Paprika

$11.95 | 90 minutes

Won - Critics' Award

With PAPRIKA, acclaimed Japanese director Satoshi Kon (TOKYO GODFATHERS, MILLENNIUM ACTRESS) unleashes another eye-popping anime adventure. The visually striking thriller is set in the not-too-distant future, where doctors are developing a groundbreaking new psychotherapy treatment called PT. This coincides&hellip…

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Love Story

$2.95 | 3 minutes

Love Story is an animated drama, short and funny, about the separation of Love and Sex, with a happy ending. Filmmaker's Note: It was 1998, I had been in New York for three long years, and had made no films during this time. I was very frustrated. Creative juices were overflowing me spilling off in the most unexpected places&hellip…

They Came Back

$9.95 | 103 minutes

International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film(Nominee)

A welcome original entry into the vast canon of zombie films, THEY CAME BACK offers a humorous poke at the conventions of the genre. Set in a quiet French town, the local residents are in for a shock when the dead come crawling back to life. But they needn't fear, as these undead&hellip…

Robot Stories

$23.95 | 85 minutes

International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film(Nominee)

Four stories about robots make up Greg Pak's inventive, comedic science-fiction film. In My Robot Baby, a couple of aspiring parents go to an adoption agency, anticipating their first child. However, instead of the human baby they expected, they are given a robot baby as a parenting&hellip…

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The Last Minute

$19.95 | 114 minutes

Directors' Week Special Jury Award

LAST MINUTE is a dark comedy that exudes a well-defined feeling of outlandish exaggeration and startling truth in one smoothly paced motion. Directed by Stephen Norrington (BLADE) and set in London, it is the story of Billy Byrne (Max Beesley), a self-obsessed up-and-coming star. Working as an&hellip…

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Ichi the Killer

$17.95 | 129 minutes

International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film(Nominee)

Prolific director Takashi Miike (AUDITION) keeps finding new ways to test the boundaries of on-screen violence. ICHI THE KILLER is a masterful piece of filmmaking, simultaneously funny and horrific, but it's only for viewers with strong stomachs. One character, Kakihara (Japanese&hellip…

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L.I.E.

$23.95 | 97 minutes

Best Actor
Best Director
Best Film

The Long Island Expressway, the highway that traverses suburban Long Island with its "lanes moving east, lanes moving west, and lanes that go straight to hell" serves as the central metaphor in this disturbing meditation on coming of age and teenage vulnerability. Howie Blitzer (Paul&hellip…

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…

Suzhou River

$14.95 | minutes

Critics Award

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&hellip…

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Nine Queens

$11.95 | 115 minutes

Best Screenplay

Fabian Bielinsky's directorial debut is an electrifying crime thriller that deserves to join the ranks as a classic of the genre--along with David Mamet's HOUSE OF GAMES and Bryan Singer's THE USUAL SUSPECTS. Set in a Buenos Aires that is on the verge of economic collapse, the film tells the story of Juan (Gaston&hellip…

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Dog Days

$23.95 | 121 minutes

Directors' Week Special Jury Award

DOG DAYS is a scathing satire, exposing the ugly underbelly of contemporary suburban mores. It is the first dramatic feature of notorious documentarian Ulrich Seidl (ANIMAL LOVE). With a keen visual sense and lacerating wit, Seidl weaves together the sordid tales of a large group of people in&hellip…

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Natasha

$4.25 | 10 minutes

Josh Rechnitz's Natasha focuses on a 10 min animated short about a neglected housewife who falls in love with a household appliance&hellip&hellip…

Rain

$11.95 | 92 minutes

Directors' Week Award, Best Actress

The debut film by director Christine Jeffs, RAIN, records with charm the confusion of coming of age amidst domestic disintegration. In Far North New Zealand in 1972, Janey (Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki) has traveled to the beach for a long lazy summer with her family. As the days get longer, Janey&hellip…

The Isle

$21.95 | 89 minutes

Best Film(Nominee)
Special Jury Award
Best Actress

The eerily beautiful photography and melodic musical score of THE ISLE stand in odd contrast to the brutal horror story it tells. On the serene surface of a secluded bay float a series of candy-colored fishing houses, rented to men who seek an escape. The owner and operator&hellip…

Psycho Beach Party

$14.95 | 95 minutes

International Fantasy Award, Best Film(Nominee)

PSYCHO BEACH PARTY was scripted by playwright Charles Busch (author of the long-running off-Broadway hit VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM), adapted from his 1987 play of the same title. Florence Forest (Lauren Ambrose) is a perky but unfulfilled teen. After witnessing the antics of a gang&hellip…

The Price of Milk

$15.95 | 87 minutes

Critics' Award
International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film(Nominee)

A romantic comedy with a uniquely surreal flavor, THE PRICE OF MILK comes from New Zealand-based director Harry Sinclair (TOPLESS WOMEN TALK ABOUT THEIR LIVES). The film tells the story of a young couple, Lucinda (Danielle Cormack) and Rob (Karl Urban), a&hellip…

Amores Perros

$7.95 | 153 minutes

Alejandro Gonzalez Iniarritu makes an electrifying directorial debut with AMORES PERROS, an energetic, assured motion picture that jumps off the screen with a seemingly boundless energy. Told in three separate chapters--OCTAVIO AND SUSANA, DANIEL AND VALERIA, and EL CHIVO AND MARU--the film deals with love in the lives of several individuals&hellip&hellip…

Tuvalu

$21.95 | 86 minutes

Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Gold(Nominee)

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)&hellip…

S.

