2003 Venice International Film Festival
Last Life in the Universe
$19.95 | 104 minutes
Upstream Prize, Best Actor
Shy Kenji is a Japanese librarian in Bangkok who lives within a neatly organized world and fantasizes about committing suicide, but gets interrupted every time he attempts to end his life. While at work, he becomes obsessed with a beautiful girl he spots through the bookshelves. Later, while attempting&hellip…
The Saddest Music in the World
$12.95 | 99 minutes
Guy Maddin's films are gritty, gorgeous, darkly daffy, and ultimately surreal, and THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD may be the finest example of this Canadian director's unique artistry. He takes a macabre storyline, blends it with brilliant performances, edits to perfection, and creates pure celluloid magic. Dots, bumps, fuzzy static&hellip&hellip…
Casa de los Babys
$11.95 | 95 minutes
A group of six women from the United States, each of whom wants to adopt a baby, are checked into a hotel in South America waiting for the paperwork to go through. As their wait stretches on for weeks, they each get to know each other, sharing their hopes and fears. Meanwhile, the film explores every layer of people who are effected by&hellip…
Open My Heart
$21.95 | 93 minutes
Writer-director-star Giada Colagrande makes her debut in the noirish erotic drama OPEN MY HEART (APRIMI IL CUORE). She plays Caterina, the younger sister of prostitute Maria, who has also raised her sibling since she was a two-year-old. Caterina is essentially imprisoned in the home of the pair, remaining there even when Maria brings&hellip&hellip…
Alila
$26.95 | 123 minutes
Golden Lion(Nominee)
Amos Gitai paints a vivid, gritty portrait of life in modern-day Israel with this multi-character study of intertwining lives in and around a Tel Aviv apartment complex. Ezra (Uri Klauzner) is a building contractor who sleeps in his van with his illegal Asian immigrant workers outside his ex-wife Mali's (Hanna&hellip…
Goodbye Dragon Inn
$23.95 | 83 minutes
FIPRESCI Prize, Competition
Golden Lion(Nominee)
The subject of cinema, of the mix of loneliness and connection that is part of being in a movie audience, is the concern of this sad, beautiful, minimalist composition by Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang (WHAT TIME IS IT THERE?). The action takes place Inside a Taipei movie&hellip…
The Return
$28.95 | 106 minutes
'CinemAvvenire' Award, Best First Film
Golden Lion
Sergio Trasatti Award
SIGNIS Award
Luigi De Laurentiis Award
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&hellip…