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0 votes and 0 Reviews 2h 1m | Drama, War La Guerre est Finie represents one of the few linear films of French director Alain Resnais. Instead of indulging in his beloved flashbacks and flashforwards, Resnais sticks to a logical progression of events in relating this jaundiced tale of political activism. Yves Montand plays a tired, ageing revolutionary whose current target is Spain’s Franco regime. Having become a familiar face to the authorities, Montand is no longer of any value as an undercover operative, yet he insists on leading a strike in Madrid....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance Schooling years are the best years of life. Friends made here remain friends for life and memories of school always linger in everybody’s mind. Everybody falls in love with that special one, which he or she wants to marry. But how many of us do end up with that first love? 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance Schooling years are the best years of life....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 85% 79% R | 1h 56m | Action, Adventure, Drama William Friedkin’s crime thriller, based on a book by U.S. Secret Service agent Gerald Petievich, concerns an arrogant Secret Service official who wants to get his man at any price. Willem Dafoe plays Eric Masters, an ultra-smooth counterfeiter who has managed to sidestep the police for years. He is so up-front about his dealings, in fact, that when some undercover agents try to make a deal with him at his health club, Eric tells them, I’ve been coming to this gym three times a week for five years....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary No one represents the ’70s quite like legendary designer Halston, and Sudler-Smith’s film, two years in the making, combines a prodigious amount of archival footage, (meticulously researched and sourced from every possible outlet), and stunning still photographs brought to thrilling life with imaginative 3D effects. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary No one represents the ’70s quite like legendary designer Halston, and Sudler-Smith’s film, two years in the making, combines a prodigious amount of archival footage, (meticulously researched and sourced from every possible outlet), and stunning still photographs brought to thrilling life with imaginative 3D effects....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 67% 87% PG | 2h 0m | Comedy, Drama Jan-Michael Vincent plays a self-destructive beach bum to whom surfing is a Zen experience. We first meet Vincent in the devil-may-care 1960s, in the company of his carefree buddies William Katt and Gary Busey. The boys reunite ten years later, after one has served time in Vietnam. The beach is still there, the waves still break upon the shore, and towards the end of the film, the characters become people that we truly care about....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | 4h 0m | Action, Adventure, Television Fueled with their passion for crime, Bonnie Parker (Holliday Grainger) and Clyde Barrow (Emile Hirsch) team up for some small-time bank robberies. Soon bodies start to pile up and the law hires retired Texas Ranger Frank Hamer (William Hurt) to catch up with this couple. Director: Bruce Beresford Studio: Producer(s): Craig Zadan, Neil Meron Cast: Emile Hirsch, Holliday Grainger, Sarah Hyland, Elizabeth Reaser, Holly Hunter, William Hurt...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary In 2006, acclaimed visual artist Gay Block (Bertha Alyce, NYJFF 2003) re-photographed and interviewed women who were girls in her 1981 series from Pinecliffe, a summer camp in Maine. This subtle documentary reveals volumes about gender, class and Jewish identity in America. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary In 2006, acclaimed visual artist Gay Block (Bertha Alyce, NYJFF 2003) re-photographed and interviewed women who were girls in her 1981 series from Pinecliffe, a summer camp in Maine....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The quality of Palestinian life within the Gaza Strip and its economic dependence on the Israeli nation is examined in filmmaker Ram Loevy’s 2003 political documentary entitled Seger (Close, Closing, Closure). With approximately one million residents within the Gaza Strip, much of the region’s populace must enter Israel in order to earn a living. As security at the border checkpoints fluctuates in severity depending on the current state of affairs within Israel, the citizenry of Gaza are forced to yield to the whims of the Israeli government when the checkpoints close down or reopen, depending on the government’s perceived threat levels....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 20, 2000 (limited) Drama Growing up as a gay Native North American in rural Canada is probably not the easiest way to go through life, but filmmaker Clint Star (aka Clint Alberta) seems to have dealt with it well enough. In this documentary, Clint turns his camera on his friends, neighbors, and relatives as he asks them how they feel about issues of gender identity and national heritage, with Clint offering plenty of his own opinions along the way....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Animation When the Ministry of Education goes back on its promise to keep Ooarai Girls Academy open, the task of saving the five-mile-long Academy Ship from the wreckers falls to Miho and her barely-seasoned tankery team. However, things go off track almost immediately. While the Oorai tank crew may have won the high school tournament, they’re now facing a larger and more experienced university team, and if they fail, they will have to forfeit their armored vehicles!...

