Humpday
Sunday, September 6th - 7:00 and 9:30- 94 minutes
Dir. Lynn Shelton - USA 2009

This Sundance hit in the mold of the mumble-core minigenre turns Judd Apatow-style bromance on its head. Ten years out of college Andrew is a drifting artist, out of touch with Ben, his old friend, who is now married and has a steady job. Reunited at a party, the two friends are egged into entering a film festival for amateur pornographers by creating the ultimate "straight man-on-man" picture. The toast of the indie film circuit, this comedy "will bury itself deep within your most intimate areas until its won over your heart, your soul, and your wicked sense of humor." (Eric Davis, Cinematical)

Princess
Sunday, September 13th - 7:00 and 9:30- 90 minutes
Dir. Anders Morgenthaler - Denmark 2006

This boundary-pushing story combines Japanese style animation, live footage, and a twisted sense of social justice in the break out film of one of Denmark's hottest new directors. Recently orphaned, Mia goes to live with her uncle, August, a troubled ex-priest, after her mother, a famous porn star named "Princess", is found murdered. The two begin a rampage to clear the world of the filthy images that haunt them. Noted as one of the most progressive and troubled animated features in years, "Princess is undeniably a dazzling debut and a superbly crafted achievement in adult animation." (Colin Geddes, Toronto International Film Festival)

Serbis
Sunday, September 20th - 7:00 and 9:30- 90 minutes
Dir. Brillante Mendoza - Phillipines 2007

Brillante Mendoza directs this story of a family-run adult movie theater located in Angeles City, Philippines. Unflinching as a documentary, Serbis peers into the poverty and exploitation that governs the lives of the Pineda family as they operate their peculiar business through public and family crises. "Absurdly comic and harrowingly explicit," and a Cannes favorite, Serbis is "too surreal and conceptual to be taken as docu-verisimilitude, but it needn't settle for such conventions when every frame is alive, breathing dank sweat and sighing desperation." (Kevin Lee, Slate Magazine)

Rusalka
Sunday, September 27th - 7:00 and 9:30 - 115 minutes
Dir. Anna Melikya - Russia 2007

A contemporary fairy tale incorporating magic realism in the vein of Amelie, this Russian box office hit centers on Alisa, a rebellious teenager fresh out of a specialty school, who moves with her estranged mother to a lonely high-rise in Moscow. Friendless, lovesick, and stuck in a boring day job, Alisa's frustrations are released when she discovers that she's telekinetic. Armed with her unique power, she begins to toy with and torment the neighborhood boys in search of something resembling true love. A smash hit of the Berlin Film Festival, this sarcastic-yet-delightful love story is rife with "bravura visuals, emotional richness, and a charming personality all of its own." (Variety).

The Beaches of Agnes
Sunday, October 11th - 7:00 and 9:30 PM- 110 minutes
Dir. Agnes Varda- France 2008

This charming memoir by French director Agnes Varda is told by the talented octogenarian herself. Varda retells without pretense her star-studded and tumultuous life in film and love. "A genuinely playful wander down memory-lane by one of Frances' most revered filmmakers." (The Hollywood Reporter)

A bizarre spirited alumnus of the Cannes film festival that spins the 70s Americana into a gritty, Latin noir. A bell-bottomed portrait of a petty thief (Raul) with a passion for "Saturday Night Fever" and a coif to rival John Tarvolta's. Making money as a mugger under Pinochet's military dictatorship, Raul eventually tries to groove all the way to disco stardom on a Chilean television show. "More the an indelible portrait of a sociopath with the soul of a zombie, Tony Manero is an extremely dark meditation on borrowed cultural identity.) (Stephen Holden, The New York Times)

Pontypool
Sunday, October 25th -7:00 and 9:30 PM - 96 minutes
Dir. Bruce McDonald - Canada 2008

A small Canadian zombie film set in a seemingly isolated radio station full of linguistic horror. While the world comes down around them, the few employees of an isolated radio station listen in and sift through the sounds of a collapsing society. Tension builds in this smart film as language becomes the virus that literally eats away at your head. "Pontypool is, in all senses, brain food-and juicy." (The New York Observer)

Impolex
Sunday, November 1st - 7:00 and 9:30 PM - 73 minutes
A discussion with the director after the 7pm screening
Dir. Alex Ross Perry - USA 2009

First time director Alex Ross Perry describes his first film as an "aimlessly obfuscating journey into nonsensical frustration". Described by the New Yorker as "a Second World War pastiche thriller", Impolex follows Tyrone, an American soldier assigned to locate and disarm two German missiles, who engages in conversation with an increasingly bizarre cast of characters.

Somers Town
Sunday, November 8th -7:00 and 9:30 PM - 71 minutes
Dir. Shane Meadows - UK 2008

Director Shane Meadows' follow up to This is England follows the adventures of Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) as he explores Northern London with his friend, a Polish immigrant named Marek. Stuck in gloomy Somers Town the two make the best of ordinary adolescent activities in this "small but important film about small and important lives." (E. Weitzman, New York Daily News)

O'Horten
Sunday, November 15th - 7:00 and 9:30 PM - 90 minutes
Dir. Ben Hamer - Norway 2007

Odd Horten is forced to retire after working at the training station for forty years. Lost and confused without the orderly, reliable environment of the train station, Odd finds himself struggling to navigate through the absurd and unpredictable real world. "O'Horten is the precise, deadpan drama of the slapstick existentialism-a Bent Hamer movie, in other words." (Ty Burr, The Boston Globe)

The Woman without a Head
Sunday, November 22nd - 7:00 and 9:30 PM - 87 minutes
Dir. Lucrecia Martel - Argentina 2008

Lucrecia Martel's third feature film is set in Northern Argentina, a landscape Martel has successfully mined in her first film (La Cienaga and The Holy Girl). Veronica, a middle-aged Argentinean whose melt down after possibly running over a child unhinges her from reality, is the anchor of this "brilliant, maddeningly enigmatic puzzle of a movie." (Stephen Holden, The New York Times)

Thirst
Sunday, December 6th - 7:00 and 9:30 PM - 113 minutes
Dir. Park Chan-wook - South Korea 2009

Park Chan-wook's second feature after his "Vengeance Trilogy" tells the story of Priest Sang-hyeon, who becomes a vampire after being subject to an experimental blood-transfusion. Sang-hyeon struggles to square his religious beliefs with his newly acquired appetite for blood. "A gaudy, daring, operatic and bloody funny provocation of a melodrama from Park Chan-wook." (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly)