2003 Mar del Plata International Film Festival
Spun
$7.95 | 101 minutes
Ross (Jason Schwartzman) is an addict badly in need of some speed. A visit to his dealer, Spider Mike's (John Leguizamo)--where fellow "tweakers" Nikki (Brittany Murphy)--a stripper, Frisbee (Patrick Fugit)--a metalhead, and Cookie (Mena Suvari)--Mike's girlfriend--turns into an odyssey, though, when Mike can't find his stash. Nikki tells&hellip&hellip…
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Morvern Callar
$19.95 | minutes
The role of the aimless young rebel hiding behind an emotional wall and steely eyes has been monopolized by men in the movies since James Dean. Samantha Morton, one of her generation's most gifted actors, makes the most of her opportunity to embody such a figure in her role as the title character of MORVERN CALLAR. Momentarily frozen&hellip&hellip…
Horns and Halos
$10.95 | 79 minutes
When J.H. Hatfield published a biography of George W. Bush entitled FORTUNATE SON in 1999, it looked set to become a best seller. Not afraid to detail the past indiscretions of the President, Hatfield alleged that Bush had been arrested for cocaine possession back in 1972. Publishers St. Martins Press got cold feet when they discovered&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…
The Way Home
$16.95 | 85 minutes
This subtle and bucolic Korean film is "dedicated to all grandmas" by its director Jeong-hyang Lee. The story concerns bratty, selfish seven-year-old Sang-Woo (Seung-Ho Yoo) who is sent out into the mountains to live with his ancient, mute, partially deaf grandmother (Eul-Boon Kim) while his stressed-out single mom looks for work back&hellip&hellip…
Nowhere in Africa
$26.95 | 140 minutes
Fleeing Nazi Germany, many Jewish families found that a new life was as difficult as any hardship they had previously known. This German drama, based on a book by Stephanie Zweig, tells of one family's struggle as Walter Redlich (Merab Ninidze), his wife Jettel (Juliane Kohler), and their young daughter Regina (Karoline Eckertz) flee&hellip&hellip…
Washington Heights
$10.95 | 80 minutes
Alfredo de Villa's energetic debut pays tribute to one of Manhattan's more notorious neighborhoods, the predominantly Dominican Washington Heights. Carlos Ramirez (Manny Perez), an aspiring comic book artist, has dreams of moving downtown and establishing a new life for himself, but his girlfriend, Maggie (Andrea Navedo), is growing tired&hellip&hellip…
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Hukkle
$25.95 | 75 minutes
The bucolic, even-paced, daily life of a small Hungarian village is the setting for the experimental film HUKKLE (onomatopoeic for "hiccup" in Hungarian). A series of dialogue-less vignettes, featuring the various townspeople and their animals, explore the quotidian existence in the Hungarian countryside. Unifying these sequences is a&hellip&hellip…
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Don't Look Now
$11.95 | 110 minutes
Nicolas Roeg's third film--after the brash PERFORMANCE (1970) and meditative WALKABOUT (1971)--is a haunting thriller that confirmed the director's status as a true visionary. Based on a story by Daphne Du Maurier, DON'T LOOK NOW follows a grieving English couple to Venice, where the past continues to plague them. John Baxter (Donald&hellip&hellip…
Under the Skin of the City
$11.95 | 93 minutes
From Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, the prolific Iranian filmmaker who makes her U.S. debut with this film, UNDER THE SKIN OF THE CITY is a stirring drama that puts contemporary Tehran in sharp focus. A family of five lives in close quarters in the inner city. Tuba, the head of the family, is a dutiful woman who works days in a loud, dirty, polluted&hellip&hellip…
Low Heights
$23.95 | 115 minutes
This Iranian film from director Ebrahim Hatamikia is a dark look at the actions of a desperate man. Trying to escape from his native Iran, Ghassem (Hamid Farrokhnezhad) concocts a hairbrained scheme to get him and his family out of the country. Hijacking a plane with his pregnant wife, Ghassem runs into trouble with the undercover officers&hellip&hellip…
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
$34.95 | 139 minutes
In Nicolas Roeg's sci-fi tale based on the novel by Walter Tevis, a humanoid alien from a dried-up husk of a planet falls to Earth in a spaceship--and later falls again metaphorically through alcohol abuse and the manipulations of a hostile culture. Arriving as a secret ambassador from a dying world, the masquerading Mr. Newton (David&hellip&hellip…
The Bottom of the Sea
$21.95 | 95 minutes
Audience Award
FIPRESCI Prize - Special Mention, Best Latin American Film
Best Ibero-American Film
The Argentinean film THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (EL FONDO DEL MAR) manages to successfully combine the comedy and thriller genres. Ezequeil Toledo is a young architect with an unusual task: to build a partially underwater hotel&hellip…
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The Eye
$19.95 | 99 minutes
THE EYE, directed by twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, is a Chinese/Thai horror film that focuses on Mun (Sin-je Lee), a cornea-transplant recipient who has been blind most of her life. As Mun adjusts to her newfound sight, she begins to see haunting visions of dead people. As these terrifying visions become more frequent, Mun turns&hellip&hellip…