$14.95 | 94 minutes

A beautiful, but emotionally turbulent woman, known only as S. (Natali Broods) has a grim life in New York, with a cruel, unfaithful boyfriend. With a prostitute mother she can't communicate with and an abusive father who was executed for murder, S. has never had a truly healthy relationship. When she finds her boyfriend sleeping with&hellip&hellip…

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Tuvalu

$21.95 | 86 minutes

International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film(Nominee)
Audience Jury Award
International Fantasy Film Special Jury Award

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&hellip…

The Acid House

$23.95 | 112 minutes

International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film(Nominee)
International Fantasy Film Award, Best Actor
International Fantasy Film Award, Best Actor
Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver
AMC Audience Award

A trio of stories adapted by Irvine Welsh (TRAINSPOTTING) from his collection of stories of the same name&hellip…

Monument Ave.

$7.95 | 93 minutes

A drama that takes place in the gritty streets of South Boston. Leary gives an impassioned performance as Bobby O'Grady, a member of an Irish-American gang, who must remain loyal to his boss (Meaney) even after he has learned that he has murdered one of Bobby's best friends&hellip&hellip…

Love Is The Devil

$17.95 | 88 minutes

Directors' Week Award, Best Cinematography

An intriguing biographical look at British painter Francis Bacon focusing on his turbulent and tragic relationship with lover George Dyer, a former boxer and small time thief. I, CLAUDIUS veteran Jacobi gives a fiery performance as the mischievous and emotionally chilly artist who is&hellip…

Happiness

$10.95 | 139 minutes

Directors' Week Award

Building on the darkly comic angst of WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE, Todd Solondz's HAPPINESS conveys suburban desperation and frustration on a larger scale than his previous film. The ensemble cast of characters centers around the lives of three sisters: Joy (Jane Adams), an awkward, naive, and unlucky musician&hellip…

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Orphans

$7.95 | 98 minutes

When Glasgow matriarch Mrs. Flynn passes away, her four adult children--Thomas, Michael, Sheila and John--gather at her home to mourn. Having prepared for the funeral in the morning, the four go to the pub for a drink. When Thomas, the eldest, performs his mother's favorite song karaoke-style and suddenly breaks down crying, Duncan, a&hellip&hellip…

Pi

$10.95 | 85 minutes

Low-budget film that won Darren Aronofsky "Best Director" at 1998's Sundance Film Festival. Gritty, inventive black-and-white photography drives this story of genius mathematician Max Cohen who is exploring the possible existence of discernible patterns in the stock market. With the aid of Euclid, his home grown supercomputer, Max stumbles&hellip&hellip…

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Praise

$14.95 | 98 minutes

PRAISE tells the bizarre, erotic tale of two down-on-their-luck individuals whose passionate affair threatens to save--or destroy--both their lives. Gordon (Peter Fenton) is an apathetic, chain-smoking asthmatic living in a grubby apartment in Brisbane. When he meets Cynthia (Sacha Horler), who suffers from eczema, the two begin to have&hellip&hellip…

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Last Night

$10.95 | 94 minutes

Directors' Week Award-Best Director

Writer/director/actor McKellar's take on the always intriguing "end of the world" concept is a thoughtful, engaging effort that uses dialogue instead of action to discuss this premise intellectually. The inhabitants of a Canadian city quietly accept the news that the world is going to end at&hellip…

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Shine

$15.95 | 105 minutes

Directors' Week Award, Best Director

This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of the life of Australian piano virtuoso David Helfgott and his struggles with his war-traumatized, demanding father; mental illness and asylum incarceration; and his obsession with the virtually unplayable Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 ("Rach&hellip…

Forgotten Silver

$29.95 | 55 minutes

Audience Jury Award – Peter Jackson

New Zealanders Peter Jackson and Costa Botes conspired to create this witty mockumentary about Colin MacKenzie, a fictional film pioneer who, in the early 1900s, invented the tracking shot, the close-up, color film, and the talkie. MacKenzie's colorful career&hellip…

Institute Benjamenta or: This Dream People Call Human Life

$23.95 | 105 minutes

International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film(Nominee)
International Fantasy Film Award, Special Jury Award

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&hellip…

Jan Svankmajer's Faust

$23.95 | 97 minutes

International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film(Nominee)
International Fantasy Film Award, Best Special Effects

Avant-garde animator Jan Svankmajer uses Claymation and live action to render a surrealistic, modern-day treatment of the Faust legend. This surreal take on Goethe's classic parable tells the story of the unwitting Faust&hellip…

Lyrical Nitrate & The Forbidden Quest

$15.95 | 121 minutes

International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film(Nominee)
International Fantasy Film Award, Special Jury Award

