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Any Day Now
USA, 2012, 97 min.
Alan Cumming gives a brilliant performance as Rudy Donatello, a star attraction at an LA drag bar in the 70s who “adopts” an abandoned child with Down Syndrome with the help of his DA lover, Paul (Garret Dillahunt). Multiple Audience Award winner. Audience Awards: Tribeca, Chicago, Seattle Film Fest... more
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Beware of Mr. Baker
USA, 2012, 92 min.
If you loved this year’s doc breakout Searching for Sugar Man, then you will not want to miss Mr. Baker, a darker, but equally fascinating, journey into the soul of a musical genius, the legendary rock-n-roll/jazz drummer Ginger Baker.... more
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Bound by Flesh
USA, 2012, 95 min.
Riveting documentary about Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins who enjoyed and endured a rollercoaster show-business career in the first half of the twentieth century – including a stage act with the young Bob Hope. They also appeared in Tod Browning’s legendary horror film Freaks.... more
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Defiant Requiem
USA, 2012, 85 min.
A memorial concert reawakens the story of an artistic uprising in the Nazi concentration camp, Terezin, where a chorus of 150 inmates confronts the Nazis face-to-face ... and sings to them what they dare not say.... more
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Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey
USA, 2012, 113 min.
How to replace Steve Perry? That was the dilemma for anthemic rockers Journey after their lead singer quit the band. Eventually they found the perfect solution via YouTube: a street kid who fronted a Filipino cover band.... more
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Electrick Children
USA, 2012, 96 min.
A Mormon teenager (Julia Garner) discovers a forbidden cassette of rock music on her 15th birthday. She’s never heard anything like it – but is it enough to have caused an immaculate conception, as she believes? “Irresistibly fizzy as a sachet of Pop Rocks.” Variety... more
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Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story
USA, 2012, 99 min.
A thoroughly engrossing documentary about “the most famous children’s book author you have never heard of”, whose subversive and brilliant work has won him legions of fans… and more than a few enemies.... more
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A Fierce Green Fire
USA, 2012, 114 min.
A fervent and engrossing account of environmentalism, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mark Kitchell's five-part history offers up righteous fury and startling realities about the short-sighted past, perilous present, and uncertain future of our relationship with nature.... more
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First Comes Love
USA, 2012, 108 min.
Filmmaker Nina Davenport chronicles her decision to become a single mother at 41 and unexpected developments she confronts in the act of conceiving and carrying the child (including speedbumps in her relationship with the sperm donor, her gay best friend), in this funny, moving and revealing explor... more
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The Girl
USA, 2012, 94 min.
Abbie Cornish gives a superb performance, at once contained and emotionally raw, as a troubled young working class Texan woman who loses custody of her child and sees an opportunity to make quick cash transporting Mexicans across the border.... more
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I Do
USA, 2012, 91 min.
Jack has dedicated himself to raising his niece since the tragic death of his brother seven years earlier – so when his work visa runs out, a “green card” marriage seems like an easy option. Until he falls in love with another man… Winner: Audience Award, Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival... more
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Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp
USA, 2012, 88 min.
An African-American writer’s authentic treatment of inner city street life sells 6 million books –Malcolm X? Alex Haley? James Baldwin? No. His name is Robert Beck, aka Iceberg Slim, and his story is truly remarkable and surprisingly moving.... more
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Informant
USA, 2012, 82 min.
Possibly the year’s best thinking man’s who-done-it, Jamie Meltzer’s brilliant political thriller doc has a twist: we know who done it. The question is: what makes a man go from militant leftwing activist to FBI informant?... more
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Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean
USA, 2012, 93 min.
Influenced by the New Queer Cinema of the ’90s, Joshua Tree, 1951 imagines the pre-fame days of cinematic icon James Dean in all his bisexual glory. Inspired by facts, and maybe some fictions, about Dean’s short, tragic life, the movie is a poetic rumination on the dream of being a star and i... more
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Koch
USA, 2012, 95 min.
