Featuring extensive interviews with Diana Kennedy and famed chefs José Andrés, Rick Bayless, Gabriela Cámara and Alice Waters, Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy provides an intimate look at the leading expert on Mexican cuisine. The author of nine acclaimed cookbooks and a two-time James Beard Award winner, Diana is called the “Julia Child of Mexico”, but the feisty cook prefers “The Mick Jagger of Mexican Cuisine”.
“Cinematic comfort food of the first order.”
Variety
Winner of multiple awards, including the Queer Lion from the 75th Annual Venice Film Festival, José is a gripping, layered and beautifully honest story about one working-class young man’s struggle to find himself. Made in the neorealist filmmaking tradition, the film is a nuanced and vivid look at being gay in Central America.
“Confident visual sense… a sensitive portrait with a depth of feeling.”
The Hollywood Reporter
SPACESHIP EARTH is the true, stranger-than-fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991, spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2. The experiment was a worldwide phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life threatening ecological disaster and a growing criticism that it was nothing more than a cult. The bizarre story is both a cautionary tale and a hopeful lesson of how a small group of dreamers can potentially re-imagine a new world.
“Sensational. A wonder to behold.”
Polygon
In this playful new film from writer-director Christophe Honoré, we meet Maria, a woman with a wandering eye. After a heated argument with her husband of 20 years, she spends the night in room 212 of the hotel across the street from their home. There, she has a bird’s eye view of her apartment, her husband, and her marriage. In this comic romp, she confronts her past lovers and relationships on one magical night, fantasizing about the lives she could’ve lived and wondering if she’s made the right decisions. Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, Chiara Mastroianni!
“Casts a warming glow that should attract incurable romantics, nostalgic cinephiles.”
Screen Daily
On the day before her birthday, young Akane meets the mysterious alchemist Hippocrates, who brings her through a basement and into a fantastical world full of magic and color. Though things seem peaceful on the surface, he reveals this world is in danger and as the destined Goddess of the Green Wind, it is Akane’s responsibility to bring back the rain and save this world from the terror known as Zan Gu. Joining Akane on her journey is Pipo, an alchemist in training, and her adventurous aunt Chii. The only problem? Akane just wants to go home.
Directed by the critically acclaimed Keiichi Hara, whose past works include award winning films COLORFUL and MISS HOKUSAI.
“An absolute delight”
Cinemania
#SupportMovieTheaters and stream Exhibition on Screen’s I, CLAUDE MONET – available only from May 1 – 7, 2020!
From award-winning director Phil Grabsky comes this fresh new look at Monet – possibly the world’s favourite artist – through his own words.
Using letters and other private writings I, Claude Monet reveals new insight into the man who painted Impression, Sunrise, the picture that gave birth to impressionism, and who became perhaps the most influential artist of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Monet’s life is a gripping tale about a man who, behind his sun-dazzled canvases, suffered from feelings of depression, loneliness, even suicide. However, as his art developed and his love of gardening led to the glories of his Giverny garden, his humour, insight and love of life are revealed. Told through Monet’s own words and shot on location at the very spots he painted, the film features his most loved paintings in an unforgettable, immersive art experience.
“Intense and intimate… A rare insight.”
The Observer
In this black comedy of middle-aged masculinity gone awry, Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin (The Artist) is a recent divorcee who becomes obsessed with a vintage fringed deerskin jacket that begins to exert an uncanny hold on him. Set in a sleepy French alpine village, he falls into the guise of an independent filmmaker and befriends a trusting bartender and aspiring editor (Adèle Haenel, Portrait of a Lady on Fire) who becomes his collaborator on a movie that will document a surprising new goal he sets himself.
“Hilarious and unhinged.”
Indiewire
BEYOND THE VISIBLE: HILMA AF KLINT
Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange works without precedent in painting. The subject of a recent smash retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, af Klint was for years an all-but-forgotten figure in art historical discourse, before her long-delayed rediscovery. Director Halina Dryschka’s dazzling, course correcting documentary describes not only the life and craft of af Klint, but also the process of her mischaracterization and erasure by both a patriarchal narrative of artistic progress and capitalistic determination of artistic value.
“CRITIC’S PICK. Bristles with the excitement of discovery and also with the impatience that recognition has taken so long. It refreshes the eyes and the mind.”
New York Times
Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history. THE BOOKSELLERS takes viewers inside their small but fascinating world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers.
“A documentary for anyone who can still look at a book and see a dream, a magic teleportation device, an object that contains the world.”
Variety
When so many are struggling for connection, inspiration and hope, Fantastic Fungi brings us together as interconnected creators of our world.Fantastic Fungi, directed by Louie Schwartzberg, is a consciousness-shifting film that takes us on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet, an underground network that can heal and save our planet. Through the eyes of renowned scientists and mycologists like Paul Stamets, best-selling authors Michael Pollan, Eugenia Bone, Andrew Weil and others, we become aware of the beauty, intelligence and solutions the fungi kingdom offers us in response to some of our most pressing medical, therapeutic, and environmental challenges.
“A must see for anyone interested in life, death and the pursuit of the planet’s well-being.”
Forbes
On April 21st, as we prepare to celebrate our good earth, and all of our efforts to sustain it, we invite you to discover the magic beneath us on Fungi Day. The global mycelium network reconnects for a virtual gathering as the Fantastic Fungi team hosts a full day of conversations with Director Louie Schwartzberg, mycologist Paul Stamets, and many special guests including researchers, educators and solutionaries responding to some of our planet’s most pressing environmental and global challenges.
Participation in the virtual gathering is FREE! Just register today at fantasticfungi.com and to receive a link to join the conversation via the platform of your choice! Make sure to watch the film ahead of the Virtual Gathering!
