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2003 Cannes Film Festival

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Live Forever

$11.95 | 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…

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Faster

$15.95 | 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…

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Masked and Anonymous

$7.95 | 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…

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The Fog of War

$11.95 | 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…

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Purple Butterfly

$11.95 | 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…

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James' Journey to Jerusalem

$15.95 | 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…

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Oasis

$16.95 | 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…

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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…

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The Event

$7.95 | 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…

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Nowhere in Africa

$26.95 | 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…

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Son Frere

$17.95 | 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…

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Gozu

$11.95 | 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…

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The Mother

$23.95 | 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…

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Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times

$17.95 | 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…

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Secret Things

$21.95 | 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…

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Bright Leaves

$12.95 | 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…

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Paris

$7.95 | 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…

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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…

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Love the Hard Way

$11.95 | 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…

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Noi

$19.95 | 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…

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Mango Yellow

$17.95 | 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…

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Hukkle

$25.95 | 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…

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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…

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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

$10.95 | 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…

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El Alamein

$10.95 | 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…

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Strayed

$16.95 | 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…

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Father and Son

$16.95 | 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…

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La Petite Lili

$10.95 | 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…

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S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

$21.95 | 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…

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Who Killed Bambi

$17.95 | 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…

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Tiresia

$10.95 | 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…

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