CHUMSCRUBBER
Actors: Jamie Bell, Camilla Belle,Justin Chatwin Director: Arie Posin The Chumscrubber starts out with Troy,a normal teenager who supplies “feel good” pills to everyone in his high school(this way he spreads happiness all around). But when his friend Dean pays him a visit, Dean discovers Troy has hung himself in …
CHUMSCRUBBER
OSAMA
Actors: Marina Golbahari, Arif Herati, Zubaida Sahar Director: Siddiq Barmak A 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother lose their jobs when the Taliban closes the hospital where they work. The Taliban have also forbidden women to leave their houses without a male “legal companion.” With her husband and brother dead, …
OSAMA
SQUID & THE WHALE
Actors: Owen Kline, Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney Director: Noah Baumbach The patriarch (Jeff Daniels) of an eccentric Brooklyn family claims to once have been a great novelist, but he has settled into a teaching job. When his wife (Laura Linney) discovers a writing talent of her own, jealousy divides the …
SQUID & THE WHALE
WAKING LIFE
Actors: Trevor Jack Brooks, Lorelei Linklater, Wiley Wiggins Director: Richard Linklater Dreams. What are they? An escape from reality or reality itself? Waking Life follows the dream(s) of one man and his attempt to find and discern the absolute difference between waking life and the dreamworld. While trying to figure …
WAKING LIFE
MULLET
Actors: Ben Mendelson, Susie Porter, Andrew S. Gilbert Director: David Caesar A dark-sheep type of man returns to his hometown after a prolonged absence. While he’s been gone ludicrous rumours have spread about his whereabouts. Is he a big footy player or is he a film star. Turns out he’s …
MULLET
I LOVE HUCKABEES
Actors: Jason Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin Director: David O Russell Determined to solve the coincidence of seeing the same conspicuous stranger three times in a day, Albert hires a pair of existentialist detectives, who insist on spying on his everyday life while sharing their views on life and the …
I LOVE HUCKABEES
GARDEN STATE
Actors: Zach Braff, Kenneth Graymez Director: Zach Braff Andrew Largeman is a semi-successful television actor who plays a retarded quarterback. His somewhat controlling and psychiatrist father has led Andrew (“Large”) to believe that his mother’s wheelchair bound life was his fault. Andrew decides to lay off the drugs that his …
GARDEN STATE
AMERICAN SPLENDOR
Actors: Paul Giamatti, Chris Ambrose, Joey Krajcar, Josh Hutcherson Director: Shari Springer Berman Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors …
AMERICAN SPLENDOR
SCANNER DARKLY
Actors: Robert Downey Jr, Keanu Reeves, Sean Allen Director: Richard Linklater In the not too distant future in Orange County California, an undercover narcotics agent is known internally in the force only by his code name, Fred. His identity within can be kept secret as the scanning suit he dons …
SCANNER DARKLY
TIBET: CRY OF THE SNOW LION
Actors: Ed Harris, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Charlie Sheen Director: Tom Piozet Ten years in the making, this feature-length documentary was filmed during a remarkable nine journeys throughout Tibet, India and Nepal. CRY OF THE SNOW LION brings audiences to the long-forbidden “rooftop of the world” with an unprecedented richness …
TIBET: CRY OF THE SNOW LION
THUMBSUCKER
Actors: Lou Taylor Pucci, Tilda Swinton Director: Mike Mills Justin (Lou Taylor Pucci) is a teenager boy, who has an oral obsession with his thumb. His mother (Tilda Swinton) seems to be a normal housekeeper, but she has her own obsessions as well, like a crush on a TV-star (Benjamin …
THUMBSUCKER
DANNY DECKCHAIR
Actors: Rhys Ifans, Justin Clark, Alan Flower Director: Jeff Balsmeyer Based on a true story, the tale of a cement truck driver named Danny, whose long awaited vacation is cancelled thanks to his scheming girlfriend, Trudy. Danny escapes his grim life in suburban Australia and blasts into the skies in …
DANNY DECKCHAIR
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal Director: Blake Edwards Struggling writer Paul Varjak moves into a New York apartment building and becomes intrigued by his pretty, quirky neighbor Holly Golightly. Holly’s lifestyle confuses and fascinates Paul; in public she flits through parties with a sexy, sophisticated air, but when …
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
CASTLE
Actors: Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Eric Bana Director: Rob Stitch A Melbourne family is very happy living where they do, near the Melbourne airport (according to Jane Kennedy, it’s “practically their back yard”). However, they are forced to leave their beloved home, by the Government and airport authorities. ‘The …
CASTLE
OH BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?
