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GreenCine Presents: Such a Pretty Little Beach at the Yerba Buena Center, 7/5
Our next screening at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will be on July 5, as we proudly present the exceptional noir-ish rarity Une si jolie petite plage (Such a Pretty Little Beach/Riptide). Yves Allégret's work is unjustifiably little-known in America, yet the director can be seen as a clear bridge between the pre-war Gallic filmmakers and the celebrated nouvelle vague. Such a Pretty Little Beach is a masterpiece of crime cinema, full of atmospheric tension, terror and tribulation.
Wednesday, July 5, 7:30pm
Une si jolie petite plage by Yves Allégret (1949, 105 min., 16mm, in French with English subtitles)
$7/$5 GreenCine and YBCA Members, Students, Seniors
"What I used to be able to pass off as a bad summer could now potentially turn into a bad life." -- Kicking and Screaming
From the "Didja Know" Department: Unlike our competitors, GreenCine ships out and receives discs on Saturdays! Our shipping department is actively shipping and receiving discs to our members six days a week. And on the seventh day, we rest, before the process begins anew all over again.
Summertime happens to be one of the finer, and more underrated, love stories on film. David Lean, working in the period between his modest films and the more epic ones for which he'd become famous, crafted a beautiful ode to Venice, Italy - and to star Katharine Hepburn. The freshly restored print on the crisp Criterion DVD does justice to the film's vibrant Technicolor and will make you want to get to Venice as soon as possible. But Hepburn's the centerpiece, in one of her best - and loneliest - of roles.
$22.46.
My Family and Other Animals is a delightful made-for-British telly movie based on Gerald Durrell's memoirs that can only be faulted for being too short. Starring the always resplendent Imelda Staunton as the matriarch of an eccentric brood, the youngest of which (Gerald, played by Eugene Simon) has a passion bordering on obsession for critters - setting up his future as a famed biologist. Set mostly in Corfu during WWII, where the family holes up in various ramshackle mansions, the film is charming and full of unexpected pleasures, as well as a fine cast both human and animal.
Buy now for only $13.45.
William Shakespeare's Richard the Second is low-budget Bard, a DV adaptation updating the play to modern times (the players here wearing battle fatigues and sporting Uzis). "Bold and imaginative interpretation of the little-seen and little-appreciated Shakespeare drama," stated FilmThreat. "The promise of a great filmmaker in director John Farrell's work is also apparent in the fruits of his imaginative labors... one of the finest contemporary Shakespeare films." See Richard II now or anytime via GreenCine's Video-on-Demand service.
Summer's a fairly slow time of year for new releases, but this week's list features some good 'uns:
Caché (2005; $22.87). Winner of the Best Director, Fipresci (critics') prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at Cannes last year, Michael Haneke's Caché has also become what for these days is an extreme rarity, a non-English language box office hit in the US and the UK. The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw declares it a "masterpiece: a compelling politico-psychological essay about the denial and guilt mixed into the foundations of western prosperity." With Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche.
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005; $17.95). A new film aims to school the world about the power of the seminal punk band The Minutemen, whose creative force was at its very peak when brought to a tragic halt. We Jam Econo is a sorely overdue eulogy of sorts; last year, Craig Phillips got co-director Tim Irwin on the phone to talk about the making of the film and the power of the music.
Why We Fight (2004; $21.60). In February, Hannah Eaves spoke with director Eugene Jarecki about his documentary, Why We Fight, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, which addresses, in part, how the US ended up in Iraq. She also asks what it is he admires in Dwight Eisenhower and Frank Capra. The film's "analysis of our imperial war machine is considerably more sober and self-contained than Michael Moore's," wrote J Hoberman, and "forcefully argues that the much abused word freedom cannot paper over the conflicts between capitalism and democracy."
Sean Axmaker revels in the newly restored version of Army of Shadows and calls for more of Jean-Pierre Melville's seminal work to be made available. [Also: GreenCine's Craig has a few thoughts on Shadows, too.]
