Hardcore Comedy / Zhong Kou Wei (2013)
Comedy
Three flavors of multi-colored mayhem, this is the summer high school comedy full of sex, drugs, and ridiculosity.
Starring: William Chan, Dada Chan, Lit Wai Leung, Christine Kuo, Paulyn Sun, Michelle Wai, Terence Chui, Kelvin Kwan
Director: Henri Wong, Yiu Fai Lo, Richard Zhuang
Springsteen & I (2013)
Documentary
"Springsteen & I" is a unique feature music documentary celebrating a rock 'n' roll icon: Bruce Springsteen. Working with the filmmakers, Springsteen's fans have helped create a film that reflects on their personal insights and experiences to explore what this timeless artist means to them. Their stories are at times touching, at times humorous, at times extraordinary and they all come from the heart. Combined with previously unseen archive footage of performances throughout Springsteen's career, this is a film by the fans and for the fans created with the full support of Bruce Springsteen. "This beautifully crafted film provides a unique insight into the powerful bond between a recording artist and those who connect so profoundly with his music." Ridley Scott, Executive Producer
Starring: Bruce Springsteen, Mitchell A. S. Hallock
Director: Baillie Walsh
27 Dresses (2008)
Comedy | Romance
Jane is an idealistic, romantic and completely selfless woman-a perennial bridal attendant whose own happy ending is nowhere in sight. But, when younger sister Tess captures the heart of Jane's boss-with whom she is secretly in love-Jane begins to reexamine her "always-a-bridesmaid" lifestyle.
Starring: Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Akerman, Judy Greer, Edward Burns, Melora Hardin
Director: Anne Fletcher
Katncandix2 TICC Concert (2012)
Music
Known for their lighthearted, mellow music style, Katncandix2 made it to one of Taiwan's most iconic venues, TICC, for the first time in June 2012. The sold-out show signified them as a band to be recognized in Taiwan's local urban music scene. Taking over 15 months to prepare, the documentary of Katncandix2's TICC Concert Live is directed by Cheng Yu Chieh (Yang Yang) and features the concert's 30 live performances.
Starring: katncandix2
Max (2002)
Drama | War
Munich, 1918. German-Jew Max Rothman has returned to much of his pre-war life which includes to his wife Nina and their two children, to his mistress Liselore von Peltz, and to his work as an art dealer. He has however not returned to being an aspiring painter as he lost his dominant right arm during the war. He is approached by an aspiring painter, a thirty-year old Austrian war veteran named Adolf Hitler, who wants him to show his works. Although he doesn't think the paintings are all that original and he doesn't really like Hitler as a person, Rothman takes Hitler under his wings if only because of their camaraderie of being war veterans, and knowing that Hitler had nothing and no one to come back to after the war unlike himself. Rothman believes that Hitler has promise if only he can find his original artistic point of view. In part out of need for money, Hitler, on the urging of Captain Karl Mayr, agrees to work for the army as a political spokesman in anti-Semitic propaganda. Slowly, Hitler's view becomes a holistic one of a new world, where he begins to meld his art and politics. Rothman becomes excited about Hitler's artistic viewpoint, despite its anti-Semitic bent. The question becomes if the sentiments behind the view will take over its artistic merit.
Starring: John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski, Molly Parker, Ulrich Thomsen
Director: Menno Meyjes
Mahler (1974)
Biography | Drama | Music
Both trifles and structure are tossed out the door by director Ken Russell in this film. Here, historical content matters not so much as metaphors, feelings, emotions, and interpretations, and pay close attention, as every word and frame is intended to be important. The film takes place on a single train ride, in which the sickly composer Gustav Mahler and his wife, Alma, confront the reasons behind their faltered marriage and dying love. Each word seems to evoke memories of past, and so the audience witnesses events of Mahler's life that explain somewhat his present state. Included are his turbulent and dysfunctional family life as a child, his discovery of solace in the "natural" world, his brother's suicide, his [unwanted] conversion from Judiasm to Catholicism, his rocky marriage and the death of their young child. The movie weaves in and out of dreams, flashbacks, thoughts and reality as Russell poetically describes the man behind the music.
Starring: Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Lee Montague, Miriam Karlin, Rosalie Crutchley, Gary Rich
Director: Ken Russell
Possession / The Night the Screaming Stops (1981)
Drama | Horror
With their marriage in pieces, Anna and Mark's tense relationship has become a psychotic descent into screaming matches, violence and self-mutilation. Believing his wife's only lover is the sinister Heinrich, Mark is unaware of the demonic, tentacled cre ature that Anna has hidden away for liaisons in a deserted apartment and will stop at nothing to protect.
Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