Actors: George Clooney, John Turturro, John Goodman, Holly Hunter Director: Joel Coen Loosely based on Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ the movie deals with the grotesque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover …
OH BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?
APARTMENT
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred Mac Murray Director: Billy Wilder Bud Baxter is a struggling clerk in a huge New York insurance company. He’s discovered a quick way to climb the corporate ladder – by lending out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. …
APARTMENT
CONFETTI
Actors: Martin Freeman, Jessica Heyns, Olivia Colman Director: Debbie Isitt Confetti – a mockumentary which follows three couples, competing for the title of Most Original Wedding of the Year: The Musical Wedding, The Tennis Wedding and the Naturist Wedding.
CONFETTI
BEFORE NIGHT FALLS
Actors: Olatz López Garmendia, Giovanni Florido, Loló Navarro Director: Julian Schnabel Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. He joins Castro’s rebels. By 1964, he is in Havana. He meets the …
BEFORE NIGHT FALLS
PRINCESS MONONOKE
Actors: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka Director: Hayao Miyazaki Set in feudal Japan a time of upheaval of samurai warriors and isolated villages comes this story of a gun-wielding, young brave princess who was raised by wolves named Princess Mononoke who is sent to an ancient, forested land to …
PRINCESS MONONOKE
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
Actors: Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Greg Kinnear Director: Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton In Albuquerque, the housewife Sheryl Hoover brings her suicidal brother Frank to the breast of her dysfunctional and bankrupted family. Frank is homosexual and expert in Proust, and tried to commit suicide when he was rejected by his …
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
INTIMACY
Actors: Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Susannah Harker Director: Patrice Chéreau Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows …
INTIMACY
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
Actors: Catherine O’Hara, Ed Begley Jr., Eugene Levy Director: Christopher Guest Hollywood send-up. No-name actors are making a low-budget period drama called “Home for Purim,” when an anonymous post on the Internet suggests that one performance is Oscar-worthy. Then, two more cast members get Oscar-related press: buzz in “Variety” and …
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
ONCE
Actors:GLEN HANSARD, MARKETA IRGLOVA Director:JOHN CARNEY An (unnamed) Guy is a Dublin guitarist/singer-songwriter who makes aliving by fixing vacuum cleaners in his Dad’s Hoover repair shop byday, and singing and playing for money on the Dublin streets by night.An (unnamed) Girl is a Czech who plays piano when she …
ONCE
SHORTBUS
Actors: Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, Lindsaey Beamish Director: John Cameron Mitchell Numerous New York City-dwellers come to the exclusive club Shortbus to work out problems in their sexual relationships. Rob and Sophia are a happily married couple, except for the fact that she has never experienced sexual climax. This irony …
SHORTBUS
ADAPTATION
Actors: Nicholas Cage, Tilda Swinton, Meryl Streep Director: Spike Jonze Frequently cynical screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has just taken on a new assignment. That is, to adapt writer Susan Orlean’s “The Orchid Thief” into a screenplay, all of it based on the life of the eccentric John Laroche, an exotic plant …
ADAPTATION
IN THIS WORLD
SWEET SIXTEEN
COWBOY BEBOP
Actors: Steve Blum, Beau Billingslea, Kôichi Yamadera Director: Hajime Yatate Spike Spiegel is a bounty hunter in the far future with an easy going attitude and some deadly skill at martial arts. Together with his partners, Jet Black, and later Faye Valentine as well, they go to job to job …