GreenCine Daily, our "indispensable" blog (Wall Street Journal), takes a look inside the latest issues of Film Quarterly and CineACTION! (emphasis theirs).
Here's a special note from our friends at Docurama regarding a cool new opportunity. Check our home page for a connected trivia contest, too, for the Docurama Film Festival DVD box set. Special offer: Anyone who purchases the set from GreenCine during the first thirty days will be mailed a free Docurama messenger bag.
Dear GreenCine members,
I would like to welcome you to the first ever Docurama Film Festival, a new way to experience the excitement of a festival, and most importantly the films, anywhere, and at any time on DVD. There are over 500 successful film festivals in the U.S. each year, and if you've ever been to one you'll know why. There's a unique energy and "buzz" around the films at a festival, with such a broad range of artistic talent and films introducing fascinating characters and topics that audiences would never get the chance to see anywhere else. And yet so often, when these festivals close their doors, scores of amazing, ground-breaking films disappear, never to be seen again. Until now. The 10 films I have selected to open Docurama's very first festival truly embody the festival spirit to the extent that they showcase astonishing, cutting edge, films that you can watch from the comfort of your own living room.
Enjoy,
Liz Ogilvie
Head Programmer
And thus, the list of the week is one we concocted a while back to honor one of our favorite distributors of excellent documentary films: yes, Docurama. A list that is actually four lists, to put their lengthy catalog into bite(byte)-sized pieces.
Our next screening at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will be on July 5, as we proudly present the exceptional noir-ish rarity Une si jolie petite plage (Such a Pretty Little Beach/Riptide). Yves Allégret's work is unjustifiably little-known in America, yet the director can be seen as a clear bridge between the pre-war Gallic filmmakers and the celebrated nouvelle vague. Such a Pretty Little Beach is a masterpiece of crime cinema, full of atmospheric tension, terror and tribulation.
Wednesday, July 5, 7:30pm Une si jolie petite plage by Yves Allégret (1949, 105 min., 16mm, in French with English subtitles)
$7/$5 GreenCine and YBCA Members, Students, Seniors
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Get Real is such an appealing coming of age-slash-coming out story that it's also very easily overlooked as inconsequential. Ben Silverstone (very appealing) plays a shy teen who falls for a very closeted prep school track star, who also happens to have a girlfriend. While this British film is occasionally clumsy, it's also quite affectionate and ultimately - as promised in the title - real. Silverstone in particular is a standout.
$14.45.
Sunday Bloody Sunday may sound like a war movie but the battles depicted here are of the pyschological kind, one of the few films of the period to honestly and matter of factly portray homosexual relationships without pretense. Forever underrated director John Schlesinger, basing the film in part on his own personal life, crafted a contemporary drama that remains as modern as it was in 1972 and most importantly, as a showcase for terrific acting: Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson are masterful here.
Buy now for only $10.95.
The independent romantic comedy Song of Songs holds many pleasures. Billboard magazine deemed it "a wonderfully engaging film...Definitely a must see!" Led by an engaging ensemble cast of unknowns and buoyed along by Eve Selis' songs, Tobin Smith's debut effort also surprises with a neat little ending. You can watch Song of Songs now via GreenCine's Video-on-Demand service.
Music lovers will be pleased with this week's new releases, as will horror aficionados, and fans of cryptic political thrillers:
"Night Watch (2004; $20.87), the occult thriller that shattered box office records when it was released in Russia during the summer of 2004, not only represents an alternate universe - it is one," writes J. Hoberman in the Village Voice. "Despite its cheesy blood and thunder and ludicrous 'Sunshine Makers' metaphysics, this is the funniest apocalypse I've seen since George Romero's Land of the Dead."
Syriana (2005; $21.73). "A movie that demands and rewards close attention," writes A.O. Scott in the New York Times. "Loosely based on the memoirs of a C.I.A. veteran, Robert Baer, on whom [George] Clooney's character is modeled, it aims to be a great deal more than a standard geopolitical thriller and thereby succeeds in being one of the best geopolitical thrillers in a very long time." Also starring Jeffrey Wright and Matt Damon and written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, who does for oil here what he did for drugs in Traffic.
