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Crazy Love
Dan Klores' CRAZY LOVE tells the astonishing story of the obsessive roller-coaster
relationship of Burt and Linda Pugach, which shocked the nation during the summer
of 1959. Burt, a 32 year-old married attorney and Linda, a beautiful, single 20 yearold
girl living in the Bronx had a whirlwind romance, which culminated in a violent
and psychologically complex set of actions that landed the pair's saga on the cover of
endless newspapers and magazines.
Lake Of Fire
Writer/Director/Producer:
Tony Kaye
Tony Kaye, after working on LAKE OF FIRE for the past fifteen years, has made a film
that is unquestionably the definitive work on the subject of abortion. Shot in
luminous black and white the film has the perfect esthetic for a subject where there
can be no absolutes. He gives equal time to both sides, covering arguments from
either extreme of the spectrum, as well as those at the center, who acknowledge that,
in the end, everyone is 'right'- or 'wrong.' And whatever you believe now, you are
certain to think differently after seeing it.
Manufactured Landscapes
Director:
Jennifer Baichwal
Producers:
Nick de Pencier, Daniel Iron, Jennifer Baichwal
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and
work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his largescale
photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards,
factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from
civilization’s materials and debris. The film follows him through China, as he shoots
the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. With
breathtaking sequences, such as the opening tracking shot through an almost
endless factory, the filmmakers also extend the narratives of Burtynsky’s
photographs, allowing us to meditate on our impact on the planet and witness both
the epicenters of industrial endeavor and the dumping grounds of its waste.
The Monastery
Director:
Pernille Rose Grønkjær
Producer:
Sigrid Dyekjær
THE MONASTERY is the story about the 82-year-old bachelor Mr. Vig, who has never
known love, and Sister Amvrosija, a young Russian nun, who by chance, or destiny,
becomes part of his life. 50 years ago Mr. Vig bought Hesbjerg Castle with the
purpose making a monastery. Now, many years later, a group of Russian Orthodox
nuns are on their way, and Mr. Vigs life-long dream is about to come true. But nuns
have plans and wills of their own, and Mr. Vig must realize that the road to fulfilling
his dream is very different than what he imagined.
The Prisoner Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair
Writer/Director/Producers:
Petra Epperlein &
Michael Tucker
In an absurd comedy of errors, a freedom-loving Iraqi journalist is mistaken as Tony
Blair's would-be assassin and sent to Abu Ghraib Prison where he discovers the true
meaning of liberation.
