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A film festival in your home! Irene's handpicked collection of over 300 recent independent films, foreign movies, documentaries, family flicks
RECENTLY ADDED TITLES
DRAMA/COMEDY/ROMANCE
Amreeka
Comedy/Drama. A Palestinian single mother and her teenage son resettle in the US Midwest with bittersweet results. Despite her education and experience, the only job she can find is at a fast food joint.
Baby Formula
Feisty fun Canadian comedy: two women in love become pregnant at the same time (with sperm created from one another's stem cells) and embark on a wild adventure.
Camille
Romantic comedy
Chloe
New erotic thriller from Atom Egoyan: Dr. Catherine Stewart (Julianne Moore) suspects that her husband David (Liam Neeson) is cheating on her so she hires an escort named Chloe (Amanda Seyfried) to offer herself to him to see how he responds.
Cold Souls
Metaphysical dark comedy straddles the line between reality and fantasy, set in a world where souls are extracted from humans and traded as commodities (Paul Giamatti).
Disgrace
John Malkovich stars in adaptation of J.M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel concerning a Cape Town professor whose flight from scandal leads him into a direct confrontation with the lingering demons of apartheid.
Hey Hey Its Esther Blueburger
Hilarious coming-of-age comedy about what its like to be an outsider in your own world. Esther (newcomer Danielle Catanzariti) is not like other girls; she befriends a duck, talks to God through the toilet and break-dances at her bat-mitzvah. Also starring Toni Collette and Keisha Castle-Hughes (Whale Rider)
How to Be
Twilight star Robert Pattinson stars in comedy about this supermarket clerk/depressed musician who's just been dumped by his girlfriend and moves home to his emotionally distant parents.
Heaven on Earth
Directed by Deepa Mehta (Water) this magic realist drama details the ill-fated arranged marriage between a vibrant young Indian girl and her temperamental Canadian husband.
Idiocracy
Clever comedy in which two present day people awake in a future world where everyone is dumbed down beyond belief.
In the Loop
Clever British Comedy/Political Satire nominated for an Oscar for the screenplay.
Invictus
Morgan Freeman plays Nelson Mandala who tried to bring South Africa together when they hosted the Rugby World Cup in 1995.
It's Complicated
Wonderful non-formulaic romantic comedy starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. Middle-aged, divorced mother becomes "the other woman" in her remarried ex-husband's life
Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Comedy about a radical feminist committee
Last Station
Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren star in historical drama about the last stretch of Tolstoy’s life, focusing on his relationship with his wife.
Like Stars on Earth
Touching Bollywood drama. Eight-year-old Ishaan's world is filled with wonders but he is failing at school and sent off to boarding school for discipline. His new art teacher realizes something is wrong
Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked)
Comedy set in 1960's UK. Pirate radio station broadcasts rock and roll from a ship just outside of England's boundary waters (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy).
Prozac Nation
Drama about a young woman stressed by life at university
Storm
Hannah Maynard, prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, is leading a trial against a former commander of the Yugoslavian National Army who is accused of the deportation and later killing of dozens of Bosnian-Muslim civilians. When a key witness commits suicide, it looks like the case will unravel, however Hannah refuses to give in.
The Time Traveler's Wife
Romance based on the novel starring Eric Bana.
FAMILY
Fantastic Mr Fox
George Clooney and Meryl Streep lend their voices to this hilarious, heartwarming animated adventure from Wes Anderson.
Hachi a Dog's Tale
Richard Gere plays a college professor who takes in an abandoned dog in this heartwarming story.
Planet 51
Ponyo
Animation by Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away): A young boy rescues and befriends a goldfish named Ponyo, whose desire to be human upsets the balance of nature and triggers a gigantic storm.
ScoobyDoo and the Witches Ghost
ScoobyDoo: Arabian Nights
ScoobyDoo: Zoinks
DOCUMENTARY
Capitalism a Love Story
Michael Moore's new exposé of the economy.
Collapse
Powerful and timely documentary in which radical thinker Michael Ruppert outlines his apocalyptic vision of our world after the collapse of industrial civilization
Born into Brothels
Children of prostitutes in Calcutta are given cameras, taught photography, and this empowers them.
Dirt the Movie A story with Heart and Soil
Astonishing, humorous and substantial look at the glorious and unappreciated ground beneath our feet. Why do we humans ignore, abuse, and destroy our most precious living natural resource? Reveals how repairing our relationship
Fierce Light
Where spirit meets action, directed by Canadian activist Velcro Ripper.
Flow (For Love of Water)
The most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century is The World Water Crisis.
Mine
New Orleans residents attempt to reunite with their pets who have been adopted by families all over the country. Custody battles arise when two families love the same pet.
Taking Root
Inspiring story! Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai led Kenya's Green Belt Movement of women, who rallied against deforestation, poverty and government corruption, planted trees and brought down the dictatorship.
The Unmistaken Child
Tibetan Buddhist quest to the mountain villages: interviewing babies to find the reincarnation of a wise teacher who has recently died.
