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.

화재로 부모님과 집을 한꺼번에 잃는 보들레르가의 세 남매인 바이올렛, 클로스, 써니. 부모로부터 엄청난 유산을 상속받았지만 그들이 성인이 되기 전에는 한 푼의 유산도 사용할 수 없다. 집을 잃은 아이들은 후견인이 되어줄 겁나먼 친척 올라프 백작을 만나게 된다. 올라프 백작은 아이들을 반갑게 맞이하지만 실제로 그는 아이들의 유산을 노리는 사악한 인물. 유산을 빼앗기 위해 그는 온갖 비열한 방법을 서슴지 않는다. 아이들은 올라프의 마수로부터 도망쳐 파충류학자 몽고메리 삼촌과 박식한 조세핀 숙모의 집을 전전하게 된다. 그러나 올라프 백작은 유산을 포기하지 않고 다른 사람으로 계속해서 변장해가며 세 남매를 위협한다. 하지만 특별한 재능을 가진 세 남매는 남다른 지혜로 올라프의 마수로부터 빠져나가는데! 과연 그들의 앞날에는 어떤 일들이 기다리고 있을 것인가!

"Rigoletto" retold at Christmas time in Manhattan's corporate world. Rick, an executive at Image, is a jerk to a woman applying for a job. That evening, he's out for drinks with his much younger boss, Duke, and the same women is their waitress. Rick's continued rudeness leads to her getting fired. She puts a curse on him. A potential rift with Duke quickly surfaces; Rick is approached by the hail-

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