Movies: Christine Vachon

Explores the hot-button issues around the striking gender gap in Hollywood. Both women and men in the entertainment industry share first-person insights, questions, and anecdotes about the place of women in Hollywood....

A state employee tasked with photographing road conditions tracks a mysterious man (played by Steve Buscemi) who leaves suspiciously large garbage bags along a snowy country road....

A comedy about New York and its eccentric inhabitants. A French filmmaker comes to New York to show her film at MOMA. Fascinated by the city, she decides to stay....

A troubled vet struggling with addiction is recruited by a contractor for a covert plot to assassinate a politician. After learning she's set up to take the fall, she must outwit the agents to protect her son's future....

A retrospective documentary on 9/11 in connection with the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival....

When Gordon Gund went blind in 1970 at age 30 due to retinitis pigmentosa, he resolved to find a cure for the disease and created the Foundation Fighting Blindness. After decades of scientific research, a major breakthrough emerged, and this short fi...

The only black American family in Maine has a son, a blind bodybuilder, who falls in love with a white "mer-boy."...

An odyssey about two women trying to stop a young girl from biting the Host at her First Communion....

Looks at the emergence of lesbian feature filmmakers in the U.S. and how they produce films on a small budget. Interviews with directors Rose Troche (Go Fish); Sharon Pollack (Everything Relative); and Alex Sichel (All Over Me) as well as producer Do...

Brooke Dammkoehler’s meditation on the rise to stardom of a glamorous movie idol (modelled after Greta Garbo), draped in gorgeous black & white photography and a tone of delirious grandeur....

Title says it all....

In Astoria, Queens, in 1980, young Greek-American Nondas is determined to jump-start his electronic music career by doing what has been previously impossible: using new music tech to make his own demo in his bedroom & basically hand delivering his fr...

Sun Araw and M. Geddes Gengras meet legendary dub reggae group The Congos in St. Catherine, Jamaica and create the full-length album, ICON GIVE THANK. In conjunction, RVNG released ICON EYE, a feature film documenting the young musicians’ time spent ...

A priest wakes repeatedly from a dream in which he sees attractive, partially-disrobed man in his room. The hypnotic repetition and anxiety of his vision gains tension from the minimalist score....

Short dramatization shows how blacks as well as whites apply racial stereotypes to black persons....