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1) Operator
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Joe (Martin Starr, Silicon Valley) is a programmer with a crippling anxiety problem who is unable to deal with uncertainty. At work he is tasked with creating an interactive call center answering machine that can convey empathy. Joe recruits his wife Emily (Mae Whitman, Arrested Development) who has the perfect voice for the system.
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
David Warwik (Wyatt Cenac) is a struggling writer who has been toiling away at the same novel for years. His wife Jennifer (Greta Lee) is a hot young literary figure, who has just released a new masterpiece. When her publisher invites the couple to an artists' salon at his home in Connecticut, the pair embark on a twisted journey, and David must face his demons and try to "not be weird" among the waspy salon guests and competitive artists in attendance....
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A contemporary fairy tale revolving around the unlikely of friendship between a reclusive young woman with dreams of being a children's book author and a cantankerous widower, set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London. Bella Brown (Jessica Brown Findlay) is a beautifully quirky young woman who dreams of writing and illustrating a successful children's book. When she is forced by her landlord to deal with her neglected garden...
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Armed with just his suitcase and a sax, cosmopolitan musician Alex returns home to Hawaii, having been away for nearly a decade. He takes refuge in a Buddhist B&B with a woman named Akiko. Alex’s experimental free jazz music at first collides with the sounds of Akiko’s meditation, but as the film evolves and a friendship develops, the two harmonize. Nominated for Best First Film at the **Rotterdam International Film Festival.** Winner of the Emerging...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Born in a remote village on Ireland's west coast, Joe Heaney conquered the shyness of his youth to become one of his country's most revered traditional vocalists, as chronicled in this lyrical biopic. Official selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**. Nominated for Best Film at the **Irish Film and Television Awards**. *"The film's monochromatic images are so beautiful they're almost as soul-nourishing as the transporting vocals and otherworldly reels...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In this hilarious indie comedy, Franklin Franklin (Matt Lucas) is surrounded by strange events and odd neighbors played by stars like Billy Crystal, Johnny Knoxville, Rebel Wilson, and James Marsden. SMALL APARTMENTS was adapted from a Chris Millis' novel and nominated for the Narrative Spotlight Audience Award at the **SXSW Film Festival**. *"The brazen, colorful nature of the characters is the strength of this black comedy from Jonas Åkerlund -...
Publisher
Arbelos Films
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
An instant critic’s darling upon its release 2006, MUTUAL APPRECIATION is at once an utterly timeless and distinctly mid-aughts portrait of the ebb and flow of twenty-something life in New York City. Richly observed and deeply humanist, the film follows Alan, an aspiring musician, who crash-lands in town following the breakup of his band in Boston, immediately taking up with his old friends Ellie and Lawrence while negotiating the affections of...
8) Roadkill
Publisher
Films We Like
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Ramona works in a concert agency and is sent after the rock band 'Children of Paradise' who have disappeared. Since she can't drive, she has to take the train and bus and eventually hitchhike. On her way through the Canadian back country she meets the weirdest people - and learns to drive. Winner of Best Canadian Feature Film at the 1989 **Toronto International Film Festival**. *"Roadkill was the first film to flush the institutional mentality out...
9) Desert Blue
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Starring Kate Hudson, Christina Ricci and Casey Affleck, DESERT BLUE is a comedy-drama following an academic obsessed with "roadside attractions" and his TV-star daughter as they finally discover the world's largest ice cream cone -- the centerpiece for an old gold-rush town struggling to stay on the map. They end up staying longer than expected because of an accident that spilled an unknown cola ingredient all over the highway. They spend the next...
