2024; 1h 10m
Oct. 24, 1975, Iceland: 90% of women just took the day off, and men scrambled to fulfill their duties, sometimes comically so. A gleeful, amazing tale of the feminist collective, “The Red Stockings”, and their search for equality.
Director: Pamela Hogan
Writer: Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir
Stars: Guðrún Erlendsdóttir; Vigdís Finnbogadóttir; Ágústa Þorkelsdottir
2025; 1h 42m
A factory worker in rural Bulgaria becomes her town’s first Covid case, unleashing a wave of blame and social ostracism. As the virus spreads, she faces mounting persecution from employers, coworkers, family, and neighbors.
Director: Stephan Komandarev
Writers: Stephan Komandarev; Simeon Ventsislavov
Stars: Ivan Barnev; Francesco Frattini; Gerasim Georgiev
2024; 2h 13m
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.
“Rich in atmospherics and thematic resonance, Athina Rachel Tsangari’s new film, starring Caleb Landry Jones and Harry Melling and adapted from the acclaimed novel by British writer Jim Crace, takes place in a remote village in medieval England marked by superstition and the scapegoating of outsiders.”
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2024/films/harvest/
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Writers: Joslyn Barnes; Athina Rachel Tsangari; Jim Crace
Stars: Caleb Landry Jones; Harry Melling; Neil Leiper
1968; G; 2h 21m
An Irish immigrant and his daughter move into a town in the American South with a magical piece of gold that will change people’s lives, including a struggling farmer and African American citizens threatened by a bigoted politician.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writers: E.Y. Harburg; Fred Saidy
Stars: Fred Astaire; Petula Clark; Tommy Steele
1975; 1h 31m
This drama explores the grim lives of Turkish “guest workers” living in Germany.
Director: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Writers: Helga Houzer; Sohrab Shahid Saless
Stars: Parviz Sayyad; Cihan Anasai; Muhammet Temizkan
Documentary exploring women’s rights, sexual harassment, and the #metoo movement, one of the largest movements for gender equality in human history.
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Just when Julie finally gets an interview for a job that will let her raise her children better, she runs into a national transportation strike.
“Full Time,” Reviewed: A Hectic Thriller of Everyday Life
R; 1h 53m
Luke and Emily don’t just live together – they also work together as analysts in the high-stakes and high-pressure world of finance, forced to abide by company policy and keep their relationship secret. When a job opens up above them, Emily is thrilled to hear whispers that it might be going to Luke. But when it ultimately ends up hers, the couple is forced into a difficult situation. With the tables turned, Luke finds it harder to support her success and the pair start to unravel. With a delicacy that more genre films aiming to tackle weightier topics could afford to emulate, Domont cooly constructs a contemporary story about how a gendered disparity in finance and power can wreck a seemingly successful relationship.Back in 1994, the corporate thriller Disclosure posited that the only thing scarier than a woman scorned was a woman scorned who was also your boss, painting a laughably dated portrait of the evils of having women climb the corporate ladder. Fair Play, while recalling many a Michael Douglas thriller from Fatal Attraction to A Perfect Murder, is a smart rebuke to such misogyny. The biggest threat here ends up being a man’s ego.(Benjamin Lee, The Guardian)
Director/Writer: Chloe Domont
Unrated; 2h 5m
Romanian New Wave auteur Cristian Mungiu (“4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days”) returns to masterful form with this drama, set in the filmmaker’s homeland and focusing on Matthias (Marin Grigore), a man who returns to his small village after walking off his slaughterhouse job in Germany, only to find the townspeople roiled by the presence of foreign workers. Ann Hornaday writes: “So much fear and misplaced anger are at play in Matthias’s increasingly hysterical behavior that ‘R.M.N.’ might as well be an X-ray of contemporary America.” (PG-13, 106 minutes.)
When a policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn’t want her to see other men, so he creates an alter-ego who will be her only customer.
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