Love him or hate him, Ed Koch personifies the image of New York and the big city mayor. Granted unprecedented access, filmmaker Neil Barsky engages the still feisty 87-year-old Koch in a probing assessment of his life, career, and legacy.... more
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La Source
USA, 2012, 71 min.
When Princeton students learn that their custodian Josue Lajeunesse has a lifelong dream to build an aqueduct in Haiti to bring clean water to his home village of La Source, they rally to his support. Then, the 2010 earthquake hits…... more
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Love, Marilyn
USA, 2012, 105 min.
A dozen contemporary actresses (including Glenn Close, Viola Davis and Marisa Tomei) read from Marilyn Monroe’s recently discovered private papers in Liz Garbus’s multi-faceted, beautifully-made portrait of the quintessential twentieth century sex symbol.... more
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No Place on Earth
USA, 2012, 83 min.
“Maybe some Jews lived down there.” These words mark the beginning of an incredible story: 38 Ukrainian Jews who hid deep inside some of the longest caves in the world for 511 days to escape the Nazis.... more
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Out of the Clear Blue Sky
USA, 2012, 107 min.
The riveting, never-before-told inside story of Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial firm headquartered on the top of the World Trade Center that suffered the largest number of casualties of any organization on 9/11, and of its remarkable and controversial CEO Howard Lutnick.... more
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Pad Yatra: A Green Odyssey
USA, 2012, 70 min.
In this adventure eco documentary, 700 people trek 450 miles on foot across the rooftop of the world, the Himalayas, bringing environmental education, planting 33,000 trees, and carrying off half a ton of litter on their backs.... more
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A Place at the Table
USA, 2012, 84 min.
49 million people in the U.S.—one in four children—don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Looking at three cases in close up, this stirring and important documetary makes a simple but eloquent argument that our nation must solve this problem for everyone’s benefit.... more
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Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
USA, 2011, 89 min.
Take a thoroughly enjoyable ride with this American original – the writer, editor, journalist, raconteur, celebrity George Plimpton. Did I leave anything out, George?... more
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Putzel
USA, 2012, 88 min.
Walter (Jack Carpenter) — a “putzel” (little putz) — is content to succeed his uncle in the family’s fish business. But his uncle’s new paramour Sally (Melanie Lynskey) sees potential in the lad… Jason Chaet’s engaging debut is a breezy coming-of-age tale.... more
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Room 237
USA, 2012, 104 min.
Stanley Kubrick’s enigmatic masterpiece The Shining goes under the microscope courtesy of 5 brilliant – but possibly insane – interpretations from its most obsessive fans. Could it really be about the genocide of the Indians? And why did he change that room number to 237?... more
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Smiling Through the Apocalypse - Esquire in the 60s
USA, 2012, 98 min.
An intimate and engaging portrait of Harold Hayes, the brilliant editor of Esquire magazine in its 1960s peak, who fostered the leading lights of the New Journalism, including such talents as Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, William F Buckley and Norman Mailer.... more
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Stand Up Guys
USA, 2012, 94 min.
They don't make 'em like they used to! Pacino, Walken and Arkin play former gangsters who reunite for one last night on the town in this spicy, tongue-in-cheek, geriatric action comedy.... more
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United in Anger: A History of Act Up
USA, 2012, 93 min.
A riveting tear through the tumultuous history of Act Up, arguably one of the most effective political action movements of the past half-century, United in Anger traces the origins, outrageous (to some) exploits and achievements of this seminal group... more
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A Whisper To A Roar
USA, 2012, 95 min.
Inspired by the work of Stanford’s Center for Democracy, Ben Moses set to chronicle the accomplishments of five democracy activists, in Egypt, Malaysia, Ukraine, Venezuela and Zimbabwe. “By turns shocking and inspiring.” - New York Times.... more
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