The Loved One (1965; $14.45). "Wildly and unpredictably funny, The Loved One careens from scene to scene so quickly you may not be able to keep up with the jokes," writes Christopher Null at filmcritic.com. "The black and white photography from Haskell Wexler is stark, reminiscent of Dr. Strangelove (as is the whole film - with Jonathan Winters in two roles)."
Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel (2005; $14.95). In true "live fast die young" rock 'n' roll fashion, Gram Parsons died in 1973 of a drug overdose, leaving behind a timeless song catalog, as well as one of the more tragic and twisted life stories in rock history. Gandulf Hennig's documentary sheds light on the fascinating, short life of the influential musician. Recently, Heather Johnson spoke to the German filmmaker on the eve of the documentary's release.
New anime:Sister Princess: Complete Collection (2005; $35.45 for the box). Wataru Minakami's butler sends him to school at Stargazer's Hill in a mysterious place called Promised Island, and wouldn't you know, the place is crawling with cute girls. The catch: they're all his sisters. (The most recent volume in the series is the seventh.)
In the aforementioned Syriana, Clooney's CIA field officer is loosely based on Robert Baer, whose story is told in his bestselling memoir, See No Evil. Baer's latest work inspired a film, too: The Cult of the Suicide Bomber, "an eye-opening portrait of the overwhelming adoration suicide bombers inspire in their communities and families," as Hannah Eaves puts it in her interview.
GreenCine Daily, which was just called "indispensable" by the Wall Street Journal, wraps up the Seattle Int'l Film Fest. And then of course there's the usual abundant coverage of cinematic happenings.
This week's Genre of the Week is Gay and Lesbian film, in honor of this month's ongoing celebration of Gay Pride. As Gary Morris writes in introducing his primer on the subject, "[t]he history of queer cinema stretches almost as far back as movies themselves, though, as with all queer history, interpretations in this realm are always debatable." And these films, especially recently, have crossed into other genres - from Westerns to noir to road movies to, of course, romance. Go in and out of the celluloid closet with this fabulous read.
The member list of the week is JGerow's Gay Auteurs list, featuring the "best gay directors and recommended rentals."
Our next screening at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will be on July 5, as we proudly present the exceptional noir-ish rarity Une si jolie petite plage (Such a Pretty Little Beach/Riptide). Yves Allégret's work is unjustifiably little-known in America, yet the director can be seen as a clear bridge between the pre-war Gallic filmmakers and the celebrated nouvelle vague. Such a Pretty Little Beach is a masterpiece of crime cinema, full of atmospheric tension, terror and tribulation.
Wednesday, July 5, 7:30pm Une si jolie petite plage by Yves Allégret (1949, 105 min., 16mm, in French with English subtitles)
$7/$5 GreenCine and YBCA Members, Students, Seniors
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The goooooooooooalllll (happy World Cup!) of this week's Dispatch is to get you our picks for the latest field of kicking DVDs. Enjoy!
#137 | June 13, 2006
"I haven't cried since I was a kid."
"You cried during the World Cup."
"Sober, Sharon! Sober!"
-- The Snapper.
There's one week remaining for you to vote in the San Francisco Bay Guardian's annual Best of the Bay poll, and we certainly wouldn't mind if you voted for GreenCine in the "Best Place to Rent Movies" category. (If you voted for us in the "Best Nude Beach" category they might become suspicious.) You can vote online or in a form found in the print edition of the SFBG. Deadline is June 20 at 5 p.m. Thanks so much!
The end of the world, last man on earth sci-fi drama The Quiet Earth is a thoroughly unique vision from Utu director Geoff Murphy. Full of visual poetry on a fairly low-budget, this New Zealand film is surprisingly satisfying, all the way up to its ambiguous finale. Long buzzed about, but never available on DVD until now, The Quiet Earth is quietly good.
$17.45.
