Melnitz Movies Archives
November 19, 2009 - 7:30pm
After seven features set primarily in Taipei, director Tsai Ming- Liang returns to his birthplace with a film unlike any of his prior works. Featuring a cast of multi-cultural and multi-lingual characters, the film is set against the vivid, crowded...
November 17, 2009 - 7:30pm
A New York City liberal takes a giant leap and makes the decision to spend 12 months without television, taxis or take-out, turning off the electricity to become a walking, bicycling, composting, tree hugging, polar bear saving, local food-eating,...
November 12, 2009 - 7:30pm
Melnitz Movies, in co-sponsorship with the Asia Institute presents Red Cliff, the most expensive Chinese film ever made and the first collaboration between John Woo and Tony Leung since the 1992 classic Hard Boiled. This breathtaking war epic,...
November 10, 2009 - 7:30pm
“The film consists of a series of hieratically lit and colored encounters between a Cape Verdean immigrant named Ventura and assorted friends, family and neighbors, each more down and out than the next, shot in low-angled single takes in a near-...
November 5, 2009 - 7:30pm
Abner Meecham, an aging Tennessee farmer discarded to a nursing facility by his lawyer son, flees the old folks home and catches a ride back to his country farm to live out his days in peace. Upon his return, he discovers that his son has leased the...
November 3, 2009 - 7:30pm
"This independent film, a slice-of-barrio-life that was shot and exhibited in South Texas, outperformed [All the President's Men] in some small towns, while it singlehandedly broke Mexico's monopoly over the four-hundred Spanish-language theaters in...
October 29, 2009 - 7:30pm
Thrill to the voodoo-induced horror of an innocent-looking doll inhabited by the soul of a serial killer! After 6-year-old Andy's babysitter is violently pushed out of a window to her death, nobody believes him when he says that "Chucky," his new...
October 27, 2009 - 7:30pm
Sam is a pretty college sophomore, so desperate to earn some cash for a deposit on an apartment that she accepts a babysitting job even after she finds out there is no baby. Mr. and Mrs. Ulman are the older couple who lure Sam out to their creeky...
October 22, 2009 - 7:30pm
Immerse yourself in the energetic, innovative and potentially illegal world of mash-up media with RiP: A remix manifesto. Let web activist Brett Gaylor and musician Greg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, serve as your digital tour guides on a...
October 20, 2009 - 7:30pm
Reminding us of the dangers of blowing out a jack-o'-lantern before midnight, Trick 'r Treat weaves together four tales of Halloween horror: a school principal with a bad attitude teaches his son the proper way to carve a jack o' lantern, a shy...
October 15, 2009 - 7:30am
When “The Man” murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages, and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, Black Dynamite is the one hero willing to fight all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the...
October 13, 2009 - 7:30am
One of FILM COMMENT's Top Five Must-See Movies of the season!
Set in Santiago, Chile, THE MAID is the story of Raquel (Catalina Saavedra in a bold performance), who has served as the live-in maid for the Valdes family for 23 years. Neither truly a...
October 8, 2009 - 7:30am
Attractive, bright, 16-year-old Jenny is stifled by the tedium of adolescent routine in early '60s London; she can’t wait for adult life to begin. One rainy day her suburban existence is upended by the arrival of a much older suitor, David. Urbane...
October 6, 2009 - 7:30am
One of FILM COMMENT's Top Five Must-See Movies of the season!
In 1974, a hot headed 19-year-old named Michael Peterson decided he wanted to make a name for himself and so, with a homemade sawed-off shotgun and a head full of dreams he attempted to...
October 1, 2009 - 7:30am
Melnitz Movies, the International Documentary Association, and the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television are proud to present a Documentary Salon Screening of Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired. This Official Selection of the 2008 Cannes Film...