Year of the Yao
Yao Ming, first Chinese émigré to play in the NBA, 7'6' tall, arrives in the USA, speaking no English. This beautiful documentary documents the new basketball star’s culture shock.
MUSIC
Cadillac Records
Beautiful dramatic re-enactment of true story: Leonard Chess founded Chess Records and made Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Chuck Berry and Etta James into stars.
Festival Express
In 1970 Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, the Band, Buddy Guy, the Flying Burrito Brothers and more musicians toured Canada in a private train, partying all the way.
Stomp Out Loud
Dancing with everyday objects (brooms, garbage can lids etc) used both to make noise and balance the performers, Stomp created a sensation on Broadway.
QUEBEC/FRANCE
C'est pas moi je le jure (It's Not Me, I Swear)
10 year old boy gets into mischief while trying to cope with his parents' separation in 1968 Québec.
Coco Avant Chanel
Audrey Tautou shines in this intriguing portrait of the early life of the orphan who would build a fashion empire and be known universally as Coco Chanel.
Gaz Bar Blues
Angst at a Québec family-run gas station.
Joueuse (Queen to Play)
A humble woman who works as a maid in a hotel watches visitors playing chess and determines to learn the game somehow.
Paris
Starring Juliette Binoche and Romain Duris as brother and sister in modern day Paris.
Roman de Gare (Crossed Tracks)
Thriller/Mystery from France.
Séraphine
Beautiful, award-winning film based on a true story: the art dealer who discovered Picasso, finds Séraphine, an impoverished loner peasant woman, a nature lover who is a brilliant primitive artist.
Surviving My Mother
Three generations of women in the same family: mother-daughter relations, from Québec.
FOREIGN
As it is in Heaven
Touching Scandinavian drama about the interactions of a small community church choir.
In Love We Trust
Set in China, a divorced couple, both remarried, learns that the only way to save their little daughter Hehe, who suffers from a blood disease, is to have another child.
Kama Sutra
Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) directs this visually feast about a woman's search for personal and sexual freedom in 16th century India. The princess's handmaid and dear friend steals the heart of the king.
Khadak
Nominated for Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. A highly imaginative film, beautiful and mysterious, about a young nomad confronted with his destiny to become a shaman while traditional Mongolian nomadic life is being deteriorated by urbanization.
Munyurangabo
From Rwanda, nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, this is the story of a friendship between a Hutu and a Tutsi.
Rudo y Cursi
Raucous Mexican comedy about brotherly rivalry and soccer(Gael Garcia Bernal & Diego Luna)
Available for rent 7 days a week at the Cortes Natural Food Coop.
A film festival in your home! Irene's handpicked collection of over 300 recent independent films, foreign movies, documentaries, family flicks
RECENTLY ADDED TITLES
DRAMA/COMEDY/ROMANCE
Amreeka
Comedy/Drama. A Palestinian single mother and her teenage son resettle in the US Midwest with bittersweet results. Despite her education and experience, the only job she can find is at a fast food joint.
Baby Formula
Feisty fun Canadian comedy: two women in love become pregnant at the same time (with sperm created from one another's stem cells) and embark on a wild adventure.
Camille
Romantic comedy
Chloe
New erotic thriller from Atom Egoyan: Dr. Catherine Stewart (Julianne Moore) suspects that her husband David (Liam Neeson) is cheating on her so she hires an escort named Chloe (Amanda Seyfried) to offer herself to him to see how he responds.
Cold Souls
Metaphysical dark comedy straddles the line between reality and fantasy, set in a world where souls are extracted from humans and traded as commodities (Paul Giamatti).
Disgrace
John Malkovich stars in adaptation of J.M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel concerning a Cape Town professor whose flight from scandal leads him into a direct confrontation with the lingering demons of apartheid.
Hey Hey Its Esther Blueburger
Hilarious coming-of-age comedy about what its like to be an outsider in your own world. Esther (newcomer Danielle Catanzariti) is not like other girls; she befriends a duck, talks to God through the toilet and break-dances at her bat-mitzvah. Also starring Toni Collette and Keisha Castle-Hughes (Whale Rider)
How to Be
Twilight star Robert Pattinson stars in comedy about this supermarket clerk/depressed musician who's just been dumped by his girlfriend and moves home to his emotionally distant parents.
Heaven on Earth
Directed by Deepa Mehta (Water) this magic realist drama details the ill-fated arranged marriage between a vibrant young Indian girl and her temperamental Canadian husband.
Idiocracy
Clever comedy in which two present day people awake in a future world where everyone is dumbed down beyond belief.
In the Loop
Clever British Comedy/Political Satire nominated for an Oscar for the screenplay.
Invictus
Morgan Freeman plays Nelson Mandala who tried to bring South Africa together when they hosted the Rugby World Cup in 1995.
It's Complicated
Wonderful non-formulaic romantic comedy starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. Middle-aged, divorced mother becomes "the other woman" in her remarried ex-husband's life
Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Comedy about a radical feminist committee
Last Station
Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren star in historical drama about the last stretch of Tolstoy’s life, focusing on his relationship with his wife.
