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Sun, Feb 21, 2010
at 3 PM (B3)
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BLUEBEARD
DIRECTOR: Catherine Breillat - FRANCE
In this retelling of the tale of the wife-killing Bluebeard, Breillat reminds us all that the best fairytales are dark around the edges. The film intercuts between the stories of two pairs of sisters. The first is set in the 1950s and features a young girl who loves torturing her older sister with dramatic readings of the story of Bluebeard. In the second, set during the Renaissance, a young girl becomes engaged to Lord Bluebeard, despite the suspicious disappearances of his previous wives.
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Sun, Feb 21, 2010
at 6:45 PM (B4)
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CHAMELEON
DIRECTOR: Krisztina Goda - HUNGARY
A suspenseful psychological thriller, Chameleon centers on a clever con man who targets lonely, disillusioned women, playing on their romantic fantasies. But can the con man be conned if love gets in the way?
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Sun, Feb 21, 2010
at 7:30 PM (WH)
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CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH
DIRECTOR: Lu Chuan - CHINA
“The Rape of Nanking” by Japanese soldiers remains one of China's darkest historical chapters. This luminous black-and-white film uses several small stories to illustrate the bigger picture: man's incredible inhumanity to man.
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Sun, Feb 21, 2010
at 12:45 PM (B3)
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COOKING HISTORY
DIRECTOR: Péter Kerekes - CZECH REPUBLIC
This riveting, unusual documentary takes a tour of 20th century battlefields through the eyes of those who kept the soldiers fed and fighting: military cooks.
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Sun, Feb 21, 2010
at 12:15 PM (B1)
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GARBAGE DREAMS
DIRECTOR: Mai Iskander - EGYPT
Garbage Dreams explores the rapidly disappearing way of life of the Zaballeen, Cairo's "garbage people."
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Sun, Feb 21, 2010
at 2 PM (WH)
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JOHN RABE
DIRECTOR: Florian Gallenberger - GERMANY
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
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Sun, Feb 21, 2010
at 3:30 PM (B2)
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THE LETTER FOR THE KING
DIRECTOR: Pieter Verhoeff - NETHERLANDS
The Letter for the King follows the medieval quest of sixteen-year old Tiuri, who risks his future as a knight to fulfill a promise, and in so doing discovers adventure, honor, valor, and love.
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Sun, Feb 21, 2010
at 12 PM (WH)
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MOOMIN AND MIDSUMMER MADNESS
DIRECTOR: Maria Lindberg - FINLAND
When a volcanic eruption forces the Moomin family to take refuge in an old theater, Moominpappa decides to write a play for the family to perform.
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Sun, Feb 21, 2010
at 5:15 PM (B3)
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REMBRANDT’S J’ACCUSE
DIRECTOR: Peter Greenaway - NETHERLANDS
In this companion piece to Nightwatching (PIFF 32), Greenaway, a former painter, deconstructs Rembrandt's The Night Watch and examines it in terms of the time and place it was completed, and the controversy surrounding its accusation of murder.
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Sun, Feb 21, 2010
at 2:30 PM (B1)
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REPORTER
DIRECTOR: Eric Daniel Metzgar - UNITED STATES
Reporter, a feature documentary about Nicholas Kristof, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the New York Times, reveals the man and his methods, and just how and why real reporting is vital to our democracy, our world-awareness, and our capacity to be a force for good.
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Sun, Feb 21, 2010
at 4:30 PM (B4)
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REYKJAVIK-ROTTERDAM
DIRECTOR: Óskar Jónasson - ICELAND
Financial concerns tempt an ex-con to return to his smuggling ways in this taut psychological thriller.
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Sun, Feb 21, 2010
at 6:30 PM (B2)
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ROOM AND A HALF
DIRECTOR: Andrey Khrzhanovsky - RUSSIA
Room and a Half portrays the life of Nobel prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.
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Sun, Feb 21, 2010
at 1 PM (B2)
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THE SHOCK DOCTRINE
DIRECTOR: Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross - GREAT BRITAIN
An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war, and terror to establish its dominance.
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Sun, Feb 21, 2010
at 7:45 PM (B1)
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A TOWN CALLED PANIC
DIRECTOR: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar - BELGIUM
This surreal, stop-motion adaptation of a popular European television show has Cowboy, Indian, and Horse traveling through space and time on a quest to free their wrongly imprisoned neighbor. A gleefully surreal treat for animation fans of all ages.
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Sun, Feb 21, 2010
at 4:45 PM (B1)
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VINCERE
DIRECTOR: Marco Bellocchio - ITALY
The early life and rise of Benito Mussolini is shown here through the eyes of his first wife, Ida, all but erased from history. Juxtaposing Ida's tragic decline into insanity with Mussolini's phantasmagoric rise to power, Bellocchio fashions a unique glimpse of a little-known aspect of history.
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Sun, Feb 21, 2010
at 5 PM (WH)
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WILD GRASS
DIRECTOR: Alain Resnais - FRANCE
Resnais' career-defining masterpiece deals with the fate-altering ripples triggered by a seemingly ordinary purse snatching.
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Sun, Feb 21, 2010
at 7:30 PM (B3)
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THE WILD HUNT
DIRECTOR: Alexandre Franchi - CANADA
Love, identity, and role-playing games all come together in this meshing of myth and reality. A man enters a LARP (Live Action Role Playing) game to find his girlfriend, who has left him for the game. His refusal to role-play angers the dedicated players and sets fantasy and reality on a collision course, capturing the potentially dangerous intersection of actual and made-up worlds.
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Sun, Feb 21, 2010
at 2 PM (B4)
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WOMAN WITHOUT PIANO
DIRECTOR: Javier Rebollo - SPAIN
Woman Without Piano is a quietly comic look at a Madrid housewife's attempt to escape from her mundane and tedious existence.
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