Daniel Handler

Ten years in the making, Strange Powers is an intimate documentary portrait of songwriter Stephin Merritt and his band the Magnetic Fields. With his unique gift for memorable melodies, lovelorn lyrics and wry musical stylings that blend classic Tin Pan Alley with modern sounds, Stephin Merritt has distinguished himself as one of contemporary pop's most beloved and influential artists.

Pat Spurgeon is a professional musician whose dreams of being in a successful rock 'n' roll band have come true. But just as his band, Rogue Wave, starts to take off, his kidney starts to fail. "D tour" chronicles the life of a musician with "no back-up plan" as he's faced with daily dialysis, a grueling tour, and a search for a new kidney.

The movie captures the responses of 31 authors, musicians, filmmakers and dancers to Olivier Messiaen's monumental organ work "Apparition of the Eternal Church." Listening to the 10-minute piece through headphones, the documentary subjects-most of whom are outsiders to the church and do not know what they're hearing-put Messiaen's project to the test: Is it possible to portray, through time-bound, invisible sound, the spiritual, the architectural, the eternal? The result is a collective interpretation improvising its way through an aesthetic landscape defined by violent contradictions. Resolution abuts eternity, eroticism asceticism, spiritual ecstasy physical torture. Together, the music and its interpreters conjure something like what William Blake famously called the marriage of heaven and hell.

Lemony Snicket cuenta la historia de los Bauedelaire, tres jóvenes huérfanos, Violet, Klaus y Sunny, quienes mientras buscan un nuevo hogar son tomados por un grupo de raros parientes y otra gente, incluyendo Lemony Snicket, quien narra la historia, y comenzando con el astuto y cobarde Conde Olaf que desea arrebatarles la herencia. Violet es la mayor, con 14 años y es la más valiente de los tres. El niño del medio, es el único varón, de 12 años, que es sumamente inteligente y obsesionado con las palabras, y Sunny, la más pequeña, habla un lenguaje que solo sus hermanos pueden entender y tiene tendencia a morder.

Rigoletto vuelve a contar en Navidad en el mundo corporativo de Manhattan. Rick, un ejecutivo de la imagen, es un idiota con una mujer que solicita un empleo. Esa noche, él sale de copas con su jefe más joven, Duke, y las mismas mujeres es su . continua grosería camarera de Rick le hace ser despedido.

When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of the nostalgic appeal that Joe remembers from tales of his immigrant grandparents arriving in the same neighborhood with a new life. This is the urban frontier filled with comic mixture of gentrifies, homeboys, dealers and local residents simply bent on staying a float