Michele Soavi's demented Cemetery Man (the original, superior title is Dellamorte Dellamore, a play on the protagonist's name and a more appropriate summary of the film), one of the more underrated and artfully directed zombie films, has finally made its way to a stateside DVD release. The film is Italian horror but stars Brit Rupert Everett as a beleaguered cemetery keeper who... read the rest here.
Buy now for only $14.45.
With the American, Keanu-ized remake coming to theaters this week, why not take a look at the Korean original: the lovely romance Il Mare. "Jun Ji-hyun and Lee Jung-Jae [both] put in subtle and understated performances that suit the film's tone and storyline perfectly," wrote DVDTimes (UK). "The film manages to be both heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time." You can watch the Sandra Bullock-free version, Il Mare, now or anytime you wish via GreenCine's Video-on-Demand service.
A fine assortment of titles highlight this week's new releases, or, as Dave Chappelle would say, "Bam!"
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2005; $21.75). What better way could there be to well and truly kick off the summer? Writes Salon's Stephanie Zacharek: "Block Party - directed by Michel Gondry, and shot on film, not video, by Gondry's frequent collaborator, cinematographer Ellen Kuras - is partly a performance documentary, a record of an afternoon-into-evening concert at the L-shaped intersection of two quiet Bed-Stuy streets: The artists featured on the program include Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Kanye West, the Roots... as well as, remarkably, the reunited Fugees. But Block Party is also a record of Chappelle just horsing around, both in New York and Ohio. And Chappelle's horsing around is often funnier, and more brilliant, than the routines other comedians spend months honing."
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005; $20.98). Shane Black, the screenwriter who created the Lethal Weapon franchise, bites the hand that feeds him in his directorial debut. His own hand, basically, in a "violent, neo-Chandleresque LA thriller with a convoluted plot, lashings of hellzapoppin' comedy, and a design that absorbs the pulpiness and cynicism of Quentin Tarantino, Elmore Leonard and Modesty Blaise," writes the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw. Featuring Robert Downey, Jr. and Val Kilmer having a blast.
Valley of the Dolls Special Edition (1970; $19.74) and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1973; $19.74). "The glory of Valley of the Dolls - the flashy, trashy '67 inside-showbiz epic based on the Jackie Susann novel - is that no one involved seemed in on the joke; they took all the eyelash-batting, pill-popping histrionics seriously," writes Michael Musto in the Village Voice. "Three years later, Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls added a layer of perspective to the big-haired theatrics. Though Meyer reportedly spent much time on the set discussing 'motivations' with his cast, the raunchmeister was clearly leading them on; he knew he was serving up a giant camp tease, the latest in his tit-and-wit epics like Mondo Topless and Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"
The World's Fastest Indian (2005; $20.41). Anthony Hopkins charms in the true story of New Zealander Burt Munro takes his 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle to the annual Speed Week at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. Doesn't sound like much, we know, but as Philip French put it in the Observer, it's "the most determinedly feel-good picture we're likely to see this year." The disc also features the original documentary, Offerings to the God of Speed, also by the same director, Roger Donaldson.
New anime:Gilgamesh - Tablet 07: All Fall Down (2005; $19.91). The series "is worth watching just for its many visual and textual novelties," says SciFi.com. "Series this consistently grave and adult are as rare as series with such an unusual design. But as the plot keeps opening up, it also promises that there's far more going on than has yet met the eye."
A special new trivia contest is up on the home page. In 1984, Jonathan Demme made one of the greatest concert films of all time, Stop Making Sense. Twenty years on, he applies the same principles to Neil Young: Heart of Gold: respect the sensibilities of the artist; get up close when necessary, but never, ever get in the way. Let the artist tell the story. Now you can win a copy of this superior Neil Young concert film in our new trivia contest. Good luck, and long may you run.
The above rock-doc may be a perfect gift for Father's Day, which is this coming Sunday. And just for that occasion, GreenCine honors dads everywhere with a list of favorite Dad-centered movies. See it now on the right side of the GC home page.
Speaking of lists, the member list of the week shout-out goes to csouther for his "If my desert island was a hospital bed" list. DVDs to get one through a long recovery process... Get well soon, CS!
