A massive montage of movie characters going to the movies.
Clips from 100+ films are cut together to create a new cinema-going experience.
Romance, musical, action, horror, noir, comedy - and countless characters watch
in the dark with you.
Director: Paul Anton Smith
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Runtime: 136 min
A rich but jealous man hires a private investigator to kill
his cheating wife and her new man. But, when blood is involved, nothing is
simple.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Writers: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Stars: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Runtime: 99 min
After her parents separate, 14 year-old Tetsuko (who will
soon be nick-named Alice) moves with her mother to a new town in what she calls
"The Boonies" and must enroll as a transfer student in a new middle
school. She immediately finds herself bullied due being assigned the seat of
"Judas" who is said to have been murdered over a year before.
Director: Shunji Iwai
Writers: Shunji Iwai, Shunji Iwai
Stars: Yû Aoi, Anne Suzuki, Shôko Aida
Genres: Anime, Drama
Runtime: 100 min
When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply
warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the
dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage through Louisville, Kentucky seeking
their favorite food, brains.
Director: Dan O'Bannon
Writers: Rudy Ricci, John A. Russo
Stars: Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Runtime: 91 min
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey," the movie
deals with the picaresque adventures of Ulysses Everett McGill and his
companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and
trying to reach Everett's home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they
are confronted by a series of strange characters--among them sirens, a cyclops,
bank robber George "Baby Face" Nelson (very annoyed by that
nickname), a campaigning governor and his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a
blind prophet who warns the trio that "the treasure you seek shall not be
the treasure you find."
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Writers: Homer (epic poem "The Odyssey"), Ethan
Coen
Stars: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Runtime: 107 min
Frustrated punk rocker Otto quits his supermarket job after slugging a co-worker, and is later dumped by his girlfriend at a party. Wandering the streets in frustration, he is recruited in the repossession of a car by a repo agent. After discovering his parents have donated his college fund to a televangelist, he joins the repossession agency (Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation) as an apprentice "repo man".
Jennie Livingston's documentary offers a behind-the-scene
glimpse at the golden age of New York "Drag Balls" where rival
fashion houses come together to celebrate, vogue and compete for bragging
rights. Shot between 1985 and 1989, the narrative inter-cuts between individual
stories that chronicle the experiences of the African-American and Latino, gay
and transgender subculture in a time when the city was consumed by the ideals
of wealth and glamour.
One night only
An intimate and innovative film about English-born, often
California-based artist David Hockney and his work, honoring its subject
through creative risk-taking. Hazan creates an improvisatory
narrative-nonfiction hybrid featuring Hockney, a wary participant, as well as
his circle of friends, capturing the agonized end of the lingering affair
between Hockney and his muse, an American artist named Peter Schlesinger. The
result is at once a time capsule of hedonistic gay life in the 1970s, an
honest-yet-tender depiction of gay male romance that dispenses with the
then-current narratives of self-hatred and self-pity, an invaluable view of art
history in action, and a record of artistic creation that is itself a work of
art.
Director: Jack Hazan
Writers: Jack Hazan, David Mingay
Stars: David Hockney, Peter Schlesinger, Celia Birtwell
Genres: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Runtime: 106 mins
In this poignant and carefully composed portrait of six
service dogs and their owners, renowned documentary filmmaker Heddy Honigmann
explores the close bond between animal and human. Honigmann questions the
owners in her characteristic way -- respectfully and with genuine concern
rooted in a deep trust -- about what the animals mean to them. Buddy is an ode
to the fighting spirit of the main characters and a loving portrait of the deep
bond between man and dog.
AFTER MUNICH Trailer from Francine Zuckerman on Vimeo.
After Munich is about the aftermath of the Munich Olympic
massacre of eleven Israeli athletes in 1972 and how four women's lives have
been changed forever.
Director: Francine Zuckerman
Stars: Daniel Kash, Candice Mausner
Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 70 min
A group of aliens return to earth to retrieve cocoons
containing the people they'd left behind from an earlier trip. These cocoons
had been resting at the bottom of the ocean. Once retrieved, they stored these
recovered cocoons in the swimming pool of a house they'd rented in a small
Florida town. Their mission is hampered by a number of elderly people from a
nearby retirement community who had been secretly using the pool, and who
discover unusual powers from within these cocoons.
Director: Ron Howard
Writers: Tom Benedek, David Saperstein
Stars: Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn
Genres: Sci-Fi,
Comedy, Drama
Runtime: 117 min
Presented by Escape Film Festival - One night only
