A student is killed and a teacher threatened at a school for airline stewardesses. The Angels enroll in the school, and on a final test flight, an attempted hijacking leaves Kelly to fly the plane. watch
What makes characters unlikeable? When they say or do things that we d do ourselves, given the opportunity to do so without any social repercussions? And why are we impelled to demand characters that are likeable in the first place? In his second feature, writer-director Alex Ross Perry picks up the baton of shame and self-loathing from the novels of Philip Roth, mixes it with the films of Vincent Gallo and Jerry Lewis, and drives it down the psychosexual American highway, revelling in awkwardness and embarrassment. JR (co-writer Carlen Altman), an aspiring weather girl whose celebrity crush is Moses (yes, from the Bible) and unaspiring writer Colin (director Perry, who could be voicing a Muppet), are a bickering brother and sister, travelling on the road to reclaim JR s belongings from the apartment she shared with her professor-lover. This is mainly a pretext to throw these warped siblings with raging ids together in motels, diners, bathrooms (many bathrooms) and public settings including a party from hell and observe their logorrheic-driven superiority to all whom they encounter. Shot on black-and-white 16mm to resemble Robert Frank s The Americans and with rapid-fire Hawksian comedic dialogue, The Color Wheel is a daring, adventurous film that might work extra hard not to be loved, but succeeds as a unique construction in the current landscape of post-mumblecore American indies it s a dark and twisted comedy that pushes the rules to their appalling limits.
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Elegy -- David Kepesh is an eminent 70-year-old cultural critic and lecturer at a New York college who's womanizing ways were ended by a devastating, all-consuming affair he had eight years before with voluptuous 24-year-old Consuela Castillo, a graduate student and daughter of a prosperous Cuban family.
The Human Stain -- A light comedy about a man, his obsession with cleanliness, and his epic battle with a stain he can't get rid off.
Respected cultural critic and author David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) is a middle-aged college professor who, for years, has lived in a state of "emancipated manhood." His romantic conquests are many; his lasting commitments, few. But when a stunning young student named Consuela Castillo (Penelope Cruz) enters his life, her otherworldly beauty captivates him to the point of obsession. Soon, their erotic relationship evolves into an undying and passionate love in this gripping drama that explores the power of love to blind, reveal and transform.
Respected cultural critic and author David Kepesh is a middle-aged college professor who, for years, has lived in a state of emancipated manhood. His romantic conquests are many; his lasting commitments few.
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A student is killed and a teacher threatened at a school for airline stewardesses. The Angels enroll in the school, and on a final test flight, an attempted hijacking leaves Kelly to fly the plane.
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