2000 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Blood Simple
$11.95 | 96 minutes
When a bar owner discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife, a complex web of deceit and double crosses ensues in a small Texas town. The Coen brothers' first picture is an intricately plotted film noir filled with surprises at each turn. The cast, largely unkown at the time, includes Dan Hedaya as the cuckolded&hellip&hellip…
Water Drops on Burning Rocks
$23.95 | 82 minutes
Set in 1970s Germany, Leopold [Bernard Giraudeau], a 50-year-old businessman, seduces 20-year-old Franz [Malik Zidi]. They fall deeply in love and move in together. The rest of the movie focuses on the emotional turmoil that both endure as they grow apart, bickering over things of little importance. A twist halfway through the story adds&hellip&hellip…
Suzhou River
$14.95 | minutes
With SUZHOU RIVER, director Lou Ye has created an intense, jerky visual and narrative style that captivates viewers and pulls them into the mystery of the film's dreamy, alluring tale of love and mistaken identities. The narrator--the voice behind the camera (literally) who occasionally sticks his hand out in front of the lens to spraypaint&hellip&hellip…
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Yi Yi
$34.95 | 173 minutes
Netpac Award
Focusing on a typical family - parents, two children, and an elderly grandmother - living in a small apartment in Taipei, YI YI (A ONE AND A TWO) is about the patterns of daily life. It includes a wedding, a funeral, a first date, a last date, a birth, and a death. The film follows each member of the Jian family carefully&hellip…
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Crush
$17.95 | 97 minutes
A New Zealand journalist, Christine, and her American friend Lane travel to Rotorua, site of the country's famous hot springs, to interview a writer. When Lane gets behind the wheel she crashes the car, severely injuring Christine. Lane ventures on to keep the appointment with the writer, while Christine is hospitalized with brain damage&hellip&hellip…
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Fighter
$17.95 | 86 minutes
Special Jury Citation
FIGHTER follows two friends, Jan Wiener, to whom the title refers, and Arnost Lustig, a writer--both in their seventies, and both exiles from Communist Czechoslovakia now living in America--as they retrace Wiener's escape from Prague after the Nazi takeover in the 1930s. Wiener's trek took him via Yugoslavia&hellip…
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Aberdeen
$21.95 | 113 minutes
Best Actor
Crystal Globe(Nominee)
Writer-director Hans PetTer Molland (ZERO KELVIN) deftly combines two traditional cinematic genres--the road movie and the dysfunctional family drama--to create a moving character study that is entirely his own. Kaisa (Lena Headey) is a successful, hard-edged career woman living in London&hellip…
Coming Apart
$23.95 | 111 minutes
Little seen sixties classic about Joe (Torn), a psychiatrist who puts a hidden camera behind his couch, facing a wall sized mirror in order to document a number of women who come and go. Obsessed with a former lover, Joe intends to perform and record an "experiment in contemporary sexual aberration." In the process, Joe documents his&hellip&hellip…
Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
$21.95 | 109 minutes
Director Emir Kusturica is known outside of his native Bosnia for films such as ARIZONA DREAM, UNDERGROUND and BLACK CAT, WHITE CAT. This early example of his work was shot in his home country in the early 1980s (when it was still known as Yugoslavia), is set in the 1960s, and follows the fortunes of a young man named Dino (Slavko Stimac)&hellip&hellip…
When Father Was Away on Business
$21.95 | 135 minutes
It's an open secret that father has been sent away to the mines for fooling around with the voluptuous object of desire of a communist party official. That's the way things were in 1950's Yugoslavia. Six-year-old Malik, however, thinks Papa is away on business. As seen through his eyes, this film magnifies the emotions of his new experiences&hellip&hellip…
Goya in Bordeaux
$26.95 | 105 minutes
In GOYA IN BORDEAUX Carlos Saura tells the life story of the 18th Century Spanish painter Francisco de Goya. Actually, working with cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, he attempts to "paint" the story. Elaborately staged and beautifully photographed recreations of Goya's canvases come to life as Goya (Francisco Rabal), lying on his death&hellip&hellip…
Seventeen Years
$23.95 | 85 minutes
Living together in a claustrophobic home in a rundown part of Tianjin, China, stepsisters Tao Lan (Lin Liu) and Yu Xiaoquin (Yun Li) are forced to share everything, yet they couldn't have less in common. Tao Lan is a free spirit who is proud of her working-class roots, while studious Yu Xiaoquin is attractive and sophisticated; their&hellip&hellip…
Light Keeps Me Company
$17.95 | 75 minutes
Sven Nykvist is one of the most respected cinematographers in the history of world cinema. Among his 123 film credits, Nykvist is known primarily as the man who photographed many of Ingmar Bergman's stark Swedish film classics including PERSONA and WINTER LIGHT. Nykvist's Bergman films demonstrated a style based more in naturalistic lighting&hellip…
Love
$23.95 | 109 minutes
A man is imprisoned on political charges forcing his wife to take on the role of caretaker of his aged mother, a woman for whom the past is more vivid than the present&hellip&hellip…
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Tuvalu
$21.95 | 86 minutes
A small town indoor pool and the limitless mind of one of the pool employees make the setting for this stunning comedic fantasy. The pool is where local residents go to escape the daily grind and enter a fantastical dream world. Adrift in these daydreams, the Anton (Denis Lavant) finds Eva (Chulpan Hamatova), a beautiful woman who has&hellip&hellip…
Earth & Water
$17.95 | 112 minutes
Nikolas and Constantina could not be from more different worlds. At 18, Constantina falls for Nikolas, a shepherd and part-time actor upon their first meeting. Constantina tries to be logical and end the relationship which sets off a series of bizarre fantastical events with Nikolas emerging from a literal river bottom to pursue his dream&hellip&hellip…
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