Merci bon coup to everyone who came to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for our special screening of René Clément's And Hope to Die last week. We hope you enjoyed it. For our next YBCA screening in on July 5, we'll raid the French film coffers once again for the exceptional noir-ish rarity Une si jolie petite plage (Such a Pretty Little Beach/Riptide). Watch this space for more details soon. Au revoir.
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We usher in June with some general giddiness about new DVDs and pointers to new articles on GreenCine. All this and more, and it's free, by gum!
#136 | June 6, 2006
"Hello, the living room of renowned theatrical director Roger De Bris' elegant Upper East Side townhouse on a sunny Tuesday afternoon in June. Whom may I say is calling?"
-- The Producers.
Criterion's new two-disc edition of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused is anything but dazed and confused. A sharp all new high-definition digital transfer, amusingly droll commentary by the director, extras including "Making Dazed," a 50-minute documentary by filmmaker Kahane Corn, and for those who buy it, a delightul 70(!) page booklet on the making of the film. How perfectly lo-fi for a film that captured 1970s adolescence better than most films from the 70s, and which featured a darned impressive cast of future stars. "What everybody in this car needs is some good ol' worthwhile visceral experience."
Two discs for $29.96.
The Israeli anti-war film Cup Final(G'mar Giviya) is a stunner, a powerful and poetic work set in 1982, at the time of the World Cup. An Israeli Army reservist is captured by a retreating eight-man unit of Palestinian soldiers during Israel's invasion of Lebanon. The PLO squad is... read the rest here.
Buy now for only $24.45.
"Finally, a Hong Kong sequel that lives up to its precursor's premise (sort of)," wrote the Austin Chronicle's Marc Savlov of Ronnie Yu's The Bride With White Hair 2. "Bursting with gorgeous cinematography and stunning set pieces, the film is a powerhouse feast for the senses, and a passionate, albeit blood-drenched, love story to boot. This is what Hong Kong filmmaking can be when all the stops are pulled." Watch the classic original, The Bride With White Hair, and then the sequel, anytime you wish via GreenCine's Video-on-Demand service.
This week's new releases are magic and deceitful but we like them, we like them very much:
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005; $22.87). "Big in both scale and ambition (and a thoroughly independent production by anybody's standard), the film is a social comedy about the ambiguities of the Texas-Mexico border region and also a laconic, masculine odyssey into the hinterland between the two nations, between life and death, between identity and disintegration," writes Salon's Andrew O'Hehir. "As you'd expect, [Tommy Lee] Jones has a marvelous eye for acting and for the gritty, seriocomic touches that make the town of Van Horn, Texas, feel both wide open and claustrophobic." Written by Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams).
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005; $18.45). Sarah Silverman is unlike any stand-up comic around, so it only makes sense her concert movie would be, too, spiffed up as it is with sketches and musical numbers. "Though Silverman's edginess never quite crosses into social consequence, she's a brilliant craftswoman on stage, blessed with crack timing and an ability to massage each line to maximum effect," writes Scott Tobias in the Onion's A.V. Club. "In Jesus Is Magic, she lobs grenade after grenade and deftly scatters before they blow up in her face."
The Syrian Bride (2004; $21.45). "Once people see the film, they can understand it emotionally even if they don't quite know where Syria is," director Eran Riklis (of the aforementioned Cup Final) told John Esther in a recent interview.
"The Boys of Baraka (2005; $21.95) gives a poignant human face to an alarming statistic: 76 percent of black male students in Baltimore city schools do not graduate from high school," notes Stephen Holden in the New York Times. "[T]he film's message is clear and pointed: If you take the boy out of the poor neighborhood, you stand a good chance of taking the despair and hopelessness of the poor neighborhood out of the boy."
New anime:Kamichu! (2005; $23.45). "'Last night, I turned into a god.' With these words begins an anime series of unusual grace, where divine transformation is something you casually mention over lunch, and talking to spirits is as easy as saying hi to them on the street," writes Carlo Santos for the Anime News Network. "Kamichu! walks a unique line between the real and fantastic, buoyed by crisp, imaginative visuals and an overall mood that's sweet without ever being stupid."
