02013.11: A Yearlong Film Viewing Balancing Act
by writingarises | created - 31 Oct 2013 | updated - 02 Dec 2013 | PublicFilms I'm watching in November 02013. Part of A Yearlong Film Viewing Balancing Act. #yfvba http://olearysreellife.tumblr.com/ @olearysreellife
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1. Goldthwait Home Movies (2008)
Not Rated | 8 min | Short, Comedy
See the Goldthwait family as you remember them best, with commentary by 3 of the actors.
Director: Bobcat Goldthwait | Stars: Bobcat Goldthwait, Tom Kenny, Jill Talley
Votes: 22
02013.11.01: Short: At IU Cinema - with Bobcat Goldthwait.
2. TWA Flight 800 (2013 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 90 min | Documentary
An independent scientist is joined by former members of the official investigation into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 to blow the whistle on the cover-up of the real cause of the crash.
Director: Kristina Borjesson | Stars: Merritt Birky, Roy Blunt, Al Dickinson, Vernon L. Grose
Votes: 759
02013.11.01: Streamed on Netflix. Watched with my sweetie.
3. Bridegroom (2013)
R | 80 min | Documentary
Shane Bitney Crone's plans to marry Tom Bridegroom in California after the same-sex marriage law is passed takes a tragic turn when his partner of six years accidentally dies and Tom's family refuses Shane from attending the funeral.
Director: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason | Stars: Cindy Bitney, David Crone, Jessica Mitchell, Lizzy Mohl
Votes: 4,629
02013.11.02: Streamed on Netflix.
4. Smoking Kills (2011)
6 min | Short, Comedy
When Bruce checks into a hotel suite on his trip to New York City he expects to catch up on some sleep and perhaps catch a Broadway show or two between his business meetings. What he gets instead is Olga.
Director: Sabina Vajraca | Stars: Amanda Barron, Chad Hoeppner
Votes: 5
02013.11.03: on Vimeo. Reed Morano, cinematographer.
5. The Air Inside Her (2011)
8 min | Short, Drama
When six year-old Katya explores the experience of death, she discovers life like she has never seen before.
Director: Darya Zhuk | Stars: Elena Solovey, Marusya Trofimova
02013.11.03: on Vimeo. Reed Morano, cinematographer.
6. Ghosts (2005)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fell in love with each other, but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. In the... See full summary »
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Julia Hummer, Sabine Timoteo, Marianne Basler, Aurélien Recoing
Votes: 1,627
02013.11.03: on disc from Netflix.
7. Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking (2010 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 77 min | Documentary, Comedy
Hollywood icon Carrie Fisher tells her raw and intoxicating true story in this documentary based on her hit stage production. Touching on stardom, mental illness, addiction and more, the ... See full summary »
Directors: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato | Stars: Carrie Fisher, Eddie Fisher, Harry Karl, Debbie Reynolds
Votes: 2,335
02013.11.03: on disc from MCPL. Carrie Fisher is a brutally honest and very funny storyteller.
8. Koch (2012)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary on Ed Koch, the mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989.
Director: Neil Barsky | Stars: Ed Koch, George Artz, Wayne Barrett, Abe Biderman
Votes: 334 | Gross: $0.34M
02013.11.03: on disc from the library.
9. Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2012)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
Ricky Jay is a world-renowned magician, author, historian and actor (often a mischievous presence in the films of David Mamet and Paul Thomas Anderson) -- and a performer who regularly ... See full summary »
Director: Molly Bernstein | Stars: Ricky Jay, Winston Simone, Dick Cavett, David Mamet
Votes: 1,006 | Gross: $0.15M
02013.11.04: on disc from the library
10. Three Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty Days (2010)
11 min | Short, Drama, Family
After serving 10 years in prison for murder, Cora returns home to her husband and daughter with the hope of leading a quiet, normal life. But in their small, Southern town, her violent past will never be forgotten...or forgiven.
Director: Travis Johns | Stars: Rain Phoenix, Travis Johns, Kadey Robinson, Trey McCurley
Votes: 6
02013.11.04: streamed on Vimeo. Reed Morano, cinematographer.
11. Old Joy (2006)
Unrated | 76 min | Drama
Two old pals reunite for a camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Daniel London, Will Oldham, Tanya Smith, Robin Rosenberg
Votes: 8,813 | Gross: $0.26M
02013.11.05: third of Kelly Reichardt's films I've seen in A Yearlong Film Viewing Balancing Act #yfvba streamed on MUBI.
