2003 Cannes Film Festival
Live Forever
$12.95 | 82 minutes
In the mid-1990's, spurred both by the sudden explosion of bands like Oasis and Prime Minister Tony Blair's "Cool Brittania" campaign, British culture experienced a surge that made Anglophilia seem like a world phenomenon. At the heart of this heady craze was pop music, and suddenly, "Britpop" was born. Oasis, their would-be rivals Blur&hellip&hellip…
All the Real Girls
$21.95 | 105 minutes
Writer-director David Gordon Green obliterates the sophomore slump theory with ALL THE REAL GIRLS, an achingly sincere drama that captures the complexities of first love--and loss--with breathtaking honesty. Paul (Paul Schneider), a small town charmer, has spent his life carousing with his buddies Tip (Shea Whigham), Bo (Maurice Compte)&hellip&hellip…
Crimson Gold
$21.95 | 97 minutes
Jury Award, Un Certain Regard
An expertly crafted film that allows the daily activities of a pizza delivery man to depict the complicated social structure of modern-day Iran, CRIMSON GOLD is directed by Jafar Panahi (THE CIRCLE) from a screenplay by Abbas Kiarostami (TASTE OF CHERRY). Following Hussein (Hussein Emadeddin) through&hellip…
Madame Sata
$21.95 | 105 minutes
A powerfully moving and emotional film that is as rough around the edges as it is sweet at its core, MADAME SATA tells the life story of Jaoa Francisco dos Santos (Lazaro Ramos), an historic figure in Brazilian counterculture. Known to his followers and friends as Madame Sata, which is his stage name in the haunting narrative performances&hellip&hellip…
Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer
$17.95 | 89 minutes
Sensationalist director Nick Broomfield delivers his most personal film with this bracing, powerful sequel to 1992's AILEEN WUORNOS: THE SELLING OF A SERIAL KILLER. Ten years after making that film, Broomfield returns to the story of America's first female serial killer, who murdered seven truck drivers over the course of 12 months in&hellip&hellip…
Faster
$23.95 | 103 minutes
The world of Motorcycle Grand Prix racing attracts thrill-seeking competitors who feel the need for speed, competition, and the glorious feeling of victory. This Slamdance Film Festival-favorite takes a look at the sport, and was written and directed by acclaimed documentarian Mark Neale (WILLIAM GIBSON: NO MAPS FOR THESE TERRITORIES)&hellip&hellip…
Masked and Anonymous
$15.95 | 120 minutes
Bob Dylan plays the mysterious musician and ex-con Jack Fate in MASKED AND ANONYMOUS, the fictional story of a benefit rock concert in which he is the headliner. Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman) is the promoter who arranges for Fate's release from prison in order to perform at the show. Meanwhile the&hellip&hellip…
The Fog of War
$19.95 | 106 minutes
Documentarian Errol Morris directs THE FOG OF WAR, a captivating look at Robert S. McNamara, who served as the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The movie does not exclusively focus on this part of McNamara's career, however, and instead gives a broad overview of the man he was, his multitude of&hellip&hellip…
Bright Future
$21.95 | 93 minutes
Golden Palm(Nominee)
Tadanobu Asano and Joe Odagiri star as two friends who work part-time in a laundry factory in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's highly original BRIGHT FUTURE. Odagiri is Yuji Nimura, a messy, lazy slacker who has odd dreams at night of a future of hope and peace. His best friend, Mamoru Arita (Asano), meanwhile, is obsessed&hellip…
Purple Butterfly
$19.95 | 127 minutes
Golden Palm(Nominee)
This melancholic, brooding romantic thriller stars Zhang Ziyi (HERO; CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) as Ding Hui, a Chinese woman who is part of a secret anti-Japanese terrorist organization in 1931 Shanghai. Three years earlier, under her real name, Cynthia, she was a factory worker in Manchuria carrying&hellip…
James' Journey to Jerusalem
$25.95 | 87 minutes
