Friday, October 6th |
50 Watt Fuse
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50 Watt Fuse presents the musical life of quintessential sideman, musicologist and guitarist G.E. Smith, front man for Saturday Night Live's house band for 10 years and guitarist for Hall & Oates, Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger, among others. PRECEDED BY: Darryl Henriques Is in Show Business Discussion and mini-set by G.E. Smith and Simon Kirke follows the October 6 screening. G.E. Smith & Friends perform a live concert at 142 Throckmorton Theatre on October 7. Click here for more details. Fri. Oct 6, 8:00PM, Rafael |
5@5: Truth Be Known
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How do we judge what is true and what is real? How can the medium of film or video manipulate the truth and fabricate a whole new reality? Complicated questions call for shrewd shorts, and here's where to get 'em! SHORTS IN PROGRAM: 00h17, Apocalypse Oz, Cataract, Filter, Gandhi at the Bat, Screening All 5@5 Programs are only $5Fri. Oct 6, 5:00PM, Sequoia |
5@5: When You Dance You Can Really Love
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The beautiful but complicated choreography of love and intimacy is explored from many perspectives and camera angles in these shorts of passion, both blossoming and breaking. SHORTS IN PROGRAM: Breathe Me, I'm Not Going to Think About Her, The Lovers, Minutiae, Mono, Orange Blossom, Shortstop All 5@5 Programs are only $5Fri. Oct 6, 5:00PM, Rafael |
Avenue Montaigne
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As breezy as a stroll along the chic Parisian street where it unfolds, this engaging romantic comedy from writer-director Danièle Thompson offers an all-star cast in several intertwined tales of the upscale Champs-Elysées cultural scene. Fri. Oct 6, 6:45PM, Sequoia |
Cinematographer Style
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More than 100 of the world's most gifted cinematographers, including László Kovács, Vittorio Storaro, Haskell Wexler and Gordon Willis, illuminate their magical artform through candid interviews and insider revelations in this dream doc for film fanatics. Fri. Oct 6, 9:00PM, Rafael |
Family Law
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This fresh Argentine comic drama about finding one's place in life offers emotionally rewarding insights into the life of a late-bloomer Ariel Perelman, a young, floundering law professor who lives in the shadow of his much-admired attorney father. Fri. Oct 6, 7:00PM, Sequoia |
I'm Seducible
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How does a rebellious Beijing artist juggle two cultures and two men as she makes a new life for herself in San Francisco? Follow Shi-Wei as she reclaims her own ambitions amid the sacrifice required by her newfound freedom. Fri. Oct 6, 6:45PM, Rafael |
Infamous
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Writer-director Douglas McGrath's version of Truman Capote's writing of In Cold Blood will take you to heights of society and depths of emotion not visited before. With a star-studded ensemble cast including Sigourney Weaver, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig and Gwyneth Paltrow. Fri. Oct 6, 9:30PM, Sequoia |
Lapislazuli: In the Eye of the Bear
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A meteorite crashes in the Alps, awakening a frozen Neanderthal boy. Then Bataa and Sophie meet, in a crash of modern and ancient worlds. Sophie risks everything to help Bataa, who can't survive in this time and place. Fri. Oct 6, 4:30PM, Rafael |
Madeinusa
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Like a South American version of The Wickerman, this haunting feature debut from Peruvian filmmaker Claudia Llosa captures the clash of urban and village cultures. Fri. Oct 6, 9:15PM, Sequoia |
Men at Work
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In this absurdist comedy-meets-Sufi parable, four 50-something buddies returning from a ski trip in an SUV try to push over a huge stone on the side of a mountain road. Fri. Oct 6, 7:15PM, Rafael |
Milarepa
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Buddhist monk Neten Chokling's directorial debut, breathtakingly filmed on the Indo-Tibetan border, vividly recounts the 11th-century legend of a young man who turns from violence to become the revered Tibetan saint Milarepa. Fri. Oct 6, 5:30PM, Rafael |
Opening
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An art opening, a real estate developer, a resolute gallery owner and a cataclysmic cyclone storm form the key coordinates of this riveting Direct Action film by Rob Nilsson, working in collaboration with Kansas City Filmmakers. |
Outside/In
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These five fine, fearless films explore with dignity and respect the risks and rewards of lives lived outside the mainstream, either by choice, by birth or by social assignation. SHORTS IN PROGRAM: The Blood of Yingzhou District, The Days and the Hours, One in 2000, Reporter Zero, Stuffed Fri. Oct 6, 9:30PM, Throckmorton |
VidéOnze
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Eleven shorts featuring some sensuous and sonorous forays into the world of abstract animation. SHORTS IN PROGRAM: Afraid So, All That Remains, Ambassadors Day, Arcs of Texture , Falling , Going Home, The Intimacy of Strangers , Outside, Phantom Limb, Vitruvius' Toybox, Wakeup Fri. Oct 6, 6:30PM, Throckmorton |