12. Beautiful 2012 (2012)
90 min | Drama
Directors: Changwei Gu, Ann Hui, Tsai Ming-liang, Kim Tae-yong | Stars: Kong Hyo-jin, Kang-sheng Lee, Yan Lianke, Francis Ng
Votes: 61
02013.11.05: at IU Cinema. 4 short films.
13. The Foreigner (II) (2012)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Comedy
A remote Greek village must raise its population in order to avoid being cut off from the local government.
Director: Alethea C. Avramis | Stars: Philip Bretherton, Margarita Nasioula, Gerasimos Pavlou, Manolis Sormainis
Votes: 37
02013.11.06: streamed on Film Movement
14. Le Quattro Volte (2010)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama
An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have ... See full summary »
Director: Michelangelo Frammartino | Stars: Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpano, Artemio Vallone
Votes: 4,268 | Gross: $0.15M
02013.11.06: streamed on MUBI.
15.
The State (1993–2009)
Episode:
Episode #3.6
(1995)
TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy
Sketches include "Shower", "Planet Groovy", "Roughing It", "Barney McMacken", "Old Lighthouse Jeffers", "The Personal State", "Drugs", "Rug Brothers", and "Porcupine Racetrack".
Directors: Michael Patrick Jann, David Wain, Michael Dimich | Stars: Kevin Allison, Michael Ian Black, Robert Ben Garant, Todd Holoubek
Votes: 23
02013.11.07: streamed on MTV.com - Porcupine Racetrack musical.
16. That Guy... Who Was in That Thing (2012)
Not Rated | 79 min | Documentary
Follows sixteen actors who detail their ups and downs as they struggle to forge careers in Hollywood.
Directors: Ian Roumain, Michael Schwartz | Stars: Xander Berkeley, Bruce Davison, Craig Fairbrass, Zach Grenier
Votes: 1,688
02013.11.07: streamed on Netflix.
17. Mental (2012)
Not Rated | 116 min | Comedy, Drama
A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls whose mother has cracked from her husband's political ambitions and his infidelity.
Director: P.J. Hogan | Stars: Toni Collette, Anthony LaPaglia, Liev Schreiber, Rebecca Gibney
Votes: 5,201 | Gross: $0.02M
02013.11.08: on disc from MCPL. Enjoyed this one with my sweetie.
18. Arthur Newman (2012)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
A story of a man who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life, who then moves in with a woman who is also trying to leave her past behind.
Director: Dante Ariola | Stars: Colin Firth, Emily Blunt, Anne Heche, Sterling Beaumon
Votes: 7,808
02013.11.09: Streamed on Netflix.
19. Cuba, une odyssée africaine (2007 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 190 min | Documentary
From Che Guevara's military campaign to avenge Lumumba in the Congo up to the fall of apartheid in South Africa, 300,000 Cubans fought alongside African revolutionaries. CUBA, AN AFRICAN ... See full summary »
Director: Jihan El-Tahri
Votes: 126
02013.11.12: At Indiana University Cinema.
20. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
82 min | Drama, Comedy
On a dark, wet night a historic and regal Chinese cinema sees its final film. Together with a small handful of souls they bid "Goodbye, Dragon Inn".
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Chun Shih
Votes: 6,160 | Gross: $0.03M
02013.11.11: On disc from Netflix.
21. Earnie (2004)
19 min | Short, Drama
Near the US-Mexico border, Earnie discovers a dehydrated Mexican boy in a pickup. Risking all to protect his secret, the teenager nurses the boy back to health.
Director: Toshiharu Takatsuka | Stars: Isaac Alvarez, Lindsey Basham, J. Michael Trautmann
Votes: 7
02013.11.12 - Kat Westergaard, DP.
22. Gogol Bordello Non-Stop (2006)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
A behind-the-scenes look at the gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello and their charismatic front man Eugene Hütz.
Director: Margarita Jimeno | Stars: Manu Chao, Susan Donaldson, Eliot Ferguson, Thomas Gobena
Votes: 203
02013.11.12: streamed on MUBI.
23. For Ellen (2012)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
A struggling musician takes an overnight long-distance drive in order to fight his estranged wife for custody of their young daughter.
Director: So Yong Kim | Stars: Paul Dano, Margarita Levieva, Jon Heder, Jena Malone
Votes: 2,307 | Gross: $0.01M
02013.11.13: streamed on Netflix. Reed Morano, DP.