In this offbeat social satire, a Christian African tribe sends James (Siyabonga Melongisi Shibe), the noblest young man of their village, on a spiritual sojourn to Jerusalem. Apparently unaware of the Middle East's political and economic situation, James is baffled when Israeli police at the airport mistake him for just another immigrant&hellip&hellip…
Oasis
$19.95 | 132 minutes
A troubled young man in his twenties is released from prison only to commit social atrocities. He rapes a severely disabled woman who clearly cannot defend herself from the attack. Oddly enough, the woman ends up falling in love with him, and it turns out that he needs her too&hellip&hellip…
Osama
$11.95 | 82 minutes
Golden Camera-Special Mention
Cannes Junior Award
AFCAE Award
The first Afghan film to be made since the end of the Taliban regime, OSAMA is a poetic portrayal of the struggle to survive during that oppressive period. A clear tribute to the strength and perseverance of the women of Afghanistan, OSAMA tells the true story&hellip…
PTU
$21.95 | 88 minutes
Johnny To (FULLTIME KILLER) directs this Hong Kong action film noir that takes place one dangerous night on the streets where the police tactical unit (PTU) are assigned to patrol. With shadowy alleyways, dingy restaurants, and seedy video game arcades setting the scene for the constantly violent action, PTU is a street war between police&hellip&hellip…
The Event
$20.95 | 112 minutes
In the mid- to late 1980s, films such as AN EARLY FROST, PARTING GLANCES, and LONGTIME COMPANION began examining the growing AIDS crisis. Thom Fitzgerald's moving THE EVENT shows that AIDS is still a major epidemic that is misunderstood by much of the public. The movie opens with the death of Matt Shapiro (Don McKellar), who was suffering&hellip&hellip…
Common Ground
$21.95 | 112 minutes
Acclaimed director Adolfo Aristarain's COMMON GROUND provides a compelling mix of family drama and biting social commentary. When his university suggests that aging Literature professor Fernando Robles (Federico Luppi) retire, they intend it as more than mere suggestion. The downward-spiraling economy plaguing Argentina in the early 21st&hellip&hellip…
Nowhere in Africa
$22.95 | 140 minutes
Fleeing Nazi Germany, many Jewish families found that a new life was as difficult as any hardship they had previously known. This German drama, based on a book by Stephanie Zweig, tells of one family's struggle as Walter Redlich (Merab Ninidze), his wife Jettel (Juliane Kohler), and their young daughter Regina (Karoline Eckertz) flee&hellip&hellip…
Son Frere
$21.95 | 95 minutes
This harrowing family tale about illness and grief is directed by the commanding Patrice Chereau (QUEEN MARGOT, INTIMACY). Captivating at every moment, the film thrives on the emotional intensity of its characters. Thomas (Bruno Todeschini) has been diagnosed with a strange blood disease, and he calls on his brother Luc (Eric Caravaca)&hellip&hellip…
Gozu
$21.95 | 129 minutes
This wildly bizarre Japanese horror movie from master Takeski Miike (AUDITION) follows the mysterious disappearance of Brother, a gangster who was accidentally killed by one of his Mafia cohorts, Minami. Searching for Brother's body--which vanished minutes after he was shot--Minami stumbles into a strange secluded inn and gets a room&hellip&hellip…
The Mother
$24.95 | 112 minutes
A tense love triangle develops when May (Anne Reid), a woman in her sixties grieving the death of her husband, strikes up a sexual relationship with Darren (Daniel Craig), a married man in his thirties who is having an extramarital affair with her daughter Paula (Cathryn Bradshaw). Not only is May much older than Darren, but the complexities&hellip&hellip…
A Snake Of June
$21.95 | 77 minutes
From Japanese cult director Shinya Tsukamoto (TETSUO: THE IRON MAN) comes A SNAKE OF JUNE (ROKUGATSU NO HEBI). Tsukamoto continues exploring the themes he set up in TETSUO and other works--extreme alienation from both self and other, the changing relationship between man and machine, and the body as the site where these problems are worked&hellip&hellip…
