Month: March 2018

March 22, 2018 / Arthouse

Set during a recent European revolution, when the students have just begun to rise, the film focuses on the unusual relationship between Dr. Pavenic and his housekeeper, Ana. In the midst of a night alive with the rattle of gunfire and burning buildings, the doctor tells the story of his obsession for his enigmatic housekeeper, to a dinner table of his guests. His shocking honesty eventually prompts each guest in turn, to disclose some inner corner of his own life.

March 17, 2018 / Arthouse
March 17, 2018 / Comedy
March 17, 2018 / Comedy

Korty’s second film is a stylistically freewheeling portrait of a comedian who aspires to be more than just funny. Starring members of the legendary 1960s San Francisco improv group the Committee, this micro-budget serio-comedy incorporates whimsical animation sequences and striking tinted color cinematography.

March 17, 2018 / Pre Code

When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring that has been plaguing the police. The sister of another innocent victim joins him as they infiltrate the syndicate. Any wrong move could lead to instant death.

March 17, 2018 / Thriller

City girl Renee is enjoying a jog in the peace and quiet of the Canadian Rockies when she suddenly finds herself being chased by a crazed mountain man named Vern. Try as she might to escape, Vern soon catches her and takes her away to his remote cabin hideout. All may look lost for Renee, but Joe, his outdoorsman father, is determined to come to her rescue.

March 17, 2018 / Mystery

A spy melodrama in which a New York newspaper reporter, sent to Gotland to interview a nuclear scientist, becomes involved with foreign agents who have kidnapped the scientist’s daughter.

March 15, 2018 / Arthouse

Alex van Warmerdam’s award-winning second feature is set in a remote small Dutch village in the early 1960s. The village is actually just one street of a new town that was never completed, and the behavior of its inhabitants is invariably determined by their unsolved sexual problems, leading to a number of comic situations depicted in a tradition of absurdist black humor.