24. Needle (I) (2013)
21 min | Short, Drama
Young Lilly is going to get her ears pierced. A quarrel between her parents overwhelms the situation and directs it differently.
Director: Anahita Ghazvinizadeh | Stars: Meghan Moe Beitiks, Noah Lepawsky, Florence Winners
Votes: 128
02013.11.14: “25 New Faces” Tour at YES Cinema
25.
Futurestates (2010–2014)
Episode:
Refuge
(2013)
21 min | Sci-Fi
Sonia, a young Iranian journalism student and social activist, has recently fled to the US in hopes of an education and a better life. But when an escalating cyber-conflict between the US ... See full summary »
Director: Mohammad Gorjestani | Stars: Tasi Alabastro, Nikohl Boosheri, Camyar Chai, Thomas Cokenias
Votes: 22
02013.11.14: “25 New Faces” Tour at YES Cinema
26. Surveyor (2011)
24 min | Short, Western
After losing a horse to Comanche raiders and separating from his survey party, a government surveyor attempts the long trek back to town during the last days of the Mexican-American War.
Director: Scott Blake | Stars: Thomas Brophy, Leroy Chin, Nathan Fisher, Jay G. Hill
Votes: 10
02013.11.14: “25 New Faces” Tour at YES Cinema
27. Small, Beautifully Moving Parts (2011)
Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy
Sarah Sparks is pregnant and feeling wholly ambivalent, despite her boyfriend's pure enthusiasm. A committed tech-geek, she fears she is more interested in ultrasound technology than in ... See full summary »
Directors: Annie J. Howell, Lisa Robinson | Stars: Anna Margaret Hollyman, Rhasaan Oyasaba Manning, Josephine Clausen, Christian Menisis
Votes: 323 | Gross: $0.01M
02013.11.14: Streamed on Netflix.
28. The Flying Ace (1926)
65 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A WWI fighter pilot returns to his former job as a railroad detective, and must recover a satchel filled with $25,000 of stolen payroll, locate a missing employee, and capture the gang of thieves responsible.
Director: Richard E. Norman | Stars: Laurence Criner, Kathryn Boyd, Boise De Legge, Harold Platts
Votes: 310
02013.11.15: at IU Cinema.
29. The Extra Man (2010)
R | 108 min | Comedy
A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.
Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Stars: Kevin Kline, Paul Dano, Katie Holmes, Marian Seldes
Votes: 5,403 | Gross: $0.45M
02013.11.15: Streamed on Netflix.
30. Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (2012)
Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of the former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Director: Stephen Vittoria | Stars: Cornel West, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter
Votes: 483 | Gross: $0.04M
02013.11.16: on disc from MCPL
31. The Art of Catching (2012)
36 min | Documentary, Short, History
A journey through the lonely landscapes and forgotten histories of the Florida Everglades.
Director: Jessica Bardsley
02013.11.17: on Doc Alliance.
32. Bidder 70 (2012)
Not Rated | 73 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Tim DeChristopher is Bidder 70, a young man who derailed an illegal BLM oil and gas auction in a courageous act of civil disobedience.
Directors: Beth Gage, George Gage | Star: Tim DeChristopher
Votes: 140 | Gross: $0.00M
02013.11.17: on disc from MCPL
33. The Lesser Blessed (2012)
R | 86 min | Drama
A drama centered on a First Nations teenager trying to find his place in the modern world.
Director: Anita Doron | Stars: Joel Evans, Kiowa Gordon, Chloe Rose, Adam Butcher
Votes: 671
02013.11.18: streamed on Netflix
34. Café Lumière (2003)
108 min | Drama
The story revolves around Yoko Inoue, a pregnant woman in search of a cafe that was frequented by a Taiwanese composer whose life she is researching.
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara, Kimiko Yo
Votes: 3,325
02013.11.29: At IU Cinema.
35. The Gathering Squall (2011)
13 min | Short, Drama
On the precipice of adulthood, fourteen-year-old Lisellen Uhlmann is without a man in her life; her father is distant and boys in school ignore her. When Duncan Baits invites her to hang ... See full summary »
Director: Hannah Fidell | Stars: Sydney Hogan, Tyler Serle, Brett Shaw, Amy Edgerly
Votes: 27
02013.11.20: streamed on Vimeo
36. The Sweeney (2012)
R | 112 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A hardened detective in the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan police. Based on the '70s UK TV show.
Director: Nick Love | Stars: Ray Winstone, Plan B, Hayley Atwell, Steven Mackintosh
Votes: 20,408 | Gross: $0.03M
02013.11.20: streamed on Netflix.