Alexandra's Project
$26.95 | 103 minutes
In this Australian thriller, a happy family man finds himself the victim of a cruel prank that becomes more threatening by the minute. On his birthday, he comes home from work to a video of his wife and kids, but then realizes they're being held at gunpoint. Frantic, he must figure out where they've gone, and who made the tape. … &hellip
Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
$19.95 | 72 minutes
This documentary, focusing on intellectual Noam Chomsky and his post 9-11 political views, presents a personal interview along with snippets from lectures he delivered around the country in 2001 and 2002. Known more for his stance as a political theorist and charismatic speaker than his work as an M.I.T. linguist, Chomsky is revered by&hellip&hellip…
Secret Things
$23.95 | 115 minutes
France Culture Award, French Cineaste of the Year
Jean-Claude Brisseau's film is a heady melange of old-fashioned office seduction and Sadean orgy-mongering done up with Gallic flair. Sandrine (Sabrina Seyvecou) and Nathalie (Coralie Revel) meet while being fired from a strip club and soon they dare each other into a lesbian affair&hellip…
Bright Leaves
$26.95 | minutes
Ross McElwee directs this autobiographical documentary about his family's roots in the tobacco business in North Carolina. Taking a sabbatical from his home in Boston, he offers a culturally interesting history of the South as viewed through the biggest, wealthiest tobacco enterprises. Meanwhile, he examines a Hollywood movie that was&hellip&hellip…
Paris
$9.95 | minutes
Rookie cop Jason Bartok (Chad Allen) finds himself on the run after accidentally shooting his corrupt partner, Leon (James Russo). After grabbing a cache of stolen money at Leon's urging, Jason begins a search through the seedier sections of Vegas and Los Angeles in search of Leon's girlfriend, Linda (Bai Ling), an illegal Chinese immigrant&hellip&hellip…
Facing Windows
$26.95 | 107 minutes
THIS TITLE IS ON MORATORIUM AND CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. FACING WINDOWS is a haunting, romantic story of love, history, memory, and politics from director Ferzan Ozpetek, the Instanbul-born Italian transplant whose gay-themed films STEAM: THE TURKISH BATH and LE FATE IGNORANTI earned him a large degree of cult status and notoriety. He&hellip&hellip…
Love the Hard Way
$16.95 | 104 minutes
Stylish, gritty, and utterly New York City, LOVE THE HARD WAY is a slice-of-life film that pairs two total opposites in a test of wills. Jack (Adrien Brody) is a cocky young bad boy, living in a loft in the Bronx, driving a rundown car, listening to loud hip-hop, and running small scams with a close-knit group of two-bit criminals. He&hellip&hellip…
Noi
$17.95 | 82 minutes
In a tiny village located in the remote West Fjords of Iceland, Noi lives a strangely quiet life with his grandmother. A 17-year-old afflicted by the typical symptoms of teenage angst, who longs for freedom and independence, Noi makes for an excellent character study. His existence is anything but typical given the challenges that the&hellip&hellip…
Mango Yellow
$21.95 | 100 minutes
Set in the sizeable city of Recife in Brazil, MANGO YELLOW is a tale of hardship, romance, and ordinary lives. The principle characters center around the Texas Motel, a rundown retreat that attracts a variety of weird and wonderful people. Among them are Dunga (Matheus Nachtergaele), a gay cook who has a crush on a local butcher, Wellington&hellip&hellip…
Hukkle
$20.95 | 75 minutes
The bucolic, even-paced, daily life of a small Hungarian village is the setting for the experimental film HUKKLE (onomatopoeic for "hiccup" in Hungarian). A series of dialogue-less vignettes, featuring the various townspeople and their animals, explore the quotidian existence in the Hungarian countryside. Unifying these sequences is a&hellip&hellip…
Inheritance
$26.95 | 115 minutes
