2004 Copenhagen International Film Festival
We Don't Live Here Anymore
$17.95 | 99 minutes
Jack Linden (Mark Ruffalo) and Hank Evans (Peter Krause) are best friends who both teach at the same university in a small New England town. They both have young children and Jack's wife, Terry (Laura Dern) is close with Hank's wife, Edith (Naomi Watts). But while things appear happy on the surface, there are smoldering pockets of discontent&hellip&hellip…
Uncovered: The War on Iraq
$14.95 | 83 minutes
Slowly, methodically, and convincingly, Robert Greenwald (OUTFOXED: RUPERT MURDOCH'S WAR ON JOURNALISM) presents proof that George W. Bush's administration lied to the American Public, the United Nations, and the world, about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and links to terrorism. A number of respected talking heads are interviewed&hellip&hellip…
Bear Cub
$17.95 | 92 minutes
A hit on the film festival circuit, BEAR CUB (CACHORRO) is a gay-themed Spanish film that aims to separate itself from the Pedro Almodovar mold. The film explores the "bear" gay subculture, which focuses more on lasting friendships and realistic body images than the camp, narcissistic physical perfection, or wild partying that characterizes&hellip&hellip…
Mephisto
$29.95 | 144 minutes
In MEPHISTO, an ambitious and talented actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) on the verge of success marries the daughter of an important official in pre-World War II Germany in order to further his career. As the Nazi influence grows, he discards his wife and uses his new connections to become the head of the National Theatre, while tailoring&hellip&hellip…
Colonel Redl
$23.95 | 142 minutes
At an Austrian military academy, Alfred Redl (Klaus Maria Brandauer), a Catholic with Jewish roots, forms a friendship with aristocrat Kristof von Kubinyi (Jan Niklas) and his sister, Katalin (Gudrun Landgrebe). She falls in love with him but cannot marry below her station. Still, they carry on a lifelong affair, though, as she suspects&hellip&hellip…
House of Flying Daggers
$21.95 | 119 minutes
Following up his award-winning martial-arts drama HERO, director Zhang Yimou (JU DOU, RAISE THE RED LANTERN) tells an intricately detailed love story in the swordfighting epic HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, set during the final days of the Tang Dynasty. A mysterious group called the Flying Daggers is a dangerous threat to the government, so&hellip&hellip…
Oldboy
$18.95 | 115 minutes
It would be a sin to reveal too much about this riveting and bizarre thriller from Korean director Chan Wook Park, except to say that it's about a man named Dae-Su (Choi Min-Sik) who is locked in a hotel room for 15 years without knowing his captor's motives. When he is finally released, Dae Su finds himself still trapped in a web of&hellip&hellip…
The Return
$28.95 | 106 minutes
Director Andrei Zvyagintsev makes a phenomenally assured directorial debut with THE RETURN. The spare tale focuses on two young brothers, Andrey (Vladimir Garin) and Vanya (Ivan Dobronravov), whose lives are thrown into a tailspin when their father (Konstantin Lavroneko) returns after a 12-year absence. Bullish and intense, the patriarch&hellip&hellip…
The Machinist
$21.95 | 101 minutes
Christian Bale delivers one of cinema's most sacrificial performances in Brad Anderson's mesmerizing thriller. Written by Scott Kosar (2003's THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE), THE MACHINIST takes place in a bleak and nondescript American city, where Trevor Reznick (Bale) is quite literally withering away to nothing. During the day Trevor&hellip&hellip…
Silent Waters
$26.95 | 95 minutes
This gorgeously shot feature chronicles the lives of a mother and her teenage son in a rural Pakistani village in 1979. Saleem (Aamir Malik) is an aimless youth in love with local beauty Zubeida (Shilpa Shukla), and adored by his widowed mother, Ayesha (Kiron Kher). Life seems to flow in measured, bucolic beauty, but old and new trauma&hellip&hellip…
Take My Eyes
$23.95 | 106 minutes
Best Actor
Iciar Bollain (Flores de Otro Mundo) directs a multiple Goya Award-winning drama about a terrified housewife (Laia Marull) who flees from her abusive husband (Luis Toscar) after his outbursts begin to grow increasingly violent. Pilar (Marull) moves in with her sister (Candela Pena) and begins the difficult work of building&hellip…