
The Pillow Book
A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.
Director: Peter Greenaway
Actors: Barbara Lott, Ewan McGregor, Hideko Yoshida, Judy Ongg, Ken Mitsuishi, Ken Ogata, Lynne Langdon, Vivian Wu, Yoshi Oida, Yutaka Honda
March Comes In Like a Lion
The film begins with some Polaroids of a young boy and a young girl. A female voice over tells us who these people are. They are brother and sister, she…
John Q
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not…
Last Night
The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he’s attracted. While he’s resisting temptation, his wife…
Americano
“Americano” centres around Chris McKinley (Jackson), a recent college graduate backpacking through Europe who savours his last three days of freedom before boarding the career fast track back in the…
Vengeance Is Mine
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
The Siege
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent and his team…
Arlington Road
Threats from sinister foreign nationals aren’t the only thing to fear. Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed (and increasingly paranoid) since his wife’s accidental death in a botched…
The Dolly Sisters
Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with lots of songs.
Gossip
Ten actresses test films for the title role of a remake of “Queen Christina”.
The Breaking Ice
In cold wintry Yanji, a city on China’s northern border, young urbanite Haofeng, visiting from Shanghai, feels lost and adrift. By chance, he goes on a tour led by Nana,…
Sidekicks
An otherwise rejected or ignored boy creates a fantasy pal from his martial arts movie hero.
Boy
Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who…