental chaos, many people have lost the will to live. Business is brisk at The Suicide Shop. […]
Weekend
Synopsis: This sensual, remarkably observed, beautifully acted wonder is the breakout feature from British writer-director-editor Andrew Haigh. Rarely has a film been as honest about sexuality-in both depiction and discussion-as […]
Grande école
Synopsis: Based on a play by Jean-Marie Besset, Robert Salis’ Grande Ecole is an extraordinarily sensual film about the roles of power, class, race and sexuality in relationships. In one […]
Ken Park
Synopsis: Filmmaker Larry Clark reunites with Kids screenwriter Harmony Korine, with some additional directorial assistance from cinematographer Ed Lachman, for this look at a group of troubled teens and their […]
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