Open Cinema

• Shinobu Yaguchi
• Japan
• 2008
• 102min

After sweet collaborations with a synchronized swimming team in Water Boys and a high school big jazz band in Swing Girls, director Shinobu Yaguchi returns with his own characteris...

Open Cinema

• Randall Miller
• United States
• 2007
• 108min

Like Sideways, Randall Miller’s Bottle Shock revels in the beauty that is California wine, but that is where the comparisons end. Loosely based on a true story, one that changed th...

Open Cinema

• Matteo Garrone
• Italy
• 2008
• 135min

It is hard, after 100 years of cinema, to reinvent the Mafia film. In Gamorrah director Matteo Garrone tries to do just that. One part melodrama and one part existential meditation...

Open Cinema

• Nonzee NIMIBUTR
• Thailand
• 2008
• 137min

This is a new work of Nonzee Nimibutr, who has been successful at making blockbuster films that are both local and global at the same time. Four hundred years ago, the Kingdom of L...

Open Cinema

• Mamoru Oshii
• Japan
• 2008
• 120min

Director Mamoru Oshii has always placed his imaginative world at the border of reality and virtual reality, past and future. Based on a novel by Hiroshi Mori, The Sky Crawlers flie...

Flash Forward

• Philippe Fernandez
• France
• 2008
• 85min

Director Philippe Fernandez returns to the subject of extraterrestrial life and our relationship to outer space in his feature debut. In a small community poised on the precipice o...

Flash Forward

• Antonio Campos
• United States
• 2008
• 106min

More than ever, we are able to bear witness to all the horrible and wonderful events surrounding us on our own computers, in the safety of our own room. Robert is one such person. ...

Flash Forward

• Madeline Piujuq Ivalu,Marie-Hélène Cousineau
• Canada
• 2008
• 92min

Our aim was to create a production process that is in harmony with the lives of all the women depicted as well as those creating the film. Our production values reflect the cultura...

Flash Forward

• Valdís Ósskarsdóttir
• Iceland
• 2008
• 99min

What happens when a tolerable one hour stretches into five or six or more? In Valdis Oskarsdottir’s new comedy-drama, two busloads?one headed by the bride, Ingibjorg, and one by th...

Flash Forward

• Andrey Slabakoff
• Bulgaria
• 2008
• 103min

Two couples, two houses, one new subdivision. The fortysomething newcomers are greeted as unwelcome interlopers by the established neighborhood or prefab homes, and are soon subjec...