Monthly Archive for May, 2007
The Bread Squeezer
Directed by Kasia Kowalczyk
With Sarah Falkenburg, Nathan Mobley, Corin Rogers II, Tal Harris, Mary Lynn Owen, Kristen Garner, Rebecca Dutton
After Andrew’s parents die in a tragic Christmas tree accident, he leads an unremarkable life full of chronic disappointments — until one day, when everything goes horribly wrong and horribly right in the bread (more)
Directed by Jeffrey Blitz
With Reece Daniel Thompson, Anna Kendrick, Nicholas D’Agosto, Vincent Piazza, Margo Martindale, Aaron Yoo, Josh Kay, Stephen Park, Maury Ginsberg, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Denis O’Hare, Lisbeth Bartlett
Website at www.picturehouse.com
Hal Hefner (Reece Thompson) attends a high school that prizes its debate team the way some schools prize a top sports team. The coolest guys (more)
I hope you enjoyed reading my thoughts and impressions of the films we saw this year at the 9th annual Maryland Film Festival. Perhaps you share some of my views—perhaps it helped you to discover some new interesting films you didn’t know before but might enjoy as much as I did. Perhaps you didn’t get (more)
Directed by Friederich Wilhelm Murnau
With Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Alexander Granach
Born in Germany in 1889, Friederich Wilhelm Murnau studied art history at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg, joined the great Max Reinhardt’s theater school, and learned film by making propaganda films for Germany in WW I. His first great work was (more)
Directed by Lew Landers
With Edmond O’Brien, Audrey Totter, Ted de Corsia, Horace MacMahon, Nick Dennis, Dayton Lummis, Dan Riso, Shepard Menken, John Harmon, Ruth Warren
Edmond O’Brien stars as a former gangster who undergoes experimental brain surgery in hopes of curing his criminal tendencies and wiping out all memory of his past misdeeds. Unfortunately, his old (more)
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
With Nantarat Sawaddikul, Nu Nimsomboon, Sophon Pukanok
Website at www.strandreleasing.com
The film begins decades ago in rural Thailand, where a pair of young doctors (inspired by the director’s parents’ own story of meeting) hesitantly embark upon a cautious love affair. The romance and humor here are genuine, and will strike a chord with fans (more)
Bruno
Directed by Sam Goetz
With Sam Goetz, Mike Goetz, Timothy Gannon, Carla Tassara
Bruno is the story of Derek Brown, an asthmatic youth who has one love: bicycling. He is nihilistic and angry at the world. He loves nobody and nobody loves him. He is a knife salesman, he hates women, and despises his cousin Bruno. Bruno (more)
Directed by Alex Orr
With Mike Brune, Anna Chlumsky, Katie Bowlett
Website at www.bloodcar.com
In a future world not far removed from our own, gas prices have rocketed to $40 a gallon, converting any guy who can afford to fill his tank into an automatic stud. Yet eco-minded elementary teacher Archie Andrews’ has the purest intentions in his (more)
