Being Flynn (2012)
Comedy | Drama
Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Julianne Moore, Paul Dano, Olivia Thirlby, Lili Taylor
Director: Paul Weitz
Charade (1963)
Comedy | Mystery | Thriller
A trio of crooks relentlessly pursue a young American woman through Paris in an attempt to recover the fortune her dead husband stole from them. The only person she can trust is a suave, mysterious stranger.
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy
Director: Stanley Donen
King of New York (1990)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
In New York, crime gets done Frank's way – or it doesn't get done at all. Recently freed from prison, Frank White hooks up with his old crew to challenge his fellow drug lords. Each bloody battle aims at a piece of the high-priced action where being at the top of the chain can mean the difference between life and death. Unable to keep him behind bars, the cops declare war on him. Frank's answer-put a contract out on the cops.
Starring: Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo, Wesley Snipes
Director: Abel Ferrara
Brainstorm (1983)
Sci-Fi | Thriller
Two scientists, Michael and Karen Brace are developing a virtual reality system that sends sensory inputs into the brain and can record sights, sounds, feelings, and even dreams. The military attempts to take over the project when a senior worker begins to die of a heart attack and uses the system to tape the experience. They will do anything to get it.
Starring: Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher, Cliff Robertson, Jason Lively
Director: Douglas Trumbull
The Belly of an Architect (1987)
Drama
Peter Greenaway writes and directs this psychological drama. Architect Stourley Kracklite goes to Rome to organise an exhibition paying tribute to an 18th century predecessor. There he becomes convinced his pregnant wife, Louisa, is having an affair with one of his rivals and when he develops stomach cramps he suspects she is trying to poison him.
Starring: Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson
Director: Peter Greenaway
The First Grader (2010)
Biography | Drama
In a small, remote mountain top primary school in the Kenyan bush, hundreds of children are jostling for a chance for the free education newly promised by the Kenyan government. One new applicant causes astonishment when he knocks on the door of the school. He is Maruge, an old Mau Mau veteran in his eighties, who is desperate to learn to read at this late stage of his life. He fought for the liberation of his country and now feels he must have the chance of an education so long denied – even if it means sitting in a classroom alongside six-year-olds.
Starring: Naomie Harris, Oliver Litondo, Emily Njoki, Hannah Wacera
Director: Justin Chadwick
Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro / Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro (1979)
Adventure | Animation | Family
A flamboyant thief and his gang struggle to free a princess from an evil count's clutches and to learn the hidden secret to a fabulous treasure that she holds part of a key to.
Starring: Yasuo Yamada, Eiko Masuyama, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Makio Inoue, Gorô Naya
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Re-encounter / Hye-hwa, dong (2011)
Drama
Hye-Hwa (You Da-In) works as an assistant to a veterinarian. Hye-Hwa spends a lot of her time saving abandoned animals. If the dogs are not adopted Hye-Hwa takes the dog home. One day, while Hye-Hwa is out trying to save a dog she sees Han-Soo (Yoo Yeon-Seok) standing in front of her.
Five years ago, Hye-Hwa and Han-Soo were a couple in love. At the young age of 18, Hye-Hwa became pregnant and dropped out of school. Hye-Hwa and Han-Soo made plans to start a family, but Han-Soo suddenly disappeared without warning. Hye-Hwa is told by Han-Soo's mother that Han-Soo left for Canada.
Hye-Hwa felt completely abandoned. When it was time for Hye-Hwa to go in labor, she was terrified and experienced difficulties in giving birth. Hye-Hwa woke up with her mother sitting next to her hospital bed. Hye-Hwa's mother tells her that the baby died of heart failure.
Now, five years later, Han-Soo is back and stands in front of Hye-Hwa. Han-Soo then drops a bombshell. Han-Soo tells Hye-Hwa that their baby didn't die and was actually adopted. As evidence, Han-Soo shows Hye-Hwa a document with Hye-Hwa's signature stamp giving permission for the adoption. Han-Soo also shows Hye-Hwa a picture of their baby when it was born.
Starring: Da-in Yoo, Yeon-Seok Yoo
Director: Yong-geun Min
A Sad Song / Seopyeonje / Sopyonje (1993)
Drama | Musical
The specifically Korean tradition that is reclaimed in Sopyonje is the type of folk-song known as pansori, described as a musical sublimation of South-West Korea's collective grief and suffering – in other words, a kind of blues. The film's three central characters are itinerant pansori singers in the 1950s, a time when many aspects of Korean culture came under siege from Japanese and western influences. The story unfolds through flashbacks. A man named Dong-ho is roaming the rural hinterlands, ostensibly to find rare herbal medicines for his sick son back in Seoul, but actually in search of Song-hwa, the woman he grew up with. Orphans, they were both apprenticed to the pansori master Yu-bong who pressured them to sacrifice everything for the art. Dong-ho rebelled and ran away, to become the man he is now. Song-hwa stayed, lost her sight, and outlived Yu-bong. Rumor has it that she is still traveling and still singing pansori…
Starring: Myung-gon Kim, Jung-hae Oh, Kyu-chul Kim
Director: Kwon-taek Im
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