2003 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
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…
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
$23.95 | 92 minutes
In early 2000, the Chicago-based, country-influenced rock band Wilco began preparing for the recording of their fourth record, YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT. Filmmaker/photographer Sam Jones went along with them to document a band at the height of its creative powers. What started as a simple documentary about the making of a record became a far&hellip&hellip…
Down from the Mountain
$11.95 | 98 minutes
The musicians behind the Soggy Bottom Boys, which is the name of the fictional bluegrass band in the Coen brothers's movie O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?, are featured in this documentary, which centers on a bluegrass concert in Nashville, Tennessee given by the bands that contributed to O BROTHER's soundtrack, and provides a brief history&hellip&hellip…
Under the Sand
$19.95 | 95 minutes
Francois Ozon's haunting UNDER THE SAND stars the remarkable British actress Charlotte Rampling, who plays Marie Drillon: a strong, attractive, professional, independent middle-aged woman trying to get her life back on track after the sudden disappearance of her husband. Even for a superwoman like Marie, the shock of the tragedy is psychologically&hellip&hellip…
The Sea
$21.95 | 109 minutes
"Why this sudden love of truth?" This is the question that launches the complicated dialogue of Baltasar Kormakur's beautifully complex, moody film about a dysfunctional family in Iceland. The utterly chilling opener in which a dilapidated fishery bursts into violent flames and burns, against the backdrop of a snow and rain storm, sets&hellip&hellip…
Dolls
$21.95 | minutes
Takeshi Kitano continues alternating between introspective drama and violent films with DOLLS, which he wrote, directed, and edited in between the bloody gangster picture BROTHER (2000) and the samurai update THE BLIND SWORDSMAN: ZATOICHI. Beginning with an excerpt from Bunraku puppet theater master Monzaemon Chikamatsu’s THE COURIER&hellip&hellip…
My Life Without Me
$20.95 | 102 minutes
THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY ON MORATORIUM AND NOT AVAILABLE. Sarah Polley delivers a heartbreakingly subtle performance in Isabel Coixet's MY LIFE WITHOUT ME. Polley is Ann, a young mother and wife who works as a university janitor and lives in a trailer in her mother's backyard. The relationship between Ann and her mother (Deborah Harry)&hellip&hellip…
Dirty Pretty Things
$17.95 | 107 minutes
Chiwetel Ejiofor gives a remarkably understated performance in director Stephen Frears's offbeat and gripping drama DIRTY PRETTY THINGS. Ejiofor stars as Okwe, a Nigerian who is trying to make a new life for himself in London, where he works days as a taxi driver and nights as a hotel desk receptionist. When he discovers a human heart&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…
The Magdalene Sisters
$16.95 | 119 minutes
Peter Mullen's shocking drama THE MAGDALENE SISTERS is based on real events that took place in Ireland from the 1960s until 1996 when an estimated 30,000 young women, considered by their families to have committed sexual sins, were sent away from their homes to earn penitence working in profit-making laundries run by the Sisters of Magdalene&hellip&hellip…
Sonic Outlaws
$19.95 | 87 minutes
At the beginning of the 1990s, the sampler had become ubiquitous among cutting-edge musicians. Negativland were a small American band signed to the fiercely independent SST label, and had been using unauthorized samples in their work for many years. But when they took a portion of U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and&hellip&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
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 and masturbate publicly. They decide to make their new&hellip&hellip…
Facing Windows
$26.95 | 107 minutes
Best Actress
Best Director
Crystal Globe
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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&hellip…
Golem - The Petrified Garden
$26.95 | 87 minutes
A respected art dealer visits Siberia to view and purchase a coveted collection. Perhaps the most stunning piece of the lot is a giant statue of the mythic Jewish figure, the Golem. One finger of the statue is found which could hold the key to bringing this giant, mythic stone creature to life. Amos Gitai directs this allegorical tale&hellip&hellip…
Birth of a Golem
$26.95 | 90 minutes
Amos Gitai (KIPPUR, KADOSH) ruminates on the magical elements of cinema in this meditative parable. Using the myth of the Golem, a giant stone statue that comes to life, Gitai examines filmmaking and the marvelous wonder involved in the process of filmmaking. Annie Lennox is featured as are international film figures such as actress Dominique&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…
Abouna
$23.95 | 84 minutes
This sorrowful story begins when Tahir (Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa) and his little brother Amine (Hamza Moctar Aguid) learn that their father has abandoned them, and they embark on a desperate quest to bring him home. Roaming their city in central African Chad, they check with relatives, look in local shops, and wander the border bridge between&hellip&hellip…
It's Easier for A Camel
$26.95 | 110 minutes
Federica (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) has lived in her own fantasy world for much of her life. Now in her mid-30s, the wealthy daydreamer finds herself caught in a sharp divide between her exotic imaginary life and the more mundane reality that faces her every day. Her search to find some parity between the two worlds forms the backbone of&hellip&hellip…
Jesus, You Know
$21.95 | 87 minutes
Best Documentary
Ulrich Seidl's (DOG DAYS, ANIMAL LOVE) camera takes confession in his coolly removed documentary, a fascinating look at the inner workings of six devout Catholics. Shot in various churches in the director's native Austria, the film dispenses with interviews and consists of static shots of religious people speaking&hellip…
The Tracker
$26.95 | 95 minutes
Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer (THE QUIET ROOM) turns his lens onto a matter that continues to trouble his fellow countrymen in this evocative drama. When an Aborigine is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men must treck through some perilous terrain to find him. Aided by an Aborigine tracker, the men undergo a tortuous&hellip&hellip…
The Embalmer
$25.95 | 104 minutes
THE EMBALMER, directed by Matteo Garrone, is the story of unrequited love and repressed homosexuality gone awry. Peppino (Ernesto Mahieux) is a diminutive taxidermist who secretly courts an unsuspecting Greek god named Valerio (Valerio Foglia Manzillo) by grossly overpaying him to work as his assistant. Hungry for direction and purpose&hellip&hellip…
Roger Dodger
$12.95 | 104 minutes
After cynical New York advertising copywriter Roger Swanson (Campbell Scott) is dumped by his on-again/off-again girlfriend, Joyce (Isabella Rossellini), who is also his boss, his painful workday is further complicated by the unexpected arrival of his 16 year-old nephew, Nick (Jesse Eisenberg). After asking to spend the night at Roger's&hellip&hellip…
Suddenly
$26.95 | 94 minutes
This refreshingly offbeat film from Argentina follows a few days in the life of Marcia (Tatiana Saphir), an overweight girl working in a Buenos Aires lingerie shop, whose going-nowhere life is interrupted by a pair of sullen, lesbian wanderers named Mao (Carla Crespo) and Lenin (Veronica Hassan). Marcia accompanies them semi-unwillingly&hellip&hellip…
Edi
$21.95 | 97 minutes
Philip Morris Award
Although Polish filmmaker Piotr Trzaskalski is known primarily for his documentaries, EDI, his fiction film debut, is a notable achievement. Set in modern-day capitalist Poland, the film follows the adventures of Edi, a homeless man on the lookout for work, who is hired to watch after the lovely teenage sister&hellip…