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Headrush
(2004) [MA]

Headrush is a crime comedy about two disillusioned youths, struggling through a haze of cannabis, who hope to solve all their problems by smuggling a consignment of drugs for a local gangster. It's set in the present day in Dublin, Ireland against the backdrop of the end of the Celtic Tiger: the...  More

Touching the Void
(2003) [M]

May, 1985 - Peru. Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, ambitious young mountaineers, set off to scale the hitherto unclimbed West Face of Siula Grande, a remote and treacherous peak in the Peruvian Andes. Simpson and Yates reach the summit but shortly after starting the descent, an accident turns their...  More

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(2004) [M]

In Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Joel (Jim Carrey) is stunned to discover that his girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) has had her memories of their tumultuous relationship erased. Out of desperation, he contacts the inventor of the process, Dr....  More

Me and You and Everyone We Know
(2005) [R]

An original, offbeat and very funny comedy, Me And You And Everyone We Know is the directorial feature debut of celebrated performance artist, author, actress and writer-director Miranda July. Richard (John Hawes) is a shoe salesman with two boys and a failed marriage. Now single, he expects...  More

The Family Stone
(2005) [M]

Every year the unconventional Stone family gather in their New England hometown to celebrate the holidays. On this occasion there will be an extra guest, as eldest son Everett (Dermot Mulroney) is bringing his girlfriend Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker) to meet the clan. She nervously tells...  More

Paris, Texas
(1984) [M]

Travis (Harry Dean Stanton), a seemingly mute, semi-catatonic, amnesiac man wanders out of the desert and into a small, rural Texan town, his sole possession a piece of paper bearing the Los Angeles telephone number of his younger brother, Walt (Dean Stockwell). Returning to LA with Walt,...  More

El Mariachi / Desperado (Double Feature)
(1992) [M]

Set in a Mexican border town, this film follows the fortunes of a sensitive peace-loving El Mariachi (Carlos Gallardo) who wishes to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather as an itinerant musician, earning his living through singing in local bars. He enters town at exactly the same...  More

Dead Man
(1995) [R]

Dead Man is the story of a young man's journey, both physically and spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain. William Blake travels to the extreme western frontiers of America sometime in the second half of the 19th century. Lost and badly wounded, he encounters a very odd, outcast Native...  More

Barton Fink
(1991) [M]

New York, 1941. Socially conscious scriptwriter Barton Fink has made it big on Broadway. Now Tinsel Town is taking notice. Hired by Hollywood to write a wrestling picture, Barton quits the city smog for movie stardom. L.A. has got the Barton Fink feeling. Barton Fink has got writer's block....  More

Hammett
(1982) [M]

Based in part on detective-fiction writer Dashiell Hammett's early experiences as a Pinkerton detective, this moderately-noir film has Hammett (using his little-known first name, Sam) involved in an elaborate extortion plot by his former detective agency mentor, Jimmy Ryan. Ryan shows up at...  More