Vermiglio
The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermiglio, Maura Delpero’s visionary film, which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. This singular portrait of a sprawling family, set in the small, […]
I’m Still Here
Directed by Walter Salles (Oscar Nominated “Central Station” and the Oscar-winning “The Motorcycle Diaries”), and based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s memoir, the film follows Eunice Paiva, played by Fernanda Torres and Fernanda Montenegro, whose life is shattered by Brazil’s military dictatorship when her husband, dissident politician Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello), is abducted. Eunice endures imprisonment and […]
Detour: American Psycho
Come and spend a couple of hours with cinema’s sexiest sociopath! Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) has it all: a successful career as a Wall Street banker, a meticulously cared-for physique, a gorgeous blonde girlfriend — and, oh yeah, an insatiable bloodlust and craving for murder. Director Mary Harron and co-writer Guinevere Turner’s wickedly funny yet […]