drama

Telluride 15 – BLACK MASS

First Festival Screening – September 5, 2015 @ 9:30 PM Last Festival Screening – September 6, 2015 @ 2:30 PM Johnny Depp miraculously descends into the body and soul of James “Whitey” Bulger, the South Boston street thug who became the city’s most feared organized crime figure in the ‘80s. Joel Edgerton is superb as […]

Telluride 15 – CAROL

Festival Screening – September 5, 2015 @ 6:15 PM Romantic sparks fly when Therese (Rooney Mara), an inexperienced shop girl with vague artistic ambitions, crosses path with Carol (Cate Blanchett), a wealthy, sophisticated married woman. But in post-World War II America, a romance like theirs is not only forbidden; it is dangerous. Director – Todd […]

Telluride 15 – SPOTLIGHT

First Festival Screening – September 5, 2015 @ 9 AM Last Festival Screening – September 6, 2015 @ 8:30 PM In 2001, a new Boston Globe editor (Liev Schreiber) assigns a crack team of reporters (Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Brian d’Arcy James) to investigate Boston’s Catholic Archdiocese handling of a priest’s sexual misconduct […]

Telluride 15 – SON OF SAUL

First Festival Screening – September 4, 2015 @ 5:45 PM Last Festival Screening – September 6, 2015 @ 9:30 PM Also known as Saul fia After decades of depictions of the Holocaust, we might assume that no film can have anything new to express on the subject. But the relentless, shockingly original SON OF SAUL […]

Venezia 72 – EARLY WINTER – Venice Days

Festival Screening – September 3, 2015 @ 11:30 AM at Sala Perla David, a man in his forties, lives a predictable life with his wife Maya and their two children. To please his wife with the latest gadgets, he works solitary shift work, days and nights, as a janitor in a retirement home. But when […]

Portland 15 – BEREAVE

Festival Screening – September 5, 2015 @ 7:30 PM at Living Room Theaters Garvey contemplates a new, dark secret that he’s unable to reveal to his family. Though it’s his 40th anniversary, Garvey has run away from home for a strange misadventure until he meets Lauren, a beautiful woman that becomes his muse and angel, […]

Portland 15 – THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF JOJO (AND HIS ANNOYING LITTLE SISTER, AVILA)

Festival Screening – September 4, 2015 @ 2:15 PM at Clinton Street Theater A six-year-old boy named Jojo who wakes up from a car accident deep in the woods. He reluctantly pulls his baby sister out of the wreckage, plops her into his backpack, and together they try to make it home alive; encountering deranged […]

Venezia 72 – EVEREST – Opening Night Film

First Festival Screening – September 2, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at Sala Grande Last Festival Screening – September 2, 2015 @ 8:00 PM at PalaBiennale The picture is based on a true story that took place in 1996, when two different expeditions, one led by Scott Fischer and the other one by Rob Hall, face […]

Portland 15 – THE RESURRECTION OF JAKE THE SNAKE ROBERTS – Special Event Screening

Festival Screening – September 2, 2015 @ 8:15 PM at Mission Theater In the late 80s, Jake “the Snake” Roberts was among the most famous professional wrestlers in the world. His talent was undeniable, and the giant snakes he threw upon his opponents, unforgettable. 30 years later, Roberts has lost his family and his fortune […]

Portland 15 – BIRDS OF NEPTUNE – Opening Night Celebration

Festival Screening – September 1, 2015 @ 6:30 PM at Cinema 21 Mona and Rachel live alone in their childhood house trying to keep memories of a mysterious past intact. Director – Steven Richter –The Portland Film Festival