Like Stars on Earth
Touching Bollywood drama. Eight-year-old Ishaan's world is filled with wonders but he is failing at school and sent off to boarding school for discipline. His new art teacher realizes something is wrong
Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked)
Comedy set in 1960's UK. Pirate radio station broadcasts rock and roll from a ship just outside of England's boundary waters (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy).
Prozac Nation
Drama about a young woman stressed by life at university
Storm
Hannah Maynard, prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, is leading a trial against a former commander of the Yugoslavian National Army who is accused of the deportation and later killing of dozens of Bosnian-Muslim civilians. When a key witness commits suicide, it looks like the case will unravel, however Hannah refuses to give in.
The Time Traveler's Wife
Romance based on the novel starring Eric Bana.
FAMILY
Fantastic Mr Fox
George Clooney and Meryl Streep lend their voices to this hilarious, heartwarming animated adventure from Wes Anderson.
Hachi a Dog's Tale
Richard Gere plays a college professor who takes in an abandoned dog in this heartwarming story.
Planet 51
Ponyo
Animation by Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away): A young boy rescues and befriends a goldfish named Ponyo, whose desire to be human upsets the balance of nature and triggers a gigantic storm.
ScoobyDoo and the Witches Ghost
ScoobyDoo: Arabian Nights
ScoobyDoo: Zoinks
DOCUMENTARY
Capitalism a Love Story
Michael Moore's new exposé of the economy.
Collapse
Powerful and timely documentary in which radical thinker Michael Ruppert outlines his apocalyptic vision of our world after the collapse of industrial civilization
Born into Brothels
Children of prostitutes in Calcutta are given cameras, taught photography, and this empowers them.
Dirt the Movie A story with Heart and Soil
Astonishing, humorous and substantial look at the glorious and unappreciated ground beneath our feet. Why do we humans ignore, abuse, and destroy our most precious living natural resource? Reveals how repairing our relationship
Fierce Light
Where spirit meets action, directed by Canadian activist Velcro Ripper.
Flow (For Love of Water)
The most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century is The World Water Crisis.
Mine
New Orleans residents attempt to reunite with their pets who have been adopted by families all over the country. Custody battles arise when two families love the same pet.
Taking Root
Inspiring story! Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai led Kenya's Green Belt Movement of women, who rallied against deforestation, poverty and government corruption, planted trees and brought down the dictatorship.
The Unmistaken Child
Tibetan Buddhist quest to the mountain villages: interviewing babies to find the reincarnation of a wise teacher who has recently died.
Year of the Yao
Yao Ming, first Chinese émigré to play in the NBA, 7'6' tall, arrives in the USA, speaking no English. This beautiful documentary documents the new basketball star’s culture shock.
MUSIC
Cadillac Records
Beautiful dramatic re-enactment of true story: Leonard Chess founded Chess Records and made Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Chuck Berry and Etta James into stars.
Festival Express
In 1970 Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, the Band, Buddy Guy, the Flying Burrito Brothers and more musicians toured Canada in a private train, partying all the way.
Stomp Out Loud
Dancing with everyday objects (brooms, garbage can lids etc) used both to make noise and balance the performers, Stomp created a sensation on Broadway.
QUEBEC/FRANCE
C'est pas moi je le jure (It's Not Me, I Swear)
10 year old boy gets into mischief while trying to cope with his parents' separation in 1968 Québec.
Coco Avant Chanel
Audrey Tautou shines in this intriguing portrait of the early life of the orphan who would build a fashion empire and be known universally as Coco Chanel.
Gaz Bar Blues
Angst at a Québec family-run gas station.
Joueuse (Queen to Play)
A humble woman who works as a maid in a hotel watches visitors playing chess and determines to learn the game somehow.
Paris
Starring Juliette Binoche and Romain Duris as brother and sister in modern day Paris.
Roman de Gare (Crossed Tracks)
Thriller/Mystery from France.
Séraphine
Beautiful, award-winning film based on a true story: the art dealer who discovered Picasso, finds Séraphine, an impoverished loner peasant woman, a nature lover who is a brilliant primitive artist.
Surviving My Mother
Three generations of women in the same family: mother-daughter relations, from Québec.
FOREIGN
As it is in Heaven
Touching Scandinavian drama about the interactions of a small community church choir.
In Love We Trust
Set in China, a divorced couple, both remarried, learns that the only way to save their little daughter Hehe, who suffers from a blood disease, is to have another child.
Kama Sutra
Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) directs this visually feast about a woman's search for personal and sexual freedom in 16th century India. The princess's handmaid and dear friend steals the heart of the king.
Khadak
Nominated for Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. A highly imaginative film, beautiful and mysterious, about a young nomad confronted with his destiny to become a shaman while traditional Mongolian nomadic life is being deteriorated by urbanization.
Munyurangabo
From Rwanda, nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, this is the story of a friendship between a Hutu and a Tutsi.
Rudo y Cursi
Raucous Mexican comedy about brotherly rivalry and soccer(Gael Garcia Bernal & Diego Luna)
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