2001 Hong Kong International Film Festival
The Isle
$23.95 | 89 minutes
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 of the village is a mute woman with a row boat who delivers her&hellip&hellip…
Chunhyang
$26.95 | 120 minutes
Director Im Kwon Taek's ninety-seventh film, CHUNHYANG, is an adaptation of a popular Korean folk tale. The movie takes place in 18th century Korea, where Mongryong, the son of the Governor of Namwon, is studying before he goes to school in Seoul, where he will study to become a royal official. During the summer before he leaves, he meets&hellip&hellip…
The Circle
$21.95 | 91 minutes
Banned in Iran, Jafar Panahi's THE CIRCLE is set almost entirely on the busy streets of Tehran--a place where women are restricted by numerous laws, including a repressive dress code, and can only travel accompanied by a man. The beginning of the film focuses on two women, Arezou (Mariam Palvin Almani) and Nargess (Nargess Mamizadeh)&hellip&hellip…
Needing You
$14.95 | 104 minutes
Wah is a computer programmer and Kinki is a secretary in the same company. Neither has ever had much luck with the opposite sex, but when they begin working together they sense a growing attraction -- just as Wah's old girlfriend shows up to try and win him back. A charming romantic comedy that became a box office smash in Hong Kong&hellip&hellip…
101 Reykjavik
$16.95 | 90 minutes
Baltasar Kormakur's 101 REYKJAVIK is a crowd-pleasing comedy that gleefully takes the concept of "family dysfunction" to an outrageous new level. Hlynur (Hilmer Snaer Gudnason), an unmotivated Icelander with no interests other than watching porn and getting drunk, still lives at home with his sympathetic mother. He has a brief fling with&hellip&hellip…
Yi Yi
$21.95 | 173 minutes
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, giving each&hellip&hellip…
The Price of Milk
$17.95 | 87 minutes
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 pair of rural lovebirds who decide to take the plunge and get married. Mysteriously&hellip&hellip…
Coronation
$21.95 | 140 minutes
Estela (Adela Secall) is a young girl hired by the grandson of an obstinate old lady; her job is to look after his aging grandmother, who may have amassed a financial fortune over the years, but has lost none of her abusive nature. However, the grandson, Don Andres, becomes infatuated with Estela, while also suffering with his own mental&hellip&hellip…
Face
$21.95 | 123 minutes
A frumpy seamstress’ life takes extraordinary turns after a series of tragic events befall her family, prompting her to become a fugitive. Japanese stage actress Naomi Fujiyama gives a tour-de-force performance as a virginal, socially awkward woman who embarks on an oddly liberating odyssey through provincial Japan in which she encounters&hellip&hellip…
Comedy of Innocence
$13.95 | 98 minutes
When a young boy suddenly declares that his name is Paul, not Camille, and requests that his mother take him to his "real" mother, the characters are thrown into a supernatural drama reminiscent of THE SIXTH SENSE. Camille's mother, Ariane (Isabelle Huppert) fulfills Camille's request and takes him to the home of Isabella (Jeanne Balibar)&hellip&hellip…
Time Regained
$26.95 | 158 minutes
In 1922 France, the writer Marcel Proust is on his deathbed, scenes from the past flashing before his eyes. But what he is remembering is not his own life; he has become the narrator in a past filled with the characters and places of his fictional world. Director and cowriter Raoul Ruiz has fashioned a multilayered, complex, nonlinear&hellip&hellip…