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The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
(1988) [M]

In Philip Kaufman's surprisingly successful film adaptation of Czech author Milan Kundera's demanding 1984 bestseller, Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Tomas, an overly amorous Prague surgeon, while Juliette Binoche plays Tereza, the waiflike beauty whom he marries. Even though he's supposedly...  More

American Splendor
(2003) [M]

Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with...  More

Lost in Translation
(2003) [PG]

Bob Harris (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) are two Americans in Tokyo. Bob is a middle-aged movie star in town to shoot a commercial, while Charlotte is a young woman tagging along with her workaholic husband (Giovanni Ribisi). Unable to sleep, Bob and Charlotte cross paths by...  More

Sylvia
(2003) [M]

In Sylvia, Gwyneth Paltrow plays Sylvia Plath, a Cambridge student with some poems already published when she meets Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig). Attracted to each other and full of mutual passion and fire the two quickly fall in love and marry. The film explores their troubled and ultimately tragic...  More

Bright Young Things
(2003) [M]

Known to the press, who follow their every move, as the "Bright Young Things", Adam and his friends are eccentric, wild and entirely shocking to the older generation. They are young, party-going creatures embracing innovations like the gramophone record and the telephone as the self-consciously...  More

The Luzhin Defence
(2000) [M]

Alexander Luzhin is an eccentric chess master whose unstable childhood made him incapable of relating to others. The game of chess is his only escape and his only solace, until he meets and falls in love with the caring Natalia at the Italian resort where he's the favorite in the most prestiigous...  More

Thirteen
(2003) [MA]

"Brace yourself" (Rolling Stone) for a raw, revealing insight into urban adolescence that's so intense and realistic, "it's possible to turn away" (Interview Magazine). Anxiously trying to fit into the peer pressure cooker environment of junior high, thirteen-year-old Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood)...  More

Shattered Glass
(2003) [M]

Hayden Christensen stars as Stephen Glass, a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for Rolling Stones Magazine, Harper's Bazaar and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after...  More

Dogville
(2003) [MA]

In Lars Von Trier's experimental Dogville, fugitive Grace (Nicole Kidman) arrives in the isolated township of Dogville pleading that she is on the run from a team of gangsters and desperately need their help. The kindly Tom (Paul Bettany), a self-appointed town spokesman encourages the little...  More

Hollywood Ending
(2002) [PG]

Woody Allen takes a side-splitting look at the bumpy course of true love - Hollywood Style - in this highly acclaimed romantic comedy. Woody stars as Val Waxman, a neurotic, once-great film director who desperately needs a comeback vehicle to jump-start his fizzled career. But when opportunity...  More