37. The Last Keepers (2013)
PG-13 | 85 min | Family, Fantasy
When the teenage daughter of a reclusive family of artists falls in love with an unusual boy at school, she awakens mysterious powers and discovers ancient family secrets that will change her life forever.
Directors: Maggie Greenwald, Ilker Can Karagulle | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Virginia Madsen, Zosia Mamet, Olympia Dukakis
Votes: 2,156
02013.11.21: streamed on Netflix.
38. Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2003)
83 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary on Bayard Rustin, best-remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.
Directors: Nancy D. Kates, Bennett Singer | Stars: Bayard Rustin, Dorothy Jackson, John Rodgers, Louis John
Votes: 224
02013.11.23: Streamed on Netflix.
39. Spark (I) (2010)
12 min | Short, Sci-Fi
Spark is set in a future where fire is banned, clean air is precious, and an over-protective society fears the natural disasters of the past. Young 'Very,' is the quiet, new girl in an ... See full summary »
Directors: Bridget Savage Cole, Bajir Cannon | Stars: Camille Adolphe, Vashe Beechinor, Leonard Bici, Emma Louise Charap
02013.11.24: Streamed on Youtube
40. Gravity (2013)
PG-13 | 91 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Dr Ryan Stone, an engineer on her first time on a space mission, and Matt Kowalski, an astronaut on his final expedition, have to survive in space after they are hit by debris while spacewalking.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris, Orto Ignatiussen
Votes: 862,693 | Gross: $274.09M
02013.11.24: at Canary Creek Cinema with my sweetie. Brilliant.
41.
Op-Docs (2011– )
Episode:
The Umbrella Man
(2011)
6 min | Documentary
Short film documentary about the mysterious umbrella man that appears in the Zapruder film during the assassination of president John F Kennedy in Dallas, Texas in 1963, November 22.
Director: Errol Morris | Stars: Josiah Thompson, Mike Walker
Votes: 287
02013.11.25
42. Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (2012)
Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary
Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story depicts one man's wild, lifelong adventure of testing societal boundaries through his use of subversive art. This 98-minute film combines ... See full summary »
Director: Brad Bernstein | Stars: Tomi Ungerer, Maurice Sendak, Jules Feiffer, Michael Patrick Hearn
Votes: 335 | Gross: $0.03M
02013.11.25
43.
Scandal (2012–2018)
Episode:
Vermont Is for Lovers, Too
(2013)
TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Thriller
Olivia and the team must manage a potential crisis with the Josie Marcus campaign while investigating Operation Remington; Cyrus tries to take down Sally.
Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: Kerry Washington, Columbus Short, Scott Foley, Darby Stanchfield
Votes: 613
44. Mosquita y Mari (2012)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
After being assigned as study partners, two Chicana high schoolers find a bond that confuses them at times.
Director: Aurora Guerrero | Stars: Fenessa Pineda, Venecia Troncoso, Joaquín Garrido, Laura Patalano
Votes: 975
02013.11.26: on disc from Netflix
45. War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013)
Not Rated | 67 min | Documentary
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse.
Director: Robert Greenwald | Stars: Daniel Ellsberg, Franz Gayl, Seymour Hersh, David Carr
Votes: 216
02013.11.27: on disc from MCPL
46. Three Times (2005)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Romance
Three stories set in three times, 1911, 1966 and 2005. Two actors play the two main characters in each story.
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Shu Qi, Chang Chen, Fang Mei, Shu-Chen Liao
Votes: 6,148 | Gross: $0.15M
02013.11.27: on disc from MCPL
47. Either Way (2011)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Drama
Two employees of the Icelandic Road Administration spend the summer painting lines on the winding roads as they both find themselves at a crossroads in their lives.
Director: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson | Stars: Hilmar Guðjónsson, Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Valgerður Rúnarsdóttir
Votes: 634
02013.11.28: on disc from MCPL.
48. Black Nativity (2013)
PG | 93 min | Drama, Family, Music
A street-wise teen from Baltimore who has been raised by a single mother travels to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives, where he embarks on a surprising and inspirational journey.
Director: Kasi Lemmons | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige
Votes: 2,371 | Gross: $7.02M
49. Call Me Kuchu (2012)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary
In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the ... See full summary »
Directors: Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall | Stars: David Bahati, Lou Engle, Long John, David Kato
Votes: 830 | Gross: $0.01M
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