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Surviving Desire
(1991) [M]

A perfectly formed 60 minute film detailing the relationship between misanthropic college professor Jude (Martin Donovan, Hartleys favourite leading man) and Sofie (Mary B. Ward), a beautiful student in one of his literature classes. Sofie is the only member of his class not to be driven mad by...  More

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
(2004) [M]

Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew—Team Zissou—set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou’s partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They are joined...  More

Permanent Vacation
(1980) [PG]

The film that defined Jarmusch’s unique style, Permanent Vacation is an intimate study in the search for meaning in life. Suffering a bout of insomnia, sixteen year old drifter, Aloysious (Chris Parker), wanders through downtown Manhattan in search of some kind of cure for his loneliness. A...  More

Mysterious Skin
(2004) [R]

When they were eight, Brian (Brady Corbett) and Neil (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) experience events that still greatly affect them ten years later. For one, he’s left with nightmares and is convinced he was abducted by aliens and is determined to find out where they came from. For the other he seeks...  More

Last Days
(2005) [M]

An official selection in the 2005 Cannes Film festival, GUS VAN SANT'S LAST DAYS is inspired by the final hours of Kurt Cobain. The film introduces us to Blake (Michael Pitt, The Dreamers), a brilliant, but troubled musician. Success has left him in a lonely place, where livelihoods rest on his...  More

The King
(2005) [MA]

The King is a controversial and provocative thriller starring international sensation Gael Garcia Bernal (The Motorcycle Diaries, Bad Education, Y tu mama tambien) and screen legend William Hurt (Kiss Of The Spider Woman, The Big Chill). Bernal burns up the screen in his American debut as...  More

Edmond
(2005) [MA]

"You are not where you belong," says the fortune-teller. Thus Edmond begins his brutal descent into a hilarious and horrifying contemporary urban hell in David Mamet's savagely funny black comedy. The encounter with the fortune-teller has caused bland businessman Edmond (William H. Macy) to...  More

The Chumscrubber
(2005) [MA]

The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle (Jamie Bell) finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. Everyone in town is too self consumed to...  More

The White Masai
(2005) [M]

At once a captivating romance and a breath-taking travelogue into the Kenyan outback, The White Masai is an epic journey based on the autobiography of Corinne Hofmann. It tells the unbelievable - yet true - tale of a white European woman who becomes the wife of a Masai warrior. The exotic African...  More

Thank You For Smoking
(2005) [M]

The directorial debut from Jason Reitman, the media satire Thank You for Smoking stars Aaron Eckhart as Nick, a man who has turned spinning news and information into a successful career for the tobacco lobby. He plots strategies with his colleagues (Maria Bello and David Koechner) on how to make...  More