While Carlos and Lucia are in Spain trying to convince Carlos' friend to attend their wedding, Lucia literally crashes into Leon. Lucia and Leon fall for each other, which means trouble for Ana, Leon's fiance. The jinx, they are hi.
The story is painfully straightforward: a nine-year-old English girl named Amy Winehouse is devastated when Dad breaks up with Mum. She takes up with boys, dabbles in drink and drugs, develops an eating disorder, and begins the slide toward disaster. What makes it noteworthy are the girl's incredible talents, both …
Once upon a time, they called classical music "long-haired" stuff. This guy remembers that.
“Is it better not to live than to live and suffer?” Don’tcha hate it when a character, in this case a scraggly Columbia University professor (Sam Waterston), breaks the ice by spelling out a film’s thesis? Suffer we do as a cast of top name performers (Glenn Close, Kristen Stewart, …
Writer and co-director Charlie Kaufman’s stop-motion animated film is a very fine portrait of the despair at the heart of a comfortable middle-aged white man in America circa right about now. British-born Michael Stone (voiced with great sympathy by David Thewlis) has, by most standards, made it. He lives in …
82-year-old Claude Lorius was the first scientist to alert the world to the perils of global warming. His one regret in life is that history has proved him right. A biographical, cinematic corollary of Al Gore’s canned Learning Annex lecture, Luc Jacquet’s Antarctica condenses 22 polar missions — all told, …
The coming-of-age story that enveloped all of Japan in emotion! A girl has her voice taken away so that she will not hurt others with her words, but the discovery of music and friendship change her perspective.
Moisés Ortiz Urquidi's tale of a family full of excellent women and their dealings with less-than-excellent men. In Spanish.
The story of Arcade Fire's album Reflektor, from conception to recording to performance. Because rock's not dead. Right?
A celebration of Argentinian music and dance.