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Abe Mandelbaum (Martin Landau) has just moved into a new retirement home with his ailing wife. After forming an unlikely friendship with another resident named Phil (Paul Sorvino), their relationship is tested as they each try to convince a mysterious nurse that they are her long-lost father. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. "*A compassionate portrayal of lives stripped down to bare essentials by aging, illness, and loss.*"...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Christopher Munch’s boldly original debut, THE HOURS AND TIMES (1992), is a fictional account of what might have happened in April 1963, when John Lennon and Beatles manager Brian Epstein traveled to Barcelona for an extended weekend getaway. In the four days they spend together, the suave Epstein (David Angus) and the provocative Lennon (Ian Hart) reflect on their lives, both private and professional, as they explore the unique bond they share....
12) Black Cop
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It's not easy being a black cop. Your community doesn't trust you, your colleagues are wary of you, being patronized by the people you protect is constant. And when the world is on edge waiting for a grand jury verdict on a high profile police case involving unarmed youth, all eyes are on you. For one officer already struggling between duty and moral obligation, things take a drastic turn when he is profiled by his colleagues off-duty, pushing him...
13) Pasolini
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Roman life and the imaginary worlds of Pier Paolo Pasolini intermingle in Abel Ferrara’s retelling of the final days in the life of the fifty-year-old filmmaker and writer, in a lovely, haunting film that draws on his last interview and envisages scenes from an unmade final film and his incomplete novel, Petrolio. Willem Dafoe, regally exhausted, is the spitting image of the murdered director, and Pasolini’s beloved muse Ninetto Davoli returns...
14) The Sea of Trees
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Matthew McConaughey stars as a professor with a troubled past traveling to a Japanese forest with a dark history. There he meets a mysterious stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love, discovery and redemption. Nominated for a Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival**. "*A sumptuous, rewarding experience. "The Sea of Trees" is quietly mesmerizing and exceedingly wise, understanding there is profundity in every direction one gazes.*"...
15) Hello Herman
Publisher
Passion River Productions
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In a small town in America, a controversial journalist (Norman Reedus, *The Walking Dead*) is forced to face his haunted past when he confronts a teenager driven to the brutal murder of 39 classmates. In attempting to determine why and how a massacre like this can happen in our society, this timely film explores issues of desensitization in America, youth violence and bullying, the impact the media has on our individual quest for fame, and ultimately...
Publisher
Visit Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The professional and personal lives of a sexual surrogate begin to unravel when she starts working with a new client. Nominated for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards.** Winner of the C.I.C.A.E. Award at the **Berlin International Film Festival.** *"...a quiet triumph, a true herald of a distinctive and necessary voice in cinema." - Katie Walsh, **The Los Angeles Times*** *"...chilly yet intimate and...
17) Brian Banks
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The inspirational true story of Brian Banks (Aldis Hodge), an All-American high school football star committed to USC who finds his life upended when he is wrongly convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. Despite lack of evidence, Banks is railroaded through a broken justice system and sentenced to a decade of prison and probation. Years later, with the support of Justin Brooks (Greg Kinnear) and the California Innocence Project, Banks fights to reclaim...
18) Wobble Palace
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Days before Halloween and America’s traumatic 2016 election, a couple on the verge of a subversive break-up decides to split their house up over the weekend and test the turbulent waters of independence. Desperate to make new connections, Jane and Eugene find themselves in a series of unpredictable misadventures, ill-advised quixotic sexual escapades, and emotional traumas. From this simple premise, WOBBLE PALACE charges headfirst into a manic and...
19) Free in Deed
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Set in the provocative and distinctive world of converted storefront churches and based on actual events, FREE IN DEED depicts one man’s attempts to perform a miracle. When a single mother on the brink of profound desperation brings her tormented young son to church for healing, a lonely Pentecostal minister is not only forced to confront the seemingly incurable illness of the child, but his own inescapable demons as well. And the more he prays,...
20) Werewolf
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Blaise and Nessa are outcast methadone users in their small town. Each day they push a rusty lawnmower door-to-door begging to cut grass. Nessa plots an escape, while Blaise lingers closer to collapse. Tethered to one another, their getaway dreams are kept on a suffocatingly short leash. Nominated for Best Canadian Feature Film at the**Toronto International Film Festival**. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. "*By means...
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