Thursday, April 7
7:00 PM | Cable Car Cinema
.jpg) The Frost
Spain/Norway, 2009, 103 mins.
Director: Ferran Audi
After the accidental death of their only son, Rita and Alfred feel such remorse that they engage in a fierce fight of mutual destruction. Guilt confronts them with a painful recognition: obsessed by their selfish little needs, they forgot to love their son. As truth is revealed, all their inner demons are unleashed and they desperately try to make amends for all those things they left undone in the past. Website
9:00 PM | Cable Car Cinema
.jpg) Friends and Lovers
USA, 2009, 90 mins.
Director: Ron Pike
Sometimes the Heart Needs a Mechanic. After a failed relationship with a waitress, a young gay man is challenged by his love for a straight mechanic. Website
Friday, April 8
7:30 PM | Cable Car Cinema
I.jpg) .M. Caravaggio
USA, 2010, 92 mins.
Director: Derek Stonebarger
Co-director Colin Huse in attendance
When life imitates art there are killer consequences. Set in the seedy and rarely photographed ghetto of Las Vegas known as 'Naked City', witness the rise and fall of a modern day Master, Ian Milano, who works and lives as 17th Century Italian Painter Caravaggio in order to forge his artistic genius and unlock his own sociopathic nature. Gods and saints: the subjects. Beggars and prostitutes: the models. 'I am an orphan. I am a drunk. I am a murderer. I.M. Caravaggio.' Website
9:30 PM | Cable Car Cinema
.jpg) Falling Overnight
USA, 2010, 84 mins.
The day before twenty-two year old Elliot has surgery to remove a brain tumor, he meets Chloe, a young photographer who takes him on an exhilarating journey through what could be his last night. Website
Saturday, April 9
7:00 PM | Cable Car Cinema
.jpg) The Bad Penny
USA, 2010, 93 mins.
Director Todd Bellanca in attendance
Undefeated boxer, Jack “The Ripper” Stemmons’ had his career destroyed by a St. Louis bookie. In a rage Jack attacks the gangster and is forced into hiding. Now, six years later, exiled in Bangkok, Jack is tracked down by a mysterious fight fan who lost everything on the rigged fight. Website
8:45 PM | Chace Center (Metcalf Auditorium) at RISD Museum
A L.jpg) onely Place For Dying
USA, 2010, 96 mins.
Director: Justin Eugene Evans
It is 1972. An abandoned Mexican prison sits alone in the dusty Chihuahua desert. KGB mole Nikolai Dzerzhinsky waits for his contact from the Washington Post. Dzerzhinsky holds explosive evidence against the CIA; information he will trade for asylum in the United States. Special Agent Robert Harper must obtain this evidence and kill Dzerzhinsky or risk the end of his CIA career. As the two men hunt each other they discover that the sins from their past destined them for this deadly confrontation. Winner of 12 film festival awards including 7 for Best Picture. Website
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