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Elvis & Nixon and Elle
All These Sleepless Nights (Country: UK, Poland; Year: 2015; Director: Michal Marczak)
What does it mean to be truly awake in a world that seems satisfied to be asleep? Kris and Michal push their experiences of life and love to a breaking point as they restlessly roam the streets of Warsaw in search for answers.
The Boy On The Train (Country: US, Hungary; Year: 2016; Director: Roger Deutsch; Writer: Roger Deutsch, Randy Cashmere; Stars: James Eckhouse, Barnabás Tóth, Tibor Szervét, Anna Herczenik, Kata Wéber, Zoltán Durkó, Márta Holler, Ádám Breier, Gergely Fogarasi, Simon Zsolt Dániel, Sára Boncser, László Valiszka)
An American film director screening his new film in Budapest meets one of the subjects of that film. What begins as a simple chat over coffee turns into an eerie road trip.
Close Encounters With Vilmos Zsigmond (Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Pierre Filmon; Writer: Pierre Filmon; Stars: Nancy Allen, John Boorman, James Chressanthis, Bruno Delbonnel, Caleb Deschanel, Richard Donner, Peter Fonda, Pierre-William Glenn, Stephen Goldblatt, Fred Goodich, Isabelle Huppert, Darius Khondji, Michael Murphy, Yuri Neyman, Ivan Passer)
Documentary about the cinematographer.
Elle (Country: France, Germany, Belgium; Year: 2016; Director: Paul Verhoeven; Writer: David Birke, based on the book by Philippe Djian; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Alice Isaaz, Christian Berkel, Virginie Efira, Anne Consigny, Laurent Lafitte, Jonas Bloquet, Charles Berling, Vimala Pons, Raphaël Lenglet, Olivia Gotanègre, Lucas Prisor, Judith Magre, Arthur Mazet, Stéphane Bak)
A successful video game boss aims to track down her attacker after a home invasion.
Full Review See: Isabelle Huppert - Elle star on working with Verhoeven, awards and the gift of confidence
Elvis & Nixon (Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Liza Johnson; Writer: Joey Sagal, Hanala Sagal, Cary Elwes; Stars: Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Knoxville, Colin Hanks, Evan Peters, Sky Ferreira, Tracy Letts, Tate Donovan, Ashley Benson)
Elvis goes to the White House to ask the President to make him a Federal Agent At Large.
Full Review See: Interview with Michael Shannon about Midnight Special
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THX 1138 and Love & Friendship
Love & Friendship (Lady Susan, Love And Friendship) (Country: US, Ireland; Year: 2016; Director: Whit Stillman; Writer: Whit Stillman, from the novella by Jane Austen; Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Stephen Fry, Emma Greenwell, James Fleet, Jemma Redgrave, Jenn Murray, Lochlann O'Mearáin, Morfydd Clark, Tom Bennett, Justin Edwards, Kelly Campbell, Conor MacNeill, Ross Mac Mahon)
A widowed woman tries to manipulate her daughter into marriage.
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Memo (Country: Hungary; Year: 2016; Director: István Tasnádi; Writer: István Tasnádi; Stars: Tamás Lengyel, Áron Molnár, Péter Haumann, Orsolya Holecsko, Zoltán Seress, Eszter Csákányi, Attila Tóth, Judit Osváth, Sára Gábor, Bence Bíró, Kriszta Szorcsik, Janka Kertész, Gergo Bánki, Roland Tzafetás, Timur Khrotko)
A psychiatrist studying hypernesia forms an unusual relationship with a patient in a bid to help his amnesiac father.
Snap (Country: Thailand; Year: 2015; Director: Kongdej Jaturanrasamee; Writer: Kongdej Jaturanrasamee; Stars: Toni Rakkaen, Waruntorn Paonil, Krisana Panpeng)
A high school reunion threatens to throw a young woman's impending marriage off track.
THX 1138 (Country: US; Year: 1971; Director: George Lucas; Writer: George Lucas, Walter Murch, Matthew Robbins; Stars: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe, Marshall Efron, Sid Haig, John Pearce, Irene Cagen, Gary Alan Marsh, John Seaton, Eugene I. Stillman, Jack Walsh, Mark Lawhead, Robert Feero)
In a dystopian future, a couple rebel against society's no-emotion rules.
Full Review See: Review of Asian Dub Foundation performing their THX 1138 soundtrack
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