In true "live fast die young" rock 'n' roll fashion, Gram Parsons died in 1973 of a drug overdose, leaving behind a timeless song catalog, as well as one of the more tragic and twisted life stories in rock history. Gandulf Hennig's new documentary Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel sheds some light on the fascinating, short life of the influential musician and Heather Johnson spoke to the German filmmaker on the eve of the documentary's release. (Note: the film also screens at San Francisco's Roxie Cinema from June 8 to June 15. Hennig will attend the June 8 screening for a Q&A.)
Named one ten "Indies to Look Out for in 2006" by Film Threat and "one of the best American movies of the last ten years" by Cassavetes scholar Ray Carney, The Puffy Chair has been a hit on the festival circuit for a while and is now slowly rolling into theaters across the nation. Thomas Logorecitalks to the brothers who made it, Jay and Mark Duplass, about what to do when Hollywood comes calling.
GreenCine Daily continues its breathless coverage of the critics, fests, and events that make the film world go round.
As we prep for the World Cup with a little soccer movie promo on the GreenCine home page, we're in the mood for sports movie in general. Walt Opie's primer on the subject is a perfect place to hang out between matches. "Many things can add up to a high-quality sports movie, including genuine emotion and compelling characters," Walt wrote, "but one of the most important and difficult goals to achieve is verisimilitude, both in the sport being portrayed and, more importantly, in the way the actors themselves come off as prime athletes." Read the rest here >>
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Tomorrow night! GreenCine presents René Clément's And Hope to Die at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. In one of his final roles, Robert Ryan stars as an aging criminal trying to collect on a kidnapping plot in Montreal. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Aldo Ray and an uncredited Emmanuelle Béart (in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it role) round out a remarkable cast, photographed by Edmond Richard (Welles' The Trial; Bunuel's Le Fantôme de la liberté). Legendary French auteur René Clément crafts David Goodis' "Black Friday" into a gritty, witty, unjustly little-seen neo-noir. The program includes the exceptionally rare short film The Reason Why, also starring Ryan as a conflicted man with a gun in his hand.
Tomorrow night, Wednesday, June 7. 7:30pm. YBCA, 701 Mission Street, San Francisco. $7/$5 GreenCine and YBCA Members, Students, Seniors.
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GreenCine Presents And Hope to Die at the Yerba Buena Center
GreenCine's next screening at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will be on Wednesday, June 7 as we proudly present René Clément's And Hope to Die. In one of his final roles, Robert Ryan stars as an aging criminal trying to collect on a kidnapping plot in Montreal. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Aldo Ray and an uncredited Emmanuelle Béart (in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it role) round out a remarkable cast, photographed by Edmond Richard (Welles' The Trial; Bunuel's Le Fantôme de la liberté). Legendary French auteur René Clément crafts David Goodis' "Black Friday" into a gritty, witty, unjustly little-seen neo-noir. The program includes the exceptionally rare short film The Reason Why, also starring Ryan as a conflicted man with a gun in his hand.
Wednesday, June 7, 7:30pm. YBCA, 701 Mission Street, San Francisco. $7/$5 GreenCine and YBCA Members, Students, Seniors.
GreenCine's next screening at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will be on Wednesday, June 7 as we proudly present René Clément's And Hope to Die. In one of his final roles, Robert Ryan stars as an aging criminal trying to collect on a kidnapping plot in Montreal. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Aldo Ray and an uncredited Emmanuelle Béart (in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it role) round out a remarkable cast, photographed by Edmond Richard (Welles' The Trial; Bunuel's Le Fantôme de la liberté). Legendary French auteur René Clément crafts David Goodis' "Black Friday" into a gritty, witty, unjustly little-seen neo-noir. The program includes the exceptionally rare short film The Reason Why, also starring Ryan as a conflicted man with a gun in his hand.