September 13, 2004

When you read the title ‘Summer on the Balcony’ you probably think it will be a light Berlin summer comedy but it’s not. This film...

Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnish-speaking part of Tornedalen in Swedish Laponia,...

A Hungarian immigrant, his friend, and his cousin go on an unpredictable adventure across America.

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An...

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He...

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is...

As a child, Jack believed the tender lie his parents told him, that Gio was a special being with superpowers, as in a comic book. Now that he is...

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world...

A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding...

A week before his First Communion, Youssef, a ten-year-old Maronite boy, discovers masturbation and with it, the concept of sin. He tries to...