Here's what's on deck this
time
around: "Lizards, John Cleese, Lee Harvey Oswald, freat white
sharks,
Toddy Doyle, sasquatch hunters, Daniel Handler, cockroaches,
intolerable guy next door, surreal dating with Michael Cera, Chinese
third graders dabbling in American style democracy" and more!
Lucky,
a six-minute Australian film that is the cinematic equivalent of Vaughn
Bodé's one-page comics masterpiece, "A Nickel Ride," is, for our
money, the most profound short-film ever made.
Please Vote
for Me,
a 32-minute excerpt from a documentary film of the same name that
covers an elementary school election in China, should be seen by
everyone in this election year, as it provides the most intimate
portrait of an election we've ever seen, and, for those viewers who are
paying attention, offers many insights into the democratic system, and,
especially, the problems facing any transition from an autocratic
system to a democratic one. 13
films, 141 minutes. Preview it
here.