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Solveig has a dream. She wants her tiny church choir to one day perform Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Not only is Solveig the one true singer in the choir,but also she is the one true light of her husband's and son's lives. Tragically, her light is snuffed too soon, leaving her dream unfulfilled and her husband and son to search for the light elsewhere. Eventually Solveig's husband, Aron, falls in love with a woman he has met only through the mail. The longing for the light he once knew with Solveig slowly tears him away from reality.
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Here is one of those boy-meets-boy, boy-loses-boy, boyfriend-gets gay-bashed, boy-finds-love-and-his-true-self stories I want to see on TV, but my cable operator doesn't offer QTV... Suffice to say that Defying Gravity is not your typical love story... it's better. Poor Griff, studly frat boy that everyone wants to be friends with, he's ''the ultimate boy next door,'' and has a great friend with his fraternity brother Todd. Griff also has a big secret: Pete. Griff and Pete get together for trysts now and again, but until he is given an ultimatum by Pete, Griff tries to pretend he's straight.
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Blue Heaven exists on the border between the city and the country, between urban sprawl and rural purity, and three generations of women struggle to maintain some balance in their lives on that edge. Czech director Eva Borusovicova's first feature is a poetic film, a tragicomedy about a mother, daughter, and grandmother forced by circumstance and tenuous relationships into living and coping together. Out of a sincere effort to help one another, they struggle to understand and accept each other's failings. Unfortunately, they're not always able to.
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Drifting, alone but for the memories of youth, the eminent Greek poet C.P. Cavafy lies ill in a hospital bed in Alexandria. But his memories are revived through the words of the young biographer who has come to read his writings to Cavafy, seeking the poet's accord before publishing. Alexandria, his childhood, the poet's relationship with his mother, the life of ease until the Arab uprising, and their flight to Constantinople all are part of Cavafy's life. But it is the city night life and its pervading eroticism etched in his memory, and his sexual preference begins to blossom.
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Here's your chance to finally catch the rarely seen director's cut of a certifiable cult classic, called by American Cinematheque ''...completely repulsive and fascinating at the same time.'' Bloodsucking Freaks is the story of Dr. Sardu and his Theatre of the Macabre. On the surface an impresario and master of ceremonies with a sick sense of humor and a compulsive need to shock and offend, Dr. Sardu turns out to be a much more sinister and dangerous sort. In his basement he is hiding a prison of horrors where beautiful young women are tortured and mutilated.
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As we all know from reading ''tell-all'' biographies of American politicians, sex and politics are a natural mix and have been, from the earliest days of the Republic. But rarely has the liaison of a well-known politician and an ''exotic'' dancer been so public as that of former Governor Earl Long of Louisiana and the well-known stripper of her day, Belle Starr. Ron Shelton's Blaze shows Long and Starr's earthy and hilarious goings-on in the full light of day, all of which is well covered by the tabloid press.
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Remember those times when you felt hurt and betrayed by those things which made you who you are. Visualize that pit of despair that rumbled in your gut and angered you to the point of total hate. Now take that feeling and intensify it by a million as your liberties and freedoms are taken away because you are deemed an outcast by the place you call home, the people you call brothers. Then and only then can you attempt to understand the misery and abandonment of the 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team.
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It's the 1960s. Woodstock consummates the ''flower power'' generation and U.S. Congress witnesses an all-time high in protest marches. But things were a little different in Ecuador with a strict military discipline and a much more violent clash of political parties. This is where we find Galo Galvez, a charismatic Communist Party leader whose life luster is not deterred by his inability to walk. However, his party is narrowminded, and one probably can't even cut the bureaucracy with a Ginsu knife. To confound things, Galo's fiancee, Margamaria, defines their relationship by control.
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What happens when the U.S. military opens a base near a small town in another country and sends tens of thousands of G.I.s over the next 40 years? Just what you might expect. There are a lot of marriages. The U.S. set up bases in Newfoundland at the beginning of WWII and maintained them for more than 40 years. The Canadian brides tell their personal stories.
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Families. Aren't they splendid, odd, and dysfunctional conglomerates?
Baby It's You is the soul-searching story of acclaimed filmmaker Anne Makepeace and her husband, Peter, who investigate the idea of family in its most complicated and in-depth terms. The couple allows the camera into the most private moments of their lives as they try to make a family after the age of 40 via a fertilization clinic. Through this touching story, we are allowed into the true, deep, and hidden secrets of not only their lives, but also their family's as well.
--Angela Fugundes