Two works by Dutch filmmaker and film historian Peter Delpeut. LYRICAL NITRATE (1990) fashions an ode to silent cinema made entirely out of volatile nitrate stock images scored to period music for a poignant, nostalgic&hellip…

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Gas Food Lodging

$22.95 | 101 minutes

Allison Anders's GAS FOOD LODGING is a heartfelt, honest look at a teenage girl's coming of age. Fairuza Balk stars, giving a tremendously sympathetic performance as Shade, a girl living in a trailer park with her mom, Nora (Brooke Adams), and doing her best to hold her volatile family together. While Shade's older sister, Trudi (Ione&hellip&hellip…

La Sentinelle

$14.95 | 144 minutes

Mathias leaves Germany to study medicine in Paris. On the train, he gets hassled and threatened by a mysterious man, who disappears. He later discovers a human head in his luggage and becomes obsessed with it. His subsequent investigation leads him to the French Secret Service, where he unknowingly becomes the target of their violent&hellip…

Poison

$10.95 | 85 minutes

International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film(Nominee)
Critics Award

In director Todd Haynes's feature film debut, POISON, three stories, each told in their own unique cinematic style, illustrate the lives of a people living outside the fringes of "normal" society. There is "Hero," the pseudo-documentary about a seven-year-old&hellip…

The Vanishing

$25.95 | 106 minutes

International Fantasy Film Award, Best Actor
International Fantasy Film Award, Best Director
International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film(Nominee)

Three years after the mysterious abduction of his girlfriend while the two were on vacation, a man tracks down her kidnapper. The abductor, a seemingly normal professor who contacts&hellip…

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Earth Girls Are Easy

$7.95 | 99 minutes

International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film(Nominee)

After getting hurt one time too many, Julie, a lonely hairdresser, is ready to give up on romance. But when she runs into a wayward spaceship with a sexy alien captain and a lovesick crew, it doesn't look like romance is ready to give up on her. After one mighty zany weekend&hellip…

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Alice

$21.95 | 91 minutes

International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film(Nominee)

Disney + Buuel = Svankmajer's ALICE." An unusual dramatization of a classic children's story, from Czech master animator Jan Svankmajer. This loose retelling of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" dives headlong into the story's more sordid, psychological dimensions. Svankmajer's&hellip…

Earth Girls Are Easy

$7.95 | 99 minutes

After getting hurt one time too many, Julie, a lonely hairdresser, is ready to give up on romance. But when she runs into a wayward spaceship with a sexy alien captain and a lovesick crew, it doesn't look like romance is ready to give up on her. After one mighty zany weekend, Julie decides that maybe she should take a chance on love again&hellip&hellip…

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Lars Von Trier's Epidemic

$25.95 | 106 minutes

International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film(Nominee)

In his second film, director Lars von Trier stars as a young filmmaker (named Lars) who, along with his friend, Niels (real life co-writer, Niels Vrsel), is writing a 200-page screenplay entitled "The Cop amp; The Whore." When they lose the screenplay in a computer mishap, they&hellip…

Blood Simple

$11.95 | 96 minutes

International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film(Nominee)
Audience Award

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&hellip…

The Element of Crime

$34.95 | 104 minutes

Best Film(Nominee)
Best Director

Danish director Lars von Trier's debut feature film--also his first English-language effort--is an extremely hypnotic, moody thriller. The story opens in the desert of Egypt, where police detective Leopold Fisher (Michael Elphick) is hypnotized and asked to recount the recent events of his&hellip…

Sexmission

$14.95 | 120 minutes

International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film(Nominee)

When a couple of scientists decide to freeze themselves for three years they let themselves in for a bizarre trip into the future that neither of them had planned for. The outbreak of World War III ensues that the men remain under for 50 years, and are revived into a post-apocalyptic&hellip…

The Company of Wolves

$21.95 | 92 minutes

Audience Jury Award
Critics' Award
International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film
International Fantasy Film Award, Best Special Effects

The second directorial effort from Irish director Neil Jordan (THE CRYING GAME), THE COMPANY OF WOLVES is a psychologically themed retelling of Little Red Riding Hood from a Freudian&hellip…

Scanners

$11.95 | 103 minutes

International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film

Scanners are men and women born with incredible telepathic and telekinetic powers. This breed of superbrains was developed as an accidental side effect of a tranquilizer administered to some women during pregnancy. Cameron Vale is one such scanner, and he, like most of those with similar&hellip…

Time Bandits

$34.95 | 116 minutes

Best Film(Nominee)

Plunging headfirst into history, director Terry Gilliam fearlessly brings the logic of children's fairy tales to bear as he navigates through myth and legend in a bizarre, ingenious retelling of THE WIZARD OF OZ. A boy and six good-natured little persons careen through time-twisting interactions with Napoleon&hellip…

Stalker

$23.95 | 163 minutes

Audience Jury Award(Special Mention)
Best Film(Nominee)

With STALKER, Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky returns to the mind-bending, philosophy-tinged science fiction of SOLARIS. The setting is an unnamed country in an unforeseen postapocalyptic future. A meteorite has landed, and its impact has created a mysterious phenomenon&hellip…