January 13 PAIN AND GLORY
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast:: Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia
Year: 2019
Runtime: 113 minute
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish w/EST
Pain and Glory tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo (portrayed by the prolific Antonio Banderas), a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void that creates the incapacity to keep on making films. Pain and Glory talks about creation, about the difficulty of separating it from one's own life and about the passions that give it meaning and hope.
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Cast:: Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia
Year: 2019
Runtime: 113 minute
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish w/EST
Pain and Glory tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo (portrayed by the prolific Antonio Banderas), a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void that creates the incapacity to keep on making films. Pain and Glory talks about creation, about the difficulty of separating it from one's own life and about the passions that give it meaning and hope.
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January 27 Marianne and Leonard
Director: Nick Broomfield
Featuring:: Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Ron Cornelius
Year: 2019
Runtime: 102 minute
Country: USA
Language: English
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love is renowned filmmaker Nick Broomfield's most personal and romantic film of his storied career. The documentary starts on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, where Leonard Cohen, then a struggling and unknown fiction writer, and Marianne Ihlen, a single mother with a young son, became part of community of expat artists, writers and musicians. Never-before-seen footage shot by Broomfield and legendary documentarian D.A. Pennebaker make for a unique portrait of an idyllic 1960's bohemia. It was a time that left a lasting imprint on both Marianne and Leonard, whose friendship would last another fifty years before their deaths in 2016.
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February 10 Antigone
Director: Sophie Deraspe
Cast:: Nahéma Ricci, Nour Belkhiria, Rawad El-Zein
Year: 2019
Runtime: 109 minute
Country: Canada
Language: French w/e.s.t.
Critically acclaimed Québécois filmmaker Sophie Deraspe’s provocative and timely adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy of the same name reimagines the story of a woman’s quest for justice as a commentary on the immigrant experience in contemporary Montreal.
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February 24 La Belle Epoque
Director: Nicolas Bedos
Cast:: Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Doria Tillier, Fanny Ardant
Year: 2019
Runtime: 115 min
Country: France
Language: French
Director: Sophie Deraspe
Cast:: Nahéma Ricci, Nour Belkhiria, Rawad El-Zein
Year: 2019
Runtime: 109 minute
Country: Canada
Language: French w/e.s.t.
Critically acclaimed Québécois filmmaker Sophie Deraspe’s provocative and timely adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy of the same name reimagines the story of a woman’s quest for justice as a commentary on the immigrant experience in contemporary Montreal.
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February 24 La Belle Epoque
Director: Nicolas Bedos
Cast:: Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Doria Tillier, Fanny Ardant
Year: 2019
Runtime: 115 min
Country: France
Language: French
In this high-concept comedy from Nicolas Bedos (Mr. & Mrs. Adelman), a luddite cartoonist suffering an existential crisis hires a VR company to recreate a happier time in his marriage, as he tries to reconcile the golden-hued past with an inescapable digital present.
This high-concept comedy from Nicolas Bedos (Mr. & Mrs. Adelman) shrewdly taps into our current technological anxieties and our most basic desire to revisit our glory days. Starring Daniel Auteuil, Fanny Ardant, and Guillaume Canet, La Belle Époque blurs historical eras while tracking a charismatic curmudgeon's existential reckoning.
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March 9 SORRY WE MISSED YOU
Director: Ken Loach
Cast:: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone,
Year: 2019
Runtime: 102 minute
Country: United Kingdom, France, Belgium
Language: English
From socially conscious director Ken Loach and longtime collaborator Paul Laverty (I, Daniel Blake) comes a wrenching portrait of a hardworking English couple sliding deeper into debt and despair, despite toiling in all-consuming jobs.
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Director: Ken Loach
Cast:: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone,
Year: 2019
Runtime: 102 minute
Country: United Kingdom, France, Belgium
Language: English
From socially conscious director Ken Loach and longtime collaborator Paul Laverty (I, Daniel Blake) comes a wrenching portrait of a hardworking English couple sliding deeper into debt and despair, despite toiling in all-consuming jobs.
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March 23 It Must Be Heaven
Director: Elia Suleiman
Cast:: Elia Suleiman
Year: 2019
Runtime: 101 minute
Country: France, Qatar, Germany, Canada, Palestine, Turkey
Language: English, French w/e.s.t., Arabic w/e.s.t.
In a series of darkly comic vignettes shot in international locales, Palestinian director Elia Suleiman investigates the meanings of being in exile, and the absurdities of nationalism, normality, and identity.
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March 23 It Must Be Heaven
Director: Elia Suleiman
Cast:: Elia Suleiman
Year: 2019
Runtime: 101 minute
Country: France, Qatar, Germany, Canada, Palestine, Turkey
Language: English, French w/e.s.t., Arabic w/e.s.t.
In a series of darkly comic vignettes shot in international locales, Palestinian director Elia Suleiman investigates the meanings of being in exile, and the absurdities of nationalism, normality, and identity.
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April 6 Military Wives
Director: Peter Cattaneo
Cast:: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan, Jason Flemyng
Year: 2019
Runtime: 112 min
Country: UK
Language: English
With their partners away serving in Afghanistan, a group of women on the home front form a choir and quickly find themselves at the centre of a media sensation and global movement, in this feel-good story from Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty).
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Cast:: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan, Jason Flemyng
Year: 2019
Runtime: 112 min
Country: UK
Language: English
With their partners away serving in Afghanistan, a group of women on the home front form a choir and quickly find themselves at the centre of a media sensation and global movement, in this feel-good story from Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty).
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April 20th The Climb
Director: Michael Angelo Covino
Cast:: Michael Angelo Covino, Kyle Marvin, Gayle Rankin
Year: 2019
Runtime: 94 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Michael Angelo Covino
Cast:: Michael Angelo Covino, Kyle Marvin, Gayle Rankin
Year: 2019
Runtime: 94 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English
Kyle and Mike (Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Covino) are best friends who share a close bond — until Mike sleeps with Kyle's fiancée. The Climb is about a tumultuous but enduring relationship between two men across many years of laughter, heartbreak and rage. It is also the story of real-life best friends who turn their profound connection into a rich, humane and frequently uproarious film about the boundaries (or lack thereof) in all close friendships.
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