I Am Love (10/5)
Set at the turn of the millennium in Milan, Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Julia, Michael Clayton) stars in the “often soaringly beautiful melodrama” (New York Times) about the forces of passion and unconditional love centered on the wealthy Recchi family. Upon retiring as the head of a massive industrial company, family patriarch Eduardo Sr. makes the surprising decision in naming his successor to split the power between his son Tancredi and grandson Edo. Edo instead dreams of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio, a handsome and talented chef. Adoring and attentive, Edo’s mother and Tancredi’s wife, Emma (Swinton), is the heart of the family. When she falls quickly and deeply in love with Antonio, her very existence is shocked to the core as she embarks on a passionate love affair that will change her family forever. Directed by Luca Guadagnino, I AM LOVE is “a rich family drama that is both a sensual celebration of bourgeois pleasures and a showcase for Tilda Swinton” (Los Angeles Times).
Oxford Murders (10/5)
When a woman is viciously murdered in Oxford, her body is discovered by two strangers whose lives are immediately changed forever: Arthur Seldom (John Hurt), a prestigious professor of logic, and Martin (Elijah Wood), a young graduate student who has just arrived at the university hoping to be one of Seldom’s students. It quickly becomes clear that this is the first in a series of murders, all of which are announced by the murderer with strange mathematical symbols. Professor and student join forces to try and crack the code, and thus begins an elaborate puzzle in which nothing is as it seems and the truth is elusive. Based on Guillermo Martinez’s award-winning novel, THE OXFORD MURDERS is an edgy and intelligent thriller from cult-favorite director, Alex de la Iglesia.
S&Man (10/12)
When cult filmmaker JT Petty ventures into the dark world of underground horror fetish film industry, things don’t exactly go as planned. As he begins to examine the classic comparison between filmmaking and voyeurism within the horror genre, he is introduced to a collective of what he believes to be either creative filmmakers just meeting the demand of their disturbed audiences or actual deviants and possibly murderers themselves. One of the most notorious of these film series that he comes across is called “S&MAN,” produced by a rather unassuming man. As Petty delves into the making of this film, he soon discovers that the victims might not be acting after all, and he may be next…
Smash His Camera (10/19)
A philosophical probing look at our culture’s relationship with celebrity, SMASH HIS CAMERA documents the story of infamous New York City paparazzo Ron Galella, legendary for his restraining order from Jackie O and losing five teeth at the hands of Marlon Brando, all in the service of generating some of the most iconic and memorable celebrity photographs of the 1970s. Nominated for a Grand Jury Prize Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, director Leon Gast also won the Directing Award for his work.
