“Art and Craft”
This film about Mark Landis, one of the most prolific art forgers in US history, is a riveting psychological portrait of a dysfunctional loner with a singular gift. MORE
Mother, I Love You
This story, which is about why we all need a mother’s love and approval, is a far cry from Art and Craft. The Latvian film centers on boy who, desperate for the love and approval of his physician mother, forges a school behavior report and then lies about it. MORE
Wetlands
As the tweeters and texters would type – “WTF”? Charlotte Roche’s eponymous book was a best seller and understandably controversial. MORE
The Case Against 8
This documentary follows Kris Perry, Sandy Stier, Paul Katami, and Jeff Zarrillo, who with their lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies waged a four-year battle to overturn California’s Propostion 8, which had sought to outlaw same sex marriage. MORE
Buzzard
If a director is going to cite Jim Jarmusch, Michael Haneke, and Kelly Reichardt as influences, he or she had better have a sense of poetry and an instinct for revealing subtle nuances of the human condition via a minimalist approach.
I Origins
In I Origins the director once again blends science and romance, but this time within a biological context. The rambling plot revolves around the eye as the window to the human soul and a key to the evolutionary process. MORE
The One I Love
Another sci-fi romance. I don’t want to give anything away except to say that attention must be paid – to both the story, because it gets very strange, and to the idea that our better nature and its “ceaseless obeisance to the heart” may not be the best ingredients for a perfect marriage. MORE
Alive Inside
This winner for Best Documentary at the Festival had the audience gasping and in tears. A simple premise is conveyed with overwhelming power: among the elderly residents of nursing homes music can trigger memories and stir long lost emotions. MORE
This film about Mark Landis, one of the most prolific art forgers in US history, is a riveting psychological portrait of a dysfunctional loner with a singular gift. MORE
Mother, I Love You
This story, which is about why we all need a mother’s love and approval, is a far cry from Art and Craft. The Latvian film centers on boy who, desperate for the love and approval of his physician mother, forges a school behavior report and then lies about it. MORE
Wetlands
As the tweeters and texters would type – “WTF”? Charlotte Roche’s eponymous book was a best seller and understandably controversial. MORE
The Case Against 8
This documentary follows Kris Perry, Sandy Stier, Paul Katami, and Jeff Zarrillo, who with their lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies waged a four-year battle to overturn California’s Propostion 8, which had sought to outlaw same sex marriage. MORE
Buzzard
If a director is going to cite Jim Jarmusch, Michael Haneke, and Kelly Reichardt as influences, he or she had better have a sense of poetry and an instinct for revealing subtle nuances of the human condition via a minimalist approach.
I Origins
In I Origins the director once again blends science and romance, but this time within a biological context. The rambling plot revolves around the eye as the window to the human soul and a key to the evolutionary process. MORE
The One I Love
Another sci-fi romance. I don’t want to give anything away except to say that attention must be paid – to both the story, because it gets very strange, and to the idea that our better nature and its “ceaseless obeisance to the heart” may not be the best ingredients for a perfect marriage. MORE
Alive Inside
This winner for Best Documentary at the Festival had the audience gasping and in tears. A simple premise is conveyed with overwhelming power: among the elderly residents of nursing homes music can trigger memories and stir long lost emotions. MORE
