Live Action Titles:
Pentecost - Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane
Raju – Max Zahle & Stefan Gieren
The Shore – Terry George & Oorlagh George
Time Freak – Andrew Bowler & Gigi Causey
Tuba Atlantic- Hallvar Witzo

Documentary Titles:
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom – Lucy Walker
Incident in New Baghdad – James Spione
Saving Face – Daniel Junge & Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy
The Barber of New Birmingham – Gail Dolgin and Robin Fryday

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Coming Soon
(Iran 2011 dir by  Ashgar Farhadi)
PG-13 / 120 mins

Winner of the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, this well-acted Iranian drama is a fascinating and complex legal/moral tale, a tense thriller that gives a sense of what it means to live in a theocracy with its many special rules. Two Tehran couples, one well-to-do; the other poor and devout, face-off over an alleged act of physical offense that brings the Islamic state into the act. The relatively well-to-do couple has split up due to the husband’s desire to remain in Tehran for his Alzheimer-suffering father’s sake while his wife, who has finally secured exit visas, is anxious to go to the west where she hopes their young daughter will have a better life. Things get complicated after the husband hires a pious woman to come and care for his father, and his daughter, while he’s at work and his daughter’s at school. Soon nearly everyone – pious and progressive – are ensnared by the state.  View Trailer Read Reviews ]]> http://upstatefilms.org/coming-soon/a-separation/feed 0 http://upstatefilms.org/coming-soon/shame http://upstatefilms.org/coming-soon/shame#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:08:53 +0000 upstate http://upstatefilms.org/?p=7608

Coming Soon
(UK / 2011 / dir by Steve McQueen)
NC-17. 101 mins.

Directed by the visionary Steve McQueen (Hunger) and driven by ferocious performances from Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan, Shame is a scorching look at a New York office worker whose soulless but efficient day-to-day existence is coupled with a darker, more secretive sex life. Handsome, immaculately groomed, and outwardly polite, Brandon (Fassbender) has an impulsive side that can only be calmed and held at bay through compulsive, almost self-destructive behavior. Living a carefully compartmentalized life, he returns to his apartment late one night to find Sissy (Mulligan), his bruised sister who refuses to be kept at arms length. While her sudden appearance disrupts his life, the two play out a relationship that is thrilling in its intimacy, and that hints at a deeply buried past neither is entirely ready to deal with. With a pacing that crackles with tension, each moment in McQueen’s film shields a potential explosion as his characters roil on the surface in their searches for composure and meaning. View Trailer Read Reviews ]]> http://upstatefilms.org/coming-soon/shame/feed 0 http://upstatefilms.org/coming-soon/sweet-violets http://upstatefilms.org/coming-soon/sweet-violets#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:26:22 +0000 becca http://upstatefilms.org/?p=7844

In Rhinebeck Sun Feb 12
1:00
(US / 2012 / Dir by Tobe Carey)
Unrated / 40 mins.

 *FREE SHOW with director Tobe Carey In Person* SWEET VIOLETS tells the forgotten story of the Violet Capitol of the World — Rhinebeck, New York. In the Victorian era and beyond, violets were the corsage and bouquet flower of choice. At its peak in 1912, growers shipped more than 5 million blooms for Easter by train from Rhinecliff Station, and Sweet Violets like the Marie Louise and Swanley White from Dutchess County dominated the commercial flower market. Gaining and losing momentum according to fashion, the industry slipped into decline until the last of the Violet Kings gave up in 1979. Now, one remaining strip of cultivated violets grows in an anemone greenhouse outside Rhinebeck. In the late winter and early spring deep purple Frey’s Fragrant violets are picked for culinary purposes and bunched for the occasional Valentine’s Day bouquet. From local filmmaker Tobe Carey, SWEET VIOLETS includes interviews with historians and violet growers, along with rare film footage, vintage photographs, 19th century music, postcards, poetry, and art. View Trailer Visit the website
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