Staff & Board Picks
Always eclectic, our continuous series of picks from our staff and board.
Our talented staff and Board want to share these films with you. Running the gamut of high and low brow, these often-nostalgic picks represent the depth and breadth of our collective taste and always promise the opportunity to see a beloved film on the big screen with an audience.
The Films
Be Kind Rewind
Comedy
Drama
DCP
Marketing Director Milan chose BE KIND REWIND! Video stores are a culture in decline, and in two months, another one…
Marketing Director Milan chose BE KIND REWIND! Video stores are a culture in decline, and in two months, another one is doomed to demolition, Passaic, New Jersey’s very own Be Kind Rewind. As if that wasn’t bad enough, due to a freak accident, all the tapes there were recently erased. What is to be done when someone now wants to rent a film? Other people would simply give up and succumb to misery, but not Mike and Jerry – they have an answer that is as simple as it is crazy: remake it! And so begins an unexpected new chapter in the life of Be Kind Rewind, from a mere place for video rentals to a production facility where the customer’s dream versions of their favourite movies become true – because everybody prefers home-crafted to factory-made, right? A reverie about community life and the unique glory of all art made imperfectly. A film for the ages, as the contradiction between professional and amateur, administration and passion, won’t dissolve any time soon.
Spring Breakers
DCP
Crime
Cinema Associate Ian chose SPRING BREAKERS! Brit (Ashley Benson), Faith (Selena Gomez), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens) and Cotty (Rachel Korine) are…
Cinema Associate Ian chose SPRING BREAKERS! Brit (Ashley Benson), Faith (Selena Gomez), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens) and Cotty (Rachel Korine) are best friends anxious to cut loose on their own spring break adventure, but they lack sufficient funds. After holding up a restaurant for quick cash, the girls head to the shore in a stolen car for what they discover is the party of a lifetime. They’re thrown in jail—but quickly bailed out by Alien (James Franco), a local rapper, drug pusher and arms dealer who lures them into a criminal underbelly that’s as lurid as it is liberating for a close-knit gang of girlfriends who are still figuring out their path.
The Hunger Games
DCP
Adventure
Cinema Associate Kamryn chose THE HUNGER GAMES! In what was once North America, the Capitol of Panem maintains its hold…
Cinema Associate Kamryn chose THE HUNGER GAMES! In what was once North America, the Capitol of Panem maintains its hold on its 12 districts by forcing them each to select a boy and a girl, called Tributes, to compete in a nationally televised event called the Hunger Games. Every citizen must watch as the youths fight to the death until only one remains. District 12 Tribute Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) has little to rely on, other than her hunting skills and sharp instincts, in an arena where she must weigh survival against love.
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