Acclaimed documentarian Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) takes the reins for this no-holds-barred look at one of the most unusual phenomena of early 21st century media. In 2006, an Iceland-based outfit called The Sunshine Press launched the website WikiLeaks.org. As run by Australian Internet activist Julian Assange, the site’s mandate involved regularly publishing top-secret… Read more »
It is the last day of the school year, and a group of Bronx high-schoolers board a city bus to make their way home. With the summer break ahead, and feeling more liberated than usual, this colorful crowd of kids– the cool ones, the outsiders, and everyone in between–act out as only teens can when… Read more »
A covert female operative infiltrates an anarchist faction that stages clandestine attacks on major corporations, and finds her mission compromised when she falls for the group’s charismatic leader in this tense and topical thriller from Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij – the creative duo behind the indie hit The Sound of My Voice. When a mysterious group begins turning unsafe… Read more »
In this inspired new film, Oscar®-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who’s telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets kept by a family of storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory, answers to… Read more »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTumZoAoRNY On the heels of a bitter breakup, Dylan travels home to Minnesota for a family reunion. There, he runs into his childhood sweetheart, Sarah, who was relocated to a religious compound when they were young. In the very place he discovered love for the first time, Dylan confronts the fantasies of his youth and… Read more »
Convinced that she and her older brother Matthew share and unspoken pact that they belong to one another, emotionally stunted 17-year-old Jackie pushes the idea of an incestuous relationship as disinterested Matthew begins dating his first real girlfriend, and prepares to depart for college.
Zinema 2′s Tony Mayer will be presenting Berberian Sound Studio on July 12th and 13th accompanied by screenings of two of Dario Argento’s classic giallo titles: Suspiria on July 12th, and Four Flies on Grey Velvet on July 13th. 1976: Berberian Sound Studio is one of the cheapest, sleaziest post-production studios in Italy. Only the… Read more »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uegzZWp6Y4w “Charles Bradley: Soul of America” captures the extraordinary late in life rise of 62 year old aspiring soul singer Charles Bradley, whose debut album, “No Time For Dreaming,” took him from a hard life of poverty, homelessness and tragedy and rocketed him onto Rolling Stone magazine’s top 50 albums of 2011. This documentary follows… Read more »
NEW DCP RESTORATION! Among the most influential films of the postwar era, Roberto Rossellini’s Journey to Italy charts the declining marriage of a British couple (Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders) on a trip in the countryside near Naples. More than just an anatomy of a relationship, Rossellini’s masterpiece is a heartrending work of emotional transcendence and profound… Read more »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRXnf8d1-eM Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was a band called Death. Punk before punk existed, three teenage brothers in the early ’70s formed a band in their spare bedroom, began playing a few local gigs and even pressed a single in the hopes of getting signed. But this was… Read more »
