Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s A Very Long Engagment may be gone from the Dundee Theatre, but thanks to the Mary Riepma Ross, you can still see it.
Based on the acclaimed novel by Sebastien Japrisot, A Very Long Engagement was adaptated by Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Guillaume Laurant. It opens at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center on [...]

Dear Mirvish friends…
I just wanted to fill you in on the latest press fallout from our Oscar campaign for “Open House.” The Jan. 4 Hollywood Reporter declared our song “Sellin’ a Dream” as one of the Top 16 contenders for a Best Song nomination (albeit as “the longshot”). The ballots are now in [...]

Brad Anderson came to my attention in 2001, when I saw his Session 9, the only horror-film I can think of that takes place in the glaring light of day. Once the DVD I was watching, finished, I made a mental note that this was a guy I wanted to keep a look out for.
Unfortunately, [...]

Quirky. Bizarre.
Those are excellent words to describe French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet. After making several shorts, this self-taught director and his longtime creative partner, Marc Caro, came up with Delicatessen (1991), a post-apocalyptic love story that contains a wonderful squeaky bed sequence and the menace of cannibalism.
Four years later and it was The City of [...]

Zhang Yimou’s HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS combines excitement, romance and astonishing physical beauty in the Tang Dynasty story of an undercover policeman (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who falls in love with the blind daughter (Zhang Ziyi) of a resistance leader. HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS will open at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center on Friday, [...]

The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center reopens Friday, Jan. 7, with two new movies: Undertow by David Gordon Green and The Machinist by Brad Anderson.
The Machinist, which is by Brad Anderson, is about Trevor Reznik (Christian Bale), a man who can barely tell whether he exists anymore. He hasn