Cannes Award Winner
The Measure Of A Man
Life for Thierry (Vincent Lindon) a fifty-year-old something machinist seems to get tougher and tougher since he was laid off from his job as a result of the latest economic downtown that is devastating the French provincial town that he lives in with his family. In the months since he has been unemployed he has done all…
Carol
For his 6th feature film queer filmmaker Todd Haynes returns to the 1950’s and re-visits the theme of repressed sexuality that he captured so brilliantly in his Oscar-nominated “Far From Heaven” in 2002. Last time he worked from his own script, but this time around British/American playwright Phyllis Nagy has adapted Patricia Highsmith’s controversial novel…
Party Girl
A weary and desolate Angélique Litzenburger a 60 year old dance-club hostess and former stripper sits nursing yet another drink at the bar and declares to her younger co-workers ‘I was a superstar!’ The trouble is that although she is way past her prime, she is still partying as hard as she did in her youth it’s simply that…
The Salt Of The Earth
Wim Wender’s Oscar nominated profile on the Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist Sebastião Salgado is one of the most illuminating and deeply moving portraits of an artist to hit the screen in a very long time. Co-directed by Salgado’s son Juliano Ribeiro it focuses on the celebrated photographer’s extraordinary body of work with its powerful…