2 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 94% 81% In Theaters: July 1, 2016 (limited) July 1, 2016 (limited) July 15, 2016 (limited) July 22, 2016 (limited) PG | 1h 29m | Documentary Watch Trailer Based on the book by Ron Suskind, this quirky documentary focuses on Ron’s real-life son Owen Suskind. An autistic boy who struggled to speak, Owen began memorizing Disney animated films and turned them into a language he used to develop reading, writing, and communication skills....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Romance, Western Anthony Mann’s final foray into the western genre is a disturbing examination of man’s baser instincts, rising in intensity to the level of Shakespearean tragedy. The film begins as seemingly naive Link (Gary Cooper) leaves his family to take a train to Fort Worth. Also on the train is saloon singer Billie Ellis (Julie London), who is compelled by con man Sam Beasley (Arthur O’Connell) to cheat Link out of his money....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 13, 2015 (limited) Other Fathom Events, Arts Alliance, and Seventh Art Productions invite audiences to enjoy an intimate tour of Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs when Matisse comes to select cinemas nationwide on Tuesday, January 13. Hailed as the most successful exhibition in Tate Modern’s history, this landmark exhibit explores the final chapter in Matisse’s career in which he began ‘carving into colour’ and his series of spectacular cut-outs was born....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: July 11, 2012 (limited) Musical, Other This summer, enjoy select encore performances from the award-winning series The Met: Live in HD. Bartlett Sher’s 2009 production stars Joseph Calleja in the tour-de-force title role of this fictionalized take on the life and loves of the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann. Anna Netrebko is the tragic Antonia and Alan Held sings the demonic four villains. Met Music Director James Levine conducts....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 2h 1m | Thriller When former secret agent Francisco Paese returns to Spain after being exiled in Paris, police commissioner Luis Roldan offers him one million dollars to make sure that money Roldan extorted from the public treasury is concealed. Paese sees this as an opportunity to find revenge on the Spanish government, which betrayed him following an operation that targeted the ETA terrorist group. Soon after, Roldan’s wife, who was in on the deception, is arrested and sent to prison....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 36% In Theaters: July 17, 1959 (limited) 1h 33m | Drama, War This film is a 1959 WWII drama that focuses on members of a German bomb squad. The fatalistic soldiers pool part of their paychecks into a fund that the last surviving member of the squad will get to keep. One by one, the men meet their deaths until only two remain: Karl Wirtz (Jeff Chandler) and Eric Koertner (Jack Palance)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Anouk Aimée portrays a holocaust survivor in Marcelline Loridan-Ivens’ debut film, The Birch-Tree Meadow. Myriam (Aimée) attends a reunion of survivors where she wins a ticket to Krakow, Poland. After some debate, she decides to journey back to the place of the worst horror she has ever known. After learning about the different kinds of Jewish eateries in Krakow, Myriam gathers the courage to see Auschwitz, were she confronts her own guilt over the death of a friend and meets a sympathetic man who has his own connection to their shared history....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 3, 2017 (limited) Comedy, Drama Ex-inmate and wandering musician Jake Haynes travels to a small town in Arkansas to find a father he’s never met. Seeking exacting revenge for all of his life’s problems, Jake soon begins to unravel a complicated and sultryfamily history. As he mixes with the locals the film takes us on a redemptive musical trip through the rural south....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 17, 2019 (limited) Drama Based on the bestseller, “The Meanest Man in Texas” is the true story of Clyde Thompson. In 1928, a young Clyde finds himself in the wrong place, at the wrong time and in the wrong company. After shooting two men in self-defense, Clyde is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Just hours before execution by electric chair, the Governor spares him the death penalty, but he is shipped to the Texas Prison Farm to serve hard labor, where he gains the moniker “The Meanest Man in Texas”....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama A comparatively little-known entry in the screwball comedy genre, David O. Selznick’s The Young in Heart goes for quiet chuckles rather than bellylaughs. Adapted by Paul Osborn and Charles Bennett from a short story by I. R. Wylie, the film concentrates on a family of confidence tricksters. Paterfamilias Roland Young poses as a veteran of the Bengal Lancers in order to insinuate himself into high society; his birdbrained wife Billie Burke willingly goes along with any scheme her husband cooks up; and their work-resistant offspring Douglas Fairbanks Jr....