5 min movie guide
PRAIRIE LOVE
A man we only know as ‘The Vagrant’ is driving his beaten up wreck of a station wagon across North Dakota’s frozen tundra he’s dressed head to toe in fur lined clothes that we can hardly make out his face. He chances upon a broken down truck in the middle of nowhere and its owner…
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
When a disparate group of middle-class Brits discover that their limited pensions will not provide them with much of a retirement they abandon their homeland and get enticed by some advertisements for THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, which lays claims to a luxurious sanctuary for “the elderly and beautiful” in Jaipur, India. The seven of…
PORFIRIO
In 2005 Porfirio Ramirez Aldana’s name was splashed across the headlines and on all the television broadcasts in Colombia for his audacious and foolhardy criminal act. What made it even more sensational was the fact he was a paraplegic in a wheelchair at the time. In Alejandro Landes’s extraordinary new film the details of the…
LA PROMESSE
With the Belgian film auteur Dardenne brothers latest movie ‘The Kid on The Bike’ opening in NY to near rave reviews, it seemed like a good time to hone up on some of their earlier successes that are playing in a Retrospective at the Miami Beach Cinematheque this month. With five films in their resume…
