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| Tawfik Abu Wael |
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Thirst
[Feature] - Global Lens
(Israel, Palestine, 2004, 110 min)
The stark and hardscrabble world of Arab-Israeli Tawfik Abu Wael’s debut feature film is the backdrop of the gripping and intimate story of a Palestinian family tenaciously subsisting in an abandoned military compound where spilling or drinking water More»
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| Maren Ade |
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The Forest for the Trees
[Feature] - Contemporary European Cinema
(Germany, 2005, 81 min)
Melanie (Eva Lobau), a young and newly trained teacher of biology and German, moves to the city to start a new life and her first job at high school. “I hope you don’t mind a little breath of fresh air,” she announces to her collegues as More»
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| Howard Alk |
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The Murder of Fred Hampton
[Feature] - Restorations and Revivals
(USA, 1971, 90 min)
Fred Hampton was a charismatic 21-year-old Black Panther leader in 1960s Chicago. A fiery orator, Hampton was only 20 years old at the time, but his electrifying words and actions were inspiring young Black people to demand respect and to insist that their More»
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| Dave Andrae |
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| Kenneth Anger |
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Mouse Heaven
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(USA, 2005, 10 min)
Anger focuses his camera’s eye on a collection of Mickey Mouse ephemera, leaving the viewer with a montage of Mickey set to an eclectic mix of pop music, reminiscent of Scorpio Rising. Though in many ways a departure from his past work, More»
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| Todd Angkasuwan |
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No Sleep Til Shanghai
[Feature] - Y'all Gonna Learn Chinese
(USA, 2005, 70 min)
Jin Au-Yeung, born in Miami and raised on hip-hop, broke new ground and gained fame by being the first Asian American rapper to sign with a major recording label. His quickness and charm — sharpened from winning freestyle battles — makes this More»
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| Daniel Anker |
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Music From the Inside Out
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(USA, 2004, 90 min)
What is music? The answers in this documentary may surprise you. Granted unprecedented access to the 105 members of The Philadelphia Orchestra over a five-year period, director Daniel Anker examines the lives they lead off the stage. In the process, personal More»
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| Danielle Arbid |
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In the Battlefields
[Feature] - Global Lens
(Lebanon, 2004, 90 min)
Marking the three decades since the start of Lebanon’s brutal cival war, Danielle Arbid’s debut feature film offers a heart-rending story of family dynamics in an urban war zone in 1983. Set in Beirut, the Paris of the Middle East, the armed conflict More»
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| Anne Barber |
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Joe
[Short] - Wisconsin’s Own
(USA, 2005, 6 min)
A woman’s world becomes a jumble of hyper real color, stark black and
white meditation, and discordant sound. Anne Barber received her MFA in
Film from UW–Milwaukee. Her previous film, Bloom, played in the 2004 Festival. More»
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| Tim Bartell |
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First Date Meltdown
[Short] - Wisconsin’s Own
(USA, 2005, 6 min)
When a young man desperate to please gets pushed to his breaking point, his evening takes a strange and painfully hysterical turn into the unknown. More»
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| Jack Beck |
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| Busby Berkeley |
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The Gang’s All Here
[Feature] - Restorations and Revivals
(USA, 1943, 103 min)
Busby Berkeley’s first color film, The Gang’s All Here is a musical extravaganza reaching to heights of ecstasy rarely matched since. Yes, there’s some sort of plot involving a soldier and a showgirl, but it’s Carmen Miranda’s More»
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| Shonali Bose |
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Amu
[Feature] - Y'all Gonna Learn Chinese
(India, USA, 2005, 102 min)
What at first seems like a standard back-to-roots story becomes something much more in Shonali Bose’s debut feature. Kaju, a recent college graduate from Los Angeles, has returned to Delhi for the first time since she was three years old. At first mocked More»
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| Rachel Boynton |
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Our Brand Is Crisis
[Feature] - Global Visions
(USA, 2005, 87 min)
Lagging in the polls and facing immanent defeat, Bolivian presidential candidate Gonzales Sanchez de Lozada (known as Goni) hires a team of Democratic political consultants from the United States led by former Clinton advisor James Carville to help More»
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| The Brothers Quay |
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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
[Feature] - Contemporary European Cinema
(Germany, France, United Kingdom, 2005, 98 min)
For over two decades, identical twins Timothy and Stephen Quay have been making some of the most bizarre, original, and evocative animated (and more recently live-action) tales ever committed to screen. The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes. inspired by the More»
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| Jim Brown |
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Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
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(USA, 2005, 90 min)
Once a year for the past fifty years, gilded Carnegie Hall has been filled with something not heard the rest of the year: pure, unadulterated dissent, nestled lovingly between the notes of folk music. Harold Leventhal is the man who has made this possible. More»
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| Andrew Bujalski |
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Mutual Appreciation
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(USA, 2005, 101 min)
It would be easy to describe Andrew Bujalski’s Mutual Appreciation as a quirky, twentysomething AmerIndie romantic comedy. The film was shot on 16mm black-and-white for a paltry sum, has a decidedly deadpan sense of humor, and mines the romantic More»
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| Steve Buscemi |
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Lonesome Jim
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(USA, 2005, 92 min)
Jim (Casey Affleck) wearily returns home to Indiana after flunking life in New York City. He wants nothing more than to be depressed and contemplate tragic poets, or maybe just mooch off his folks until he figures out what to do next. But his brother (Kevin More»
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| Eric Byler |
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Tre
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(USA, 2005, 89 min)
Tre is the name of the main character in Eric Byler’s new film, and also a hint of the troubled three-pronged relationship between Tre (Daniel Cariaga), his best friend Gabe (Erik McDowell), and Gabe’s girlfriend Kakela. Tre is a bit of a lout, More»
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