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1995 Toronto International Film Festival

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A Single Girl

$17.95 | 90 minutes

The atmospheric, deliberately paced non-adventures of a wistful, angelic, and slightly pregnant Parisian hotel clerk who struggles into single motherhood after separating from her surly, jobless boyfriend&hellip&hellip…

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Guantanamera

$23.95 | 104 minutes

After a world famous diva dies, her family must accompany the casket on an absurd journey to the funeral, accompanied by a pair of truck drivers. The truckers and the mourners inspire new love in each other. A colorful dark comedy from Cuba, equal parts romantic comedy and critique of the crumbling Communist political system&hellip&hellip…

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Maborosi

$23.95 | 110 minutes

The sights and sounds of a remote Japanese village by the sea convey the isolation of a newly remarried widow trying to move forward after her first husband's inexplicable suicide. A carefully composed array of visuals carries the simple, poignant plot. Director Kore-eda's elegiac debut film earned awards at the Venice, Vancouver, and&hellip&hellip…

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Institute Benjamenta or: This Dream People Call Human Life

$23.95 | 105 minutes

Brilliant English animators The Brothers Quay create their first feature-length live-action film in this tale of a dilapidated boarding school for the teaching of servants run by a brother and sister in which the curriculum is the repetition of one single lesson. When Jacob, a young man, enrolls in the school, he becomes entangled in&hellip&hellip…

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Welcome to the Dollhouse

$23.95 | 87 minutes

Todd Solondz's WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE follows the painful daily trials of Dawn "Wienerdog" Wiener (Heather Matarazzo), an awkward, nerdy 12-year-old. The middle child between her geeky older brother, Mark (Matthew Faber), and her sickeningly sweet little sister, Missy (Daria Kalinina), Dawn has a rough time with her family and everything&hellip&hellip…

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Fallen Angels

$23.95 | 95 minutes

Acclaimed director Kar-Wai's neo-noir fantasy about a hitman who is disturbed to realize that he is falling for his partner. Throw into the mix a mysterious drifter who is searching for her ex-boyfriend and a humorous mute, and the results are an ingenious blend of art and entertainment, set amidst Hong Kong's bleak, urban landscape&hellip&hellip…

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Without Air

$19.95 | 88 minutes

A portrayal of a Memphis singer who struggles to balance her dreams of singing with her reality of a deadbeat boyfriend and stripping to make ends meet. Set to a poignant blues soundtrack, this is a story of failed connections and the uncompromising world that we live in&hellip&hellip…

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Last Summer in the Hamptons

$10.95 | 108 minutes

The misadventures, insights, romances and crises of three generations of a family of actors, as they all come together to put on their annual summer play. Adding chaos to the mix is Oona, a beautiful Hollywood starlet who's at a crossroads in her life. Her sudden appearance at the estate seems to have a jarring effect on everyone involved..&hellip&hellip…

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Kristin Lavransdatter

$25.95 | 180 minutes

Scandal, shame, and destruction beset the beautiful Kristin Lavransdatter when she rejects her arranged marriage and pursues a romance with the strapping young knight Erlend. In 1995, more than half the population of Norway bought tickets to see this critically-acclaimed medieval romance, directed by Ingmar Bergman protege Liv Ullman&hellip&hellip…

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La Ceremonie

$25.95 | 108 minutes

Metro Media Award

In Claude Chabrol's LA CEREMONIE, the wealthy Lelievre family live in a grand estate in the calm isolation of the French countryside. All that lacks in their lustrous lifestyle is the perfect maid, who they believe to have found in the shy and recalcitrant Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire). The match seems to be perfect&hellip…

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Desolation Angels

$7.95 | 90 minutes

FIPRESCI Prize, International Critics' Award

Stark, low-budget semi-autobiographical tale of urban alienation in the vein of "Eraserhead." A young Brooklyn man struggles ineffectively to avenge his girlfriend's rape, neglecting her scarred psyche in order to redeem his macho image&hellip&hellip…

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Guimba the Tyrant

$23.95 | 93 minutes

Taking place in a mythical African nation before colonization, GUIMBA THE TYRANT is a colorful and often hilarious fable about an imaginary city whose citizens are sick of its ruler. Guimba rules Sitikali with an iron fist, often beating subjects who disobey him personally. His son, Janguine, is a three foot tall dwarf whose sexual appetites&hellip&hellip…

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The Keeper

$23.95 | 90 minutes

When a Haitian immigrant is incarcerated for a rape he steadfastly denies he committed, a disillusioned corrections officer believes his story and helps him post bail, even opening his house to the stranger. Ultimately, however, he and his wife discover that no good deed goes unpunished. First-time writer-director Joe Brewster's unflinching&hellip&hellip…

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Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going

$23.95 | minutes

From Argentine director Eliseo Subiela comes this sparkling gem of magical realism along the lines of Wim Wenders' WINGS OF DESIRE. Leopoldo is a lonely film projectionist in a struggling theater is trying to bring his dreams to life with an invention that captures his somnambulant imaginings and makes them visible. His wife dismisses&hellip&hellip…

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Sleepover

$21.95 | 0 minutes

In the Connecticut suburbs, three teenage boys from different social and ethnic backgrounds lie to their parents about going to a sleepover so that they can hang out on the streets and chase girls. Unfortunately they have a more eventful night than they had planned when a car crash and the police become unexpected elements in their evening&hellip…

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Kimstim Collection: Animal Love

$21.95 | 120 minutes

Best Documentary

A documentarian known for his insolent and inciting penchant for exposing the bourgeois prejudice of the Viennese middle classes, Ulrich Seidl does so by putting the mundane and inhibited regimentation of their lives on display. Stating quite simply that the subject of all his films is the notion that "hell is&hellip…

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