The Danish family drama THE INHERITANCE (ARVEN) is part of a larger movement towards realism through digital filmmaking. Christoffer (Ulrich Thomsen, THE CELEBRATION) abandoned his family life for an idyllic existence with his wife Maria as a restaurateur. But when his father commits suicide, Christoffer is forced to return home at the&hellip&hellip…
Reconstruction
$19.95 | 93 minutes
Golden Camera
Prix Regards Jeune, Best Feature
Smitten with a woman he sees on the subway platform, Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kass) impulsively leaves his girlfriend, Simone (Maria Bonnevie) in pursuit of the stranger. Alex and Aimee (also played by Maria Bonnevie) first share a conversation in a bar, and then spend the night together&hellip…
The Tesseract
$23.95 | 96 minutes
In Thailand's Heaven Hotel, a group of four very different people find their lives colliding in tragic ways. Drifter Sean (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) is a runner for a dangerous drug gang. Rosa (Saskia Reeves) is a psychologist who is performing research on the dreams of children. In the room below her is a wounded female assassin who is waiting&hellip…
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Save the Green Planet "Tame" Version
$21.95 | 118 minutes
This is a jaw-droppingly bizarre movie from Korea that mixes scenes of gruesome torture and violence with comedy and heartbreaking profundity. Perhaps as a result of too many amphetamines and violent incidents in his past, beekeeper Lee Byeong Gu (Sin Ha-Gyun) has become convinced that an unscrupulous business tycoon (Kan Man-Shik) is&hellip&hellip…
El Alamein
$23.95 | 117 minutes
This brutally precise drama is director Enzo Montleone's take on the Italian army's efforts during the Second World War. Although the history books make little mention of them, EL ALAMEIN sets out to put the record straight, by showing how the Italians led one of the first, and most important, battles in the war. For added realism, Montleone&hellip&hellip…
Strayed
$26.95 | 93 minutes
Golden Palm(Nominee)
The friendship and trust that develops rapidly between a 17-year-old homeless boy and a young mother with two children is the basis for Andre Techine's STRAYED. They find each other during a terrifying WWII bombing as they are escaping Paris for the countryside. Yvan (Gaspard Ulliel) is a recluse hiding in&hellip…
Father and Son
$24.95 | 83 minutes
Golden Palm(Nominee)
FIPRESCI Prize
Acclaimed filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (RUSSIAN ARK) brings us this sensual study of the bond between a strapping Russian father (Andrey Schetinin) and his soldier son (Aleksey Neymsyshev). In a dreamy rooftop apartment overlooking the sea, the pair wrestle, lift weights, bond, pore over&hellip…
La Petite Lili
$26.95 | 100 minutes
Golden Palm(Nominee)
Handsome, young, naïve, and insufferably pretentious, amateur filmmaker Julien (Robinson Stévenin) and his famous actress mother, Mado (Nicole Garcia), are locked into a power-play at their country house. Jeanne (Julie Depardieu), the daughter of the caretaker, is in love with Julien. But Julien's girlfriend&hellip…
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
$26.95 | 101 minutes
François Chalais Award
Attempting to make peace between Cambodian torture survivors and the Khmer Rouge soldiers who brutalized them, the documentary S21: THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE takes a close-up look at the the prison camps where this disturbing chapter of history took place in the mid-1970s. Using firsthand accounts&hellip…
Who Killed Bambi
$21.95 | minutes
IN THEATRES: NOVEMBER 12, 2004 (LIMITED) Using ambient sounds, white-outs, and dizzyingly abstract photography, WHO KILLED BAMBI? instills fear into its viewers with its disorienting atmospheres. Before any perturbing action takes place, there is an air of something essentially wrong, and that unexplainable feeling is downright creepy&hellip&hellip…
Tiresia
$26.95 | 115 minutes
Golden Palm(Nominee)
Bertrand Bonello (THE PORNOGRAPHER) directs TIRESIA, a tale of a transsexual call-girl who undergoes a terrifying kidnapping&hellip&hellip…


