Special Programs in Focus

• United States
• 2009
• 112min

The true story of two of the most notorious gangsters in U.S. history. As another masterpiece by Arthur Penn, it heralded the launch of the New American Cinema while launching Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as international stars.

World Cinema

• United States
• 2009
• 83min

Our continued love affair with our pets ? dogs in particular ? gets another treatment in this stunningly illustrated and moving story about a man that finds companionship with a dog late in life. Based on the 1956 novel by J.R. Ac...

New Currents

• India
• 2009
• 120min

This is a teen movie about a teenager who experiences the death of a loved one. Sameer and Nachiket are relatives and friends. Nachiket, who is more mature, wants to escape his stifling surroundings. Sameer does not understand thi...

Flash Forward

• Italy
• 2009
• 87min

Late ’50s to early ’60s, when the space war between the Soviet and US was fiercely going on, a fifteen-year-old member of the communist party, Luciana, develops her ideals while living with her bourgeois stepfather, and among male...

New Currents

• Thailand
• 2009
• 82min

[Mundane History] records the life of Ake, a young man confined to his bed after an accident leaves him paralyzed from the waist down. Ake is being cared for by Pun, a male nurse who is hired by Thanin, the stoic patriarch of the ...

World Cinema

• Spain,Uruguay
• 2009
• 110min

“They’re a quixotic pair, a breed of survivors eager to live: two eccentric, crepuscular Europeans passing through a little South American town where time has stood still. Two traveling companions who reveal their values and their...

World Cinema

• Italy,France
• 2009
• 101min

Italy around 1968, the year of the revolution. Nicola is a police officer who wants to be an actor. While in civilian attire, in the middle of students shouting for freedom of sex and against Vietnam, he meets Laura and falls in l...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2009
• 95min

Cinema history is littered with cranky, contrary loners that are compelled or inspired to embrace their dormant humanity, and [Wonderful World] is the latest entry into that canon. The difference here is that Josh Goldin’s debut l...

Flash Forward

• Poland
• 2009
• 110min

The synopsis says, “a story about love and hatred, about those who cheat and who are cheated, about violence and sex and surprising secrets which we learn within these strange twenty-four hours.” However, this introduction is no h...

Wide Angle

• Singapore,Indonesia,United States
• 2009
• 11min

Ribud has recently lost his wife. Iah and her son Roby try to comfort him. He eventually drags a heavy metal motor outside and gets on a boat. He rides out further and ties the motor around his ankles. He starts to heave the motor...