5.2

Septien

2010, USA

• Actors: Rachel Korine, Brian Kotzur, Robert Longstreet, John Maringouin, Mark Darby Robinson, Onur Tukel, Michael Tully, Jeffrey T. Williams, Jim Willingham
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
• Director(s): Michael Tully
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Drawing inspiration from the likes of outsider art, Southern Gothic fiction, and Victor Erice's 1973 film The Spirit of the Beehive, Michael Tully's singular Septien is that rare art-house film that delivers equal measures of laughter, darkness, and beauty. Suddenly and without explanation, Cornelius Rawlings, The Athlete (Tully, in one of the year's most memorable performances) returns to his family's Tennessee farm eighteen years after he disappeared. His parents have died, but his two brothers -- Ezra, The Matriarch (Robert Longstreet ) and Amos, The Artist (Onur Tukel) -- have continued their isolated, idiosyncratic lives on the family farm. The brothers receive the phenomenally bearded Cornelius' return with equal parts bewilderment and joy, but he remains a mysterious presence in their midst, slipping away occasionally to hustle cash as an unlikely ringer on the basketball and tennis courts. A tentative balance is struck, even as much remains unsettled and unsaid among the brothers... until a sleazy figure from their past returns, turning their whole world on its head. Septien at times suggests an ecstatic collision between Desperate Living and Putty Hill - and indeed, Putty Hill cinematographer Jeremy Saulnier and editor Marc Vives are both on board here and in top form. But by the film's end there can be no doubt that we've seen something bold and new. This film takes risks every step of the way, and succeeds brilliantly. (Eric Allen Hatch, MARYLAND FILM FESTIVAL)

  7.0

Pineapple Express

2007, USA

• Actors: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny McBride, Kevin Corrigan, Craig Robinson, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Ed Begley Jr., Nora Dunn, Amber Heard, Joe Lo Truglio, Arthur Napiontek, Cleo King, Bill Hader, James Remar, Jonathan Spencer, Dana Lee, Bobby Lee, Ken Jeong, David C. Cook, Howard S. Lefstein, Connie Sawyer, David McDivitt, Mae LaBorde, Kendall Carly Browne, George Lew, John Robert Tramutola, Adam Crosby, Andrew Heald, Jeannetta Arnette
• Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): David Gordon Green
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Lazy court-process clerk and stoner Dale Denton has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver: to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city's most dangerous drug lord, he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him--and it is. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they're not suffering from weed-fueled paranoia: incredibly, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both. All aboard the Pineapple Express.